Field Notes from The Elemental Lantern
Welcome, Traveler.
These Field Notes are gathered from within the living landscape of The Elemental Lantern.
Some are born beside a forest trail.
Some arrive while listening deeply during a presence session.
Others emerge unexpectedly through prayer, creative work, dreams, quiet conversation, or ordinary moments that suddenly reveal something extraordinary.
They are not instructions.
They are observations.
Not conclusions.
But companions.
Here you may find stories of returning, glimpses of relationship, moments of recognition, symbolic discoveries, and quiet reminders that we are always in conversation with the world around us.
If something here feels familiar...
perhaps it has been quietly waiting for you.
Welcome.
There is a lantern burning nearby.
Recorded by
DeAn'Na Medley
Keeper of the Lantern
Writer, artist, and relational illuminator
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.