Ten years ago, I spent a summer in Ireland living in an old cottage occupied by leprechauns. As you'll see in the conversation that follows, these seldom-seen beings taught me about their interdependence with humans and urged me to promote an awareness of how humans and elementals need to work together in healing the Earth.
'Humans have no idea that every thought they think makes a record in the ethers. The stronger the thought, the stronger the record,' said my leprechaun friend, teaching me the basics. 'If humans imagined clean water and healthy forests and called on the elementals of these places to help, they could restore health to this planet in no time.'
'That's a wonderful thought,' I said. 'However, how can this happen if people continue depleting our wildlife and cutting down old growth forests?'
'You're right, of course,' the leprechaun responded. 'Both changes must happen simultaneously.'
'That's why it feels so hopeless,' I said despondently. 'How can one person meditating and talking to elementals negate the effect of thousands of people who are bent on raping the lands and oceans?'
'One person working with the divine will affects thousands of people who are not. As you yourself said to the masters, humans are changing. We must visualise the way they are becoming and not collapse into the old image of what they have been.'
I was amused at his defence of humans and asked in all seriousness, 'Have you got any ideas of how humans can work most effectively with elementals?'
'Lots of them,' he replied, obviously bursting to be asked. 'I've written something for the occasion, which I call:
Ten Ways for Humans to Work with Elementals
1. Believe in elementals. Human belief strengthens elementals and gives them energy.
2. Be happy and enthusiastic. Elementals are not attracted to depressed, sad humans.
3. Go to healthy places in nature as often as possible. Walk in forests, along the seashore, lie in a meadow, listen to birds, sit by a brook. Enter into the right vibration of the Earth and listen to what it wants. Humans will purify their vibrations if they do these things.
4. Appreciate the beauty in nature. When humans do this, elementals will be attracted to you.
5. Cooperate and create with nature by planting trees, growing flowers, feeding the birds.
6. Send energy to elementals who look after trees, flowers, water and mountains, to keep them healthy. Do this with joy and gratitude.
7. Teach other humans to appreciate nature. Do it with love and joy, and these humans will begin to understand the Earth's needs.
8. Do things spontaneously; free yourself from over-planning and organising.
9. Take time every day to do nothing. Create a space in both your house and head so magic can occur.
10. In order to contact an elemental who wants to work with you on an ongoing basis, sit in a quiet natural place, close your eyes, and call this elemental to you. Notice what kind of elemental has come. Ask it what its gift is and its name. Listen to this elemental on an ongoing basis; act on its suggestions, and your relationship will become stronger.'
'They're wonderful,' I said, congratulating him. 'But your suggestions are more focused on what humans can do. Let's see if I can think of recommendations for what elementals can do.' I pondered for several minutes, then continued, 'Let's call it:
Ten Ways for Elementals to Work with Humans
1. Do not prejudge all humans as bad but examine each human to find the good in them.
2. Having found the spark of good, breathe your energy into it to enlarge it.
3. When a human pays attention to a plant, tree or stone, tell him or her what the plant or tree would like in order to be healthier. Even if humans don't hear the message consciously, they will receive it subconsciously.
4. When you see a human who is trying to help nature, cluster around that human and give them all the help you can. Often humans don't think to ask you directly, but our higher selves ask this.
5. Play with humans so that they can recover their childlike joy and wonder. Many humans are depressed and need the joy elementals bring.
6. Give humans proof of your existence. Humans are more inclined to believe in elementals if you do this.
7. Appreciate human strengths of forgiveness, love, persistence and focus. By associating with humans, elementals will learn these qualities.
8. To body elementals: don't give up. Keep moving your human hosts into situations to catalyse positive change.
9. Don't judge humans by elemental standards. Presently, humans eat beings that live, excrete waste and age. Through this path we learn to be creators of form and worlds.
10. Surprise us.' 'Very good indeed,' the leprechaun said. 'I think we've made an excellent start for today.'
From Summer With the Leprechauns, copyright 1997 by Tanis Helliwell, published by Cygnus Books in 2005, exclusively for Cygnus members.
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