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Now this meditation helps see the fea. 2 part medatation

What you will need is your self a quiet room or go to a field or wood.

White light

i want you to sit comfortably and breath. listen to nothing but your breathing.
Take 4 deep breaths and then close you eyes i want you to relax with every breath you take. dont worry because it can feel scary just relax with every breath. Feel you body relax more with your breathing.

I want you to imagine a white light just above your head. If you cant see it feel it and in this light is love peace all the joyful things that mean a lot to you. Feel it at the top of your head and as you breath this light enters the top of your head. it feels amazing- so peaceful and good as it moves through your head into every cell and blood in your body. then feel it move full you body into every organ i want you to enjoy the feeling. let it move through your body and and have it full your whole body with this light down to the tips of your toes.
Then i want you to just relaz with this light in your self and love the feeling. Know you can feel like this anytime you want. Now send love to the world ,friends, family and peace. I want you to move the light into your heart and say in your mind: " i am protected and ready to see the the world hidden".
I want you to take 4 deep breaths and begin to wake up on the last breath you open your eyes and feel wide awake and amazed.

Now go and drink some water because ts is where the journey begins. If you need the toilet go now.

Fairy Garden

Sit comfortably, breath, get relaxed. Once you have taken some real deep relaxing breath's. Take 4 deep breaths and close your eyes.
Keep breathing till you feel quite relaxed.

Now imagine you are walking through a wood where you come across a gold gate you push open the gate and walk in (LEAVE the gate open).
As you walk through the gate the smell is unbelievable and the colours are delightful . Every where you look are roses and forget-me-nots- all beautiful flowers every where. You feel so good being in this place the sun is shining and the smell and the sights are unbelievable. You notice to the left of you a blue butterfly dancing in the air. you follow it . As you follow you come into an open field where there is vast area of flowers and peace. You feel even more relaxed. The butterfly leads you to a steam where it sits on a llly oppisite from you. You sit and take in the beauty of the steam ,the flowers and the trees. You feel such at peace. You feel like a child once again where magic is possible. You look to where the butterfly sat and there on the stone is a blue fairy. You listen to the information she tells you. When she is finished you look about and see them all dancing. Invite them into your life and say " i respect you". "you in turn must respect me to give me sight to see you and the voice to hear you. State your name. Once you have done this they will dissapear . Then turn to the lilly pond and the blue butterfly has returned. Follow it back to the gate take a nice relaxing stroll back. Enjoy it. Soak up as much good energy as you can.
Once returned to the golden gate l say "thank you" to the butterfly. Go out of the gate (Close the gate) take 4 deep breaths com back home to reality once you awake feel alive and awake. Drink water and enjoy your day.
with in 3 days you should start to see things.

You can do this meditation anytime you want and of course spend time with the fea differently. (No need to ask for the sight and voice again just spend time with them.)

Always do the white light meditation first for your health and safety.

Suzie

I posted this in my blogs over in the Ning forums, and I think Fairie Lovers everywhere can share it with me. One doesnt have to astral travel to the Fairy World to see magic. It is hidden in safe areas on Earth still.... unharmed by man and protected by God.

What I am going to write next is what I recorded in my journal the week following my beautiful walk last Sunday. Temperatures were warmer than usual for October. I saw about 20 monarch butterflies in the sunlit clover fields where they didnt cut down the milkweed. (milkweed is one of the few wild plants that Monarchs lay their cocoons and feed on. Tear them down and the monarch population disappears)


Feel free to use it as a your own little meadowland/forest meditation while stuck on an airplane, courthouse, etc. Enjoy the Magic!


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It was more than I expected while on my walk today. The sun was shining, and my family had gone for the day, so what better chance to explore!

I usually walk to the pond down our road, or up the road to enjoy the wild areas there., but this time I decided to walk up the mountain from across the street of our home.

The hill looks like a rural painting from the 1800's. The kahki grasses are mixed with golden rod , red clover and queen anne's lace. I boldly walked through them to reach the heights I never walked before. The Sun shone over the nearby forest. My aim was to follow the Sun and cut through the woods to get to the beautiful apple orchards. These orchards I can see from a distance, but seemed too far for anyone to venture.

As I cut through the woods, my home no longer visible-- I marvelled at the beauty all around me. I was in a different land I had never known existed so close to my road.


The Sun still shone through the trees, and I could see the farmland and orchards some ways up past the forest. Sun shone on the freshly cut hills and sparkled like diamonds through the leaves. A cat bird sang his songs while hopping on the branches and the squirrels were running here and there foraging freshly fallen acorns. I found some nice large pieces of bark to cover my next Fairy cottage I will be making . It will be a nice big one for my Fae friends!

How beautiful that there is a place like this for the wild birds and animals. Thank God there are still places like this on Earth for them!

Walking back, the Sun was resting above the mountainside, and patches of light were still evident over the apple orchard up yonder.

I dropped onto the grass on the hill and watched the remaining Sun shine through the Queen Anne's Lace near my face. I was awestruck at the birds swooping over the tree tops - tucking themselves in for the coming night and the sky.. Wow, the Sky was pure bright cornflower Blue!
On that hillside, I could see for miles to other mountains, and the Valley below. Clouds floated over there .

This must be what the Native Americans saw as they passed by here hundreds of years ago. They didnt hear lawn mowers, -- just the birds.

Sitting there on that mountain field, I gave reiki to my Woodland family of trees, birds and all of Nature.

The Best things in life really are free!

This is something to keep in mind when doing guided meditations.. Advice from a French Elf!



Re: Guided meditation - imagination or not

Dear Ebaldazo,

Your question has also been on my mind for the past six months or
so. Ever since the moment the Fae started to contact me (although
I've had a faery guide for more than 20 years without really knowing
she was a real Fae; in fact she's more like a girlfriend to me and
she doesn't like being called a faery guide, and I don't like it
either, but she is a totally different story than this one). The
medium by which they do this is my own imagination, and the fact
that I never 'really' heard or saw them, but 'only' perceiving them
with an inner ear and eye, has been quite difficult for me. I've
been going nuts asking myself whether I wasn't just imagining it
all, but I've found out the answer to this question isn't that
important at all. Let me share a few of my experiences with you.
Maybe they can bring some light to your question.

When I was out camping in France last summer I met a beautiful and
loving elf, a dryad of the forest of Troncais. She said she was
going to teach me a few things about using my imagination. She said
that when you are imagining things you connect with the energy
around you, but by active imagining something you can also call up
or create energy around you. So imagination is always something
real. In this western human world imagination has become something
that is regarded to be outside reality, for children, artist and
fools, but that is a misunderstanding. She once told me a beautiful
story about the elves of the dew, how they lovingly tend for their
little drops of water on the grass in the morning, how they sing and
shine, and wait for the sun, and how they cheer when the sunlight
falls on their drop of water and how they send it in small parts
towards the sun. She told it in much more beautiful words, and I
added a few things of my own to it. I then remarked that we were
just making it up, imagining it, and that it was broad daylight, not
even in the morning. She asked me: „Did your heart sing when you
were making it up?“ And I said yes, and that I grew more happy with
every word, that it really deeply moved me. She said: „Then it is
true, because anything that will make your heart sing, is true.“

Of all of the beautiful and wise things the elves have been telling
me, this simple statement is perhaps the deepest and the wisest.
I've learned that my imagination is an instrument by which I can see
or hear into other realities then just our threedimensional physical
world. But it is an instrument you have to learn to use and trust.
You need to have a strong inner grip, stay true and close to
yourself, not losing yourself. And always follow your heart. I found
out that when I see something and my heart isn't singing, as my
French elf puts it, that I'm most of the time looking at my own ego
(which can be very interesting also), but that I'm not in touch with
the Fae at that time. They in turn find this very amusing.

Another thing they tell me, is that I see them giftwrapped. I
perceive them in a way that is acceptible for me, that I can cope
with and understand. I perceive their energies and by using my
imagination give these energies a form in my mind, by which I can
communicate with them. In that way a French elf will speak to me in
my own native tongue, although she found it very funny to do this in
a strong French accent. So if you and I would see the same elf at
the same time, it might be that we'ld be seeing not the same outward
appearance and would hear different words, but that the energy and
the message behind it would be the same. One or two times an elf
showed me her more or less true form, and that came suprisingly
close towards the Singers in the deck. And that was before I got
acquainted with the Oracle.

Like I said, at times I've been going nuts with doubt, and asked my
elves for some sort of proof. And sometimes there were little things
that really startled me, or bits of information that I really
couldn't know myself. But most of the time they wanted me to learn
to trust and use my imagination, and they've been really good
teachers. In the proces I've learned more about myself and the
world, and have become more human then I ever felt possible. But the
Fae as the say don't deal in outer knowledge, but in inner wisdom.
And thus they give lousy weather forecasts.

What struck me the most from the beginning was the immense feeling
of love I felt in contact with the elves, the feeling of at last,
after 42 years, being home. That was something that was so very much
beyond any form of imagination, so very much real, that it kept me
going for all these months, knowing that I might be struggling
sometimes, but not going insane. By now I can accept it more easily,
allthough I still have my doubtful moments. But even if it is all
something within myself, then all this deep love and wisdom and
inner strenght also comes from myself. And that is quite a comfort.
But in the end, I still choose for the elves, because with them my
heart sings the most.

Good luck with it all, remember your heart and don't lose yourself.
Paul

--- In FaeryOracle@yahoogroups.com, "ebaldazo" <hcartier21@...>
wrote:
>
> I did the faery guided meditation posted on in this group. It was
> tough because I haven't done something like this for a long time.
When
> I came to my faery guide I was surprised. He came from the woods,
> blended in with the trees. He was very tall, had antlers, furry
hands
> with hooves, yellow almond shaped eyes, and his body was ever
moving,
> like a pile of blowing leaves. The best I could see from the rest
of
> his body is that he was bent over and had long legs. Some part of
me
> felt like I made the whole thing up, but another part felt so much
> happiness from meeting this new friend. I'm struggling with this
method
> of coming into contact with the Fay. I do believe, but I've always
been
> very skeptical about the authenticity of guided meditations in the
> context of real encounters with otherworld creatures. Now I do
believe
> that otherworld creatures have spoken to me through omens, tapping
> sounds, intuition,etc. There is such a fine line between
clairvoyance
> and imagination. How do we know we're not just making everything
up
> ourselves?
>

http://westbynorthwest.org/summer01/faery.shtml


1) Turn off your TV, radio, computer, cell phone, etc.

2) Go outside, to a place where it is hushed and untamed -- forest, meadow, creekside, ocean beach, mountain, your own garden. Note: if you go really far out to the wilds, remember that while you may be engaged in a totally non-rational activity, you should never be stupid. Keep all your wood-wise skills about you. Otherwise, don't go out so far.

3) There are traditional times of the year to seek faeries, at least those of European origin: May Day (May 1) and All Hallows Day (November 1) are the biggies, with runners-up at the Solstices: Midsummer (June 21) and Yule (December 21 -- how do you think that "jolly old elf" business started?). The old Celtic method of reckoning time is from night to night -- thus May Eve, Midsummer Eve, Halloween, and Yule Eve are "it." In practice, I've found that you have a good couple days on either side of the holiday when "the veil is thin," as folklore says.

4) I've also had good luck under a full moon, any time of year. Daytime works too. My favorite time (and very traditional) is the gloaming, when the sun has set but it's not yet dark. (Unfortunately, it's also mosquito time.)

5) Good idea to bring a small offering: flowers, food, ribbons, shells, pretty pebbles, silver coins, a poem written out. To this day, if you visit the old places of Britain and Ireland, you will find venerable trees by wells or standing stones with ribbons and rags tied as offerings to their branches. Lore has it that faeries don't like iron/steel, and are quite partial to milk. Native American spirits are said to prefer tobacco or cornmeal. Use your imagination. Carry your offering until you come to a place that feels "right" to leave it. If at ocean or creek, you might toss your offering into the water, or sail it on a little bark boat. Alternatively, I do a service for the land when I'm out walking in daytime, like pick up trash at the beach or pull out alien thistle seedlings in the hills. The land appreciates it, and that's what counts.

6) Quiet yourself. Quiet your mind. Be fully present. Pay attention to what's around you. Breathe deep.

7) Be aware of your peripheral vision. Practice "owl vision," an exercise I learned from Starhawk, one of my teachers: Hold both arms out to your sides and wiggle your fingers. Now move your arms back or forward slowly, til you can just see *both* hands while your eyes look ahead. This is your field of peripheral vision. Get to know it. As you walk, be in full awareness of what's on your sides, in soft focus.

8) Practice walking like a slithery cat, slowly, on silent paws. Your object isn't to stalk anything, but to blend in and connect to the energies here; to not be a big, noisy, blundering stranger to the place, whom everything runs away from. You may want to stop and sit -- if you are motionless, hushed, and patient, it takes about 20 minutes for the forest to forget you're there, and everything to go on as usual around you.

9) Okay, you're here, the place is right, the timing's right, you're quiet, and you're paying attention. Now what? Now it's luck, and intention. Walking or sitting, get yourself fully grounded to the place you're in. Acknowledge the seven directions: north, east, south, west, above, below, and "here," center. Attune yourself to the spirit of the place, the genii loci. Respectfully ask to make a connection. Specify that you seek to meet a faery who would be a helper, an ally, a healer, and a true friend. Then be patient, see what you can intuit. Stay focused, and if your mind wanders, gently bring it back. I've honestly never heard of anyone who saw faeries in full-color, physical flesh. Spirits will signal themselves in other ways, for instance, with distinct flashes of light in your peripheral vision. If you sense a strong presence, one option is to close your eyes and ask if the faery will appear to you in your mind's eye. (Just because you see it "inside" doesn't mean it's not real.) You may ask questions, seek advice. Listen, really truly listen, but remember that, like humans, faeries can vary in their wisdom. In any case, be alert to the unusual and synchronistic. I have seen odd patches of rainbow light exactly when and where I looked up, a flaming meteor shoot across the north star just when I acknowledged the north, and yes, those fascinating peripheral-vision lights. Wonderfully strange things have happened that left me no doubt that I made contact of one sort or another. Once I even saw the end of a full rainbow, right *there.* I thought, well you never know, pots of gold and all, and walked over -- and of course, it shifted the moment I approached. Never let it be said that the fey folk don't have a sense of humor.

10) Another method is to commune with a plant spirit. (Gardeners and herbalists especially like this one.) Find yourself an attractive plant or tree. Sit down beside it. Go through the same centering, acknowledging, and attuning as above. Gently touch the plant, sniff it, study it. Close your eyes and try to energetically "enter" it. With the spirit's permission, let yourself merge with the plant. Possibly, the plant spirit may take a faery form and appear in your mind's eye. Listen to what it may tell you. Ask the plant spirit if it has any healing properties. Sometimes you may connect with the deva of an individual plant, sometimes with the totem spirit of all that species. Note: don't get too spaced out doing this. One of my dear and normally wood-wise teachers, while teaching a workshop, sent us out to look for our plants, went off herself in a trance-y state, and unified with a lovely, emerald-green patch of poison oak.

11) Always, always, formally end a faery connection. When finished, say thank you, and really let yourself feel gratitude. If you haven't yet made your offering, this is a good time. You may want to honor a spirit presence with a song (faeries are very fond of music). Your spirit being may want to give you a song to remember, or last words of wisdom, or perhaps something else. Say goodbye. Open your eyes if they were closed, invigorate your breathing, stretch, move. Be sure to fully come back to your own personal boundaries, pat the edges of your body, say your own name. It's easy to get spaced out doing this kind of work; be firm about pulling yourself back together and orienting yourself exactly. When I get home, I always write in my journal any details I want to remember. As much as I think I won't forget, I will.

12) Yet another method to connect with Faery is through dreams. There are the night-time sleep dreams (chance-y, but very magical when it happens), and there are "awake dreams" which include meditation, visualizations, and full trance. To bring myself a sleep dream, I meditate on my intention (whom I hope to contact and why), perhaps read appropriate stories or myths, tell myself that I wish to dream of Faery before/while I fall asleep, and see what happens. In truth, sometimes nothing. And sometimes I've had amazing dreams with no prep at all. For "awake dreams" from your nice comfy house, adapt the steps in 9, 10, and 11, above. A steady, soft drum beat helps immensely-- you can get cassette tapes to play so you can relax. You can simply lie down and go for it, or light candles and get fancy. Be sure to ground yourself, acknowledge the directions, and so on. Close your eyes. Strongly visualize your favorite place in nature. When it feels very real, then follow the same steps as above.