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Part 3 of my Fairy Fortunes and Geomancy Video Series.

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If you haven't watched Part 1 of this series, here is the link:  https://youtu.be/B7gPcsXVNCY 

I've gotten several requests to speak about the origins of Fairy Fortunes.  They are based in the divination system of Geomancy.  This series will explore the fae featured on the Fairy Fortune cards and how they correlate to the 16 figures of Geomancy. For more information about the Fairy Fortune cards and the Fae beings featured please visit the blog on www.fairyfortunes.com:  https://www.fairyfortunes.com/blog/ta... 

 Fairy Fortunes are for your entertainment

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In this video I discuss the origins of Fairy Fortunes an the connection to the divination system of Geomancy.

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A Spirit by Leslie Evans

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Anonymous wants to know where she should go on her birthday.  I explore the matter in a four card Fairy Fortune reading.

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Anonymous has lost something important to her and wants to know if it will return to her.  I explore the matter in a 4 card Fairy Fortune Reading.

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Anonymous wants to know if she should break up with her boyfriend.  Ruby Ruse explores the matter in a 3 Card Fairy Fortune Reading.

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Deluxe Geomancy Reading

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Anonymous wants to know if she should apologize to her friend.  If you would like to have your Fairy Fortune told, leave your question in the comments.

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The Elements and their correspondences

E A R T H

Earth represents strength, grounding, prosperity, the material, wealth, success, foundations, death and rebirth. Focus on this element if the goal of your spell is about fertility, prosperity, business or stability. Earth spells may take longer to work, but they’re also more firm and are good if you’re looking for long-term solutions.

GENDER: Feminine SEASON: Winter DIRECTION: North HOUR: Night

COLOURS: Green, Brown, Black ANIMALS: Bears, Deers, Wolves, Badgers HERBS/PLANTS: Ivy, Ash, Vetiver, Wheats, Oats INSTRUMENTS: Drums (Percussion instruments)

STAR SIGNS: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn STONES/GEMS: Jade, Onyx, Emerald, Salt RITUAL TOOLS: Stones, Dirt, Bones, Pentacle, Salt, Crystals  RITUAL FORMS: Burying, Planting, Imprinting to soil or sand TAROT SUIT: Pentacles

A I R

Air represents intellect and the mind, wisdom, knowledge; logic as well as abstract thought, intuition and higher consciousness. If you’re seeking freedom, travels, or to enhance your memory and focus - focus on Air spells! Air is whimsical and amiable, personally I haven’t found it useful for more serious spells, but it does wonders for my studies. 

GENDER: Masculine SEASON: Spring DIRECTION: East HOUR: Dawn

COLOURS: Yellow, White, Sky Blue, Pastels ANIMALS: Birds, Spiders, Butterflies HERBS/PLANTS: Lavender, Birch, Vervain, Dill, Aspen INSTRUMENTS: Flute (Wind instruments)

STAR SIGNS: Gemini, Libra, Aquarius STONES/GEMS: Amethyst, Opal, Alexandrite, Beryl RITUAL TOOLS: Incense, Wand RITUAL FORMS: Fanning, Tossing into air, Suspending in a high place  TAROT SUIT: Swords

F I R E

Fire represents energy, passion, purification, love, inspiration, desire, will, courage, power, leadership, sexuality. In spellcraft, focusing on Fire is good for purification, healing and love spells; it’s the best element for quick, strong spells. Although, Fire is fierce in essence, and Fire spells are susceptible - they should be well thought out.

GENDER: Masculine SEASON: Summer DIRECTION: South HOUR: Noon

COLOURS: Red, Orange, Gold ANIMALS: Snakes, Lions, Horses HERBS/PLANTS: Cacti, Cinnamon, Pepper, Basil INSTRUMENTS: Guitar (Stringed instruments)

STAR SIGNS: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius STONES/GEMS: Amber, Citrine, Ruby, Tiger’s Eye RITUAL TOOLS: Athame, Candles RITUAL FORMS: Burning, Smouldering, Heating TAROT SUIT: Wands

W A T E R

Water represents purification as well; though it’s focused more on the soul and the subconscious rather than the physical, material world. Water stands for emotion, intuition, wisdom, eternal movement, reflection, lunar energy. Focusing on the Water element is good for psychic abilities, getting in tune with your inner self, mysteries, friendships, love, dreams and sleep.

GENDER: Feminine SEASON: Autumn DIRECTION: West HOUR: Dusk

COLOURS: Blue, Indigo, Silver ANIMALS: Otters, Fish, Sea Mammals, Frogs HERBS/PLANTS: Lotus, Water Lilies, Aloe, Gardenia INSTRUMENTS: Cymbal, Bell (Resonant instruments)

STAR SIGNS: Cancer, Scorpio, Pisces STONES/GEMS: Moonstone, Aquamarine, Pearl RITUAL TOOLS: Cauldrons, Chalices, Seashells RITUAL FORMS: Diluting, Placing into water, washing away, bathing TAROT SUIT: Cups

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So What About That Desk?

I have a desk in my basement.  So what? That doesn’t sound like it would be very interesting.  My guess is that I’m not the only person that has a desk in her basement.  I am rather curious to realize though, that I’ve had this desk in my basement for over ten years and I’ve never sat at it once.  Why is that I wonder?  It’s a perfectly functional desk.  It’s one of those with a storage caddy above the desk surface, complete with its own lighting.  I wonder if that bright florescent lighting was built in to hide its oppressiveness. This desk is positively massive!   It stands six feet tall, with that atrocious storage caddy.  I feel diminished next to it.  Truly this thing isn’t just in the basement, it owns the basement.  So now…why?  So why do I have this desk lurking in my basement?  And the bigger issue that I’m dancing around, is that I hate this desk. That’s pretty interesting, because I didn’t even realize until just now that I hated it.  But I do!  So why? Why am I keeping this desk?  What is so important about this desk that it reigns supreme in my basement?  Why can’t I just let it go?

I think possession tell stories.  They are physical representations of places we’ve been, things we’ve done, and often who we were and who we were hoping to become.  I believe a person’s possessions are a reflection of the person.  There’s a problem with reflections though, they can be so easily distorted, like in a fun house mirror.  Traveling through a fun house, the reflections I see may belong to me, but they certainly aren’t an accurate depiction of who I really am.

I moved the desk and the rest of my possessions into my house ten years ago due to my divorce. My soon to-be-ex-husband took a few pieces of furniture we shared and then related to me that the rest of our possessions were “my problem.”   Some of those things had belonged to him – like the desk.    Honestly, I can’t say the desk is my ex-husband’s possession, because it hasn’t been in his possession in over ten years.  If the story is just that I don’t like the desk, I think I would have just had the movers take the thing into the alley to be picked up on garbage day.  Instead, I felt obligated to move the desk into my house to take over my basement. This desk I hate, is a reflection of me then, not of my ex-husband.  What is so important about this desk?  What is it reflecting about me?

I don’t think that any divorce is pleasant, and mine was certainly no exception.  The end of my marriage began one night when I went to the desk (yes the same desk now lurking in my basement) to work on the computer. I tapped the mouse to wake it up. Usually, it reset to the profile screen, where my husband and I had private passwords to separate our individual files.  However, this time the computer opened to my husband’s open email.  

What greeted me were several pictures of a girl in her twenties.  She was dressed in her underwear and a button down blouse.  Her pale hands with their dark nails were suggestively tugging at the buttons presenting glimpses of her nubile décolletage. Her mouth was open, her tongue playing on her sultry come-hither lips.  I knew her.  My husband had met her at work, she was hoping to be a professional singer and my husband had played me a song from her website.  The list of emails between them exceeded what was visible on the open email view screen.  I felt cold. I couldn’t move.  My vision blurred as tears fell onto the keyboard. My husband was having an affair.  After screaming viciously at him, he went to spend the night…elsewhere.  I regretted my behavior and the terrible things I said. I wanted him to come back.  We had just had a baby and we had just bought a house. I thought I tried to be understanding but I was served divorce papers instead.  

I hate that desk but the oppression I feel from it didn’t come from its hulking size; that desk told a story from my divorce.  The desk was a physical representation of the past.  It was a like a fading picture of the very moment when I bought my first house with my handsome husband and my beautiful baby.  The desk was a reflection of the time when I imagined myself as a loving wife and doting mother.  And then all that was ripped in half when the desk revealed a beautiful girl I knew, in her underwear and button down shirt.  I tried to bury the story in the basement, but my subconscious kept whispering, “It’s your problem.”

I made the divorce entirely my problem…just like that massive desk.   I blamed myself for the divorce.  I was convinced that I had over reacted - it was just some suggestive pictures after all.  I should not have lost control.  I should not have screamed at my husband.  My thoughts continued the spiral of blame.  Maybe if I had been more outgoing my husband would not have needed to seek out the company of a pretty young girl.  Maybe if I was a better singer myself… maybe if I had been a better lover…maybe if I had been more attentive to my husband’s needs I could have saved my marriage.  The more and more “maybes” I came up with the more and more distorted the story the desk told became.  The truth is, I had forgotten the emails and the pictures completely.  My mind had danced around that truth until just now, because all I could see of myself in that desk was a shrew who had given her husband no other option but to divorce her.   I don’t want to make myself out to be entirely innocent (or worse still – a victim), however, looking at my reflection cast from this desk, I really must acknowledge now that I’m looking at one of those fun house mirrors.  Yes, that is me in that story.  Yes there is perhaps some truth in all of my “maybes.” But to say the divorce was entirely “my problem” is a huge distortion of reality.  

I wanted to know why I kept the desk these ten years.  I think I wanted to hold on to an image of myself as a loving wife; but because I no longer had a husband, I kept the desk instead – as a perverse reminder of why I was not the loving wife I so wanted to be.  It wasn’t the desk I couldn’t let go of, it was that lost image of myself. I think that’s why so many possessions are so hard to discard; we don’t want to lose who we once were. Unfortunately, in my case, this perverse reminder of who I wanted to be is holding me back from who I might become.

So…what about that desk in my basement?  Are you in the market for a six foot desk with lighting and a storage caddy?

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Hair Witchcraft

Hello everyone! As you may know, I am very attached to my hair, and it’s one of the things I like best about my physical appearance. A persons’ hair has long been associated with spirituality; with many world religions placing doctrine on hair, whether in regards to covering it, not cutting it, or something else. As such, it makes sense for your hair to play a part in your Craft, especially if it is a part of yourself that you are particularly proud of.  

There are three main ways that you can use your hair in your Craft, to use strands within your spells and potions, incorporate magic into your hair care routine, or to use your hair as braid/knot magic. Most of these ideas focus on long hair, apologies! If anyone has any other suggestions for hair magic for short haired people - please add them on!

The way I incorporate my hair into my practise is to use it as a form of knot (braid) magic. Braiding hair whilst having an intention in your mind is the perfect way to set that intention and wear it with you for the day. As you braid your hair, set your intention for the day within each weave. You can either visualise your intention whilst braiding your hair, or sing/ say it out loud. For instance, you can make a little rhyme to sing whilst braiding your hair, and be all Rapunzel like!

To add another layer to this, you can add ribbons, coloured threads, beads, flowers etc, into your braids. 

In this way you can incorporate colour magic (here is a post with my colour correspondences) into your braiding - for instance a yellow ribbon for positivity, a black ribbon for protection. 

Adding specific flowers to your hair imbues your hair braiding with the connotations of that flower or plant. 

Tight french braids lend themselves to magic relating to productivity, motivation, energy increasing, offensive magic. Looser dutch braids or english braids lend themselves to magic relating to relaxation, cleansing, anti-anxiety, calming, soothing, and defensive magic.

You can also do a similar thing whilst brushing or washing your hair. Setitng your intent whilst brushing your hair in a certain amount of strokes (i.e. multiples of three) can imbue your hair with magic. 

At night brush your hair, starting at the left side and finishing at the right, all whilst visualising the stresses and struggles of the day being brushed away, and relaxing vibes being brushed in. This works for short hair too, if you have no hair, you can do the same thing by stroking your scalp in downwards movements.

Brushing hair is also a great grounding practise

Wash your hair with shampoos with specific ingredients and scents to suit your intent for the day - for instance, citrus for energy increasing, lavender for relaxation and soothing, teatree and peppermint for productivity.

Use washing your hair as a time to deep cleanse yourself, both physically and spiritually. Visualise built up or negative energies going down the drain with the soap bubbles. 

Similarly, use hair masks with specific ingredients to imbue your hair with magical properties. For instance, honey for self love (honey has mild bleaching effects so don’t use on coloured hair), avocados for nurturing and contentedness. 

Charm your hair oil, hair spray or other hair products with magical properties.

A productivity hair braid spell:

Consider your intent, make it as specific as you can. The intent will be active until you take your braids out, so keep it short-term. For instance, “I will be motivated to start writing my essay today.” If you like, you can create a little song or rhyme to sing whilst you braid your hair. 

Brush through your hair well, visualising any built up or negative energies being removed with each brush stroke.

Decide what type of braid you’re going to do, french braids are useful for motivation magic - if you can’t do one, stick to an english braid (the bog-standard one).

Start braiding, all the while keeping your intention in the forefront of your mind, say it out loud or under your breath if you like. 

The amount of braids is dependent on how you’d like it to look, your hair type, and if you’d like to add extra magic (i.e. number magic) you can braid your entire hair in one big braid, or just do one or two small braids throughout your hair. 

Finish it off with a hair bobble with a colour that matches the intent, green or yellow will work well. To go a bit extra, weave your braids with green or yellow ribbon. 

Keep in your hair until no longer needed, take your braids out and brush through.  

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