Chance meeting

[helen99]

Yesterday, we took a trip to Behnke's super duper tree nursery and every-plant-there-is extravaganza -- The place is huge, spanning several acres and two large buildings. They have every imaginable gardening thingy plus all the scientific information required to assemble and operate the thingies. They also have many kinds of plants from everywhere, even Venus' Flytraps, and more kinds of trees than I know about.

One of the trees we saw was a Curly Willow - it was the coolest thing! It grows about 10' tall, and the branches grow in irregular corkscrew-like patterns - very pretty. We also saw some lovely Scotch Broom - I actually made a broom with that once for a pagan circle - I think making my own props for a ritual is the most fun part.

Strictly by coincidence of course, Orion, an old friend and local magical teacher in the area, just happened to be there, and I just happened to find him wandering in the vast array of florage. As a point of reference, he's the one who built the Faerie Cairn at Four Quarters Farm. He is one of those magnetic people who is usually completely surrounded by students, groupies, hangers on, and others demanding attention whenever we see him, so we never have a chance to talk to him. After a minute, someone always barges in and demands his attention - never mind that he was in the middle of a sentence talking with us. His ears looked exceptionally pointed when I found him (they seem to point more each time I see him)...

This time, there was nobody around but us, so we were treated to a mini-workshop, until, that is, he got a call on his cell phone (damn those things). It was a call from home -- his main water pump had died and he had to leave immediately. But before that happened, we got him to ourselves for about 20 minutes (truly a once in a lifetime event).

The topic of conversation was Awakening ... the possibility that in the distant past, those from the realm of faerie, (a.k.a., perhaps, the annunaki), at one time interbred with humans, and if so, how does that heritage awaken, and what would be the result of awakening that heritage.

He said he believes that there was such an intermarriage, and there certainly is such a heritage, that it is more prevalent in certain bloodlines, and that the more one focuses on refining the trait, the more pronounced it becomes. But he also said that those who say they want to have the trait, probably do not have it, because the ones who do have it never wanted it in the first place, and usually find it to be horribly disturbing for a long time until they come to grips with it...

He's of the strong opinion that people of this heritage must open to it and embrace it, but also embrace and not reject a human aspect. If they don't do this, he said, they cannot be anchor points who allow the interaction between human and faerie and somehow restore the balance of nature (I'm paraphrasing, so I hope I didn't mess this up). Personally, I don't think restoring the balance is possible given the current population, but anyway that's what he said.

He made the distinction between fae (the Forever Young, the Good Folk, the Ancient Ones) and fey (those Impressed with the Trait). One interesting thing he said was that if some people were Impressed with the Trait, this is most probably a 2-way event - some of the Forever Young are Impressed with human traits.

I'm not sure I liked that too much. What would the effect be? (hopefully not political institutions and secret police in faerie, as some I met long ago indicated). Hopefully not pettiness and freeways and McDonalds. Hopefully more like a kind of bridge between realms, focusing on greater understandings. He had to leave before we got any further with it.

I'm not sure how I feel about all of that. I saw a picture of someone who said he was an elf, and he had mighty pointed ears (most pointed I've ever seen). They weren't photoshopped or pasted on. Sorting through it. Maybe it's a matter of semantics. There are discarnate Forever Young, and there are incarnate elves. I think he doesn't like the use of the term 'elf' to describe something physical. Of course, rialian is working on him concerning the semantics thing.

The reason we went to Behnke's in the first place was to look for Hawthorn trees - I wanted to plant one in the yard (yes, another tree). We found some, but they were a lot bigger than I wanted - I wanted a baby and these were teenagers. So we decided to wait on that - Instead we bought a little stone basin about 20 or so inches across, and a little mushroom shaped birdbath, and three packages of mycorizal fungi. We put the basin in the back yard and filled it with water, and brought some big stones from the creek. The beginnings of a faerie cairn. This should be very interesting... I love working with stones, so building this should be a joy. Taking off now to find some rocks in captivity that I can rescue...

Comments

[helen99.livejournal.com]

He always seems to respond to claims of being incarnate Elf or Fae with something along the lines of,

"SO. You mean you're one of the vast, godlike, powerful beings of nature, older than the planet, older than time?"

Or something like that. He doesn't take well to it. Here's the way I see that.

There are different levels/calibers of fae, just like anything else. There are beings on the Celestial and Inner planes (and those at the meetingplace of the two) which probably would never incarnate. In that sense he's right. They're too vast, too all-encompassing, too old, to care about physical form and would never go there.

But what about the fae beings who are neither vast nor celestial -- and are closer to the Physical? The "almost here" beings? Wouldn't it be possible for them to decide to incarnate at one point or another? Reasons could vary - it could be they just wanted the experience - were attracted to humans and to physical form. It could be that they were attracted to a particular human, and wanted to experience a life with them. It could be that they knew about the predicament humanity would land itself in right now, and felt their presence in physical form was necessary to be able to save the planet.

I don't see one viewpoint as completely eliminating the other.

[helen99.livejournal.com]

Let me rephrase that. Let me replace "Vast and Celestial" with "Godlike and All-encompassing". The reason is, I just thought of an example of an otherkin who was both vast and celestial (your late brother and some of his friends...)