Posts tagged faeries
Today’s Faery Message
Aug 27th
Today I felt drawn to bring out a faery deck for our message of the day. A lot of people have some very odd views on the fey, at least in my opinion. The fey are not always these sweet, glittering little creatures riding on rainbows and moonbeams coming to spread joy. The fey have a very deep and rich mythology with some fierce creatures and characters as well as some of the more commonly thought of variety. I think that when you’re going to bring yourself out to the faery world and try and walk with them and work with them you need to be open to whatever they are going to bring you rather than imposing a specific view on them. You might be surprised what they have to show you when you just let them give you their messages. So for today I have brought out Lucy Cavendish and Selina Fenech’s wonderful faery deck the Wild Wisdom of the Faery Oracle
Dragon’s Pet
Communication between species, Animals, Pets, Magickal companions, Guardianship
The Dragon’s Pet card is one the speaks strongly of the interconnected relationships that we have with not only the fey but also the other messengers around us. This can be your pets, your magickal companions that you may consider to be familiars, or those creatures in the world that you feel a kinship with and a need to connect to and protect. The Dragon’s Pet reminds us that we need to be open to these relationships because they sometimes happen when we don’t expect them or they happen and hardly even notice they’re forming. This is often the case with a relationship with magickal creatures, those who are in other realms who touch us in this one, such as the fey, dragons, and so on. When this card comes through it is a reminder to us that a magickal connection between you and another creature is forming.
However, this card in our reading today come out reversed, so here we see a blockage in this relationship. It’s possible that you aren’t listening, can’t understand what is happening, or maybe you don’t believe in faery beings, dragons, or that your cat or dog can actually communicate with you beyond “feed me” and “I need to go out”. The world around you, be it a world with humans, plants or animals, even animals in another realm, are all connected to you. The trick for you is to open the gate to let that energy and relationship flow naturally. If you just don’t understand or you don’t know what to do with them, express that to the Universe and ask for help in understanding and nurturing that connection and that relationship. This is when learning to open and develop our intuition, our abilities to hear and see beyond the physical, the ability to meditate and journey to other realms becomes so important. By opening up and not actively blocking out the messages and connections of the creatures around us, whether of the the fey or household pet variety, we find out more about the world, the Universal consciousness, and ourselves.
Today is a great day to set aside a little time to connect with these creatures of the other realms. Set up a small meditation altar where you can spend a little time undisturbed. If there is a specific creature that you wish to work with, for example if you prefer dragons to faeries, set up your altar to reflect the creature you wish to connect to with images, statues or figurines, and so on. Add flowers as an offering along with a white candle to meditate with and maybe even some incense dedicated to your creature; try a faery blend to reach the fey or burn some rose, lavender and elder berry for them. For dragons try dragon’s blood to call on their fiery energy. If you want to connect to your own pet’s energy burn something associated to your pet such as cat nip for cats. Working with dogs I would suggest working with dog grass (also known as Witch grass) but you could also work with herbs associated to Hecate since dogs were closely tied to her and her magick. Burn your herbs or incense, light your candle, and call on the energy of your chosen being and ask to better connect to and understand it. Welcome it into your life and ask to make magickal connections with it so that you can work together and move through the world as allies.
Today’s Affirmation
“I am open to connecting to the magickal beings around me.”
Today’s Message from the Faeries
Jun 22nd
Today we’re looking yet again to the Wild Wisdom of the Faerie for our reflective message of the day…
Mother and Daughter
Mothering, Teaching, Sharing knowledge, Nurturing self-worth
When we talk about the mother/daughter relationship we sometimes forget about how nurturing this relationship can really be. As our children get older we forget that they still need nurturing and sometimes mothers forget that they nurture their own self-worth by caring for their children. But what if you don’t have children? You still need to nurture yourself, especially your own inner child. This is where the mother/daughter relationship within can come into place.
Whether it’s nurturing your own inner child or taking time to nurture your own children, take the time out today, and even throughout the week, to take time to spend with them in whatever way you can to share with them in some way that nurtures you both. If it’s nurturing yourself, get out into nature and take some time to see the world from a child-like perspective and find a way to nurture that aspect of yourself that seeks joy and excitement in the simple things. If working with your actual children, no matter what their age, find a way to teach them something about yourself, your family history, or the world that can give them a new piece of knowledge to carry into the world but that can also help you feel your own worth in the world and in their lives. Find a way today to teach and share something of yourself with the world.
Today’s Affirmation
By sharing my knowledge and wisdom with those around me, I nurture my own self-worth.
A little about Litha and a Reading
Jun 21st
Happy Summer Solstice and Merry Litha! Today we honor and celebrate the height of the sun’s power. Today we take time to celebrate the triumph of the sun, the time when the Oak King reaches his peak and is then struck down by the Holly King who will rule the waning half of the year through winter. While today we see the year divided into four seasons, in ancient times many cultures, like that of the Celts, divided the year into two halves, summer and winter. The winter solstice marked the beginning of the winter and the summer solstice the beginner of summer. Today we often start to feel the hints of summer during mid-spring and it’s not uncommon for some places to feel as though summer has set in during the spring equinox or Ostara. This is the time of year that we see the lush green that sprung up several months ago during the equinox give way to fruit and flowers. While today most of us celebrate the solstice on the date when the event actually takes place, usually somewhere around June 21st, in some traditions there is a fixed date of June 25th which is honored and often called “Old Litha”. Litha is a favorable time to rededicate yourself to your path and the God and Goddess.
Litha is often a time when the faeries are honored and are thought to be particularly active. Bonfires are common during Litha and it’s thought that lighting bonfires in forests or on hilltops attract certain faeries to the fires and festivals. Leaving offerings of honey and cream at the edge of the fire for the faeries can keep them from causing any trouble or mischief and is thought to help create a connection between ourselves and the fae.
For Litha I thought we could do a short reading, a small glimpse with the help of the faeries through Brian & Wendy Froud’s The Heart of Faerie Oracle to see what the fae have to tell us for the coming half of the year.
The Faerie of Growth
The Lord of the Forest
The Elven Knight
Seeing The Faerie of Growth here is no wonder and no mystery. Even though the summer solstice signals the coming of the waning half of the year, there is still a wonderful and powerful period of growth ahead. Here the faeries remind you that staying stagnate for any length of time means that life is not expanding. Growth is necessary otherwise we die; stagnation is like death. As the summer months move on and we see the world around us growing we need to grow with it. It’s a good time to stop and take a moment to see what areas of our lives need growth and allow the warmth of the sun to empower our paths to welcome and foster that growth.
The Lord of the Forest is part of the embodiment of masculine energy in the faerie realm. He is the driving force of all that we are and all that we do. We all have a masculine side just as we all have a feminine side, but sometimes we forget these things and we need to be reminded so that we can really sense that energy within us. As the feminine side nurtures the masculine side impregnates and moves. Here the Lord of the Forest comes to remind us that our thoughts and dreams are good to have, as this is the feminine side doing it’s job, but we need to also let the masculine side come in and act on those dreams. As the Faerie of Growth tells us it’s time to start growing, moving and changing, the Lord of the Forest comes to help us take action.
Seeing The Elven Knight come in as well shows that we have come into a period of great opportunity and growth, more than we may even really realize. Much like the Lord of the Forest, the Elven Knight is a driving force. The Elven Knight is a guide, a leader, a driving force even stronger than the Lord of the Forest. He leads us to our destiny when we are ready to move and seek it out. Here we have the Knight letting us know that the way is clear and the path is open for us. It’s time to set our sights on accomplishing things that, in the past, we may have seen as impossible. Nothing is impossible when you have these faeries to guide you.
These are three very powerful faeries to have come together in a reading, and here in this reading, we see ourselves driven into a very powerful direction for growth and change as the summer season moves forward. This is going to be a great chance for change and for accomplishing things that we have held off on either out of fear or not being confident that we can reach our goals. Set your goals, ask the Faerie of Growth to guide you in where to go and the Lord of the Forest and the Elven Knight will be sure to keep you going and to drive you toward your goal and your destiny.
Have a wonderful and empowered summer season!
