The Fairy Path: An Initiation Doorway 4
Written by Luci Johnson
Fairies are associated with beauty, seductiveness and a temperamental nature, sometimes benevolent or punitive. This category include dakini from Tibet, Eastern European vila, and asparas from India. The Peri from pre-Isalmic Iran as well as Romany keshalyi, urme, and usitory. The vila punish cheating, deceitful men, and those who leave women waiting, abandoned at the alter. They also punish hunters who no longer practice spiritually correct hunting rituals. Once you enter into a mutually acknowledged relationship with fairies, any magic spells performed with fairies is beneficial to the fairy as well as the spellcaster. Payment and further interaction is expected on time with the fae. With the rise of Christianity, these payments and tributes for the most part have ceased. Aine is considered one of several Queens of Fae, as does Maeve. Offerings depend on the type of fairy invoked. The full size fairies prefer milk and berries. They love thyme, so plant some in your garden, or keep it in your kitchen for fairy magic. Flower fairies, butterfly-sized winged nature spirits can be easily petitioned to bestow and enhance botanical powers. Plant a garden with berries, chamomile, mint, forget-me-nots, foxglove, hibiscus, hollyhocks, honeysuckle, lavender, lilac, milkweed, morning glories, pansies, peonies, primroses, and violets. Romany legend says nettles guard the doorways to fairyland, also, burn some fairy incense, hollyhock and rosemary. Sit naked under the light of the full moon and listen to the voice of the fairies. Fairies will visit indoors, so create an indoor garden with bonsai trees, roses and other plants. Ornament with glittering charms. Oak, ash and thorn trees growing together beckon the fairies. Find a place where this grows naturally and linger, waiting for them. Dry a little beech wood. Powder and burn as incense outside to call flower fairies. Beech has protective capabilities, it should ward off any malicious fairies. String hazel nuts on a cord, focusing on your desire as you make knots. Hang the cord near appropriate summoning plants or within sight of a garden. Gather lily of the valley flowers. Dry and powder them, then burn them by themselves or in combination with lavender and honeysuckle. Make a mild infusion of calendula blossoms. Soak cotton pads in this infusion. Place one over each eye to be granted a vision of the fairies. Stand under elder trees at midnight on Midsummer’s Eve to be granted a vision of fairies. Drink elderberry wine. Search for a circle of toadstools or ash seedlings. When you find it, dance around this circle nine times clockwise, and then once counterclockwise. Go somewhere where fairies are likely to be found. Look through a holed stone while walking in a circle counterclockwise three times. If you know exactly who you wish to see, call them politely and respectfully.
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