Adapting
the Magic
March 5. 2010
When
we were among our sisters, The Elf Queen’s Daughters…
Dear kin,
… it was often said that the difference between an elf and
most other folks was the ability of the elven to adapt to various
and changing situations and circumstances. While most folks are
ever determined to remain the same, stubbornly stating that “that’s
just the way I am” and expecting everyone to change and adapt
to them, while constantly endeavoring to dominate circumstances
by forcing their will upon those situations, we elves, being magicians,
assume responsibility as much as possible and alter situations and
people by transforming that one element that we do have control
over, which is ours’elves. For it is only by accepting responsibility
in a situation, whether one caused it or not, that one has any chance
of changing it, and we elves are very much about change.
There are so many folks that are afraid of change, and we can surely
understand that. They also will not change unless desperate and
forced by circumstances to do so (which is greatly why they are
always afraid of it since it always comes in their minds at the
worst time). Yet, we elves know that change is inevitable and we
strive to get ahead of it by changing ours’elves before we
are compelled to do so. In that way we have the best chance of shaping
situations in their inception, which in our experience is much easier
than struggling to alter them after they have been set in place.
We are not claiming that all change is good or all change is favorable
to us, which it clearly is not, however, we do believe in “going
with the flow” that is adapting ours’elves to situations
that are beyond our power to control. We do not seek so much to
change the course of the river as to avoid the rocks and other dangers
that exist within it. And while we often have to swim against the
current, we do this not out of obstinacy, but necessity, when duty,
destiny or justice demands it.
But it is not just in our dealings with the outer world, the world
of the normal folk, of men and womyn, the greedies, the grimlean
and the violynts that prompts our adaptability. Adaptability is
the key to elves living together. It is a willingness to change
for mutual benefit and satisfaction that makes our relationships,
our families, our clans and our tribes, so successful. Without adaptability,
we would be just another group of dysfunctional people in dysfunctional
relationships.
It is not simply the elves who are adaptable though. Elfin its’elf
is incredibly adaptable, altering its’elf easily to fulfill
the various dreams and visions of all who seek Hir. And ultimately
it is The Magic its’elf that is the source of adaptability,
for The Magic, being pure potentiality, adapts its’elf to become
anything and everything. Thus in being adaptable, we elves are becoming
attuned to the Truth of the Universe and in that way finding our
true place within it.
Keldas
Zet Ton Na Tarsalunin Sol (Running wild on a moonlit night),
The Silver Elves
