Annie Dieu-Le-Veut

Those who’ve read Stories in the Stars will have learned about the practice of The Three Cauldrons and its vital importance to the health and wellbeing of our mind, body and spirit. It’s what gives us our power … our magnetic power. So in this article, I’ll be telling you some more about this inner alchemical practice and then guiding you into how to do it with a specially-created soundtrack.

The Three Cauldrons technique used to be a common practice among our earliest ancestors because they realised that, at its very least, it helped to fend off the diseases we now associate with ageing. The samurais and ninjas knew about it. So did the warrior Arjuna in the Bhagavad Gita. But what it actually is and how to practise it is now only found in the ancient texts of the Celts, the Vikings and the Chinese.

Here is a Renaissance translation of an 8th century poem attributed to the legendary Irish bard Amergin, called The Three Cauldrons of Poesy:

My own existence springs forth from the Cauldron of Poesy,

Which was created by the gods from the dúile;

Enlightened is each inspiration

That streams forth in my speech and from my centre of being.

I am Amergin White Knee,

Ancient in years and grey of hair.

My inspirations are found within

The many forms of poetry

That are born within my Cauldron of Warming.

The gods do not orient each person’s cauldrons equally

Or fill them with the same talents and abilities:

Some are formed upside down, some tilted or upright.

Some are empty, while others are half full,

Some are filled with knowledge like Eber and Donn,

Capable of creating chants of life and death,

Through a skillful combination of words

In the power of three genders: masculine, feminine, and neuter,

And possessing the strength of three measures: double letters,

Long vowels and short vowels.

My Cauldron of Vocation is trained

Through a study of the arts of poetry

And sustains me through proper composition.

I sing also of the Cauldron of Knowledge

That allocates the gifts of wisdom

According to the laws of each art,

And the work of each artist in general.

The Three Cauldrons is also in found in allegory in the Gospels’ Parable of the Ten Talents, which is only surprising if you don’t understand that as Christianity began to take hold in Britain, some of their scribes hid the codes for alchemical practices in gospel stories. This would have been easy to do because from the 3rd century onwards, and still continuing to this day, the monks were involved in the continual editing and re-editing of the New Testament to suit differing political imperatives.

It’s also my intuition that it is the allegorical meaning of the Old Norse Edda’s three wells Hvergelmir, Mimir and Urd, which are situated on Yggdrasil, the World Tree.

But this inner alchemical practice only survives today in the Three Bowls of Chi Kung.

And so knowing this, we can now make sense of the 6th century bard Taliesin’s epithet of the “Son of the Cauldron”. The practice of the Three Cauldrons or Three Bowls is about incubating the inner secret fire that leads to the radiance of the brow, and radiant brow is the true meaning of the word Taliesin.

However, we all carry these three alchemical crucibles in our etheric fields… even today. And so you may not be interested in spiritual enlightenment, but your health and wellbeing would still benefit from learning this technique of power retrieval and cultivation of inner alchemical elixirs.

We’re all born with a certain amount of this elixir as an inheritance from our ancestral line. As Amergin says in The Three Cauldrons of Poesy: “The gods do not orient each person’s cauldrons equally, or fill them with the same talents and abilities: Some are formed upside down, some tilted or upright. Some are empty, while others are half full.”

That said, how ever much of this elixir we are born with, it depletes over time. It gets used up …and it gets used up especially fast when we undergo stress and trauma until, eventually, no matter how well we eat and exercise, our body no longer has the necessary etheric nutrients to repair itself.

However, those who regularly retrieve and cultivate this power not only tend to look younger but feel younger for much longer. They’re vibrant and alight with the magnetic power that they’ve pulled from the ethers. They attract good things towards them. Some might think they’re just lucky… but they are making their own luck. 

This practice of power retrieval and cultivation is very easy, and you can do it anywhere: you don’t need any special clothes, you don’t have to shut your eyes unless you want to, and there’s no necessity of twisting the limbs into impossibly agonising asanas. You can practise it right now where you are sitting listening to this … so let’s start … and we’re going to begin with the Lower Cauldron, or the Cauldron of Warming as it was known to Amergin.

Just sit comfortably in your chair, or lie comfortably on your bed or sofa, or stand wherever you are… and relax. Really relax.. not just try to relax, but really relax. Relax as you would after a long day at work, and now you’re just looking forward to listening to some peaceful, chilled-out sounds, which you actually are. The music you’re about to hear has been created by APi_ZZ with specific sound frequencies in the drumming and Tibetan bowls that support this practice.

Afterwards, you should already be feeling clearer and calmer and certainly, anyway, less stressed or fearful. At its most basic, this technique activates the parasympathetic nervous system, thus instantly turning off the ignition key to the engine of the sympathetic ‘fight or flight’ response which you may have locked-in, ticking over at a low level as a sort of permamently-available “getaway car” in case one is ever needed! However, it’s a big depleter of these life force energies…. not to mention pollution of the environment, of your body.

The Lower Cauldron is the most important one to begin with because it has to be open to the etheric life force before we can use that energy to activate the Middle and then the Upper Cauldron, which leads to the experience of the Light of a Thousand Suns. How long it takes you to get there is up to you, how much remedial work you have to do, as per Amergin, and how often you practise it. It is achievable, I promise you that, but also … the journey on the way is fun too!