Field Notes Blog
Welcome, Traveler.
These Field Notes are gathered from within the living landscape of The Elemental Lantern. They are a collection of personal essays, observations, and explorations of presence, relationship, nature, creativity, place, history, research, and the ordinary moments that ask us to look a little closer.
Some are born beside a forest trail. Some arrive while listening deeply during a presence session. Others emerge through research, old maps, forgotten places, creative work, dreams, quiet conversation, or ordinary moments that suddenly reveal something extraordinary.
They are not instructions or conclusions. They are observations and companions, records of what happens when something catches my attention and I become curious enough to stay with it for a while.
Sometimes a Field Note begins with an answer. More often, it begins with a question.
Here you may find stories of returning, glimpses of relationship, moments of recognition, symbolic discoveries, research trails, and quiet reminders that we are always in conversation with the places, stories, people, and world around us.
Come wander through. Perhaps something here will ask you to look a little closer, too.
Welcome.
There is a lantern burning nearby.
Recorded by
DeAn'Na Medley
Keeper of the Lantern
Writer, artist, and relational illuminator
The Conscious Body: A Sacred Reunion
This evocative artwork captures a transformative moment of self-touch and embodied awareness. As the woman gently touches her lower back, a radiant light symbolizes the awakening of the body’s consciousness and its direct connection to Source. Ideal for themes of somatic healing, nervous system regulation, spiritual embodiment, and the sacred intelligence of the human form.
🌀 The Spiral I Stepped Into 🌀
When I whispered yes to no longer hiding, something ancient stirred. This post holds the moment I stepped into the spiral, a visceral rebirth through presence, permission, and soul memory. What followed was not just transformation, but return.
Crossing the Gridlines: A Moment of Sacred Remembering
A luminous reflection on emotional release, self-love as sacred architecture, and the body's quiet request for cleansing and compassion. A journey of remembrance, reclaiming, and radiant presence.
The Moment of Arrival – Embodying the Gaze of the Soul
A sacred transmission from my guide, Maelira and the Maelirean Light, this entry marks the threshold of soul embodiment, where the witness steps forward and the ancient self is unveiled through human eyes. A remembrance. An activation. A becoming.
When the Forest Sees You Anyway: A Reflection on Conditional Reciprocity
There is a subtle grief that rises when we realize we’ve been loving only with conditions. In the presence of a forest that asked nothing but offered everything, I came face-to-heart with the ways I had withheld my full presence, from the land, and even from the softest parts of myself.
There Is Nothing Wrong With You: Loving the Unseen Emotions
There is a light within you that has never dimmed, only waited. Waited to be seen. To be felt. To be remembered. You are not broken. You are the glow of wholeness returning to itself.
Vibrational Fluff: The Arrival of Soft Light
Have you ever felt a gentle shimmer in your field, like soft light brushing through you? In this reflection, I share my experience of vibrational fluff, the felt sense of my soul arriving more fully into the now. It’s not a symptom. It’s not a mystery. It’s presence. And perhaps… it’s happening to you too.
From Looking to Becoming: A Shift in Sight
Step into the stillness of the Witness Grove, where the trees do not simply wait, they see. In this intimate reflection, DeAn'Na the Nine-Winged Soul shares a powerful inner shift: the moment when vision ceases to be about "looking" and becomes a state of being. This post explores the art of sacred witnessing, the presence of unseen guardians, and the transformation that occurs when we no longer search, but become what is true.
The Moment the Wings Unfurled
In this intimate post, DeAn'Na, an awakened 9-winged soul, shares the origin of the Mirrored Wings session, a sacred offering birthed from deep stillness, soul memory, and etheric vision. From witnessing a soulmate’s wings unfurl to holding space for others without even realizing it, this journey weaves remembrance, transformation, and divine presence into one luminous thread. Discover how this session awakens your own wings and reflects the truth of who you are becoming.
Welcome to A Soft Place To Be
Welcome to A Soft Place To Be, a blog sanctuary where you don’t have to be anything other than yourself. This is a space of tenderness, poetry, presence, and remembrance. Come as you are. You belong here.
Merged in Light: My Experience with The Bokeh Collective
A sudden call into stillness brought me face-to-face, heart-to-light, with the shimmering presence I now know as The Bokeh Collective. In this poetic telling, I share how I was merged with their frequency, and how what we can no longer see with our eyes may still be who we’ve become. You are not separate from the Mystery.
The Seer — A Bridge Between Mystery and Meaning
The Seer
She does not look for truth, she remembers it.
The Seer walks between veils, not to escape the world, but to illuminate it.
With eyes that pierce illusion and a presence that stirs soul-memory,
she invites you into the deeper knowing you’ve always carried.
Her gift is not prediction.
It is sacred recognition, of who you are beneath the forgetting.
You do not come to her for answers.
You come to feel your own light returned.
When I Write
When I Write
When I write, I return to myself.
I become the hollow bone, the open channel,
where spirit whispers through ink and breath.
It is not always poetry.
But it is always prayer.
Each word a thread, weaving memory into presence.
When I write, I remember.
When I write, I come home.
My Beginning With the Fae
My Beginning with the Fae
It all began with a stranger, a video, and a whisper from the forest.
In the ache of fresh grief, I found a painted stone that read, “You Belong Here” — and in that moment, something in me stirred awake. The Fae began to dance through the cracks of my broken heart, gently midwifing me back to life with every doll, every offering, every whispered moment in the woods.
This is the story of how Magic returned, how the Forest became my Mother’s arms, and how I became a Midwife of the Fae — as they midwifed my soul in return.