40 ideas for connecting with faeries

anonymous-alchemist:

From researching many different sources!

1. Dried thyme sprinkled on doorsteps and windowsills will invite in faeries
2. Wearing thyme may enable you to see faeries
3. Seven grains of wheat laid on a four leaf clover may enable you to see faeries
4. Where oak, ash and thorn grow, faeries can be easily seen
5. Lilac flowers will draw sprites, and repel those that are ill-willed
6. Eating a primrose flower is said to give you faerie sight
7. Collecting 5 primroses and tapping them on a faerie rock may open a portal to fairyland
8. Place primroses on your door to receive a faerie blessing
9. Carrying a sprig of lavender may help you see faeries
10. Fresh flowers bring faeries. Keep house plants in your living space to invite in the faeries of those flowers.
11. Faeries are attracted to those with childlike hearts and minds
12. Carry with you a sprig of any flower or herb who’s faerie you wish to be close to
13. Place the sprig under your pillow to receive a dream from that faery
14. Bringing an acorn into your house will strengthen your connection to the faerie realm
15. Meditating on the appearance of the marigold flower may enhance your faerie sight
16. Grow a garden with flowers associated with the fae
17. Add faerie or gnome statutes to your garden; they find this amusing
18. Have a specific space in your home (a shelf, windowsill, table, etc) for the faeries to “live in”, and a spot to leave gifts for them (mine is in the garden)
19. Let a portion of your garden grow wild
20. Wind chimes hung in a window attract sprites
21. Faeries love music and dancing. Dance in nature with them, or sing / play a song for them
22. Create art for them, and draw the faeries you meet.
23. An often used method of seeing faeries is letting your eyes go out of focus and pay attention to the corners of your vision.
24. Crushed clover rubbed on eyelids may give one faerie sight
25. Give back to the earth, for what you take. Pick up trash you find in nature, try to use less plastics, don’t waste food, compost your fruits/vegatables/herbs for rich soil.
26. The best times to see faeries are dawn, dusk and midnight (the in-between times)
27. Hang glass, crystals, and beads in your window for the sun to shine through; faeries like glittery & sparkly things.
28. Wearing a crown of elder twigs on may eve will enable you to see faeries
29. Go out and just sit in nature, simply enjoying it. You can also practice sensing sprites
30. While it is dangerous to enter a faerie ring, running around it exactly nine times clockwise under a full moon will allow you to see and hear the faeries dancing inside it (note though, the faeries may take offense if this done on Beltane or Samhain)
31. Heather is said to open portals to fairyland
32. Looking through a stone with a natural hole, a hagstone, is said to allow one faerie sight
33. Add a sigil on your door or window meaning “good faeries welcome”
34. Leave out a small saucer of milk for any household faeries
35. Try sitting in your garden in the early morning, late afternoon, evening, night
36. Look up artists who specialise in faeries and observe their different interpretations of the fae (Brian Froud, Amy Brown, Sulamith Wülfing, Cicely Mary Baker, Howard David Johnson, Nadia Strelkina, etc)
37. Read real life accounts of people’s encounters with faeries
38. Read traditional fairie lore
39. Believe. Faeries most likely won’t interact or make themselves known to closed minds
40. Don’t forget to be polite and respectful!

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