“I write for each one of us who is remembering what magic is… what it means…what it can be… We, who are remembering that it matters. We, who are exploring how to better work with the power and cycles of the natural world. We, who are learning how to unite our will, voice, intention, imagination and action to make the impossible possible. The sea helps us to remember that magic is all around us, if we have the will to see it. It is the flicker, the glimmer, the moment that causes a sharp intake of breath, the unexpected, the rediscovered, the cherished, the improbable, the miraculous in the midst of the mundane. It is sunbeams dancing on waves and moonbeams silvering the land. The eerie glow of bioluminescence illuminating a dark sea and fog’s disappearing spell. It is the stars appearing each night, rainbows hidden in water drop lets and the silent power of riptides. It is a flock of birds flying patterns in the sky, traversing oceans to the same nest. The majesty of a school of whales breaching together. The haunting sound of their song traveling for miles through the water. It is a heart-shaped pebble waiting to be seen by a broken-hearted lover. A feather found in answer to a prayer. It is the iridescence of an abalone shell, the pull of the moon on the ocean, the creation of a pearl from a grain of sand. It is energy in flux, the fluid and ever-becoming, the perfectly formed, the microcosm reflecting the macrocosm, the hidden revealed. It is the impossible just out of reach, the delightful, the colourful, transformation as it happens… It is the unseen soul in action. Everywhere. Magic happens in the edge spaces, where consciousness meets unconsciousness, energy meets matter, soul meets world. It takes place in the liminal space of birthdeath, here-not-here, on the edge of possibility. It requires a state of consciousness where we are able to perceive – and potentially influence – the connections between the material and the spiritual, the literal and the metaphorical. It is the imaginal realm, where all that is first comes into form. It is what arises naturally in us, if we allow ourselves to remember the miracle of our very existence and that of this habitable planet.”