Winging It

A while ago I performed a Soul Retrieval for a client which turned into a Faery Doctoring session when we found out that the soul part I was retrieving also needed to have retrieved for her, the wings that she'd left in the Faery realm when she decided to incarnate as a human this time around. As an energy exchange for my part in bringing those wings from their world to ours, the Fae requested that I draw a comic about the experience - The two page comic below. I originally drew it after the session and only just finished inking it.

If none of the above makes sense to you and you're wondering what the heck I'm talking about, here are a couple links to my Perching Wolf Studios website where you can find information about Soul Retrieval and about Faery Doctoring. Meanwhile, please enjoy the comic below! 

 

My Faery Lady

I recently did a Faery Doctoring session with a client. This is similar to the Soul Retrievals I perform, working with specific spirit guides in a Shamanic ceremony to retrieve portions of a person's soul or psyche that were 'lost' or dissociated because of trauma. But sometimes, rather than just floating out there somewhere for self-preservation, these soul parts are adopted and nurtured by the Faery folk as a way to balance the energy between their world and ours. 

For such cases I have a Faery liaison named Alandria who helps me find and return those soul parts to their original person, but to keep the energies balanced between our two worlds both my client and I need to give something back to the Fae. Usually this is a creative endeavor which ends up being beneficial for all parties, in this case my client having to dance at least once a day for a certain number of days and my having to draw one comic page every day for six days (You'll notice below that I overshot that by one day). 

When I started I had no idea that I would end up in the ER during part of it, but that also demonstrates the healing support that comes from drawing my comics. Here are the seven pages that resulted from that session, and I'm hoping Alandria enjoyed them. 

 

I’m Not a Real Doctor...

So there's this thing I do sometimes along with performing a Soul Retrieval ceremony for a client, and it's called "Faery Doctoring." Sometimes when a person is missing a part of themselves due to trauma, I have to venture to the edges of the Faery Realm with Eo, my Irish Elk 'Faery Co-walker' and inquire of my liaison of that Kingdom, Alandria, whether that missing soul part has been taken by the Fae in their endless effort to balance the energies between our world and their own. For that soul part to return to my client in this world, we have to make an exchange to ensure the maintenance of balance, and this exchange usually takes the form of something creative -- dancing, singing, art work, etc -- for a certain period of time performed by both my client and myself.

 

This is what happened during a recent Soul Retrieval/Faery Doctoring session...