Ice

[JanCarolSeidr]

Ice is a boundary like a beach is a boundary.
Ice is a boundary between life and not-life, or stasis.
A boundary between earth – solid – and water – fluid.
It is the fluid things, the emotions, the choices, the dreams, and the desires – frozen. Not moving. Waiting to thaw. Waiting. Stillness. Centeredness.
The thaw will come, when it is time. It might be a season, or a century, or a millennium. Depends on the ice, and the conditions around the ice.

Ice is a stasis – of holding, of waiting. When winter encases your world in ice, it is not a time to do, but is instead a time to wait, to be.

When there is ice, the best advice is to wait.

Now that I’m in Australia, I also have to consider the refreshment value of ice – cold, refreshing, stimulating ice.

[JanCarolSeidr]

In the Norse creation myth, the primeval state before creation was not a void, but was fire and ice, in balance.

Many people might say that the opposite of fire is water – but the true opposite would be ice (which is water in a solid, frozen, cold state).

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