Birthing Pool

Birthing Pool

The shift comes when I see the energy and vision
I need doesn’t reside in the fears and impossibilities

Of my small self, but rather in the call of the big Self
Which sees further and differently, and is inevitably

A call to trust and artistic expression; and I love the way
Each subtle shift changes everything – like when

Science guy visits Kotinga Hill and explains
The crator in which the Main Spring sits and I glimpse

The off-the-map power of ten thousand litres of crystalline
Water per second, erupting from the darkness

Of the Arthur Marble Aquifer into the light of consciousness –
& perhaps you see why I become a water poet

& hang close to the dark compressed energy emerging
From the vents of the deep soul, and every living thing

Which is the source of light and love and is heartbreakingly
Beautiful and compassionate and the only path I will ever need

~

‘Birthing Pool:’ the area around the main spring where the sacred waters arise. The waters were once used by the Maori people for healing and blessing purposes.

‘Small self… big Self:’ The small self is the everyday self sometimes called the ego. The big Self is the spiritual/instinctive centre, sometimes experienced as an inner personality and often felt in the heart. For some, the path of Self Realisation leads to the marriage of the small self and the big Self.

‘Science guy visits Kotinga Hill…’ One of the applicants for the Te Waikoropupū Water Conservation Order visited while a friend and I were staying at Kotinga Hill overlooking Mohua. He talked about the ‘crater’ formed by the vents of the Main Spring. The crater is the deep area close to the vents; which eventually shallows out and becomes the Te Waikoropupū River, flowing into the Takaka River.

‘Ten thousand litres of compressed crystalline water, per second:’ Science Guy told us there are approximately 10,000 litres of water per second flowing into the crater area if you include Dancing Sands Spring. Overall there are approximately 14,000 litres of water per second gushing into the Waikoropupū area including Fish Creek Springs. This amount of water varies depending on the amount of water in the shallow and deep Aquifers which depend on rainfall.