Tradition / Region: Netherlands / Belgium (West-Vlaanderen)
Alternate Names: —
Category: Air Spirit / Wandering Soul
The Kind of Person This Spirit Draws Near To
A person who lives in quiet disobedience.
Not rebellious in action, but inwardly severed from the life they were expected to live. Someone who made a decisive choice—often for love, loyalty, or desire—and was never forgiven for it, neither by others nor fully by themselves.
They keep moving, emotionally or physically. Settling feels unsafe. Rest feels undeserved.
How This Person Thinks
Mental habits
- Persistent inner narration of “it could have been different”
- Revisiting the moment where everything changed
- Thoughts that circle rather than conclude
How they approach ideas
- Drawn to romantic, tragic, or melancholic interpretations
- Suspicious of stable narratives
- Prefers feeling over resolution
How they relate to uncertainty
- Uncertainty feels familiar, even comforting
- Certainty feels restrictive
What they obsess over / ignore
- Obsess over lost permission, exile, and irreversible choice
- Ignore opportunities for reconciliation or grounding
How This Person Deals With Problems
- They avoid confrontation that would force closure
- Drift instead of decide
- Endure rather than resolve
Response to obstacles
- Withdrawal
- Emotional wandering
- Silent acceptance without integration
They rarely fight.
They carry.
How This Person Responds to Stress
Stress behavior
- Emotional dissociation
- Increased restlessness
- Desire to leave, travel, or disappear
Collapse or sharpening
- Stress dissolves structure rather than sharpening focus
What they cling to
- Sadness as identity
- The feeling of being wronged
- The idea that suffering proves sincerity
Emotional Landscape
When Calm
- Quietly wistful
- Detached
- Emotionally airborne
When Angry
- Anger turns inward
- Expressed as lament rather than action
When Afraid
- Fear of settling
- Fear of being seen clearly
- Fear of forgiveness
When Joyful
- Joy is fleeting
- Quickly followed by guilt or loss
Relationship to Time
- Endless
- Non-linear
- Past-oriented
- Feels permanently “after” the decisive moment
Time is experienced as wind, not ground.
Relationship to Pleasure and Comfort
- Pleasure feels undeserved
- Comfort feels temporary and fragile
- Rest triggers unease
They often deny themselves stability while longing for it.
Living Space
- Frequently changing
- Sparse or unfinished
- Windows, drafts, movement of air
- Sounds of weather are prominent
Nothing feels fully claimed.
Relationship Patterns
- Deep attachments formed through shared suffering
- Difficulty maintaining long-term peace
- Attraction to unavailable or disapproving figures
Love is tied to loss.
How This Person Works
- Capable but inconsistent
- Productivity comes in gusts
- Easily disrupted by mood or memory
They move when compelled, not when planned.
What Makes the Spirit Stay
- Continued emotional exile
- Identification with sorrow
- Refusal to forgive oneself or others
- Movement without arrival
Alvina stays where lament replaces rest.
What Makes the Spirit Leave
- Reconciliation with one’s own choice
- Acceptance without bitterness
- Rooting oneself in place, body, and routine
- Allowing joy without punishment
When sorrow is integrated instead of carried, Alvina dissolves into weather.
The Cost of Keeping This Spirit Close
- Chronic restlessness
- Difficulty building a home or legacy
- Life becomes a long echo rather than a presence
What is lost is ground.
What remains is motion without destination.
Final Human–Spirit Portrait
“A life lived like wind through open land — always moving, never landing, faithful to sorrow long after sorrow has finished asking to be held.”