06 Wednesday Apr 2011
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Beginnings, Commitment, Devotional, Energy, Faery, Grounding, Heart, Honesty, Magic, Meditation, musings, reasons, Strangeness of Life, Suggestions, Tools, Visualisation, World Tree
Being pagan and loving the earth, its worth making sure you’re connected to it before any kind of magical act… as embodied beings we are made of earth, we walk upon her, we eat what grows on her, and we will one day be buried in her.
Being human, its worth making sure you’re connected to the earth!
04 Monday Apr 2011
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Iron Pentacle, Journalling, Journey, Living Life, Magic, musings, Pearl Pentacle, Philosophy, project, Reclaiming, Strangeness of Life, Suggestions, Tools
Choose your limits
Everything that you do requires power. Power is the ability to make things happen.~ Hiro Boga
And when you claim your power to make things happen, you gain liberty…
Standing strong in yourself, with power in your heart, you see the way open before your eyes.
You know you are capable of choice, of action, and your ability to choose your path means you are free, free to choose your own responsibilities, free to be yourself, free to choose when to say yes and when to say no.
When you claim your power for yourself, you are at liberty to decide to manifest your own destiny, or not.
When liberty rises, you choose.
And there are limitations, we are not infinite beings, we are embodied, we are finite, we are living with limitations and obligations…
But these do not change the fact that we are free to choose how we respond to them, how we live within them.
That the world is only so big does not mean we are not free, it only means that we have only a certain amount of land to walk upon… and we are free to choose whether we start walking, or whether we stay put.
You have the power to choose your own path, you are free to walk the way you choose.
The path may only be two feet wide, but you choose to look up as you walk, or down at your feet, or to sit by the side and refuse to move at all.
Claim your power, your ability to act and choose within whatever limits may exist, and feel the freedom that rises within.
As Epictetus, a Greek Philosopher and slave, insisted, there are certain things we do not have control over, but in those areas where we do, we are free. As such, even he, a slave, felt himself to be free.
Liberty is possible when we accept our own power, and where we are powerless, and we then begin to choose.
What do you choose?
This is the fifth post of seven on the Pearl Pentacle, part of my Pentacles series, which started with the Iron Pentacle. I’ll be posting on the points of the Pearl Pentacle for the next few Magical Mondays.
28 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in All Posts, Magic, Pentacles, Reflections
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Art Craft and Beauty, choice, Commitment, Heart, Honesty, Imperfection, inspirations, Intent, Iron Pentacle, Journalling, Journey, learning, Living Life, Magic, musings, Philosophy, Suggestions, Tools
Knowing
What do I know?
What are my skills?
What have I learned in my time incarnated?
We all know something so well we forget others may not understand it.
We all have skills we have learnt to help us survive.
When we begin to know ourselves, we begin to know what we know… Who we are includes our skills and knowledge, and who we are is expressed through that which we have invested much energy learning about. We are, in the world, what we do; our actions are a true reflection of what and who we are… Even when we wish we were different.
What do you know?
How do you express that knowledge?
When you act from what you know you express that part of yourself in the world. Only you can share that knowledge, those skills, that understanding in that way.
Know what you know, and know how you express your knowledge, and you will know who you are… And, perhaps, what you need to change in your expression in order to become the best you that you can be.
Know your self.
Know your skills.
Know your role in your world…
21 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in All Posts, Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic
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Art Craft and Beauty, book, Completion, Faery, Faery Queen, Feyhearted path, gratitude, growing things, Heart, Honesty, Living Life, Magic, Suggestions, The Faery Heart, Tools
Hello Feylings!
If you’ve been following this blog and the Feyhearted project for the past few months, you’ll have seen the Pixie Kisses – weekly posts of suggestions for inviting enchantment into your life…
I am delighted to announce that these posts have been collected into a book, alongside the letters to my mailing list which accompanied them, paintings and photos from my own feyhearted explorations, and some extra material written especially for the project.
And it is up on Lulu now! Here it is:
Enchantment in little kisses...
Do you long for enchantment?
Do you revel in delight?
Are you drawn to the Fey?
Choose, now, to walk in a world of beauty, of delight. Choose, now, to be enchanted by life!
Suggestions, musings and explorations of enchantment in bite-sized kisses in a dainty book, ready to wing its way into your life and guide you through play to the magic that surrounds you every day.
18 Friday Mar 2011
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Faery, Feyhearted path, gratitude, Heart, Honesty, Intent, Magic, Suggestions
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…
14 Monday Mar 2011
Posted in All Posts, Magic, Pentacles, Reflections
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Balance, choice, Flow, Iron Pentacle, Law, Magic, musings, Pearl Pentacle, Pentacles, Pride, process, Tools
The law of the land, natural law, rhythms, cause and effect.
When you know your place, your role in the world, you know your place in the flow of things…
13 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in All Posts, Magic, Reflections
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Ancestors, challenge, Commitment, Family, Heart, Living Life, Magic, musings, spirit, Strangeness of Life
I’ve often tried to map out my family tree, but with divorces and remarriages it tends to scrawl over the edge of the page into a tangle. Perhaps I’ve more of a family vine than a family tree?
I’ve some information on one of the branches of the American part of my vine, but very little on the British parts…and I’ve well loved family who have been disconnected through divorce.
I return periodically to trying to develop a magical practice to honour my ancestors, connect with my roots… but it tends to wash away on unstable foundations… so how can I reconcile these things? How can I find a practice that I connect with, so I can feel what I’m doing when I work with them?
And do I need to? It feels like the right thing to do, so I guess so…
Its come to mind again, I guess its time to revisit what I used to do and see what I can do now. A box altar worked well last time, where I had to interact with the objects, and then time spent talking and listening to them. Pretty much how most of my spirit based work happens – tricky when ‘hearing’ is so damn hard for me! Make of that what you will…
Suggestions welcome!
11 Friday Mar 2011
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creativity, Faery, Feyhearted path, Heart, inspirations, Intent, Magic, project, Suggestions, Tools
This is the fifteenth 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.
Faeries, enchanters, magicians, witches… all known to be carriers of the elusive magic wand. Evidently this is an important tool for all those who would choose to spread enchantment in their lives, and the lives of others. In this case, perhaps we should make one ourselves!
07 Monday Mar 2011
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Breathing, Feri, Iron Pentacle, Magic, musings, Pearl Pentacle, Pentacles, Reclaiming, Tools
Love
“For I am divided for love’s sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all.”
~ The Book of The Law
When lifeforce flows through you and you open to connection, Love is.
When you are whole in yourself, the energy of being alive opens, connects, flows.
All is alive. All is connected.
06 Sunday Mar 2011
Posted in All Posts, Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Following Delight
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Art Craft and Beauty, Commitment, Completion, creativity, Devotional, Faery, Faery Queen, Feyhearted path, gratitude, Heart, Intent, Journey, Living Life, Magic, project, Strangeness of Life
The Faery Heart
I am delighted to announce:
My book has been accepted by a publisher!!!
A lovely German publisher has decided to take on The Faery Heart, and to publish it in a German translation with new illustrations by a gorgeous artist.
Celebration time!!! 🙂
It’ll be out, at the very earliest, late spring next year… so, in the meantime:
The original, English, version is up on Lulu!
Complete with my own illustrations.
Have a printed copy sent to your door, or download a digital version to read right away.
I feel like I’m flying 🙂
Happy thoughts to you all!!!
Halo Quin 