Call me Tuiliel or Lily
(30s, she/they, US Mid-Atlantic)
This is a side blog! If I follow back, it will be under my main blog: @lily-leaves
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Welcome! I'm Tuiliel (or you can call me Lily). My posts and reblogs are usually related to witchcraft, paganism, nature photos, or fantasy art and fae aesthetic. I'll put some of my more common tags below.
This is a side blog! If I follow back, it will be under my main blog: @lily-leaves
Also, you may want to check out my shop blog: @7serendipities
More about my specific paganism and witchcraft under the cut.
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I've been practicing some form of paganism and witchcraft for more than 20 years at this point, and my practice has wandered around a bit, but I've settled into devotional polytheistic paganism. I mainly interact with the Tuatha Dé and the Vanir and the Fair Folk, though I do keep a shrine to Kemetic deities, and have relationships with several Welsh and Greek deities, and I try to at least have pleasant cordiality with anyone else I encounter.
My witchcraft is very hedgewitchy, focused half on the Otherworlds (Fairy especially) and half on my hyperlocal area, emphasis on spiritwork but also lots of plant and candle magic.
I prefer the term faeborn over otherkin or alterhuman but generally yeah I fall under those umbrellas and it is hard to currently be incarnate as human.
I also run the following e-shrines, though none of them are updated more than once in a while:
@eyes-of-ra : Bast and Sekhmet, and Kemeticism as a whole
@nic-flidais : Flidais and her Daughters - mostly aesthetic/Vibes™️ because there's not a lot written about them
@vanadottir : the Vanir and associated beings (some alfar, some Vanir-by-marriage), heathenry in general
@bright-and-cold : Hela and her family
@queens-of-sovereignty : fairy queens, mostly Irish but also a few Welsh and a few that are UPG - this is almost entirely an aesthetic/Vibes™️ blog
@athena-columbia : the local cultus aspect of Athena as patroness of Washington DC, and the federal government of the United States
@thrudvangr : Thor, made as part of a petition and mostly an archive at this point
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This piece is a tribute to the witches of Florianópolis, a place also known as the “Island of Magic”. In some stories, fishermen recounted that witches danced inside their fishing nets.
Watercolor, pencils and ink on A4 paper.
Artwork made for the ‘Fables of Time’ exhibition by Poetic Tiger Gallery. Original available for sale.
It both makes too much sense and pisses me off that its impossible to find active elven/elfae/fae/faerie/fairy communities.
I'm early-mid twenties, i am def not old, but its straight up scary not being able to find people older and more knowledgable people on BEING fae. Its scary that the resources i can find are either lackluster or obscured by a thick layer of metaphorical dust (with the half-exception of The Silver Elves Wordpress blog, love those elves).
The few other fae ive met are my age or younger and know less than me and i dont know much!! We're kids with no guidance a lot of the time!! Its a stark difference to the canid, felis, otherwise therian, and the other mythos, ESPECIALLY compared to the vampyric and draconic communities!! These are lovely and complex communities - keyword: COMMUNITIES
There are no faekin discord servers i can find, there are little people talking about the SPIRITUAL side of being elfae, and the idea of starting myself is daunting cause i feel underqualified - but we all do!!
Lots of fae are solidary, not out of desire but from necessity. Just like the other Other communities its hard to be Other, but unlike them we are especially scattered.
I want to find you! i want to see you! Im here! Where are you?? Where can we be??
This post is similar enough to one recently posted in r/Otherkin that I'm pretty sure you're the same person I just messaged there. I see you've gotten a few pointers in the reblogs (like Shining Hearth which I was going to mention), so just, hi, and reblogging you for the network exposure :)
Yeah, it is frustrating (and weird, for an old fruit like me who lived through different times) that elfae are such a minority now when it wasn't the case 25-30 years ago. The virtually complete merging of the used-to-be-more-separate mythic-otherkin and animal/therianthrope communities had a big impact on that. Or rather, the mythic section got kinda dissolved in something bigger and the term otherkin got applied to the whole mishmash.
(No one @ me that "otherkin(d)" was used to mean any kind of nonhuman pretty early on; I know that. But there was definitely a longish period where it meant primarily mythfolk and of those, elfae were a big plurality if not a majority. These things are no longer the case.)
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Wait you're a Tolkien elvish religionist that's so cool...I'm a pretty soft polytheist but I've toyed with the idea of working with Nienna, to me she has a lot of symbolism in common with Hel and also the good parts I used to like about Marian veneration. Would you be open to sharing a little bit about your practice?
i am so one milion percent open and many of my friends merge valar or eru veneration (several examples in various places on the worship--workwith spectrum) with their other pantheons or with valar as epithets/facets of their gods so you are absolutely not the only one catching those vibes or interested in that <3.
(i know you are also a well practiced person with similar concepts in your path so forgive me if i assume anything about how best to communicate with you and nudge me/ask if anything is unclear or is interesting that i skipped etc)
I'm in the neighborhood of eru, valar, and maiar are my Entire Deal. A lot of my animistic practices and relationships from Before eldarin awakening are maintained mostly the same way, but the technology i use has changed(eldarin spiritual anatomy is different from human and it was like finding a key to switch technology.)
i call my thingy panentheistic. i worship Eru as the one before and outside of creation and all counting, but i also worship Eru as the flame imperishable that is within and animates creation, and also as the Action of Existing/having been created. All the Valar are also Eru the way I am also Eru, Eru is also all the Valar and all of the created. and also a separate beautiful thing outside of sight and sound and my capacity for thought. I love this beautiful terrible world and my wonderful awful place in it. I love blooming and I love rot.
Nienna was my patron during the Great Changing of my life, and now that things are much more stable for me she has taken a less direct role in my daily activities but is still very much involved in my loving kindness/compassion/pity/metta/tong len/related practices, and has encouraged me to experience patronage with all of the valar in whatever order occurs to us to explore. Many of us (tolk spiritual folks in general, valar venerators of many kinds) are particularly drawn to Nienna and have great need of her comfort and her teaching in these alarmingly stupid and horrific times. the work i do with my irl teacher (a zen priest and catholic i meet with in person who does a blend of zen, christian contemplative/centering prayer, and tibetan practices from the monks who visit us in our region) is especially For Nienna and Encouraged by her.
Okay i am going to put the talking stick down because i want to know what YOU are hearing and feeling and putting together about Nienna in your own unique experiences!!! so hype!!! feel free to reply publicly or privately as you prefer, i just wanted to have this somewhere i could get to it later and knew it would disappear from my inbox if i answered it privately.
I just finished reading Queer Rites by Enfys J. Book. It's a book of ways to mark a variety of queer milestones (coming out, affirming your gender and sexuality, attending your first pride event, etc) most of the rituals are solo affairs but the last section is for group rituals and many of the rituals have tips for adapting them to group settings.
I like how the rituals are structured not as a long list of steps but under their own headings. It feels neat and organized. I also like that most of them require a handful of supplies that you probably have around the house. The author mentions that they wanted the rituals to use free or low cost supplies to support folks of all income levels. I also appreciate the suggestions for alternatives to burning or burying things if you can't have open flames or land in which to bury things. There are also instructions for reusing things used in some of the rituals.
Would I recommend this book? I think if you're looking for ways to mark milestones as a queer Pagan/witch/magical practitioner, you'll get more out of this book. I personally can't see myself performing many of these rituals because they either don't apply to my situation or I don't care enough to mark certain milestones.
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Still mostly on hiatus, but here's how you can help
Well. I was hoping things with the divorce and my health would ease up, but in fact the opposite has happened, so I'm still mostly on hiatus. My website needs migrating again, as I've downsized it, and I'm going to go back to just having things on storevny instead of a woocommerce, because I do not know how long it's going to be until I can do the sort of volume of work it would require to make that not cost me more than I'm making. The etsy shop is currently on vacation as well, and at this point besides people generously donating here so that I can pay for the cheaper version of the website while I'm not doing much work, the only income I have is from a few divination regulars, because I'm still doing readings directly via email/paypal if you're willing to wait on longer turn times. I'm slow at the moment, and just a mess in general, but I am hoping by Samhain I'll be divorced and settled somewhere in Maryland and finally resting enough to get out of burnout and get my health back to my still-disabled-but-also-functional baseline. And then hopefully I can get the business back up and running again (with divination/jewelry/healing and maybe classes) approx Spring 2027. But that's a Best Laid Plan, so we'll see if it goes aglay, hmm?
In the meantime, if you'd like to help me stay afloat, here's what you can do:
Set up a recurring donation on Patreon where I'll be posting semi-regular updates
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Share either of those with people you think might be interested in/capable of donating
Send me an email to request a reading (if you're willing to wait a week or more)
Light a candle for me and/or address prayers to one of the following deities: The Morrigan, Be Chuille, Flidais, The Dagda, Lugh, Freyja, Heimdallr, Njord, Nerthus, the Norns, Bast, Sekhmet, or Apollo
I appreciate everyone here so much, and I am so thankful for everyone's patience and good wishes!
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