The 13th Fairy Naming Ceremony: Welcoming the Uninvited and Lost, Lifting the Curse of Modernity
Letter from the Editor, Winter 2026 Issue
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The 13th Fairy Naming Ceremony:
Welcoming the Uninvited and Lost,
Lifting the Curse of Modernity
Letter from the Editor
January 2026
This year’s Nesting Ambassador Cohort convened this month and right away, in the context of collapsing global domination-based systems, our virtual, international gatherings took on the somber feel of an ancient Naming Ceremony. What is the cost, or the curse, of what has not been named, invited, or welcomed? The archetypal tale of the 13th Fairy shows us.
In the classic fairy tale (wisdom teaching), when the stately, sanctioned courts and halls of power welcome only adoration and tribute, eventually, in an act of restoring balance to all of Life, the uninvited, in the form of the 13th Fairy, shows up. In our cohort’s story sharing this month, we named what has been excluded from modern civilization – the fundamental species-normal baselines for flourishing and its resulting Kinship Worldview – and acknowledged the resulting curse of disconnection and planetary breakdown we are now experiencing.
The naming can be difficult, and comes with trauma-informed guidelines in the Nesting Ambassador program. As Darcia Narvaez illustrates below, authoritarianism runs deep in the USA, beginning with domination practices in birth and baby care that may influence parents into becoming “unwitting authoritarians.”
Naming the uninvited or lost is a path to authoring a New Story. “…the re-mything impulse, as I call it, the urge to recover what’s been lost or hidden. It’s like a cultural immune system. Deconstruction and reconstruction of stories are part of this process,” says Riane Eisler in her interview below.
“When people forget their relational responsibilities to ancestors, to future generations, to the more-than-human world and to one another, we become easier to control,” writes Four Arrows below.
This was always the Old Story’s sad, unimaginative, boorish plan: domination.
But the Old Story is not Life’s indomitable plan for us. And, Life, as some fairies say, is what happens when we’re making other plans.
Join us in this winter issue’s Naming Ceremony and help us reclaim the formerly lost and uninvited parts of ourselves and all our relational kin. Perhaps by welcoming the 13th Fairy we can also welcome her longing-to-be-born kin-dom.
Warmly,
Lisa Reagan
Kindred, Editor
Kindred World, Founder