Well, in our workshop “From Muggles to Mugwort: Your Magic Garden/the Wild Herbs and Weeds”, everyone was interested in the medicinal properties of the wild plants in the garden and woods. However there was a lot of playful fascination with the idea that we can communicate with the spirits of the plants if we are respectful, humble and sit, listening, with quiet and earnest hearts.
Over the days following the workshop, we have kept in touch and there have been a number of little stories of “green magic” as the participants went home to their own gardens to find good medicine and plant allies on their land, bringing a sense of delight and childlike wonder to what used to be an “ordinary” way of seeing things…from Muggles Mind to Mugwort Mind!
However, when I went to develop several pictures of our time together here I must admit I was more than a little surprised. “Jewelweed Julie” had come the evening before the workshop to help me clear the Teasel bed which was totally overgrown. A fierce and knowleable detangler, she worked in the garden untiil past dark to make a path in that wilderness so we could get in there during the workshop to meet Teasel who we are investigating as an ally for those dealing with Lyme disease. It was a gentle foggy night, but not raining…I took 3 pictures of Miss Julie, one right after the other from different directions…this picture was the 2nd one and when I printed out the photos, were we shocked to see these little plant spirit orbs, either emerging out of the green, and drifting off to the right where they wouldn’t be disturbed further OR coming in from the right to hide out in the green for the night! We have examined these with magnifying glasses, and none of us are sure what we are seeing, but in the many years I have spent with other greeningspirit folk, I will say that I have ocassionally seen such mysterious little translucent images caught on film (probably not intentionally..they are shy)…and whether they are, or they aren’t…we usually give in to a sense of childlike imagination and play, and call them Fairies, or…Faeries….or Fayries. What might you call them? ; – )
Miss Julie looks like a fairy herself. I would love to know more about using Teasel for lyme.
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Fascinating. Who knows what secrets are still to unfold in the garden at night. I know my garden certainly has visitors… though I know what they are… rabbit faries that eat all my lettuce! Have you a cure for that?
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Christine,
Not all fairies are good. The tooth fairy assigned to our neighborhood is a real nitwit. When my daughter loses teeth, we don’t know whether he’s gonna come or not. (Our tooth fairy is a guy that’s about 7 inches tall. I’ll bet somebody stepped on him once…or twice…or more.) And if he does come, you never know how much cash he’s gonna leave. He’s a nitwit. I’d give him a piece of my mind but, honestly, I’ve given away just about all the pieces I can afford.
I tried to get a picture of him but he just wouldn’t orb for me. His orb-er is probably broken, anyway. For that matter, his orb light probably doesn’t work either. I think I’ll just report him to the Supreme Fairy Momma Highness Majesty and maybe we’ll get a new one. She had better do it soon because my daughter is just about outta teeth. Maybe she’ll give us a 2009 model fairy with GPS, power wings, and stuff like that, and also smells new and works right and can orb anytime he/she wants to. I’m kinda partial to she’s.
Oh, nuther thing. I always get the blame when the tooth fairy doesn’t come through. My daughter thinks I’m the tooth fairy, you see. Now, do I look like a tooth fairy? You had better say no because I’ve spent just about most of my life trying NOT to look like a tooth fairy. In my high school yearbook, when asked about what I wanted to be, I was quoted as saying, “NOT a tooth fairy!”
Have you ever written or read anything about unruly fairies? And what do you know about the Supreme Fairy Momma Highness Majesty? Is she like a Queen Bee? Does she get all the teeth? Seems like she’d want flowers or diamonds or something like that. A necklace of teeth would make her look like a cannibal, don’t you think? And why do they orb? Is that kinda like their airlines? Where do they get off intruding uninvited into random photographs?
NOT a fairy,
Wes
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When I first saw the photo, I gasped, with surprise, and then, delight. Those magical creatures were hiding in plain sight – all it took to see them was a camera1 Isn’t that wonderful?
Elaine
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