Pixie Kiss # 16 – The Faery Queen’s Blessing

This is the sixteenth post in a series of suggestions for re-enchanting your life, one pixie kiss at a time. The introduction is here, and you can watch the path unfold here.

She who goes by many names, who wears so many faces…

The embodiment of Faery itself, The Faery Queen is the consciousness behind the patterns, the weaver of the web that underlies the natural world. Faeryland is the world of the spirit, the world of blueprints from which our world manifests, and she is the one that directs the creation of these blueprints.

And she is calling…

 

Sit for a time in the space you have made for yourself, with the tools you have created, with the stories and artworks you have collected. Ask your guide to be with you, as witness and guardian.

Muse on who you are and why you want to bring more enchantment into your life, into the world.

Cast a circle in the faery mists, a circle of blessing which will move with you, breathe in and allow it to settle around your body and go to a wild place of beauty.

Breathe out and let the circle of mists expand around you. Hold your musings in your mind…

Why do you want to enchant your life, the world?

Stand under the open sky and allow your senses to soften…

Let your heart call out to the Queen of Faery and, perhaps, she will come with the sound of bells or music or the scent of wildflowers to bless your choice to walk the path of enchantment.

Spend some time with her, in honour of her.

Maybe you feel called to make a pledge, maybe you simply feel her kiss on your forehead in blessing.

When you are ready to leave, thank the Queen and your guide, and allow the circle to sink into the earth, blessing the land beneath your feet. Leave an offering for the spirits of the place and return home.

Eat, drink water, do something mundane and get grounded!

 

 

I’ll be posting Pixie Kisses each week, if you’d like to subscribe to these suggestions for re-enchanting your life and to receive the occasional extra sparkle in your inbox which won’t be posted here, email me at: craftyhalo@gmail.com with ‘Pixie Kisses’ in the subject line.

Submission details

Do you dance in the realm of Delight?

In sunlit day and darkened night?

Do you dance in your heart with the Fey?

Have the offered to take you away?

This is a call for submissions for a new game, a zine of faery delights. Poems and pictures, stories and thoughts, recipes, spells, meditations, experiences, inspirations… we have space for all kinds of encounters.

I will be judging the submissions based on beauty, interestingness and how well crafted they are… including those that seem to me to fit the ethos of the Feyhearted Manifesto. If you have something you’d like to share, please send it in!

All submissions must be emailed to feyzine@haloquin.com with ‘submission’ in the subject line, followed by the name/title of the piece.

You are welcome to submit more than one item, but please send each one attached to a seperate email.

The email must include your name, a contact email address, and any information you’d like to share about your piece or yourself.

The Deadline is for April the 18th 2010, for publication on May the 1st, just in time for Beltane!

The Zine will be most likely online, though paper copies may happen. I do not foresee any monetary gains from this, the aim is, rather, to spread delight, bright and dark and a the shadows in between!

Only send stuff you have created and have not promised elsewhere, in short, don’t submit things you shouldn’t! This zine will be copylefted, and so free to copy, share and play with freely, as long as credit is given. If you have a problem with copyleft, please do not submit.

In honour of the Feyheart of Delight,

~Halo

www.haloquin.com

A Call for Submissions!!!

It’s been a while, and the world being a busy place I suppose this is to be expected! It is time for this blog to have a bit of an overhaul.

Ttoday I would like to invite you to submit offerings to a new endeavour!

Do you play with the Fey? Have you seen them at the edges of vision? Have you danced in a Faery ring? Have you felt the wild feyness that lurks in every heart? Would you like to share your experiences with others?

I am offering a space to bring together Feyhearted offerings, an online collaborative zine (with paper copies a possibility perhaps) of wonder and delight, dark, shadow and light!

Manifesto and details to follow… watch this space…

A Faery Walk

The day begins, the sun dawns, the light streams into the world. We have decided to make space for our heart, for faery, and in making this choice our heart has opened, just a little… but we’re unsure.

At work, at school, moving through the world we live our every day in, we find ourselves wondering just how we can see what belongs in our heart, and what can be left behind, or kept only as a useful mask or tool, to wear and use but not to become too attached to.

We remember the stories, the stories of faery.

We remember our childhood walks, the moments where, just on the edge of our vision, we would catch a glimpse of the Fey Ones, shining and soft, sharp and powerful, caring and dangerous and ever so wild, Oh! Always, ever so, ever so Wild!

And you realise… Who else could help us find our Wild Faery hearts but the ever-beautiful Queen of the Faeries?

The moment comes upon you, sneaks up on you, dances towards you silently like an invisible sacred temple dancer… the moment where you realise, you can hear her voice. Her voice, calling you. The Faery Queen. She remembers you. She wants you to come home. She waits for you.

It is your choice, now, she offers an invitation, will you answer?

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Today, choose.

Will you follow the Faery Queen’s song?

Will you accept her invitation to see with Faery Vision, to see the untamed beauty of the world, to see to the heart of things?

Choose, and, as soon as you can, take a walk.

Breathe deeply as you walk, really feel your feet on the floor, really notice the world around you.

Breathe it all in.

Take a walk with the intention of opening to the fey.

Say with your footsteps; Faery Queen, I accept!

Search out somewhere that feels like magic, full of delight and a sense of wildness. I went to the edge of a forest, you might go to the top of a mountain, or to a fountain in the middle of your city, or maybe catch a train and watch the fields swish by.

Find somewhere that feels RIGHT.

And ask the Faery Queen to open your eyes, to wake you up.

Breathe deeply and let yourself open.

If you are unsure, or not ready, then accept this and promise yourself you will return when you are ready.

But if you breathe deep, truly ready, she will open your faery eyes, open your heart, and let you see.

All you need do is ask.

The Next Step: Some Words from True Thomas

Can you hear her calling?

Music calls you.

Gently, insistently, just beyond the edges of your hearing, beautiful music.

The softest voice whispers in your heart, saying, Now is The Time.

You catch yourself halfway out the door, your feet followed your heart before your mind realised there was a journey to take.

Grab your coat, pick up a mirror, and walk with me.

We go to find our hearts, we go to find the heart of faery.

The Next Step: Why?