Water Memory, Mermaids and the Scottish Lochs, seas and waterfalls
- Apr 23
- 3 min read
There is something about the waters here in Scotland that feels deeply familiar to me, as though it is touching something I have always known. Since I was a child, mermaids have been part of my inner world, my imagination and a natural way I relate to water and life. Most of the time, when I go into the water, they are there.
Being by the lochs, especially at pure Lochs, rivers and waterfalls in Torridon, Skye and Iona, this feeling has returned in a powerful, deep way. Perhaps it's part of the awakening of our DNA? Our true nature? Perhaps the water is awakening in all of us? Or is this reflecting what's happening within our bodies?
The water in Torridon lochs looks and feels alive, present, almost aware, shape-shifting in its stillness. I remember once looking over a lunar lake and seeing, just at the edge of my vision, a subtle movement of a woman dancing across the water's surface. From my peripheral sight, it felt like a dance of energy, light and water moving through it, as though something was just beneath perception.
There have been many moments like this where I sit by the water and feel a strong sense of connection, as if I am being met by something beyond the surface itself.
Each body of water seems to have its own tone or feeling and something in me responds through sound. It feels very natural, like a form of communication or communion with that particular lake, sea, or waterfall. In that moment, it felt like a dialogue and recognition in the body rather than a thought in the mind.
The old stories of mermaids in these Celtic lands do not feel distant here; in fact, they are very present now. They are a human oral tradition and ancient primordial memory, part of how we have always tried to speak about the mystery of water and life. In places like Skye, Iona and Torridon and along these coastal edges, there is a quality in the water that feels deeply receptive, held and alive in the atmosphere. A kind of presence in the dew of waters, in the stillness between movement.
Alongside this, there is a sense of a deeper remembering rising, often described in mythic language as Atlantis or ancient water worlds. For me, this is not a place in time, but a way of experiencing life that feels more fluid, relational and open.
There is also, in connection with mermaid imagery, a sense of the deeper feminine principle returning to collective awareness. Not as something outside of us, but as a rebalancing within life itself. A remembering of nourishment, receptivity and relationship with the living world, including our own inner waters.
What I notice most clearly is how being near water changes my state. There is less control, less holding. Emotion feels more able to move. The body softens. Attention becomes quieter. It feels closer to how life naturally moves when it is not being tightly managed. Creating the fertile space to feel expansiveness and alignment, waves of sensual and blissful life in the body.
The land here reflects that, too. The water, trees, flowers and air are all in a relationship. Nothing needs to feel or be separate. There is a sense that we are part of the same living system and that much of what we seek is already here, available through presence and receptivity.
For me, this connection with mermaids, animals, flowers and water has become part of a deeper remembering of balance. Inside and out. A way of returning to a relationship with life rather than separation from it. To truly embody and live this, we must sense and perceive what is out of balance and transform it with love, hence deeper in soul work, pilgrimage and radical shifts in how we live our lives.
We are moving through a time when old structures no longer hold in the same way and experience itself becomes the teacher. Embodiment, feeling and truth become the way through. In this, softness and awareness become essential, along with a willingness to let down protection and return to connection with life as it is.
It feels like a remembering of flow, of softness and the wildness of feminine power and of a more connected way of being with life.
Are the Mermaids calling you to unfurl?
Thank you, Scotland X
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