It takes a lot of good sense to be able to listen to him. He adds, ‘That Gnome is full of knowledge, but the trick is sorting the truth out from the fiction.

‘O! That Gnome tells wild and wonderful long-winded stories, complete with demonstrations of the action and much arm waving.’ an on-line group member says. There are better ways of doing this than getting drunk or going through a psychotic break, but the better ways take skill, and he has to work with what he has – us, just as we are. When he appears, it is breakthrough time, and all too often, the first step in breakthrough feels just like breakdown. When we let down our mental censors and filters, we sometimes come up with discoveries about who we really are and what we really want that we hadn’t let ourselves know. As for drunkenness, in vino veritas (in wine, there is truth). This is true… he certainly doesn’t always do as we expect – but our expectations are our problem, not his, he says. He helps us get ourselves into situations in which we discover gifts we never knew we had – often because there is no other way out of the mess we got ourselves into.Īs Brian mentions, That Gnome is unreliable and sometimes encourages drunkenness. He encourages us to fall on our faces so that we get a different point of view, looking up our mud smeared noses. He helps us breakdown old habits by showing us how silly they are. He comes to us wearing our own faces to fool us into thinking that his ideas are our own. “This is the Trickster, who exists in every world.

O! That Gnome: “Trickster ~ Creative Chaos ~ Wild Gifts ~ Breaking Habits and Patterns”

O! That Gnome, from The Faeries’ Oracle, by Brian Froud and Jessica MacBethĭaily Angel Oracle Card: O! That Gnome, from The Faeries’ Oracle, by Brian Froud and Jessica MacBeth

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