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The Faeries Oracle: The Energy Of Paradox and Balance

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 The Faeries' Oracle by Brian Froud and Jessica Macbeth THE POOK is about the energy of paradox.  When something is good The Pook causes you to see the little bit of bad in the situation.  The selfish intention or the manipulation that is woven into the good of the situation.  Like when your kid asks you for some money and you get the feeling they aren't going to use it for what they are asking for.  Also The Pook can help us see the good bits within a bad (or annoying) situation.   For example, my dad needed help and my mother never wants to help him so I helped him.  As I was sitting there in the car waiting for him to come out I had a Pook thought that "Now I can spend 15 minutes with him, help him out, but basically spend a handful of minutes with him."  So even though I felt that it was lazy of my mom to totally not want to help him I was able to see the silver lining.  I was able to see that because my mother is selfish I was able to have an unexpe