This is why they only show themselves to people who actually do believe in the first place. They have no interest in trying to change your mind. Whatever aspect of the fae you want to see, you will see. Indeed, Jesus’ time of darkness was when he cried out “My God, why have you abandoned me?” Both were able to push through and reach a higher plane in spite of this darkness. Buddha went through his period of darkness and temptation before reaching Nirvana. I could probably do an entire blog post on the difference between “darkness” and “evil”. It means walking into your icky, disliked parts and understanding everyone has parts they don’t like. Darkness, on the other hand, is acknowledging that you are fallible and that your ego won’t necessarily serve a higher purpose. Evil is doing despicable things because you feel like it it means standing by and watching harm and not doing a thing about it. The two words have somehow become intertwined, and they’re not the same thing at all. This could be anything from meditation to doing penance for your sins. However, I do know for a fact that any good spiritual path has a healthy balance of light and dark. There are many paths on the way to enlightenment, and I am certainly not one to judge, having walked multiple paths of my own. Be conscious of the light and dark in your life. We need a chance to rest and regroup, to gather our energies. This could be anything from a cloudy day to a long winter’s night. We need darkness too, as a relief from the brightness.

But if nothing but sunlight shone down upon us, we would all burn up. I know that I definitely prefer the long, sunny summer days to the short, wind-swept days of winter. We want to have light and happiness in our life at all times.

we wouldn’t exist without darkness either. We literally would not exist without sunlight. Plants take advantage of the sunlight to create their own energy. There are creatures that eat dead plant and animal matter, there are carnivores and herbivores. You might call it “survival of the fittest”, but I say it’s a beautiful, interwoven fabric. All of the plants and animals have developed a way to take advantage of it. Are faeries good or bad? Are they light or dark? The answer might surprise you.

Good and bad faeries