More Thoughts About Using The Wand

Sometimes a picture of you, as a wise magician, twirling a wand and having an effect on a problem can be helpful.  I have started a fairly complex project that is not even well defined yet and I find that fear (in the guise of tiredness, being too busy, becoming fog headed) is raising its ugly head.  I was able to get some energy to persist in my work by twirling a figurative wand and banishing the fear for a bit.  Part of what helped was the idea of the twirl--some problems that need to be solved are complex and you have to drill down into them.  Feel free to use visualization to put on wizard robes and use a wand to get your mind into a good place anytime you need too.  Wands can also be used to bring light, or clarity, to a problem that you are working on.  Do not run.  Do not hold back.  Do not look for rescue.  Be your own magician and persist in solving the problem, in causing change.  It is fine to get help from friends.  But you are the prime force in your magic.  Stand up and twirl that wand with authority.  Cause the change you want.  May the spark be with you.

Who spreads the best gossip around?

I am Delbert and I do my best to keep all up to date.  I recently heard that fairies were known to hitch rides on bees.  That is an unfounded rumor.  Bees are way too busy to spend time riding around with fairies.  Well, actually, the fairies of Thimblewyck are a little too big to ride on our back.  They are big enough to curl up on Farmer Thimble's palm or ride on his shoulder.  That is about the same size as his daughter Lina.  That's why she was so happy to meet the fairies, to find out someone else was her size.  Did you know that fairies can seem to be very big?  Most are masters of illusion.  They are small and can be invisible.  But they can seem to be huge, or other creatures.  It's amazing.  Other than those powers fairies are different from each other in the special powers they have.  I'll let you in on the secret of more about that later.  Keep buzzing.

Thimble Farm

This stone cottage is where Tom Thimble grew up.  He brought his bride, Gerda, here and they grew old together.  Gerda was raised to be afraid of fairies.  Later she came to love them.  This cottage had to be abandoned and another one was built as a result of an evil flood.  Tom loves to farm.  One day a squirrel asked him if he could teach the squirrel to farm.  Tom told the squirrel that he didn't think the squirrel could stay still long enough to pay attention and that many trees were growing from squirrels planting acorns then forgetting where they had buried them.  They squirrel flashed his tail in Tom's face and ran off.  At first, in Thimblewyck:The Origins, not all animals and humans can talk to each other.  But eventually communication becomes easy between all the creatures.  I think it is a scandal that the lilac bush is no longer by the side of the door.  But Gerda did make sure there was one at the newer cottage.

Lina Thimble

www.asparkofmagic.blogspot.com.facebbookfacebook Donna Jeanne EllisonHello Everyone, This is Delbert.  I've been busy today but not too busy to gather some gossip as well as nectar.  Lina is my topic today.  She is a human girl who was born small and learned to fly so she could spend time with fairies, who were also her size.  She loves to run up the arm of larger humans and kiss them on the cheek.  So if you feel something like a kiss, Lina may have been around.  In Thimblewyck:The Origins you can read about Lina's childhood.  But I can tell you a bit.  First of all it wasn't very long.  The fairies gave her a growth spurt when she first came into the world because she was also too small for her adopted father Tom Thimble to take care of.  Today's picture is of Tom's stone cottage.  So Lina grew up in about a year and married Binar, the flower steward or prince of the fairies.  But he didn't know he was a prince until Lina helped him discover it.  Maybe I should tell you why Lina was so small.  Marus, a very brave fairy, and a friend of mine, kidnapped her from Heaven before she was born.  Her soul was on the way to earth to be born but her parents were engulfed in an evil fire.  Marus tried to save them and got his wings burned for his trouble. So then he did what fairies have been (falsely) rumored to do, he snatched a human child.  He snatched the soul before it could be incinerated and infused it into a seed to keep it from drifting apart into thin air.  Then he found the Thimble's, Tom and Gerda, to raise the child.  Lina has wings made from spider silk and she can really fly.  I can too.  I'm going to buzz off now.  Bye.