02/08/2025
Beautiful description of 3 energy centres, thank you ###
THE THREE CAULDRONS OF INSPIRATION...
LOWER… THE CAULDRON OF WARMING
Located in the belly, the Cauldron of Warming also called the Cauldron of Simmering or Incubation, is our grounding in this world and supports the physical foundation for the incarnation of our soul. It gives us roots, stability, endurance, vitality, and structure for physical life. It generates and contains the heat that maintains physical life. Along with survival instincts, it connects us with the vital energy of the Earth. It incubates verse and is physically creative and procreative. It is a source of sensory pleasure. The Cauldron of Warming provides the physical foundation for the other Cauldrons of Soul.
Related primarily to our Earth’s connection, it supports the flowering of everything earthly. It reminds us that we are of the Earth, as well as an expression of the Divine in matter.
As the foundation for our physical life, the Cauldron of Warming needs everything we ordinarily think of for physical survival: clean and healthy food, air, and water, as well as protection from detrimental energies and actions of others. Attending to our physical health serves our spiritual development. Since no two physical bodies are the same, we need to pay attention to what our own body (and Cauldron) is telling us in terms of its diet, activity, and other needs; and by advocating for clean air, water, and soil on which it depends.
MIDDLE… THE CAULDRON OF VOCATION
Located in the chest, the Cauldron of Vocation has also been called the Cauldron of Movement or of Yearning. It helps to remember that the word “vocation” does not mean a job or career in the social and external way we use it today, but it refers to a calling – a yearning we feel from within toward some action or purpose. It helps us be aware of the deep yearning that is the call of the soul and is, also, our social connection. The Cauldron of Vocation has a function of relationship between inner and outer realities, where we become conscious of the emotional world through our and others’ responses, and where we seek to harmonize polarities. It seeks harmonious integration, complementarity, or unification.
It responds to and generates all manner of emotions and, thus, it reflects changes in the environment as well as in our inner landscape. This allows for filling and emptying, receiving and rejection that are signs of emotional and social health.
This cauldron reminds us that we exist in relationship, and that we have a Divine calling. Not only does a part of us live in others, but we are also of both earthly and heavenly realms. Thus, this cauldron is a connecting link between the Cauldron of Warming and the Cauldron of Knowing and is, thus, a harmonizer of Earth and Sky, as well as inner and outer.
Because it involves relationship, it is aware of polarities and dualities, and seeks to harmonize them.
UPPER... THE CAULDRON OF KNOWING
Located in the head, the Cauldron of Knowing is also called the Cauldron of Wisdom or of Knowledge. It is our source of vision and inspiration (imbas), and it distributes to each of us our gifts, the skills of which are left for us to develop. It contains not only that which we learn, but it is also the repository of our ego-consciousness. Its wisdom develops out of consciousness, knowledge, and perspective.
This cauldron can be visualized as connecting us to a Divine Star from which we draw inspiration and perspective. It reminds us that we are of the Divine, and that part of us lives in the heavens.
The Cauldron of Knowing needs both mundane information (learning and the evaluation of truth), as well as inspiration and vision. The fruit of genuine learning is a higher, deeper, and broader perspective that gives meaning to knowledge. In addition to such learning, this cauldron is also fed by contemplation and meditation.
