Happy Fairy Faerie Fae Day!

I just learned about this one. Is she someone to fear? Certainly, this is a different way to look at something or someone, like a Banshee.

Is she what we mean today by calling someone a cry baby?

Beansidhe (Banshee, Ban shee, Badhbh, Badhbh Chaointe):
A Celtic or Celtic Irish fairy whose name actually means, Woman of the Hill. Her name comes from “bean,” or woman, and Sidhe, or fairy.

Apparently, she looks like an old woman with deep-set eyes, which are bright red from constant weeping. She wears a cloak over a green dress. But I suppose she could wear anything she wants, couldn’t she?

Another description places her with wild long red hair, wearing a white gown or dress. Another, still, describes her as a beautiful veiled woman, with a way of moving or being that conveys great sadness. She seems to be a servant of some kind, and her sorrowful wail is heard the night before a family member is going to die.

Sometimes she takes on the form of a crow and beats her wings against a window as she lets out her mournful cry.

Many claim to have seen her as she goes wailing about. The Irish funeral cry is said to be an imitation of this cry. And when more than one of these creatures wail together, it is said to be for the death of some holy or great one.

Unseen, these crying spirits attend the funerals of the beloved dead, and sometimes can be heard wailing along with the mournful cries of others, each beansidhe attending her own mortal family.

The Scottish version of the Banshee is the Bean Nighe.

What unusual faerie types do you know about? Are there banshees in Harry Potter? Do any have first names?

Fairies seem to want to help us. They offer a look at emotions or circumstances in life. Most are tied to nature in some way, and many are nature’s angels.

Today, many people feel that fairies are here to help us lighten up, have fun, be playful, and look at ourselves and our lives differently. Sometimes, we need to wail like a banshee, but after a time, just like sun appearing after rain, it’s time to come out and sing, dance, and play again.

May you feel the fairies around you and see their little lights and note their fluttering wings in your life often.

Return of the JEDI

I had a fascinating interaction with a seven-and-a-half-year-old the other day. His mother had been teaching the home schooled youngster about karma, and he had replied that he didn’t believe in it. This struck a chord in me because I, too, had held a similar belief not so long ago.

She explained that karma meant patterns in your life where when you did something to someone it came back to you and affected you. The old saying, “What goes around, comes around.”

I thought of the idea of a boomerang and brought this up. Turns out this youngster had a friend who owned an authentic New Zealand boomerang and supposedly knew how to use it. Whenever he threw the boomerang, it did not come back to him. It flew out and landed pouf on the ground somewhere.

“So,” the boy said to me, “no karma. The boomerang doesn’t come back to you.”

His mother promptly said, “How do we work with that?”

I considered this and saw a sort of duality. On the one hand, karma, and with it a kind of fear-creating idea or belief that what you do can come back and get you. On the other hand, the idea of there not being karma felt freeing and much safer to me.

Mentally, I went into no karma meaning that you’re not responsible for what you send out because it doesn’t come back to you, and, the ripples that come off the actions you take or the energy you send off can’t be controlled, interpreted, or followed into infinity. This seemed to me to offer a sort of vesica piscis, an intersect between two views. I liked that.

I said to the boy that I could understand how he thought, that I myself liked to look at the two sides of things and see both, allow both.

But addressing his mother’s question in a way that might have meaning for him, I began–off the cuff–with the idea of energy and how even though we can’t see it, the boy’s energy shot the boomerang out and even though it didn’t come back to him like in a ricochet action, there was an energetic connection of some sort and so that which he sent out he was responsible for.

He didn’t get it.

Earlier he had hurt his little sister. When I asked him why he had done it, he refused to answer. I explained that being a children’s writer, I often use real children in my stories. His reason for hurting his sister could help me create a character who had the same reason for doing something in a story.

This engaged him. He said he did it for revenge. (This, from a seven-year-old quite blew me away, so if you’re seven and you think and use words like this, you could make a comment below and quite blow me away).

I considered what he said, and from revenge saw the link to hurt. He wanted to hurt his sister. The why of it didn’t seem important.

I told the boy, “You’re a JEDI Master. It’s like you sent the light from your light saber out to hurt your sister, but because you’re still holding the light saber, what you sent out came back to hurt you.”

“How?” he asked, a bit gruff and ticked off.

“You got in trouble with your mother, didn’t you? You hurt your sister and that got you in trouble.”

His face remained blank but I felt the energy in the room shift. He told me about a light saber he had made with leggos and ran off to retrieve it to show it to me. I had been a stranger before. Now, I had become Obi Wan Kenobe, friend.

What do you think about what I’ve discussed here?

Parents, kids, teachers, let’s get a discussion going. Comments are welcomed on POFFF.COM

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“Struggle and joy are not on the same channel. You joy your way to joy. You laugh your way to success. It is through your joy that good things come.”
–from Abraham 

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The flightless fairy penguin of Australia

Clumsy on land, a fairy penguin can’t survive for long. Not with the introduced fox as its natural enemy. But look what they do! After each day in the water, they gather where the surf meets the shore until each penguin has joined them. Then they march up the beach to their burrows together. They support each other and rely on each other. Each one is an important part of the whole. And because they know this – instinctively – everyone of these penguins wins.

More pics here

The Hidden Messages in Water

Since we’ve been looking at water horses, sea horses and sea dragons, and about cracking codes, it came to me to bring up something that could change your life.

Dr. Masaru Emoto from Japan did research on water using a variety of words. He discovered that words have incredible power as well as a vibration. He photographed the results. The photos are available on line and in several books he’s published.

Certain words like joy, love, courtesy, and happiness created beautiful balanced water crystals while other words like war and hate created a crystal that was malformed and often looked like the word used on it.

Take a look also at Dr. Emoto’s research on music and how different types affect the formation of water crystals. Heavy metal looks like it could truly impact our ears in ways that might very well affect our hearing! To me the crystal looks damaged, even eroded. Just imagine if the crystal were your ears.

Taking this even further, if words can affect water, imagine their impact on us and on those we care about. We’re made up of mostly water, so kind, loving words spoken to ourselves are better for us than something that could cause pain or destruction.

What do you think? And if you find a cool site about the hidden messages in water, let the POFFF Master know by leaving a comment below.