Spirit of Snow

A meteorologist thinks snow is a result of pressure systems and precipitation levels; the physicist says the subatomic particles create the snow; but the spiritualist sees the snow in a much different way.

Let us explore the spirit within the snow.

Water is a symbol of knowledge. Moving water means sending knowledge from student to teacher. On a cosmic level, rain and snow reflect different ways in which divine energy flows to us from a higher spiritual plane.The way of transmitting His energy to us and represents the method of how we interact with the Divine and God. 

If water – the divine wisdom – were to flow continuously, it would totally submerge and obliterate, not allowing space for anybody. So water flows in various ways. Sometimes, water flows as rain and sometimes it freezes to different degrees producing snow, hail or sleet.  This is just like a teacher using different methods with students.

Rain is a transmission that is more on Divine terms because  it flows continuously like a stream of information retaining its fluidity and is absorbed quickly into the earth.

Ice on the other hand, is a transmission that is more on the Earth terms. The information has solidified so that the student can understand it.. The flow has ceased and turned into a solid form, so the student is not overwhelmed by the continuous flow of new ideas.

Snow is an intermediary state between fluid water and solid ice. In order, to appreciate the spiritual implications of this, we need to examine the properties of snow.

A snowflake needs at least two components in order to form. In addition, obviously to cold air, it requires water droplets, and a nucleus or center. The nucleus is made up of dust, minerals or other microscopic particles in the air. A snowflake is formed when water takes shape around these microscopic particles and the cold air turns it into ice crystals. Snow now has two components: water and earth – earth being the particles, and the water being the droplets. Earth is the material world; water is the knowledge of God and Spirit – divine energy without any containers. Snow is half heaven and half earth provides the perfect intermediary between these two worlds.

Snow falls gently and silently which teaches us in our own process of educating others and educating ourselves, that we need gentleness. If we educate with a sledgehammer – with unceasing rain pour – it will simply submerge and destroy the crops. Even when it rains on earth, science tells us that on a higher level, the beginning process could have originated in snowflakes. So snowflakes are a symbol of that first gentle step.

So, snow is heaven talking to us. Heaven is speaking to us through an untainted barrier , speaking to us gently and gradually on our terms. Snow is the intermediary stage between heaven and earth; ice is a little closer to the level of earth; sleet is in between snow and ice. 

So, when we define the spirit of snow, it is a little bit of heaven and a little bit of earth.