Elfaegis
"The Shield of the Elves"
Nature Beings
No, this isn't an actual picture of a nature being! This is a gift I received from my aunt, as we walked through a gift shop. I saw this display of wall sculptures by Carruth Studios and came upon this one called "Fern." I really liked the joy in his face, and how sincerely the artist had captured that. My nice aunt bought it for me because I was going to put it down after having had such a great reaction to it. She perceived the reaction and decided I should have it! What an awesome aunt.
To me, nature beings are real. I have had lots of experiences with them, even though I don't normally go around seeing or conversing with them. There are a couple different experiences that really stand out for me ...
The first is: I planted six daffodils in a small flower bed in the fall. When spring finally sprang, I looked to see the daffodils poking their heads out of the ground. I remembered the pattern I had planted them in ... and counted 1, 2, 3, 4, a biggish space, and 5. And I thought, "Awww ... one of them didn't make it. Oh well." And then I started to walk away to go to work.
I got about three steps away, and perceived something drawing me back again. So I went back and looked at the space between. And there I noticed a small, flat stone (frost does strange things to the ground in winter). So I reached down and pried up the stone, and there, struggling to get out from underneath it, was a daffodil stem, bleached almost white from lack of light.
The next day, as I was on my way to work again, and I decided to check in on "daffodil number 5," and make sure it was doing okay. And there, right next to the daffodil, was a perfect quartz crystal! Had that been there the day before, I would have surely noticed it, because these are some of my favorite stones.
Now isn't that great? A real gift from nature, all because I helped out.
Another thing that happens to me constantly (because I live in the hills in the Northeast of the US) is having to drive uphill in the snow. I never liked those big 4-wheel drive rigs, and instead drive a smallish car with good gas mileage. Naturally, when we get any kind of snow, I slip and slide up the hills and down them. Up is much harder.
However, I have noticed that when I extend a friendly "vibe" and not one permeated with fear of sliding off the road, the car gets a push. Nature beings come in all sizes, even ones big enough to push cars (mountains, continents, planets, galaxies ... they get very big). There is just this one that has taken an interest and helps out from time to time.
Fear is a force field we build around ourselves that doesn't permit these beings to interact with us. A friend of mine was riding with me one slippery day, and he was afraid that we weren't going to make it up a hill. He kept saying it out loud, "We're not going to make it. We won't make it." Finally, I turned to him and forcefully said, "Shut up!" That changed his fear into anger centered on me, and that was enough for the car to get the familiar push. We made it, and easily, as soon as he stopped putting out that intention.
There are many more examples from my own experience, so I'm convinced. I can also understand that these two examples are not enough to convince you, dear fellow traveler. Just consider the possibility though!
The Grail Message refers to these beings throughout its pages. Another really good book specifically about nature beings is the classic by Dora van Gelder called The Real World of Fairies. The best is your own experience. Just consider the possibility ... and things will happen!
Have you seen Jack-In-The-Green?
With his long tail hanging down.
He sits quietly under every tree ---
in the folds of his velvet gown.
He drinks from the empty acorn cup
the dew that dawn sweetly bestows.
And taps his cane upon the ground ---
signals the snowdrops it's time to grow.
It's no fun being Jack-In-The-Green ---
no place to dance, no time for song.
He wears the colours of the summer soldier ---
carries the green flag all the winter long.
Jack, do you never sleep ---
does the green still run deep in your heart?
Or will these changing times,
motorways, powerlines,
keep us apart?
Well, I don't think so ---
I saw some grass growing through the pavements today.
The rowan, the oak and the holly tree
are the charges left for you to groom.
Each blade of grass whispers Jack-In-The-Green.
Oh Jack, please help me through my winter's night.
And we are the berries on the holly tree.
Oh, the mistlethrush is coming.
Jack, put out the light.Lyrics of "Jack in the Green" by Jethro Tull
