Faeries Oracle

Card 12 - The Singer of the Chalice

Trust. Joy. Patience. Creativity. Hope. Miracles

This Singer holds the Chalice from which a rainbow of energies pours like the richest wine. Trust, love, patience - these are things we think of having or not having. We even give ourselves credit for having them, as if we made them ourselves - and yet, they are natural energies of the cosmos, which flow through the Chalice and through us when we are open to them, and flow around us when we are blocking them.

People often think that love and hate are two sides of the same emotional coin, but that isn't quite true. Love is not simply the absence of hate; nor is hate the absence of love. They are altogether different things, as can easily be seen. When we are angry, it wears us out and leaves us feeling like less than we were; but when we love, it energizes us, and we feel larger and richer than we were before that burst of love began flowing through us. This is because anger comes from within, burning from our own substance, while love is an energy that flows through us, enlightening and expanding us.

The other energies from this Chalice are also like that. Patience, for example, is not merely the absence of impatience. It is a joyful, loving willingness to wait for a process to bring us to where we want to be. It contains trust and love and a special quality of expectant gratitude within it. The same is true of trust - in fact, all of these wonderful feelings are energies that flow through us when we are open to them. They each feel much like the others and, right now, just at this moment as I write this to you, I am being given a glimpse of something wonderful. They really are all one thing, something we don't have a word for. We need a word that includes trust and love and compassion and healing and patience and all of the other feelings that enhance and enlighten our being when we allow them to flow through us.

I ask the faeries here if there is a faery name for this rainbow blissful feeling. They nod, smiling, and shrug. I get an unspoken feeling that if you have the feeling you don't need a name, and anyone who hasn't got the feeling isn't going to understand a word for it. It's just one of those things, like the mystical experience of 2 - Ekstasis, that we can talk about without understanding or we can understand and not really explain to someone who hasn't already got it. "So," the faeries nod, "get it!"

I'd never seen this before but now - just this moment - it is suddenly obvious, as the faeries show me, that this means that we don't have to learn how to open ourselves to each of them individually. When we open our hearts and souls to Unity (Card 1), that energy can be focused through so many different lenses of feeling, like white light making rainbows through a prism. If we can learn to be open to any of these Singers, then we can be open to them all if we just remember to. All (I say "all" knowing that it is a mighty big all) we have to do is, first, stop doing the things that close us down - let go of the attitudes, beliefs, and emotions that block this energy. Second, we need to actively invite these energies to flow through us - and all that takes is asking. The thing is, the energy is already there. Our asking merely tells our own higher self and the Singers that we, on this conscious level, are ready to accept it. It's like opening your arms to hug someone, or opening a door to let them in.

Although the taste of the contents of this chalice may seem bitter or strange at first; it always leaves a sweet, clean, sparkling taste in the mouth.

Starter Reading

With the help of the Singer of the Chalice and of the faeries, you, too, can get this one feeling that is all the good feelings in one - unconditional love, trust, hope, healing, patience, and so on. Open is open. Be open. If you don't know how, ask. It is right there.

Reverse

Trust is what enables us to be open to other parts of the song of the Singer of the Chalice. Without enough trust in the process to open our hearts, we close ourselves off from the Singers and the song, decreasing the amount of all those other powers and energies that we allow to flow through us. We can never close off any part of the song entirely, so this tells us that there is always a little bit of courage or hope or whatever that we can find within ourselves and use that as the key to open the door to more. When we perceive the song of this Singer to be muted, its Chalice to be dry, it is only that we need to ask ourselves, "Why not?"; then, don't even try to answer that - just open our heart's door.

The Singers of the Realms