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| Photography by Kely Luzio-Cardona |
There are many beliefs on who the faeries are and how they view humanity at large. What is their role in this world, and what is their role in our lives?
Faeries are in large part energy, but they also live in part in our world, on Earth. In fact, they cannot live without Earth, and it is their duty and their purpose to keep earth spinning.
They also believe it is our purpose in living here - to work with them to keep the world turning, to keep it happy and healthy for it is our mother and our child in turn. Shame on us, they say, for not looking at it otherwise.
Yet, the faeries are carefree and wild. They don’t expect us to be any different. They don’t expect
humanity, which in their opinion is more wild than they, to do what they don’t. After all, we work hard, we care for our families, work at our jobs, keep up our homes. We build and connect and help each other. Many of us think humanity is dark and trouble, but the faeries know they are dark and trouble, too. They don’t look down on us for being who we are.
They are, however, saddened that we have forgotten where we come from. “This,” I hear, “is an unforgivable sin.” Then in the same breath, “but we don’t believe in sin.” Then they titter, and flit away.
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| Artwork by Michelle Farenci |
Sigh. Such is the life of a faery. Maybe one day I will get a straight answer… but then again, as my blog on Time so clearly states, there are no straight lines, so why should there be straight answers.
So I am hesitant to fall into the trap of those who say the earth and the faeries, and all who protect the land we live on are angry, or even saddened by our actions (or inaction). They know we are simply on our path. I’m also quite spiritual, but hesitant to say that God and the Universe is angry or saddened that we do not always act as God has guided us to.
Instead my spirituality leads me to believe both stories in part. We HAVE forgotten where we’ve come from, and we HAVE forsaken the land in which we live… but not completely. And if it makes us dark, or makes us bad, then so what? Humanity was never meant to consist of all light or all goodness. We did not come here to be at peace - we could stay in Spirit for that.
Ahhh… The faeries breathe. Now you’re getting it. As a race we are too lax on ourselves and too hard, both. We are here to learn, and here to remember. No one is as disappointed in us as we are in ourselves.
We work hard to make the world a better place without reflecting on what might be best for the greater whole. In this way we create for other living spirits an oppression that we fight tooth-and-nail to be rid of ourselves. Is it no surprise we cannot bend things to our will - we humans who refused to be bent to anyone’s will? The faeries understand this, even though we may not.
Read more about faeries:
Faeries for Beltane
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