Blessings Darlings!
So, we moved again – now close to the house we first lived in in this area, only right on the cattle farm instead of it being ‘across the street, and behind the house on the other side of the street’ from us. Moving is always hard when you’re old and have ‘stuff’, but most of that is …
I’d like to do a series focusing on specific geasa, or taboos, that relate to how humans interact with fairies. These are things that you either should do or should never do when dealing with the fey folk. I’m hoping that doing this as a series of shorter posts might be more engaging for readers and make the points easier to remember than having a wall of information thrown at you.
I thought it…
Blessings Darlings!
Would you walk up to a random stranger on the street and ask them to give you stuff? Like, “Hey – you don’t know me at all, and I don’t know you. But …”
I talk often, I know, about the work that goes into my spirituality – and I think that’s fair enough because it is work and we shouldn’t underestimate that. But there’s joy in what we do as well, or their should be, its just easier often times to focus on the effort instead of the fun.
When I first began on my spiritual path I think I had the idea that it would all be fun and adventure, that…
Blessings Darlings!
I believe that I’m going to start blogging again. The blogs will probably be mostly reactive, spurred by irritants I run into. But dealing with irritants is how pearls are made, right?
Frondly, Fern
I have a new book coming out in September of this year, called ‘Travelling the Fairy Path’ so today I’d like to offer an excerpt from it. Its going to focus on the more experiential side of my own spirituality but it also includes some discussion of things I’ve learned from the folklore, with a chapter on the ballad material. This excerpt is from that chapter.
The Queen of
Elfan’s…
This is a first for me, a movie review, but I really want to do this one for two reasons: I hardly ever find decent urban fantasy as a movie and the mainstream critics have eviscerated this one which I think deserves a response. As an author of urban fantasy this genre is one that is obviously very close to my heart and I have been excited since I first saw ads for Bright because it looked like…
It’s generally assumed in Western culture today that elves, and more widely many types of fairies, have pointed ears and the image has become so ingrained in popular culture as to be a trope. Yet why do we picture elves and fairies with pointed ears, when most descriptions from European folklore^ emphasize how human-like these beings appear?
Arthur Rackham illustration, public domain
When we…
Recently for Patheos I did a post based on having people ask me questions on social media about the Morrigan which I answered in a Q&A format in a blog. Afterwards I had several people ask me to do one based around the Fair Folk and this is the result. As always I’ll point out that this is based on my personal knowledge and experience with Themselves and also that I use the term fairies as a…
Since my new book ‘Fairies: A Guide to the Celtic Fair Folk’ was just released last Friday, I thought today I’d like to share an short excerpt from that work. what follows is from the introduction and is looking at how we can, and why we should, respect places that belong to Themselves:
Respecting Their
Places
Many
people lump nature spirits in with fairies and that is both true and untrue….
