My guide is wearing a long blue robe, and we walk a path towards a castle. The
land is bright and beautiful. It does not have the
stylized beauty of the elf castles in "The Lord of the Rings" but it is a
land without hidden hatreds and conflicts, in a way like the Buddhist Pure
Lands, where one may meditate in peace.
We enter the castle and my guide suggests we enter some of the upper rooms.
We go up stairs and walk to the right, and there a room with graceful
designs in stained glass. In its center is a Persian rug with a central
mandala, in green blue and white. It is somehow alive, and is moving. We
walk
into its center, and we are transported to a temple with great
high marble pillars, and a rectangular pool. There is an altar
in the front which arouses the emotion of fear. It seems to be a place
of death and sacrifice.
My guide says,
This is a place of transformation. You have wondered about
birth and death amid the Fair Folk. This is our place for both.
He holds up his hand and a dark marble bowl appears floating in the air
which symbolizes the group consciousness of the Fair Folk.
It stays in the air above our
heads and glows and crackles with light. My guide says that the bowl
represents the collective mind of Manannan's people. Within it is an object
that looks like
a golden network or vast wreath of nodes. It appears like a living golden
Christmas wreath.
There are others in the room attending a kind of ceremony focused
around the bowl.
Now the energy shoots through the bowl and wreath creating a sort of golden
vortex. Into the vortex comes a white sun, which expands and contracts.
Rays come from the golden wreath, and the sun swirls and becomes smaller.
The golden networks and the winds sculpt the light. It becomes the outline
of a child
dressed in flowing robes, as the light and the wind mix together.
The child descends into a pool of glowing green waves rippling
with harp music. The child
with golden flowing hair and the green eyes of Manannan's people
rises to the surface of the water on a water
lily.
The light within the bowl radiates out again and becomes a circle of
welcoming. The child is being welcomed into the realm of the Fair Folk.
The child is given a mirror containing images of a variety of plant and
animal
forms, and it chooses a white crane.
The Fair Folk for whom the crane is a lineage symbol come forward to welcome
the child, and in their midst, it is clear that he is a boy. These people
have the ability to shift to the shape of their lineage animal, and
the boy will also have that skill.
My guide raises his hand to the bowl again and it shimmers and disappears.
My guide says,
This is something that we do together as a community - we welcome new members
of our people. When they incarnate here, they usually have lived here
before. Occasionally, someone comes here for the first time.
When people incarnate in our world in order to live here, this
is the means by which they
enter.
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