Faery Questions

Faery Questions

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

The Question - The Heart of Faerie 

Questions are like keys. Knowing the right question can unlock all sorts of situations, difficulties and problems within and in the world. Faeries ask us all kinds of questions, especially in quests and journey's (quest, I, on?).

The problem with most people is they only ask questions they think they know the answer to. You would be surprised how often I have had clients begged me to tell them one way or another not for the truth, or a truth, but for a lie they desperately want to cling to. 

I'd probably make a lot more money if I gave them the sweet lies, but I just can't do it. 

"No, he is not going to leave his wife."

"Yes, your crazy ex will stalk you."

"It's going to get worse before it gets better."

Some people are stranger still, in that they get the answer they are looking for and can't except it. They wrestle with it, you can see something inside them refuses to accept good news, or the thing they want. They twist and turn on the seat.

Then there are the folks who's question/s make more questions. This usually means their question wasn't the best question they could have asked. It could have been vague, too specific. 

The Question says

"What do you really want to know?"

An answer is coming. You might like it. You might not. You might have needed a better question. You might twist and wriggle away from the answer good or bad. If you don't have the answers you want or you are comfortable with, that could bring up a whole host of interesting questions. 

The Singer of Courage 

Most people think fear is a terrible thing and that feeling frightened is some how a weakness. Fear is not a weakness. Fear is the body telling the mind something important. Something to warn it about pain. Sometimes we need to hear the warning and jump right out and do it anyway.

Courage is braving the crowded supermarket in the school holidays and not having a panic attack. 

Courage is in speaking up for yourself and for others.

Courage is really accepting who you are and being that person even though it is easier and convenient not to be.

It is being bruised and broken-hearted and loving anyway. 

Big brave things, like jumping off a bridge with a piece of elastic on your feet seem more impressive but it is the courage to be authentic, vulnerable and present that changes the world. 

The Singer of Courage says

"What are you really afraid of?"

When we look at ourselves and begin to deconstruct our fears, ration, irrational, social and taught we begin a courageous journey.

If we can sing our own song, dance our own dance, live our own life, then we truly are courageous.