Paying for Witchcraft: Right or Wrong?

Posted on October 24, 2026 by Francesca

Is Charging Money for WitchCraft Ethical?

Misinformation and History

When enough “experts” say something incorrect, it’s easy to believe. One erroneous statement is that a Witch should never be paid for magical services. History corrects this misconception:

Paid Witchcraft Has Traditionally
Helped Oppressed Communities

A living wage for Witches is an ethical part of many oppressed groups’ traditional cultures. The community Witch’s services included—and still include—psychic readings, spell casting, spiritual counseling, and more.

When I did psychic readings in occult shops, my clients asked for help with serious problems. Going to a Witch for spiritual guidance, spells to overcome problems, psychic readings about circumventing oppression, practical help such as a referral to a battered woman’s shelter, and other assistance is a long-standing part of many cultures.

The History of Payments to
Native American and Celtic Shamans

When I lived in England, a Witch found out that I charged for my services. She condescendingly commented, “That’s so American.” I responded, “Yes, many Native American tribes have an ancient tradition of paying Shamans for their services.” Another Witch was with us. He came from an ancient Celtic Shamanism family lineage. He added, “It is traditional for Celtic Shamanism, too.”

History: Training a Shaman to Earn Money

Dentalium shells were money in ancient California. The anthropologist, Malcolm Margolin, wrote that some ancient Californian Shamans imagined sweeping up a big pile of dentalium they had earned. Picturing this accumulation of money was part of their Shamanic training.

However, many upperclass Pagans represent occult shop psychics and others who receive payment for magical services as selfish individuals. This classist, racist portrayal has gone on for so long that it’s part of Pagan culture.

Paid Witchcraft is a cultural heritage of indigenous peoples, working-class neighborhoods, and other groups. Slandering the heritage does the following:

1) It shames disenfranchised individuals for seeking magical help to rise and thrive.

2) The slander also gate keeps magic, instead of letting people know about traditional magical support.

3) The propaganda also implies that you should feel shame if you want a career doing what you love to spread love, whether as a painter, bookkeeper, Witch, or another helpful profession.

Personal Gnosis, Myth, and Knowledge

Here is myth combined with my personal gnosis: All enchantments are the Fairy Queen and King’s magic spells. They want us to live free and use magic to fight oppression. They bless professional witches who use Their spells to fight colonizer culture and help wild hearts thrive. Fairy Witch ancestors add their blessings.

How to Support Magic for Freedom

How can we let people know that receiving payment for magic is traditional and ethical? Propaganda that seems spiritual is easy to believe. So, if this essay might help someone, send them a link to it: Copy the essay’s URL and paste it into social media, a text, or an email.

Don’t know what a URL is, or where to find it? Usually, every page on a website has its own address, also called the URL. It is at the top or bottom of a page. To spot it, look for http, the beginning of all URLs.

Select all of a URL, copy it, and paste it into social media, an email, or a text. Anyone who sees the social media post, email, or text can click that URL, which will bring them to the page in question.

In gratitude, your Witch ancestors will bless you with luck. The Fairy Queen and King will give you insights into Fairy Mysteries and worldly success. Only individuals who fight colonizer propaganda can understand certain Mysteries and practical wisdoms. So mote it be!

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. More important, she is a star-drenched dragon, lucky charm, star-child who has been a full-time community Witch for forty years. She uses magic to fight colonizer culture and help wild hearts thrive, in long-distance classes, psychic readings, healings, and other magical services. Trained from birth in a Shamanic family tradition, Francesca’s Witchcraft is blessed by ancestors.

Sparkly Peaceful Magic

Posted on September 30, 2026 by Francesca

Begins December 6, 2026

Enter the Fey realm,

where Winter’s sparkly, peaceful magic
will settle you into your essence and your power.

When we are centered in our magical and mundane powers and essences:
* A relaxed state is common.
* We meet challenges with equanimity.
* Insurmountable problems give way.
* Impossible dreams become viable.
* A success is followed by more successes.
* Happiness comes regularly.

I can’t always apply my Shamanism as much as I want. Nonetheless, my attempts lead to major triumphs. And it’s easier to keep trying when I remember that not all Shamanic practices are difficult or serious. No need to always struggle to cope or grow.

Winter months have subtle Fairy gifts—mystic moments that make Shamanism easy and joyous. I’ll show you. Our rituals will be peaceful and revitalizing:

* Winter’s magical whispers help fulfill spiritual and material needs.

* Create a successful winter and new year. The heart of reality is reached easily in winter. Travel to the starlit center of Goddess power—a lush hidden winter realm where miracles occur.

* Some of the rituals include Fairy tales that come to life, and you are in them. They bring forth winter’s ability to root us in Gaia’s rhythm and center us in the core of our beings. For example, mental, emotional, and psychic clarity grow.

* Receive direct spiritual transmissions that foster good luck, physical health, and spirituality.

* And if something serious or challenging does come up for you, I have your back. I will take good care of you.

The rituals require no prerequisites and suit both newbies and adepts.

I’m jazzed that the rituals will happen through the absolute darkest part of the year. Rites at that time are soooo powerful yet soooo relaxing.

For example, some individuals struggle with January. They feel blah or even wiped out and completely down. Or they have another problematic January experience. Instead, listen to my January mystic Fairytales. They enchant us, so you deep-down relax into the month’s hidden rhythms, power, and spiritual beauty, and thus deep-down relax into your rhythms, power, and spiritual beauty. And you rest in January’s lush, quiet center of Goddess power.

We meet in group phone calls. To participate, call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling.

There will be eight luxurious rituals. They will be held once a week on Sundays, 6:00 to 7:00 pm EST, starting December 6. We’ll skip Sundays Dec 27 and Jan 3, for the U.S. holidays.

Reserve Sunday February 14, same time, for a makeup meeting, in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned sessions.

Enrollment: $300 a month, for two months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Your payment covers * eight rituals that include star-drenched Fairy tales come true * personalized ritual experiences * eight weeks of spiritual transmissions * one-on-one private support by phone if you have problems with a ritual.

Click the subscribe button below to enroll securely with PayPal:

Upon payment, your place is reserved. You receive course details—e.g., the phone number to join in meetings—by email. No refunds. To discuss payment plan, trade, scholarship, or semi-scholarship, or other concerns, call me at the number below.

This event can serve as one of the two qualifying electives needed before the advanced Fairy Witch (Faerie Shaman) training.

One of the rituals will include a Fairytale about a magic cat. She is as dark as a winter night, has mastered Buddhism, and teaches Santa’s elves. Blessed is the joyful, lush knowledge that is deep within winter and ourselves.

Fairy Secrets

Posted on September 29, 2026 by Francesca

What Does “Fairy Secrets” Mean?

**What Are “Fairy Secrets”?**

“Fairy Secrets” refers to mystical experiences that miraculously transform a person and their life.

Explaining the difference between Fairy Secrets and other transformative mysticism is difficult. Mystical experiences tend to be indescribable. But my heart recognizes Fey qualities. And it’s not important to state, “This is Fey, and that is not.” In fact, that can cause you trouble. What matters is transformations, respect for otherworldly experiences, and the power they give us to take care of ourselves and Gaia’s children.

By serving others, I don’t mean you have to give other people those experiences. There are other magical ways to help. And help does not have to be magical. Serving others might mean making chicken soup for a sick neighbor. Or patiently listening to a friend who needs to vent. Or helping save a forest. Head in the clouds, feet on the ground. One reason we are gifted otherworldly experiences is because they inspire us to care for ourselves and others. This includes worldly care.

Here’s another way to look at it:

Fairy Gods Give Us Miracles

Fairy Secrets are magic spells cast by the Fairy Queen, King, and Their court to help us out. The spells cause otherworldly events that bring miraculous changes. They can be called “miraculous” because they’re beyond a human’s usual power to create. Or they might have otherwise seemed impossible.

What to Do After the Fairy Gods Give You a Miracle

Often, the changes are permanent, if you nurture them.

Here are some suggestions for nurturing them:

* If the mystical experience provided a spiritual breakthrough, try to maintain spiritual practices.
* If there was a magical breakthrough, try to keep improving and using your magic.
* Serve others. This also helps stop magic from becoming addictive escapism instead of a healthy tool.

What Kind of Change
Can a Fairy Secret Give You?

A Fairy Secret can create freedom from an inner and/or outer restriction that limited you severely and was impossible to overcome previously. The limit might’ve been emotional, societal, or other. It might have existed your entire life.

A person might acquire joy, magic, confidence, money, and fulfillment that everyone, including themselves, said was impossible.

Fairy Secrets Are Not Arrogant Dogmas

I cannot tell you how often I have counseled an individual who was devastated by an arrogant Witch teacher:

A teacher who fosters colonizer culture insists that only a special few can receive and bestow Fairy Secrets. Dogma!

Fairy Secrets are not passwords, whispered to a select few who gate-keep magical power.

Those few usually boast about Fairy Secrets. If they were true Secrets, the boasts would make them vanish.

Those few hurt themselves. Arrogance and dogma close the heart and path to Fairy Secrets. This is another reason that proclaiming, “This is Fey, and that is not” is a problem.

Fairy Secrets Are Not Ideas

Logical words cannot convey Fairy Secrets. Mysteries transcend fixed definitions. However, the Mysteries can be experienced, during major rituals and at significant life crossroads.

Music, poetry, dance, painting, etc., can point us toward Fey Mysteries.

Please note: I don’t usually consider Mysteries and Secrets to be synonymous. I am using them synonymously here. I will point out exceptions. Or context will make them obvious.

Fairy Secrets Are Alive.
All Mysteries Are Alive

Anything alive is ever-shifting. Magic changes from precious, unique moment to moment. Magic is a science with fixed rules, but so is meteorology, and the weather changes from day to day and place to place. Colonizer culture teaches us that everything is fixed, repeatable, and unvarying. Colonizer culture is death culture.

Shamanic culture is the opposite. Understanding life’s constant mutability allows us to see the precious, unique moment.

So, let’s say I experience a Mystery that brings me deep deep inside myself and/or other realms, within moments. And thus I am completely in touch with my power and my life goal. I have been given a wonderful gift. However, it is not an object to gain and own forever. It was a moment in time and requires follow-through. There are many ways that a vision can go wrong afterwards.

For example, I have encountered people who thought their remarkable vision made them superior to other people. Or who used their visions to invalidate mystical experiences unlike their own. Their made themselves and others miserable. This is another reason that “This is Fey, and that is not” is problematic.

Amazing visions are actually quite common. The measure of a person is what they do after a vision. (Sometimes, a mystical experience can go wrong right then and there. That’s beyond the scope of this essay, but feel free to contact me if you need help.)

A Fairy Secret Is Not the Ultimate Goal,
But a Step along Life’s Road

A Witch teacher who buys into colonizer culture tells their students that once you have “the” Fairy Secrets, you have reached the ultimate goal.

In traditional Fairy Witchcraft, experiencing a Fairy Secret is not the end of the road, but a step along it.

We can’t rest on our laurels.

Fairy Secrets are part of life, not excluded to a single moment during which a hierarchical Witch sits on their high horse and deigns to bestow a Mystery.

**More about Fairy Secrets as Living Mysteries**

The living breath of a Fairy Secret is suffocated by dogma and the arrogant use of words. Fairy Secrets are not specific spellings of occult words, a rule about how to pronounce words, or other dogma. Those who try to trap Mysteries in verbal and prescriptive boxes limit their experiences.

The Fey Folk don’t care whether someone calls them Fairy, Faerie, Faery, or Fred. But they avoid people with arrogant pretensions. … Well, kind and good Fey avoid pretentious people. Evil Fey will gather to harm them.

Finding Fairy Secrets Requires Freedom

Freedom and loving support open a path to Mysteries.

A so-called Fairy Secret that is part of a dogmatic oppressive lesson does not change life for the better. At best, it is a temporary fix.

This is not to say that you cannot learn magical techniques that help you experience Fey Mysteries.

Mysteries Vanish Until You Need Them Again

Here, when I use the word Mystery, I’m not referring to Fairy Secrets alone. When we enter a Mystery, we receive Divine guidance about our challenges and life path. Obstacles clear. Fairy Secrets lovingly surround you, centering you in your magical, miraculous, Fey, self.

If we discover a Mystery that will sustain us through a lifetime, the sustenance will likely come and go. Even if we intellectually remember the Mystery, its vibrancy comes and goes. And it is that vitality that sustains us.

Instead of that lifelong Mystery, I suspect we are just as likely to experience one we need solely to take the immediate steps toward a life goal. Then we receive only the guidance and power that we need in the moment.

The Gods Give Different Fairy Secrets
to Different Witches

Fairy Witches might have Fairy Secrets in common, but everyone has their own as well. In traditional Fairy Witchcraft, what is healthy and profound for one Witch might be unhealthy and harmful for another. Or at least a time-wasting, wild goose chase that derails you from reaching your heart’s desire. So the Fey Gods reveal different things to different people. Fairy Secrets enchant you and your life to provide what you need.

Fairy Secrets and Witch Teachers

A teacher can lead you toward the Fairy Mysteries. You can also find the Secrets on your own.

Going it alone is better than having a teacher who thinks their classes are the sole path to Mysteries. Ditto a teacher who thinks you need to receive all wisdom from them.

A good teacher recognizes that you have your own wisdom. And they surely do not think that their classes are the sole door to miracles.

A good teacher is invaluable support. They can make meeting a Fairy Secret likelier and safer. A mystical experience powerful enough to create a miraculous change can have pitfalls. A teacher can help you avoid them during the experience. After it, a good teacher offers follow-up lessons to avoid problems and maintain the improvement. Again, Fairy Secrets are not the end goal. They are steps in the process of building better lives for ourselves and all of Gaia’s children.

Pointing to Fairy Secrets

A good Fairy Witchcraft teacher points to Secrets, provides techniques to find them, and opens paths, instead of spelling Secrets out. Again, Mysteries are not theoretical explanations. Directing a student’s attention, providing techniques, and opening paths empowers them, because they have to do their part of the work. No one can hand you a Fairy Secret.

That is one reason that rituals can be remarkably effective. In my classes, you don’t have to listen to me drone on theoretically. I lead experiential rituals. They are transformative beauty—ecstatic mysticism that can make worldly and spiritual dreams come true. This paragraph relates not just to Fairy Secrets but also to ongoing miraculous shifts that are part of an enchanted life.

A few individuals wanted me to hand them a Mystery, doing all the work for them, instead of guiding them to their own experience. They were disappointed in my rituals.

There is one way I kind of hand my students Fairy Secrets: During my classes, I give spiritual transmissions as well as lead rituals. However, the recipient still has to do their part. You might think of it like this:

I help people tune into other realms, through rituals I channel and spiritual transmissions. And everyone has to do their part.

It is usually a few simple things, such as having an open mind. And willingness to be in a spiritual and magical process, instead of thinking like a consumer who is acquiring an object.

It is not that I demand that anyone to do anything. For example, you decide whether you will join in a chant. However, simply being in a ritual or magic class might feel silly to someone. If they risk feeling foolish and bear their discomfort, it can give way to childlike delight that makes magic bloom. Risking foolishness is one of the few simple acts needed to open to Fairy Secrets and other miracles during my events.

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Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. She is also a star-drenched dragon, lucky charm, star-child, and full-time community Witch for forty years. She uses magic to fight colonizer culture and help wild hearts thrive, in long-distance classes, psychic readings, and healings. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic. Trained from birth in a Shamanic family tradition, her Witchcraft is blessed by ancestors. Her Fairy Witchcraft is also called Faerie Shamanism. European Witchcraft has traditionally been Shamanic for many practitioners. Francesca developed Shamanic theories, methods, and rituals that have been a seminal influence on modern Paganism and alternative spirituality.

Twelve Weeks of Star Magic

Posted on August 12, 2026 by Francesca

Star Drenched:
Weekly Rituals

Be a Shining Star Among the Stars in the Sky

Begins September 20, 2026

Every week for twelve weeks, I will lead a different starlit ritual.

Each ritual is transformative beauty that improves our lives inside and out. Expect ecstatic mystical experiences that can make worldly and spiritual dreams come true. Benefits like prosperity gained with ease. And calm in the midst of a storm.

Important sidebar: Ecstatic mysticism is often associated with drugs. I do not use drugs. We don’t need mind-altering chemicals to enter ecstatic states. Joy is innate to us. It is our inheritance as children of Fey Gods. My rituals walk you through the veil between the mundane world and the gorgeous Fey realms.

We do each ritual together. I lead you through it, step by step. A complete beginner can do it. A longtime Shaman will experience power and depths that meet their needs.

Starlit magic is one of the most beautiful ritual experiences I know. One reason I’m offering this event is to drench myself in starlight. You too.

Starlit enchantments are some of the most beneficial spells—at least the starry material that I channel.

Scoffers insist the starry-eyed mystic chases illusions. Stunning experiences prove otherwise. My starry rites bring me immense worldly results that might otherwise elude me.

Starlit empowerment seems even more important in our impossible times. The rituals nurture me spiritually and increases my worldly success in ways little else does.

The following examples show the wide range of magic that will help us improve our lives. Each magic is also an opportunity to revel in beauty and wonder:

We will do a ritual based on the Milky Way, a swath of stars that arcs across the sky and is well known in lore. I was stunned, twenty years ago, when I came across this painting in a museum:

We will also work with the above Tarot Star card.

As well as with a fairytale about stars. My mother brought the story to life when I was a child in the ‘50s. The experience changed my life, and it still uplifts me.

The rituals will experientially immerse us in the Mysteries of two Italian Gods—Diana Lucifera and Lucifer MorningStar. Lucifera and Lucifer are Latin for Light Bearer. Diana Lucifera is also known as Magna Mater (Great Mother Creator of All). Lucifer MorningStar is widely known as a stellar God. They are also the Italian Fairy Queen and King.

I discovered the above photograph in the ‘80s, in The Great Mother by Erich Neumann. The artistry of this Roman statue, her torch, and everything else in the photo, including the statue’s title—Diana Lucifera—penetrated my core, shifting my entire cosmology.

The above were only examples. There is more. I will gather together starlight rituals I’ve channeled over decades, so we can reap the metaphysical and worldly benefits of the rituals’ power as a cohesive body of work.

Every week’s magic will be significant, and the combination of all the rites together will be even greater. And it is fine if you miss a few weeks, because the weeks you attend will combine powerfully and effectively.

This twelve-week event will not be repeated.

It is a Shamanic journey possible only in the current mystical and mundane landscape.

Also, I can facilitate this specific journey only once because my being is capable of doing it only once. My being was meant to do it one time. Oral tradition is the moment.

Rituals for Weirdos

These twelve rituals are for the weirdest of the weird—individuals like me.

There used to be an expression: The country is slanted, and all the loose nuts rolled to California. Even in the old, wild San Francisco decades ago, I was considered weird by most people there.

My type of weirdos: These rituals are for visionaries who wander in the gorgeous darkness of Mysteries, because it is how they find their way through life. Or visionaries who believe justice and beauty can prevail. Or weirdos because they want to feel the presence of Gods, and not just as rare occurrences, but as ongoing companionship. Weirdos who hunger for more than theories, who long for visceral Fey-touched experiences and cellular knowledge of magic. Weirdos who hope that fairytales and myths will come alive.

Magic in My Cauldron for You

In addition to our weekly ceremony, a spell will simmer in my cauldron to send you peace, success, good luck, and protection.

The weekly spells combine with my cauldron spell for a double whammy.

You Also Receive Personalized Rituals

Magic is personal, not like the estranged mechanistic world. I will channel material for each participant to help them overcome challenges and reach goals. You don’t even need to tell me what’s going on with you.

And More:
One-on-One Mentoring

I’m available by phone for your questions or other concerns about the rituals.

And More:
Book of Shadows Pages

These digital documents add even more power to our spells.

And there is no need to even look at a page until we use it in a week’s meeting.

Every page includes my Shamanic art.

How To Attend

Call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling. You will be joined into a group phone call. You do not need special technology.

Schedule

We meet on Sundays from noon to 1:00 PST, for twelve consecutive weeks, starting September 20.

Reserve the usual hour on Sunday, December 13, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for a planned meeting.

Enrollment

The cost is $300 a month, for three months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Your monthly payment covers * weekly rituals * magic in my cauldron for you * an exclusive personalized ritual experience * enchanted Book of Shadows entries * and the opportunity, every week, to be in another world where weird is the norm and celebrated.

Enrollment closes Wednesday, September 16, at midnight and is limited to sixteen people.

Let’s Go! Enroll with the subscribe button below:

If you want more information or to discuss a scholarship, partial scholarship, or trade, phone me at the number below.

I do not give refunds.

A few days before our first meeting, you receive an email with the event phone number and other details.

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. She is also a star-drenched dragon, lucky charm, star-child who has been a full-time community Witch for forty years. She uses magic to fight colonizer culture and help wild hearts thrive, in long-distance classes, psychic readings, and healings. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic. Trained from birth in a Shamanic family tradition, her Witchcraft is blessed by ancestors. Her Fairy Witchcraft is also called Faerie Shamanism. European Witchcraft has traditionally been Shamanic for many practitioners. Francesca developed Shamanic theories, methods, and rituals that have been a seminal influence on modern Paganism and alternative spirituality.

New Fairy Witch Ritual

Posted on August 6, 2026 by Francesca

Magic When You Are Stuck

Perhaps you tried everything to achieve an important goal but are still stuck. Or maybe you sense there are ways to reach your goal that you don’t know.

Or you feel like you learned all the spiritual lessons that being stuck could offer. So you don’t understand why you can’t move forward now.

Or you tried as well as you could, to no avail.

Or you didn’t have it in you to try hard enough.

Perhaps you’re good at accomplishing things, except for one longing that you cannot fulfill.

Or you are stuck for other reasons. Perhaps you don’t even know them.

Whatever the cause, where do you go from here? Keep reading:

Magic to Remove Roadblocks and Succeed

Clear the Path, Reach Your Goal

A Twelve-Week Ritual with Francesca De Grandis

Begins August 25, 2026

The ritual consists of one magical spell a week for twelve weeks. Each spell is a major step through obstacles. The spells in combination are even more powerful.

We do each spell together. I lead you through it, step by step. A complete beginner can do it. A longtime Shaman will experience power and depths that meet their needs.

This old-fashioned magic clears obstacles more effectively than almost anything else I’ve experienced. The ritual will draw on profound powers. For example: A major block is a crux in time—a moment when many factors in combination create a junction. Standing at it is a special opportunity in ways that the ritual will reveal.

For one, this junction is a magical crossroads. Fears or past experiences can make someone believe they will remain stuck at a crossroads, unable to choose the right direction. But the ritual will show how crossroads offer remarkable strength and surprisingly easy choices.

Here’s another way crossroads are an opportunity. We will work with three of my Patron Gods, two of Whom stand at crossroads.

All three Gods clear paths, each in Their own way. Their methods complement each other to clear blocks that seemed impenetrable. I have repeatedly conquered the unconquerable.

You will experience first-hand why divination, voodoo, lore, and every other spiritual system give crossroads significant meaning. There is good reason for the voodoo lore about individuals in dire straits going to the crossroads to receive supernatural help. (Despite popular beliefs, it’s not the devil helping them. That rewrite of lore is anti-Pagan propaganda. You will experience the real deal in this twelve-week ritual.)

Like any tool, magic doesn’t always fix things. My life is far from perfect. However, magic has given me happiness and helped fulfill many of my dearest goals. It is possible to achieve substantial freedom and success.

My rituals often cause miracles. I don’t promise to “fix everything” in twelve weeks. However, usually there are at least vital improvements. They tend to lay the ground for even bigger ones.

If this powerful ritual does not create substantial headway toward your goal by the tenth week of the rite, I will give you a psychic reading about how to create the life you want. For example, perhaps I will intuit that remaining at a standstill is necessary to prepare for your goal more, and the reading also reveals what preparation is needed. Or I will have a vision of another goal that will make you even happier. Or …?

The ritual won’t ignore trauma symptoms, oppression, or other challenges. This ritual’s magic is effective. I conquered situations that could’ve crushed my spirit or outright killed me.

Most participants need to miss a few of the weekly meetings. That’s not a problem. The weeks you attend make a profound difference. Each of the twelve spells stands on its own and might even do the trick by itself. And the magic of whatever weeks you can attend weaves together automatically to create big results.

Plus, if you miss a session, I’ll still do magic for you. Read on:

Magic in My Cauldron for You

In addition to our weekly ceremony, a spell will simmer in my cauldron to send you peace, success, good luck, and protection. It is magic passed down in my family from our ancestors because it works.

The weekly spells combine with my cauldron spell for a double whammy.

You also receive:

Personalized Lessons

Magic is personal, not like the estranged mechanistic world. I will use divination to channel material for each participant to help them overcome challenges and reach their goal. You don’t even need to tell me what’s going on with you.

And there is more:

One-on-One Mentoring

I’m available by phone for your questions or other concerns about the ritual.

You can even call if you want me to expand on a part of the ritual that you found tantalizing.

And more:

Book of Shadows Pages

These digital documents add even more power to our spells.

And there is no need to even look at a page until we use it in a week’s meeting.

Every page includes my Shamanic art.

How To Attend

Call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling. You will be joined into a group phone call. You do not need special technology.

Schedule

We meet on Tuesdays from 6:00 to 7:00 pm PST, for twelve consecutive weeks, starting August 25.

Reserve the usual hour on Tuesday, November 17, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for a planned meeting.

Enrollment

The cost is $300 a month, for three months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Your monthly payment covers * weekly rituals * magic in my cauldron for you * an exclusive personalized ritual experience * enchanted Book of Shadows entries * and the opportunity, every week, to be in an environment where loving magic holds your heart and desires.

Enrollment closes Wednesday August 19 at midnight and is limited to sixteen people.

Let’s Go! Enroll with the subscribe button below:

If you want more information or to discuss a scholarship, partial scholarship, or trade, phone me at the number below.

I do not give refunds.

A few days before our first meeting, you receive an email with the event phone number and other details.

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. More importantly, she is a star-drenched dragon, lucky charm, star-child who has been a full-time community Witch for forty years. As a ritualist and Shamanic guide, she uses magic to fight colonizer culture and help wild hearts thrive. She offers long-distance classes, psychic readings, healings, and other magical services. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic. Trained from birth in a Shamanic family tradition, Francesca’s Witchcraft is blessed by her ancestors. Her Fairy Witchcraft is also called Faerie Shamanism. European Witchcraft has traditionally been a Shamanic practice for many practitioners. Francesca developed Shamanic theories, methods, and rituals that have been a seminal influence on modern Paganism and alternative spirituality. She’s been jokingly referred to as “the most plagiarized Pagan.” For example, many theories, rituals, and poems she authored are considered anonymous traditional Witchcraft.

New 2026 Event: Money Magic

Posted on April 7, 2026 by Francesca

I want plenty of money, no matter what oppressors try to do to block my financial well-being.

I want to earn money by being of service, no matter what anyone says about that being impossible.

I want work that is serene, ethical, and self-fulfilling, no matter what society says about work having to be misery.

Sometimes, something that would cost a chunk of money falls in my lap, no matter what anyone thinks about that being impossible for someone who lives ethically and did not come from a wealthy background. These windfalls are gifts from the Fairy Queen and King. I want them to keep happening.

I do magic to fulfill all the wishes I expressed above. And it works.

I’d love to lead you in a ritual like that,
for fulfillment, ethics, peace,
and enough money for a nice life:

Abundance and Serenity, No Matter What

A Nine-Week Ritual

This is not a class. You won’t have to take notes and memorize them, hoping you might have time to apply them some day.

This is a ritual. It has nine parts: One magical spell a week for nine weeks. We will do each spell together. I lead you through it, step by step. A beginner with no experience can do this.

Every week’s magic will open a different enchanted portal through which abundance, peace, and self-fulfillment enter your life.

Each of the nine rites give you a lot, while also weaving together with the others to make a bigger, extraordinarily effective, magical working.

Miracles can happen during these journeys with me. A nine-week ritual might not turn every last thing around. But my students will vouch that vital headway is made.

The Fairy Queen and King will bless our rituals with Their power. They are the ancestors of Fairy Witches.

Magic in My Cauldron

In addition to our weekly ceremony, magic will simmer in my cauldron for you: A spell to send you peace, abundance, good luck, and protection. It is magic passed down in my family from our ancestors because it works.

If you miss a week, I’m still doing magic for you.

The weekly rituals combine with my cauldron spell for a double whammy. Reviews of my cauldron spells on their own—instead of as part of an event—show how powerful they are, just in themselves:

WOW Francesca!!! … What came to me has been big money.—Kathy Crabbe

So good it was seriously ridiculous! Within a few days, I got a job, a new truck for the exact amount I’d wanted to pay, and sold our old truck without even trying.—Julia

The day after she started the ritual for me, I was hired to teach a college class. That’ll be more than $10K! Also, I applied for a loan forgiveness program and if everything goes as planned, I could have $20K of my loans wiped away! Today, I got a $100 Amazon gift card for a survey I barely remember filling out. Last paycheck, I got a bonus of $1300.—Kathleen

Sales this past month and now are through the roof. A big emphasis I need to make is the new appreciation people had for my work and my creativity.—Agnes de Garron

How To Attend

Call the event phone number that you receive after enrolling. The group meets by teleconference. You do not need special technology.

Schedule

Rituals will be held weekly,
for nine consecutive weeks,
on Sundays from 3:30 to 4:30, PST,
starting May 3, 2026.

Reserve the usual hour on Sunday July 5 for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for a planned meeting.

Enrollment

The total cost is $200 a month for two months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls.

Enroll securely through PayPal with the subscribe button below:

To discuss a scholarship, semi-scholarship, trade, or payment plan other than the subscription, or if you have questions about the event, call me at the number below. I do not give refunds.

A few days before our first meeting, you receive an email with the event phone number and other details.

The Fairy King and Queen adore you. They want prosperity, happiness, serenity, and all other good things to come to you.

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. Teacher and healer, she offers long-distance classes, psychic readings, healings, and other magical services. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic spells. Trained from birth in a magical family tradition, her Witchcraft is blessed by her ancestors. Francesca’s Fairy Witchcraft is also called Faerie Shamanism. European Witchcraft has always been a Shamanic practice for many practitioners. Francesca’s work has been a seminal influence on modern Paganism. She’s been jokingly referred to as “the most plagiarized Pagan.” For example, Shamanic theories, rituals, and poems she authored are considered anonymous traditional Witchcraft.

The Enchanted Kitchen: an Online Course

Posted on February 8, 2026 by Francesca

The Enchanted Kitchen:
An Online Course

Starts the week of March 8, 2026

Learn kitchen magic for
* prosperity
* protection
* peace
* confidence
* courage
* and almost anything else

These are quick, easy spells for life’s essentials and life’s joys. Lessons are quick and easy, too.

With this class, a complete beginner can be a powerful kitchen Witch.

Learn a style of hearth magic that fits into your day. Most of it can be done while cooking, cleaning, and doing other common activities. So you can do plenty of Witchcraft to manifest the life you want.

Use ordinary household objects, like spoons and culinary herbs, as mystical tools.

When busy, stressed, or ill, it’s hard to do any spell-casting. Learn sixty-second enchantments, manageable for anyone. These spells are easy and powerful.

And learn longer hearth rituals, for special occasions when you have time and desire.

Past life memories tell me that my kitchen magic is rooted in ancient Faerie Shamanism. When doing hearth magic, I experience the power that comes from those roots. It is a living enchantment that touches all of existence. Sexists try to convince us that kitchen magic is lightweight fluff—mere women’s silliness. But this course goes to the heart of magic and takes place at the hearth of the Fairy Gods.

I channeled the lessons for The Enchanted Kitchen course. Honestly, when I channel kitchen magic, it stuns me sometimes. I don’t mean that I’m ego-ridden, stunned by my ability to channel. I’m stunned by the utter power of kitchen magic as I know it. It is in this class’s lessons. So you can use them to make a real difference in the mundane realm. The Fairy Gods are our ancestors. They want us to have power. And They want us to have easy access to it.

This style of hearth Witchery is potent mystically, spiritually, and magically. And you can access these blessings easily.

The Fey Folk add beauty to the magic and reveal mystical secrets. Beginners and adepts gain huge improvements, inside and out. I have something unique in this class—channeled from past lives, channeled from otherworldly memories of my ancestors.

You receive:

1) Twenty lessons, one a week. Each lesson is a digital Book of Shadows entry (PDF), ornamented by my original Shamanic art, which blesses our work. The art will be crisp with clear details. Long story short, I can’t make my art as crisp and clear on this website.

Course material is spread over twenty lessons. This makes every lesson bite-sized. So it fits into your busy week.

You’ll learn a lot a lot a lot. But I tailored lessons to be manageable even for super-busy folks who have countless responsibilities and constant, unexpected commitments. I want you to have tools to overcome the challenges life throws at you.

2) Four audio recordings, from my Faerie hearth to your Fey heart. Hearing a spell’s words can be enchanting. Each recording is a quick audio snack: A recitation of a bit of that week’s PDF.

3) Personal mentoring. I’m available by phone for up to 45 minutes. If you have questions about the material, need support because your commitment to doing the lessons falters, want to explore a particularly tantalizing part of the curriculum more, or have other concerns, feel free to phone.

You can divide the 45 minutes into two or three conversations. Conversations must occur during the span of the course or within a month after.

You can also ask for support from fellow students:

4) An exclusive online hearth. This private page is where classmates can support each other, share victories, and ask each other questions.

This sacred discussion is just for students, without “teacher looking over your shoulder,” so you feel free to express yourself. E.g., I won’t check for “mistakes” in your magical viewpoints. You’re a grown-up, in your unique process, and if you feel you might be on the wrong track with something in the curriculum, you can ask me about it by phone or ask your fellow students. My students tend to give wise feedback.

I will however pop in regularly to check that no one’s being a meanie. You deserve a safe space.

5) A free bonus: A PDF Book of Shadows for optional journaling about the lessons. Every page has my Shamanic art and no text. You can type into the PDF or print the file to handwrite in.

6) A special gift: I commissioned fantasy artist Kathleen Marshall to paint a modern rendition of a traditional hearth blessing. You receive a digital file of the art for your kitchen, plus lore about the blessing.

Schedule for The Enchanted Kitchen

Lessons begin the week of March 8, 2026.

You receive a lesson every week for twenty weeks with one exception:

If an unexpected event makes me unable to send one week’s planned material, I’ll extend the course an extra week.

Enrollment

Tuition for this four-month course—twenty lessons, four audio recordings, the private online hearth, one-on-one private tutelage, plus free bonus and special gift—is $169 a month, for four months.

Use the Subscribe button below for four monthly payments of $169. Enroll securely with PayPal:

If you need more information or want to discuss scholarship, trade, or payment plan other than the subscription, phone me.

I do not give refunds.

It’s been five years since I’ve taught this. So now is the time.

My online courses aren’t my oral tradition or transcriptions of my oral tradition classes. The online courses are something special unto themselves—spectacularly useful and powerful.

I continue to teach oral tradition classes by phone. An oral tradition cannot be conveyed online.

I worked on curricula for online courses for years. It took time to channel magic tailored specifically to be exciting, effective, and safe when learned online. I was willing to spend years figuring out how to make this course worthy of you. So mote it be.

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess!. She offers long-distance classes, psychic readings, healings, and other magical services. Francesca’s work has been a seminal influence on modern Paganism. She’s been jokingly referred to as “the most plagiarized Pagan.” For example, Shamanic theories, rituals, and poems she authored are considered anonymous traditional Witchcraft.

2026 Fairy Witch Training

Posted on November 23, 2025 by Francesca

Fairy Witch Training aka Faerie Shamanism Training

* Witchcraft, straight up * spells to manifest worldly goals * personal growth * increased intuition * accessible to beginners * advanced practitioners reach their next level * power to serve your tribe *

Classes are teleseminars—group meetings by phone. Call the event phone number to participate.

Training consists of four courses. They are the core entry-level Witch training. They are also prerequisites for advanced Shamanic training.

Each course provides:

* solid magical techniques

* spells for worldly goals

* core Third Road teachings. The Third Road is the name of the Faerie Shamanism tradition I teach, aka Fairy Witchcraft

* down-to-earth applications of Pagan mysticism. My mysticism is grounded in practical spell-crafting. In other words, Witch spirituality integrates Mysteries with common sense. The combination improves your whole life.

* experiences of the Goddess and God as living entities Who protect, bless, and utterly adore you

* the ancient Faery Faith’s transformative beauty

* rites for personal growth

* empowerment to be of maximum service to your tribe

* increased intuition

* ancient Goddess spirituality: The Great Mother Goddess is inclusive. She embraces all beings. That includes all races, male Gods, genders, gender-benders, and everyone else. You won’t find a more motley crew anywhere.

Each person has unique magical and mundane talents. This training invokes and nurtures your particular Shamanic and worldly skill sets. You attain rich selfhood and can serve tribe by expressing yourself.

Lessons do not lay out a path we’re all supposed to walk (ick!) but instead support your particular path—your life, your needs, your spiritual and mundane journey.

Instead of a Shamanic approach to which you’re expected to conform to be a “real” Shaman (ick!), you’ll be in a Shamanic journey that suits who you are and where you presently are.

The four courses weave into a whole far greater than the sum of its parts.

A teacher in probably the world’s largest Pagan tradition studied with me. She later said, “I wish my tradition had material as advanced as Francesca’s.” She was referring to my entry-level classes:

Adepts experience sufficient depth and challenges, but beginners are not overwhelmed or left to fall behind. Different people experience the training differently, so it provides the specific magical power your spirit and life require.

Don’t spin your wheels. In our very first meeting, you enter a circle of power. Expect immense progress in a fraction of the time you’ve spent elsewhere on typical lessons.

No prerequisites required except for one course—The Be a Goddess Master Class. That class’s description (below) explains further.

This eight-month Shamanic journey has three powerful aspects:

1) 27 lessons. We meet via teleseminars—group phone calls. To participate, call the event phone number.

We’ll work in old-style oral tradition, which allows rapid, immense headway. Enrollment is limited to 16 people because Shamanic oral tradition training ceremonies can only take place in a small group.

A small group also allows each participant to receive individualized attention, should they want that support.

I commit to my students. A Shamanic journey is personal. Traditional Shamanic lessons include individualized attention, which tailors the training to you.

2) Direct spiritual transmissions occur each meeting. They deepen the rituals, make them safer, and foster experiential understanding of the course material.

The transmissions also enliven your cells, so your magic wakes to its next level of power as do your mundane strengths.

There are other benefits; the transmissions’ energies adapt to your needs, blessing your internal and external life.

Oral tradition and direct spiritual transmissions are part and parcel.

If you are unfamiliar with my spiritual transmissions and want to know more about them than the benefits they provide during the training, click here for a deep dive.

3) One-on-one support by phone. If something comes up for you that would take too long to address during a group meeting, or you want to privately discuss anything, I’m available.

Take the entire training or participate in a single course. Each course stands on its own, a training unto itself.

Below are the four courses, in the order they’ll be held. A caveat about their descriptions:

The course descriptions divide Fairy magic into categories. But Fey magic defies categories and cannot be divided. When I cast a spell to shift a part of myself or my life, the magic is all-encompassing. Fae magic is the living, loving presence of the Faery Queen and King. During a Fairy ceremony, these Gods not only achieve my goal(s) for the ceremony but, in Their enthusiastic love for me, bless my whole person and enchant my entire life.

So, while each course focuses overtly on certain benefits or approaches, other benefits come. Additional approaches come into play, perhaps subtly. Shamanism is integrative.

A course’s description focuses on its overt aspects. However, to a significant extent, each course provides all the benefits that the other courses do. This truly integrative Shamanism evokes major power.

Also, near the top of this post, is a list of the benefits each one of the courses offers. I don’t repeat all that in a course description.

Course One: Faerie Shamanism—an Ecstatic Path

The curriculum includes:

* Ecstatic rituals

* Theoretical basics of Faerie Shamanism

* More complex aspects

* Faerie wisdoms

Course material also helps you discover or deepen your Fey magic. Faerie Shamanism expresses itself differently in each practitioner. I help you build that personal expression while also offering techniques for your magical toolbox.

You are on a unique journey. The Faerie Shamanism class steadies your feet.

You also:

* Receive Shamanic training that increases pleasure

* Discover Fey moral stances that increase pleasure

* Gain the material satisfactions of an ecstatic practitioner, without addictions or illusions snaring you

* Embrace wholeness in all your many facets.

Holy Sweaty Joy—Ecstatic Spirituality & Sacred Sexuality

Religious bigots consider Witches unholy because our religion teaches us to take life by the horns and use revelry to reach goals—bounty, self-fulfillment, joy, beauty, service to our community, and more.

Claim the ancient revelry magics of the Faerie ecstatic path. Delight in Faery Faith rituals and mysteries:

* Enjoy both magical and worldly celebrations that heal your spirit, empower you, and help you reach life goals. The fun rites transform you and your life even when all else fails.

* Move past inner blocks to your inherent, sacred sensuality.

* Affirm your unique, bewitching sexuality.

* Be a sex God(dess)!

* Imbue daily activities with confidence, passion, and vigor.

* Honor your true self, so your authenticity shapes decisions.

* Own your joy.

Gentle Heart, Palm Up—Peacefully Conquering Challenges

Overcoming challenges, great or small, mundane or spiritual, is a traditional method of gaining Shamanic power.

This course offers Shamanic tools to triumph over problems, whether an “everyday dilemma” or traumatizing devastation. These same tools build magical strengths that can manifest whatever you desire in any area of your life. This traditional way of gaining Shamanic power is a core aspect of Shamanism. As I said, all four courses provide core aspects.

As always, lessons are not theoretical. This class provides the experience of gaining mystic power to conquer your immediate problems and how that creates the exact magical strengths, methods, and mental shifts needed to overcome all life’s difficulties and fulfill life goals.

The last thing any of us need is a class that’s too hard. Like most of my classes, this Witchcraft is gentle and peaceful, yet potent.

Gentle rituals can be more effective than obviously strong rites. Sometimes, only gentleness draws forth our wildness and helps us live free.

You’ll learn a Witchy fluidity that makes you unstoppable. I jokingly coined the terms Faerie Taoism and Fae Chi Gung to explain this course: We relaxedly flow with nature’s patterns, so nothing can stop us.

Gentle Heart, Palm Up training saves you mega-time: Move through roadblocks quickly and serenely, instead of wandering stymied and anxious. Conquer problems peacefully.

This material helped heal me and my life from the trauma of becoming crippled overnight in 2001 and the crises—e.g., financial problems—that can domino from major illness. I was so ill that, when channeling these lessons, I could not type or even hand-write them. I dictated them to someone.

Because of these lessons, I rose like the Phoenix. At age 76, I’m healthier than I was in 2001, my finances recovered beautifully, and my spirit is whole. I am happy.

Course Four: The Be a Goddess Master Class

This fourth Goddess spirituality training provides the following blessings. If you already have them, they reach the next level:

* You learn new magical techniques and new ways to apply magic from the book Be a Goddess!—for whatever you need: prosperity, creativity, or anything else. This course, like the other three, increases the magical and mundane abilities to meet any challenge or opportunity.

* Profound soul-healing occurs, sometimes so easily that you don’t notice it until later.

* Your inner Deity provides power, confidence, and strong, constant guidance.

* We connect with the Old Gods deeply. So Their blessings on our lives increase, and we revel in the blissful joy of Their companionship.

* Fey-touched joy that makes life worth living ignites.

* Serving community in the ways that your heart wants becomes possible.

* I teach you unpublished, advanced facets of spells from my book, Be a Goddess. These facets have a wide range of applications. In the same vein, tools taught in prerequisites for The Be a Goddess Master Class will gain greater power.

Feeling powerless? This class will change that.

Feel plenty of power? If you’re not achieving everything you want, this course is the next step.

Prerequisite for The Be a Goddess Master Class

Complete one of the following to take the Master Class:
* first 12 lessons in my book, Be a Goddess!
* first 8 lessons in my book, Goddess Initiation
* one entry-level class in Third Road’s Mystic Rose branch (which I taught face-to-face in San Francisco)

I scheduled The Be a Goddess Master Class as the last of the four classes, to give you time to fulfill one of the prerequisites if you haven’t already.

If you start soon, there’s time to do the first 12 lessons in my book Be a Goddess!.

If it has been a long time since you did one of the prerequisites, it doesn’t matter. You’ve done the work.

Don’t feel like you did it well enough? Doesn’t matter. You did the lessons. Learning Witchcraft is a process. Give yourself a chance to move ahead with it, toward your life goals. You can always return to earlier work later.

Schedule

The eight-month training has 27 lessons, all on Mondays, from noon to 1:00, Pacific Time, starting Feb 9.

Each course is seven weeks, except The Be a Goddess Master Class is six.

Course One, Faerie Shamanism—an Ecstatic Path—runs February 9 through March 23. Reserve noon to 1:00 pm, Monday March 30, for a makeup class in the unlikely chance I’m unavailable for one of the planned sessions.

Course Two: Holy Sweaty Joy—Ecstatic Spirituality and Sacred Sexuality—runs April 13 through May 25. Reserve noon to 1:00 pm, Monday June 1 for a makeup class.

Course Three: Gentle Heart, Palm Up—Peacefully Conquering Challenges—is June 15 through July 27. Reserve noon to 1:00 pm, Monday August 3 for a makeup class.

Course Four: The Be a Goddess Master Class meets August 17 through September 21. Reserve noon to 1:00 pm, Monday Sept 28 for a makeup class.

There is a break after each course, so the schedule is not overwhelming.

Enrollment

Full cost—for 27 classes, direct spiritual transmissions, handouts, and one-on-one private support should you desire it—is $200 a month for eight months.. Your carrier might charge you for the phone calls into the lessons.

Enroll securely with PayPal. Use the Subscribe button below for automatic monthly payments..

Upon receipt of payment, your place is reserved. You receive course details—e.g., the phone number to dial for the meetings—by email. For more information or to discuss scholarship, semi-scholarship, trade, or a payment plan other than the subscription option, phone me at the number below.

No refunds. However, you can cancel your subscription after the two payments for the course you’re currently in.

To participate in a single course, email me at the address below, and I’ll invoice you for a two-month PayPal subscription.

If you’ve taken this training or one of its courses, repeat enrollment is half-price. Email me for an invoice.

There Is Only Now

If you want my core Witch material, it might be now or never. The last time I led this training was five years ago. Before that, it was between six and three years since I’d taught some of these courses.

But there is the now, and the sky’s the limit. Immediately, we’ll dive into ultra-focused lessons between the worlds for immediate power.

Along with the four above prerequisites, two qualifying electives are required before advanced training. You might have already taken them without knowing it. Here are some recent events that qualify:
* Magic Lemonade
* Join the Fairy Magic Circus
* Seven Core Powers of Fairy Magic
* Fairy Nomad Magic
* Your Talents and Goals can serve as both electives
* Lessons about the De Grandis Faerie Shaman Oracle Deck can serve as both electives

There are plenty of other qualifying electives. I can give you that list once I know you’re interested in the advanced training.

Sometimes, we can delay an elective if you haven’t done two before an advanced training begins.

The advanced training will start in the fall, 2026, if enough folks are interested.

You can’t find these lessons elsewhere. I’m utterly grateful the Goddess whispered them to me because they’ve saved me over and over. More about my curriculum-creation process:

* When teaching orally, I’m ensconced within a family oral tradition I entered in infancy, learning magic con leche. I receive experiential wisdom-lessons not taught elsewhere.

* Raised in a European-based Shamanic family tradition that includes Italian sorcery, Celtic Shamanism, and magic from other cultures, I teach a multicultural Faerie Shamanism.

* I thoughtfully, joyfully, carefully channel curriculums, constructing lessons over time. This tunes us into enormous, subtle powers. You won’t pay for a jumble of undigested white-bread ideas that an unprepared teacher declared, “Voila, genuine Pagan stuff!” 🙂 Instead, I committed my life to developing material for you.

* I received full-time, long-term Shamanic training. It was not academic but an experiential training of skill sets. That focused study allowed me into the heart of reality, in trance 24-7, channeling lessons for seven years.

* For decades since, my Gods have wanted me to trance only part of the day, to ground me. Feet on the ground, I explore our magical yet earthy cosmos and channel new earth-based mysticism, because resting on my laurels would be no fun. I like fun.

Fairy Witch, Francesca De Grandis, is the bestselling author of Be a Goddess! and Goddess Initiation. A teacher, guide, and healer, she offers long-distance classes, rituals, private counseling, and healings. Her Goddess spirituality embraces practical magic spells. Raised in a European-based Shamanic family tradition of La Vecchia Religione, Celtic Shamanism, and magic from other cultures, Francesca’s Witchcraft is a multicultural Faerie shamanism. La Vecchia Religione translates the Old Religion and refers to the practices of an Italian Witch, also known as a Strega.

Fairy Gold

Posted on October 30, 2025 by Francesca

What Is Fairy Gold?

Fairy Gold’s Definition
in Myth, Fairy Tales, and Other Lore

Lore, myth, and Fairy tales warn,
“Beware of Faerie gold.”
Lore, myth, and Fairy tales insist,
“Fairy gold is a trick,
a cruel deception.
Fairy gold will turn to leaves in your pocket.”

The warnings are the cruel deceptions:
They are pseudo-spirituality,
biased scholarship
meant to stop you from
trusting your Fey kin,
using magic,
and honoring your Goddess-given desire
for prosperity and good luck.

Lies about Fairy Gold and the Fair Folk

I wrote this essay because lies about the Fey Folk make me heartsick. (I will explain why momentarily.) I saw no one countering the lies, let alone offering alternatives. So this essay is comprised of some of my own.

Though the essay focuses on lies about Fairy gold, it also rectifies other lies about the Fair Folk. So mote it be!

Fairy Gold Is Not Fake
It is Real Wealth

Fairy gold turns to leaves in my pocket? How lovely!
How blessed!
How wealthy
to have a pocketful of leaves!
How fortunate.

They are herbs that heal my body.
They are greens for a salad.
They are fodder for a cow,
so its meat can nourish mine.

Not all lore and myth is gold.
Often they have been stolen, tossed aside,
and replaced with false ore.

Fairy Gold Is Real Treasure

Fairy gold does not always turn to leaves.
It might stay gold. I can buy herbs, salad greens,
fodder for cows, cows, meat from the grocers,
a home that shelters and pleases me,
and all other necessities,
including what will nurture my
joy and usefulness to others.

Fairies, Deception, Whimsy, Love

Deceptive tales insist that Fey folk
are nasty,
hate humans,
play cruel tricks,
and whimsically cause human tragedy.

Fairies and other mythical beings
have taken care of me lovingly
since my birth.

More about Fairies, Deception, Whimsy, Love

The Fairy Folk are playing a trick when they offer gold.
Not a cruel deception, but creative whimsy.
It is a loving surprise: When you return from Fairy realms,
examine your pockets’ contents.
Find their worth.
Is it what you asked for?

It is what you need.
So mote it be!

Fairies Love Humans:
Fairies, a Ruling Class, and Propaganda

This essay counters lies by pointing them out and providing alternatives. Everything in the essay was learned through personal experiences:

I have spent 76 years traveling with the Fey. These remarkable companions saved my life, giving me an abundance of magic, love, and wonder, to say the least.

I have adventured through Fairy realms and come back to the mundane world better equipped to create a wonderful material and spiritual life.

For decades, I have noticed the deceptive ruling class’s lies about magic and Fairies.

The ruling class tries to stop anyone—except themselves— from having power. So they lied about Fairies. This made most people forget humankind’s long-standing beneficial alliance with the Fair Folk. Old stories were twisted. Forgetting the history of their ancestors, people stopped turning to Fairies.

This meant most people lost the help Fairies can give for everything from creativity to abundance. The Fair Folk have always helped humans fight oppression and lifted up the oppressed.

Slander that is the exact opposite of the truth about the kind and beautiful Fey makes me heartsick. It makes me heartsick that a ruling class would lie to stop humankind from turning to the Fey for help to be prosperous, grow healthy crops, be inspired in their art, and more. It makes me heartsick that deception keeps people from the beautiful, happy companionship that the Fey give me.

Let’s address the etymology of Fairy gold. That will create a foundation for further explanation of how lies about Fairies entered myth, folktales, and other lore.

**Origin of Fairy Gold (Etymology)**

The idea of Fairy gold comes from oral tradition. Oral tradition is the oral transmission of a culture’s values, morals, and other aspects, through stories, live music, chants, and more modes.

But ancient stories, music, phrases, and other communications can be twisted to suppress and oppress. Disguised as wise advice, intentionally corrupted forms are meant to sever us from our Goddess-given wisdom or otherwise diminish us. This diminishment includes alienating us from otherworldly allies.

Along with the ones previously mentioned, there are two other sources for this essay. They are my past life memories and common sense. I remember a time before certain ancient wisdoms were warped in both oral tradition and lore. Common sense insists there must’ve been such a time.

I will give examples of the corrupted forms used for propaganda. First, let’s do a spell. That otherworldly moment will build a foundation for those examples.

To cast the spell, simply read the next section. If you don’t consciously experience magic, no problem. Magic is happening. The otherworldly foundation for examples is built:

The Original Meaning of Fairy Gold
The Original Knowledge

Think back,
let your cells think back …
cells travel back … cells feel back …
to before Fairy tales were written down.
Now your atoms feel the original oral tradition.
The original knowledge
tells you the truth about Fairy gold.

The primordial Fairy gold.

Usage of the Term Fairy Gold

Propaganda that feeds oppression replaced the truth about Fairy gold. Now the term Fairy gold appears as a device in folktales and literary stories that supposedly prove the following lies:

* Fairies are awful.

* We should fear them.

* Longing for bounty and happiness is not legitimate. It is greedy.

* Wanting worldly possessions is shallow. So you are superficial if you stand up for your rights to material wellbeing.

* You should scorn momentary happiness, as if being in the moment were not among the most spiritual traits.

* Momentary happiness is an illusion.

* There is no difference between a healthy pursuit of momentary happiness and a pursuit that is an addictive avoidance of feelings, responsibilities, and life itself.

Here is how I use the term:

A Fairy Witch Spell
for Wealth, Joy, and Freedom

A note on the following spell: Despite my lifelong, wonderful experiences with the Fey Folk, a lot of evil Fairies exist. They will play cruel jokes and deceive you to destroy your life. They rejoice in making people suffer.

For example, I said above that examining your pockets will reveal something you need. That is not true if a bad Fairy gave you a “gift.” When you reach into your pocket, its contents will bite you like a scorpion, even if the “gift” seems like your heart’s desire at first.

Acknowledging bad Fairies and the harm they do is vital. As is learning how to protect yourself from them. So I will address that in a moment. But rejecting all Fairies is like rejecting all humans because of the harmful ones. It would leave us isolated. Then good humans and Fairies cannot help protect us from the bad ones. Oppressors’ insistence that Fairies are inherently bad is a tactic to isolate you.

Bad Fairies often prey on humankind, usually without humans noticing.

My essay, Ethical (and Unethical) Fey Teachers, has more information about bad Fairies and their human pawns.

There is also more about how to deal with bad Fairies at the end of this essay, where I also discuss revisiting the essay while keeping in mind evil Fairies.

The following magical spell fosters an alliance with kind Fey. It also fosters the ability to tell the difference between good and bad Fey.

And with that, here is a spell that is one of my alternatives to Fairy gold being used in deceptive lore.

The spell consists of a series of affirmations. The affirmations are also informative. To perform the spell, simply say the series of affirmations, silently or aloud. There is no need to recite in a special way. Simple spells are sometimes the most effective ones.

I have kindly Fey kin.
The Fairy Queen and King are my kin.
My Fey kin honor my longing
for bounty and happiness as sacred.
They know that worldly possessions
and material wellbeing are important.
They help me stand up for my rights.
They celebrate my happiness.
They help me be in the moment
because they understand that being in the moment
is the greatest source of true happiness.

Fairy gold turns to dust.
Everything turns to dust. Even stars.
I am stardust.
Crumbling to dust is part of life. It does not invalidate life.
Dust is part of the circle of life.
I am constantly reborn,
letting a moment fade away
and being reborn in a new moment.

Fool’s gold is a synonym for Fairy gold.
I am gratefully a fool:
Belief in life’s goodness is
gorgeous, happy, sacred tomfoolery.

I will not be the fool open to every Fey.
I will be careful
and discerning.*
I ask my good Fey kin to guide and protect me.
I examine the situation—including my motives—
to know whether good or bad Fey have arrived.**

Fairy gold,
Fairy gold,
Fairy gold.
It is wealth.
It is the loving camaraderie of my Fey kin.
It is the moment.
Fairy gold.

I have spoken truth. So it is!

Notes:

* When assessing the morality of a Fairy, I suggest you reread this essay. While reading, keep in mind that my remarks about leaves in your pocket vs a scorpion ready to sting are not the only exceptions to my statements about the goodness of Fairies. This should help your evaluation of a Fairy.

It felt important to write the earlier parts of this essay in the manner that Italians call “taking a position.” That can mean, as was the case with the earlier parts of the essay, portraying a nuanced situation as black-and-white, to make a point. Lyrical composition was needed to bring the point and its magic home. Lyric could not have accomplished that without taking a position.

(My perfectionism is telling me: Doing the hard work of writing the lyric and this follow-up disclaimer will equip me to construct lyric that does not require taking a position. My perfectionism adds that I need to walk away from this essay for a year so my subconscious can process the writing I’ve already done, so I can rewrite it. Shhh. Though I often walk away from a piece for months if not years, until I know how to write it, that doesn’t feel necessary for this essay. Its points have been presented with depth and nuance, which has been quite an accomplishment. And no one else is making these points so it’s time to make them. Shhh, perfectionism, I am telling you the truth, shhhh.)

** If you need more help assessing the morals of a Fey being, make an an appointment for a psychic consultation. Often, situations are so individual that there’s no one-size-fits-all solution. Decades ago, I became the go-to person for individuals facing challenges with otherworldly matters. I was trained for this work from childhood and learned even more over the decades I have done it.

There are more lies about Fairies than I covered here. If certain lore—or modern opinion—about Fairies seems wrong to you, and you would like me to address it, tell me in the comment field below. Even if you don’t know why the lore or opinion puts you off, I am happy to look at it and share my thoughts.

Fairy Witchcraft Miracles

Posted on October 14, 2025 by Francesca

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.

To enroll securely through PayPal, click the Subscribe button below.

If you don’t receive an email confirming your enrollment within a few days, check your spam. If the email isn’t there, or you want to discuss a scholarship, semi-scholarship, trade, or payment plan, or you have questions about the event, 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. Refunds unavailable.

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
A Self-Portrait:

Click the button below to enroll.

Is Charging Money for WitchCraft Ethical?

Misinformation and History

Paid Witchcraft Has Traditionally Helped Oppressed Communities

The History of Payments to Native American and Celtic Shamans

History: Training a Shaman to Earn Money

Personal Gnosis, Myth, and Knowledge

How to Support Magic for Freedom

Enter the Fey realm,

where Winter’s sparkly, peaceful magic will settle you into your essence and your power.

What Does “Fairy Secrets” Mean?

What Are “Fairy Secrets”?

Fairy Gods Give Us Miracles

What to Do After the Fairy Gods Give You a Miracle

What Kind of Change Can a Fairy Secret Give You?

Fairy Secrets Are Not Arrogant Dogmas

Fairy Secrets Are Not Ideas

Fairy Secrets Are Alive. All Mysteries Are Alive

A Fairy Secret Is Not the Ultimate Goal, But a Step along Life’s Road

More about Fairy Secrets as Living Mysteries

Finding Fairy Secrets Requires Freedom

Mysteries Vanish Until You Need Them Again

The Gods Give Different Fairy Secrets to Different Witches

Fairy Secrets and Witch Teachers

Pointing to Fairy Secrets

Star Drenched: Weekly Rituals

Be a Shining Star Among the Stars in the Sky

Rituals for Weirdos

Magic in My Cauldron for You

You Also Receive Personalized Rituals

And More: One-on-One Mentoring

And More: Book of Shadows Pages

How To Attend

Schedule

Enrollment

Magic When You Are Stuck

Magic to Remove Roadblocks and Succeed

Clear the Path, Reach Your Goal

Magic in My Cauldron for You

Personalized Lessons

One-on-One Mentoring

Book of Shadows Pages

How To Attend

Schedule

Enrollment

Abundance and Serenity, No Matter What

A Nine-Week Ritual

Magic in My Cauldron

How To Attend

Schedule

Enrollment

The Enchanted Kitchen: An Online Course

Schedule for The Enchanted Kitchen

Enrollment

Fairy Witch Training aka Faerie Shamanism Training

This eight-month Shamanic journey has three powerful aspects:

Course One: Faerie Shamanism—an Ecstatic Path

Holy Sweaty Joy—Ecstatic Spirituality & Sacred Sexuality

Gentle Heart, Palm Up—Peacefully Conquering Challenges

Course Four: The Be a Goddess Master Class

What Is Fairy Gold?

Fairy Gold’s Definition in Myth, Fairy Tales, and Other Lore

Lies about Fairy Gold and the Fair Folk

Fairy Gold Is Not Fake It is Real Wealth

Fairy Gold Is Real Treasure

Fairies, Deception, Whimsy, Love

More about Fairies, Deception, Whimsy, Love

Fairies Love Humans: Fairies, a Ruling Class, and Propaganda

Origin of Fairy Gold (Etymology)

The Original Meaning of Fairy Gold The Original Knowledge

Usage of the Term Fairy Gold

A Fairy Witch Spell for Wealth, Joy, and Freedom

How to Create Miracles

An Eight-Week Fairy Witchcraft Course

Reach Impossible Goals

Learn Magic that Makes Miracles

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

Miracles Are Not Owned by Oppressive Mainstream Clergy

Witch Spirituality

More Magic

The Course Is Powerful, Filled with Information, and Gentle

Paid Witchcraft Has Traditionally
Helped Oppressed Communities

The History of Payments to
Native American and Celtic Shamans

where Winter’s sparkly, peaceful magic
will settle you into your essence and your power.

**What Are “Fairy Secrets”?**

What Kind of Change
Can a Fairy Secret Give You?

Fairy Secrets Are Alive.
All Mysteries Are Alive

A Fairy Secret Is Not the Ultimate Goal,
But a Step along Life’s Road

**More about Fairy Secrets as Living Mysteries**

The Gods Give Different Fairy Secrets
to Different Witches

Star Drenched:
Weekly Rituals

And More:
One-on-One Mentoring

And More:
Book of Shadows Pages

The Enchanted Kitchen:
An Online Course

Fairy Gold’s Definition
in Myth, Fairy Tales, and Other Lore

Fairy Gold Is Not Fake
It is Real Wealth

Fairies Love Humans:
Fairies, a Ruling Class, and Propaganda

**Origin of Fairy Gold (Etymology)**

The Original Meaning of Fairy Gold
The Original Knowledge

A Fairy Witch Spell
for Wealth, Joy, and Freedom

An Eight-Week
Fairy Witchcraft Course

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

**The Course Is Powerful, Filled with Information, and Gentle**