Faeries of Mischief and Play
Faeries are mischievous, playful, and like to poke fun at human seriousness. They favour mischief and merrymaking. Their presence brings playfulness, frolic, mischief, humour, laughter, and fun into life.
Invoking the Qualities of Laughter, humour, and Fun.
The faeries find humans curiously earnest and somber, and therefore pleasantly amusing. By playing tricks on us, they offset our seriousness with their mischief and humour. They're unusually fond of confounding humans with merry pranks, unexplainable movement and swapping of objects, and fiddlin' merry dance tunes beneath the house. The faeries' presence brings playfulness, frolic, folly, synchronicity, laughter, and fun.
In their own realm in castles beneath the ground, the faeries live lives filled with laughter and merrymaking. Nothing is lacking. Food and drink are plentiful. Their lives are joyous and carefree and without pain, sickness, or suffering. Time seems to be endless and aging is slow, if at all. The faeries are blessed with joy and merriment. Descendants of the goddess Danu, their supernatural qualities supply them plentifully, except for a few missing things that are uniquely of the human Middle World. Two of these are milk and butter, which they steal remorselessly.
Human life seems overly serious and ponderous to the faeries. Humans seem to be in a kind of trance, a stupor in which things seem to be as they appear. So to trick us out of over seriousness, the faeries play pranks on us - traditionally moving the byre (the barn) a few paces, stealing objects and leaving something else in its place, swapping a favourite cow and replacing it with an otherworldly cow, conversing with humans from rocks and trees, leaving gold coins about, and playing gay music loud enough to be heard above the ground. The faeries' mischief reveals the "folly of things" and offsets our seriousness with humour and befuddlement. When we take their pranks seriously, they are filled the more with mirth. By following the faeries' mischievous example, human life would seem less ponderous and enlivened with playfulness, laughter, and lots more synchronicity. In a story from Donegal in Ireland, a man gets "magic from the faeries":
"One fair day he was the only man of the neighbouring town- lands who had not a pig to sell. Devil a thing did he do but go into a field and pull a bunch of yellow ragweed and make a pig of it. He went to the fair and his pig was the first sold that day. Well and good. When the buyer was taking the pig home he took it across a place where water was running across the road. Immediately the pig crossed the water [and it changed into a heap of yellow ragweed. The buyer turned back and made for the fellow and caught him by the shoulders, but the other merely swung around in the street and let the arm go with him. The buyer was frightened out of his life and ran off as quickly as he could, but before he went the fellow paid him his money. When the buyer was approaching Killybegs he put his hand in his pocket to see if he had got the right change, and there was nothing there but horse-dung!"
Where is the laughter and fun in your life? How long has it been since you laughed so hard your sides ached? When did you last laugh at yourself? Are you taking anything so seriously that it distorts the fullness of your life? Is the humour of the human condition escaping your notice? The faeries of mischief and humour poke fun at human seriousness so as to bring us more joy. Drawing this oracle suggests that you are approaching the frontier of laughter, merriment, and fun.
2 comments:
I Love these daily Oracles because they inspire me for each day. Thanks 👍
Thank you, I'm glad that I can bring some positives to you each day.
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