The spaces between field and forest, sea and shore, or natural passageways. Traditionally Faerie is connected to our world through liminal spaces or times, when things are in transition between one thing and the next. You won’t know what’s on the other side but, whatever it is, it will be an adventure. Allow the Guardian to take you by the hand and lead you to the threshold. There is always a Guardian who keeps the doorway open and listens for the footsteps of those who seek the way. But once you’ve recognized the door, sooner or later you will be invited to step across the threshold, through the doorway, and come home. You may find the doorway opening immediately. Bring a book of Faerie stories and read them aloud. Bring offerings of food, wine, water from a sacred well, jewels. Come back at dusk, at dawn, tomorrow, next month, on the full moon, on the solstice, the equinox, the cross quarter days. If you walk on between the trees, noting only the lovely symmetry, you’ll have an uneventful stroll in the woods.īut if you recognize that this is a Faerie Door, you’ll stop. A shimmer appears very faintly between two trees that stand in perfect symmetry, one either side of the path, their branches intertwining overhead, as though Mother Nature herself had built the arbor. Notice when the smell and temperature of the air change. Follow your intuition, barely heard music, a butterfly, bird, or furry creature. Once you’ve spent some time adjusting your consciousness to the idea that there might really be doors that allow you to enter the Faerie Realm, wander into any wood, any slightly wild place, down any trail. Will this pathway lead to a Gateway to Faerie? –Make or buy a Fairy Door and install it in a special place and ask the Fairies to help you dream your way through the door. –Sit on the riverbank and allow yourself to be mesmerized by flowing water framed between overhanging willows. –Settle in to dream in the space between boulders –Trace the outline of the hollow in the ancient tree, lay your hands above the opening, then crawl inside. –Stop at the spider web across your path and ask permission to continue before you carefully duck under the web. –Dive into the full moon’s reflection in a pool. –Walk through shimmering air between two Hazel trees. If you are searching, here are a few ideas to help you on your quest: Are you seeking an entrance into Faerie? What would it look like? Is there a door to knock on? A bell to ring? You can, of course, leave a gift at the door of your Fairy House on each full moon until the Fairies invite you in, but openings into the Otherworld are also everywhere you turn, in every wood and grove, in each Earth place that remembers the wild.
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