Shaman Pathways - Way of the Faery Shaman: The Book of Spells, Incantations, Meditations & Faery Magic
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Shaman Pathways - Way of the Faery Shaman - Flavia Kate Peters
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Introduction
Brilliant, you heard them! You answered the call of the faeries. They knew you could do it. But why have they called you specifically? Well, you actually know the answer to that, deep in your soul. But allow, if you will, the magic of these pages to remind you. For you are invited to re-discover the truth of who the faeries really are, and work with the forces of nature through spell work, through meditation, invocation and rhyme.
You will embrace the elements that actually govern us, here on our beloved planet. Your senses will heighten as you grow more sensitive to every aspect of the natural world and its magic. By working and living each day this way, the faeries will assist in enhancing your natural magical abilities, heal your spiritual, physical and emotional wellbeing and bring you back to a real connection to the Elemental Realm.
Romantic notions of fairy tales and magical beings of ‘make believe’ abound, which mostly stem from pictures such as the Cottingley Fairies of the 1800s to the enchanting beings created by Walt Disney, like Ariel the Little Mermaid, Tinker Bell and Cinderella’s Fairy Godmother, we are no strangers to fairy dust, magic wands, and fairy rings!
However, faeries are far from the sparkling characters of children’s bed-time stories; they are very real beings of nature and are as magical and as old as the hills. Written mention of Faeries such as nymphs, satyrs and fauns are found in the texts of Homer’s Iliad and Odyssey. In the days of Ancient Greece, gods and goddesses were worshipped and minor deities were recognised as the spirits of nature. Faeries were honoured in the waters, meadows, forests and flowers …
Where round the bed, whence Achelous springs, that wat’ry Fairies dance in mazy rings. Iliad, B. xxiv. 617.
What sounds are those that gather from the shores, the voice of nymphs that haunt the sylvan bowers, the fair-hair’d dryads of the shady wood, or azure daughters of the silver flood? Odyssey, B. vi. 122.
The early Roman religion understood we shared our homes with household spirits and guardians, and flying faeries played a part in Oriental, Arabian and Asian cultures. Ancient Norse traditions include stories of elves, Lorelei and other such beings of magical folklore, and faeries were found from the Scottish faery mounds of the Sidhe, to the Tuatha De Danaan of Irish barrows.
Like in many other cultures, the ancient Celts made faeries an important part of everyday life. For these beings of nature were treated with a deep reverence. It was general protocol to leave small gifts of food or milk as a mark of respect and gratitude. Our ancestors knew that faeries had the power to bestow them with a bountiful harvest, or cause destruction to the entire crop. It was believed that elves spread diseases and if someone was ill they were said to be ‘fairy taken’.
Faeries were also accused of stealing babies, often in return for a fairy child that was left in its place. These were called Changelings and were often spotted by having an unusual ‘Fae’ appearance or of something different to the original child. Through the superstitious ages of the Anglo-Saxons, when a baby became sick it was believed that it had become a Changeling, and many an innocent baby was burned to death in order to get rid of this ‘evil being’ said to have been put in its place. People wanted to protect themselves from these types of encounters and so never an ill word was spoken of the spirits of nature.
However, faeries were seen as beings with supernatural powers, as magical beings, and were often sought after for help and assistance in finding items, healing and cures, seeing the future and other good wishes. In these times people would seek out the wise man or woman of the community, the cunning man or cunning woman or a Faery Doctor. These people had the ability to connect with the magic of the Elemental Realm and heal, with the assistance of these beings.
During the time of Queen Elizabeth I of England, the playwright William Shakespeare (1564-1616) popularised faeries in his play A Midsummer Night’s Dream. Before him, Chaucer (1342-1400) indicated that Britain was a land filled with faeries before the times of the great King Arthur. British Arthurian legends tell of magic, sorcery and faery half-breeds such as Arthur’s half-sister Morgan Le Fay (meaning and deriving from the French word ‘Faery’), and the part-mortal magician, Merlin..
However, when Christianity reached fever-pitch, during the Middle-Ages, faeries were accused of being fallen angels, and demons. Interestingly the Greek word for spirit is ‘Daimon’, and therefore cleverly used by the power of suggestion that these beings were works of the relatively new-invented ‘Satan’. The gruesome times of the Witch-hunts of the 1400s-1600s made sure that no-one conversed with the magic of nature or the faeries themselves.
The natural seers and healers were accused of working with, and for, ‘evil’, and thousands of innocent men and women were killed in the name of ‘good’ across Europe. Murderously the worship of nature was stamped out, or so these pagan-fearing hunters thought.
Disconnection with human-kind encouraged the faeries to go ‘underground’, so to speak, until the Victorian era. This was the time of the Industrial Revolution when the land was being raped in the name of ‘progress’. Railway tracks were being laid, rivers and streams were dammed and the air was filled with heavy pollution for the first time.
The Nature Spirits needed us to hear their plight and so faeries came back into the minds and hearts of those who could sense them. Sadly by this time many a man’s heart was corrupted by centuries of disempowerment, and the death in the belief in magic. Today this is still pretty much the consensus; however there do seem to be more people turning to accepting that Faeries are real, and a new train of thought is changing the way that faeries are perceived.
For many, faeries are now deemed to be wearing stripy tights, covered in glitter, spreading fairy dust as they flit around granting wishes with their shiny wands. Faery festivals and balls are popping up all around the UK, Europe and the USA, and the faeries are being honoured through costume, dance and movement. At these events you could mistake the party revellers for actual faeries themselves. For they blend into nature beautifully in wearing hand-made outfits and masks made of leaves