In preparing for this week’s blog post, I saw on my calendar that I was scheduled to have a conversation1with Oonagh.2I began my usual preparation of lighting my candle and anointing my forehead, reading a bit about Oonagh, and repeating her name in my mind to let her know that I was preparing to meet her in conversation …
But then other things kept intruding. Just as I was about to turn off my phone so I couldn’t be interrupted during my quiet time, I received a text from a dear friend whose father has just been moved into hospice care and is not expected to survive for more than a few days. After exchanging a few messages with her, I realized that I needed to write a letter to him and get it in the mail so it could be delivered to him in case he were to pass before I could see him in person—he was weak, and his visits were being carefully scheduled by friends and family.
With that labor of love finally done, I again reached to turn off my phone, only to receive a text message from a colleague from my “other career.” I was tempted to simply brush her off because this was one of my days off from that job, but I could tell from the text message that she was exasperated and nearly at the end of her rope. And I remembered reading Doreen Virtue’s description of her encounter with Oonagh,3in which Oonagh’s message to Virtue’s readers had been “Love. … Be in Love. Not ‘in love,’ as in relationship love with just one other person, but be stationed in the midst of Love. … Live in love.”
It was then I realized that taking time to write a letter of love and faith to a dying friend and then to open an ear and offer a hand of support to a colleague experiencing a flow of work that was crushing her spirits was the essence of living in Love and a perfect way to begin my interactions with the Oonagh described by Virtue.
Once I had helped my colleague, I began to write this article and reflect on the above realization—only to receive yet another text message—this one from another very dear friend asking me to help in a particular task being undertaken to help lift the spirits of the friend whose father is dying. Yet again, I recognized this as an important opportunity to live in Love, to step outside of my smaller worries of deadlines and time tables, and I took it.
My experience and Virtue’s description didn’t seem much in keeping with what little I know of Fairy queens4—which Oonagh is—or of the scant information I could find of Oonagh in my book sources, which describe her as a personality to approach or invoke “to find true love and to experience romantic happiness.”5Left without Internet (thanks to spring storms) with which to perform further secondhand research, and with no more interruptions occurring, I decided it was finally time to have a direct conversation with Oonagh, particularly after seeing Illes’s note that many Fairy queens may be ritually channeled.
During my meditation, Oonagh gave me to understand that she considers herself a goddess, more than a Fairy queen, as she was powerful before the Gaels and Christians relegated her to Fairy status. She doesn’t seem particularly concerned about the distinction, though, pointing out that she has the same power and is the same personality, whether she is considered goddess or Fairy.
With her presence, I was infused with a silvery light; it filled me and radiated outward, and I was at perfect peace. Along with the peace was a mild pulsation of calm, relaxed energy. This combination of peace and energy is very similar to what I experience after performing yoga, t’ai chi, or Qigong, and she helped me understand that she is, as Virtue explains, a lover of dance and of movement for health. She particularly is attracted to people after performing physical activity that induces this type of relaxed and peaceful energy. Such activities help us align and heal not only our physical bodies, keeping them limber, but also our spiritual and energetic bodies. Thanks to activities such as yoga, t’ai chi, and Qigong, we align our mortal, physical selves with the immortal, immutable selves and the Universe. This is the way we begin to be in touch with the “greater spiritual Truth” (which she also called the highest spiritual Being)—the “place” from which we may begin to communicate with her kind (meaning all higher-energy beings).
Thus, Virtue’s suggestion that to communicate with Oonagh, one can simply dance in a field of flowers is completely accurate; such an activity—dancing in nature, particularly with bare feet—does the same job of bringing the physical, spiritual, and energetic bodies into alignment and allowing us to “peer into other worlds” (her words)—which some who have seen them have mistaken for Fairy realms.
My experience of Oonagh was thus filled neither with a smiling goddess emphasizing that we live in love nor with an impetuous, proud, haughty, or mercurial Fairy being. Instead, it was of calm, peaceful, Universal love radiating from us all and connecting us all. In this respect, Oonagh manifested with me as she did with Virtue, as a “vision of opalescent, shimmering, glittering light … glowing from the inside … [with] music like a celestial choir and instrumental hums emanating from her, as if her every move elicited an electric rhapsody of melodies,” except that the goddess gave me to understand that we all manifest in this way when we move our physical bodies in ways that “make our souls sing” and therefore align all parts of ourselves with the highest spiritual Being, of which we are a part.
Notes
- I’ve called these “meditations” in the past, because I typically get in a meditative state to have such conversations, and I have finally accepted—with some reluctance—that they are actually what most people call “channelings,” though to me, they really do feel like conversations. Thus, throughout my blog, you will likely see me refer to my interactions with spiritual beings (what Doreen Virtue calls “deities”) of all sorts in these three ways: as conversation, channeling, or meditation.
- Also known as Onaugh, Oona, Uonaidh,and Una.
- See Doreen Virtue’s Archangels & Ascended Masters: A Guide to Working and Healing with Divinities and Deities.
- See, for example, the entry “Fairy Queens” in Judika Illes’s Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses.
Sources
Illes, Judika. Encyclopedia of Spirits: The Ultimate Guide to the Magic of Fairies, Genies, Demons, Ghosts, Gods & Goddesses.New York: HarperOne, 2009.
Virtue, Doreen. Archangels & Ascended Masters: A Guide to Working and Healing with Divinities and Deities.Carlsbad, CA: Hay House, 2003.
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