23 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in All Posts, Art Craft and Beauty, Creative Process, Magic
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Art Craft and Beauty, Beginnings, creativity, Heart, Honesty, Imperfection, inspirations, Journey, Magic, musings, Passion, Play, process, reasons, Strangeness of Life, Suggestions
How play helped me to release perfectionism and be happier with my art!
I’m an artist! Yay!
I make pictures and share them with people…
And I get sad that they are never quite what was in my head.
21 Thursday Apr 2011
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Completion, Feri, Iron Pentacle, Living Life, Magic, musings, Pearl Pentacle, Reclaiming, Suggestions, Tools
Iron and Pearl together...
“That which is Below corresponds to that which is Above, and that which is Above, corresponds to that which is Below, to accomplish the miracles of the One Thing”
~ The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus
Life: A balance of self in community.
Iron: The foundation of living.
Pearl: The levels of connection.
Working with these energies can uncover blocks within yourself, polish smooth the rough edges and bring some more rust to the surface to be cleaned away. If we work to heal ourselves, we are working to heal a part of the world. In healing ourselves we heal our community, our relationships, our lives, the world.
12 Tuesday Apr 2011
Posted in All Posts, Art Craft and Beauty, Faery, Magic, Reflections
Wealth Faery
Bottom line; I’m skint.
And I believe in magic.
So I’ve created a spell… in a piece of art.
In creating this artwork I mused on the nature of wealth, and She showed me the simple truth that clinging too tight does not allow money to flow. Money is like water, it flows in and out, there are times of drought and times of flood and times when it all balances… but it can’t be held too tightly.
This picture needs to flow.
11 Monday Apr 2011
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Art Craft and Beauty, challenge, choice, Devotional, Heart, inspirations, Iron Pentacle, Journey, Living Life, Magic, musings, Pearl Pentacle, Suggestions, Tools
Wisdom
When we are free, what will we do?
When we stand in our passion, what will we choose?
With all the choices of the world before us, to what do we say yes, and no?
A deep understanding of the flow of our feelings, our passions, our emotions and our loves, leads us to something precious… Wisdom.
There is a time for yes, and a time for no.
A time to dance, and a time to sleep.
A time to reach out, and a time to curl up small.
These moments, these choices, are not dictated by the outside world or by our intellect; they are the choices of our hearts.
Are you living the life that feels right to you?
Are you making the choices that are true to your heart as well as your thoughts and words?
Are you saying yes when you choose to, and no when you need to?
What would life look like if the answer to these questions was ‘Yes!’?
I am passionate about many things, things that feed my heart and soul, things that flash a grin upon my face and draw me out to dance in the sunshine with joy. And sometimes I say no to them, through fear, or the life I’ve crafted which isn’t quite right, or some other choice I make that isn’t in tune with my heart but makes sense elsewise… but when I say yes, my world is set alight, my heart blazes and I fly.
What makes you fly?
What do you need to do to craft your life into something that allows you the space you need to light up your world?
When do you need to say yes, and when, no?
This is the sixth 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.
09 Saturday Apr 2011
Posted in All Posts, Faery, Magic, Reflections
So, I’m having a rest from posting much on the Feyhearted Path while I gather together my thoughts and energies for the next project (which is forming on paper and looks to be stunning!) and I thought I’d just touch base with you all and share some musings and some fairy finds.
Firstly, the issue of sparklefluff.
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.
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…
Halo Quin 