Observer
Posted on: May 20, 2026
Observer | No one owns the Ocean
written 20th May 2026
My reflections following a large public gathering at a sacred site.
While the circulating aftertones linger with where my mind has been, rather than seek a conclusion I leaned into what this experience brought up for me. An activation? A resonance? An opportunity to bridge? Or simply time in nature and exchange with fellow observers…
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We are all observers. Watching, resonating and bridging currents of energy that circulate through this playing field.
An ocean wave is a magnificent display of a current of water, a force of nature, that we can observe more clearly than the earth energy or telluric currents.
A surfer who catches a wave is attuning with the wave. They didn’t activate the wave, they resonated with the force of nature.
Please forgive my ignorance for I am no surfer of ocean waves, but surely the surfer gains a sweet charge from alignment with the wave. They have bridged, with reverence and respect for the ocean, a force of nature through the human body.
Not all waves are surfed with ease and grace, that doesn’t dismiss the surfer’s intent. And not everyone who carries a surfboard catches a wave.
There are ocean waves and telluric currents, planetary tones and greater cosmic influences. Each, a force of nature we can observe, resonate with and bridge into our human experience.
As yet we have our own forces to contend with. The physical vessel is always surfing mental and emotional currents. In addition, our gift, not our job, is to resonate and bridge between our inner currents and the greater forces of nature that move through life.
What we choose to resonate with on a mental, emotional, telluric or celestial level is our responsibility as keepers of a physical body.
Words and shoreline theatrics can be wonderfully entertaining. When amplified, it’s a surface field formed to veil perceptions. Charge them with emotion and the veils become opaque. But they are only cloaks and capes. Choose what to observe and how to resonate.
The mind operates as both witness and influencer. The mental and emotional exchange plays out on what many traditions refer to as the astral plane, the inner field of thought, feeling and perception.
Our choice to resonate with or accept a script, emotion or thought is what we allow in to interact with the physical. This is where we become bridges. The bridge we choose to form is the architecture of our playing field.
These astral currents, mental, emotional, subliminal, transliminal, differ from the force of nature in an ocean wave or telluric current. It is a bridging field.
And yet, the mental or astral plane is as impactful for the human. But only if one accepts and chooses to allow that current to alter and move through them.
As individuals we are all observers, resonating and bridging with what we witness. We are all fluent in currents others may not yet speak or notice.
Some refine their gift of physical presence to become like surfers, feeling the current in their own cellular biology. Some are like musicians, hearing harmonics others would miss. They hear where sound wants to go before it arrives.
A farmer recognises the seasons before the calendars remind us. A therapist will recognise micro-expressions and a mystic feels symbolic resonance. Inner and outer echoes of macro and micro correspondences.
We are all a version of a sailor, a gardener, a paraglider or a parent. We can take our roles lightly, seriously and with reverence. As the chef, the dancer and the architect we are each participating with creative flair, beautifully bridging forces of nature through physical interaction.
No one can tell you what to see, you are the observer. Your attention is your devotion and that is all that counts.
Life is not waiting for us to sanctify it. Nature is already in ceremony. If hypothetically we were to remove human interaction on Earth, the trees, rocks, rivers, magma and the mycelium would all continue to evolve in beautiful orchestration.
Nature does not require an observer to perform. We are invited to witness, participate and learn from, but we are not the source of the song.
A human that takes up leadership, or is laden with that responsibility and role, must become a master metaboliser of astral currents, projections, adoration and criticism. Their discernment and compass with truth becomes a valuable tool.
Every human has the gift of being an observer, with a choice of what to resonate with and what to bridge so as to alter, enhance and adapt their own experience on this playing field.
No one individual can activate or be the source of a wave. We only have the opportunity to participate and to take responsibility for what we amplify through attention, projection and resonance.
No one owns the ocean.