Post by Moira ap Eiluned on Sept 19, 2012 14:31:53 GMT -8
This is what I believe about the Dreaming.
The Dreaming is more than just the collection of mortal thoughts and hopes and fears. It is more than a mindless mist given form by millennia of human dreams. Like the eldest Gods, the Dreaming has given birth to itself, is more than the sum of its parts. It has Truths beyond the current Truth of men; it has Dreams more than those being Dreamed today. It has desires, will, cause and direction. But it cannot act alone.
This is what I believe about humans.
They are mother and father to the Dreaming, past, present and future. They are the Dreamers. Their Dreams feed the Dreaming, give it strength, give it form. Yes, and even change it, shape it, for they are still bound together, mother and daughter, blood and bone, dream and imagination. They are the singer of the songs that create the flesh of the Dreaming. Without the mortals the Dreaming starves and dies.
This is what I believe about the Fae.
We are not as we were. We are no longer just the melodies of the Dreaming, the living archetypes of mortal thought. We are also the Dreamer, the mortal flesh; we are the singer and the song. We can choose the song we sing, whatever whispers from our bones, our hearts. What will we choose? Will the song we sing be in harmony with ourselves? We are singer and song and we alone make that decision. The Dreaming gives birth to us, but it does not control us. Of all the emissaries of the Dreaming, we are the only ones with free will, the only ones who can make the choice to serve or betray. All it desires, all it hopes for, must come through us.
This is what I believe about me.
I am the Dreamer and the Dream. I have the power that is given me, and the power that I choose to take. I can choose what I will, and I choose to honor the Song that gave me birth, the lives that have given me depth. I choose to try and listen for the will of the Dreaming, to hear what She wants of me, to try and serve Her as a true Sidhe Lady should serve her Liege. I do not know where to start. But I know I start today, with a choice.
The Dreaming is more than just the collection of mortal thoughts and hopes and fears. It is more than a mindless mist given form by millennia of human dreams. Like the eldest Gods, the Dreaming has given birth to itself, is more than the sum of its parts. It has Truths beyond the current Truth of men; it has Dreams more than those being Dreamed today. It has desires, will, cause and direction. But it cannot act alone.
This is what I believe about humans.
They are mother and father to the Dreaming, past, present and future. They are the Dreamers. Their Dreams feed the Dreaming, give it strength, give it form. Yes, and even change it, shape it, for they are still bound together, mother and daughter, blood and bone, dream and imagination. They are the singer of the songs that create the flesh of the Dreaming. Without the mortals the Dreaming starves and dies.
This is what I believe about the Fae.
We are not as we were. We are no longer just the melodies of the Dreaming, the living archetypes of mortal thought. We are also the Dreamer, the mortal flesh; we are the singer and the song. We can choose the song we sing, whatever whispers from our bones, our hearts. What will we choose? Will the song we sing be in harmony with ourselves? We are singer and song and we alone make that decision. The Dreaming gives birth to us, but it does not control us. Of all the emissaries of the Dreaming, we are the only ones with free will, the only ones who can make the choice to serve or betray. All it desires, all it hopes for, must come through us.
This is what I believe about me.
I am the Dreamer and the Dream. I have the power that is given me, and the power that I choose to take. I can choose what I will, and I choose to honor the Song that gave me birth, the lives that have given me depth. I choose to try and listen for the will of the Dreaming, to hear what She wants of me, to try and serve Her as a true Sidhe Lady should serve her Liege. I do not know where to start. But I know I start today, with a choice.