In Pursuit Of Maine: October 25, 2014 - Fairy Islands

Saturday, October 25, 2014

October 25, 2014 - Fairy Islands

Fairy islands pop up and disappear along the Maine shore all the time. People say it’s just a trick of the sunlight on the water when the islands appear to be floating, but I know better. The fact is that they are floating, and not only that, tomorrow they will be gone only to reappear again some other time. Sometimes they come back in the same spot; sometimes they shift to different areas.

Now I told you about the dimensional shift, about the last great fairy magic that was done on the Earth? This was back when the fairies had the tiny fire box of the dragon, which completed their elemental powers. They already had the secrets of air, earth, and water. It was the peapod pixie who gave them the dragon’s fire box and the peapod pixie who stole it back. Without the dragon’s fire box, the fairies could not stop the dimensional drift that also occurred with the dimensional shift they had created. And this is why they have their being for the most part in a separate dimension. Read the ballad of the peapod pixie again to refresh your memory.

Anyhow, I saw several islands appear, disappear, and reappear today, which tells me we are in for some heightened fairy occurrences. They can’t keep the islands anchored there permanently anymore, but when they do appear, there’s a lot of coming and going. Hallowe’en is six days away and I am wondering what the fairies have planned. They never disappoint me.

An island appeared briefly to the far left.

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