Keepers of Water (7 Sisters)

One of the things I love about painting intuitively is I never know when I start what is going to show up. In this case, seven sisters, and a diving (or dowsing) rod. Since quite literally, water is life.

"Among our Potawatomi people, women are the Keepers of Water. We carry the sacred water to ceremonies and act on its behalf. Women have a natural bond with water, because we are both life bearers, my sister said. We carry our babies in internal ponds and they come forth into the world on a wave of water. It is our responsibility to safeguard the water for all our relations.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

Worldwide, women and girls spend an estimated 200 million hours every single day collecting water.
This burden robs women and girls of time to learn, time to be a kid, time to earn an income, time to rest, and time spent with family. For hundreds of millions of people, being born female means life revolves around water collection. Everything else comes second.  Read more about women and water here.