How do you contact Faeries?

[EelKat]

I find myself answering this question a lot, because people keep asking it to me. So I figured I'd start a thread on the topic. Feel free to jump in and share your own methods.

[EelKat]

This answer below is one I recently gave elsewhere:

How to meet fairies and spirits?

I can probably help you out here. I've worked with Faerie Magic for over 30 years. Channeling Faeries is sort of "my thing". There are several methods. A lot depends on your personal experience.

Have you tried anything yet? Also, what do you know about the Fae? Are you looking for Faerie contact (black/occult magic) or Fairy contact (white/good-witch magick)?

Do you feel drawn to any particular type/race? (For example I work mostly with Water Faeries and my Spirit Guide is a Far-Darrig). There are different methods for working with different types.

I'll go write up a detailed "instruction-type" answer for you. (Will probably take a couple of hours). And come back later tonight to post it.

Hello. I've tried going to a pond in the woods, and talked, but it did not work. And Fairy contact, nothing bad. I thought that Faerie was just a different way to spell Fairy, oops! Any types would be good. Tree fairies if there are such things, water fairies,etc. What is a Farr-Darrig? Thanks!

Sorry I didn't get back here before. (My cat had kittens and everything got off schedule after that.)

*I thought that Faerie was just a different way to spell Fairy, oops! *

Faerie is a "dark" race of Fae. While Fairy is a "light" race of Fae. The difference is similar to the difference between an Angel and a Demon. Think of Fairies as Angels, nearly always good and on a mission to help humans, and Faeries as Demons not necessarily bad but very, very dangerous and having their own agendas viewing Humans as in their way.

Fairy Magic is general harmless and safe for any one to work with, while Faerie Magic is considered to be the single most dangerous form of "black magic" there is.

*What is a Farr-Darrig?*

They are a Welsh Faerie, a close relation to the Leprechaun and a distant cousin of Red Caps. It's also spelt Fir-Darrig and Fear-Dearg. It's Welsh and means "The Red Man". The name comes from the fact that they always wear red, usually long red coats. They are classified as a type of Polter Spirit (a practical joker also known as a poltergeist) and usually thought of as being "A Gruesome Trickster" (due to how they dye their coats red).

A Far-Darrig is a brackish water Faerie (living in both fresh and salt water, but usually found in swamps and marshes), a solitary, and a shape-shifting trickster. They are not true shape-shifters as they do not actually change form, but instead use a Glimmer (Glamour Spells) to create the illusion of being something they are not (it's like hypnotism) they can thus be seen as anything they want to be seen as: owls, monkeys, tall, short, male, female, etc or they can seem to be invisible and not be seen at all.

In their natural appearance they are small old men with long white hair, usually less than 5 feet tall. They are rebels who have left the Realm of Fae in favor of the company of Humans.

They are found in swamps, ancient cemeteries, and isolated farms. In the wild they are known for invisibly following travelers at night and throwing tree branches at them. They spend much time in cemeteries scaring people, by taking on a transparent ghostly-form and chasing people out with wild shrieks and screams.

They protect the innocent (small children and animals) and will punish child/animal abusers with violent poltergeist attacks on their homes. Once they find a child in need of protection, they will become that child's Guardian Spirit and stay with it the rest of it's life, and after death will stay by the grave to protect the cemetery, thus why they are commonly seen in graveyards.

They are basically harmless to every one except for child abusers, animal abusers, and hunters - around these they become violent and when these die the Far-Darrigs dye their coats red using the blood of the dead hunters and dead child abusers to warn others to change their ways or their blood'll be next.

*How to meet fairies and spirits? I've tried going to a pond in the woods, and talked, but it did not work. And Fairy contact, nothing bad. Tree fairies if there are such things, water fairies,etc.*

To ensure Fairy contact and not Faerie contact, you want to pay attention to location, time of day, and weather patterns. So, I'll talk about time and locations first.

Fairies are attracted to flowers. Think of them like butterflies and humming birds - if it is a location frequented by butterflies and hummingbirds, than there is a goof chance of Fairies there as well. Flower gardens, esp with strong scented flowers (such as roses, dafodils, lilacs, and honeysuckle), will naturally attrack Fairies so if you have a place to do so, planting a flower garden is the first step to attracting Fairies.

Tree Fairies would be The Dryads. They can be either Fairy or Faerie. As a general rule flowering trees and fruit trees are guarded by Fairy types, while wilder deep forest trees (pines, oak, birch, hawtorn, etc) are guarded by Faerie types. This is not always the case, however, it can go either way. An easy way to tell is the location of the tree. Trees in open places (on a lawn, in a park, in a field, etc) are generally guarded by a Fairy, while trees in wild isolated areas (swamps, deep forests, mountains, etc) are generally guarded by a Faerie. A tree can also be guarded by both: a Fairy during the day, full moon, and in sunny weather, and a Faerie during the fog, cloudy nights, and stormy weather. Dryads tend to be very friendly and helpful. They are sometimes called "The Farmer's Friend" as they look after plants and will help crops to grow. Any where you find trees, you will find Dryads. Most Dryads are Fairy types. Faerie type Dryads are uncommon outside of deep forests.

Water Fairies are difficult to attract as they are fairly uncommon and most water spirits tend to be very dangerous and are thus Faeries. Water Faeries are amoung the most violent of all Fae and find it difficult to resist the tempation of drowning Humans. Faeries are heavily attracted to large wetlands, saltwater, brackish water, stagnant water, and fast moving water: the ocean, swamps, rivers, marshes, bogs, heath, creeks, rapids, waterfalls, wells, and large streams. These areas should be avoided when trying to contact the Fae as it'll almost always result in attracting Faeries, and could draw the attention of the most violent Faes of all: Merrows, Memegwasi, Sirens, Kelpies, Greenteeth, Jennies, Red Caps, Bogals, Chupachabra, and Phookas - contact with these races should be avoided by all but the most advanced pratictioners of Faerie Magic as these violent blood thirsty races are well known for their lust for eating Human flesh. Water Faeries tend to be territoral and violent towards other Faes, thus why Fairies generally avoid water locations in order to avoid the Faeries in the area. The cold North Atlantic beaches and coves are heavily populated by Merrows, Kelpies, Phookas, and Memegwasi and should be avoided as Fairies are rare in these areas. A special note: if you live near The Saco River (which starts in Canada and flows through New England) AVOID THIS REGION when doing water magic! It is the single most haunted paranormal hot spot in the world and ground zero of 90% of all the world's Memegwasi sightings and attacks. Since the arrival of the Memegwasi sightings in 1547, there have been over 2,000 documented drownings at the foot of York Hill in Saco, Maine at the Saco River Delta. The deaths are attributed to a Faerie that lives in the river at the foot of York Hill. Google "Saco River Curse" (include quotes: " ") for more info on this deadly region. New England, New York, and Eastern Canada, are highly active hot spots for Water Faerie sightenings, with The Dover Demon and The Loveland Frog being the two that have recived the most media coverage. Chupachubras are found mostly in the South, Phookas are found in dense wet moss laden forests.

So when looking for Water Fairies you want to stick with small quiet/peaceful brooks, garden/fish ponds, etc. Most ocean types are not friendly, however, tropical ocean/beach/lagoon areas are where you will find the friendly types of MerRaces.

While all Fae avoid Humans, Faeries dislike contact at all and will choose far off isolated areas to live where Humans are rarely heard or seen and as with everything else, Faeries tend to avoid bright sunny locations and areas populated by strong sceted flowers. They like the dark and avoid the sunlight (often because they have albino like skin and large iris-less eyes, thus they are blinded by bright lights/colors and the sun burns their skin). Faeries are most likly to come out at night. They are commonly sighted during fog and thunder storms. They are often shape-shifters or illusionists and are most likely to apear in animal form: a large lack dog, a shaggy gray horse, a crow, etc. They go out of their way to frighten Humans out of their territory. When in doubt avoid any type of Fae contact in: swamps, cemeteries, marshes, bogs, deep isolated forests, abandoned houses, national/state parks/forests, coves, fishing villages, and along rivers as these places are Faerie hot spots. They are almost never seen in flower gardens, in-town, or on bright sunny days. Dusk and dawn (the twilight hours) and any time there is fog, are when they are most active.

Fairies are more curious about Humans and will live on the outskirts of Human locations, where they can watch Humans from afar. They can be attracted even closer by planting flower gardens. Their skin is often tanned, evidance of being out in the sun. Gardens, orchards, city parks, glens, groves, glades, "busy" cemeteries (with a lot of flowers), wooded areas (but not deep forests), feilds, ponds (esp man made ones and ones with goldfish), and farms are all good places. Any place with a lot of butterflies and songbirds is best. Warm days are better than cold days. Morning and afternoon are the best times as are clear nights with a bright moon.

So the first thing you want to do, if you want to attract Fairies is find a location that'll likely have Fairies, but also likely NOT have Faeries. Most every location will have one or the other, but Fae that are actually going to atemp contact are going to be in these "prime" locations.

When you do encounter a Fae, there are ways to tell if it is a Faerie or a Fairy. It is best to know the different races by name.

Like Humans Fae come in many skin colors, from very pale to very dark, and some have a green or blue hue to them, but for some reason Faeries tend to be nearly always of a ghastly pale whiter than Causasion color, which will tell you almost immediatly you are dealing with a Faerie not a Fairy. It's possibly the ghastly shade of their skin is due to the fact that they avoid sun light, or it could be they avoid sunlight due to the ghastly shade of their skin. Also Faeries tend to be from 3 feet to 5 feet tall, rarely taller or shorter, while Fairies have been seen in all hieghts from a few inches tall to well over 6 feet tall. Faeries are more likely to dress in red, white, or black, while Fairies are more likly to wear green, gold, pink, blue, brown, or purple. Both commonly wear red hats. Fairies often have wings, but Faeries rarely do. Both have short tempers, but Fairies are quicker to forgive and forget, while Faeries will hold a grudge for centuries. Fairies are rarely violent, but Faeries are prone to throwing things, screaming, and clawing. Which brings another important differance: Faeries often have long talon like claws and sharp fangs, while Fairies almost never have claws or pointed teeth. Fairies rarely seem threatening, Faeries go out of their way to seem more threatening than they are. Both tend to be tricksters on some level, but Fairy pranks are harmless, while Faerie pranks have been known to result in serious Human injuries. Both fear Humans and are skittish and quick to run, though a Faerie is also likely to turn to fight. Basically a Fairy is going to be openly friendly or curious while a Fearie is going to be openly hostile and threatening.

(to be continued - still writing the rest - be back in a bit to get into actual attempting to contact)

[EelKat]

(back again - sorry it takes me so long between posts--- I'll get my entire answer in here eventually, just gotta stay online long enough! --- continued from my last post...)

For some people, contacting the Fae is as easy as walking into a garden/forest and just talking to them. This is known as someone who is born with the gift of Second Sight, and shows up within the first 3 to 4 years of life. Most children under the age of 8 have the ability to see, hear, and speak to the Fae. Most children between the ages of 8 to 12 suddenly lose this ability. A few however, known as Seers keep the gift of Second Sight into their adulthood and are said to be "Believers in Faerie Faith", meaning they never lost their childhood belief that Faeries were real. This however is not common. Seers are most common in Scottish families, or families with Scottish roots, and seems to be almost genetic as is shows up in the same families every few generations.

Most children who were born with Second Sight, lose it after being teased, chided, or scolded by parents, adults, teachers, and other children. The reason they lose it shortly after their 8th year is because this is when adults start saying things like: "You are too old to have an imaginary friend any more, it's time to grow up, you're a big girl/boy now. Better start acting your age." These children simply turn their backs on their gift of Second Sight, believing that the adults must know best. Many of these children grew up, never thinking back to their "imaginary friends". Some of them however, keep the memory of "imaginary friends" in the back of their mind. In any case, any child that was born with the gift of Second Sight, never fully loses it, and as adults, they will have other encounters: with angels, alien abductions, ghosts, saints, and the Fae.

Any one can gain Second Sight, is also called Psychic Vision and is the ability to "see the hedge between the worlds". Those not born with Second Sight, or those born with it, but who've lost it, can use the art of Hedge Magic or Hedge Witchery to gain Second Sight. People who practice Faerie/Fairy Magic are called Hedge-Witches, Hedge-riders, Walkers Between the Hedge, The Walkers of DreamTime and may be shamans or witches and may belong to any number of religions, usually Christian (though in 21st century America most modern Faerie practitioners are Neo-Pagan or Traditional/European Witch and most Fairy practitioners are Wiccan). Traditionally however Seers follow a personal shamatic spiritual path which follows no organized religion at all. The Fae themselves worship no deity, so when it comes to contacting the Fae, it is best if you leave any personal religious convictions and references to any Gods or Goddesses out of conversations, rituals, and magic you need their assistance with, as mentioning any God or Goddess is only going to annoy them.

Oh, and I wanted to add a quick, or maybe not so quick, note about Hedge Witches.

There is much confusion over the name Hedgewitch due to the change in the meaning of the word "hedge". Hedge originally meant: the dimension between the physical world and the spirit world; the dividing line between the two, like a curtain, and sometimes known as "The Veil Between the Worlds" or "The Mists"; it is where beings from either side could enter and communicate with the other. Certain places where contact occurs again and again for many years and by different individuals are called portals or "paranormal hot spots". Today a hedge is a type of bush or shrub used to make a fence, so named because it divides two property lines.

Because so few people are well educated in word meanings (the fault of school systems, not the students), most people have no knowledge of the original meanings of half the words they speak in their daily vocabulary. The problem with this is that it causes them to than mistranslates other words which incorporate those same mistranslated words. This has happened with the word Hedgewitch.

When people like Silver Ravenwolf fail to do a background check before they say something, it can have a disastrous effect of how the world sees something. For over 500 years a Hedgewitch always is and always was: a witch who crosses the hedge between the worlds to talk to spirits/faeries/familiars. Than in the 1990s along comes Silver Ravenwolf who says: A Hedgewitch is a Green Kitchen Witch that works with herbs...and all of a sudden every neo-pagan Wicca under the sun is quoting her uneducated folly like gospel truth. Sad how easy it is for one person to make such a big mistake and change how the entire world thinks.

The common misconception is that Hedgewitch is another title for a Green Witch, Garden Witch, or Kitchen Witch, because modern people hear the word "hedge" in the word "Hedgewitch" and assume this is meant in reference to a green leafy shrub, because their brain thought: hedge = shrub = plants = a witch that works with plants; when in fact it is meant in reference to the fact that a Hedgewitch is a Witch who can cross into the hedge which divides our physical world from the spirit world and has absolutely nothing to do with plants or gardens at all!

While it is not uncommon for witches who work with the Fae to also be Green Witches or Kitchen Witches, being a Green Witch or a Kitchen Witch does not make one also a HedgeWitch. A Green Witch is one that works with nature, especially plants. A Kitchen Witch is a Green Witch that uses plants to create potions. Rarely do either Green Witches or Kitchen Witches practice hard-core Fae Magic if they practice any Fae Magic at all.

A Hedgewitch by true definition, practices magic with the help of a Familiar (a Spirit Guide), often a Faerie of some sort, which has traveled to our world through the hedge. As such Hedgewitches are commonly said to practice "Faerie Magic", which for some odd reason causes people to assume Faeries are little flowery garden things and so farther causes confusion, with Hedgewitch falsely being defined as a Green Witch.

Another note: a "Familiar Spirit" is NOT a pet or a totem animal or a spirit animal or ANY type of animal at all..it's different from the "Wiccan Familiar". A Familiar is what a Faerie is called, once said Fae has become the assistance and Guardian Spirit of a Seer. The Familiar acts as a go between, between the Human it serves and the Realm of Fae.

A word of caution: Faeries ARE NOT cute little beings that flit about in pink tulle, flying from flower to flower on butterfly wings, granting wishes and doing nice things. Faeries are often dangerous creatures with a deep dislike for Humans. They are short tempered, self centered, vain, violent, quick to enact justice, and show little compassion. They can change their size and physical appearance at will, so can APPEAR to be small pink winged creatures, but keep in mind that this is only an illusion meant to trick you. Most Faeries, without the Faerie Glamour, stand about 4 feet to 5 tall, have pale white to grey skin, large round eyes, and long thin fingers. They are telepathic empaths who can "get inside" your head and make you think they look like anything they want you to think they look like, wither it be a tiny pink flower fairy or a 30 foot tall snarling black dog. They have the ability to change energy fields (including brain wave patterns) and can thus not only make you see things differently than they really are, but can also heal illnesses or create them simply by changing the flow of energy as it passes by your body. They are rarely seen by Humans due to their ability to bend energy fields around them, resulting in them "becoming invisible".

The Fey are a race of beings astronomically more intelligent and advanced than Humans. Most Faeries show very little concern for Humans, thinking of them, in much the same manner as Humans think of ants and mosquitoes - an unintelligent annoyance to be swatted if it gets in your way, but otherwise you just ignore it and never think about it.

As such only the extremist eccentrics of the Fey Race ever bother with Humans - they are Human Rights Activists, in the same manner in which Human PETA members are Animal Rights Activists. These are the Faeries witch we Humans thus know as "The Elementals". The follower of the Elementals is called a Fairy. They are the nature conversationalists of the Faerie Realm, looking to preserve the Earth and prevent the extinction of it's lesser beings (us Humans being among the so-called lesser beings which they are trying to protect from extinction.) This is why so many people who work with Fairies, are also Green Witches, Garden Witches, and work closely with plants and animals. Humans classify Fairies as Nature Spirits because Fairies are the type of Faeries which work with nature, plants, and animals. It's not that all Faeries are Nature Spirits, it's just that the Fairies who enjoy working with Humans tend to be the environmentalist type aka a Fairy. Fae who work with Hedgewitches, as a general rule are "Good Fairies" (as opposed to "Faeries" in general), kind loving, peaceful, and seeking to help the Human Race (and often refer to the Human Witch as their "pet".)

These "Nature Spirit" types usually come to the Witch without the Witch seeking their help, choosing the said Witch over other Humans because they see the potential in advising this Witch over a different Human. However the Fae do have strange ways of attempting contact so it is possible and even highly likely that the Human in question may be completely unaware that the Fairy is trying to contact them. However, Humans who begin trying to contact Fae generally do so because they "had a feeling" that they should. If you desire to contact the Fae it is very likely that they are already trying to contact you which is why you feel the need or calling. Once the initial contact has been made, the Witch can than call upon the help of this same Fairy again and again, whenever help or guidance is needed.

Fairies who appear in the form of tiny butterfly winged beings, are generally the type that are seeking to help Humans. Fae have the ability to "see thoughts" on some level and a friendly Fae is going to appear before you in the form that your personally are going to find the least frightening. This could be anything from a smiling chubby garden gnome to Disney type flower Fairy to Jesus or Mother Mary to your long dead grandmother or a favorite pet cat. They look inside your head and look for images you find trust worthy and inviting, and use those images to take the form of so that they do not frighten you. (Evil Faeries seeking to frighten you do this same thing and thus appear in the form most likely to terrorize you.) The same Fairy may come to you day after day, appearing in a different form each time. It is possible that you may never see the Fairy's true form.

Not all Faeries who initiate contact with Humans are good or helpful however. Like the teen aged Human who finds it fun to tie a tin can to a cat's tail, throw rocks through windows, and paint-ball cars, there are many teen aged Faeries who do the same. Faeries have a much longer lifespan than Humans, living several hundreds of years, which means they have a period of about 200 years of being "a teenager", and many of those "teen aged" Faeries take great delight in tormenting the lesser animals, aka, the Human. Because of this, it is highly dangerous to call on the help of a Faerie at random, because more often than not, one of these teen aged prankster types (a Trickster) will be the one to answer your call. Many of them are actively on the look out for Humans seeking Faerie assistance, and are quick to jump to the call, but for their own entertainment. The results are often disastrous for the Human who requested Faerie help. (This is why it is best to know what you are doing before you start, so you don't inadvertently contact a Fae that would be harmful). Like Human teenagers, however these Tricksters are usually going to appear "wild": neon pink hair, ear-rings, nose-rings, rings on their fingers, chains, tattoos, stripes, plaid, leather and lots of black clothen. They are not trying to win you over, nor are they trying to terrify or hurt you - these Fae are out the shock you - they are looking for a good time, and for them a good time is playing pranks on Humans.

There are ways to ensure that you attract just the certain types of Fairies you want to contact, I'll tell you about the things you can do in a moment.

Just like Humans, however, the environmentalists and teen aged pranksters are only a small minority of the Fey Race. Their realm is bustling with teachers, businessmen, preachers, leaders, children, adults, and regular average workers just like our world has. Most of the Fey are too busy with their own lives to take any notice of Humans at all. Just like Humans, they have their Teslas and Hitlers as well: brilliant scientists and demented dictators.

Being a Hedgewitch can be a wonderful experience, esp for those who choose the Green Witch style of Hedgewitchery and are able to communicate with the kind and helpful Nature Elemental Fairies. However, know what you are doing BEFORE you start, and NEVER call on the assistance of a Faerie unless you are absolutely certain you can gain the attention of one of the helpful nature types. Calling on the assistance of a Faerie, without full knowledge of what you are doing or who you are invoking to help you, can be extremely dangerous and have disastrous results. Like Humans, the Fae are neither good nor evil, but like Humans they can do good or evil things depending on their age, culture, race, attitudes, occupations, and temperaments! Be careful!

As a general rule, when it comes to contacting the Fae it is NOT their general average population that you are contacting, but rather their extremists citizens: the environmentalists here to "Save (Fairy), the teenage rebels (Trooping Faeries & Tricksters), the hermits (Solitary Faeries & Tricksters & Polter Spirits), organized crime gangs/families (Seelie Court & Unseelie Court), and escaped criminals who are hiding in the Human Realm (The Wild Fey or Dark Faeries).

Just as the general population of the Human Race does not believe in the Realm of Fae, so too does the general population of Fae not believe in the Realm of Humans.

The world exists like layers of an onion: their layer right on top of our layer, and a Hedgewitch is a Human with the ability to leave this "Human" layer and cross the hedge which divides the two layers. Hedgewitches living on coastal beaches are sometimes called Covewitches. A cove is a hedge that separates the physical world from the spirit world at an entrance over water, usually the ocean.

So in order to contact the Fae, what you need to do is learn the art of shamanic spirit walking. For some one not born with Second Sight, this could take many years of deep meditative practice. There is no "One True Way" of learning this, and so trying out different methods is recommended. I myself, personally, found the Native American method of "Dream Walking" or "Spirit Questing" to be effective, but this may be due to the fact that my grandmother was a Kickapoo "weather witch" (rainman) and I'm naturally drawn to the Native American way of doing things.

"Spirit Questing" (as I was taught it - I believe there are several different methods, varying by tribe) involves: about 4 hours before sunset, going out into the wilderness (any unpopulated area - in my regional location this was an old growth forest) sitting on a rock or log (facing West) and meditating (thoughtlessly - emptying the mind of all thoughts) for several hours, (do not eat - do not move) watching the sun set, and continuing to meditate long into the night, falling asleep under the stars, and in your sleep paying close attention to your dreams. Any one you see or meet in your dreams that night is important to pay attention to, as are any animals or places. Do this every evening/night until you either "receive a message" or "meet your spirit guide". This is also called "Dream Walking" or "Walking Through Dream Time".

During the spring/summer/fall months (May through October) I do this 3 to 5 days a week. I started doing it as a child, got away from it in my teen years, but started doing it once again in the early 30s, and continue doing it to this day. However over the years, my method of meditating evolved. I know some people recommend using meditation as a way to contact Spirits and Fae or Angels or Pleasians/Grays/Reptilians or whatever it is you are trying to contact through dreams and I have done this myself and it does work, however, I personally prefer to use meditation as a way to clear my mind of all the stresses of the world, so that I can than focus on contacting the other realms beyond this one.



(to be continued - still writing the rest - be back in a bit with methods how to contact)

[EelKat]

(continued from my last post)

Alright, now we are to the part of answering the question: How does some one actually go about contacting the Fae.

For some one new to this I recommend the following steps:

#1: Preparation
#2: Grounding
#3: Meditating
#4: Channeling via Divination

STEP ONE: PREPARATION:

First select the location. I already spoke above on locations which attract Fae, so I won't repeat myself on this. Determine the best time of day and check with the weather ahead of time so you don't get rained out. Once you have selected a location prepare the location.

Well, I can't speak for what others do, I can only tell you what it is that I do and hope that something I said will help you with your personal goals.

I have done channeling and medium work for 30+ years, and so I've dealt with Faeries quite a bit

If you have access to such a place, it is best if you try contacting Fae outdoors, (the wilder the location the wilder the Fae are going to be - think unruly swamps and old growth forests = unruly and wild Fae; while the tamer the spot the tamer the Fae - think flower gardens and quiet glades), preferably while standing within a natural Faerie Ring (if you can find one). They will understand if you can not find such a place, but because of their telepathic abilities, they will also know if you made an honest effort to find such a place or not (you can not lie to a Fae), so it is in your best interest of negotiations if you make a good solid effort to seek out such a place. A Faerie Ring is a spot on the ground where something naturally grows in a circle. Usually this would be a ring of mushrooms, sometimes wild flowers, some times trees, sometimes it's a spot where the wind has blown old leaves into a ring shape. If there is no natural Faerie Ring, you can make one out of flowers, stones, shells, or branches, matching the items to the type of Fae you wish to attract. For attracting helpful Fairies: white, pink, and purple flowers are best.

You mentioned trees. This indicates that you have a personal connection with a Dryad already. What tree, specifically are you drawn to? Is there one tree in particular you feel drawn to? If so, go to that tree and plan to do your work there, as it is possible it is where your Spirit Guide lives. You mentioned also a pond. You feel drawn to this place or you would not have gone there. There is quite possibly a Fae in the area of the pond that is calling to you. Is there a tree near the pond? Check the area for a naturally occurring circle - step back a bit as it could be big and you may not be able to see it while standing next to or in it. Faerie Rings are usually made of mushrooms, but most mushrooms bloom than die in a single week of the year and the rest of the 51 weeks you have no idea they are there. It is possible to be standing inside of a Faerie Ring and not know it, because the mushrooms have already gone by for the year. If you find a Faerie Ring, mark it: place a circle of stones all around it, so you can find it again even when the mushrooms are not in season.

Prepare the place: place gifts in the area and decorate the ground with branches/flowers the Fae are attracted to and hang cloutie ribbons (more on clouties in a minute) in trees/shrubs colored to match your request (see color chart below). This will be different for each race of Fae, and it can be difficult if you do not knowing which race of Fae you are dealing with. If you can determine the race, you can determine if they like willow trees or hawthorns and bring branches of their preference, for example. (I recommend reading Brian Froud's book titled: "Fearies". It contains a lot of information about this sort of thing. "A Field Guide to the Little People" by Nancy Arrowsmith is also recommended reading when planning to work with Fae. And while I'm recommending books the other two I recommend are: Jacques Vallee's "Passport to Magonia" and "The Secret Commonwealth of Elves, Fauns & Fairies" by Robert Kirk. Whenever someone is new to working with Fae, I always tell them to read these 4 books before they do anything else. )

Gifts are an important part of getting Fae out into the open and in some cases it's the only way. Don't wrap the gifts as Fae will not think to open the package. They will accept boxes wrapped in pretty paper with a bow on top and keep it as a decoration, never looking inside to find out there was a gift in it. Some Faeries like gifts of coats and scarves (Far-Darrigs and Leprechauns especially love gifts of fine clothen, but dislike gifts of shoes) however MOST Faeries are deeply offended by gifts of clothen so gifts of this nature should be avoided at all costs, unless the Fae you speak to tell you they accept such gifts.

As far as a know EVERY race of Fae enjoys receiving gifts of milk, cream, cheese, melted ice cream, honey, sugar, and pudding - the sweeter the better, and gifts of candy, lollipops, cakes, and chocolates are welcomed as well.

A dish of milk sweetened with honey, with rose petals floating in it is the traditional gift that has been used in many cultures around the globe for centuries.

Flowers are usually welcomed, with wild five-petaled white roses being preferred above all other flowers. Even better than gifts of cut flowers, is to plant some live potted flowers around the Faerie Ring. Colored streamers and ribbons are loved by many races and red ribbons being preferred by most. Leprechauns and their kin (Far-Darrigs, Dwaves, Gnomes, Cluricaun, etc) love glitter: gold, gems, crystals, strings of beads, small jars of glitter dust, sequins, new shiny coins, etc.

In my personal experience the best gifts to leave Fae are dairy products: milk, cheese, pudding, melted ice cream...the Far-Darrig I work with has a particular fancy for tapioca pudding, he also adores brilliant blood red lip stick and red or orange silks and scarves. He's also very scatterbrained and will grab the gifts and run, forgetting why he was there, so I don't give him the gifts straight away, I give them to him afterwards when it is time for him to leave, because I know as soon as he sees them, he'll scoop them up and run off into the woods and I won't see him again for days or more.

Each Fae has things it prefers and things it dislikes and while some love fancy baubles (rings, beads, lace, sequins, etc) and gifts of clothing, others are deeply offended by such gifts and may become violently angry at the sight of them, so it's best to not give trinkets and clothen items to a Fae unless you are certain it will not be offended by such gifts. But all Fae as far as I can tell, will eagerly accept a bowl of milk or cream, so that is generally the best gifts to start off with.

Now that you have prepared the spot, don't forget to prepare yourself (and any one with you if working with a group).

When working with Fae it is best to wear lose fitting robes, simple straight lines from neck to feet. This makes you less "threatening" to them. The strangest things can set off a Faerie's fiery temper, including your being over dressed or dressed in a way which is viewed as "military" or "warrior". It is also best to leave things like pins, tote bags, purses, wallets, pocket knives, nail clippers, cell phones, radios, and shoes away from the area. One wrong move, wearing one wrong item could send the Faeries scurrying away and once offended they may never return, so you have to be very careful to leave EVERYTHING behind. Which is why it is best to wear a simple robe and nothing else: no socks, no shoes, no pants, nothing. If you are not carrying anything and the only thing you are wearing is a robe, you bring nothing which could accidently offend the Fae.

I personally wear muu-muu (pink with pink butterflies), kimono (light blue under kimono and purple outer kimono), a kente (blue/yellow patchwork - imported from Africa), or a wrap dress (I have 3: one is yellow, one is pink, one is blue) with a white overskirt (see my profile pic) when contacting the Faeries (the muumuu and kimonos belonged to my Kickapoo grandmother). The kente, which is about 200 years old, made of hand woven silk, and belonged to a tribal witch doctor, is the thing I wear most often; it is a 12 foot long by 8 foot wide strip of cloth worn by wrapping and folding it around your body.

Some Faeries are attracted to certain colors. The Far-Darrig (aka The Red Man) is a perfect example of this, for as his name implies he can be lured forward with gifts of red clothen. Note however that this is one of the only races which accepts gifts of clothen and the cloth MUST be bright vibrant blood red. Far-Darrigs are violent tricksters though, a brackish water Faerie who dwells in swamps, and a type of Poltergeist which takes great delight in "haunting" houses and smashing breakable things. They are very wild, hyperactive, temperamental and can be inadvertently deadly...they do not intend to hurt humans, quite the contrary they love humans and make wonderful guardians and protectors, but they when playing pranks they can work themselves up into a frenzy and cause serious injuries to any one in throwing distance. A side note on Far-Darrigs: they are a cousin of Red Caps and like Red Caps dye their coats red with Human blood, though rarely are they the Faerie which killed the human - they tend to be scavengers, following Phookas around and well use the blood from the Phooka's Human killings. A word of caution: if you are dealing with Far-Darrigs than you are in an area that has a Phooka living near-by. Additional side note: If you suspect the Faeries you are dealing with are Phookas, END CONTACT IMMEDIATELY: a Phooka has ONLY one goal: to kill. Phookas are psychotic shape shifters - they can take on the form of anything or anyone: a horse, a stray dog, your cat, your mother...They are the most deadly race of Faerie there is and their shape-shifting ability allows them to get closer to Humans than any other race, fortunately they are endangered and close to extinction so Phooka contact is rare. In recent years the largest Phooka population is in Mexico where they are more commonly known as Chupacabra. Phookas are attracted to black, so when contacting Faeries avoid wearing black.

As a general rule the best color to wear around the Fae is a pale purple, lilac or lavender color, which most Fae view as a friendly neutral color denoting peaceful intentions.

Use the chart below when working with Faeries, making poppet/dolls, creating new spells, and doing altar work:

Red Magic: Passion, sex, and love. Also used for Faerie contact but ONLY with certain races, such as Far-Darrigs and Gnomes: caution should be used as you don't want to attract RedCaps.

Orange Magic: Anti-depression, happiness, and energy drawing magic.

Yellow Magic: Healing and good health.

Green Magic: Money, success, good luck, job, career, and gambling. Also used for Faerie contact with certain races such as Leprechauns and GreenMen.

Dark Blue Magic: Knowledge, wisdom, school, and education.

Light Blue Magic: Protection, home, reconciliation, and family magic. Also used for Faerie contact with certain water races.

Purple Magic: Spirit work, knowledge, wisdom, school, and education.

Lavender Magic: Spirit work, attracting positive energy, reiki, same-sex true love romance, meditation, channeling spirits, and angel & faerie contact.

Pink Magic : Romance, true love, and marriage.

Brown Magic: Court case, legal issues, justice, and stay out of prison requests. Also used for Faerie contact with certain races, such as Dmovies, House Elves and Brownies.

Gray Magic: Moon, family, marriage, and spiritual blessings.

White Magic: Cleansing, ridding negative energy, and angel magic.

Black Magic: Protection, exorcism, hot-footing, and driving away evil magic. Do not use when contacting Faeries as this color attracts Phookas and Kelpies.

Silver Magic: Moon, family, marriage, and spiritual blessings. Also used for Faerie contact with certain water races.

Gold Magic: Sun, money attraction, and good luck. Also used for Faerie contact with certain solitary races attracted to glitter, such as Far-Darrigs and Leprechauns.

Now, I'm going to point out here that this is color magic as I was taught it and how I use it. However, I have seen other color charts that are quite different. Also different colors mean different things to different people. It is a proven fact that what works for one witch may not work for another witch and vice versa, so if you use color magic differently and your method is working for you, by all means keep right on using it the way you always have.

Once you have picked a spot and prepared it, next you must prepare yourself (and when working in a group EACH person must do this as well). I do, what I call "The 30 Day Ritual" - a 30 day period of cleansing to remove all negative energies from my body. This however is now a lifestyle for me that I do 24/7/365 for close to 40 years, so for me it is no longer a 30 day ritual. What it means is, that for 30 days PRIOR to your attempting to contact Fae you must not eat meat, you must not smoke, you must not drink, you must not do drugs, you must not have sex, you must not have contact with any guns or knives, you must avoid contact with any one who owns a gun, and you must eat only "pure" healthy foods (fruits, vegetables, grains, ect. in other words not packaged). In other words: just avoid "negative energy" on all levels, for 30 days in order the cleanse your body and soul. You must become "as an innocent child" and do everything in your power to revert your body's energy field back to the way it was when you were a small child. Fae come to children more often than to adults for a reason: purity of soul, is that reason. So when people ask me why they tried to contact Faeries and nothing happened, I tell them about the 30 Day Ritual, and if they do it, they nearly always are successful next time they try to contact Faeries. Its not required, but, it certainly does greatly enhance your chances of successful contact, or at least it worked for me.

I will tell you about the location I personally use (which can be seen in my profile picture btw) and how I came to use it:

The place where I do a majority of my Faerie work is a mossy patch of land on the outskirts of a swamp and boarded by a brook and tucked away inside and old growth pine forest dotted with maples and oaks and covered in dense fern growth. The area has a harsh fungus musk scent to it, due to the fact that the area is littered with mushrooms. It is hard to walk without stepping on mushrooms. Faerie Rings abound in endless abundance here through out most of the year.

One Faerie Ring in particular though stands out: it is made up of hundreds of mushrooms - with caps nearly a foot across and the ring itself covering an area 13 feet across, and boarded by a circle of 7 evergreen trees each about 8 feet tall. The numbers are significant: 13 feet across and 7 trees, as both numbers are used in Faerie Magic. (When working with Faeries do everything in odd numbers: 3, 7, 9, 13, 15, 21, etc).

Even more significant however is how I found this place.

I wandered into this swamp looking for frogs, when I was 4 years old. At the edge of the swamp stood a tall oak tree, with a large low limb. In the limb was siting what I had than described as "a white monkey" which talked to me and asked me to follow it into the forest. Instead of following him, I ran home and dragged my parents out into the swamp to see "the talking white monkey". At first my parents were convinced I had meet a kidnapper who had at that time escaped prison and was rumored to be in the area, so a search party went out into the woods and swamp. All they found was an ancient Indian Grave and a human skeleton in the swamp, which they assumed to be the remains of a dead French settler from 400 years ago.

I made a habit of returning to the swamp and talking with my "white monkey", which was a tiny old man, about 4 feet tall, with huge blue eyes and wild woolly white hair, dressed in a long red dress worn as a coat about 5 sizes too big for him, and was worn backwards (the buttons should run down the back, but he wears them in the front). Again and again I tried to introduce him to my parents, aunts, uncles, etc, but they all laughed at my "vivid imagination" for as I soon found out, not a one of them could see or hear him.

As I got older and my contact with him did not cease, my extremely fundamentalist Christian mother had the tree cut down and chopped up, and burned claiming that I was talking to demons. The stump of the tree was tossed out into the swamp. Soon after this the spot that was once a tree, came alive with mushrooms. Where the tree once stood, is now the giant ring of white mushrooms and 7 pines, and about 30 years later, I found the stump of that tree, rotted and covered in moss, and brought it back out of the swamp and put it back where the tree once stood: where it is now used as my altar.

The little "red man" Far-Darrig still lives in the swamp today and my contact with him never ceased.

As you can see, my initial contact with Faeries was through one of them contacting me, not the other way around.

The altar is under an arbor, which has giant Strangler vines growing up it, (remember this vine - it's very important - you'll see me mentioning it again in a minute) on the arbor over the altar hangs bird feeders, bird houses, wind chimes, and sun-catchers. The altar itself sits in a circle of mushrooms and ever green trees which makes up my permanent sacred circle, or Faerie Ring which also never needs opening or closing, and in the center of which is where the faeries, angels, and spirit guides I channel, appear.

This spot was chosen because it is a natural circle, a Faerie Ring, and because it is the site of the first sighting of my Far-Darrig Spirit Guide, nearly 40 years ago. My altar is not connected to any religion or theology or tradition or ritual, it is all about nature, connecting to the universe, peace, quiet, contemplation, prayer, meditation, and connecting with the spirit world. It has many uses: during meditation/prayer sessions it is my seat - yes, I sit ON the altar to pray, the shape of it is perfect for lotus position and the thick moss makes a wonderful cushion (and if you look at the photos of me on my web site, laughing-gnome-hollow.webs.com/apps/photos/album?albumid=11461140 you will see me sitting on it in most of them); during a reading I lay my cards out on it; divination sessions are done here too, as are candle prayers, and pretty much everything else. As it is outdoors in my garden, when I am not using it, I cover it with birdseed and let the birds, mice, chipmunks, and squirrels eat off of it.

I have no altar cloth, when I need one I just take off one of my kimono and throw it over the altar. I have no statues on it, don't need them. I own no ceremonial knives, don't believe in them. My icons are prayer cards of Jesus, which I glued to cardboard and than dipped in glitter and decorated with rhinestones - each one cost less than $3 to make. My prayer beads are a cheap plastic children's rosary given to me by a strange nun one day who was walking around handing them out to people. When I leave gifts for the Faeries (tapioca being the most common) they are left on the altar.

This is where I do my Faerie Work and how I prepare for that work.

You don't have to do things the way I do them, every body has their own methods. I tell you what it is I personally do, to help you while you are developing your own methods. I find it best to experiment with various things and pick and choose things that work best while tossing aside things that did not work. Every Fae is unique and every person contacting them is unique so you have to figure out which things work for you and your personal Fae.

Now we come to the point of attempting actual contact. Go to the place you have prepared. Plan to arrive 3 hours prior to attempting to make contact. Ground yourself, clear your mind of negative thoughts, and do some heavy deep meditation before you start calling up spirits.

(to be continued - be back in a bit with step 2)

[EelKat]

(continued from my last post)


STEP TWO: GROUNDING:

Next you want to ground yourself firmly and securely to this physical plane, so they do not abduct you (Faerie/Alien Abduction is a serious situation and there are over 20 million reported cases of Humans being abducted by non-Earthbound entities - so grounding yourself of a necessary precaution to protect yourself) and also so that you are not overwhelmed by their deeply emotional states of being. A Fae's emotions are intense, raw, and powerful beyond what the Human mind can comprehend. Their emotions are also Chaotic rising up in huge elation than crash down in pits of sorrow than whirling by in blazon anger and doing it all in a matter of seconds. Think of them as being very bio-polar and expect the unexpected. By all mean build a psychic barrier around yourself, and ground yourself. You must have a firm spiritual foundation, otherwise their emotions will overwhelm you and cause you to fall into terrible fits of depression. Their joys can lift you high and than once out of their presence send you crashing down into fits of despair and feeling that you can not live in this life, now that you've seen the immense joy of the other side. Likewise their sorrows can overwhelm you and crush you emotionally. If you allow their sorrows to bring you down, than you will become useless and unable to help the people who need you most.

There are many techniques to grounding yourself and putting up barriers. Wiccans for example use the "Sacred Circle" ritual. If you already have a grounding ritual that you use for magic work, you can use it as well. There are no hard and fast rules here as there are many different grounding methods and each method works differently for each person. The trick is to find a grounding method that works for you and than use it consistently before each attempt to contact any being from an alternate dimension: Fae, Angels, Spirits, whatever.

Remember that vine I've got in my yard that I told you to remember? Check out what type of plant this is on Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strangler_fig Now, you see that? You see what that vine does to trees? And entire forests? Take a good long look at the photos of the Strangler Vine shown on Wikipedia. Google for more images of it. Read about how fierce and impossible to destroy this varmisous plant is. Now, got that vine firmly planted in your brain? Good. Lets move on to my personal grounding technique:

Myself I prefer the shamanic ritual, of visualizing a large tree standing on a hill, I am under the ground, below the roots of the tree, I am a huge snake like woody vine, I'm not just any old vine: I'm a Strangler Vine. I send tendrils up through the dirt, and around the tree, upward and over the tree, I envelope it and engulf it, and as strong as this giant tree is, my roots are stronger and go deeper beneath the ground. I don't stop with this tree, I reach over and grab the tree beside it too, enveloping it as well. No one is moving me. I surround the trees, I surround the forest. I am now grounded as I dig my roots deeper into the ground and reach my vines forth to the sky and birds come to seek shelter in my leaves, so they know they are safe with me and I will protect them from the great hawks and eagles which hunt them down.

Try this - become the vine, the great and powerful vine with roots so strong and deep that you can conquer even the mightiest tree. Your vines are branches of joy, happiness, laughter, and hope. You welcome the scared, sad, and frightened little birds into your life, you offer them love and protection from the terrifying sorrows and fears that torment them. Ground yourself, than set out to help the sorrowful and let your powerful light shine in their lives and be a beacon of hope and joy. You are strong. You are powerful. You are sturdy. You are grounded. You are the vine. Keep this image in your mind. It'll help you to connect with the Fae and remain firmly planted in the physical realm. Remember - you are not the tree, who's roots are shallow and uplifted by the wind - you are the vine who's roots are strong and you protect the tree with your tight grasping vines that refuse to let go!

I carry this image with me into the next step of the process: meditation. I meditate on the vine, until I become the vine.

Here's a thing I hear people, esp Wiccans, say again and again:

*"Always cast a circle of protection first, and never work alone always work in groups of 2 or more."*

Since I am not one to follow the do's and don'ts much in life I went by my own styles and have enjoyed the experiences.

I don't cast anything for protection prior to using a spirit board or other tools, nor do I use two people and etc. Every time I hear some one mentioning casting circles of protection, I stare at them blankly and go: "Uhm --- why would I do that?"

I know I keep hearing Wiccans talk about it, but I've never studied Wicca so I have no idea why they do the whole casting circle thing and to date, all the ones I have asked, have no idea why they do it either, they just say: "Well, because that's what we are supposed to do." Well, great, but WHY are you suppose to do it? They say: "Uhm, I don't know, just because it protects you is all." Protects you from what exactly? They say: "I don't know, evil spirits I guess."

Well, I don't cast circle. It's not part of the Scottish Traveler/Gypsy and Kickapoo/Native American traditions I was taught by my grandmothers, so I'm just clueless as to why it is done or why Wiccans do it. I do however work out doors (obviously - seeing how I'm homeless and have no indoors to work in - I live in a Volvo) and seek out Faerie Rings to do my work in, as I deal with Welsh/Scottish Faerie Magic (not the new age neo-pagan fairy magic - they are different) and my personal familiar/spirit guide is a Far-Darrig Trickster, who prefers to show himself in natural Faerie Rings (a naturally occurring circle of mushrooms, bushes, flowers, or trees). So I suppose in a way I do use "magic circles" and I was working in the center of a giant white mushroom Faerie Ring when the green Faerie appeared to me, so there is something to working inside a circle, but as far as casting them, nope.

And don't go: "But you do that grounding ritual, don't you?" Yes, I do, and I told you why: to prevent Faerie Abduction. Here, let me tell you in greater detail why I do the grounding ritual. Be warned you'll have night mares for years after I tell you this and you may never dare go near a Fae again.

I recommend the grounding ritual whenever dealing with Fae, but most especially, when some one comes to me with a request, saying that a Fae came to them in a dream and invited them to contact the Fae. Now an invitation from Faeries, this is unusual, but not unheard of. This is tricky business here as Faerie generally avoid Humans at all costs and when they seek out a Human, there is likely a less than savory alteria motive.

Abduction is a serious issue to consider here.

I suggest that, before you go to far into this, you do some Googleing of "alien abduction" and "alien human hybrid breeding programs".

Sadly very few people make the connection between Faeries and Aliens/Grays and this is a serious mistake, because they are in fact one and the same. Remember what I told you about Glimmer? And remember what I said about he Realm of Fae being just like our realm: right down to their being doctors and lawyers and scientists and unsavory dictators? Yeah, here's where the problem comes in: The Realm of Fae in recent years has had an uprising of unsavory doctors and scientists, who think nothing of abducting Human girls, harvesting fetuses, and than terrorizing the girl's dreams at night.

Are strange faceless, wide eyed, pale skinned, wand toting beings invading your dreams at night? Do you sleep in fear of little gray men carrying you away at night? A quick study of history shows us that for centuries wide-eyed, pale skinned, little male angels, flew in with on feathered wings and fiery chariots abducted women and stole their babies (hey, ever read the Bible?). Than for several centuries after that starting in around the 1300's, wide-eyed, pale skinned, wee little men (Faeries) flying in glowing orbs of light, abducted women and stole their babies. Than for last 2 centuries after that starting in around 1870, wide-eyed, pale skinned, little gray men in air-ships and flying saucers abducted women and stole their babies and continue to this very day. Call them what you will: angels, faeries, aliens - a rose by any other name is still the same. Little men with pale skin and big eyes have been documented as flying in at night, abducting women and stealing babies for more than 30,000 years, and who knows how long they's been coming before written documents started recording their nightly visits. Did you know that 30% of the world's 7 billion population admits to living in fear of "Little Men".

The nightmares, the dreams of fairies calling to you, this is a sign of abduction, either they are planning to abduct you or they already have. Now don't get scared here, because this is not necessarily a bad thing. The media likes to pick up on the wild and terrifying horror stories about Faerie/Alien Abductions and usually ignores the peaceful happy ones. Terror sells better than joy. But while there are good experiences out there, I must warn you that the #1 reason for Faeries to contact Humans is fetus harvest: they abduct humans, breed with them, erase their memories of the abduction, than 3 or 4 month later return, abduct the girl again, remove the fetus transplanting it into one of their own, return the girl and erase her memories again. Often this is done so early that the girl never knew she was pregnant at all, but she will begin having nightmares about having babies or small children kidnapped from her: these are not nightmares, they are the memories of the abduction breaking through. If the girl knew she was pregnant she will assume she had a miscarriage, but nightmares of stolen children will still come, often followed by nightmares if visiting said children and for the next 15 to 20 years continued "nightmare" visits to watch the children as they grow. There is nothing quite like interviewing a woman suffering from what the medical community calls "a false pregnancy".

This is no small phenomena, either. There have been over 50,000 reported cases of fetuses stolen by Angels, Faeries, Little People, and Aliens throughout history, and over 20 million reported abductions worldwide by people currently alive today, with millions more dating as far back as the 1300s.

And this is why I warn to use EXTREME CAUTION when working with Faeries, because they are VERY powerful and no amount of drawing circles, grounding or protection ritual is going to stop a Faerie from doing whatever the hell they want. They are not from this plane of existence and they are not bound by it's laws. If you study the history of why Wiccans do their little circle of protection ritual: it comes from Enochain Angel Alchemy of the 1500's and was used by Seers when contacting angels to protect themselves from being ABDUCTED and EATEN ALIVE by God's Holy Archangels - it even lists them by name: Michael, Raphael, Azreal... you know, those archangels every one today seems to think are protectors of Humans - that's not how the Medieval Alchemists saw them and get this: it's not how the Bible describes them either: according to the Bible they have 7 heads and breath fire and are warriors with claws and fangs, pale skin, big eyes, and were punished by God because they refused to stop abducting and begating children with "the daughters of men". The Bible also says that Noah's flood was specifically intended to destroy the abominations created by the union between the 200 angels called The Grigory and the humans, but that these Nephillum or Fates hid underground and survived. Interesting note here is that The Fates are later called the Fae, than still later called Faeries. Wiccans now "call on the corners" asking protection from the very same Watchers or Ancient Ones, the alchemists were trying to KEEP OUT of the sacred circles. I just find that so ironic.

Now that I've scared you, know too that while abduction and reproduction/fetus harvesting are usually the motives Faeries, Angels, and Aliens all have for contacting Humans, this is not always the case, so accepting an invitation from the Fae is something you should do, just use caution, when you do it. Remember too, that if abduction was their motive they'd have just come in and abducted you and you'd be remembering nightmares of being chased or kidnapped, not dreams of peaceful invitations. This is a sign that the Faeries whom are contacting you can be trusted on some level and are not likely to hurt you, and that is a good thing. It is also a sign that you may quite possibly have Faerie blood in you, and it is highly likely that one of your ancestors was abducted by them (as this is how most people, myself included, learn the art of Faerie Magic and Faerie Lore - directly from the Faeries themselves). I also want to note here, that evidence suggests that nearly 90% of all Faeries in existence now are male, for some reason by the late 1800s (our time) most all of the females suddenly died off, and this is why Faeries take female humans. (This is concluded by the fact that sightings of female Fae, have almost entirely ceased to occur, indicating that a large majority of the female population no longer exists).

Also the fact that Faeries and Humans can mate, indicated a DNA link between the two races at some point in the distant past, with the going theory held by scientists who study the phenomena being that Faeries/Angels/Aliens are in Humans and are Time Travelers from our very distant future (we are talking millions of years into the future here) and have evolved physically, scientifically and psychically, but have also suffered a plague which killed off nearly every female and also left many of the males horribly deformed and psychotically sadistic, thus resulting in the "trickster" activity as well as the blood thirsty human flesh eating and blood bathing activities. It is believed (in some scientific realms of thought) that they are the Human race as it will become at the very end of Human existence and that they are desperately in danger of extinction, thus why they are now desperately traveling back in time to abduct girls and harvest fetuses in a final desperate attempt to save the Human Race (their time).

Yeah. Aliens. UFOs. Alien Abductions. Angels. Faeries. All one and the same. I freak people out when I tell them that, because they think Faeries are just cute fluttery things, but the only thing that can mate with a Human and produce a baby is another Human, so that really does a lot to change one's perspective of Faeries. Oh yeah, and by the way, did I mention I'm also one of the world's top authorities on alien abduction research and write books on the Faerie/Alien connection? I was excommunicated from my church because I refused to pull one of my books on alien abductions and fetus harvesting and how Faeries were the ones doing all of it using Glimmer to cause people to think they were abducted by aliens on UFOs, and I mentioned the fact that Mary was an abductee and Jesus was an alien-human hybrid or rather: Jesus was part Faerie - my bishop called the book "a work of apostasy" and demand it be banned, claiming that my belief in Faeries was anti-Christian and that my studies and work with Faeries was proof that I was a Satan Worshiper who consorted with demons. I responded by becoming an ordained minister and starting by own Christo-Pagan coven devoted totally to Faerie Faith and the belief that Jesus was in fact from the Realm of Fae. Yes. I never said my beliefs were mainstream.

But yeah, that's the reason for doing work in a Faerie Ring and for doing that vine grounding ritual. The ritual itself and the circle, have no real power against the Fae, but the Fae see the image of the vine in your mind and they see you standing in the Faerie Ring and they are telepathic so they can feel your desire to not be abducted, to not be harmed, and they respect that: they respect you boundaries, they understand that you are holding your ground and you are not willing to go with them, and they will not force you against your will once they see you have taken these measures. his does not stop them from inviting you to step out of the Faerie Ring, nor does it stop them from offering your food, which once eaten causes you to black out and you wake up elsewhere with no memory of what happened, how you got there, or why your cloths are on inside out and backwards.

Never accept Faerie food. Never step out of the Faerie Ring. They can't force you to come with them while you are in the circle, but step out willingly and you are free game.

But these are not things you have to worry about when dealing with Fairy types. As I mentioned earlier Fairy types are the nature Fae, who focus on helping Humans with plants and animals and life; they are not the type to be dealing in science and research and abductions. That is not to say that all of the Faerie types deal with abductions either, for that is not the case. The Far-Darrig I work with mentions the scientist types from time to time and he can't stand them or their work. It seems that the Fae responsible for abductions are not well liked by other races of Fae. In any case, a common report by abductees is the fact that their abductors can change shape or form, and thus can appear to you as a Fairy type when they are not, thus why I recommend the grounding ritual before contacting any Fae, even a peaceful harmless Fairy type, just to be on the safe side.

So, yeah, be a vine. Stand your ground. Refuse to be uprooted. And move on to step #3.

(to be continued - be back in a bit with step 3)

[EelKat]

(continued from my last post)

STEP THREE: MEDITATION

Meditation, prior to contact is important. Remember the vine? You want to keep that image in your head. And you want to get all harmful or negative images out of your head.

If you are nervous or stressed out or angry at your boss or just had a fight with your friend - these things are going to affect your outcome. Remember: like attracts like, and even more so when dealing with Fae, so if you are freaking pissed at your boyfriend and want to wring his neck, than you try calling up spirits, you are going to attract and an angry spirit who just like you wants to wring someone's neck. See the problem here? People often use Ouija Boards to contact spirits and than complain of only being able to attract "evil spirits". I tell these people: look in the mirror. Look inside. Look in your heart. What emotions do they find? Fear? Anger? Hate? And than they wonder why they attracted an angry ghost? Like attracts like. Remember that and if you don't like the spirits you are attracting: take a good deep look inside yourself and do something to change your own emotional state before trying again.

Do a minimum hour long meditation session prior to attempting contact. Clear your mind of all thoughts and emotions. Become an empty vessel with which to capture messages. Use a grounding ritual, to plant yourself firmly on the ground, before trying.

Myself, personally, I do a 3 hour meditation session. First of all, you do not want to be detracted by inner thoughts, worries, or fears, as the Fae being telepathic, can use this to their advantage against you. You must empty your mind completely and totally. There are thousands of meditation methods and styles and I am afraid I am not well versed in any of them and really know very little about so-called "Meditation Tips & Techniques". I have never studied meditation on any level, so my advice on meditation is purely my own methods and not connected with any formal style or tradition and may or may not be what others do or recommend. That said, I will tell you what it is that I do and you can decide what to do from there.

First I like to choose a time when I know I will not be disturbed for several hours. My meditation sessions last from a few minutes to 7 or 8 hours. Generally I feel the longer the better, and if I do a meditation session less than an hour long it is generally because I was disturbed by someone. My life is such that I can usually take 2 to 4 hours a day for a meditation session 4 or 5 days a week. My life is this way, because I choose it to be. I section off my time. I do not waste time with frivolities such as TVs or phones (I own neither). I have friends who complain they can not meditate because they do not have time. I asked how much TV they watched - "Only 4 or 5 hours a week" was the response. I spent a week with them following their every move, charting their daily activities. Game show at 11, News at noon, court TV at 1, news at 5, news at 6, show at 8, show at 9, show at 10. Grand total: they watched 8 hours of TV a day 5 days a week (more on weekends when they did not have to go to work and got to stay home all day watching movies) for a grand total of 40 hours of TV watching per week, not including weekends - 10 times their estimated guess of 4 hours. My friend who spent 38 hours a week at work, was shocked to learn they were watching more hours of TV per week then hours spent at work. Cutting just 1 single TV show would have given this person 7 hours of meditation a week. Don't tell me you don't have time: spend a week writing down every single move you make and the amount of time it takes to do it. You'll be surprised. Most people who do this, find that they actually have 15 to 20 hours per week that they doing absolutely nothing at all. By carefully budgeting your time, you'll find you have lots of time to do a lot more things, get a lot more done, and feel much better about yourself as a result.

Next set aside a regular time of day so that you can get into the habit of meditating at the same time each day. I personally find it best to meditate in the late afternoon or early evening, depending on the time of year. In the winter it gets dark by 3PM while in the summer it does not start getting dark until 9PM, so I set my meditation time by where the sun is in the sky, not by where the dial is on a clock. For me this means that most meditation sessions start about 4 or 5 hours before sunset, last through sunset, and continue for another hour or more after nightfall. (And I use the setting sun as part of my meditating.)

I choose the place, depending on the weather. (I am homeless and having no house means where I am outside is dependent largely on how cold, hot, wet, dry, foggy, or windy the day may be.) I own a small plot of land (about 60 feet by 50 feet) on which sits my meditation garden. The land is surrounded by swamp and forest both of which are owned by one of Maine's largest RV park campgrounds, meaning there are acres of nothing but forest and trails all around me, and I have permission from the owner to use the parks land for my meditating and hiking.

In my garden runs a brook, which stretches back for miles into the forest and feeds the Atlantic Ocean which sits on the opposite side of my garden, with a 7 mile long beach between my garden and the Atlantic. My places of choose for meditating are along this brook, on the shore of the ocean, at the edge of the swamp, or deep within the forest on the higher banks of the brook. In any case water, running water, flowing brook, or crashing waves, water is my "trigger" for getting into deep meditation. Listening to the water and the birds and the wind in the trees or dune grass, these are the sounds which help to clear my mind and empty it of all the stresses of the day so that I can relax and meditate. Next I find a place to sit: a soft patch of moss, a tree stump, the sand, whatever, some place comfortable, where I can sit on my bum with my legs crossed, feet under my thighs and can just sit for several hours with my eyes closed and breathing in the fresh salty musky fungusy seaweedy pine air.

Once settled in my spot, eyes closed, legs crossed, back straight. I sit quietly for a few minutes, than take out a pen and paper and write down my daily mantra 15 times, to get it into my brain in a rhythm, than once it is flowing in my head, I close my eyes again and let it float through my mind until it reaches the point that it just disappears and my mind is empty of all thoughts and fears and worries. A few of the things I have written down and meditated on where:

"I can relax, everything is okay. I can let go of worries. I can let go of fears. I give them to the Universe. I remove them from my life. I don't need them. I don't want them....I am the silver violet flame."

"I believe without a doubt that I will have every thing I want and need from life. I am the silver violet flame."

"I believe without a doubt that I am happy and have a wonderful life to look forward to. I am the silver violet flame."

"I believe without a doubt that I will be guided to the right situation at the right time. I am the silver violet flame."

"I believe without a doubt that every day in every way I am getting better and better. Life if good. I am the silver violet flame."

"I have everything I need to achieve my goals. I am the silver violet flame."

"I accept that my prayers have already been answered. I believe that everything will work out for the best. I am the silver violet flame."

So, you get the idea of my mantras, right? I also like to use the lines from the following poem as a meditation mantra:

God sees me as a beautiful child of life.
God sees me as a beautiful soul.
God sees me as a divine light for the world to see.
God sees me as a purposeful and powerful person.
God sees me as a strong and courageous person.
God sees me as an intelligent person.
God sees me as love in motion.
God sees love.
God sees good.
God sees joy.
God sees peace.
Today I see myself as God sees me.
("God Sees Me" by Iyanla Vanzant)


So in my meditations this would read:

"God sees me as a beautiful child of life. I am the silver violet flame."

"God sees me as a beautiful soul. I am the silver violet flame."

The affirmation I choose is different every day and usually chosen at random from a massive list of thousands of them, which I have written down over the years. The affirmation can be anything, just keep them short, keep them simple, keep them positive, keep them strong, keep them affirmative, keep them uplifting, and end every single one of them with quick, simple, seemingly meaningless, personal phrase. My phrase is "I am the silver violet flame", you are welcome to use it if you like, or you can create a different one.

And so I sit: settled in my spot, eyes closed, legs crossed, back straight, repeating the affirmation of the day over and over. I will do this for the first hour or so. The phrase: "I am the silver violet flame", eventually takes over and in my mind's eye everything takes on a silver violet hue. With my eyes closed I begin to see silver violet flames of light in the darkness, outlining the shapes of the trees and sky line around me, eventually drifting off into a state of peace.

As I said, you can choose any phrase as your mantra, but I choose "I am the silver violet flame", for a reason: remember that color chart I gave you earlier? Take a look at the Light Purple/Lavender/Lilac section: pale shades of purple are used specifically for drawing and attracting Fae, Angels, and Spirits to you. Wearing this color, lighting candles this color, holding gemstones or glass marbles this color, making clouties this color, sitting under a lilac bush or in a field of violets or lavender, these are all going to help draw Fae into your life, but more than anything else: attuning your mental, physical, spiritual, and psychic energies to this color is going to result in causing your personal aura to start emanating this color giving you a silver violet glow, and super powering you to aligning yourself with the same energy frequencies of the Fae, thus helping to draw them into your life. And after 5 hours of sitting with your eyes closed saying "I am the silver violet flame" approximately 7,000 times, your mind suddenly clicks are thinks to itself: "Hey, you know what I really AM the silver violet flame! This is great! I can do anything. Be anything. Nothing can stand in my way, because I am the silver violet flame!" Reaching that point is key. It's the "I can do anything!" frame of mind that you want to be in, when you start calling out to the Fae in step #4.

Now is the time to remember: "I am the vine! I can do anything. I can stand my ground. No one is moving me. I am the silver violet flame!"

But yeah, that's pretty much it. Just find a spot where you can sit and relax for several hours and than just sit and relax and empty your mind.

(to be continued - be back in a bit with step 4)

[EelKat]

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STEP FOUR: CHANNELING & DIVINATION


In step #1 you prepared your location and than prepared yourself.

In step #2 you grounded youself, firmly to the physical plane.

In step #3 you emptied your mind of everything.

Finally you begin contact.

If you've already been making contact regular there is no need for the 4th step as, following the end of the meditation session, your personal Fae should appear just by your calling out to him/her. This is channeling. Channeling is contact without tools. Divination is the same as channeling but requires tools to help you contact the Fae.

I personally use channeling and divination to contact Faeries and Angels, so these are the methods I will tell you about. There are other methods, but I can not advice you on other methods as I have not personally used them. As with everything else, these are just the methods I personally use and are not a "One" or "Only Right Way" to contacting the alternate realms, but rather one of many ways, that just happens to be the one which works for me.

Everyone has a particular Fae looking out for them and it is quite possible you have your own personal Spirit Guide and Guardian trying to contact you, thus why you are feeling the desire to contact him/her. I would suggest that you try to make contact with this Fae, Just you. Alone. Not as a part of a group. (Some people like to contact Fae during group sessions, coven rituals, and seances, but I personally do not use any of the group methods.) This Fae is your personal Guardian and he or she will not show themself to you when others are with you, and may never show itself to you physically at all, as Fae are very shy about being seen due to their often being viewed as quite ugly, by humans - if you see a "beautiful" Fae chances are high that you are seeing not the real Faerie itself, but rather a Glimmer or an illusion of how it wants to be seen, through the use of a Glamour Spell be cast on you by the Fae, causing you to see only what it wants you to see and not what is really there in front of you. This is to be expected in the beginning, and only after many years (20, 30, or more!) of devoted friendship and loyalty will the Fae trust you and feel safe enough to be seen as it really is. Do not be disappointed if you can sense or even hear the Fae, but are not able to see it physically. Seeing a Fae physically is an extraordinarily rare occurrence. I'll talk about this some more in a second, first let's move on to divination methods.

Now if you are of strong faith and firm grounding, you may not need any tools, however, most people use tools of some sort and there are many tools you can use to help you out. The Spirit Board being the most commonly used by others, and most likely the tool you would end up using if you went for using a tool to help you out, so I'll talk about Spirit Boards for a bit, to tell you how it is I have personally used them. Well, you don't need an actual board even, you could spread rune stones or cards with letters and numbers or even Tarot or Oracle cards or just draw in the dirt with a stick, and use an upturned glass or seashell or stone as a pointer.

As I mentioned, I've been channeling spirits since 1978, often without divination, but when divination was used automatic writing is typically the method I use, along with card reading, and stone throwing, but I bought my first Spirit Board in 2010.

But here's what I do:

Both my grandmothers were witches, both of them were steeped in superstitions and had lots of little warnings about things to avoid and so I learned everything I know from them, including: "Stay away from those evil Ouija Boards". I learned divination by throwing (pebbles, dice, marbles, and shells) and card reading (every type of card EXCEPT Tarot as another of their sayings was: "Stay away from those evil Tarot Cards" - my grandmothers were strange that way) and thus I grew up avoiding Ouija Boards and Tarot Cards like they were the plague.

As I grew older I heard stories of how "evil" Ouija was and as a teen some of my cousins told me one day, how they had gone off in secret with some friends and used one of those Ouija Boards and "NEVER AGAIN!" was their terrified exclamation.

A year or so later a girl from our church one day came into our classroom scared out of her mind, with a story of how she had the night before been attacks by Jack the Ripper after her and some school friends had specifically called him up to interview him for their history class project. It was stories like these that kept me faaaaar away from Ouija Boards for the next 20 more years. Than something happened.

I'm not sure exactly when or how, but about 3 or 4 years ago, I started thinking - "It's just a peace of wood. It can't of itself call up evil spirits - only the person using it can do that." The more I thought about it, the more I start rethinking my "fears" and finally I realized that, all of the stories I had heard, people had used their boards in ways that specifically attracted evil spirits. I started thinking, what if it wasn't that the board was attracting evil spirits, it was just that the person using the board went into it EXPECTING to attract evil spirits and did attract evil because that is what their mind was in tune to at that moment? My cousins had used their board in a "horror movie" way: at night, in a cemetery, acting all spooky and shivery, and EXPECTING to attract some evil ghost.

I thought to myself: "What if they had done it in the daytime, in a rose garden, acting relaxed and confident, EXPECTING to attract an archangel?" The girl from mt childhood church, had REQUESTED Jack the Ripper SPECIFICALLY BY NAME. What if she had asked for Mother Teresa or Princess Diana or Liberace instead? So I mulled over these questions for a few years and today I have several hand made (about 5 or so) and I have 12 store bought spirit boards. Yes, you did read that correctly, it is 12 as in one dozen. I was planning to buy a wooden one, but than I found the ones I really liked were all in the $300+ range and I did not have that much cash with me, so I checked out the "gameboard" style non-wooden (chip board) ones with all sorts of faeries and angels printed on them. They cost like $2 a piece and I was thinking - "Hey, if they don't work, I can frame them and still not have spent much money". But than there were 12 of them and I kind of have this problem where when I buy something, I have to buy one of each so I can have a "matched set", I do it with everything and so when I went out to buy a spirit board last summer, I came home with 12 of them instead of one. YAY!

So as soon as I was back home I rushed to my moss covered altar in my rose garden and set out to trying out my 12 new spirit boards. But than here's the thing: All I had were these boards no instructions or pointer or anything and I didn't know the first thing about how to even use a spirit board!

I did however know about channeling spirits and using cards and throwing-stones to talk to spirits (which I had been doing for 31 years at that point). So I started using the illustrated boards like cards and using them as a guide to toss my divination pebbles-dice-marbles-shells on and at the time I had also just bought a pendulum (I'd never used a pendulum before) so I was using the pendulum over the boards as well. With the pendulum I was getting conflicting "answers" and after a week of daily practice, I had yet to call up any sort of spirit good, bad, or otherwise.

I got better results using them as throwing boards, tossing my stones and stuff on them and "reading" the answers. So I did this for a while, but still, no spirits were showing up, or at least not physically or visibly to the naked eye - which is typically what I strive for during channeling. Even though it is extraordinarily rare to see who or what you are talking too, I like to see who I am talking to, and I am known to demand the entity to show itself. I'm like that.

Than about a month after buying the boards, I pulled out my card decks, (I've dozens of them - card deck collector here) lined up all of the spirit boards in a grid, and started doing a card reading. I was 5 cards into a 7 card reading when a tiny minty green entity suddenly started hovering inches in front of me. She had 4 wings and a brilliant glow emanating out from her body. (I call it a her, but I could not see her face or features, she was formless, sort of like a shifting orb with 4 fluttering wings, but somehow I just "knew" she was a she, which is odd, because in all of my 30+ years of calling on Faeries, Angels, and Spirits, this was the first female one to appear, all the others have always been males.)

She hovered in front of me for a few seconds and than as quickly as she had appeared, she was gone. While she was there I was washed over by a feeling of peace and calm, like she was saying to me: "You can relax now, because everything is okay." Which really was a feeling I needed right than, see, I am homeless (my house burned down in 2006, I've lived on my land in my car ever since) and my car had just been stolen, so I was really freaking out and over stressed at the time, and the message: "You can relax now, because everything is okay." and feeling a wave of peace and calm, was REALLY what I was needed right than. (My stolen car was since found and returned to me, btw, and things have been going in a better direction ever since, so her message turned out to be true: I CAN relax now, because things ARE okay again.

But this experience REALLY changed my views on Spirit Boards A LOT, because it proved to me just exactly what I thought: the board is a tool that can be used for bad or good, and it is how you use it and what type of spirit you wish to attract that is going to affect the outcome.

My main style of magic work, is Scottish/Welsh Faerie Magic, (I'm a Scottish Traveler/Gypsy btw - and there are 400 years of "gypsy witches" in my family, thus how I came to be the way I am, today) so most everything I do with the intent to attract Faeries and Nature Spirits. I went to a place built especially for attracting Faeries, I used a Spirit Board which had Faeries printed on it, and I was seeking help from the Faeries specifically, and when a spirit finally did come, it was in fact a Faerie, or rather the Spirit came to me in the form of what I personally identify as a Faerie.

So, I know I was not using the boards the right way, seeing how I had no pointer and no rule book and just sort of jumped in using what I knew of other styles of divination, but in the end, it worked out okay for me, my encounter with the green Faerie (Fairy?) was a really good experience, and I plan to use Spirit Boards more often in the future. Since than I started making my own Spirit Boards out of white cardboard and crayons.

Now I have heard people recommend doing certain things when using Spirit Boards:

*"If you use a board be sure affix a pentacle on the underside of the board or table. It helps contain the spirit."*

A pentacle? I don't own one and in fact I've been practicing magic since 1978 and the first time I ever even heard the word pentacle, was in 2005, the first time I came face to face with a Wicca and also the first time I ever heard the word Wicca. I had no idea what the heck they were talking about. It's not part of the Scottish and Native American traditions I was taught by my grandmothers.

As for containing a spirit, that's a Genni in a Bottle spell, and really, should only be done as part of an exorcism, to get an evil spirit out of a house, into the bottle/item and than release the item in a place where the spirit can do no harm. I really would not recommend this other than during an exorcism, because you are not only inviting the spirit to LIVE in your home with you, but you are also caging it up so it can not leave your home willingly, and that's how a good spirit can go bad, because no one not even spirits like to be locked in a cage.

Another one I've heard was: *"Remember to call the spirit by name, never call on a random spirit. If you know the sigil, or have a picture of the spirit, then place that under the board too."*

Calling a spirit by name - is ify. If a person is just starting out, than yeah, it'll be safer to call on a spirit that is known to be safe: your grandmother or an archangel for example, before moving on to just calling up any spirit at random, and I don't recommend calling on Faeries unless you are very advanced in prior spirit work, because Faeries are chaotic, temperamental, unpredictable, and can become violent without warning. But in most cases you have no idea who the entity trying to contact you is, thus why you have to ask it's name.

Once you've made contact with a Faerie do try to find out it's name, but don't push the issue. Fae consider names sacred and rarely use their real names, and are more likely to tell you their race as their "name". If you can get their name, or at least a title they prefer to be called, it'll be easier for you to call on this same Faerie again. I do sometimes use sigels not always, but it helps to focus the mind just on calling one spirit in particular if he's the only one you want to talk to right now.

Unless you are (or should be) dealing with your personal private Guardian Fae, NEVER summon any spirit or Faerie to come from their realm to ours. Calling them just to chat is bad manners. They have jobs to do and it is not only immoral to summon them, but it could flare their tempers and result in them being very violent and angry when they arrive. You don't want this! You should only ask/summon Fae to come if you need their help in an emergency, and it should be an invitation, not a demand. If they come invited but not summoned it is different because they came through on THEIR terms and in THEIR time. This is why I deal mostly just with my personal Spirit Guide -the Far-Darrig- because he was "assigned" to me and it is HIS JOB to be my personal guide through this life. (He said this to me, and said that he specifically choose me, because he wanted to be my guide.)

Every one has a private personal spirit guide who stays with them, and when people want to connect with the spirits I always tell them, try getting in touch with your personal spirit guide first. You don't know if it's a man or a woman, or what they look like or what their name is, so you can't call them by name, but you can ask them to reveal themselves to you and you can ask them their name and you can ask them to help you get in touch with other spirits. I find that you will getting better results if you let your Spirit Guide act as a go-between, rather than you calling up random spirits yourself.

Also I do think it is best if you have a specific reason for contacting the spirits as they get annoyed if you just call on them because you are bored and needed something to do. Remember to, there are spirits and Fae everywhere, talk to the ones around you, don't go looking for them as this is just asking for trouble. REMEMBER: they are around you for a reason and usually have something to say. If you keep calling and summoning Fae who are not already with you, it will insult the ones which are trying to contact you and could cause you to lose contact with all Fae . Respect them and they will respect you.

You should use your contact and tools/cards/dice/Spirit Board ethically, morally, and with respect.

Most of my Faerie Work however is done without the use of a Spirit Board and uses divination b:

CARD READING: Card Decks - many, varied, including playing cards, memory matching cards, old maid, authors, game cards from various games, children's trading cards (Sara Bella, Pokemon, Star Wars, Star Trek, ect.), tons and tons of Oracle decks featuring faeries and angels, but not a single Tarot deck in sight. I don't read cards in the "standard" way, and I may read a card today as one thing and read the same card tomorrow as something else entirely. I read cards psychically, not "by the book".

THROWING BONES, STONES, DICE: It is very similar to rune divination, but uses a bag or bowl filled with random found items: seeds, nuts, stones, egg shells, bones, feathers, domino, dice, marbles, broken bits of plastic, etc. The reader marks a grid (usually a divided circle) in the dirt, than tosses the mix on the ground and reads them objects by where and how they landed. Personally I use a bag filled with beach pebbles, seashells, glass marbles, polished gemstones, and Dungeons & Dragons RPG dice and a handmade cardboard Spirit Board.

SCRYING/SEER STONES: beach pebbles, river rocks, glass marbles, Japanese glass net balls from the beach, drift wood, ocean bricks, tumbled gemstones, glitter filled rubber balls, D&D dice, but not one "crystal ball".

I was self taught...sort of...uhm, my Spirit Guide taught me divination skills for throwing stones & things. I ALWAYS obey the advice of my Spirit Guide as I've never known him to be wrong. I trust him. I had a set of "Memory" cards when I was a kid and instead of playing the game, I would sit there "reading" the cards, like I was reading a book, going on and on with all the things I could "see" in them. I was about 5 or 6 at the time. I never stopped doing it - postcards, Pokemon cards, playing cards, greeting cards, it doesn't matter what type of card it is. It's weird and I can't explain it, and I've never heard of any one else who reads cards the way I do. I don't read the "meanings" like one does with Tarot: I just pick up a card and all of a sudden it's like I have pages and pages of words in my brain and I start reading them.

I've also tried other methods which failed:

Tea leaves - just couldn't get the hang of it. I think I was distracted by thinking it was all just too messy.

Mirror scrying - I keep trying it but get no where with it.

Pendulums - I keep trying pendulums, but I get nothing. I think I've not found "my" pendulum yet. I mean, I have some that I bought to try out, but usually when I buy my tools it's a spur of the moment thing because I saw the tool and it just "clicked" and I knew this was the tool I was meant to use. But that has not happened yet with a pendulum, so I think I'm just not in rune with the pendulums I have. I keep looking for a pendulum and someday I'll find one that clicks with me and I'll try again.

Here's another tidbit people say: *"Don't ever do a reading on yourself!"*

I disagree. Yes. Yes I do. No one ever told me not too. It was only recently that I'd see folks online saying you shouldn't and I'd be like: "Why?"

Anyways, as I said I have a Spirit Guide and I use divination to talk to him and his messages to me are very personal and pertain to my own life. He has helped me many times with many situations and I will continue to stay in touch with him daily. I do not believe in a client going to a reader or channeler more than one a month or even less, but when it comes to private personal divination done between yourself and your spirit guide, I believe you can and should do them daily.

My advice for you is to do what you feel safe and comfortable with and go from there. There are lots of tools to help you out, just use what you are comfortable with.

I prefer to do divination alone actually - long distance - I find it much easier to focus than if the client is not hovering around getting all nervous and antsy at me. When working with a Spirit Board, I had no idea what the dos and don'ts were, so I just went with my gut and did what felt right to me. Like I said, the things I have mentioned here are the things which I personally do, and they work for me and the type of Faeries I work with. However they are not hard and fast rules and each person is different as is each Faerie, so what works for me, may not work for you, and likewise what works for you may not work for me. It's a trial and error thing. Go with your gut. Do the things that seem right to you, add-change-delete anything you feel needs it.

(to be continued - be back in a bit with final post)

[EelKat]

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AFTER CONTACT & SOME THINGS TO KEEP IN MIND:

You want to start small: contacting Fairy races known to be mostly harmless: Garden Fairies, Flower Fairies, Gnomes, etc. You want to think of them as though you are dealing with a wild Grizzly bear. It has the power to slaughter you, but if you walk by gentle and quiet, doing nothing to frightening it, it'll leave you alone and watch you as you go about your business. Fae are like wild animals: they frighten easily, and when frightened they do two things: attack and run. Some will just run. Some will attack first and than run. Some will feel cornered and attack over and over again not realizing they have the option to run.

Like animals their mental states are often that of a small child, and though an adult hundreds of years old, they may act with the mentality of a 2 year old child. Because of their altered mental state, they are very chaotic and unpredictable and this is why great caution must be used around Fae.

You need to convince them, they can trust you. Trust is a big thing when working with Faeries. If they trust you, you can trust them. Gaining that trust, however is a long and slow process. You made need to have contact with them several times over and over again, possibly for many years, before this trust is fully established.

The Far-Darrig I work with, I was in contact with for 13 years before he let his guard down and stopped appearing under a cloak of Glimmer and I saw what he REALLY looked like for the first time, and it was another 2 years after that before I found out his name. The thing which made the difference was, I had something he really, really wanted: a 1964 Dodge 330 4-door sedan car in metal-flake orange paint and bright blood red shag interior, my pride and joy and most beloved possession, and he wanted it.

It was the car that kept bringing him out in the open - he would walk around the thing touching every inch of it (he's a very touchy feelly Faerie, something you need to be prepared for in case yours is too - they will touch everything - from the top of your hair to the bottom of your toes - this type touches rocks and trees and plants as they walk around too - it's sort of an obsessive habit with some Fae to absentmindedly touch everything they walk by - it's almost as though they are listening to them with their hands if you watch their slow methodic movements).

Five years after first contact I parked the car out in the swamp and he moved into it, making it his home. After this, contact with him became much easier. The 13th year however saw my life turned upside down when my best friend was murdered and I found his chopped up body in my garden. My ability to deal with the situation was far from well, and I went out into the swamp and sat in the car for days. This was the pivotal turning point, that saw the Far-Darrig declare himself my guardian and protector, drop all of his Glimmer Spells (no more appearing as monkeys and owls either) and reveal not only his real (somewhat badly deformed) self, but also a serious caring gentle (and oddly non-trickster) side to his nature.

Before this point he was wild, his antics were hazardous, he was prone to throwing sticks at people, he was prone to sneaking into houses and terrifying people with polter attacks, he took great pleasure in pushing people off cliffs into the Saco River (often unintentionally causing their deaths and is the reason locals tell the tale of "The Saco River Curse") - and for the first 13 years of contact this wild crazy trickster was the only side of him I knew. And yet in the later years of contact now reveal that the trickster act was more of a show, a bluff, a way to protect himself, as at 4 feet tall, and with a very thin body structure, Humans tower over him in frightening levels and he felt the need to make as much trouble as possible to make people afraid of him and thus protect himself by causing them to leave him alone. (This is a common trait for Fae and standing your ground and showing you are not scared will go a long way to stopping their trickster pranks.)

The difference between the first 13 years of contact and the 20+ years of contact later, was trust. The trickster activities were triggered by fear, and became less as time went by and trust grew deeper. I tell you this, because first contact with a Fae can be a frightening thing, and often it is so, because the Fae intentionally makes it that way. They WANT to frighten you. It's their defense mechanism. But if you know this ahead of time, you can stand your ground while they throw everything they got at you.

It also helps if you take a tone of authority with them, such as: "Now stop that! You know better than to act like that. Stand still so I can talk to you." Remember: they are like small children, they think like small children, they act like small children, they respond like small children, they throw temper tantrums like small children, and they have short attention spans like small children, and so you have to treat them as such: firm but gentle, authoritative, but loving. You have to show them that you mean serious business and that you don't have time to wait around for them to play out their shinanagans. "We have business to attend to. It's getting late. If you don't calm down and start behaving right now, I'm leaving. We can do this another time when you feel like paying attention." And if they don't calm down: leave, come back another day. They will be better behaved next time, once they realize you really mean it when you say you are going to leave. If they really want to talk to you, they will think twice about their actions next time.

But like I said, it can take years before a Fae will openly and fully trust a Human, so you have to have a great deal of patience. (Remembering too that they live hundreds, sometime thousands of years, so they can wait decades, even centuries.)

You are dealing with a mentality that will shout out: "Look at what I can do!" than throw your best china across the room, while running out the back door laughing hysterically.

It can be quite frustrating dealing with the Fae. Gaining their trust and respect MUST be your first and highest priority, because with out it contact with a Fae is useless.

Faeries do not forget kind deeds. Faeries do not forget gifts, especially if it was a gift of some significance (for example - something this particular Fae deeply enjoyed or wanted - like my car with the Far-Darrig or the fact that instead of milk I now leave him Swiss Miss tapioca pudding cups and how once I found out he had a passion for tubes of bright red lipstick I started leaving those for him as well.)

If you ever had an "imaginary friend" in your childhood, this means you had contact with a Fae at some point. When trying to contact other Fae, or if you are trying to contact Fae for other people or you are working with a coven/group, really, you NEED to try to establish or re-establish contact with this Fae(s? - it is more likely to be one solitary, than a group) from your childhood. This is your best advantage for you, your clients, or your group. Having a reader or a person in the group, who has personal contact with their personal Fae guardian, is going to make your contact with other Fae a million times easier. This Fae will stand in and act as your ambassador, he/she will become the go-between. Knowing that a member of your group is in good cahoots with one of their own, is going to take years off of your winning their trust, and get you closer and better contact with the Fae as a whole. So, yes, do, individually on you own try to find out everything you can about your personal Fae Guide, he/she will become you biggest ally.

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REASONS FOR CONTACTING THE FAE:

The Fae work similar to Angels, helping with petitions and prayer requests and acting as Spirit Guides and Guardians. This is where they get their reputation for granting wishes. Traditionally Fae were called upon to help with fertility magic and to help with farm work, growth of plants, and the protection of children and animals. Family, prosperity, abundance, vengeance, justice, and protection magic are typical areas for the Fae to help Humans with.

Color is a big thing for Fae. They like color. They are attracted to color. Color inspires them to work on your behalf. Remember that color chart I wrote a ways back? Use it not only for contacting the Fae but also when working with Faerie Magic Spell Crafts and Altar Work. Dress in a color matching your intent, use an altar cloth, flowers, gemstones, and candles the same color.

One way to use this color chart is in Cloutie Magic. Clouties as I mentioned above are a good thing to use when contacting Fae. Humans have been using clouties as a way to contact Fae for centuries. A cloutie is a scarf, ribbon, yarn, or strip of cloth, made out of bio-degradable material like cotton, silk, or wool, which you wear while meditating (tie it to your wrist or ankle or around your neck). It is used similar to a prayer request. Make it out of a color to match your request, focus on what you want the end result to be. Than remove the ribbon and tie it (very loosely) to the branch of a tree, hanging over water. You want the ribbon to be loose enough to be carried away by the wind or by squirrels or birds (who will use it as nesting material). With-in a few months the ribbon will disintegrate and return to the earth, as it disintegrates your request is fulfilled.

Poppet Magic (which includes: Voodoo Dolls, Goddess Dolls, Wish Dolls, Dream Pillows, Medicine Bags, Mojo Bags, and Gris-Gris) is also done by calling on the Fae to help, as are bottle spells, honey jar spells, mirror box spells, written petition scroll spells, and most any other spell.

Most people contact the Fae via card readings, divination, scrying, mediumship, and channeling with Spirit Boards being the most common tool used, and usually this is done to ask their advice on certain matters.

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(And wow, hard to believe it, but I have finally come to the end of my answer!)

[EelKat]

May 8, 2011 9:26:47 GMT -5 EelKat said:

I find myself answering this question a lot, because people keep asking it to me. So I figured I'd start a thread on the topic. Feel free to jump in and share your own methods.

How do you contact Faeries? -- I've been asked this question so many times that I wrote an article to answer it... and it just kept getting longer and longer and longer... it's bordering on becoming a book.

Writing this has inspired me to start writing a book on Faerie Magic, so that's what I'm doing now.