Flying with the Sylphs

by Kamrusepas

Sylphs are my favorite elementals to work with. Not only are they all around us but to me they are living things as tangible and alive as a tree or our rabbit.

I have been working with sylphs for the past five years, four of those five before I became a Wiccan. The first time I encountered sylphs properly was in my back garden. To me sylphs are more than just the guardians you call upon when casting a circle. They can offer clarity- who better to help you think through a problem than someone who rides the wind? – And new perspectives. They can help renew the child in us, encouraging us to play about in the breeze. Ever felt like going wherever the wind takes you? Perhaps a sylph is trying to tell you something. Sylphs can be seen in the clouds on most days. Does that one look like a person? It could be a sylph. They are always there. Do you ever have the feeling that the wind is listening? That could be a sylph.

Whistling and playing wind instruments are good ways of attracting sylphs. I find singing works well too since I can’t play wind instruments (only the cello) and can’t whistle to save my life. A chant I often use when I want to speak to them is ‘wearing my long wing feathers’ (I have actually done this singing along to Lady Gaga Just Dance believe me anything can work if you let it) if you’re lucky you might feel that telltale breeze that feels like there’s more to it than what the weatherman said on the news last night. Just talk to the sylphs- as Teresa Moorey says in her book The Fairy Bible ‘Aaah- breathe deeply and take flight with the sylphs’. Do that, feel the call of the wind and its freedom.

Seeing sylphs can be quite difficult, they are the wind and how do you see that? I, weirdly enough, find it easiest to see them with my eyes shut. Just close your eyes forget the ground beneath you and just feel the wind. Then open your eyes and believe they are there. That’s the part you have to get past. For the human race if we don’t believe that something’s there then we won’t see it, especially with the fay.

I think that sometimes we need to remember that the elementals can be experienced outside of our circles. The wind is its own sacred space and the sylphs have their own dance that is so special, so magical that once you start dancing with them you don’t want to stop. The moments when I feel most like a witch have happened when I’ve been talking to sylphs. Perhaps the call of the wind will be as strong and hard to ignore for you as it is for me.

Author Bio
I first began my path with sylphs and came to where I am today as an eclectic faerie Wiccan. My friends call me a hippie and I’d actually say I’m quite happy to be one.  I’m fifteen, live in the UK and regularly climb trees where the only way to get down is to jump. (Strangely, I do have a slight fear of heights)

Comments

[sha lo]

hi,
this morning after meditating on the garden i felt like lying down on the grass as it comforted me.i looked up and i saw the dark blue sky,it was drizzling a bit actually.i just stared at the sky and breath in and out and just felt the earth and the grass on my back.when i opened my eyes again i saw a big transparent thing in the sky.It looked like a butterfly or a jellyfish or a flower.it was moving around, swirling as if it dancing.I closed my eyes again thinking that my eyes were playing tricks on me, but it didn't went away.I closed and rub my eyes but it was still there.i looked it up, per my husband's advice, and the closest thing that i can find about that phenomenon is a sylph.was it really a sylph?all the descriptions i can find in the internet is that it is a cloud like creature.please help me be enlightened.thank you