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Happy Chinese New Year of the Rabbit! This new year kicks off early, officially starting on Sunday. In the days coming up to it, we’ll have virtual musical chairs of planets shifting as we prepare once again to greet a new year. Monday’s Scorpio Moon will carry an intense vibration, enabling us to get a lot of things taken care of that have been on the back burner since last year. A lighter energy prevails on Tuesday and Wednesday as the Moon dances through Sagittarius, but we’ll have to watch for oversensitive people or emotional outbursts here and there. Part of the cause will be Mercury turning direct in Capricorn on Wednesday. This can cause miscommunication and technical glitches are sure to try our last nerves! The Sun will move into Aquarius on Friday and meet up with Pluto, giving us a sense of destiny and karma to guide our way forward. On Saturday the Aquarius new Moon will occur, which then dictates the beginning of the Chinese New Year on Sunday. To add to the melee, Uranus will turn direct after four months of backward motion and cement the idea that new beginnings are upon us! With the Sun moving into Aquarius, the new Moon in Aquarius, Aquarius’ ruling plant Uranus going direct (as well as Mercury), and the Chinese New Year all happening within a matter of days, the message is clear: Change is on the horizon!

7 Steps to Connect with Faery, by Emily Carding

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

In the Twenty-First Century, the Faery realm is as popular as ever; yet, in our culture of instant gratification and unmoderated media platforms, there are many false paths and illusory pitfalls to distract and misdirect us. How, then, can the true seeker of Faery be sure they are not following some metaphorical (or sometimes literal) Will-o’-the-Wisp into hazardous swampland? Here are the seven steps you need to take to be sure that you are living authentically and in sync with our Faery cousins.

1. Knowledge
Read widely and wisely! Of course books are not the only source of knowledge, but they are a good place to start (and continue—we should never stop learning!), in balance with the more experiential steps to follow. Find recommendations from people you respect and familiarise yourself with traditional folklore and mythology, particularly Irish, Scottish, and Welsh. Any good book on Faery should also have a good bibliography, which you can explore for further reading and deeper exploration. The more varied your reading, the stronger your discernment will be and the less likely you are to be led off the true path into illusion. It's also important to realise that many faery beings are hostile and/or unpredictable. The more you know, the more prepared you will be.

2. Expand Your Awareness
It can be all too easy to get stuck in our heads and mistake wishful thinking and the untrained imagination for real experience. Therefore, one of the most important steps to true connection with Faery is to expand your energetic awareness outside of your own body and into the world around you. Here is an exercise that is featured in both Faery Craft and my new book, Seeking Faery.

Exercise: Becoming the Faery Tree
This exercise is designed to connect you to the energies of the land and to open up your heart centre to increase sensitivity to the presence and communications of Faery beings. Depending on your physical capabilities, this may be performed standing or sitting, but in either instance you should ideally have your feet bare and on the land outside, in as natural a space as possible, ideally where you won't be disturbed. Keeping upright and relaxed, with your feet a small distance apart and your hands by your sides, take seven slow deep breaths (in through the nose, hold for three seconds, and slowly out through the mouth), as you allow tension and concerns of the day to melt away.

On your next breath, with your palms at your side facing downwards, imagine your feet slowly turning into tree roots and digging down into the earth beneath you. Feel the strength of the earth and the stability and nourishment that the roots provide you with. Maintain this for seven deep breaths in and out.

Now, for your next seven breaths, maintaining your roots, slowly bring your arms up into a "v" shape and raise your palms to the sky. Imagine that your arms are becoming great branches, reaching for the light of Sun, Moon, and Stars. Maintain both roots and branches for a further seven deep breaths.

Keeping your arms upright in the "v" position, now imagine that your roots are drawing emerald green light up from the earth towards your heart. Breathe it in and draw it up with seven deep breaths. Now imagine that your branches are drawing down the silver light of the heavens into your heart. Draw it down with seven deep breaths. The green and silver light meets in your heart and becomes golden and swirling, opening your heart to the energies of Earth and connecting you to above and below.

For beginners, maintain this as long as you are comfortable and then release the energies back up through your branches and down through your roots, slowly lower your arms and slowly draw your roots back into your feet and become your normal self again. Seven deep breaths to recover. As you become more used to this exercise, you may find you can do shorter or longer versions as you wish.

3. Offerings
As well as expanding your awareness energetically, it is possible to reach out and connect in a more tangible way with appropriate offerings. This not only helps to form an energetic bridge between the worlds but also shows your willingness to collaborate and not simply expect gifts or guidance with no effort on your part. The choice of offering is significant, as is being sure to clean up afterwards. It is a good idea, if possible, to find an outdoor location for your offerings where you instinctively feel your connection with Faery is strong and where you will not be disturbed. Whilst this might be an established sacred site, it can be more powerful to find a personal connection on a less-trod path. Consider the value of the offerings you bring, and the impact on the environment. If leaving food of any kind, be sure to check that it is cleared and not simply left to rot. Very often these offerings will be consumed by animals, which is absolutely fine (faery beings sometimes borrow these physical forms to accept offerings) so long as you make sure they contain nothing toxic to animal life (for example chocolate).

4. Ethics and Honour
You may think that it's faeries who are usually invisible, but the truth is, they can see right through you, too! If there is any deception or falsehood in your heart, they will sense it and treat you accordingly. Like any magical path, it is of utmost importance to know yourself and establish a strong code of honour and ethics that you abide by in every aspect of your life, not just your work with Faery.

5. Expression
For many, myself included, communication with Faery comes through creative expression. This is a direct communication heart-to-heart or spirit-to-spirit, and these channels must be free and open to receive. Any negative thoughts about your own creativity need to be overcome by simply creating in any way you feel moved to, be it art, dance, poetry. Nobody will judge you, unless you choose to share it with the world, but your soul and your faery allies will thank you.

6. Imagination
When working with Otherworldly beings and forces, the imagination becomes an extra sense through which we can perceive those things which are hidden from our earthly senses. The traps here are clear, and thus it is important to train the imagination through visualisation, meditation, and journey techniques so that it becomes a reliable translator of energies rather than a fanciful self-deception.

7. Grounding
Always come back to this. After any encounter or working with Faery, be sure to ground yourself in your body and the physical world around you. Release the otherworldly energies to their source, feel your feet on the earth, taste good food and drink water. Regularly take time to simply be in Nature, see the wonder that is the world we inhabit, and you will have no need for illusion—you will simply learn to see the magic in deeper truths as you walk the path of Faery in peace, truth and joy.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2022. All rights reserved.

My hands are often noticeably hot. You can actually feel the heat radiating from them. This happens probably more than twice a day (I only notice it if it's really strong). Is this possibly a spiritual thing? It seems to have only started in the past few years. The heat can be felt by anyone, and is not related to my body temperature. The rest of my body (including the tops of my hands) can be cool or warm, but the palms of my hands will be very, very hot, actually radiating heat to the point that if I put my hands an inch or so above someone else's, they can they feel it. Is there a spiritual connection here? Thanks!

Tamica (Virgo)

Dreamchaser:

Tamica, I am constantly reminded via this column that we humans are often completely blind when it comes to our own lives. I wonder what you might say if a friend asked you this question about HER hands. I think you would say, "GIRL, you are a healer!"

There is SUCH a spiritual aspect to hot hands. Every healer I know has very warm hands. When they want to use them to heal, their hands become even hotter. To test this theory, the next time something hurts on you, put your hands on that part of your body and concentrate on fixing it. You will feel your hands start to heat up, and I bet the pain is reduced.

You said it only started in the last few years, and I know that you hit some evolutionary level (spiritually speaking) at that time. It naturally happens to women somewhere in our thirties. We can ignore it or deny it, but it is still there. It is an awakening of sorts. At that time, our gifts will really start to show themselves, if we have not seen them clearly already. That is basically what happened to you a few years back, Tamica. You had an "awakening."

I suggest you read books on the practice of Reiki. Start to research all types of healing. Learn all you can about your "newfound" gift. There is a reason why we receive our gifts, and why they start to manifest. You need to find out why you have "hot hands." I used to a date a man that had "hot hands." He rarely used them. When I had an ache or a pain, I would ask him to heal me, and he would put his hands on me. Unless he was asked, however, he would never use the gift. I was on the receiving end of his power, and I know how much he had. I always thought it was a shame that he did not become more familiar with this gift of his. I think we all should be exploring ways to put our gifts to use.

At the risk of sounding very "New Age," we are entering into new spiritual dimensions, which is influencing human behavior. In the future, I fully expect to see a shift AWAY from modern medicine as we know it, back to the "old ways." You will fall into that category and become a "doctor" of sorts, but you have to accept the job. Do the research. Learn what you have to learn.

I wish you even MORE power from within.

*****

Astrea:

The uses of magic differ with each individual person. Heat has always meant Healing to me. I think you're lucky to be able to feel it come from your Spirit through your hands, and you will, too. Harness this power for good, and you'll live in a better world.

Your Guides are showing you that you need to be healing people, both physically and spiritually. These Guides are giving you Signs that you have an especially strong gift in that area. Unfortunately, your Guides aren't showing you what TECHNIQUE you should be using to make this work for you and others in the most efficient way. Guides are like that, often giving us half (or less) of the information we actually need as piddly human beings so that we end up having to figure things out for ourselves. (GROAN!)

There is no Shortcut Method To Enlightened Use of Healing Power, Virgo, so you're out of luck, there. Good thing you Virgos are so PATIENT. 🙂

You will find a way to use your powerful healing talent for The Light. This doesn't mean you have to rush out and become a Medical Doctor; there are several other legitimate avenues you can explore to learn how to use your gift. To control ANY gift takes lots of practice. First you have to pay attention to all aspects of the signs you're being shown.

Pay closer attention to details such as when, where, how, with whom, and WHY this happens to you the way that it does. Get a little memo book that will fit in your pocket or purse, and write those questions with a space between them on each page of the book. Every time this heat manifests, answer those questions and go to the next page. Keep enough ahead in the question pages so that you don't have to fill in the questions on the spot, and can just write down the answers quickly. Keep this notebook for a month, preferably from one Full Moon to the next Full Moon. Don't go back over what you have written for an additional month, but meditate and pray for enlightenment during the next 28 days.

On the following night of the WANING FULL MOON, read over the month you kept your records. ALL will be revealed to you in that reading, and you'll know where your Healing Path lies. You can then choose from the forms available to you to study, find a mentor, or develop skills to use this for yourself in your own way. Start with the next full Moon to begin to process your miraculous gift.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.