Faery of Growth and Ideas

Faery of Growth and Ideas

I am using The Heart of Faerie Oracle by Brian and Wendy Froud and The Faeries Oracle by Brian Froud and Jessica Macbeth.

The Faerie of Growth - The Heart of Faerie Oracle

This card reminds me of fresh pea-pods.There is something so fresh and vital and green about her. She is poised to move like a pod about to burst or a coiled spring. We tend to think of growth as this slow measured thing but in nature it never goes like that. It has slow quiet seasons and then it bursts forth. Be it the moment when a seed rips open it's outer casing to put out roost, or the moment when a flower bud explodes into colour, or when a seed pod twists and contorts until it pops showering seeds far and wide. She says

"It's happening, hang on!"

Faery don't really understand human idea of time. They certainly don't understand human ideas about being "ready". Things happen when the wind blows, when the light changes, when the pod is ready to pop. They worry about the details or deal with the problems that "might" come with the change when they get there. Or after. Or they don't worry at all!

Taitin The Sylph - The Faeries Oracle

This card positively glows. Taitin is so beautiful you could be forgiven for thinking she is always well behaved. Yet she is that sudden jolt of ideas. She looks tiny too, but again that would be a trick because she carries something huge inside her. She is not only dreaming but aliveness. Like a hummingbird she flies.  She says

"Wake up! Look sharp. Think!"

While she is amazing and beautiful I also feel like she is the whisperer of drunken ideas, daring dos, and down right dangerous stunts. If you are a Hitchhikers Guide fan, she is Zaphod's patronus. Thinking cap and all! She is always interesting and mostly fun (hangovers and bad choices aside) but hey it was your idea, right?