Thursday, June 19, 2025

Do Elves Get Depressed?

 

". . . certainly elves can get depressed. This is especially so for those elves who have recently awakened to being elven but have looked at the news in the world, the impending collapse of the ecosystem, massive and, in many ways surely, destructive climate change in progress, global pandemics and the rise of fascism in various forms around the world. . . . . In awakening to our otherkin natures and finding our kindred, we are usually filled with a joyous energy from the realization that we were always destined to do so and that finally the awaited time has come. This is true whether we connect through snail mail or the internet or some other form of communication, but it is especially true when we find each other in person. And further, when we begin to merge our lives and devote our beings toward the realization of Elfin on Earth, depression flees and almost never returns and we forge on together toward that better future that we know awaits us because we are creating it now."

Well, certainly elves can get depressed. This is especially so for those elves who have recently awakened to being elven but have looked at the news in the world, the impending collapse of the ecosystem, massive and, in many ways surely, destructive climate change in progress, global pandemics and the rise of fascism in various forms around the world. How can one not feel a little bit depressed about the world? (see our book Elven Psychology: Understanding the Elfin Psyche and the Evolutionary and Esoteric Purpose of Mental Disorders.)

     This is particularly true, since we know that it was all avoidable. That we could, this very day, alter our behaviors en masse as human beings and pursue a more constructive future for everyone and yet, there are still those who will stand up for their right to deny that there is anything called Climate Change, Global Warming, or that Mankind and their actions have anything to do with the massive ecosystem collapse that is in process at this very moment. Besides the fundamentalist would say, their one true, all-powerful God has it all in hand, they assure us. Science is fake news and the only thing that matters to them is their right to be bullies to everyone that they don’t approve of.

     So, yes, elves can get depressed. At the same time, most elves when we suffer from depression don’t suffer from primary depression states, but from manic-depression cycles. We are filled with energy and think that our art, music, protesting or political rants, or whatever we do will change the world and then, over time, when that doesn’t happen and the world seems to be slogging on slowly toward its doom as it nearly always is, we fall into a depression for a while until a new idea, vision, dream occurs to us and we are off again, spinning our magic outwardly, knowing that this time, for sure, we’ll transform it all with our power and our particular magic. 

     As we said, this is especially true when we are young elves and newly awakened. Part of this seems to come from the fact that we often have terrible diets having been raised among Men and in time, as we become more aware as elfae folk and as spiritual beings, we also begin to alter our diets, substituting junk food for nutritionally impactful and wholesome meals, often of organic foods. This serves to ground us and keep us from the roller coaster of emotional dramas that use to send us soaring into the ethers of hope and possibility and then down into the despair of hopelessness and meaninglessness.

     We also develop various spiritual practices such as meditation, yoga, spell casting, ceremonial magick and other occasional or daily activities that help keep us steady and upon the right course. These make a big difference in our lives. Plus, our creative efforts become more regular. We develop perseverance. We may yield the notion that our novel, symphony, art or whatever will change the whole world utterly and we become aware of the possibility of incremental changes. We often give up attempting to influence everyone and begin to satisfy ours’elves with helping and changing the lives of those to whom we feel most kin, and in doing so we refine our abilities to be elfin healers, magicians, and enchanters and enchantresses. We become the seas wearing away the high cliffs, bit by bit over time. 

     Of course, the world still seems to be driving furious toward the cliff of its doom, but realizing our spiritual nature we know that something will survive and we will find our place in it in some form or other. In that way, we are not unlike those Men in their faith with their various one true gods, except they think heaven will follow after and it doesn’t matter if they destroy the Earth or how they treat anyone who doesn’t agree with them. On the other hand, we are certain, being magic wielders, that our actions have consequences and we strive to do all that we can to make the world a better place and ours’elves better individuals for in doing so we secure our spiritual future.

     But most of all, we find each other. In awakening to our otherkin natures and finding our kindred, we are usually filled with a joyous energy from the realization that we were always destined to do so and that finally the awaited time has come. This is true whether we connect through snail mail or the internet or some other form of communication, but it is especially true when we find each other in person. And further, when we begin to merge our lives and devote our beings toward the realization of Elfin on Earth, depression flees and almost never returns and we forge on together toward that better future that we know awaits us because we are creating it now.

“When elves first awaken to the realization of who they really are, there is often a euphoria that sets in, but this enchantment only ever lasts for a short while and then grounded once more the individual is faced with the fact that magic, even elfin magic, requires effort and a decision to go on.”

Fardas Lovur Tae Lan (Dancing toward the Dawn),

The Silver Elves 

http://silverelves.angelfire.com 



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"The Elves believe that the material body is little more than a shell covering the seed of spirit within. When that seed sprouts, the shell cracks and we grow into an entirely new dimension of elfin being."
The Silver Elves

And if you enjoyed the article above, then you may surely enjoy these articles also by The Silver Elves on the subject of Elven Life, Elven Awakening, and Elven Psychology (or scroll down this page to see a Complete List of our The Silver Elves Articles with links - over 150 - on The Elven Way and the Faerie Realm):





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"Elves have a simple philosophy. We let our minds question everything while our hearts embrace everyone." 
— The Silver Elves 



And for further reading. . . .
. . . . dear Kindred, if you enjoyed the article above, we think you may very much enjoy reading our most popularly read book on the wisdom teachings of the ancient Elven titled Through the Mists of Faerie:

Click on the link above to find out more about this book and to read excerpts.

The following is an example of writing from THROUGH THE MISTS OF FAERIE, page 62-65, from Part One:  Pure Awareness

"What most people call consciousness is an awareness of their thoughts, beliefs and ideas. In the animal kingdom, consciousness is an instinctual awareness and lacks, for the most part, the beliefs, ideas and self-concepts found among humans. In the human being, the idea driven consciousness comes to fore but, as we’ve pointed out already, this is primarily directed and motivated by ideas ruled by our passions and emotionally connected ideas. We think ours’elves to be free but really our lives are controlled by these passions and beliefs.

When we are born into a particular life we come bearing the imprint on our souls of our previous experiences. Obviously, when we are reborn we don’t have the same body. So our bodies, as they currently exist, clearly are not a part of our immortal s’elf, although they are composed of the energy that is, in its’elf, immortal. We are mostly formed from Star-stuff or Stardust, and elves are particularly aware of this fact. So when we come into a new life, our soul/spirit gathers around it the available stardust/energy to form a new body.

Since this stardust also bears the imprint of its past, in the form of a DNA coding directive, we also come into each life with a racial consciousness, formed in what is often called the Collective Unconscious. We also have a human consciousness, and bear the imprint of our evolution through various forms from all our previous incarnations. To become truly immortal beings, that is to say, immortal in the way that vampires are seen as being immortal, having a permanent immortal physical body, we need to integrate our consciousness with and merge with the consciousness of the energy that temporarily composes us. Of course, elves are often also seen as being Immortal, particularly in our more ephemeral forms, or our ethereal or etheric bodies combined with our astral bodies.

In time our bodies will become more resilient, less physical, and more like light, thus more ephemeral. The dimensions we will reside within, the dimension of Elfin/Faerie will be similar to living in a dream. We will have greater powers, such as the power to fly, and the ability to do things that we can now only dream of doing. And yet it will be every bit as real as a dream seems when we are in it, or every bit as real as this illusionary world that we currently abide within.
Also, just as clearly when we pass from one body to another, we don’t carry our thoughts, feelings and beliefs with us, or our memories, unless indeed we have obtained continuity of consciousness and have born our mind through the death process, which, honestly, these particular elves are nowhere near to achieving. Are you? If you are, you will be able to tell because you will be able to remain aware throughout the night as your body sleeps without losing consciousness. Sleep, as we said, is the little death. It is the reflection in microcosm, As Above/So Below, As Within/So Without, of the life death cycle.

For most individuals, the death experience and the assumption of a new stardust body is like suffering from total amnesia. You don’t remember anything. You don’t even know what you know. For instance, in amnesia, you may know how to type or play a piano, but don’t you know that you know how to do it until you sit down at a typewriter, or computer, or piano and suddenly find that typing or playing piano comes automatically to you. So, too, in moving from one life to another, we carry certain abilities with us. We don’t necessarily know that we know, rather we feel we were born with certain talents and abilities, and indeed we were. Usually, we find we learn these things very quickly and easily. These skills seem to come naturally to us.

Our feelings, not so much our emotions, but mostly our feelings, because they are by their nature essentially unconscious, come easily through the transitional state of death. We may not remember whom we loved or liked or disliked, but if we encounter them again or someone like them we immediately sense our attraction, or our repulsion. There are certain individuals that we know immediately even though it seems we have never met them previously. So until we are able to carry our memories from life to life consciously, they are still born in our soul, particularly those things that are most important to us, which is love and relationship, as well as having an instinctual recognition of and attraction to those with whom we have a karmic connection either positive or negative.

We can see this fact reflected in our current life in our conscious and unconscious. The basic consciousness is everything of which we are currently aware. But we also have an unconscious which composes everything of which we are not aware, which for most of us is far vaster than our conscious awareness. Consider all the things we don’t know, and add to it all the things, events, facts, people, experiences we have forgotten, which are stored in our brains but which, for most of them, are lost to us except at certain times. So, too, are our experiences stored in our soul, but only accessible under certain profound circumstances, although occasionally brought to mind by our encounters in the world, just as memories may be brought back into consciousness by a particular, song, smell, or experience. Our soul stores all our experiences and in that way is linked to the Akashic record, which records all experiences of all beings. The Akashic record is the library of the Soul of the Universe."
End of excerpt from Through The Mists of Faerie: A Magical Guide to the Wisdom Teachings of the Ancient Elven



"In ancient times, the forests were our cities, the rivers were our highways. We sang to the Earth and the Earth sang to us, creating a wondrous harmony that echoes still in our soul calling us back to Elfin."
—The Silver Elves




Dear Kindred, along with Through The Mists of Faerie we also suggest for further reading
The Elven Way: The Magical Path of The Shining OnesOn the cover: 
"The Elven Way passes beyond the fields of the known
into the forest of the unknown illuminated by the glow of the elves."


If you are further interested in our magic philosophy and rituals, we suggest that you visit our website and read sample pages and the table of contents of our two volumes (also both available on Amazon) of The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves(volume 1) and here you will find volume 2. In these two books we explore the Elven viewpoint concerning magick and the tools of magic with magical ceremonies that may be adapted for use by modern faerie folk. The two volumes give the complete progression of color magicks and also explore Elven Vortexes and Covens, as well as our theories on calling the directions and dimensions and more.



"This book, dear kin, and the others we have written are the magic signs we’ve left for those searching for Elfin/Faerie in and beyond the world. We bless you and grant your true wishes." —From the Book of Elven Magick, volume 2 




The Ten Stages, or Colors of Elven Ritual Magic below is taken from the The Book of Elven Magick: Vols 1 and 2, by The Silver Elves. We would like to thank Ileådryn, Sara Isayama, for her beautiful graphic design.
We Silver Elves created this Color Magic system as something fluid and individual. You start with what Color Magic you feel you are drawn to. If you don't have a preference and are a person who likes things set in order, then start with One. If you are a person who likes to go more by your feelings, then choose first the one you are attracted to and feel you need in your life. It is said that if you like to look at this in terms of order, one might think of the color sequence in the image below as being akin to something like Maslow's Heirarchy of Needs, only applied to magic and ritual. For instance, it's hard to do Healing Green Magic, if one is under psychic attack and therefore one must first defend oneself and place barriers and be in a secure, safe place before one can do any healing. That is why, for example, Black Magic or Protection Magic is placed before Healing Green Magic. Also, "Health" is a perhaps the greatest wealth, which is why Healing Magic comes before Orange Magic for wealth generation, and so forth. But remember that we often are working on more than one magic at a time in our lives just as we have more than one need at a time that needs fulfilling. So while you certainly may go in an order 1 to 10, what you need is truly your decision and you may need to do more than one at a time. We don't actually have charts or graphs in our books, most likely because the Elven Way is so fluid. To read more on elven color magic and ritual see: The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves, volume 1 and also The Book of Elven Magick: The Philosophy and Enchantments of the Seelie Elves, Volume 2.
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“Me tae êldata tari ilu nar lod vari te na foren va le.”
“pronounced: Me tay l – day – tah tair – rye eye – lou nair load vair – rye tea nah for – reen vah lee.”

“May the elven spirit bright and true ever be a guide to you.”





Greetings dear Elfaerie Kindred and Friends! 
Please do touch this beautiful elven star above for an Elven Blessing! 

 

 

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