4.
Your Support Element is Fire
Fire is your best matched Elemental Birth Ally. You tend to be very powerful, intelligent, and energetic. Your gifts are in the realm of moving, evaluating, and commanding energy in the world. You are a true warrior and take things on with great courage and even a sense of adventure. You are independent, fierce, and even intense as you see what you want and make things happen towards your goals. You are a leader, a teacher, and someone that others look to for inspiration, especially during challenges. You are deeply connected to this baby as carrying the same spark of the divine that you feel pulsing sparks in your heart. You have always done things with great autonomy and you have never been this close to another being as you are now with your baby growing within you. You are confident that this little one is carrying the keys of deep compassion for your lineage, embodying to create great change with their love and passion for life. As a Fire Mother, you will greatly benefit from asking for help from others and admitting your weaknesses to seek out support. You will tend to think you can do it all and then some, this is true but not sustainable. You will do your baby a favor to slow down and savor the pacing of breastfeeding, resting, and the yin nature of fresh motherhood. Call on your partner and family to cook, clean, and nourish you and the baby as much as possible and relish in the delight of being cared for. Feel your heart opening when you meet your baby and take in this energy as a medicine to fuel your opening and softening to this new spirit. Feel the spiritual essence of yourself as a creator of life and the power of your story birthing this being into form. Feel how the suffering and pain of all your ancestors connects you to the human experience and allow it to inspire your life and parenting. No one escapes the fires of life’s experiences, you are directly connected to this source and completely supported and uplifted by it. Allow this new relationship to your child to be a blank slate of what relationship can be like for you, infuse it with your understanding, patience, forgiveness, and trust and as a spiritual rebirth. 3 Ways to Integrate the Fire Element into your pregnancy, birth ceremony, and parenting:1. Ritual Tips: You would greatly benefit from devoting time to sit with the medicine of fire and contemplate its brilliance as a force of destruction, transformation, and rebirth. Find a special candle to bring to your altar and gaze at the flame while you reflect on your innate connection to this element. Perhaps you have access to tending a fire either outdoors in a safe space or even a fire place or wood burning stove inside. When you work with fire, watch the colors in the flames, notice how air plays with the effect of the light on the coals, and even how in order to get a fire started there are certain alignments with its creation that must be in place such as proper air flow, fuel for combustion and enough heat. Focus on the power of change in your life and feel how you yourself have catalyzed change and movement in your own sphere of influence. Reflect on your relationships and any stories you may hold that are hard to let go of involving others. Make space to seek clarity and journal about places where your heart hardens and you spin in your head, creating stories of separation. Light up some incense or a coal to burn resins and plant material for smudging as you explore any places where your heart has been broken. Reflect on your relationships and any stories you may hold that are hard to let go of involving others. Make space to seek clarity and journal about places where your heart hardens and you spin in your head, creating stories of separation. Light up some incense or a coal to burn resins and plant material for smudging as you explore any places where your heart has been broken. 2. Finding Balance: To awaken your system for balance, consider going to the stones and earth that can absorb and even put out the fire that burns so hot inside you. Walk barefoot on the earth, be cooled by lying down on the earths cool surface or even hold a stone in your hand and then give it back to the earth when you are done. If you can try to find a stillness exercise, like meditation, or a centering exercise that teaches gentleness like chi gong or tai chi, this can help to soothe your fiery soul. Seek out grounding and surround yourself with people who can stay calm and centered during your pregnancy. If you like art, try doing pottery on a wheel or even just working with the cool clay in your hands. 3. Affirmations & Self Love: When you are fired up, feeling angry, resentful or justified, take space to breathe and discharge your energy. Consider drumming, dancing, writing, or strenuous exercise to channel your big emotions. Try not to waste your energy arguing during your pregnancy whether internally or externally. If you notice yourself writing long winded stories in your mind about how someone wronged you, take a deep breath and return to your heart, allow yourself to feel the emotions underneath the stories, the sadness, loneliness, or mistrust. Try working with affirmations such as “I am trust” or “I open my heart to my experience.” If you keep looping in stories, write down all the details in a journal to expel the pattern and then when it arises again internally, ask if there is anything new to add and thank the story for its concern. If you need to, write a letter to the person in the story and burn it as a way of transmutating the anger. Welcome to the Elemental Birth Rites Community ✨We are a team of midwives who are passionate about supporting expecting parents to reclaim their pregnancy and births as a sacred rites of passage.After bearing witness to the potency of so many birth scenarios where parents were missing the opportunity to claim personal transformation available through turning inward during pregnancy, we created a map to guide expecting couples into a deeper experience of this powerful life event.Our experiential guided course and supporting community centers around honoring the initiation of pregnancy and birth and providing everyday tools to support conscious parentingCheck out these ways to connect more deeply to reclaiming your pregnancy and birth as a rites of passage.1. Join our Free Membership Site where you can stay up to date on our newest content, course offerings, and events.2. Explore our Free Content Library to learn more about our approach to pregnancy, birth and parenting and hear from other community members the impact this work has made in their lives.3.Sign up for one of our course offerings Our course work is where we go deeper into looking to the elements as a guide to personal development and self awareness, there is a self guided and a practitioner guided option to best support you. 🙌Expect to receive updates with ways to best support you during pregnancy, birth, and beyond ✨