Aspen Elf Meditation

Tweet     September 27, 2003    

At another point in my meditation, there was flute-play, and one of the elves instructed me in how to play the flute. They told me how they love to play and make music and poetry, to celebrate, dance and be joyful. Though they threw a party in my honor, and honored I was, my feeling about them was that if a cricket had landed in their midst, dazed and confused, one of them would have cried out, ”Hey, let’s celebrate,” followed by a chorus of voices merrily chiming their consent. These beings live for the carefree joy of living, for celebration, jubilation, and pure enjoyment of life itself.

Later I was escorted, as if on an airborne litter carried by the elves, up to a cave in an aspen grove up on a mountainside for an audience with their king and queen. I kneeled before them. The queen stood up and with a wand sprinkled a glittering dust over my head and shoulders. As she did so, she said, ”May you be free to feel your joy.” Then the queen sat down and the king stood up. He touched my forehead with the index finger and middle finger of his left hand, spread apart in a V-shape, and said, ”Peace on you, my brother.” After that, both the king and the queen burst out laughing almost uncontrollably, seemingly at their own seriousness, and called out for the celebrations to begin anew. Everybody cheered.

Karin brought us out of our meditation, and I began hiking up the mountainside. As I was climbing, an insight struck me about the significance of the aspens’ kinship to the elves. The elves are eternally youthful, ageless beings. I realized that my first impression of the aspens as being young, even adolescent, tree souls had been erroneous. I had mistaken their youthfulness for youth. Instead, they are very old tree beings, practically ageless, like the elves. So old, in fact, that they have long since gotten over any issues around aging and death, and have recaptured their own eternal innocence and youthfulness. They have discovered how to perpetually regenerate themselves into ever new and youthful bodies.

Gregory said at the first aspen meeting that there are aspen groves that are 10,000 years old. Since the aspens mainly reproduce through root propagation, that means that it may, genetically, be one original aspen in that grove, which is 10,000 years old or more, having renewed itself over and over in ever youthful bodies. No wonder they are wise beyond measure. The aspen is like the jester of the medieval court, playing the part of the fool but really a sage in disguise, teaching her great truths through jests, silliness and play rather than through lectures and sermons.

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