#Sylphs

[faestorian]

love me some flying cabbages

[mysterious-secret-garden]

Gustave Doré - Waltz of the Sylphs, 1860.

[emahriel]

🌾 𝐬𝐲𝐥𝐩𝐡𝐬 retouched piece from a year ago

[zylphiacrowley]

Dancing One

[kootiepatra]

#RoevemberXIV Day 04 - Allied Societies: A Realm Reborn

“This one does not trust strange walking ones. Strange dancing ones might be a different story…”

Brand-new Scion Keimwyda found the whole thing intensely mortifying, but what choice did she have?

[jimkinnz]

homunculus facts¡

every year' thousands of homunculi are unmade by the callousness of their masters• your gift of just §1 a day can help this•

commonly effective enrichment strategies for your homunculus can include introducing new scents like doe urine or peppermint' as well as putting their food inside of little compartments in a box• just make sure the gnomes don,t escape¡

i fucking love to squish berries between my fingers i could do it all day•

while homunculi often eat other living things' the most treasured are those imbued with elemental magic• this explains the gnome thing' but also includes sylphs' undines' and salamanders•

there,s a loose rock in the masonry of one wall of the lab• i,ve been able to pry it out' but there were no treasures there• ಠ⁠ᴥ⁠ಠ

you guys ever heard of video games¿

[ome-magical-ramblings]

Sylphs and the Air Kingdom.

We go onto the elementals of Air! The Sylphs!

I don't know honestly what people think of the air elements, and the air elementals but they're anything but the gentle creatures they are. In truth the Air kingdom is more about the open heart and gentle approach to not get overwhelmed. If there's anything that can sum up the whole essence of the air kingdom is that.... It is Refinement. To Quote Vimalananda

"Most Westerners today believe that all their desires, and their sexual desires in particular, should be gratified immediately. But there is nothing speedy about refinement; it takes time and restraint. Refinement occurs automatically in all aspects of life, and especially in sex and in spirituality, if you just slow down. Westerners think the spiritual urge can be gratified in the same way that they gratify their sex urges. No wonder that most of them end up with fake gurus.”

If I already put the main idea is that of REFINEMENT. Then that means I should build on that with certain aspects of this refinement that bring that refinement, I would call them, Appeasement, Detachment, Slowing Down, and Service. I will preface, very explicitly that all work with Sylphs and Air elementals is better to be done through an intercessor, angel, god, etc and whatever else you take as a guiding and protective spirit instead of dealing with them directly.

Appeasing/Praying For Spirits of Air

I feel uncomfortable to even call it appeasing because these spirits usually are full of wisdom and light but often tend to be easily slighted or easily fickle if we are not careful with them. Do I mean that ALL sylphs are fickle or easily offended? of course not but the general flightiness of their elements can make them jump from one thing to another, to have that excessive force without grounding. Don't you find sometime when you get in argument to feel like you're "flying in rage" or flying heedlessly into the situation. That's all there's to it, pray for the spirits because if you die then who will pray for you? who would give you light and stability if you don't give it to them.

Detachment and Slowing Down

The best way to attain the detachment from the rushing winds and tempest is simply to slow down. If you're rushing through the prayer then you will get overwhelmed with it, if you rush through your prayer, exercises, and meditation then you will be rushed by it. If we remember the Undine's post then we can see the same reflective nature of spirits and that they often reflect our tendencies and behaviorism. If we come to the spirits rushing them like a tornado then the air element aspect of practice will start rushing us and pushing us like a tornado and we might want to slow down and take a breather. Even in Writing, in talking, in playing, in working, in praying, in sleeping, in doing your day to day life. Yes, the clock is ticking but the faster you go the more stuck you get. I am not advising people to like detach themselves emotionally or intellectually and become jaded but more of slowing down, so you can have that *space* between you and your life and not get overwhelmed.

Service

Service here implies serving someone something of value, that aspect is pretty weird to think of but when we take the time not to think about ourselves but to think of other we will find a great deal of blessings coming our way. If there's anything that Air elemental can teach you is that humbling presence when you walk out of water and Earth and see the sky above you. People can overlook how humbling the firmament look like, literally when you look at the Sky and see the great expanding heaven above you then you can't say or do anything but be in awe of the greatness of the world. What can we serve? That's a question for you to answer honestly, but that's an essential point I would like to emphasis in the Air. Serving elevates more than just being "here", there's a lot more to just grabbing stuff forcefully and grace plays a huge role in this. Let the Ray of Thine Intelligence and the warmth of Thy Love penetrate even unto us; then that which is volatile shall be fixed, the shadow shall be a body, the Spirit of Air shall be a soul, the dream shall be a thought. And no longer shall we be swept away by the Tempest, but we shall hold the bridles of the Winged Steeds of Dawn, and we shall direct the course of the Evening Breeze to fly before Thee.

Until Next time, with the Fire that doesn't lie. PS: my friend, @witches-bottle is doing a series on elemental work on a faster pace than me, I recommend you go check them out :D

[lizzy-calaxio]

Sometimes sylphs will check in on Lizzy at her house in the shroud

they give her decorating advice (by force)

"Why does Lizzy One insist on keeping this tail? It's no good for tree climbing, and it hits This one too many times!"

and they also comfort her when she gets sad

[laladventures]

Magic in the Sylphlands

[umbralaether]

MiqoMarch day 25: cute

A collection of friends that are downright adorable.

[pollywog-art]

sylphic goldleaf

INSTAGRAM | KO-FI

[thecapturedspy]

I love these tiny lettuce friends. :3

(Get one as a pin at my shop: https://www.etsy.com/shop/thecapturedspy)

[l-la]

Still super happy with how these charms turned out. The colours are so nice, and they're very lightweight. I love FFXIV Sylphs so much.

[andromedasdomain]

Elements: Air

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✦Direction: East ✦Substance: Wind, Mist, Fog, Clouds, Spirit, Ether, Breeze, Hurricane, Tornado, Spoken Word, Whisper, Breath, Music ✦Prana: breathing, breath of life (Hindu) ✦Qi: air, energy flow, breath (Chinese) ✦Zodiac Signs: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius ✦Planets: Jupiter and Mercury ✦Air Magical Properties: communication (spoken and written), travel, whimsy, writing, activation, movement, business contracts/agreements, mental strength and memory, purification, music and healing. ✦Air Animals: birds, bees, butterflies, dragonflies, bats, flying insects, flying squirrels, any flying animal Colors: White, yellow, silver ✦Magical Tools: feathers, bells, incense, wand, leaves, wind chimes, wings, fans, musical instruments, besom, bubbles ✦Magical Creatures with air magical properties: winged fairies like pixies, phoenix, dragons, pegasus, sylphs ✦Plants with Air Magical Properties: air plants (like Spanish moss), mimosa, alder, aspen, birch, dandelion, lavender, fennel, lungwort.

[mythical-art]

The Sylphs Dance with Butterflies by European School (chromolithograph)

[gridanian-red-mage]

Of Tonberries and Hatchingtide--Part 1/3

So this is very very late, but better late than never! Anyway, this was such a fun event and was my first Hatchingtide! I was absolutely losing it with the chaos that was the FATE for this event. Naturally I couldn't see a thing, so I just scared anything that looked remotely like a sylph.😂 I really like tonberries and sylphs so this was a win-win for me (y'know despite having to scare the living daylights out of the little leaf people 🥲)!

Also you gotta love the puns in this game.👌👌