THE SALT WIŦCH

encourages calmness, protection, healing, renewal, and understanding. use to represent the element of water for an alter/spell.

sea salt

rose

chamomile

eucalyptus

grind together with a river stone until combined (sub for whatever you have on hand if you can’t get one ofc), charge using crystals of your personal association, by having it on the windowsill during a heavy rain/storm, or with a blue candle to reawaken before use.

🌸 Another random idea at work again! Here’s part 2 of my seashell divination series! I’ve been trying to develop this method for some time, this method works best if you only read between 1~5 shells when divining them. I only use the major arcana to assign the shells since 22 shells is quite enough rather than using all major and minor arcana cards and assigning them all which is waay too much! 🌸

🕯️ Things you’ll need: 🕯️

• Basket of mixed shells or select the shells on the list below!

• Cloth, hanky or dolly to cover the basket

• Herb bundle or sage/rosemary incense

• Seashell correspondence list

💐 Cover and pick method 💐

• Ask your question. Cleanse, cover and gently shake the basket close your eyes and pick your shells . Pick between 1 or 5 shells for better reading. You dont wanna pick more than 5 otherwise there’s too much frustration.

• If the shells you picked has an open mouth or the hole is up it’s a reversed meaning. Closed mouth or the hole is facing down you can just read the shell as it is!  

🎲 Tossing method 🎲

•  Ask yourself a question. Cleanse, shake and gently toss the shells on the mat. Let’s say I’m doing a 3 shell reading.(you can pick shells between 1~5)  

I’ll chose one shell that’s nearest to me and the second shell in the middle and third shell farthest away from me then divining your shells

• When picking your shells you don’t want to turn the mouth or hole facing downwards leave as it is! Since this is a reversed meaning.

🔮 The shells and tarot 🔮

• The Fool: whelk egg casing, janitha shell

• The Magician: pear whelk

• The High Priestess: crown conch, moon shell

• The Empress: conch, cowrie and junonia shell

• The Emperor: auger, cerith shell

• The Hierophant: spider conch

• The Lovers: clam, cockles, tulip shell

• The Chariot: helmet shell, cone shell

• Strength: lion’s paw, bear’s paw shell

• The Hermit: drupe shell, frog shell ,carrier shell

• Wheel of Fortune: whelk, spindle shell, left-handed whelk

• Justice: slipper shell, conch

• The Hanged Man: mussel 

• Death: worm snail shell

• Temperance: angel/turkey wing shell,

• The Devil: oyster shell

• The Tower: left-handed whelk

• The Star: bubble shell

• The Moon: moon shell

• The Sun: sundial shell

• Judgement: scallop shells

• The World: worm snail shell, scallop shells

Note: You can personalize/assign your shells to fit your own meanings!

🌷🎀 Happy casting! 🌷🎀

Offerings |

🕊 roses

🕊 chocolate

🕊 coffee

🕊 apples

🕊 seashells (scallops)

🕊 mirrors

🕊 pearls

🕊 pomegranates

🕊 images of the dove, sparrow, dolphin, hare & swan

🕊 myrtle

🕊 lettuce

🕊 cinnamon rolls / bread

🕊 pink, red, white candles

🕊 gold & silver jewelry

🕊 wine / grape juice

🕊 strawberries & cherries

🕊 erotic & romantic poetry

🕊 anything vanilla related

🕊 rose incense

🕊 Rose Quartz, angel aura, opal, & clear quartz

Devotions |

🕊 practice self care

🕊 preform love, sex, & beauty magic

🕊 use rose water on your body to attract love & to appear beautiful

🕊 write love letters to Aphrodite, your lover, or friends

🕊 write poetry with romantic or sexual intentions

🕊 recite Sappho’s poetry since she was a worshipper of Aphrodite & Eros. She often mentions the two in her fragments

🕊 treat yourself to lingerie, sex toys, new clothes, makeup, desserts or whatever that’ll boost your confidence

🕊 create a devotional playlist mixed with songs that make you feel soft, lovely, beautiful, & fond of life & beauty

🕊 bake her some sweets like brownies, cookies, etc. (I’ve noticed she likes edibles hehe)

🕊 learn a Romance language! Like Spanish, French, Italian, Romanian, etc.

🕊 become an ally of the lgbt+ community

🕊 kiss the necklace, ring, braclet you offered to her as an act of love & honoring

🕊 Dab vanilla extract on the back of your ears, your wrist, & neck to smell sweet & alluring

🕊 work with nymphs or satyrs!

🕊 smoke a rose blunt or jay

How to get closer |

🕊 celebrate Valentine’s Day in her name; conduct a ritual & ceremony to show your love to her! Any holiday you associate with her or the ancient Greeks dedicated to her, you should celebrate 💞

🕊 meditate upon her; feel her energy, hear her voice, absorb her thoughts. Listen to her & let her guide you.

This is my near completed masterpost of shells which I tried listing up some common and uncommon shells for the past few days! I might add more shell info in the future💕

Disclaimer: This list is of associations collected from various sources around the internet and a mix of my personal ones!

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Abalone: love, healing, prosperity, luck, wealth, balance, peace, cleansing, meditation, psychic abilities, self-love, feminine energies, earth + water element

Angel’s Wing: determination, freedom, angelic energies, positive spiritual guidance, protection, aid in receiving and sending energies, air element

Auger: fertility, strength, courage, power, masculine energies, fire element

Ark Shell: safety, protection, finding strength in the outer world 

Bear’s paw: power, strength, vitality, nurturing, protection, warmth, feminine + masculine energies, earth + fire element 

(Banded) Tulip Shell: binding, friendships, relationships, social life, water element

Bonnet Shell: secrecy, the unknown, protection, mystery, trust, beauty, air element

Button Shell: connections, gatherings, friendships, spirituality, divination, air element

Bubble Shell: inspiration, creativity, happiness, curiosity, wished, intuitions, cleansing, hope, faith, psychic abilities, divination, air element 

Carrier Shell: overcoming shyness, helps getting out of your shell, courage, protection, strength, escaping from negative thoughts

Cat’s eye Shell:  protection against jealousy, gossips and negative energies

Cerith Shell: sexuality, fertility, masculine energies, fire element

Clam: purification, love, friendships, abundance, communication, healing, stability, vitality, protection, protecting emotions, truth, balance, peace, grounding, feminine energies, water element

Cockle: love, friendship, relationships, emotions, centering, gateway to a new life, new beginnings, feminine energies, water element

Conch: love, beauty, friendship, communication, feminine energies, truth, art , beauty, clarity, freedom grace, movement, speech, spirituality, strength summoning, trust, truth , vanity, feminine energies, air + water element

Cone Shell: protection, control, motivation

Cowrie: abundance, prosperity, fertility, love, wealth, pregnancy, growth, divination, sexuality, protection, beauty, menstruation problems, feminine energies, water element

Crown Conch: associated with crown chakra, meditation, divinity, intention, confidence, intuition

Drupe Shell: reflecting oneself, discover and being comfortable of who you are, self trust, confidence, bravery

Fig Shell: wisdom, creativity, peace, love, luck, fertility, divination, fortune, water + air element

Fighting Conch: aggression, defense, warding/shielding, protection, masculine energies, fire element

Frog Shell: moving forward, starting over, new beginnings

Harp Shell: secrecy, beauty, art, protection, feminine energies, water + air element

Helmet Shell: grounding, protection, strength, honor, masculine energies fire element

(Horned) Turban: protection, faith, trust

Horse Conch: beauty, freedom, grace, strength, progress, water + earth element

Jackknife Clam: (inner) strength, speed, warding, secrecy, masculine energies, air element

Janthina Shell: faith, peace, trust, moving forward, going with the flow, trust in the universe, air element

Jewel Box Clam: beauty, vanity, glamour, passion, (self) love, self care, feminine energies, water element 

Jingle Shells: wealth, prosperity, cleansing, positivity, trust, intuition, earth element

Junonia Shell: strength, beauty, marriage, fertility, childbirth, feminine energies, named after the Roman goddess Juno/Hera (Greek)

Keyhole Limpet: finding a way in/out in a situation, meditation, unblocking psychic/divination abilities  

Limpet: courage, confidence, strength, nurturing, self  trust, peace, endurance

Left-Handed Whelk: making drastic / positive changes in life, transformation, air element

Lightning whelk: awareness, banishing, intent, trust

Lion’s Paw: strength, courage, protection, inner strength, victory, pride, masculine energies, fire element

Miter Shell: peace, spirituality, grounding + centering, calm energies, spiritual introspection, lunar magick, feminine + masculine energies, water element

Moon Shell: purification, peace, protection, meditation, clarity, vitality, rebirth, cleansing + charging energies, psychic awareness, cycles, progress, warding, lunar magick, feminine energies, water element

Murex: protection, defense, binding, masculine energies

Mussels: communications, friendships, luck, health, travel, abundance, dedication, determination, community, life giving stability, enduring life’s hardships, feminine enegies, water element

Nautilus: focus, intentions, clarity, wisdom, growth, peace, endings + beginnings

Olive Shells: healing, hope, love, friendship, hope abundance, opportunity, water element

Oyster: love,luck, good fortune, prosperity, banishing, fertility, (hidden) beauty, vitality, passion, turning pain into beauty (pearls), lunar magick, feminine energies, water element

Oyster Drill: curses, warding/shielding, protection

Pear Whelk: control, life, progress, trust, strength, manifestation, fire element

Pen Shell: beauty, confidence, creativity, self-love, art, love, inspiration, feminine energies, water element

Periwinkle: grounding, intuitions, focus, friendships

Purple Snail Shell: beauty, divination, psychic abilities, air element

Pyram Shell: determination, hope, strength, air element

Scallops: travel, love, friendships, movement, beauty, grace, change, fertility, peace, healing, travel, spirituality, happiness, communication, patience, diversity, openess, all-purpose shell, feminine energies, water + air element

Slipper Shell: balance, generosity, transformation, healing, peace, community, helping others, air element

Snail Shell (Garden Snails): fertility, sexuality, travel, protection, home, feminine + masculine energies, earth + water element

Spider Conch: maturity, responsibility, self-defense, maintaining your position, fire element

Spindle Shell: inspiration, meditation, fate, change, karma, destiny, vitality

Strombus Shell: truth, communication, divination, speech, trust, air element

Star Limpet: strength, growth, beauty, art, water element

Sundial Shell: hope, success, victory, the sun, fire element

Thorny Oyster: defense, creativity, intuition, focus, beauty, art

Tooth Shell / Tusk Shell: wealth, business, abundance, strength, aggression, masculine energies fire element

Top Shell: spiral energies, centering, helping energy flow, control, air element

Triton Conch: happiness, intentions, prayers, helps clearing your voice/intentions, use to seek help/attention, air element

Turkey Wing: freedom, happiness, emotions, lifts bad moods, change emotions, water + air element

Venus Comb Murex: vanity, beauty, glamour, love, feminine energies, protection, water element

Wentletrap: creativity, inspiration, art, water element

Whelk: taking control, get a hold of a situation, life changes, good fortune, wisdom, guidance, control, positivity, understanding, spiritual development, air element

Whelk Egg Casing: abundance, new beginnings, faith, luck

Worm Snail Shell: tenacity, hope, life and death, creation, overcoming obstacles, hope, changes, earth element

                          ❤ Note: Please use/collect your shells ethically! ❤

~Latin for Witches (and a Spell in Latin)~

Lesson I – Introduction

We all love Latin. Latin is a majestic, beautiful and undoubtely melodic language. It’s based on Ancient Greek and it has been used for magical purposes for centuries. Lots of witches up to this very day use it for their magical workings, spellwork, rituals, incantations, etc. As we all know all romance languages (spanish, romanian, portuguese, french, italian, etc) originate from Latin, so if you happen to be a native speaker of one of the above languages, Latin is going to be a piece of cake for you. However, even if your mother tongue IS English, Latin is going to be fairly easy for you, too, so GOOD NEWS HERE. In fact, most english words originate from Latin, and some of them are precisely the same in english (words like status, ego, etc). But let’s cut to the chase, shall we?

We all know there’s something special, something majestic, something mystical, something mysterious about this language. So it’s no coincidence that people have been using Latin for their magical workings for so long. If you’re someone who does not practice Magick, you, too, are welcome to join us and learn Latin. If you’re someone who does practice Magick, you’re at the right place, because we will start from the very basics, and we will be crafting up spells in Latin from the very first lesson. SAY YES IF YOU LOVE THAT !YES, you read that right. So, let’s START at once and have some FUN!

OK. I do not like rambling so simple things first.

In Latin there are no articles whatsoever. So, no articles.

In Latin, the genders are three, masculine, feminine and neuter. Keep that it mind. We will not be focusing on grammar here so I won’t be boring you with it. But just keep that it mind for now but do not memorise anything. Right…

~SECRET TIPS AND TRICKS~ (Again, do not memorise anything. Just read, practice and have FUN since very soon you will be able to give your spells a very special and sophisticated… flavour.)

The Letter E is ALWAYS pronounced ‘EH’ as in TELL

The Letter C is always pronounced K as in crazy, crisp, cool NEVER like cease, cemetary.

The Letter I is always pronounced EE as in SIT, never like kite, spike.

The Letter G is always pronounced G as in great, garbage, never like gem, gibberish

ALL the other letters are pronounced exactly the same we pronounce them in English. SO, that’s easy to remember.

The very basics now: Let’s start:

Ego = I (pronounced EH-goh)

Tu = You (singular) (TOO)

Ille = He (EE-leh)

Nos = We (NOHS)

Vos = You (VOHS)

Now the verb to be… which is:

Ego sum (EH-goh SOOM) = I am | Ego sum Jason = I am Jason

Tu es (TOO – EHS) = You are (sing.) Tu es dives (TOO EHS DEEV-ehs) = You are rich

Ille est (EE-leh EH-st) = He is Ille est maleficus (EE-leh EHST ma LEH fee koos) He is a witch

Nos sumus (NOHS SOO-moos) Nos sumus malefici: We are witches. (NOHS – SOO-MOOS mah-LEH-fee-keeh) We are witches

Congratulations! You have just learned the verb to be and most personal pronouns. Easy, isn’t it? Well, Latin IS easy AND FUN!!! Let’s continue, but enough with introductions, let’s dive right in and check out an actual spell written in Latin. After we do that, we will be able to make our very own.

~COMMON WORDS that we use in magick and spells:

So mote it be (sic fiat) =( SEEK FEE-aht)

Voco = I call upon/ Summon = (VOH-coh)

Maleficus = witch (male –literally: evil-doer) / Malefica (female) Mah-LEH-fee-koos / Mah-LEH-fee-kah

Volo = [VOH-loh] I want

Prosperitas = Prosperity (proh-SPEH-ree-tahs) (the letter “I” is ALWAYS pronounced “ee” as in tee-hee LOL)

Habeo = HAH-beh-oh I have

Omnia = OHM-nee-ah = everything

Venite = Come! (imperative, plural form – command) VEH-nee-teh

Fortuna = Luck ( fohr-TOO-nah)

Dives = Rich (DEE-vehs)  and riches

Now… let’s see an actual spell, one that contains most of the above words. This particular spell is for luck, prosperity and abundance. Let’s take a look.

Fortuna, Prosperitas et Abundantia Habeo Omnia. Pecunia venit ad me. Habeo omnia. Fortuna, Prosperitas et Abundantia Omnia, quae volo, Habeo(X3) Pecuniam, Fortunam, Abundantiam(X3) Dives sum, Totus sum, Habeo Omnia, Habeo Omnia, Habeo Omnia. Fortunam, Prosperitatem, Abundantiam Mel, cinnamomum et saccharum. Fortunam, Prosperitatem, Abundantiam Habeo omnia, quae volo, Habeo, Habeo, Habeo. Mel, cinnamomum et saccharum. Luxuriam, Prosperitatem et Abundantiam Dives sum, Omnia Habeo. Attraho pecuniam. Attraho opes, Attraho omnia, quae volo.X3 Habeo Omnia. Totus sum. Fortuna, Prosperitas et Abundantia. Pecunia venit ad me. Attraho dives. Attraho pecuniam. Attraho prosperitatem. Habeo omnia quae volo. SIC FIAT(X3)

Let us see what we already know and what is unknown. Most of the words used, you can definitely guess their meaning.

Fortuna, Prosperitas et Abundantia Habeo Omnia.

Fortuna = Luck

Prosperitas = Prosperity

Abundantia = Abundance

Habeo omnia = I have everything

Pecunia venit ad me

Pecunia [peh-KOO-nee-ah]= Money

venit [VEH-neet] = comes / is coming

ad me [Ad MEH]= to me

Omnia[OHM-nee-ah], quae[KWEH] volo, Habeo

Omnia = everything

quae volo = that I want

Habeo = I have

Mel, cinnamomum et saccharum.

Mel = honey

cinnamomum = kee-nah-MOH-moom => Cinnamon

saccharum = SAHK – hah –room => sugar

Attraho = ah-TRAH-hoh => I attract

Easy, isn’t it?

Please, Like, Share (or/and Reblog) this Lesson so other people can learn to use Latin, as well. If you have any comments, suggestions, recommendations, ideas, anything really, if you want to ask any questions, please by all means feel free to do so! Hope you enjoyed this lesson as much as I enjoyed creating it for you. Now try crafting up your own spell, make it simple! Test yourself and have fun!

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This is perhaps my favorite spell ever. Whenever I loose an item that I can’t seem to find and I have apples on hand I do this spell. I have done this twice so far and both times it’s worked beautifully.

You will need:

Extreme concentration 

Silence 

A apple 

Bowl of water

What to do:

Peel the apple with a knife. After the apple is completely peeled place the peal in the water while chanting:

Operative witchcraft is any witchcraft that DOES shit -practically-. Get money, heal a sickness, curse a past lover, steal milk, get a bountiful harvest, that sort of thing. In trance work, you can go down to the spirits and negotiate something with them to do any of these things. You can fly forth in spirit to bring curses or healing to someone. You can go find money in the Underworld (treasure hunting) with the help of a spirit (Grimoires full of these) and bring it back into the waking world. 

The Crossroads are an infinitely powerful place – where the planes collide, the worldly nexus and the paths of decision. While always related to the actual crossing of roads, the symbolic nature of the Crossroads extends far beyond – even in the physical plane. The nexus include far more than the mere crossing of paths, but present at many – both naturally and made-made – destinations. Below you will find a (non-comprehensive) list and a brief description of how they apply to the Crossroads and what work might be done most efficiently at the particular junction.

Physical Crossroads

“X” and “T” Crossroads

This grouping includes the Crossroads in its traditional sense – as the crossing of roads in an “x” or “+” formation. These, of course, are well documented and are usually what is being discussed when talk of crossroads come up. These can be specified – for instance: a crossroad at the edge of town, in the woods, etc., all of which have their own, unique connotations. Their “sister” crossroads is the T crossroad (alt. “Y”) – which is still prevelantly known. These are my personal favorite, being an adherent to Quimbanda – these Crossroads are held sacred to Pomba Gira. They offer a more concise, selective and direct crossroads energy – as they only offer 3 roads, two choices, the forward option rendered entirely void. In this capacity, there is no option but to change. You cannot continue as you are, but instead must choose a new path – change at its greatest.

Bridges

These are much like the traditional crossroads, though there is a minor planar separation. As the water and the bridge never transect. In this capacity, you have a path or tangent that is not wholly present, but guiding. From above they appear to intersect, but from the ground we see they do not and cannot – though this doesn’t make them any less useful. It is at these places that change can be made fluidly. Where as the “T” crossroad is (arguably) the most severe, change-bring crossroad, this the the least so. As such, this one is not so much about bringing in the new, but freeing yourself of the old. Symbolically, spirits were always said to be unable to cross running water – in this case, there is a part of you that you feel needs to be relinquished, one you will not permit to cross the water with you. This is the cross of letting go of that which need be so.

Railroad-Track Crossings

Again, similar to the above to entries, these represent more traditional crossroads. These can be broken down into two, separate sets of places:

Where Tracks Cross a Road: These can be used as a symbol for a path that is fixed, continuous and unstoppable. The train will continue, it is your responsibility to stop. This can be a place to work rituals for motivation, drive and success – or alternately, to learn patience. Sometimes the only, real option is to sit and wait – there is strength in patience, these places might allow for this realization.

Where Tracks Cross Tracks: A recipe for disaster. Two, headstrong, unstopping forces are doomed to collide. While the former has the potential to grant motivation, this one is the reality of too much or counterproductiveness. These places are great for working curses that breed devastation, and chaos working from all sides. Place a penny at the junction, allow it to be flattened and collect it to use in particularly nasty curses.

Property Corners

That’s right, little did you know you had a Crossroads (literally) in your own backyard! At each of the corners of your property, where four plots meet, there is a crossroads. These, naturally, are best used for things relating to the home – protection, finance, martial issues, health and well-being. Probably not the best to use these to call up Crossroads Spirits or make any Faustian Deals. 

Cemeteries

The liminal space of the dead on the plane of the living – these are the sites where the dead interact (in great number) energetically with our plane, building a nexus of sorts. Naturally the larger the cemetery, the more effective this nexus becomes (here’s looking at you, New Orleans). It’s not enough that they exist spiritual in one place, but its that they exist as both physically and spiritual distinct in the location – their spirit and body exist, but no longer bound, working in a sort of intersecting movement. To no one’s surprise, these are the places most fitting work with the Dead, bridging the planes, communion with the spirits, etc. It’s also little surprise that many Cemetery Spirits have numerous correlations to their Crossroads counterparts.

Churches

That’s right, churches, too are liminal spaces – wherein the Divine (of which ever sort) ground to the earth and form a crossroads. These are obviously most fitting religious works – divine paths, orchestrating change with the help of the Divine, resolution to crises of faith, etc. As for curses go, these same qualities can also be harness to bring about crises of faith and repurpose the energies for more malignant works. 

Metaphorical Intersections

Doorways

While at first thought, one might assume that doorways would be much like a “T” crossroad of not more severe – as there is but one path that may be taken. This, however, symbolically is not the case. While we know a closed door will always open to the same place here, spiritually that’s never a guarantee. In fact, doors have the capacity to connect all things. One door may lead to any other. But be warned, doors  go both ways – be careful where it leads, for it will also lead back.

Hands/Feet and Mouth/Ears

Hands and feet are the intersection of the mind and the physical. It is they who move us, connect us, or create from our mind something on this plane – such as art, writing, gesture. Mouths bridge mind to mind through verbal communication – what the mouth sends, the ear receives and the mind interprets. As such, all of these things occupy a sort of liminal space.

Cosmic/Season Crossroads

Twilight

Twilight is the bridge from day to night, a time of change – a commingling of both of their characteristics. Depending on what you seek, these can be used as a way to gain insight. For illumination, enlightenment utilize dawn – allow the sun to bring light to the darkness. For understanding, self discovery or occult knowledge, use dusk – wherein the preconceived notions of day fall away to reveal the hidden truths of night.

Midnight

The minute when one day ends and the next begins – colloquially referred to as “the witching hour,” it is a time between time. This can be used for many works – though, when I utilize midnight, I use mid-night. The time at the middle of when the sun sets and rises – the darkest part of night, when it is at its strongest, after is has waxed, but before it has waned.

31st day

Like Twilight and Midnight, this is time related – a place between months, a time for change. These can be utilized much like more regular New Years: a time to make resolutions, enact change and bring anew/cast out the old. As such, they’re good for exorcisms and rebirth.

There are countless other options, but I chose to note the ones I’ve been known to use. I’d love to hear and see what some of all know to be unconventional crossroads!

The word “faerie” has been most commonly understood to refer to the realm of fairies (i.e., Elphame, fairyland), or ‘of the realm of fairies.’ Both OED and Merriam-Webster agree: Faerie, from the Old French faerie (circa 1188), was reintroduced into English in 1590 by Edmund Spenser in authoring the Faerie Queene; also used as a pseudo-archaic variant of fairy.

The word “faery,” a variant of faerie (faie + -erie; Modern English -(e)ry), is an archaic or poetic spelling often used as an adjective (e.g., faery magic. faery glen). Note the suffix -ery is used to express a practice or type of activity; a place or establishment; things collectively; a state or condition; qualities collectively, and actions – as in archery, bakery, greenery, knavery, trickery, witchery, etc.

When artist Brian Froud came along, he took to using the more archaic spellings of faery (singular noun, adjective) and faeries (pl.) when referring to the beings in his works. The notoriety of his work along with a few others has contributed greatly to the popularization of those spellings.

I have observed a recent development on the internet where people have attempted to assert a distinction in meaning between the spelling “fairies” and “faeries,” claiming the former refers to the romanticized post-Victorian  depictions of fairies as sweet, delicate beings with wings, while the latter refers to the darkly wild beings more true to folklore. While I understand how some might consider this a useful distinction to make, as far as I can see it has no basis in the actual historical usage or etymology of those words. Some have even gone further to suggest this supposed distinction between fairy and faerie is arrived at through different etymological roots. While fairy [ca. 1300, Middle English, fairie, (denoting fairyland, or fairies collectively): from Old French faerie, from fae (”a fairy”) + -erie, from Vulgar Latin Fāta (“the Fates”), plural of the Latin fātum (“fate”)] has its roots in Latin, they claim the word “faerie,“ with its supposed darker or wilder connotation, is actually arrived at through the Gaelic fear sidhe (”man of the fairy mound”). I haven’t seen anything solid to support this claim, so I remain skeptical. Perhaps some of my mutuals with a better background in Gaelic could shed more light on this notion

I can attest that I personally make no such distinction, on this blog or elsewhere. Whether I use the word “fairy or “faery” or “faerie(s),” I am referring to the same beings as they have traditionally been described in folklore, in all their various forms and natures.