Hi Open - Thank you for your reply on my other post - it was incredibly helpful! Reading this post about the water dragon - I had many things integrating between these two posts and what I am contemplating/experiencing - so inquiring on this further.

Whenever different energetic experiences or nuances are explored here, I listen and explore, but I am cautious not to begin filtering my experience to fit within what is being shared - as I experience that as mimicry and distortion. However, I also want to stay open to being inspired and glimpsing facets of reality that are on the outer edges of my current perception or experience. This water dragon energy has been with me lately as a symbol - in the watercolors I have been playing with - lots of royal blue flowing shapes. I know there is work to do to clarify my emotional body, and I sense that connecting to this energy, even symbolically, can help me work through it and open channels to deeper potential.

You said:

We need to be able to flow, animate, colourise and express with our emotions - vibrantly. And to empathise with the field so as to know and attune with its nuances - this makes us more effective manifestors. But likewise, we need to be able to dissociate and just flow through the emotional "high seas" too. This is where calling on the energy of Water Dragon can help."

This is powerful and touches on something I have been inquiring...

Is what I feel as self-containment (only word I can find to describe the sense of feeling my energy/sense of self) disassociating or detaching?

I do wonder based on my other post, if what I perceive as self-containment is actually detachment? When I notice that I am potentially leaking energy (out of habit in ways of relating to specific figures in my life), attention is brought back fully to what I sense as myself rather than the surrounding energies.

I see this water dragon as inspiring the freedom to be in the full experience of the relational field but not be attaching to any of it.

I would like to find the place where there is rootedness within which expands out but does not leave itself to receive or give to another.

As an interesting synchronicity...I apparently have a blockage in the gutter system on my house...right at the downspout...looks like a lot of energy bursting out the sides!!!

Thank you for this powerful reflection! Jen