Characteristics of Fairytales and the Voice in the Stone

Published September 4, 2011 | By storyteller

In a previous blog I wrote about beauty and the small still voice within that is a characteristic of fairytales and myths. Let me share with you a an aspect of a folktale from Irish Mythology about beauty and the inner voice. This is part of a tale about the magical gifts of the beautiful people that is the invitation to the realisation of beauty within you. It is about the magic of Creation that is awaiting the arising within. This is part of a tale that I have adapted for modern audiences. The beautiful people are called the Tuatha de Danaan. The Tuatha de Danaan are the children of the Goddess Danu. She is the one who represents the Gift Giver. She gives gifts to her children unconditionally. She represents the archetype of the Good Mother. The Good Mother here is not to be confused with the good, as opposed to the bad mother, who births her children within this dimension of time and space. The Good mother represents an archetype that lives in the dimension beyond the opposites of good and bad and beyond the dimension of time and space.

She, like the Good Mother in the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful, gives guidance to her children who she so loves. In the dimension of healing it is the meeting with this archetype that heals deep seated wounding and takes those who have been deeply traumatised into a dimension beyond time and space. It takes them into their direct knowing of universal Love. In that knowing there is the experience of deep healing. In the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful the children of this universal Gift Giver are required to leave the islands they know. They move out of what the mystic poet Rumi refers to as the Circle of Love into the Circle of Time. This is what we all do when we are born into form and leave the ocean of Love that is symbolised by the archetype of the Good Mother. In Christian mythology this leaving is represented by the eating of the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil. Thus we fall into the prison of duality and leave the direct awareness of Oneness symbolised by the Garden of Eden.

The Tuatha de Danaan leave their island paradise and venture into the unknown where they eventually come to an island that will be given a name by the mystical poet called Amergin – the first poet of Ireland. The island will be given the name of another Goddess called Eire. It will become the land known as Ireland. Notice here, the way in which there is the leaving of the known and the call to adventure into the unknown. This call to adventure is the first stage in what is called The Hero’s journey. This call to adventure happens in all our lives. It might mean leaving a secure job in order to become self employed. It might mean moving to a different country. It might mean taking a leap of faith and committing to a relationship. It doesn’t always mean that the call to adventure is one that comes from an experience of suffering such as divorce, illness or the death of a loved one.

In the tale of the Tuatha de Danaan one of their magical gifts is called The Stone of Destiny. Inside this stone there is a voice which proclaims only the rightful King or Queen of Ireland. The word Ireland here is not to be simply taken as meaning the place that lies between the USA and Britain. In this mythological tale Ireland means the Self and the fullness of the psyche. The inner voice proclaims that you are ready to become the King or Queen of your life’s meaning and purpose. This voice affirms you. This voice proclaims you. It is the voice, however, that is surrounded by stone. The stone represents all the ways in which we block the movement of our destiny and resist the way in which it is intended to be expressed in its beauty and fullness.

The voice in the stone is the inner knower. that can recognise the potential King or Queen within you. It is what is regal and powerful within you. This is not a power that you use to glorify your separate sense of self. You, as King or Queen, are gifted this power to serve the land represented by the land of Ireland. This is the dynamic of the Self and not the ego self. If you use this power to glorify your ego then life will not follow the destiny of the knower within you. Life will eventually become a wasteland. You will live a life without meaning or purpose.

We see this happening throughout the world. The natural world is being laid to waste by the Kings and Queens of industry that serve the corporate greed that proclaims the mantra “Never enough.” This wasteland is the collective vision of the Kings and Queens of industry who live in the world of power and are living as hungry ghosts rather than as true Kings and Queens aligned with the Source of all power. Whatever, is given to them is never enough because their psyche knows that nothing can compensate for the loss of the direct knowing of the Beloved.

The characteristic of the voice in the stone, and the doll in the pocket in the story of Vasilisa the Beautiful, is an imaginative reminder that we each have within us a guide to our true destiny. What is destiny? For this storyteller and writer your destiny is found in the alignment of your purpose with Love’s purpose. That alignment is then expressed in form through you. The quest for each of us is to answer that question in our unique way. This is not simply answered in some intellectual way but answered as a living dynamic that gives you a sense of meaning and a real sense of presence.

Presence then becomes the manifestation of the still small voice living through you. It makes you attractive in the real meaning of the Law of Attraction. You simply move through the world as beauty in form. You are not out to prove that you know something. People will be attracted to you. They will sense that you have something they want. What they are tuning into is the dynamic that is inviting them to claim their Kingship or to become Queen of their psyche. This is done through serving the inner knower that through their willingness directs their lives in service to Love’s purpose.

Presence arises from alignment with this inner knower. Presence has the quality of deep peace. It is the peace that arises from beyond polarity. This peace reigns from within but radiates without. It is the fullness of what is known as the Secret and is the true alignment with the Law of Attraction. This peace is the blessing available to those who would follow the voice in the stone that declares them King or Queen and who are ready to bless the world with the gift of their one wild and precious life.

I hope you beginning to see the way in which fairytales are simply more than just imaginative stories that are written for and told to children. Children love these stories because children are more aligned with the knower within until such times as they are educated to ignore its promptings. Some even go so far as to teach children and adults that this inner knowing is the work of the devil. They are taught to fear the promptings of their inner knowing because it is we are told simply a figment of ones imagination. After all, “Its only a fairy story.”

The stone of destiny is always there calling to you. You can sit awhile and you can listen. You sit awhile without trying to achieve your Kingship or dictating to your inner Queen. Each day you go to this sacred place within you where the stone of destiny is waiting to gift you the knowing of who you are and why you are. Each day you listen until one magical day you disappear. You do not disappear in any physical sense. The idea of who you are as a separate existence living in a time bound form disappears and you are revealed. Then the silence and you become One. You begin to trust the silence more than the constant chatter of your mind. You become like an empty cup simply waiting to be poured into by the Good Mother (or God or the Beloved). You return from the Circle of Time into the Circle of Love but you remain as your time and space entity called me, my and mine. In this way you live your destiny and become the magical gift of the beauty that you are here to give to the world. You become one of the beautiful people. You become aligned with the Gift Giver and live in true abundance.

Let it be so.