Our Sacred Tar Baby

   My soul is immensely sad at the moment. Duality and separation has made water sacred and oil poison. Is not oil formed from the remains of ancestors just as sacred as those ancestors buried at "sacred burial sites"? Ancestors far more ancient and closer in time to our origins? Our mother? Not going to be popular at the moment amongst those who may believe acknowledging the sacred in the "Black Snake" is in conflict with honoring and acknowledging the sacredness and necessity of protecting water.
  Yet maybe that is exactly why the Black Snake uses men to rear it's head at this time. Are we not just like those men who treat water as disposable? Do we not burn up fossil fuels without thought or ritual as we put gasoline in our cars? Do we perform rituals when we order fuel for our furnaces, have it delivered and burn it to keep us warm in our homes?
   We treat oil just like the "bad guys" treat water. Yet we go even further by projecting fear and hatred and disgust at our brother oil. Maybe he just wants to be acknowledged as also a sacred part of the Whole, a piece of 'God', birthed by the Mother from the remains of children who came before, set on fire which serves.
   So, the war is in me as well...... as I'd love to identify with the camp that is "right", which it is. We've become dependent upon our environment and that is dependent upon "clean" water. At the same time, I know this body made up predominantly water will one day possibly be the oil perceived as evil......my future self potential.
  All this controversy can't feel good to our baby brother............to be used to terrorize and frighten the rest of creation.
  Acknowledging and honoring the sacred in our tar baby right along with water.....