Holding onto my stick of a wand, I lead the multi-aged gaggle along the edge of the bare woods. Our brown boots stomp into the damp green grass of a subsidized housing complex in a small Eastern Shore town as we wave our wands of blessing. “Love stomp, baby, love stomp!” sings a frizzy-brown-headed woman to the tune of Love Shack. Lifting our legs high, we consciously and deliberately stomp our love into ground which has submitted itself to human will.
These are the Winter Elf Exercises, suggested for the Human Reparations Team by the Land Council, with the express purposes of weaving magic together, stomping love joyously back into the land, co-creating land games (joyful funny activities causing hearty laughter), and providing companionship to the land guardian/deva who may be referred to as “the guy with the big brown boots”. We raucously stomp our way to the clearing at the far end of the property and the afternoon’s lively and imaginative Elf Games begin!
Two years before, at the time my mother was leaving the planet, I had been an interpreter for the Faerie Realm. My mother and I had committed to an agreement with the faeries to create a Peace Garden, practicing love in conjunction with our “Faerie Kin”. We agreed to allow the beauty and power of our feelings, let go of our fears, sadness and difficulties, and allow relief, strength and self-transformation. We were to focus on the peaceful pulse of life in every path, tree, and leaf—our kinship with Life.
Together, Mom and I worked in our piece of Paradise until her passing. I felt her spirit rise from her body and pause as it flew skyward, to build a dome of protective light over our Peace Garden before continuing to her destination in God’s Heart.
As I promoted my book, my eyes were opened to the abundance of faerie aficionados around the globe. Covens of pagans practicing the Faerie Faith. The annual Fairy & Human Relations Congress in person in the northwest US every July and the virtual Gaian Congress every January.
I heard about the Sidhe and learned to communicate with them—humanity’s spiritual cousins within our shared reality of Gaia.
When my mother’s house sold, I was led to arrange the Faerie Kin’s Magical USA Mystery Tour, a year’s book-signing tour around the country, an exploration of Joy, Playfulness, and Wonder. My online network of students, colleagues, and friends participated in my faerie adventures via my Facebook page. Halfway through my tour, my father passed away. I took time to commune with my human family, and continued my Tour.
I was guided to organize a Collaboration with Gaia Retreat to Maui. I did so, with six participants from across the US. I was encouraged to devise a month-long Collaboration with Gaia Arts Retreat in the Bradenton Village of the Arts in Florida. I made it happen, providing arts workshops for all ages and a faerie gifts shop.
Collaboration with Gaia is about humans consciously raising our vibration and aligning our life with that of all Creation and God’s harmonizing plan for it—our return to Love. We each have our part to play in this grand adventure we’ve signed up for as a Gaian volunteer! I’ve received my next guidance and it looks like I’ll be organizing more Elf Games, wherever there are humans eager to joyously and creatively express their inner Self.
I’ll see you in the woods! We will wave our wands of blessings over all!
Bio - Zing Nafzinger
Zing Nafzinger is a creator with a Master’s Degree in the Psychology of Therapy and Counseling, partnering with the energies of the Faerie Realm as a counselor, teacher, Reiki healer, and artist, and exploring her interests in beach mandalas, faerie energy work, permaculture, creativity workshops, and soul retreats. Phiddly-dee, phiddly-dae!
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