Re: Re: Another Faerie Newbie
sagitarian said:
You've already started a friendship with them. Solus speaks a lot about bridges, how to make them, how to go over them, what things to look out for, but he also talks a lot through the heart chakra. I believe him to be telling you that "yes you are very internal but that's what makes your heart shine so much to us" and they will work on helping you make that bridge from your heart to them, in order to travel in friendship more easily. Soul Shrinker is there to show you that there is nothing to fear, and to protect what you've built, and he will be your confidant (if you let him) when times are rough. He may not be very pretty (poor faery) but he's got a big heart (like you). What's in store for you? Creating bridges in places that you may have given up on, finding the courage and strength inside yourself to overlook what you find to be wrong with yourself, and you will achieve these things with the help of solus guiding you, showing you exactly how to build such delicate bridges.
I thank, thank, thank you, sagitarian, for your painstaking, kind, and insightful answer to my questions.
I am happy that Soul Shrinker can have such an enlightening and special place in my life, (poor faery, as you say). My first lesson from him is to continue as I try to do: to never assume anything about anyone from external appearance, including himself.
I confess that when I chose him as the one I least liked, and began doing the exercises, I could think of nothing positive to say about him. I was wrong. Jessica's words showed me the error of my ways towards Soul Shrinker, much in the same way as you have. I thank you for that. I will treasure him like I will all the others.
Thank you for your equally kind words about my heart. I do try, on my spiritual quest, to seek the Sufi Beloved through the heart quality. I try to let it guide me in my occupation in RL.
I have discovered, in my short time at AT, that loving hearts abound here, and I rejoice to find myself in such pleasant company.
Having read the "definition" for
Friends, I couldn't help laughing. I just had to have chosen (or been chosen) by the independently minded and quite interesting Fairy Nuff.
(I hope he won't take offense at having been called the little hedgehog...
)
If I may share my experience of yesterday evening with you all, since it is the first time I asked the faeries what I should know as I begin my journey with them, and who would come to answer me.
Well..., the cards just flew out of my hands. I was expecting one, alone, to answer, but first came
The Maiden, then
The Faun
Solus followed (but I didn't look him up in the book, since I still want to address him as the other of my 'favourite' choices).
Oengus Journeyman was the next.
Last, but not least, came Geeeeeooo.
I think I am not wrong in imagining that the beginning is auspicious; that I am supported as I step into this otherworld, the rules and magic of which I must respect and can trust; that although I am unskilled, I may venture into their world along the bridge they are leading me along; that I must be quick-witted, remain open and understand that the learning will require patience and take whatever time it will take.
Thank you, dear ones.
I think there is much I am missing in their answer, inept as I still am, so I would welcome what you (and all those here) have to say; you who understand our faery companions so much better, if it isn't too much of an imposition.
