I asked that question once and Annelies said yes. I was asked if I had ever have seen or experienced nature spirits and all I can say is that the forces of life summoned to assist in working magic in nature must be for real. No, I have never seen a gnome or a fairy, I mean a living one.
I'm not sure if I would recognise one if I did see one. But I have no problem in understanding who they are and what they represent.

I will keep my article short and share what I have learned in my landscaping business. I have invested in many water features over the years that included elemental ornaments known as Gnomes and fairies also known as Sylphs, Salamanders and Undines.

I have since leaned that Elementals are not always the helpful little creatures we’d like them to be. They can be mischievous, bad tempered little devils if allowed to get out of control. They remind me of many characteristics of human beings.

With the help of Annelies' favorite kids books: GNOMES, the description of gnome life and culture captured my imagination.

Annelies warned me not to confuse the Nature spirits with the true life waves evolving through the invisible worlds. While the elementals are composed of only one etheric (or atomic) essence, the angels, archangels, and other superior, transcendental entities have composite organisms, consisting of a spiritual nature and a chain of vehicles to express that nature not unlike those of men, but without the physical body with its attendant limitations. So here we go.

Gnomes - ( our Root and Crown chakra)

Just as there are many types of human beings evolving through the objective physical elements of Nature, so there are also many types of gnomes evolving through the subjective ethereal body of Nature. These earth spirits work in an element so close in vibratory rate to the material earth that they have immense power over its rocks and flora, and also over the mineral elements in our physical bodies. Some, like the pygmies, work with the stones, gems, and metals, and are supposed to be the guardians of hidden treasures.

Many of us have Gnome energy within our energy bodies. Especially in our Root or Base chakra. Annelies uses the elemental beings in her decoding workbook, which is how I learned what role they play in our physical lives.

We all know the little man with a beard, a red pointy hat and an often mischievous expression. I believe that they usually appear to humans as small, dwarf-like creatures. Besides the pygmies there are other gnomes, who are called tree and forest sprites. To this group belong the sylvestres, satyrs, pans, dryads, hamadryads, durdalis, elves, brownies, and little old men of the woods.
In ancient legends the Gnomes were protectors of secret treasures concealed in vast caverns beneath the earth. Today they are ornaments in our gardens. The old sages taught that the Gnomes were not naturally inclined to aid humankind, but if a person won their confidence and trust they would prove to be valuable allies.

I learned from a woman in South Africa, that Gnomes are the most substantial of the elementals. They dwell in holes, mines, and caverns. They are the most like us in personality, with all its good and bad points, but they are especially prey to all of the weaknesses in human nature. The main difference between the ill-disposed Gnomes and the well-disposed is that the well-disposed are always drawn more to the plant and mineral kingdoms and that the malevolent Gnomes are more drawn into the auric field on animals and humans. Could that be why when people are drawn to topics to do with enlightenment, they are also attracted to crystals, gemstones, plants and flowers?

I remembered from my childhood that Gnomes are ruled by a king whose name is Gob. His followers came to be called Goblins as tales of them were told and retold over the centuries.

Annelies in her decoding workshops explained that the elemental's task was to govern the four elements. So Gnomes govern the Earth, Sylphs control the Air, Salamanders command Fire and Undines prevail over Water. Elements and elementals are also assigned to the four cardinal points. So Earth and Gnomes are assigned to the North, Air and Sylphs to the East, Salamanders and Fire to the South, and Undines and Water to the West.

Most of my own information comes from different sources, but the lady I mentioned before had built a fairy garden, just for fun mind you, but she told me that while she was in her creative mode, shaping her fairy castle in her back yard up against a mountain, (which she named Titanya since that is the name of the queen of the fairies) while sculpting with a mixture of skimming plaster and cement, her project came alive! She knew that the gnomes build houses of substances resembling in their constituencies alabaster, marble, and cement, but the true nature of these materials is unknown, having no counterpart in physical nature.

All she had to do was be in the moment. By being in her creative space,the images of landscapes and nature dwellings that were shown to her, although originally based on reality, were altered by her and probably romanticized, but that was the way her creative mind grounded her physical body with the earth, the soil the plants and trees all around her. She became part of it. She sent us the address to her website where Titanya's cottage with her fairy castle can be seen. www.clovellywisdomcave.co.za

I've discovered that when we are becoming more and more spiritually and psychically aware, we are more and more attuned to the plant kingdom, especially trees when people start to awaken to the voices of nature; like the philosophers and initiates of the ancient world who were taught how to communicate with them and gain their cooperation in undertakings of importance. They never betrayed the trust of the elementals, for if they did, the invisible creatures, working through the subjective nature of man, could cause them endless sorrow and probably ultimate destruction. So long as the mystic served others, the gnomes would serve him, but if he sought to use their aid selfishly to gain temporal power they would turn upon him with unrelenting fury.
That kind of threat might have worked in our ancient past, but today people are so far removed on an awareness level, it will not. Only through understanding that our thoughts, feelings and visions create our reality, and by romanticizing the ancient tales of the mysterious, the wisdom of the alchemist of those days, can we activate our intuitive nature so that we once again can interact with nature the way we always did.

I know of some people who call upon the gnomes for help with money matters, stability, and growth. That might be because Gnomes represent the energy element that pushes the seed upwards towards the sky. They live underground but dream, or want to be in the sky. They would like to be birds, free from planet Earth, free from this physical world of matter. Good luck to them. It could very well work.

Elements, metals and humours have all been used to classify and define characteristics of the human system

Traditionally, there are four types:
* gnomes, earth elementals - I mentioned in this article
* undines, water elementals
* sylphs, air elementals
* salamanders, fire elementals.

In my next article: How do the cosmic and earthly forces work on the plant?

I will write about the Sylphs and what role they play.

Regards Toon