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The Fae – Pagan Blog Post

It would be hard not to believe in the fae if you grew up in our family for the same reason we believe in ghosts. If you see them on a regular basis and live with their behaviour then not believing in them would be harder than believing in them.

The family faeries were easy to dismiss when I was younger and living in my family. If something was misplaced it could easily be blamed on another family member but when I started living alone it was a lot harder to dismiss.

When I started living alone I became a creature of habit for some things. Keys always went on the hook by the door, art supplies, even if they looked a mess were in organized chaos and I knew where they were. My books were organized by subject. I have to admit my apartment looked chaotic sometimes but things were in an order that suited me so when things were out of whack I knew it.

I knew when I needed to clean because things would start being moved and there was no one else doing the moving. I also had a familiar that would hunch down and watch them move about the apartment. His intent stare and sometimes stalking nothing that could be seen with the naked eye was a regular evening happening during spring and summer, not so much during winter and fall. His gaze would be firmly fixed 6 to 8 inches above the floor or up around the ceiling.

The most blatant example was one day I was going to teach a class we used to call, bake a goddess. We would get together and sculpt goddesses and other things out of Sculpey. I had bought a bunch of tiny cutter shapes to use in the clay.

When I teach crafts I usually box things up all together in a carrying tote ahead of time and I had put the cutters on my drafting table in a sandwich bag. When I packed the supplies up they were gone. Absolutely no where to be found. I searched the whole apartment and finally went without them. When I got home sitting in lonely splendour in a bag sitting on it’s end and nothing else near them, there they were.

Sometimes when I have been missing something I have walked into a room and asked nicely for something to be returned and in a few hours it usually appears if they have made off with it.

I’ve learned the hard way it’s good to make garden offerings of milk and honey. Life is a lot easier when you play by their rules.

Friday Who Humour

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Hands on healing

The topic of hands on healing is a touchy one. All puns intended.

Both because some people don’t believe it exists and because of the ethical aspect.

The technique is simple enough. You can perform the basic tree meditation or any other meditation that borrows energy from the earth or you can do a meditation that draws from the sky. I personally prefer earthen meditation. You will have to experiment a bit to see what works best for you.

When you have drawn the energy up through your body focus out your hands rather than out the top of your head or your feet. This is a shorter circuit and may feel peculiar at first. As if trying to do this in the first place isn’t peculiar enough?

Your hands should start to feel really warm at the hand chakra in the center of your palms. Now place your hands above whatever needs healing. Try it first on yourself. This isn’t a party trick. This is work. Direct the energy out of your hands and into the area that needs healing. For beginners this technique works best on things like sinuses and headaches.

Form a circuit back to the ground with the energy not in to yourself. Failing to make that circuit may take that problem into your body which is not a good situation. If you see auras this is a good time to check out the colour of the area that needs healing.

If you see a muddy colour work on clearing that colour or you can visualize the colour you feel it should be flowing clear and bright out and through the area. Always make sure the energy returns to the area you are drawing it from, either the earth or the sky.

Some people find the temperature change to a cooler one and that will also signal the end of the treatment.

When you feel your done GO WASH YOUR HANDS! You do not want to be carrying their problem around with you. Put your hands on the earth and if necessary place your hands in the earth. Even if all you can find is a potted plant. I did this for a few people at work who got migraines and sinus headaches and for years afterward the phone on my desk would ring and I would hear a small voice that said, “Help!” Of course I disguised it with some acupressure and massage techniques because if they really knew what I was doing they would have lost it completely.

Now, for the ethics portion of this lesson. Always ask first before you heal. Study the situation and what you know about this person even if they are driving you nuts radiating pain. Some people have a vested interest in being sick. It makes them the center of attention and they gather energy that way to make themselves feel better. No matter how loud they are, don’t do it. They will blame you ever after for their problems and you really don’t need that, do you? And for heaven sake don’t tell them you did it to shut them up that also will come back to haunt you. To them it makes it a selfish act rather than to satisfy a need to help. It is partially a selfish act but usually it’s also an act of love. People don’t generally want to heal people they dislike. If you don’t like them if you are truly being selfish you would rather they suffer. Just not in proximity to you.

One of the precepts of Wicca you don’t hear much any more is the one about keeping silent. This would be a good time to start that one again.

This is the tale of the first death in the Trojan War.

The Greek army was gathered in Aulis. Its men had come from many towns and islands. Some were there with dreams of glory, some with dreams of gold. Others were there because their chief had demanded their presence, and either loyalty to the chief or fear of him had brought them.

The fleet was waiting and the soldiers were ready to embark. But for weeks now the wind had been blowing from the wrong direction, and the men were getting restless at waiting so long. They were beginning to think of the harvest – they had expected that the war would be won long before harvest time – but that was now so close that many men were making ready to go home, and some had already gone.

Agamemnon, the leader of the Greek army, was fearful that…

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