How to See Fairies.
\u2018When silver moon looks out and the day has fled A little elfin man in a coat of red Calls to all the fairies near Telling them they may appear All the mortal folk are asleep in bed.\u201d As the song suggests, not all fairies want to be seen, but some definitely do. If you want to see there are three things to get: 1. Get healthy. You\u2019ll be activating specialised senses whose optimal functioning depend sound health principles as any of your other senses, so you need to be well-nourished. In greater tha demand will be vitamins E and A, So eat nuts and fruit and edible flowers such as rosebud petals, vio nasturtiums, dandelion flowers etc. Fish, milk, honey, fruit and flower wines and plenty of pure water helpful. 2. Get less humanocentric. We are their \u2018fairies\u2019 as much as they are ours. Our w primary one with peripheral worlds that are somehow less real or less complete than ours existing in inferior relation to it. There are many different realities with all manner of different relationships to another. I am a guide to many fairies wishing to access our world, just as you are, or will be when you your life to them. There are fairies who will guide you to their worlds, and most would answer your questions, as you would answer theirs. But in general most fairies are not our helpers. They have ric busy lives of their own. 3. Get confident. There ain\u2019t no such thing as a \u2018muggles\u2019. You are magical. are constantly sensing and interacting with fairies. You can become conscious of this interaction and control of it. If you don\u2019t want it, you\u2019re probably not ready to, or not evolving in that dir to enough to try to, your fairy-perceiving senses are probably ready to be activated. Where to start? Meditate. Practice austerities (but not so that it\u2019s no longer fun). Dance example, requires you to manage your energies elegantly for the benefit of the flying fairies of the air helps you loosen up and lighten up for the Celtic-style fairy, clog-dancing clears the way for conversat with pixies, Norse elves and earth fairies, the dwellers in hills and mountains. Sing or play a flute or This brings you close to the wavelengths of the aerial fairies. These include many nature spirits, som elementals and many others. Corroboree brings in the Aborigine Tuckonies. Yoga, trance, tai chi: you soul will know which methods are best for you. \u2018Fairies\u2019 is a term covering a wide range of beings who are not normally visible to diversity appears even greater since many beings are able to project from great distances holographi images which are actual ephemeral beings in their own right. Some of these are quite idiosyncratic, r from cartoon-like characters to visions of great beauty and saintliness, with myriad varieties in betwe you have to be a bit selective \u2013 you decide which fairies you want to see and craft your lifestyle incorporate your quest for them. Or you can optimise the functioning of all your newly awakening sen enable you to see as many different kinds as possible. They\u2019re not all fond of us, so this way is s foolhardy. An easy and safe way is through the stereotypic fairy glen of children\u2019s literature as a fo the \u201cDingly Dell\u201d method, and recommend it for its fun and safety. The first thing to do is find a place or make one at least a square metre or so in area and tell the fairie it is theirs. Imagine a Tinkerbell-like fairy \u2013 she\u2019s not a bad icon for the type she represents, a others. Then work with this space while focussing on fairies. If it\u2019s a pretty outdoor place with moss and wildflowers, water, sunshine and bushes full surrounding it, or in a garden, that is wonderful. Expect to see them there, or feel them or hear them you\u2019ll be surprised at how quickly you begin to do so. Look for a peculiar sparkling quality in t the air, an uplifting ambience full of happiness and pleasure. Don\u2019t get too close too soon \u2013 let it be wild, and then the shy types will feel safe the will attract winged diminutives, some elves, pixies, gnomes, brownies, and many others, including tin beings. If it is inside you may feel inspired to decorate it. Be whimsical \u2013 they are. I made three 10\u high papier mach\u00e9 mushrooms for three little men, identifying as a brownie, a leprechaun and one I only from German folklore as das M\u00e4nnlein wer im Walde ganz still und stumm steht (the little man stands in the forest quite still and silent, who corresponds to \u2018the little elfin man\u2019 in the song
head of this article). They insisted on coming inside although I\u2019d given them their own shrines o it\u2019s one of the most active magical areas on the farm. They are demanding, hilarious, gruff, grim profoundly good. I started by yielding to whimsical impulses to give them coffee every morning when I make m made a tiny cauldron out of clay and fired it in my hearth. They showed their gratitude with audib visible displays, which I got better and better at hearing and seeing. One morning for example, just at the beginning when their cauldron was new, as I filled it fo heard them talking together, in loud, excited voices \u2013 although barely audible to me. \u201cNo, I tell you,\u201d declared the brownie, hands on hips. \u201cIt just does happen. stared at the empty cauldron intently. I glimpsed them just as I touched the cauldron, and heard th gasp and exclaim as I lifted it out of their sight. They shouted excitedly when I put it down, freshly among them, and then fell silent and awestruck, looking at it. Then they dipped in their cups and d happily. If you want fun, the \u201clittle men\u201d give you that, crafted to suit you personally. understand them in a scientific way they'll help you with that, but you have to enter into their mirth you have to be morally sound \u2013 honest, kind-hearted, and respectful of the rights of all. They benefactors in a shamanism that includes them. They are enlightened beings. Not all fairies are. importantly, they\u2019ll act as your guide and protectors in your exploration of the fairy realms of known to our ancestors and reappearing to a growing number of seers again now. In traditional lo are the wise counsellors. Refer to them if ever you feel out of your depth or afraid. To see plant spirits you have to hang loose, be able to lose yourself in your gardening, study or enjoyment of nature, and engage as totally and innocently as a child with individual plants, leav sand grains, focussing on plants, insects or natural objects you love, especially any that are specia your earliest childhood. Wild-plant fairies are wild and sometimes hostile, but rarely dangerous. accuse all humans equally of poisoning our shared worlds and can be persuaded to listen while you them that some humans are loving and respectful and want to reverence their herb \u2013 thistle, whatever it might be. Gifts of small crystals, pieces of coloured glass, tiny plastic toys, silver token etc, buried or placed beside their plant, usually help to appease them, as they signal our willingnes them. Plant spirits range in size from vast to tiny. Landscape spirits may shape-shift or project an a animation representing a gigantic human, animal or dragon form. Forest, grassland, or dune spirit appear as giants, antlered, hooved, or winged, or shape-shifting among many forms, as the Austral Aborigine spirits of place do. Trees as whole species or as individuals, may project a variety of form blossom fairies, tall witchy women or shaman-like men, knee-high elf-like wood spirits, high-strang beings with barky skin and twiggy hands and feet, and dryads like those often depicted in 19 th cent else beautiful maidens and youths, matrons and men, crones and hoary old men mirthful or grim, l stand-offish according to the spirituality of their tree. Laughing old hags coming out of bushes to clutch your arm and hug you are less scary than sound. You come to love them as you get to know them, and begin to understand that though you c only fleeting glimpses of them, they know you well, inside out, and have known you for maybe cent they sometimes love, bless, and protect you like angels. You come to sense the shyness of the leafy the distrust of the pixies, and the fear of the tree-woman who holds herself visible for you with hero courage, leaving you awed and reverent with gratitude. You get better at recognising their love, jo gratitude, too. Then there are the tiny ones, spirits of herbs, flowers and weeds. Fat-hen enchants you with fraternity and then suddenly reveals his tiny inner warrior, in shining armour, engaged in the dead biochemical and spiritual warfare with other plants both underground and above. Comfrey scheme malevolently against couch grass, and lavender envenoms the soil around her roots to kill rivals an invaders. Nasty they are, but thrilling, because they are utterly, uncompromisingly real - passionat their wish to live and not be killed. They express this in forms taken directly from images of huma until you can no longer deny that there\u2019s some connection we have to make, and no longer d importance of our understanding it. It\u2019s also Gaia\u2019s way of ensuring there is an interfa ideational exchanges will be mutually intelligible. They\u2019re harmless to us because their nast within their own contexts and their warriors are only illustrations or symbolic interpretations of th biochemical characters, and seem not to notice us at all.
Others are quiet, neighbourly garden spirits who help with gardening and are easily accessed subconsciously by gardeners or botanists working professionally with plants. They begin to break thr us when we recall that despite their conflicts with human needs, weeds are worthy of respect. They r more freely when we allow at least some weeds and garden plants their fullness, not lopping off ‘dead flowers or hoicking them out altogether before they’ve set seed. They like weedy, untidy, prolifically productive gardens, and they fill them with flowers, food, and beauty for those who like the wildness them. For those who prefer them, clipped hedges, manicured lawns and disciplined weedless beds of annuals are just as full of fairies of other kinds, often knee-high or waist-high and dressed in the satin and, velvet and macaroni of earlier times. Elegant winged fairies help to perfect specimen blooms of bred cultivars, having their own interest in their perfection. Queenly nymphs glide among well-tende shrubberies and little cosmic elves love strict mathematics and fussily tended knots and arbours, and help to make the worst garden chemicals safer and more effective. Concrete and gravel spaces draw own kinds of fairies, witches and gnomes as well. Gnomes need help to focus themselves in your garden, and will take up residence in any stony structure that resembles or suggests to you the shape and character of a gnome. Profoundly wise co beings, they are easily trapped in coercive relationships with people and so are shy. Treat them with respect and kindness, and they will suss you out over a few years before slowly, sensitively beginning become more active for you. Two or three are happier than one. So, install your fairy shrine, dedicate it to fairies generally, and service it regularly, preferably evening of the full moon. Spill clear water over a stone, place flowers or crystals in a dish of water pl as to catch the moonbeams, or leave a hearty feast of cakes and coffee, mead and bread and butter, o and bickies, distance yourself from it a bit, and watch what happens! vyvyan ogma wyverne
