Join our Equinox Global Water Prayer on Thursday ✨💦🌍

Hello dear friends,

We come to you with a special invitation today. 

Thursday marks the equinox. On this unique astronomical moment when light and dark come into exact equilibrium, ecological cultures have honored water for times immemorial. Whether it’s offerings to sacred water sources in myriad Indigenous societies, purification rituals in Shinto and Hindu traditions, or ceremonies expressing gratitude for springs, creeks and rivers… Equinox is a potent opportunity to realize the reciprocal balance that water provides. 

On this equinox, March 20, join us in a synchronized prayer from your watershed. Together we will acknowledge the consciousness of water, and remember and honor our sacred relationship with water. As we confront an ecological emergency and social crises, let’s pause to revere and celebrate water, the very source of life. To remember how our relationship with water is key to resilience, abundance and thriving life.

We will use this ceremony to attune with and listen to the waters as we prepare to release our film as a message for regenerating water cycles to the world on World Water Day this Saturday. This initiative is a collaboration with dear friends and partners Skeena Rathor Kashmiri, Lynn Murphy, Gigi Coyle, Sabine Lichtenfels, Tracey van den Brand, Sol and Uma Dinsmore Tuli. We wish to weave a global heart field, a prayer field of prayer fields. 

Here’s what we will do:

Rooting in our local watersheds

We will go — alone or, if possible, together with others — to our local springs, streams, rivers, salt marshes, wetlands and seas (if accessible) for a shared moment of prayerful being beside waters for a blessed courtship, listening and relating in your own love affair with water. 

Each individual or group may sense for themselves which form of expression feels appropriate in their context, here are some inspirations:

• Resting: laying down by the waters, allowing ourselves to slow down and be, so we might become able to resonate with water.

• Expressing gratitude through songs, offerings, words, allowing our hearts to feel and express our relationship with water.

• Listening for what water, in her epic powers of memory, intelligence and creation, wants from us and for us. We invite water to help us imagine what an intact watershed with healthy water cycles would look like.

• Walking with water: moving with a river or a stream near to us, perhaps acknowledging our interdependence, opening to what flows through us and where to be and what is ours to do.

• Repairing: Opening ourselves to what water wants, we’re ready to commit to taking action in watershed regeneration.

Sharing a planetary intention

Water expresses itself uniquely in each place and yet all water is one and holds the memory and intelligence of all life that has been. So after honoring the ties of reciprocal relationship to our local watersheds, we will join all of our local prayer fields into one shared prayer field of planetary intention for restoring water’s natural flow.

United in our intention to harmonize and balance with the waters of love and life within and around us, we will come together for a synchronized prayer between 4:00 and 4:20 PM UTC. Our prayers, each expressed in their own devotional ways, will focus on:

• Our gratitude for water

• Envision healthy free flowing water cycles and 

• Call in our readiness and determination to be in service of what water wants.

See our resource sheet for meditations, songs and other practices.

The day after, on Friday, March 21, 4pm UTC, you are warmly welcome to join us for a heart circle to share our experiences on a Zoom call.

Celebrating World Water Day

Finally, we will celebrate World Water Day on Saturday, March 22, with the global release of our documentary, Water is Love: Ripples of Regeneration on the wings of this prayer. There will be over dozens of local screenings around the world. Please join one of them or organize one in your area.

We pray that millions will rise to protect and repair waters. To love the waters. To serve the coming seven generations. And to remember what our late friend and Lakota elder LaDonna Brave Bull Allard shared with us, “I learned from an early age that we must not just pour water out on the earth without first giving thanks in prayer for the water. If we want to cross a river, we stop beforehand and ask for permission. Before we drink water, we drip some on the earth to greet the souls. I believe all people in the world should do this.”

We hope you will join us!

With love for the way of waters,

Martin for the Water is Love team