The Gloomy Goblin: An Earth Healing Story

For two years I was aware of him. A solemn, shadowy figure perched on the stones outside of the house in France where my partner lived. He was a goblin of some kind, with a gruesome face and ice-cold composure that made it clear he wanted to be left alone. I sensed the gloomy goblin had certain powers that he kept to himself. He was not part of the house elemental beings who took care of the subtle dimensions of the home. I followed my self-taught rule related to unfriendly invisible beings: respect the distance, unless it’s not possible to do so. He did not venture inside the house and for many seasons we co-existed peacefully.

One evening, that all changed. The goblin appeared in the corner of the bedroom. I was taken aback, but I was also tired and assumed he was just passing through. To my horror, he stayed on after I fell asleep and instigated a hellish night. I had a string of nightmares with violent scenes. Then the goblin took the etheric body of the neighbour’s cat and menacingly threw her on me. I awoke with a piercing scream in my ears, unsure if it was my own scream or the cat’s.

I was shocked by the change in our dynamic. What broke our silent agreement to leave each other in peace? I later went into meditation and saw the goblin’s vibrational field full of torment and distortions linked to an energetically blocked chasm with a waterfall in the nearby mountain. I recalled that on the very same day as the goblin’s invasion of my nighttime dream space, I was walking in the fields and had connected with the chasm. I perceived it as a landscape yoni, a deep Earth portal to the sacred feminine frequencies of Gaia Sophia. But the chasm had closed up, most likely due to the violence which took place during the Roman occupation of the area in ancient times.

The chasm in the mountain in the Southern French Alps, a sacred portal to the feminine frequencies of inner Earth.

The situation then became clear: after I received the insight about the chasm, the goblin had adeptly read the change in my energy field and made his move to draw my attention. The goblin used to be a guardian of the chasm in the mountain. But the battles and patriarchal abuses of power on the land caused the chasm’s feminine essence to retreat, and with it the goblin had lost his role. He could not find the words nor the love within him to communicate his dire state. Instead, he conjured the nightmares and threw the cat’s etheric body on me as a cry for help. I felt enormous compassion for the goblin and promised him that I would try my best to help.

Often we do not realise how elemental beings suffer and become displaced as a result of violence and other forms of destruction inflicted by humans upon the landscape.

Goblins as guardians or protectors of place

Alongside gnomes, dwarves, giants and other Earth elemental beings, goblins help bring Earth’s subtle forces into the manifest dimension. Fifth elemental beings represent an evolution of elemental beings who have greater will, individuation and powers of creativity. Some elemental beings have been entering this evolution, serving as bridges between the co-evolutions, such as between humans and elemental beings.

Picture: The Goblin painted by William Blake, inspired by John Milton’s poems L'Allegro and Il Penseroso. Public domain image from WikiArt.

When I returned to the valley some weeks later, I kept my promise to the goblin. The first snows had already arrived and the path to the cliff facing the chasm was not easy to navigate. Upon arriving, I asked for a key to open to the inner realms of the chasm. Straight away I was given an image of a yoni-like crevice, its rocks glistening in different earthy colours. The elemental angels of the mineral world rose up from landscape and encircled me like a pantheon of goddesses. I felt the chasm was not ready to be worked with directly, but the adjacent landscape was awakening on new levels to support its healing. The goblin appeared with his hands cupping water, indicating that he is a water bearer: his job as a guardian of the chasm was to weave the sacred water dimension from the waterfall into the surrounding land.

Long ago, the goblin was a proud carrier of deep feminine waters in the mountain landscape. When the chasm’s subtle forces withdrew, the goblin’s sense of abandonment must have lingered for hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years, cementing him in bitterness and despondency. Finally, through my witnessing of him and his reunion with the sacred essence of the chasm, he was able to emerge from the dismal hole he had fallen into. Gaia Sophia has gifted humans with the divine capacity to serve as connectors, networkers and gatherers between all realms of existence, for the benefit of all of life.

I see the goblin now, standing still on a cliff with a deep blue sky and clouds. He is coming into reconciliation with all that has happened: his heart is healing. A renewed creativity and child-like joy flow through him; he has found his way back to the matrix of life. I am moved to tears when I think of his remarkable transformation and what he has taught me. I am curious as to how our relationship will continue to unfold. He is no longer the gloomy goblin but my friend the water bearer, the goblin devoted to goddess portals of the land.

Like a ripple in water, one being touched by love changes everything.

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