Dharma...there are many who think our fate and dharma are the same...a duty or chore to be done, loaded with obstacles usually as a punishment for something we've done previously or simply an unwanted task... rather like mowing the lawn or doing the dishes or cleaning one's room is for so many of the young. But for the elven, Dharma is a duty we have chosen. It is the tasks we have undertaken willingly in order to create that magical state we call Elfin. It is as though we are building a treehouse or organizing a party and these are all the duties we have undertaken to make our dream come true. We are volunteers...eager and willing.

Fate...and Karma are in many ways twins. Fate is the fact of where we are now and what we have to face to achieve our goals. Karma is the additional reality that we are where we are now in part by virtue of what we have and have not done, both good, bad and indifferent, on our path to getting Here, the crossroads of Time and Space. These are often seen as the problems that beset us, the hammer breaks, the nails bend, treebranch we thought would make a good support gives way...but here also is all we have accumulated positively, our knowledge and expertise gained over lifetimes. Lessons learned and lessons to be learned. For we elfin it is again our chosen path and thus in a sense our dharma and our fate and karma while not the same are surely intertwined. They are the path we must tread to achieve the dream we envision and the nature of that path depends greatly on where we have been and to whence we proceed.

Destiny...is in fact that Vision but more than that it is the realization of our dream in unmanifested potential. That is... it is the completion of our ideal in the realm of possibility calling through our hearts and minds like a beacon guiding us to the fulfillment of our true elfin being. It is our Destiny not by virtue of some imposing outer force but by the nature of who we truly are. We are Destined to be those magical Elfin beings we inwardedly wish and know ours'elves to be. Our Destiny is the song of ours'elves calling across the planes of energy and guiding us into harmony with our Spirit. Our Elfin soul is the vehicle of that journey.

However, the nature of the material world wherein our consciousness resides...(for here is the tool shed and the supply store, the matter with which we will build our realm in actuality)...is dark and clouded by its nature. It is slow and thick and opaque and we often forget the Truth, lose sight of the Vision and get sucked down into the morass that is the swamp and quicksand of the mind in the material world. The Elfin Bard, through song and stories, through fantasy and faery tales awakens our slumbering soul, arouses our awaiting spirit and draws us back to the path that leads to our Destiny...the Realization of Elfin.