🔮 Symbolic Approach
Selene pulls the waters. The rise is the yin gaining ground: emotions, crowd, cyclical destiny. Coastal peoples knew this: you do not argue with the tide, you pack the nets. A tide that rises too fast is panic; a just tide is returning abundance.
🛋️ Psychoanalysis (Freud & Jung)
Surge of affect, desire, mental load. You can still walk, soon you won't be able to. Anxious anticipation. The pleasure of being covered over (regression, eroticism, faith).
🧠 Neuroscience
Rhythm, bladder, rumination "it's going to overflow". The brain loves gradients (changing levels) to encode relative urgency.
💡 Practical Advice
Put away what should not get wet (secret, commitment, sleep). Then accept part of the rise: not everything needs to be barricaded. Come back at low tide to decide.
