These fairies were the inspiration for Peter Tchaikovsky and his Nutcracker Suite when the famous
Sugar Plum Fairy and her attendants welcomed Clara at her court in the Kingdom of Sweets.
The story is based on a 19th century work of Romantic fiction E.T.A. Hoffman's original entitled
the Nutcracker and the Mouse King.
It is said that Clara and the Sugar Plum Fairy share a relationship that is the child self and
the adult self and it is here that Clara is invited through dance to reach a kind of erotic
maturity helping her to form a completely integrated self. This story is likened to the ancient
Sumarian myth of Inanna, Queen of the Heavens and Ereshkigal her sister, Queen of the Underworld,
where shadow and light become one and were thus integrated.
The Fairy in this magical piece is protected by Tiger?s Eye, a stone known for its power to bring
insight, clear thinking, willpower, confidence and assurance, all of the virtues that Clara aquired
in her journey to the Kingdom of Sweets.
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