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Fairy Witchcraft Miracles

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How to Create Miracles: An Eight-Week Fairy Witchcraft Course with Francesca De Grandis

How to Create Miracles

An Eight-Week
Fairy Witchcraft Course

Begins November 9, 2025

Reach Impossible Goals

The Fairy Queen and King bless me. They give me magic to accomplish “impossible” goals. Here are two examples:

1) Most bestselling authors come from moneyed families. I don’t. Most bestselling authors spend a fortune promoting their books. I didn’t. Three of my books were bestsellers.

2) My doctor said that most people with my medical condition never climb back out of bed. He added that they do nothing with the rest of their lives. I run a successful business, go out dancing, and can hike for two hours.

Those are only a few instances of Fairy Witchcraft helping me do the impossible. This course will teach you what I did.

Learn Magic that Makes Miracles

You will learn enchantments that you can apply to any goal.

Suppose the goal seems impossible, all the more reason to use these Fairy secrets. They work.

They work regardless of your situation.

I Consistently Use the Course Material Though I Don’t Reach All My Goals

When I cast spells for the impossible to happen, I do not achieve every goal. But I am a lot better off, in many ways: Ongoing use of the material in How to Create Miracles creates improvements in my life that are still wonderful and miraculous.

Miracles Are Not Owned by Oppressive Mainstream Clergy

The same way oppressors insist on their right to own all the land, they claim miracles as their sole property. But everyone is born with the ability to make miracles. Witchcraft helps you find that power.

Reclaim the miracles and freedom of Fairy Witchcraft.

Witch Spirituality

For centuries, my De Grandis ancestors passed down the power of Fairy Witchcraft, generation by generation. The power was not bare spells; they were shared in a matrix that made spells work. That matrix is Witch Spirituality, which is pure power.

That is the way I will share magic in How to Create Miracles. Along with special spells, you will learn wisdoms, attitudes, and other aspects of Witch Spirituality that turn the impossible into the possible.

My De Grandis ancestors,
thank you for my Fairy Witch heritage
—a lineage of the Goddess’ powers,
which are all powers.

More Magic

In addition to the spells you learn in the classes, I cast a success spell for you. I don’t have to know your heart’s desires. Nor do you: My spell helps your dreams come true, even if you don’t know what they are yet.

The Course Is Powerful, Filled with Information, and Gentle

How to Create Miracles is an eight-week intensive. You receive a lot of material and experience a lot of power. And it is not overwhelming. The energy is gentle. So is the speed at which we apply the lessons.

Support When You Face Challenges

Creating miracles can be challenging. I have to face my self-sabotage, be brave to take worldly action toward goals, aim high, and overcome awful circumstances. (Magic works. And we also need to take mundane action.)

The challenges do not have to be overwhelming (with exceptions I’ll mention below). In How to Create Miracles, you receive support at every step. For example, I can help you discover the worldly actions you, as a unique individual in a unique situation, might need to take toward your heart’s goals. And we will cast spells for bravery, serenity, and other inner and outer assets needed to live free.

And our work will be gentle. We will call on the Fairy King and Queen, Who have a gentle side that most people don’t know. My support will also be gentle.

There are times I feel overwhelmed, but it is not my norm. I’ll show you how I avoid them and end them quickly when they do come.

Contrary to the teachings of oppressive religious leaders, austerity is not the only route to miracles (and perhaps never leads to miracles). Instead, gentleness, loving support, and freeing your wild, fierce heart build the way. And they will happen in How to Create Miracles.

Is an Eight-Week Class Long Enough?

It is.

And it isn’t.

Here’s what I’ve observed in 45 years of teaching:

Some individuals only need one of my courses. It changes their life exactly the way they needed. And this course would give them tools to create more miracles when the eight weeks end.

However, everyone is different. If I didn’t keep learning and growing, the miracles would stop.

I want and need miracles every day. For one thing, my survival depends on them. For another, I want to continue having a magnificent happy life and making important contributions to the community. In my case, these require ongoing miracles.

For me, Witchcraft spirituality keeps unfolding. It is a path of discovery, growth, and the miraculous.

Individuals like me are likely to continue training with me.

It’s a matter of choice (that is irrelevant until perhaps long after the course).

Let’s Do This!

How To Attend

Call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling. The group meets by teleconference. No special technology is needed.

Schedule

We meet eight times, on Sundays from 10:00 to 11:00 am PST, starting Nov 9..

The classes are held on consecutive weeks, except we’ll skip the weeks that Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s fall on. So there will be no classes on Sundays Nov 30, Dec 28, and Jan 4.

Reserve the class hour on Sunday Jan 25 for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned meetings.

Enrollment

Cost of the intensive is $200 a month for two months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Enroll by midnight November 5.

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Self-Care: Fighting Oppression While Staying Whole

For me, it is important to fight injustice while simultaneously keeping myself whole in body, mind, and spirit. This includes pursuing my beloved goals, whether they’re financial, artistic, or otherwise.

When I stay whole, I am at the top of my game when fighting the good fight and helping other people find freedom.

The spells in How to Create Miracles are practical. They help you stay whole, reach beloved goals, and be at the top of your game. The Fairy Queen and King gift Witches with all powers, including down-to-earth enchantments.

Sovereignty—Living Free
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What Is Oral Tradition?

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What is Oral Tradition?

Oral tradition is spoken communication that conveys ideas, societal customs, and cultural underpinnings such as ancestral practices. Forms of oral tradition communications include folk tales, other lore, and poetry. There are exceptions to oral tradition being the spoken word. For example, live music can be oral tradition.

The above definition of oral tradition is the one most people will see in books and on websites. And it is a good start.

What if that’s not enough for you? What if the term oral tradition calls to you in ways that the above definition doesn’t address?

What if the words oral tradition invoke something wild and mystical for you, and you know there must be more than the common definition?

What if you sense mysteries that are never spoken, but you sense they are in oral tradition?

Perhaps you have another reason that the usual answer to “What is oral tradition?” is not enough for you.

If so, you’re in the right place. That usual and widespread definition is not enough for me.

I’ll give you a larger definition from my heart and bone marrow. I spent years analyzing what I experienced and observed and how to express all that.

Most of this post is theories I developed based on those experiences and observations. Often, the best ways to express my theories are:
* lyrical writing
* storytelling
* sharing my personal feelings
* and other approaches that are far from the usual means of communicating theories.

I put a lot of work into my theories. I take pride in that. I am also proud that my theories come from years of analysis, common sense, intuition, and trust in my emotions.

Telling a personal story is the best way to start a larger definition of oral tradition. I wrote the following in October 2011. I don’t know if I’ve shared it until now:

I get frustrated because I’m devoted to oral tradition, grew up in it, but can’t explain it—it is so foreign to our society. The Fairy Witch classes I teach and the Shamanic counseling I give are oral tradition. But I can’t get across what I do in them because it can’t be explained. It has to be experienced.

When I do talk about what happens in my classes and counseling, it sounds like promotional hype. The classes and counseling sessions are filled with amazing gifts from the Fairy King and Queen and my ancestors. So I try to explain these gifts. They can only be expressed with the passion I feel about them. No dry logic would do. I feel impelled to share these gifts because I love them and want folks to have access to their immense power. But the passion and inexplicable nature of oral tradition make my words sound like promotional hype.

But, wow, despite all that, I am jazzed! Today, I wrote some poetry and prose poetry combined that gets it across a little:

Oral Tradition

Spaces between the spoken word. Tiny gemlike emptiness that can’t be caught on paper. Places and feelings that aren’t captured by memory (unless your cells are teachable. Even then, remembrance fails, your cells need to relearn the lessons). Moments that can’t be duplicated, conveyed a second time, even by the finest performer.

People being—operative word being—together.

We gobble being up
like it is an ice cream sundae;
we each get a spoon—the moment is shared,
we have chocolate running down our chins,
we grin at each other,
even if we are joined together on the phone
instead of in person.
On the phone, we are in person
when we work in oral tradition.

The above gives a glimmer of oral tradition, but conveying a little bit of it is something. If I could describe it fully on paper, it would not be oral tradition.

How to Learn Oral Tradition

If you want to learn the oral tradition of a particular culture, here are three guidelines:

1) Sit with someone who grew up in that culture and loves it.

2) Pay attention to more than their words.

3) Choose someone who is loving to sit beside.

Let’s look more thoroughly at those guidelines:

To learn the oral tradition of a particular culture, sit with someone who grew up in that culture and who loves it. You can be with them in person, by phone, or on Zoom.

You can be with them in a class they are teaching about the culture in question. You can be with them in a class they are giving about something else. You can be with them by driving them to the grocery store.

If all a person does is lecture abstractly about their culture, you’re only learning ideas. Ideas alone do not make not oral tradition.

Not everyone loves the culture in which they were raised. Here’s a story that shows why that matters.

I grew up in a Shamanic culture. It was the culture of my family. My mother came from a centuries-old family tradition of Fairy Witchcraft. And my siblings will swear that my mother was not a Witch.

Their reaction is not exclusive to my family. I disclosed to an Indigenous American Shaman that my mom had trained me to be a Shaman. I refrained from telling him that my siblings did not recognize my mother’s Witchcraft. But he responded that his mom had trained him to be a Shaman, and that his brother insisted their mother had not been a Shaman. I was grateful for his disclosure because it echoed my similarly odd history. I felt less alone in hereditary Shamanism.

Like many aspects of oral tradition, the blindness of siblings to magic that another child in the family sees is puzzling. Here’s the theory I developed. If you do not have love for a culture, you don’t see it. Think of how colonizers look at Indigenous People as uneducated savages, clearly demonstrating that the colonizers are the uneducated savages. That is an extreme example to make the issue clearer. But the problem doesn’t have to be that extreme. I am not suggesting that anyone who doesn’t see magic is savage and uneducated.

My siblings were not tuned to magic, so they never saw it, let alone as a cultural part of our hearth.

Well, I know they saw it sometimes because occasionally they admit Mom’s incredible psychic abilities and Witch spirituality … and then deny them moments later. So in the long run, they don’t admit Mom was a Shaman.

Now to expand on my second guideline for learning in oral tradition:

Pay attention to more than words. Pay attention to gestures, silences, emotions in the air, and how you respond to them.

Oral tradition is not only the spoken word. It is also everything else in the moment.

You will notice how the second guideline weaves with the third:

Choose someone who is loving to sit beside.. Then the gestures, silences, and everything else in the moment will be filled with love, kindness, and compassion.

If someone’s words are mostly ego-ridden, constantly emphasizing that their ideas are important and the only right ones, walk away fast. Find someone else.

Oral tradition is about people being together. So if someone is filled with arrogance, it fills the moment, the air, and you with toxic energy. You are receiving a dysfunctional version of oral tradition. This is one of many reasons I advise you to pay attention to how you respond to gestures, silences, and emotions in the air. When you examine your reactions to someone’s company, you can sense whether they are good company.

Arrogance and pride are not the only toxins that can fill the moment. Just as a loving person adds love, kindness, and compassion to the moment, so a person who harbors hatred brings hate, cruelty, and judgmental condemnation.

Some individuals skillfully mask their judgmental nature and other flaws as the high moral ground. Some individuals mask abusive expressions of anger as righteousness. Anger is healthy. Expressing it abusively is not.

I learned all this the hard way. After Mom died, continuing to train as a Fairy Shaman in oral tradition was almost impossible because I could not find anyone else who taught through an oral Fairy tradition. I finally found one person. There was a lot wrong with him. I studied with him anyway. I justified my decision by thinking that I could handle it. After all, I was already a powerful savvy Witch. I paid dearly. Don’t settle. Study on your own and pray for the right teacher. The teacher will come.

We are all flawed. No teacher is going to be a perfect human. But find a loving one. Note your experiences of the moments when you are with a teacher. That will help you choose someone who is loving. Don’t settle for less.

For full disclosure, I need to admit that, as a young priestess teaching Shamanism, my own arrogance got in the way. Luckily, it did not take long for me to see how hurtful I was. I changed my ways.

A Story about Learning Oral Tradition

The following story illustrates some points I’ve made about learning through oral tradition:

My mother taught me Witch spirituality from the day I was born. But she never mentioned the word Witch until she was on her deathbed. A lot of what she taught was by example. I do not mean I only watched her do ritual. Her mundane actions demonstrated Witch spirituality by embodying it. She taught me Witch spirituality mostly by the way she walked through the world on a daily basis. Here are examples: her business savvy, her excellence in the kitchen, her fierce protectiveness of me, and her loud uninhibited laughter.

Here is another way Mom taught me: I was surrounded by her essence every day. That’s the nature of living with someone. So, even were she not practicing magic, her Fairy energy surrounded me, sinking into me. Therefore, the patterns, rhythms, beauty, and power of her magic became mine.

I want to phrase that a bit better: “Even were she not practicing magic overtly, …” Adding that word is important. For one thing, a lot of oral tradition magic is woven so seamlessly into everyday activities that it escapes notice. For another, everything is magic. Every person on the planet is always doing magic, whether they know it or not. In either case, her magic surrounded me.

Oral Tradition and Magic

Ritual is one of the most important parts of oral tradition. It is also a pivotal way that oral tradition can transmit power.


Oddly enough, most published definitions of oral tradition do not include ritual, let alone include it as one of the main ways to orally transmit ideas, culture, etc.

I think the rituals of oral tradition are often left out of publications for two reasons.

1) Ritual can be subtle, especially in oral tradition. Someone might be praying silently while pouring you a cup of tea. Many anthropologists and other outside observers overlook anything that is not right in their faces.

2) Academics hogged the mainstream dialogue that defined oral tradition. Search “oral tradition” online, and you’ll mostly see academic definitions. If this dialogue included more indigenous groups, working-class people, and other less privileged individuals, a different dialogue and definition would emerge.

Let me expand on the two reasons.

Academia tends to reinforce systemic oppression. Ignoring a non-colonizer culture’s subtleties helps minimize that culture’s nuanced sophistication and its importance. This reinforces arguments that justify eradicating the culture.

Leaving out ritual and its importance in oral tradition minimizes the power that ritual gives its participants. So fewer people turn to oral tradition, not knowing the immense power that it can give them. In other words, academics will say that oral tradition conveys cultural sensibilities. That’s wonderful. But more people would turn to oral tradition if they understood that oral tradition rituals help cultural sensibilities come alive in one’s heart and cells, instead of being ideas alone. Ideas are powerful but the ability to embody them is more powerful. The wisdom of ancestors and other resources that are in our DNA and resist oppression can come forward during oral tradition rituals. Rituals instill other powers too.

People who reinforce systemic oppression do not want less fortunate individuals to find sources of power.

No one has expertise in all oral traditions. This essay emphasizes oral tradition and Shamanism. It is a weaving in which I am expert. Also, I am committed to sharing oral tradition in the context of Shamanism in my classes and counseling. I thought this essay might help explain my work. (… Or should I say “committed to sharing Shamanism in the context of oral tradition”?)

As I said, oral tradition cannot be defined or explained. It can only be experienced. In that vein, I won’t try to fully explain the relationship between oral tradition and magic. The relationship is only understood through experiential lessons.

But if I move away from trying to define the undefinable and give illustrations instead, they might be helpful:

Learning Magic from My Mother Experientially

From birth, Mom helped me strengthen and refine my natural-born magical gifts. Here is one way she did this:

From my earliest memory, Mom wrapped the ancient Faery Faith around me, not as an abstract idea but as a living magic.

This magic was in my Fey-touched mother’s maternal love. All powers are in a mother’s love, including love and magic from the Fairy King and Queen. These ancient Gods helped Mom be loving. Her love is a role model for my behavior in my classes: The words I choose, how I say them, and whatever else I do during and between my words.

Here are more illustrations:

Teaching Magic Experientially

I teach Shamanism as an oral tradition. During class, I am not talking at you. We are in ritual together, in Fairy realms. It is psychically kinesthetic. We walk between the stars and become star-drenched.

The lessons are experiential learning. Mind you, my students learn not only from doing magic and experiencing oral tradition, but also from my linear, logical explanations of magical techniques and other parts of Fairy Shamanism. But even if an explanation on the surface is a lecture, we are in ritual. The explanations are ritual. And as ritual, they too are experiential learning.

I was born a good luck charm and an amulet for peace, prosperity, and more. Good luck, peace, prosperity, and other blessings fill the air around you during a class meeting. Like I said, the energy of the participants fill the space. If you’d like to learn more about my talismanic ability, click here.

Just as my mother taught me Witch spirituality by embodying it, I try to walk my talk in interactions with my students.

Where to Go from Here for Oral Tradition Shamanism

You can learn oral tradition Shamanism, live in oral tradition Shamanism, live in magic, be magic, draw on magic. Here’s how:

Experiential learning: Attend one of my free rituals to experience the mysteries of oral tradition magic. Subscribe to my newsletter for announcements of upcoming rituals. Click here to subscribe.

As I said, you can’t explain oral tradition in print. I wrote this essay in hopes it would affirm your wild longing for something beyond the printed page, beyond dry definitions of oral tradition, beyond equally desiccated definitions of magic, and past the supposedly informed opinions of oppressors. Those opinions are lies. They not only conceal magic and mysticism, but also help suppress and destroy the culture and power of many groups.

Your wild longings are beautiful, holy, and rich with dignity. Your passion for life is blessed by ancient Gods. So mote it be!

A New Fairy Witch Course

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Magic Lemonade

Magic Lemonade—A New Fairy Witch Class:

Learn 13 Ways to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Begins July 20, 2025

There’s an old expression, When life gives you lemons, make lemonade.

Life gives a lot of lemons. I turn them into magic lemonade. Then life is Fey-touched, fun happens despite nasty circumstances, and my dreams come true.

The same can happen for you.

Fairy Witch Practices That Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

In this new Fairy Witch class, you learn the “recipe” for my magic lemonade. The recipe consists of thirteen Fairy Witch methods that make the best of whatever comes your way, create an enchanted happy life, and help you reach your cherished goals.

As in any good recipe, the thirteen magics blend to become something special. Together, they are more powerful than the sum of their parts. Expect joy and miracles to abound.

If you want ecstatic spirituality, this course’s experiential lessons have glittery, fizzy magic for you.

The Old Gods are my ancestors. I inherited Their power. It is in me. So I believe in greatness. I believe everyone can do big things. Greatness takes different forms. For example, writing books that help thousands of readers. Or lifting coworkers’ spirits by being a comedian during lunch. Or being a loving mother to your family. This course fosters greatness—the power to do big things—even if you don’t see your greatness yet.

Why I Created Magic Lessons about Using Problems as Assets

Paula—one of my wonderfully supportive readers—posted kind feedback about how I live. She did not know that the thirteen techniques, which are among my personal ongoing Shamanic practices, helped create the life she praised. She made three kind posts with the same themes, over a few years’ time. This reinforced them and made them more notable to me.

Her comments represent the need individuals other than myself might have for these Fairy techniques. So I decided to teach them. Below are Paula’s remarks. With her permission, I edited them to make sense out of their original context:

“You seem to have a knack for using life’s ruts and downsides as fuel to be ever-creating something new and continuing on. It is very inspiring.”

“I admire your drive and reliance at overcoming obstacles and continuing to thrive in adverse conditions. It’s really inspiring to me.”

“You just keep going and going – it’s true! I really enjoyed reading about your positive response to the helping hand(s) the Universe gave you. LOL, burglars broke into your UHaul storage locker and helped themselves to your stuff, but you still go, unfettered by the excess baggage that was stolen and keeping it fun!”

Then, my student Candace LaRue added more inspiration. I said, “I do not make do. I make joy. So mote it be!” Candace responded, “Wiser words were never spoken!” She too affirmed the importance of magic lemonade not just for me, but also for other seekers.

These friends mirrored me back to myself. This helped me see more about myself.

When life gives you lemons, make magic lemonade. Life can be glorious. —Francesca De Grandis

When life gives you lemons, make magic lemonade. Life can be glorious.

How To Attend

Call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling. The group meets by teleconference. No special technology is needed.

Schedule

We meet every week for four months,
on Sundays for the hour from noon to 1:00 pm PST,
starting July 20, 2025.

Reserve the class hour on Sunday November 23 for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned meetings.

Enrollment

Cost is $200 per month for four months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Enroll by midnight July 16.

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Magic Lemonade can be used as one of the two qualifying electives needed to participate in the advanced Fairy Witch training.

Hard Work, Magic Fun, and Fighting Subjugation

It is important to fight oppression while simultaneously building an alternative, beautiful society. If there is only the fight, we remain in an oppressor’s world, which is mostly struggle. The fight never ends.

Building alternatives requires embodying them. Visions and talk are not enough, though they are crucial.

I will not wait until the fight is over. I try to fight while also embodying beauty, joy, and freedom for all.

I am willing to work hard. I am not willing to do work that is unnecessary or unnecessarily difficult.

Some ways I build a joyous world:
* I practice trusting that joy is innate to the human experience.
* I tell myself joy is sacred.
* I pursue joy.

Here are some ways I build a world that honors joyful work. I do nothing perfectly. But I do the following well, and I keep improving:
* I do the necessary hard work.
* I streamline your Shamanic lessons, cutting unnecessary work that would burden you.
* I create Shamanic curriculums that both facilitate the hard work and offer transformative magical fun.

Happy magic is as necessary as the challenging work that transforms self and society. Happy magic has its own way of transforming everything.

Most of this page’s description of the course is lighthearted. I enjoy writing explanations that are fun, encouraging, and uplifting, instead of dour and daunting.

Magic lemonade is not a trivial, unrealistic idea that only “flakes” will believe. Most of my students demonstrate perceptiveness, bravery, and grit. They work hard work to maintain and increase these traits. The rest of my students want these traits and work toward them. This powerful course is suited to individuals who think big, strive toward heads in the clouds, feet on the ground, and want a child’s honest belief in magic.

The Magic Lemonade recipe is comprised of timeless Shamanic methods that
* Foster my perceptiveness, bravery, and grit.
* Include sparkly effervescent enchantments that help me reach my spiritual and material goals.
* Give me good luck.
* Help me build a society in which everyone is free.
* Create a world with joy, empowering wonder, abundance, happy powerful Witchcraft, and tea parties with Fairy Gods.

The lessons can do for you what they do for me.

The scent of lemon blossoms is not bitter. It is sweet and lush. It is peace and ease. So mote it be!

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Ayamanatara on Kabbalah

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Ayamanatara: A Lesson in Kabbalah

One of the joys of having an independent website is showcasing my wonderful students. Meet Ayamanatara, who has studied with me for a number of years.

An ardent seeker, Ayamanatara has studied with determination and respect numerous Shamanistic practices, folk magic from around the globe, Kabbalah and the Western Mystery Tradition, and major Western religions. Her practice is a synthesis of everything she has studied, from a Shamanic viewpoint that honors the masculine and the feminine, with a focus on Empowerment, Community, and Equality. It is from this place that she designs her courses, creates custom ceremonies, writes books, and works one-on-one with clients.

I asked Ayamanatara to write an article about Kabbalah. Here it is:

Kabbalah

I’ve been teaching Kabbalah for probably 15 years. I will always be a student of Kabbalah, because it’s one of those subjects that always has new discoveries for me. It’s full of endless epiphanies.

There are different ways of coming at Kabbalah. It is a form of Jewish mysticism kept sacred by the Hassidim; anyone who studies Kabbalah owes them an enormous debt for keeping the main body of work safe for centuries. Did you know that there are also forms of Kabbalah in mystical Christianity (specifically Rosicrucian) and in mystical Islam (amongst the Sufi)? I think the most common path outside of those would be Ceremonial Magic, which can be part of any number of traditions. This is the form of Kabbalah we see most of the books about, unless it belongs to a specifically religious path.

What is Kabbalah?

If you have 5 kabbalists in a room, you’ll get at least 6 opinions about what Kabbalah is. But I can tell you what Kabbalah is to me. It’s a study of everything. Using the Tree of Life as a glyph or a diagram, a person can discover the energies of creation, the aspects of themselves, and the facets of the Divine and how those relate to titanic and mythical beings and to physics itself, and a person can also use the energy of the Tree of Life to create real, measurable change in their life. Everything is interconnected, and the study of Kabbalah can help us see that. And when we can see the flow of energy, it’s empowering.

It’s also a mystical philosophy, like Buddhism. I don’t feel like it contradicts belief systems; rather it works in concert with them, which may be why each of the People of the Book religions has a thread of Kabbalah in their mystical tradition. I also see parallels with Buddhism (especially in the idea of The Middle Way) and Hinduism (within the energy centers known as Chakras). As a mystical philosophy, the teachings are designed to help the seeker have an experience of the Divine. That experience cannot be handed to you, it’s personal for each person (which is the definition of mysticism). I (or any skilled teacher) can give you the tools to get there, though.

My Own Path of Kabbalah

I come to the broad table of Kabbalah via both Ceremonial Magic and Shamanism, with some religious scholar flavorings. I realize that the Tree of Life, which to me is a blueprint of everything, is going to relate to a lot of different things, especially magical practices. And, conversely, Kabbalah helps me organize information into manageable parts, so it helps me relate to the world as a whole.

Because of who I am and the path that my life has taken, my connection with Kabbalah is also very much flavored with my keynotes of Empowerment, Equality, and Community. That means that my mysticism seeks to create a level playing field. I try to avoid gendered terms – I do talk about the Feminine and Masculine Divine, and about Gods and Goddesses, because those are real and gendered. When it comes to energies, I am more gender neutral. For example, instead of referring to the outer pillars as masculine and feminine, which is a pretty common practice, I talk more about push and pull, or active and passive/receptive, or as being boundaried vs chaotic. Just like humans have a spectrum to who they are, so does energy. Pigeonholing an active force is dissonant to me, whether it’s the mechanism of energy or a human being. Gender is a social construct anyway, so I try to step out of that, to give my students a more precise understanding of the polarities without preconceived notions.

How to Find Your Own Path of Kabbalah

There are books you can read about Kabbalah, although I have found that they’re frequently dense and hard to get into if you haven’t studied any of it yet (and sometimes even if you have). Some of the ones that aren’t overly esoteric are too simplistic to help you have a mystical experience. There’s a group here in Los Angeles which holds regular meetings or services, and some people really groove on them; I find them very heady. Having an in-person teacher does give you an experience the written word cannot (in-person, of course, means something different than it used to). Finding a teacher with whom you resonate is equally as important. There are an infinite ways of imparting the information – you want to find the technique and the teacher that make the lightbulb in your head light up. Put the energy out there, if you are interested in pursuing Kabbalah teachings more, and the Universe will likely put the right tools and teacher in front of you.

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Francesca here:

A while back, Ayamanatara told me, “I have the same reaction when I’m sitting with you as when I’m sitting with anyone who teaches Kabbalah. I have frequent moments of inspiration about how your teachings weave with Kabbalah.”

And she has mentioned parallels between Kabbalah and the Fairy Shamanism I teach her.

This post was going to be a conversation about these similarities.

Ayamanatara’s comments about the parallels interested me. I never studied Kabbalah. I channel a lot of my lessons. It amazes me that we seekers find the same universal truths when we search.

The creative process wanders as it will. We put aside the idea of comparisons in favor of an article by Ayamanatara.

The creative process did its thing again. I realized that I could add a few parallels at the bottom of her article:

1) Ayamanatara wrote, “The Tree of Life … is a blueprint of everything.” That is similar to what I teach:

I see the Tree of Life as the Magna Mater—Great Mother Goddess. Why? Because I experience Her as all things and all powers, magical and worldly. She has also revealed Herself to me as all lessons and the path to all knowledge. Her endless power and wisdom help create miracles for my students and me.

2) Ayamanatara wrote that everything is interconnected, and the study of Kabbalah can help you see this.

Yes! I teach that my Gods are the connections between all things, every atom and empty space of the universe woven together to hold me, sustain me, and carry me toward my dearest goals. I give Shamanic tools to students that help them experience this firsthand.

3) Ayamanatara has diligently pursued her mystical education. This helps her be a good teacher. An ardent student makes an ardent teacher.

Power and truth cannot be contained in any single tradition. So I’ve spent my lifetime studying magic, spirituality, and Shamanism.

4) Ayamanatara leads her students to their own experiences.

I teach experientially. A direct experience with the Tree of Life is more transformative than mere lectures. Walking next to Gods provides more bounty and other blessings than anything else might.

My divine Mother and Father pour Their love into every plant, rock, and moment. I give lessons about how to interact with any situation to receive this love. It will come as bounty, peace, and all other blessings, including Their awe-inspiring companionship.

5) There are other similarities:
* power and complex issues presented in an accessible manner
* a focus on equality
* understanding gender fluidity, yet still using terms like Goddess
and Divine Father for Deities who are gendered.
* Most importantly, Ayamanatara is down-to-earth. If teachers who are mystics are not practical, they can be harmful. Too often, mysticism glosses over real life, offers “wisdom” that is oppressive instead of helpful, and misuses spiritual tools so that they squelch students instead of lift them up.

Mysticism needs to include an understanding of oppression and daily human needs. So mote it be!

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Elder Tricksters

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September 28, 2024

Protecting eccentric elders
lets them do vital work.
It is work that only they can do
to protect our communities.

Today I read the September 28 entry of Juno Covella—Perpetual Calendar Of The Fellowship of Isis, by dear departed Lawrence Durdin-Robertson. Here’s an excerpt:

“A comic old woman … with her jokes and lewd gestures moved Demeter to laughter. … This episode served to relieve the mourning.”

In Japanese lore, the sun Goddess Amaterasu retreats to a dark cave after being overcome by misery. An old woman, with humor and lewd gestures, draws Amaterasu from the darkness. Amaterasu’s exit brings Her light back to the world, which had darkened during her retreat.

To my mind, the old woman who made the Greek Goddess Demeter laugh ensured humankind’s survival. Demeter is a harvest Goddess. When She was not able to move on from Her immense grief, plants could not grow. Food is life, just as the sunlight that Amaterasu embodies is necessary for life.

Both these myths reveal tricksters to be Shamans. This is contrary to the usual portrayal of tricksters.

Elders Who Teach, Heal, & Empower Us Through Good-Natured Tricks and Joy

Seeing trickster as Shaman is only one way I reject the standard definition of a trickster. I also reject the portrayal of a trickster as someone who plays mean tricks to teach us important lessons. I view a trickster as a kind person who empowers us enormously through joy, fun, and good-natured tricks. (Read a pivotal 4000-word essay about Trickster in a two-volume Book of Shadows. It provides a more comprehensive look at my unusual theories about tricksters and their powers. Both human tricksters and trickster Deities can give you so much.)

Trust Your Intuition and Common Sense

The two old woman tales embody my understanding of a kind, joy-bringing trickster. How wonderful to finally find my theory embodied in traditional lore. It shows me, once again, that if I trust the conclusions I reach through intuition and common sense, I will eventually find them backed by traditional lore.

… Perhaps I noticed this embodiment in the Japanese lore decades ago. However, seeing the same archetype in a second tradition today brought it home.

Kind Eccentric Elders Are Important to Humanity’s Survival

Elderly tricksters healed Demeter and Amaterasu of pain so that They could bring Their gifts to the world again. This embodies elders of all gender identities who are kindly, joy-bringing tricksters helping younger individuals overcome pain. Thus, younger generations are more able to contribute to their community and the larger community that is All Our Relations.

This is a pivotal and overlooked power of crones.

One reason patriarchy devalues and otherwise oppresses elderly women: So that they cannot uplift their community, which is then more easily oppressed.

Elderly trickster men are devalued for the same reason. The disrespect heaped on them is seriously damaging. It may not be as bad as the disdain commonly shown to elderly trickster women. But pointing that discrepancy out might be splitting hairs. In any case: Wisdom is often attributed to the tricks of elderly men, and the positive results of their antics are more likely to be acknowledged. Regardless, they vitally need their communities’ support. Keep reading.

Elder Tricksters Help Us During Crisis

When crisis causes paralyzing grief, pain, and anger, so we cannot overcome the crisis, eccentric elders can step in. Each one is Trickster as a Shaman who heals us and empowers us.

It is important to know that they will bestow their joyful healing tricks on anyone. Tricksters embody love.

It is equally important to recognize old lady tricksters as Shamans who heal matriarchs—the latter being women who, like Demeter and Amaterasu, provide for their loved ones, communities, and All Our Relations.

It is important to recognize this because matriarchs usually lack even the dubious support their male counterparts receive. This affects everything from their mental health to their physical health to their productivity.

In a moment, more about the importance of supporting their male counterparts. My immediate point is:

It is important to see old lady tricksters as Shamans who heal matriarchs because patriarchy pits younger and older women against each other. Both lose vital support. This influences not only their productivity but also their chances of survival.

Wonderful trickster men uplift the individuals who lead by vitalizing—instead of by dominating—communities. These elderly fellows are like the tricksters who uplifted Demeter and Amaterasu. It is important to support these guys. They reject patriarchal male leadership models. By doing so, they give up privilege and fight systemic oppression. This makes them vulnerable to oppression.

I’ve been talking about men and women. It is equally vital to recognize and protect tricksters who do not identify with either gender. Or who identify with both. Or who otherwise gender-bend.

Some lore represents ultimate power as a hermaphrodite. There is good reason. By transcending gender, a hermaphrodite transcends all divisive dualities, thus embodying the ultimate connectivity—the union of all parts of the cosmos.

This is one of the greatest tricks that anyone can play! It is one of the greatest and most delicious tricks to have played on you! It invites you to open to a blessing that is the essence of life, love, and Shamanism. It is the trickster offering the following invitation to Demeter, Amaterasu, and any of us when we are trapped inside ourselves:

Come out from isolation and sorrow
so that you can be embraced by all of life
and be in union with the cosmos,
in all its goodness, beauty, joy, abundance, and power.

Tricksters who gender-bend are subjected to all the disdain and other harm that male and female tricksters encounter, and for the same reasons.

They are also targeted for additional reasons. Here is one specific to tricksters who heal honorable young leaders:

As mentioned, a person who does not adhere to so-called gender norms embodies unity and an invitation to union. All power resides in union within the self, union in a community, union with the cosmos. To alienate people from their inborn power and power as a community, oppressive cultures divide everything into opposing boxes.

Opposing boxes. Light supposedly opposes dark, as if day and night did not happen by the planet’s natural rotation.

Nature is not seen as harmonic union, but as separate parts always in feral conflict. This idea implies people must constantly vie for dominance or be crushed. Thus pitted against each other, they won’t work together to throw off oppressors.

Boxes. Our bodies and life itself are seen as machines, with mechanistic parts independent of each other. Death culture!

No! The universe is alive. It is a glorious, complex, synergistic, and jubilant weave, of which we are a part. And we each mirror this tapestry in all its wondrousness. The weave within and around us makes all magical and mundane power accessible. Ours!

Individuals who represent that by not gender conforming threaten the idea of mechanistic dualism. It is a core cultural underpinning of systemic oppression. So they are targeted in awful ways specific to them.

The horror can start at birth: The word intersex is a term for individuals born with traits that are not gender-conforming. This can include having both male and female genitals. Surgeries that cut away some genitals so the baby’s body represents only one gender still happen today. This is physical and emotional mutilation. An infant’s body and psyche are too vulnerable to withstand this trauma without suffering an awful impact that could last a lifetime. I imagine how terrible it would be for an adult to withstand the surgery, and then think of how much worse it would be for a newborn

I dedicate this post to a dearly departed friend. They were born with male and female genitals. That is still sometimes called a hermaphrodite. Some intersex individuals do not like the term hermaphrodite, and the term is definitely out of favor right now. It was a definition my friend liked.

A card in the Rider Waite Smith Tarot deck portrays a Hermaphrodite. A divinatory meaning of the card is ultimate power.

How to Learn from Old Tricksters and Let Them Empower You

Let us honor our elder tricksters, learn from their wise eccentricities, and be healed by their so-called peculiarities.

For example, have you ever thought an elder was rambling verbally, perhaps about glory days? Or repeating stories you’ve heard a million times?

Perhaps through repetition and so-called rambling, they are weaving a lifetime of experiences together for you and thereby weaving the different parts of the universe together. Open your heart and relax, so the weaving that is the universe can wrap around you like an enchanted blanket. It’s a trick!

Note: This essay emphasizes protecting elders because of their vital contributions. But everyone deserve protection and respect from their community, even when their value is not obvious.

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It’s okay to be the only person commenting on a post. I don’t care about receiving appreciation and approval from a lot of people. In Traditional Shamanism, people connect as individuals. That is what my Fey-touched heart wants.

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Dragon Abundance Magic

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A Wealthy Generous Cornucopia Dragon

Once upon a time, there was a good dragon.
It was you—you are a very good dragon.
You are such a gorgeous dragon.
You are love.
You are the cat’s pajamas.
You are everything.

Everything is everything, and you have everything in you—all the world’s joy, all the world’s energy, all the world’s money, all the world’s happiness, … and all the oranges.

You like oranges a lot. You have all the oranges. But you don’t have them instead of everyone having oranges.

Everyone can have all the oranges.

Your having them all helps everyone else have them all. There is such plenty, and you as a dragon with many treasures are the keeper of plenty for everyone.

You don’t do it selfishly. Dragons are known as greedy, but they’re not, generally speaking. They are generous. However, even the most generous souls can be selfish sometimes. So sometimes even dragons get greedy. Back to what I was saying: You don’t do it selfishly. And when we get selfish, we limit not only other people’s abundance but our own.

But you can have plenty.
You are The Keeper of Plenty.
You are The Keeper of the Cornucopia.
Where a cornucopia swirls around—that’s your tail!
The fat part of the Cornucopia—that’s your lovely belly.
You are a cornucopia with wings.
The opening of the cornucopia is a great big,
great big,
great big,
great big maw that takes in everything.
And after you do, you laugh—great big giggles,
great big happiness.

You are The Keeper of Plenty for all of creation.
So let yourself have great big things.
Let yourself be the cat’s pajamas.
Let yourself be everything
because everything is everything.
Let yourself have all joy, happiness, energy, plenty,
abundance,
and oranges.

Because you are the cornucopia. So mote it be.

Keep scrolling to learn why I wrote this modern fairytale.

Shamanic Stories, Magic, Simplicity, and Theories

Storytelling is an irreplaceable Shamanic tool for transformation.

I am thrilled to have written the above fairytale because it is a single brief story that nevertheless embodies some of my theories about dragons that I spent years developing.

The tale does not necessarily spell the theories out, and that is the point! Theory sometimes gets in the way of inner and outer change. Listening to or reading theory can shift one’s attention totally to the cognitive mind, thereby not giving the rest of one’s being a chance to participate in the magic at hand. Magic is not just in the mind, let alone only in the conscious mind; it happens in the cells, too. Reading the above wee fairytale is a way for your atoms to drink in draconian realities I’ve spent years discovering during trance and the theories I developed about those realities, so that you can embody those realities and theories, rather than just read about them.

Boiling my complex work down to something simple is joyful. After years of developing ideas and imagery on a given topic and nailing down detail after detail, I love that all the work and the complexities the work provided will often lead to a simple little thing like this shamanic story I channeled—an easily understood wee tale that holds great big theories and images.

Plus, when I create that simpler expression, more doors open for me: more wonderful experiences, theories, and dragon images come to me.

If you read the story again, remember it’s not about the cognitive mind. Don’t worry the tale like a dog gnawing on a bone; don’t try, e.g., to figure out what each image means or how you are “supposed to react.” Just read the way you might read a fairytale—for the pleasure of it, going along with its mood.

You might experience all sorts of changes immediately or in the weeks that follow. Anything from self-love to more money.

Note: I wrote this in 2020 if not earlier. I often am too busy to post a piece until long after I’ve written it. But then, when someone might need the post, I suddenly find the time. Synchronicity is the Goddess helping out.

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New Weekly Witch Gathering

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A Magical Haven 2025

Escape to a Magical Haven
with Francesca De Grandis,
Fairy Witch elder
and best-selling author of Be a Goddess!

We’ll meet once a week
for four months,
starting Monday April 28.

Enroll by Wednesday April 23.

At our weekly meetings,
you enter a Magical Haven
where you are safe,
and your wild Pagan heart is free,
your power grows,
and the Goddess Diana, Queen of Fairies,
hand in hand with Lucifera, the Fairy King,
bless you with abundance,
freedom, justice, joy, protection,
and your other heritages as a child of these sweet Deities.

Most of the event will be easy. It is not a class, so you don’t have to learn spells and study a lot. This is a series of enchanted experiences: Once a week, I lead you in a rite. Each one will be a spell for magic to lovingly embrace you and carry you to your goals, goals like serenity, prosperity, sovereignty, victory, and healthy relationships.

So instead of your always having to work hard, magic will take care of you, helping manifest pivotal material and spiritual successes for you.

Magic is the living presence of the Goddess protecting us, empowering us, and carrying us to our most precious goals. She is all matter and motion, all substances and energy, and the connections between all substances and energy. She is the living spaces between particles of matter. She is the Tao. And all that Divine power will take good care of you during this new Fairy Witch gathering.

There will be practical spells, lyrical mysticism, experiential awareness of the Gods, and other Fairy enchantments. It won’t just be talk. It will be live magic.

You will become your myth and live your poem. Faerie tales do come true.

Definitions if you’re new to my work:
*Witchcraft and Shamanism are synonymous in my tradition. Ask me why if you want.
* Ditto spells, rituals, ceremonies, meditations, etc.
* All the magic I teach is Fey, whether described as such or not.

Attend by Phone. It’s Easy!

Simply call the event phone number to attend. The group meets by teleconference. No special technology needed.

Schedule

A Magical Haven occurs weekly on Mondays, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm Pacific time, for four months, starting Monday April 28 and continuing through Sept 1. Also reserve Sept 8, the usual time, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for a planned session.

It Is Fine if You Miss Some Sessions

If you need to miss some sessions, enroll anyway. Here’s why:

1) Perfect attendance isn’t always possible in real life.

2) You benefit from every meeting whether you’re at it or not, because I cast a spell for you during each meeting. More about that spell is below.

3) If you commit to something important, even if you don’t know how to accomplish it, the Gods make it work for you: You’ll be able to attend often enough.

Enrollment

Cost is $200 a month for four months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

To drop out, simply cancel your subscription, and no further payments are required. No refunds.

Enroll by Wednesday April 23.

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Limited enrollment. Upon payment, your seat is reserved. If you don’t receive an email confirming payment within a few days, check your spam filter and spam mailbox. If the email isn’t there, or you want to discuss a scholarship, semi-scholarship, or trade, or you need additional information about the event, please call me at the number below. A few days before our first meeting, you receive an email with the event phone number and other details.

Three Master-of-the Arts Magic
Will Fuel Your Success

The enrollment price is a bargain. I’m charging less than I might. I do a lot to help your life be wonderful. Here are three Master-of-the Arts magics I bring to a Magical Haven:

1) Oral Tradition Faerie Rituals

I use master-level shamanic techniques to create powerful ceremonies that are safe for beginners and substantive enough for adepts.

My oral tradition allows luscious connectivity to the Goddess’ power so immense headway happens quickly. Fairy oral-tradition magic works only in small groups so enrollment will be limited.

2) I Cast Spells For Your Success

Each meeting, while we do a ritual together, I also silently cast a spell that sends you good luck, adds power to your efforts, and helps you achieve goals.

This spell adapts to meet your needs, e.g., money, soul healing, physical health, opportunities to express your wild heart, or relief from pressing spiritual challenges such as despair.

3) One-on-One Shamanic Support by Phone

I’m available if you have concerns to discuss privately. Or, if you have a question that would take too long to answer during a group ceremony, you can call.

4) Plus Magic Shamanic Art Empowers You

Instead of three, let’s have four Master-of-the Arts Magics. I was happily motivated to add a fourth. That is going overboard because these sessions would be incredibly powerful without this addition, but there can never be too much magic, joy, and wonder in life:

You receive seven gorgeous pieces of enchanted art. These are my original paintings. You receive digital versions, to which I have added Fairy power. When we meet, I will provide easy instructions on how to use this art during the meetings to add yet more magic.

Reviews

I am genuinely in a much more secure better-feeling place than I was in a matter of a couple of months. I went from high anxiety to a deep abiding feeling of peace, but without really understanding what happened LOL – It was like it was magic.—Adam Busch

WOW FDG!!! … My life really did change for the better. … What came to me has been big money and [work that let me] be of service.—Kathy Crabbe

I have always found it difficult to get into a trance state of healing, but you have (many times) helped me via telephone, which I would not have believed possible. You are a truly magical healer; your warm, calming voice and your wisdom have helped me thru some very difficult times.—Thomas Byrnes

I so want the good and increasingly oppressed hearts among us to take just a step—just one—onto the path you offer and into the presence of the way you hold yourself, Francesca. That path and your essence will enfold them with not just the promise of peace but the living presence of it, deep as the inner earth, vast as the starry heavens.—Rebecca

Cost for four months of rituals, transmissions, one-on-one support, and enchanted art: $200 a month.



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Power Belongs to Everyone

The Fairy Gods stand with us against hierarchy. Anyone can visit the Magical Haven. The Fairy Gods are inclusive and bestow magnificent blessings on anyone who visits Them.

My shamanic methods have conquered challenges that should’ve killed me, and have freed me from some enormous inner and outer limits. They can do the same for you.

They give you spiritual and worldly power to have a happy life, no matter how large or complex your challenges and goals.

Think of the Magical Haven as a sanctuary hidden in Faerie realms—somewhat like a Goddess temple, Druid grove, and a Pagan monastery combined. There, the Universe lends us all Its power to fulfill our longings for love, money, health, serenity, self-love, and more.

It is a sanctuary and joy, even in the hardest times.

A mystical environment with magic that centers you into power, serenity, wisdom, and good luck, even when you’re in crisis or have trauma symptoms, might seem impossible. But my students will tell you I deliver.

Every visit to the Magical Haven is pure enchantment … literally. … You can interpret that sentence literally because I am using the word literally correctly.

Ritual moments between the stars nourish and uplift us like few things ever could.

Ecstatic contemplations in our Magical Haven help free us from subjugation and help us have the magical and worldly powers to live wild and free.

I support you in your life circumstances and frame of mind.

I’m offering A Magical Haven because there’s an especially great need for it now.

Grab this opportunity.

For Beginners and Adepts

The rituals work for beginners and adepts.

I facilitate our circles with easy-to-understand, step-by-step magical instructions.

I’ve never met anyone too successful materially, spiritually, or magically to not profit in major ways from my work.

I Am Devoted to My Students

My shamanic community work is dedicated to mentoring individuals who want
* spiritual growth
* beauty
* the ability to serve well
* prosperity
*joy
* and magic that is powerful enough to help reach these and other major life goals.

If that describes you or who you want to be, you will experience incomparable progress in this event.

Every day is new and offers miracles.

Magic and Systemic Oppression

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Magic is the opposite of systemic oppression.

The Goddess is the opposite of oppression.

Magic is Her loving presence.

Magic is a Pagan Goddess Who helps me have freedom, abundance, and joy.

Magic is real.

So mote it be!

The Goddess is the opposite of oppression. Magic is Her loving presence. Magic is a *Pagan* Goddess Who creates my freedom, abundance, and joy. Magic is real. So mote it be!

I had fun that was also guerrilla Shamanism, radical action, guerrilla magic.

After I made the above graphic, I digitally put it six times on one page. Then I printed the page, cut it into six mini-flyers, and put them around town.

If you would like to do the same, request the mini-flyer page in the comment field below. That will show me your email address—which the public will not see unless you so desire—and I will send you the digital file to print.

Miscellaneous printing details that you can probably skip: If you don’t have a color printer, the page looks fine printed in black-and-white. The file is meant for 8 1/2 x 11 paper; if that size is less available where you live, let me know if it’s a problem. The file might not be my usual high-quality graphic. I struggled with reducing the graphic to fit six on a page and still maintain the quality. I don’t know what the problem was. I redid it a bunch of times so maybe it’s OK now. I can’t tell anymore; redoing the file over and over made me a bit visually numb. It is definitely a much better quality than the example on this page. And if it’s a less-than-fabulous print job, LOL, it’ll look grassroots … which it is!

I trust magic’s power because I trust the Goddess. My trust in Her is inseparable from trusting magic.

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Hard as a Diamond

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Hard as a Diamond

Note: Diamonds are remarkably hard. They are used in industry for grinding, drilling, and sawing. Diamonds can cut through concrete.

Diamond hard times hone me
into the sharpest, most sturdy weapon.

Diamond hard times shine,
revealing evil—all that blocks freedom.

Diamond hard times shine brilliant,
revealing all evil,
including my own,
that I may overcome this inner enemy.

Diamond hard times shine,
revealing my resistance to my freedom.

Diamond hard times
force me to choose hope.
Thus I sacrifice my excuses for inaction.

Diamond hard times force me to
either recognize even more of my duties to community and self
or sink into self-pity and despair.

Diamond hard times force me to fulfill my duties
or live in self-pitying despair.

Diamond hard times are strong enough
to grind down my resistance to beauty.

Above diamond hard times,
the sky arcs:
Searingly compassionate blues
—that only an Artist could create—
enfold the moment. A loving embrace.

Diamond hard times
force me to raise my gaze,
study the sky,
and ponder the ring of mountains
that circle me with their
sun-bleached grass and cloud-like crests.
Beauty fills my cells with joy,
revealing meaning and purpose.

Francesca De Grandis, bestselling author of Be a Goddess!, is a fairy witch. She offers long-distance classes and shamanic counseling. She will also cast spells for you. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic spells.

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Fairy Brigid Festival Ritual 2025

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Fairy Brigid Festival Ritual 2025

The annual February 2 Christian Feast of the Purification, also known as Candlemas, is rooted in the older Pagan festival for Brid.

Brid is a Celtic Goddess known by many names. Among them are Brigit, Brigid, and Bride.

She is a Goddess of metal smithing, poetry, and healing. She also governs the hearth and husbandry.

There is a tradition of purification at Her festival. However, the prevalent Christian interpretation of the February 2 purification is not the Pagan vision of the purification at Brigit’s festival.

The usual Christian rite seems to foster a sense of innate dirtiness, an unworthiness of God’s love. Ugh!

Here is a Pagan purification performed at Brid’s festival: Brigit loves us exactly as we are. Her festival celebrates that spring will come soon. She helps us shake off our winter drowsiness and find renewal.

The renewal brings us hope, power, and tribal connection.

With Her loving support, we can also use Her festival to cleanse away all that has held us back—all that kept us from fulfilling our full potential and being of maximum service to our communities.

I will lead this cleansing, renewal, and personal burgeoning in a free Fairy rite on Sunday, February 2, 2025 at noon, pacific time.

During the ritual, Brid will also help attendees make plans for 2025. She will bless those plans, too.

The event will be via teleseminar—aka group phone call. If you subscribe to my newsletter, you have the information about how to attend.

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