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🏔 This is an exercise to cleanse yourself from heavy, negative energies, grounding them, and empowering yourself with Mother Earth’s aid. Mother Earth is an expert at transforming residual, negative energy into refined, positive energy: just like compost is used to bring a flower to full bloom, Mother Earth can transform any residual energy in your body into positive energy that you can use to cleanse and protect yourself. Consider it an offering, to give back to the Earth that energy that doesn’t serve you, but could serve other beings instead.

🏔 This exercise is best performed out in nature, or at least, at groung-level, but it can be done anywhere, as long as you concentrate enough and direct energy properly.

🏔 Steps: 

First, you’re gonna be sitting on the floor, so that your lowest energy center is in contact with the ground.

Then, I want you to slowly pay more attention to your external senses, sounds around you, any smell you can pick up, the sun rays in your skin, the overall feeling of the energy around you. Enter a semi-meditative state.

Now, to that, add sensing your own body and It’s interactions with the environment. How those sounds reach your ears, then your brain, the sunlight’s energy entering through your skin, your heartbeat and energy aligning with the earth’s heartbeat and energy right below you. Concentrate on your energy field as it interacts with your environment, where it feels fluid, where it feels clogged or stuck, where it feels light, where it feels heavy. Feel your heartbeat, keeping your blood and energy flowing.

From the bottom up, place your hands on every energy center, and try to sense any energy that feels heavy or stuck. Start with your roots, kindly but in a firm and steady motion, move your hands downwards, pushing down those stuck energies through your body, and into the earth. Then, make them disperse on the earth around you as far away and widely as possible, feel how She absorbs it. Keep in mind, this isn’t bad energy, you don’t have to feel sorry for putting it into the earth. She sees it as fertilizer that is gonna be turned back into life and given to other living beings.

Do the same again, this time, at a slightly higher point in your body, your sacral energy center. You may visualize the heavy energy as dark clouds, black oil, or else, but find it, feel it, and slowly but firmly push it down with both hands, palms facing down, to the earth, and make the energy go down the sacral, to the root, to the ground, and disperse again for it to be absorbed. Repeat the process until you reach your crown energy center, each time you reach a higher energy center, going through each of the energy centers below it aswell, filtering your whole body.

Once you’ve gone through all, you’re gonna exchange that heavy energy you’ve given to the Earth, for refined, purifying energy. If you were to leave those spaces in your energy field empty, they may just soak in more negativity accidentally, as a tendency to go back to it’s original state. Instead, imagine pure white or golden light coming from the earth, through your roots, lighting up and filling completely each of your energy centers and then your whole body, all the way up to the crown, and towards the skies. Visualize yourself shining from the inside with healing light, purifying everything it touches, your entire body and all your energy field around you, forming a bubble that should extend roughly about your arm-length around you.

Finally, slowly bring back all that light unto yourself, and feel it rest right below your skin, filling your body entirely and protecting it, sealing it, so that the light doesn’t spill out, and no negativity can come back in. Thank the Earth for accepting your offering, you can even say a little prayer, and you’re free to get up and continue with your day!

🏔 Hope this was helpful for you guys, if anyone has any questions or doubts about this exercise, you can always message me! 🏔

Going along my path of working with the Fair Folk, I have tweaked some of my own guidelines when interacting with them. I had a post about Faery Etiquette that I decided to remove because looking back on it, many of the tips should’ve have been elaborated on so this is my new and improved tips for interacting with faeries.Theses guidelines have come from folklore, books and my own experiences!

Expressing Gratitude 

One of the hardest things for beginner fae workers to understand is the rule of not saying “Thank You” to the Fae. There are many theorised reasons why you shouldn’t say this particular phrase because it might be taken as you are being dismissive or you admitting debt to them. Now, this doesn’t mean you shouldn’t be grateful towards them, instead of quickly saying “thank you”, take your time to express gratitude towards them. One method is to pay back what they have blessed you with! This means setting out an offering of small trinkets, food or drink with the intention of showing gratitude. If you find yourself unable to set aside an offering or you would rather be short and sweet, try rephrasing “Thank you” in other words like “I appreciate this gesture….” or “I’m very grateful for…”

Names

It is best to not tell the Fair Folk your full name and this goes for any spirit. Names hold power and you wouldn’t go around giving just anyone the ability to hold power over you. If you go by a name different than your birth name, I still wouldn’t give them your current name. When they ask for an introduction you can give them a nickname or false name but phrase it so you aren’t technically lying about your name, for example “You may call me *insert new name*”

Honesty and Politeness

Faeries are very different beings from us humans so you should treat them with the utmost respect as to not upset and get yourself into a tricky situation. The Fair Folk are very honest beings and respect the truth so they expect us to be just as honest as they are, so do not lie! There is the belief that fairies cannot lie but it is unsure if that is myth or not. Although the Fae are very honest, they are very skilled at twisting their words and speaking in rhymes so make sure that you do not take everything they say as the straightforward truth. I would not recommend that you try at twisting your words when talking to them because that may get you into some trouble also so it is best that you either speak the truth or keep quiet. Apologies are very important but just like the rule with “Thank you” you shouldn’t say “Sorry”!!This can also be confusing but just show your apology in different way because the phrase can be seen as lazy or dismissive so try setting out an offering to appease them.

Visiting their Realm 

If you find yourself visiting the Faerie Realm, always err on the side of caution!!!! This goes for any spirit or astral work! You are stepping into a land that is unknown to you and has many of it’s own rules and customs. Take the countries of our own realm for example, North American countries are very different when it comes to countries in Europe or Asia and it is expected when you visit a different country you try to learn and follow those customs to be polite. Be polite and respectful of the beings that live there but also be cautious of their intentions. Fae workers must realize that not all fae have good intentions but then again not all fae are malicious so be wary when interacting! When visiting have your spirit guides or a trusted fairy guide you through the realm so you don’t get into trouble. 

Food & Gifts

Many old folk tales describing interactions with the fair folk often warn against the consumption of food in the spirit realm. For example in the story of Hades and Persephone the pomegranate Persephone eats ties her to the Underworld or in Japanese legend the goddess, Izanami was trapped in the Underworld because she had consumed the food there. Folk tales from the British Isles say that the food of the Faerie realm tastes heavenly but is often  enchanted so that whoever would eat it would be placed in a trance. But who knows if these tales are true so as I said before, always be cautious with faeries. Morgan Daimler states in her book Fairycraft, that “When in the Irish Otherworld it is a bad idea to eat or drink anything, and if its offered to you find a way to very politely decline; on the other hand if in one of the Norse Fairy Worlds- ljiossalfheim or svartalfheim, for example-it is acceptable to take food and drink and is worse to refuse than accept it. Should you be in a Fairy world that is not Norse or Celtic try to learn the expected customs first..” (Daimler, 2016)

Fairy Gifts are a very tricky subject I find but here is how I go about it! Trust your intuition when accepting gifts! Declining gifts from the Fae can be considered disrespectful to them so if you receiving a gift from a trusted faery then accept but if you are unsure about the side effects of accepting then either kindly decline or accept it and cleanse the gift. Just be wary that the faery may expect something in return for the gift so be prepared to give them an offering.

-Moonlight 🌙

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Here is a list of crystals that could be useful to artistic witches.

Agate: inspiration, awaken talents and improve them

Alexandrite: creativity, imagination

Amazonite: creativity, intuition

Amethyst: creativity, intuition, perception, insight

Apatite: insight, creativity

Aqua Aura Quartz: motivation, making progress in goals

Aventurine: creativity, imagination, motivation

Beryl: creativity, helps relieves the feeling of tiredness (always good for artists)

Bixbite: creativity

Carnelian: creativity, precision

Cavansite: inspiration

Charoite: inspiration

Chlorite: inspiration

Chrysoberyl: creativity

Citrine: intuition, creativity, clarity

Coral: creativity, visualization

Dolomite: concentration, focus

Emerald: focus

Fire Agate: creativity, expression

Fire Opal: creativity

Garnet: mental rejuvenation, motivation

Girasol: visualization, imagination, creativity

Goshenite: creativity, originality

Hematite: focus

Howlite: expression, creativity

Kyanite: visualization

Magnesite: visualization, unconscious thoughts realized

Mookaite Jasper: expression, versatility

Mother of Pearl: imagination, intuition, mental clarity, adaptability

Opal: creativity, inspiration, spontaneity

Pearl: focus

Rainforest Jasper: variety, progress, creativity

Sapphire: creativity, expression, mental clarity, intuition

Sardonyx: creativity, mental clarity

Siberian Gold Quartz: inspiration, motivation

Tangerine (dyed) Quartz: motivation

Tanzan Aura: intuition, inner vision

Tiger’s Eye: motivation, focus, concentration, mental clarity

Tiger Iron: artistic skills, creativity, motivation

Topaz: creativity, individuality, expression

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This is the instructions for making a simple protection spell jar:

Ingredients:

-Rosemary (protection, warding off the evil eye)

- Sage ( protection, clearing out energy)

- Black tourmaline (removing hexes, blocking evil)

-Mint (cleansing, warding)

- Lavender (to bring good vibes back into your space as well as cleansing)

- petition stating what you want to protect, what you want out of your life/ what is harming you/ what you want to banish

Instructions: During a waning moon (cleansing, releasing, etc.) smudge with protective herbs and after casting a circle, place the ingredients in the jar whilst saying a protective incantation or prayer. I will let you choose your words, but I recommend the following incantation, which I really like:

“ I seek protection, and sound my alarm, my body mind and spirit now safe from harm, my aura a shield to keep me from harm, I now banish negativity and all that is wrong.”

When you are done, smudge some smoke into and inside the jar before closing it; finishing by saying “so mote it be” right as you are closing the jar. 

This spell should last for around a moon cycle; on the next waning moon I recommend redoing the spell or adding to it to keep its strength alive. 

Go to the jar and shake it whenever you need protection. If things don’t get better within  a moon cycle I recommend a stronger banishing spell, or even hex removal. However, I personally don’t like to go full out aggressive for every little issue; generally if the issue is something that can be solved easily a spell jar will do the trick. \

I've got a couple of listings up at the moment including this hand carved unicorn horn wand! I will be adding more soon ^-^