THE FAIRY REALM

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THE FAIRY REALM

 

Auki

The mountain spirit of Peru who inhabits the high Andes, called upon by the brujos (shamans) to heal the sick. The brujos will call the auki by whistling. The auki will descend, and channel its power through the brujos.

 

Bogie

A frightening goblin of English folklore. The bogie is described as little, black, and hairy. It is considered dangerous, mischievous, sly, and is renowned for its intelligence. Parents would use the threat of the bogie to frighten young children into good behavior.

 

Brownie

A household spirit popular in northern English and Scottish folklore, the brownie is a very small, brown, shaggy human and usually dresses in ragged brown clothes. Brownies are considered to be most industrious when it comes to such household chores as grinding grain, churning butter, and plowing. They love to help humans with their work, especially with tedious tasks. Brownies are thanked with a bowl of fresh cream and freshly baked bread. If criticized, they will undo what they have already done and destroy a good deal more.

 

Deva

In New Age philosophy, devas are the guardians of nature and are responsible for building up forms on the inner planes as well as on the physical plane. The devas hold the keys of fate for all forms around us. They appear in every shape and size, from the earthly gnome to the highest archangel.

 

Elf

Found in British, Scandinavian, and Teutonic folklore, elves are tiny, human-shaped supernatural beings who resemble little old men. However, elf maidens are considered to be young and very beautiful. They live in communities or kingdoms, hidden in the hollows of trees, long burrows, or in mounds. They are ruled over by an elf king and queen. Elves exert their powers over humans whenever they can, usually with mischievous intent. When offended by humans they will take revenge by stealing babies, cattle, milk, and jewels, and they have been know to enchant the offender and hold them for years. Elves emerge after sunset to dance in the moonlight, swim in shallow pools, and frolic in the woods.

 

Gnome

Considered to be a nature spirit or elemental, gnomes resemble dwarfs with small stocky bodies, and usually appear as little old men dressed in monks’ habits. Gnomes live in the earth, the element they represent, and are the guardians of mother nature’s treasures.

 

Goblin

A grotesque, diminutive, malicious earth spirit. Popular in European folklore, goblins are said to be knee high, with heavy gray hair and beards. They inhabit the homes of humans, where they indulge in poltergeist activities. They are not fond of adults but do seem to like children, as they have been known to protect them and bring them gifts.

 

Imp/Impa

A mischievous minor fiend often described as being a childlike offspring of the Devil. Imps manifest in many different forms. The most popular form is that of an evil-looking infant with tiny horns protruding from its head and tiny wings from its shoulders. Imps were the star attractions at Witch trials, as they were considered to be the familiars of the accused.

 

Leprechaun

The folklore of Ireland is filled with famous tales of this fairy shoemaker. The Leprechaun is depicted as having a wizened face, gray beard, and twinkling eyes. He wears a red jacket with silver buttons, brown breeches, black, silver-buckled shoes, and a high crowned green hat. In pictures, he usually appears in an apron, holding a hammer and mending shoes. This wee creature is tricky, and likes to make mischief with humans. He also has a reputation for having a huge stash of gold hidden in a secret place.

 

Nymph

Nymphs are female water spirits that appear in classical Greek and Roman mythology. They are portrayed as beautiful your maidens dressed in gossamer gowns, with long flowing hair. The nymphs would attend to gods and entertain them with dancing and music. Like most spirit creatures, nymphs were both benevolent and malevolent toward humans.

 

Pixies

These small creatures are said to have red hair, small, turned up noses, pointed ears, and pale, youthful faces. They especially attracted to gardens in bloom, and take up residence under toadstools. Pixies have mixed emotions when it comes to humans. However, if they take a liking to someone they will help him or her out with household chores and gardening. They also like to work with gold, silver, and bronze. Some believe that the residue from their metal work is the main ingredient in Pixie dust, a magickal powder use to make wishes come true.

Fairies

Fae Royalty

Fairies

Fairies are magickal creatures endowed with the powers of shapeshifting and invisibility. They dwell in an invisible kingdom known as middle or lower earth. Often depicted as small humanoid beings with diaphanous wings, they look like tiny angels. However, they are not angels, they are unpredictable, and they can be as puckish as they are benevolent.

 

Sometimes referred to as “little people,” fairies are an important part of most cultures, religious traditions, and folk beliefs throughout the world. In European culture, they are believed to be nature spirits who dwell in the trees, plants, and waterways. Christianity seems to think they are Lucifer’s fallen angels and therefore evil. Other folk beliefs, especially those of African origin, view them as souls of the dead or ancestors.

 

Celtic culture has probably done the most to promote the idea of fairies, who are believed to be the descendants of the small, dark, Neolithic people who invaded early Europe. Being small and dark and living close to the land allowed them to quickly hide from their enemies. This ability, along with their elusive mannerisms, led people to believe they were capable of magick, shapeshifting, and invisibility.

 

When the old Pagan religions died out, the fairies were relegated to the realm of myth and fantasy. We find the Great Goddess transformed into the Good Fairy Godmother or Queen of Fairies. The Horned God became the Fairy King, Puck, and the trickster. Those with less appealing traits were relegated to the realms of devils and demons.

Good Sunday Morning, my little rays of Sunshine! May the Goddess Bless You & Your This Beautiful Day We Have Been Granted!

Good Morning Sunshine
Howdy, my little rays of sunshine! How are you doing this morning? I hope super and I hope you are enjoying your Sunday so far. I have a quick question, don’t y’all like chat? Straight and to the point at least, lol! Even though yesterday was an impromptu chat, we did have a good turn out. People hopping in and out, saying hello, asking questions, I don’t know about them but I enjoyed it. When I say I want to get to know each of you, I am very sincere. If you have any problems or concerns about the Craft or any other topic, I am more than happy to answer your questions or try to help you. Now if you want a one on one chat, we might have to schedule that. But back to my original question, I have noticed that most people tend to hop in later in the mornings. So are y’all not morning witches? I know I am not a morning witch but I don’t believe you would want to chat at the hours I keep. But I would like to get to meet more of you, so would later in the day be better for most of you? I told you we were going to use the chatroom this time and we are. I was planning on a blessing ritual, a initiation ritual, a purification ritual and a lot more, but I want to know if you would show up for such a ritual. I have even considered going back to pod casting our rituals. That way you would have them on hand and could follow along and use them when it is convenient for you. The more I think about that idea, the more I like it. We might give that a go and see how it works out. Think it over and let me hear what you think, remember I don’t bite, much, lol!

Two more things real quick, during the weekdays we have a routine we follow. Today I am going to break that routine and put some information on the site. Hopefully you will find it useful. Next, this is about the store. We are currently offering free shipping on all our merchandise in the store till the end of the month. You can save some money when you don’t have to pay for shipping. Plus we have several new lines on there. One I am particularly fond of is our Specialty Pentagrams. The pentagrams are concentrated for every need you might have, everything from banishment, protection from evil spirits and boosting your power. We also now carry a huge selection of chime candles, every color you can imagine. Last but not least by far, we have a line of perfume we now offer. The perfume is magickal infused and can be worn on the body or used in spells or rituals. The perfumes range in senses of Lavender, Patchouli, Night Queen and several more. If you haven’t checked out the store recently, now is the time to do so. You can save quite a bit on the free shipping just by itself. I will put the addy below for you.

Well, I believe that is it. Let me know about the chat times that would be fine for you. I am off to get busy now.

Love ya,

Lady A

 

Magickal Necessities

Good Saturday Morning to All My Dear Sweet Brothers & Sisters of the Craft! Want to join me in our chatroom?

After taking care of 2 sick teenagers, I am feeling tired, worn-out and don’t want to do a damn thing. So I decided why not have another impromptu chat. This time the chat will have a basic topic, if you have any questions about the Craft or having issues on your current Path, I will be more than happy to address them and help you in anyway I can. And what the heck, don’t have issues, come on over. I want to get to meet and know each and everyone of you before it is over with.

This impromptu chat will run from 10:30 am to 12:30 pm central time. I hope I am not the only one sitting in the chatroom by myself. If I am I will probably take a nap. Bring your questions, your concerns, or just come so we can meet you. Either way, I will be glad to see you and get to finally meet some of you.

Hope to see you soon,

Love ya,

Lady of the Abyss

Chatroom addy:

https://www.witchesofthecrafts.net/our-chatroom

Good Wednesday Morning to my precious Family! I am sorry I have to apologize for today…..

Good Morning
It seems just as we get sort of back to normal something comes up. Well, something has come up again. I got a call yesterday reminding me of a doctor’s appointment this morning with my orthopedic doctor. I have so many doctors these days I can’t keep up with them. So I just wait for them to call and remind me of the appointments. This is nothing major just a check up to make sure my screws and rods are still in place and haven’t moved (like where are they going?). Anyway, I thought I would let you know that is why we won’t be on the internet this morning. It seems no one around here trusts me to go to the doctor by myself. Perhaps they don’t expect me to tell them the whole story on what the doctor told me. Who knows? But they all have to tag along. We look like a traveling circus when I go to the doctors.

I have to run and get ready to go. We will see you tomorrow. Keep your fingers crossed I don’t have any screws loose, lol!

Love ya,

Lady A

A Final Note….

As you know we opened the store to meet all our expenses and obligations. It was mainly built for the members of the WOTC. In the last month, we have received one or two orders from members here. That is not even enough to pay the water bill at both places. Instead of getting upset and disguised, we talked it over and decide to advertise with one of the major search engines. The advertising with this search engine is very reasonable which was surprising to me. It works out to pennies a day.

In the process of setting up our ad, we had to pick out several locations throughout the U. S. We picked out several since we had a choice of ever how many we wanted. One of those places has paid off big time. The merchandise is flying off the shelves. The reason I am letting you know this is because if you want something from the store, you might want to get it while it is there. That is why we weren’t on the internet Sunday and Monday. We got in new merchandise to restock the store and basically we had too because the shelves were just a tadbit bare.

I believe most of you haven’t even seen the new store. I know the ones from the ad say it is beautiful, well organized and carry great merchandise. If you haven’t visited it yet, you ought too. I know we built the store for the members but like I said we were not getting the sales we expected so we had to open it to the public once again. Got a moment stop by and check it and grab what you want while it is in stock. We have lots of new items, we now accept personal checks and money orders plus as usual, a free gift with every purchase.

Got a minute stop by, we would love to see you!

 

 

You’ve showed the rest, now shop the rest….

Your Daily Rune for Monday, July 17th is Laguz

Your Daily Rune for Monday, July 17th, 2018

Laguz

“Log-uhz” – Literally: “Water” or Ocean – Esoteric: Unconscious, Collective Memory

 

Rune of the unconscious context of becoming or the evolutionary process. Rune of Life’s longing for itself.

Psi: emotion, psychic powers, unconscious mental processes, love, dreaming

Energy: life energy, ocean spirit, origins of life, collective unconscious, the astral plane, love as unity, evolution

Mundane: water, imagination, occultism, dreams

Divinations: Life, passing a test, sea of vitality and of the unconscious growth, memory, dreams; or fear, circular motion, avoidance, withering, depression, manipulations, emotional blackmail, lack of moral fiber, fantasy, poison, toxicity

Governs:

Transpersonal powers
Mastery of emotion in order to shape wyrd
Guidance through difficult initiatory tests, ie. initiation into life
Increase in vitality and life force
Communication between your conscious mind to another’s unconscious mind
Development of ‘second sight’ or prophetic wisdom
All powers of dreaming (lucid dreams, astral projection)

 

Your Erotic Tarot Card for July 27 is Judgment

Your Personal Daily Erotic Tarot Card

The Judgement

The Judgement card indicates that you’ve had some sexual hang-ups in the past, but you’re working toward getting over them. This is a period of transition, and although you’re doing the work, you may not be getting the exact results you desire. Forgive yourself for past missteps in order to take a sexual step forward today. Being afraid to express your true erotic self can even effect other areas of your life, so getting beyond your sexual inhibitions translates into a happier overall existence.

Your Personal Daily Love Tarot Card for Today is The Fool

Your Personal Daily Love Tarot Card

The Fool

You deserve a partnership that deepens as you get to know each other. Wait for the person who has risen above commitment immaturity if commitment is your desire. The Fool reminds us that dating someone is not a mistake. It is falling in love and marrying them if it is not right. If your long-term relationship is encountering a difficult patch, now is the time to work together to rebuild.

 

 

Tarot Card of the Day for Tuesday, July 17

Tarot Card of the Day

Judgment


The Judgement card, sometimes called “Resurrection,” represents the great reunion that the ancients believed would happen once in every age. This was the time when souls are harvested and taken home to their place of origin, outside the solar system. Then the world is seeded with a batch of new souls and the process starts over.

From a modern point of view, this great reunion — which includes every personality that you have ever been and every soul that you have done deep work with — reunites to consciously complete the process. In a way, we symbolically celebrate this returning to center every year on our birthday.

In personal terms, the Judgment Tarot card points to freedom from inner conflicts, and so clear a channel, that the buried talents and gifts of past incarnations can come through an individual in this lifetime. This card counsels you to trust the process of opening yourself, because what emerges is of consistently high quality. You can effortlessly manifest as a multi-dimensional being, and assist in evoking that response from others.

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This Week’s Tarot Card Reading: Ace of Swords Reversed

This Week’s Tarot Card Reading: Ace of Swords Reversed

Your weekly Tarot card advice for July 16-22, 2018

When you really want something to happen, your instinct is often to do whatever it takes to make it so. This might very well lead to a victory, but the reversed Ace of Swords has a caution for you in such ventures this week. Using excessive force to get what you want is likely to bring a brief and distorted victory, not a lasting one.

If ambition and drive have been pulling you forcefully into what isn’t yet, you’re probably missing out on a lot of what is. Do you find yourself fantasizing about your desires, things that you hope to attain? Is your wandering mind playing out detailed scenarios for how goals might be achieved? Have you gone so far as to consider ways you could manipulate situations in your favor? These are all possible manifestations of the reversed Ace of Swords. Try to redirect that energy into engagement with the present moment, unhampered by events of the past and not overly focused on what’s coming next. The theme card this month, the Hanged Man, wants you to release past patterns, and this could be another habit it’s better to let go of. Besides, if you have to try that hard to force something into being, it’s probably good to question if it’s truly the natural and correct course of events for your life.

 

 

 

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What’s Your Power Color?

What’s Your Power Color?

See which color holds the most powerful energy for you!


Colors carry energy, and certain colors can bring out something in you that makes you truly shine. They can enhance confidence, calm restless energy, empower strength, and so much more. Keep reading to see which color brings out the most powerful traits in YOUR zodiac sign!

 

Aries color: Red

The color red stirs Aries’ soul and enhances passion, energy, and initiative. It’s the color of excitement and assertion, which supports Aries’ active nature and eagerness for life. Red demands attention — and Aries is a sign that doesn’t like to be ignored. It’s also no surprise that Aries’ ruling planet, Mars, is known as “The Red Planet.” The more shades of red Aries surrounds itself with, the greater their natural powers can be.


Taurus color: Green

Fresh green nurtures Taurus’ spirit and reinforces its connection to nature and growth. Just like the lush pastures the Bull resides in, green represents growth, and Taurus is a sign of absolute progress. The return of green in the springtime — Taurus’ season — further enhances its connection to this sign.


Gemini color: Yellow

Inspiring yellow lifts Gemini’s spirit and triggers curiosity and brilliant thoughts. This inspiring and life-giving color shines through in Gemini’s exciting, upbeat nature. Mimicking the warm Sun, yellow lightens and brightens everything around it. As the color of the mind and the intellect, yellow enhances Gemini’s mental powers and focus.


Cancer color: White and silver

Bright white and silver connect Cancer with its intuition and provide a clean, clear slate. Like the glistening surface of water or the shining face of the Moon, silver and white are colors of intuition and purity. They increase Cancer’s sensitivity and understanding, allowing love to flow at its deepest level.


Leo color: Gold

Glistening gold empowers Leo’s warm heart and strengthens its positive spirit. Shining with royalty and class, gold has always been a symbol of power and prestige. So it’s no wonder Leo — the King of the Jungle — is stirred by this expressive hue. Gold gives Leo the attention it wants, and supports its generous nature and warm, optimistic outlook on life.


Virgo color: Green and brown

Classic, natural brown and green keep Virgo grounded and focused on continuous growth. Brown represents stability, and supports the careful and methodical approach the Virgin takes to life. In nature green is the color of growth, and strengthens Virgo’s lifelong plight toward self-improvement.


Libra color: Pink and blue

Airy pink and light blue help to open Libra’s heart and soften its presence. These pale hues bring a calming and likeable presence to Libra’s personality. Symbolizing a cool, subtle breeze, light blue increases clarity and balance, while pink invokes Libra’s sweet and loving nature.


Scorpio color: Black

Dark and mysterious black keeps Scorpio intensely inquisitive and focused on transformation. Black represents the depths where the Scorpion resides, and strengthens its drive to look below the surface and question everything. In western culture the color black is associated with death and rebirth, enhancing Scorpio’s strength of letting go and its ability to transform itself.


Sagittarius color: Purple

As the color of spirituality and awareness, lush purple pushes Sagittarius’ philosophical mind toward enlightenment and openness. Also a color of abundance, purple encourages Sagittarius’ natural luck and positive nature, and drives it to continuously broaden its horizons.


Capricorn color: Brown and grey

Earthy grey and brown help Capricorn find the strongest and most practical path to take in life. These strong but neutral colors enhance Capricorn’s solidity, reliability, and traditionalism. A combination of extremes — white and black — grey increases the conservative nature of Capricorn and its no-nonsense approach to life. Brown represents stability, and can greatly benefit the Goat’s steadfast determination as it strives to reach its goals.


Aquarius’ color: Blue

Calming blue helps encourage Aquarius’ brilliant ideas and balance its restless energy. Just like the sky and the waters Aquarius is so closely connected to, blue represents vastness and creates a smooth flow of ideas, conversation, and experimentation. Fun fact: Uranus — Aquarius’ ruling planet — is also blue!


Pisces color: Light green

Perfectly pale green brings about healing and renewal and connects Pisces with its subconscious. As the color of life, light green represents renewal and inspiration, encouraging the healing and rejuvenating energies that Pisces is known for.

 

 

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If You Were Born Today, July 17

Happy Birthday

If You Were Born Today, July 17

You are versatile and are clever enough to wrap your brain around virtually anything you want to understand. You are an odd mix of progressive and traditional, as you can certainly identify injustices and root for the underdog, but you can be very stubborn in your own ways of thinking, balking at change just for the sake of change. You are extraordinarily intelligent and a very interesting conversationalist. You see things through! Famous people born today: Phyllis Diller, Art Linkletter, Donald Sutherland, David Hasselhoff, Camilla Parker Bowles, James Cagney.

Your Birthday Year Forecast:

The Sun in a waxing sextile to the Moon in your Solar Return chart has a fortunate influence on your year ahead. You can be especially productive this year, as in many ways you are starting fresh, but you have a rather clear vision of what you want to accomplish. Your inner needs tend to be mirrored by external events, and vice versa, which helps to boost your confidence and happiness levels. You more readily accept that challenges are part of the natural cycle in life, which in turn helps you to meet them with confidence and to worry less. You are likely to be on top of your game this year for the most part, and positive connections with others can be made fairly easily. A comfortable level of personal popularity helps to keep conflict to a minimum. With the ability to handle your emotions successfully, there will be less stress on both your mind and body.

You’re willing to put in the effort for a mental interest or project this year, and you can feel pleasantly dedicated to your work or ideas. You are more able to focus on what you’re doing and communicating, and more inclined to notice and consider details.

Beautiful energy is with you in your social and/or romantic life this year. There can be a stronger tendency toward, or desire for, commitment and deep involvement in your relationships during this period. You may be taking love and/or friendship more seriously. You can be quite particular in your tastes, and better than usual with money and savings.

At the same time, you’re welcoming more spontaneity into your personal relationships, or at least some of them. You’re in excellent shape for social meetings and events as well as for situations that call for treating others with equality and respect. You are more courageous on a social level, and happily embrace the new, unusual, and out-of-the-ordinary with regards to romantic involvements as well as financial undertakings.

This could be a good year for financial endeavors involving electronics, technology, the internet, metaphysics, and the arts, as well as group activities. Circumstances may be such that you handle money more carefully this year.

You have a taste for the offbeat in the period ahead, and romance or friendship can enter your life unexpectedly, perhaps in a scenario that at least feels like love at first sight.

With certain relationships, you’re finding ways to make progressive or unconventional set-ups work, or injecting more excitement and fun into steady connections.

Energy fluctuates this year. If you aren’t too rash or impulsive, you might be able to free yourself from restrictive circumstances. You could also have more courage than usual to do things that break the routine, and confrontations engaged in this year could clear the air and help you to move forward.

If there are health issues this year, look for blockages or constrictions since Saturn is involved with the Node.

Idealistic and humanitarian goals or impulses surface this year. Making connections with others from different backgrounds may figure strongly. Widening your mind through unusual or different experiences can be part of the picture. You more easily make personal sacrifices for what you believe to be the greater good this year.

Cooperation seems to work best for you this year, and your personal popularity is on the increase. Even so, in certain areas of your life, you’re inclined to rock the boat this year so that you can break free from a limiting situation, but be mindful when/if making sweeping changes. There can be increased steadiness and reliability in your social life, and some relationships (or a key one) improve happily. Your social life is more satisfying and people in your life tend to back you up. Money matters can thrive now.

2018 is a Number Eight year for you. Ruled by Saturn. This is a year of power and accomplishment. Actively seeking to expand, taking educated risks, and moving forward are highlighted. This is a year of opportunity, particularly in the material and business world, and opportunities need to be seized. It’s generally not a year to find a new love partner, simply because the focus is on the material world and your place in the world. This is a problem-solving year in which you can expect real, tangible results. Advice – take action, plan ahead, seize opportunities.

2019 will be a Number Nine year for you. Ruled by Mars. This is a year of completion and transition. It is a time when we need to let go of things that no longer serve their purpose, and hold on to things that have a future. It is a time of cleaning out dead wood, not necessarily for new beginnings. It can be a time when a burden has been taken off your shoulders, and it can be a year of giving of yourself. Advice – let go of things that are holding you back, give of yourself and express your sympathetic, compassionate side.

 

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