Faeries of Truth and Change

Faeries of Truth and Change

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

Sylvanius - the Faeries Oracle

Sylvanius is a complicated guy. Well the truth is complicated too. All about perspective, time, attitude. Nature doesn't lie, not often anyway.  He keeps watch on the 'teen. Between here and there, Faery and our world, especially in the woods and wild places.

In the wilds we are often faced with the truth about ourselves that we can keep safely hidden in the "real" world.

The woods, is a dream land too, where the truth is dressed in all kinds of masks. Where things are real and unreal. Opposite but not opposing and where the dichotomy of things spins like a coin on it's edge. Like the swords edge. Sylvanius say

"Minding true things by what there mockeries be." 

There is a truth in jest, and art, plays and songs, artists (like the Bard himself) know. In fact sometimes we have to show a lie, to tell the truth too.

If you want to be easy, well, sorry! It's time to come clean. Even, no, especially with yourself. If you need to make it "fiction" to say it, if you need to write in a novel, a song or poem, or paint it in a picture, do that. Of course truth will out eventually any way. It is it's nature, like ivy and thorn to bring down the walls that divide us. For while you are in the wilds, the wilds are also in you.

The Queen of Passage - The Heart of Faerie

Faery like 'tweens. The shifting place between one thing and another. Where things rub, overlap, pull apart. Faery accept change far more easily than we. We like things how they are but they never stay that way. Our biggest struggles are fighting against change, even desired change. 

Change often requires work. Yet we have to surrender to it. To the process, blood, pain, tears and all. If we find that calm space in ourselves. If we can just let go we will find the transitions much easier.

She says

"Keep breathing. In and out. In and out. You can do it."

She will deliver you into the next part of your life. She is there guiding, checking and trying to make it as smooth as possible. Relax. Work with the process and don't fight so hard. Keep breathing. Have a touch of faith. Listen to your better instincts. All things do pass after all.