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Faerie Etiquette: What to do if you meet one of the Fair Folk
Okay, so it’s about 8pm and you’ve been stuck in the house/office/classroom/another-indoorsy-place-that-can-be-annoying-after-a-while and you think to yourself, ‘I could really do with a spot of fresh air’.
It being summer and only just dusk you decide to venture down the local nature track. What you may not realise is that this is prime faerie time. Yep. It’s the best time to find the fair folk weaving their magic around the woodland, especially if it’s a full moon.
So what on earth do you do, if you catch a glimpse of a wing or they decide to grace you with a full encounter? Faeries have very particular rules and if you don’t follow them the consequences are not so good…
Here’s a guide of eight rules that our ancestors thought should be obeyed in case you happen to meet any member of the fair folk on your little evening jaunt.
1.) Never accept a Faerie gift.
I know it’s a present and I know it appears free but just DON’T. Because if you do, you owe them one and it’s not whole, 'Thanks, Oh I’ll buy the next round of drinks at the pub’ kind of owe them. You owe them anything they choose to ask for at any point.
2.) Do not eat Faerie Food or drink Faerie wine.
Even if it’s chocolatey-fudge sponge cake pudding oozing with caramel and it looks sooooooo delicious. It probably will be delicious, so delicious that no human food will ever quite sate your appetite again. Side affects may be madness then death. Also there’s a possibility that you’ll be trapped in the faerie realm.
3) Do not follow the music and step into a fairy ring.
Little circles of toadstools are a no go zone on your hypothetical evening stroll. The little natural wonders were said to hold fairy dances. The music coming from the circle was so exquisite that any passer-by would feel an imminent desire to join the dance. But there’s a bit of a Narniaesque issue with fairy time. An hour in the dance might be a few centuries in human time. Also there are some gruesome folk tales where the human can’t keep up with their immortal companions and they dance until their feet become bloody stumps. So maybe you should avoid fae music unless your’re prepared to possibly give up everything you know and love, including your feet.
4.) Don’t tell the Faerie your full name.
This is the whole name=power thing, if you give them your full name they’ll have a certain amount of control over you. Apparently 'the reason we have middle names is because the faeries cannot steal a child if they do not know the full name.’* So be proud of your embarrassing middle name and avoid divulging it to any strangers you meet in the woods, no matter how much they insist they won’t laugh.
5.) Be polite, very polite, very very polite.
You’re going to be refusing gifts, food, wine, the best dancing experience ever and you’re not even going to tell the fairy your full name. I mean it’s kinda rude, isn’t it? So you’re going to need to use expert flattery to get yourself outta this one. Also faerie’s were thought to be a little over fond of their reflection** so maybe give them a little compliment on their outfit?
6.) But don’t give them any clothing (unless it’s designer)!
So you’ve commented on how nice their outfit is and they return the favour by remarking on your shiny new scarf ,that you bought from the Bargain basement. In fact you’re tempted to give them your shiny new scarf, thinking it’ll be enough to excuse yourself. But don’t, because Fairies hate cheap clothing and misers. So when they’ve found out about the tatty quality of your scarf expect some mischief in return.
7.) And whatever you do, don’t say Thank-you!
Thank-you is fairy blasphemy. They have went and offered you all of these things, you’ve politely declined or accepted, and then you fall at last tricky hurdle, thank-you. In Faerie speak it means you owe them something in return, you owe them a favour, and who knows what that could be?! Also in some folk tales faeries who had helped a human used to get a bit annoyed with the 'thanks’ they got in return. To them 'thanks’ seemed like such a little reward for all the trouble they went to.
8.) Don’t mention you’ve got a new born child at home or you know someone that has.
So you’re looking into the distance, trying to think of an excuse that requires you to leave. Then you remember little Timmy, you suddenly think, 'oh yeah, I can use babysitting little Timmy as a reason to make my exit.’ But don’t, your ancestors were massively scared of their youngin’s getting swapped for an old fairy. They thought faeries had to take in human babies to replenish their race and that they often nabbed new mothers as well because their milk helped young faeries. So don’t use little Timmy as an excuse or you might be living with a faerie in place of a family member.
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This was the first method of sigil making I ever learned, from a post by @the-darkest-of-lights.
I decided to make my own tutorial on it with my spare time.
Happy sigil making! I’ll be making more of these on other methods of sigil making I think, because there’s so many different methods, and this was quite enjoyable to make.
(I know that you can make sigils with the other various planetary numerology squares but honestly I still haven’t figured out how, I only know this one.)
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A good health sigil for all of you in this time of mass panic.
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Info YULE Appreciate #2
Animals of Yule
Deer
Owls
Stags
Wrens + Ravens
Bears
Snow Geese
Foods of Yule
Cinnamon cakes
Dried fruits
Apple cider
Mulled wine
Gingerbread
Roasted/Spiced meats
Goddess Correspondences
Aphrodite (Greek)
Brigid (Celtic)
Demeter (Greek)
Holle (Norse)
Isis (Egyptian)
Fortuna (Roman)
Gods Correspondences
Dagda (Celtic)
Apollo (Greek)
Lugh (Celtic)
Balder (Norse)
Horus (Egyptian)
Sol (Roman)
Essence of Yule
Rebirth
Light out of darkness
Inner renewal
Honor
Transformation
Oils of Yule
Cinnamon
Ginger
Orange
Pine
Wintergreen
Cedar
**This list is not absolute and just my opinions**
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Spirit Work Terminology
Metawork Terminology Series: [ Energy Work ] [ Astral Work ]
These definitions are not put forward as the only possible meanings, they are simply based on my own experiences and personal definitions. Like my other two posts, there are no citations because these definitions are based on my own experiences and may or may not describe the experiences of others.
BASIC SPIRIT TYPES & CLASSES
Spirit - An organized cluster of energy with at least some level of sentience that has an energy body and in most cases also an astral body. Spirits generally do not inhabit physical bodies unless they are possessing an entity with a physical body, are attached to a vessel, or are reborn as a spirit incarnate.
Vessel - A physical container that helps a spirit manifest on the physical plane.
Spirit incarnate - Any living being with a physical body (usually a human being) whose energy and astral bodies would be classified as a non-human spirit. This most frequently occurs as the result of a non-human spirit being reincarnated as a human, which is how the spirit became incarnated in a physical body.
Spirit species - A variety of spirits who all share many common traits in their general appearance, energy signatures, and other features. Spirits of the same species will generally be able to produce offspring that carry most of the same traits as their parent(s).
Class of spirit species - A broad grouping of many spirit species that are interrelated in terms of their energies and morphological features. They may also possibly share cultural, linguistic, political, regional, and other commonalities.
Deities - A class of spirits who are powerful beyond the scope of most other spirits and who have control over forces in a specific area or the entire universe on a macro scale. (friendly reminder: these are all my personal definitions, not universal ones)
Nature spirits - A very broad class of spirit species that relate to the forces of nature. I consider plant spirits, tree spirits, fae spirits, land spirits, and many elemental spirits to all be types of nature spirits.
Fae (faeries) - The faefolk are a sub-class of nature spirits. The many different fae species have a wide diversity of outward appearances, but they are all distinguishable by the common aspects of their energy signatures that every fae species shares. Fae energy is a specific combination of nature and pure magic energy. Some live on Earth’s physical plane while others reside in any of the many different fae realms across numerous astral planes.
Land spirits - A sub-class of nature spirits who are very closely associated with a certain territory and primarily live to protect that land.
Night spirits - A class of spirit species that are aligned with the nighttime. They are often classed as “demons,” but many are actually just various species of nature spirits. Usually but not always quite dangerous.
Parasite - A class of spirit species who are energy feeders and prey on certain entities as their hosts. Often warded and protected against.
Human spirits (ghosts) - The deceased spirit of a human being. All human spirits are a part of one single spirit species.
Ancestral spirits - A class of spirits who are the ancestors of an entity either from that entity’s current lifetime or across other lives. Typically, the terms “ancestral spirits” and “ancestors” refer to a person’s human ancestors from their current lifetime.
Twin flames - Two entities with energy signatures that are identical, almost identical, or so interrelated in some fashion that they clearly are two halves of a whole. Twin flames being reborn during the same lifetime seems to be rare.
SPIRIT WORK
Metawork - The practice and discipline of the three highly interrelated fields of energy work, spirit work, and astral work.
Spirit work - The practice and discipline of sensing, interacting with, or commanding spirits. A sub-field of metawork. This is not necessarily a type of witchcraft, but can be referred to as witchcraft when spirit work is incorporated into someone’s witchcraft practice. Closely associated with hedge craft. Many other types of magical traditions that are not forms of witchcraft also include spirit work.
Ancestor work - The practice and discipline of working with ancestral spirits. A sub-field of spirit work.
Conjuring - The act of bringing a spirit to a specific location. Conjuring encompasses a wide variety of different methods which can range from voluntary such as using a beacon of energy to request a spirit’s presence to involuntary which magically force a spirit to manifest at the target location.
Banishing - The act of sending a spirit away from a certain area (the opposite of conjuring). Banishing techniques can be voluntary such as communicating or negotiating with a spirit for them to leave or involuntary when magical methods are used to forcefully remove the spirit against their will.
Binding - The act of using magical means to control a spirit’s behavior in some way. Binding is frequently used to ensure that a spirit remains connected to a vessel, but it can also be used to keep a spirit in a general location or prevent them from transgressing certain predetermined rules. It not uncommon for binding to be completely consensual between spirits and spirit workers.
Possession - When a spirit inhabits and/or takes control over a physical body that is usually controlled and inhabited by someone else. To some, this term implies that a spirit with harmful intentions has forced control over a human being, but in many religions, spirit possession is welcomed and invited. Whether or not being possessed by a spirit is a negative thing usually depends a lot on the specific context and the spirit involved.
Spirit adoption (reverse adoption) - When a spirit wishes to become a spirit companion or live and work with a spirit worker and voluntarily chooses to do so. Adoptions are often facilitated by a spirit adoption center or shop.
SPIRIT ROLES
Spirit spouse - A term usually used to describe a human spirit worker’s spouse who is a spirit or a deity.
Spirit companion - Any spirit and spirit worker who have established some kind of meaningful relationship and who wish to use this term to describe that relationship.
Spirit guardian - A spirit who has taken on the role of protecting something or someone. I typically use this term as a generic way of describing a spirit who spends a lot of time and energy looking after a person or another spirit. It is not uncommon for people to have spirit guardian(s), and sometimes a spirit companion may also wish to act as as a guardian.
Thoughtform - Any spirit who was created by a spirit worker through magical means (whether purposefully or accidentally). “Tulpamancy” comes from the Tibetan word tulpa that relates to practices within Vajrayana Buddhism, so this is not a secular spirit work term that is appropriate for general use.
If any of these definitions resonate with you, feel free to use them but if quoting me or reposting somewhere, please attribute credit back to me. Thanks!
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The Adonis Charm - a charm spell for dispelling dysphoria and bringing confidence for Transmen.
*Written for Pride Month*
Find the Venus Charm for Transwomen Here!
Needed:
- Something to charm of your choice (watch, binder, shoes)
- Blue Candle
- Topaz
- Amber
- Maple Leaves
- Salt
- White Sharpie or Paint (Or a carving tool).
- String of some variety.
Steps:
- Gather your ingredients, and find a space to work in.
- On your candle, draw, paint or carve the symbol for male on/into your candle.
- Light your Candle.
- You’re going to create a bundle using your leaves and string.
- Gather your Topaz and amber together, and set them on top of one or a few of your leaves.
- Sprinkle a little salt in.
- If you can add the item your charming in, do so. if you cant that’s okay.
- Wrap everything together in your leaves, and use your string to bind it all together.
- If your couldn’t put your item in, Set the bundle with your item.
- Bring it all near your candle and focus the energy you are aiming to imbue it with.
- Leave it all together overnight, but blow out the candle before you go to bed.
- In the morning, retrieve your charmed item and wear it as needed to dispel dysphoria and bring confidence.
- Aesa <3
This is my original spell. Please do not repost on any platform without my explicit permission. Reblogging is okay, Reposting is not.
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the sexiest accessory is and always has been a little black cat that you carry around on your shoulder with whom you share a deep, inexplicable spiritual bond
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For any of you who are writing ‘across the pond’-here is a little guide I put together of some common differences between British and American English!
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Please sell Iceland
Actual interaction between 2p Nyo Denmark and 2p Nyo Iceland
@miss-nornor
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Just a heads up right now: on the day when Trump dies, I’m going to be extremely tasteless about it. It’s going to get ugly. You are going to see a side of me I am not proud of. I don’t want any call-outs in my inbox, I’m stating right now that lines will be crossed.
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This steampunk clock writes the time every minute, and erases it before writing again.
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It bothers me that when people make aesthetics for Freyja it usually looks like they choose between her soft and her fierce side and portayed only one. Love or war. As if she isn’t both.
People need to understand that rose petals and thorns don’t grow on different flowers.
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