A Fairy Semi-Circle Of Hope
I reached out to my ancestors and they answered with mushrooms.
On a particularly rough day recently, I felt the call of my ancestors, almost as a form of psychic mycelium -- like an underground network of communicating mushrooms emanating from the bones in their gravesites halfway across the world. I pictured myself bringing forth conduits of energy beneath the earth where their remains are blanketed in soil and what existing forces there are get drawn up towards me.
At the same time, I called forth my ancestors’ ascended consciousness and felt their spirits funneling down via a kind of isolated rain shower, their high vibrations reaching me like a lightning rod while I was in the depths of despair. These visualizations gave me a measure of strength in the midst of the most challenging time of my life. But I never expected to be confronted with my machinations in the material world.
The day after I had my mushroom visualization, I took a client’s dog for a walk in the local park, and what I encountered was jaw-dropping. I found a perfect semi-circle of white mushrooms that had not been there the day before. There was a gust of wind, and like a switch going on inside me, I heard two simple words, “We’re here.”
When mushrooms appear in this pattern, they are often called a “fairy circle” in regional folk beliefs. English artist George Cruikshank even depicted a representation of the phenomenon in his 1855 painting, The Fairy Ring. And while the manifestations and meanings vary from culture to culture, a fairy circle (or semi-circle) portends a magical boundary between the seen and unseen. And how uncanny, really. My original call came from deep within me, from a place unseen. And the answer to my call was simple: Millions of people quite literally built my body throughout history, and rejecting any part of who I am is rejecting the innate intelligence of my lineage, and quite possibly, the divine. The experience taught me that when I look inward, my call will always be answered.
So thank you, fairies.
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