When you say, “You take my breath away!”—well,
isn’t it that you receive a different breath? Or, that around
your beloved you are aware that you are breathing differently? That
you are both a different kind of fire when together. “Fire in
the hole!” has a meaning you can steal here. Yes, it is a play
on words, as you go from hole to whole.
Dancing is a special fire. You know
those special moments when you are in the arms of your beloved. Whether
you are tripping over each other’s feet or cavorting like gazelles,
what you feel is that special space called togetherness. You are dancing,
which is an exertion, which is a way of swirling together. You know
that you dance in rhythm to how you can breath. When younger, you could
dance all night, never get out of breath. Your breathing is expressing
you as you dance.
It is dancing when you are together “in rhythm,” which
is as you breathe together. Dancing, certainly, is more than just expertly
executing the steps. Indeed, your dance may be one marked by elephantine
movements or the scurrying of field mice or the athletic swoop and
twirl of mating birds, but the only matter if you two are in sync,
are relaxed even when clunking about. You know that dancing is the
creating of an intimate space, of your moving together, of coming as
close to being one breath as possible.
There are many, many ways to fire-up
and create with your inner fire. Painting. Sculpture. Swimming. Even
passive ways like reading together silently or to each other. Cooking.
Oh, the simmering and sizzling fires of cooking!
It is just that you will especially see Her
in her—and the Her in him—when you begin to create your
breathing ritual of fire. “I burn for you!” When your beloved
is about, time flies like newspaper curling into ashes. Consummation.
Fire is, more than the other elementals, the one which moves
beyond words into movement and form. Into destruction as
prelude to creating. When you breathe with your beloved you will
be present to an intimacy which catalyzes—unleashes your creative
imagining. One which is all splatter and kabloom! and molten
eruption and exploding, uncontrollable embers of thought, desire,
craving … Oh, in fire you are purified, purged, refined, smelted,
and freed! Freed to be creatively imagined as and
become a beloved.
Continue—Air
