Sophie
During the night I had a thrombosis in the leg. Swollen leg, pins and needles, and then the pain…I had never had this before and was petrified. I walked about the flat, drank water, lay with my leg on a pillow, slept badly. I awoke early, too early to call the doctor – the pain and swelling had subsided a bit, though still there like an ache, and the pins and needles didn’t stop.
I was drawn to the faeries and asked for help.
And Tobaira of the Waters answered. I listened to her. She was practical first: put my leg under cold water and drink fresh water, as she is doing.
She is a healer. Before I was able to call the doctor and during the whole day, she was by my side, whispering what to do, reassuring me. Surrounded by frollicking frog women, draiads, naiads and gnomes, she heals with serene joy, she uses the gentle precise touch of a reflexologist (that can be so painful at the moment it is applied!), the energy caress of a reiki master.
She is soft but sensible, Tobaira. The barest shimmer of wings glint at her back, nothing fancy. She is clothed in good muslin for comfort, leaving the arms and shoulders bare to preserve her freedom of movement. She is the only one wearing clothes in the card, signifying, perhaps, the necessary distance healers must keep from their patients – distance with empathy.
Though she rises from the silver spring, she is earthed, Tobaira - the whole card around her is brown and tan.
She is beautiful, too – her skin like morning on the Lake waters. Her cupped hands strong and fine, a healer’s hands. I drew another card tonight – the Singer of Connection – its blue-green light reminds me of her hands – two pairs of rounded hands meeting each other, like two cups... There can be no healing without connection. I know there is more than my leg that needs healing…
Water is a healer. When the blood clot has dissolved, I shall take up swimming again - keep my limbs moving, the blood circulating. Blood is water too! And too much sedentarity turns water to ice. Blood to blood clots, with dangerous consequences. Serendipity – a leaflet announcing the local pool hours were slid into my letter-box on the day my Faeries arrived.
All this water pouring on the card is making me thirsty!
I was drawn to the faeries and asked for help.
And Tobaira of the Waters answered. I listened to her. She was practical first: put my leg under cold water and drink fresh water, as she is doing.
She is a healer. Before I was able to call the doctor and during the whole day, she was by my side, whispering what to do, reassuring me. Surrounded by frollicking frog women, draiads, naiads and gnomes, she heals with serene joy, she uses the gentle precise touch of a reflexologist (that can be so painful at the moment it is applied!), the energy caress of a reiki master.
She is soft but sensible, Tobaira. The barest shimmer of wings glint at her back, nothing fancy. She is clothed in good muslin for comfort, leaving the arms and shoulders bare to preserve her freedom of movement. She is the only one wearing clothes in the card, signifying, perhaps, the necessary distance healers must keep from their patients – distance with empathy.
Though she rises from the silver spring, she is earthed, Tobaira - the whole card around her is brown and tan.
She is beautiful, too – her skin like morning on the Lake waters. Her cupped hands strong and fine, a healer’s hands. I drew another card tonight – the Singer of Connection – its blue-green light reminds me of her hands – two pairs of rounded hands meeting each other, like two cups... There can be no healing without connection. I know there is more than my leg that needs healing…
Water is a healer. When the blood clot has dissolved, I shall take up swimming again - keep my limbs moving, the blood circulating. Blood is water too! And too much sedentarity turns water to ice. Blood to blood clots, with dangerous consequences. Serendipity – a leaflet announcing the local pool hours were slid into my letter-box on the day my Faeries arrived.
All this water pouring on the card is making me thirsty!