Nature Power

Víz Anya

Water Mother · A Forrás Asszonya — Lady of the Spring

Moving feminine — river, well and the healing tear; she who washes and remembers.

Víz Anya is in every spring, every well, every river that knows its own name. She is the moving feminine — Boldogasszony's sister in another element. She cleanses, she heals, she carries; she also takes, and what she takes she remembers. Hungarian wells were greeted before drawing, springs were dressed with flowers, and no child was ever scolded at the water's edge.

“Speak kindly at the water. She forgets nothing — and one day you will need her to remember you well.”

Mágia · Magick

Types of magick worked in their name

Cleansing magick

Washing away grief, illness or ill-wishing in running water — always downstream, with the current, never against it.

Scrying

Looking into a still bowl, a dark spring, or a clean well at dawn or dusk for images and answers.

Carrying magick

Wishes whispered into a leaf and floated downstream are taken to where they need to go; what travels with the current cannot be called back.

Áldozat · Offerings

What to bring

✦Fresh flowers laid at a spring or floated on a river
✦Bread crumbs scattered on still water at dawn
✦A single silver or copper coin dropped into a well with thanks
✦Clean water poured back into the earth at the end of a ritual
✦Ribbons tied to a tree overhanging water

Szertartás · Rituals

Ways of meeting

Forrás-köszöntés

Spring-greeting: before drinking from any wild spring, greet her aloud, lay a flower or a coin, and drink the first sip with a thanks named.

Folyó-fürdő

River-bath: at dawn, wade in to the knees facing upstream, name what you wish washed away, then turn and walk out downstream without looking back.

Well-blessing

Once a year, clean the well or fountain you depend on, drop fresh flowers in, and pour a cup of clean water into it as offering.

Igézet · Spells

Workings you can try

Folk workings, given in good faith. Approach with respect; results are theirs, not yours.

Leaf-letter

Write a single word — a wish, or a name to be released — on a fresh leaf with charcoal. Float it on running water and walk away without watching it go.

Bowl-scrying

Fill a dark bowl with spring water at dusk, set a single candle behind your shoulder, and ask one question. The first clear image is the answer; the second is your hope; ignore the third.

Szent színek · Sacred Colors

Their palette

◆Deep blue
◆River green
◆Silver-grey
◆Reed brown

Szent számok · Sacred Numbers

Their reckoning

✦3 — three sips, three drops, three nights of working
✦9 — completion of a healing

Szabad · Do

Walk with them

✓Greet wild water before you take from it
✓Keep wells and springs clean as a sacred duty
✓Let go what the river takes
✓Thank her aloud after every healing

Tilos · Don't

Do not cross them

✗Never spit, urinate or wash filthy things in a spring or well — the oldest taboo
✗Do not quarrel at the water's edge
✗Do not promise her something you will not give
✗Do not try to scry against the current — work with still or downstream water