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.

A Garden Is Magic

Posted on November 16, 2020 by Francesca

Photo of Jenelle’s Garden. In the garden is a statue of Quan Yen and a street sign that reads “Queen Street.”

Months back, I gathered with some of my sister Third Road initiates, by phone, to do a magical spell. (Third Road is a tradition of Fairy magic that I channeled and continue to channel.) During our ceremony, Jenelle Leigh Campion read a poem she’d written about her garden, pictured above. Her artistry wowed me once again.

The poem also portrays themes dear to me:

* Inner wholeness created through connection with the larger whole and through appreciation of every part of the whole. This sensibility is central to my journey as a spiritual seeker and Fairy shaman.

* The green world as an enchanted realm in which each plant is a living spirit. Plants are my friends who give me great joy with their beauty and wisdom, while they help me with my witch spirituality.

Here’s Jenelle’s poem, prefaced by her introduction:

This piece was inspired by a writing prompt that asked me to write from a “family consciousness” perspective and use the “royal we” pronoun to describe a family having a group experience. Instantly, my garden called out as the collective voice that would like to be channeled into my writing and this was the result.

Garden

We are the garden.
We are the ones who grow.

In the misty, humid dawn we drink in dew
collectively unfurling
from the evening’s contraction.

Hibiscus sees the light first,
standing almost as tall as the wall behind us.
Only a few shy flowers appearing amidst the bush.

Our bright pink petals of Lady Magenta
highlight brightly
in the sea of our green.

The tender arrives to inspect
our changes and newness
and inspire the cherished waters to flow,
refreshing and preparing us
for the work of the day.
Growth.
New achievements unlocked.
New blossoms to bloom.

Magnolia is always in the light drawing nutrients
down from the heavens and
up from below the foundation.
She hugs the earth and sky.

The cluster of Bamboo and Rosemary
are the grandmothers in the garden.
Kwan Yin stands in their heart,
reminding compassion.
These plant darlings shimmer in green
and laugh into the wind as they bend.

The potted plant party corner thinks
it’s having an exclusive event.
And they are right.
The late day sun is their jam!
Drinking in and
reveling in brightness
their medicine becomes
plump and potent.

We all become more
plump and potent,
happy in our brightness
or shade.

Easter Lillies, Holly, and Queen of the Nile
liking their cool calm zones
to chill and become beautiful.

We are the garden.
We are the ones who grow.

We are one circle,
within a larger neighborhood circle,
and a city circle,
state,
country,
continent,
world.

One global plant family
everyday turning up
to bring delight
to our courtyard.

Jenelle, who also paints amazing pictures, says, ”It is my joy to send art out into the world because it nurtures happiness, creates feelings of abundance in our lives, and shares the spiritual support and magical empowerment that the sweetness of beauty can provide.

I’m blessed by my students because, like Jenelle, they are amazing companions for me along the Faerie path. Join us. My newsletter tells you about upcoming classes and other events. Click the banner below to subscribe.

Upcoming Shaman Warrior Class

Posted on June 18, 2018 by Francesca

This post has been updated for the 2025 Shaman Warrior class.

The Spiritual Warrior is a seven-week teleseminar (group class by telephone) with Francesca De Grandis

The Spiritual Warrior class teaches you shamanic rituals and wisdoms that empower your warrior aspect: the part of you that fights for survival, ideals, family, dreams, human rights, and Gaia.

I have not taught the course in seven years. Please take advantage of this opportunity.

The course description below includes some of my philosophy because it is part of the foundation for the class.

People use the terms “spiritual warrior” and “pacifist” in various ways. Here’s how I use the terms:

* I am not a pacifist. Pacifists will not engage in physical violence even if their lives are on the line. I’ve enormous respect for pacifists, and they can legitimately be viewed as amazing spiritual warriors, but that’s not what this class is about.

* Spiritual warriors are not unduly aggressive. Nevertheless, they’ll go into combat when needed. If battle’s the only choice, they engage with their whole heart and soul.

Ceremonial and practical lessons will include:
* why effective warriors often go with the flow instead of fighting it
* gentle uses of war
* how to shove back when push comes to shove, without losing the high moral ground
* the importance of down ‘n’ dirty fighting in business, community leadership, and inner growth
* strategizing with an ethical military mind
* standing up for yourself with no self-recrimination

The lessons’ rites also help you honor healthy aggression. Not all aggression is expressed by childish, irresponsible, hurtful rage. You’ll learn how to handle your aggressive power so that you express it healthily—you control it; it doesn’t control you.

We’ll celebrate the aggression without which we can lose our lust for life, because the two energies are so intertwined. You’ll find new passion for living because you’ll suppress your energy less.

I’ll also teach ritual methods for self-healing after the battles of childhood and adulthood. This class helps you regain a carefree, gentle attitude.

My warrior self protects the fragile child within me, providing the safety she needs to express love, delight in Fairies, and be creative. I’ll help you be a champion who shields your child self.

This class is for:
* the seasoned fighter who wants additional strengths, strategies, and self-control
* a person combatting a life-threatening challenge such as cancer
* someone needing to fight for a life that has dignity and pleasure
* and anyone else interested.

Novices to witchcraft are welcome, yet adepts will find appropriate challenges.

As I said, the above expresses my warrior philosophy as it underpins the class. The post also outlines parts of the curriculum. I hope you’ve enjoyed the material.

But warriors don’t settle for words. Join me for the work—and celebration!—needed to embody everything written here. Let’s live our lives fully.

Nuts and bolts:
* Lessons are group meetings by phone. To participate, simply phone the event’s call-in number.
* Class meets seven consecutive Sundays, from 6 to 7:00 pm pacific time, starting Sunday June 1.
* Reserve Sunday July 20, same time, for a makeup class in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned sessions.
* Cost is $200 a month for two months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls. To drop out, simply cancel your subscription, and no further payments are required. No refunds.
* Limited enrollment. Upon payment, your seat is reserved.
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* If you want to discuss a scholarship, semi-scholarship, or trade, or you need additional information about the event, please call me at the same number.
* Expect an email with the event call-in number and other details, a few days before our first meeting.
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You are a warrior whether you know it or not. You have the power to fight for yourself and anything else important to you.

Book of Shadows

Posted on October 1, 2016 by Francesca

My Fey kin,

Announcing a two-volume Third Road Book of Shadows:

* consisting of two PDF ebooks,

* every page ornamented by my full color shamanic art.

Full price for this two-volume Faerie Book of Shadows is $50. Buy it at the special price of $43.

This is easy traditional witchery with substance: Pagan liturgy, inspirational contemplations, prayer,
mystical musings, and other straightforward magics help you live free and create your destiny.

The books aren’t like my texts that require committing to a training. You can think of some of these Book of Shadows entries as relaxed strolls through Fey landscapes. Entries vary in length. Some are a few words, like a quick visit I hope makes you smile … or even giggle mischievously.

I believe these otherworldly moments, which access Third Road shamanism, add beauty, inspiration, and enchantment to the reader’s life.

This project is a deeply personal sharing—intimate glimpses into both my private Faerie journey and my day as a shamanic guide.

Total pages of the two PDFs is 191 pages. My original shamanic art blesses every page, so mote it be!

Book I is The Third Road: a Faerie Shaman’s Book of Shadows. Its magic overflows into Book II: Trickster, with more Third Road Book of Shadows entries, including my pivotal 4000 word essay about trickster energy.

Trickster is usually portrayed as a conniving deity or person who perpetuates cruel jokes for our own good. The essay details how this is an erroneous view that squelches freedom.

I have an unusual view of trickster. The essay introduces you to the Trickster who’s neither cruel nor conniving. In a kind manner, she opens the door to freedom and joy. This trickster energy betters my private Fey life and work as a shamanic guide in ways not generally considered the sacred clown’s role, even in modern Pagan culture.

You meet the innocent—and often Divine Feminine—Faerie Trickster from whom all powers and joys spring. Divine Feminine Trickster is explicitly discussed in the essay a tiny bit and is implied in all its words.

I share this previously unpublished Trickster material after so many years because it’s pivotal to the immensely effective magic and enchanted Fey qualities people experience in the Third Road tradition of witchcraft.

Below is a sample page. It is not crisp and clear like the actual e-books because this website blurs images. Ditto the books’ covers.

I set a low price for high value, because I want you able to acquire an enchanted treasure.

If you cannot afford the set: I’m exploring options for low-income folks. More about that in a newsletter.

This set is two digital ebooks: PDFs with all original art by the author. Available only from the author here:

I decided against selling my last few books on Amazon. This is challenging, but some texts need independence. I sell them directly to my beautiful readers and fulfill orders personally.

From my Fey heart to yours,
Francesca De Grandis aka Outlaw Bunny

Traditional Shamanic Culture and Business

Posted on June 6, 2016 by Francesca

Did you know ancient Celts had a goddess of marketing? Or that their shamans charged for many of their services, as did ancient Native American shamans? Did you know ancient Mesoamerican merchants traveled to find sacred goods?

Shamanic culture once brought the sacred into commerce, in a way we desperately need today for two reasons:

1) It will allow us fulfilling, loving, profitable work.

2) It can help stop the immense, worldwide suffering caused by callous business practices.

The division of sacred and profane in the marketplace strikes at the core of human rights, Faerie witchery, and happiness.

As a witch, I’m part of a long heritage of magic used as a tool to free people from oppression. As long as the marketplace is driven by profit to the point of callousness, instead of by an ethical focus on being of service, results will remain tragic.

So I developed innovative theories and methodologies that provide a missing piece of witchery—a shamanic approach to the marketplace. I teach it in my new book:

A Sacred Marketplace:
Sell without Selling Out or Burning Out.
Mysticism + Marketing = Sales.

The book is two pronged in its benefits:

1) Many ethical, loving people have special gifts they want to bring into the marketplace but are stymied because they can’t figure out how to maneuver the insanity of our current business world.

These folks include artists, psychics, coaches, and others in alternative fields. Also included are people whose heartfelt dreams are less obviously special—e.g., you can make cosmetics in a loving way.

A Sacred Marketplace shows good people ethical ways to thrive in business. The book teaches

* easy, powerful, ethical marketing

* my personal philosophy of life, which is shamanic and spells out why it is moral to earn a living doing what we love and how doing so is vital to the well being of all Gaia’s children

* shamanic exercises to help you actually live that philosophy and develop personal traits for career success

2) The other benefit: if these good folks were in business, their sheer presence would help shift our business world into one where people matter more than profit. These loving practitioners would not have to do anything other than be present in the marketplace.

More talented good-hearted people in the world of commerce will—without these individuals even trying to do so—automatically transform the dominant business paradigm for society as a whole, from corporate, uncaring greed to loving concern for the individual.

I’m delighted I was able to create this book’s material. I am proud of my work in a way this society tries to squelch. Be proud of yours. Enter the marketplace with your special gifts and be prosperous. In the process, you’ll make a better life for everyone.

I care about you, so I beg you: do not wait. Great endeavors start when someone says, “I’ll do what I can.” If all you can manage is reading two minutes once a week, and you have no time to analyze what you read or to apply it, that’s a legitimate start. The book is Third Road shamanism, which means you absorb on a gut level, just by reading. Do it. Click here for A Sacred Marketplace: http://www.outlawbunny.com/2015/10/15/a-sacred-marketplace/

Fey Witch

Posted on March 10, 2016 by Francesca

This is excerpted from the two-volume Third Road Book of Shadows, available here: https://stardrenched.com/2016/10/01/book-of-shadows/

I am a fey witch. Magic is my heritage and my salvation. I will not be deprived of it. I will remain ever immersed in the magic that flows through the entire cosmos.

This subtle current dances about me all day, even in my sleeping hours, empowering me and making me whole. It heals me, delights me, and celebrates me. It relieves me of my pains, doubts, and flaws. It removes obstacles.

Oppressors deny magic, lest we use its ever available power to live wild and free, with direct access to Deity and the gifts Deity bestows, independent of dour religious institutions and oppressive societal hierarchies.

But magic is real and a Goddess-given right. I would go further to say magic is a living aspect of my Goddess. No one will rob me of my Goddess and Her power. I live in magic.

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In the two-volume Third Road Book of Shadows set, the above prose-poem is ornamented with more detailed art than I could post here if I wanted this webpage to load in less than a decade.

But the graphic at the top of this post is part of the art in question. And I made the little graphic at the side especially for this post, because I love ya!

Did you enjoy the post? Get the book set here, available only from the author: https://stardrenched.com/2016/10/01/book-of-shadows/

Upcoming Event

Posted on February 24, 2016 by Francesca

Full-Tilt Magic:
A Go-All-the-Way Unfettered Ritual
to Live Free and Consummately

To explain the upcoming ritual, I need to start by sharing a personal vision of what I’m working toward in my own life:

I want to go the whole way, the last 9 yards—full happiness and prosperity, while of maximum service and burning off the last of my karma. I don’t want another incarnation.

I will go all the way to touchdown, at peace like a wolf howling at the moon or wrestling with its cubs.

I am a fey witch. I choose to be free. I do not bow to anyone’s opinion of me. I choose the wildness of my heart.

The vision describes what I want. Do you want it too, you untamed Faerie witch? We will work toward it together: Participate in my upcoming seven-week ritual. Run free with me.

I’m accepting fifteen people for this ceremony. To be one of them, there are some ideals to strive toward, or the rite will be wasting your time. Participate in the ritual if you will work toward these goals:

No excuses. No playing victim. Instead, take the next step toward your dream life, right away. Heck, maybe that’s choosing your dream life. Find what power you have—small or large—and use it right now.

Give up your ego. Instead of identifying with greatness, do great things. Know when you are getting in your own way. Know when you are getting in the way of the Cosmos loving you. Ride the magic currents sweeping through the World Tree—ride them in their wildness, embracing their magic, power, and beauty.

Surrender. When bad comes your way, accept. When good comes your way, accept. Surrender to serving your Gods all day. Be part of the world change the Gods long for and created you for.

Start now, no waiting. Great endeavors begin when someone says, “I’ll do what I can.” If all you can do is five minutes, that’s a legitimate start. Don’t wait to be you. The world needs you.

No one can fully achieve the above ideals. One of the goals of the ritual will be to empower you to achieve them. Know I am working toward them myself. I live them to whatever degree I can manage today. Today. Today. Join this group, then accept that you fall short—let go of ego. Ego keeps you frozen, not taking action. Accept your imperfections, so you can do great things today.

Though this post kicked off with a verbal expression of my vision, I’d like you to also see the vision and upcoming ritual represented by a painting:

Our meetings will consist of
* full-tilt transformative ritual—we will rock ‘n’ roll,
* direct spiritual transmissions from me to bolster your spirit,
* and assignments tailored to your journey, challenges, and strengths.

This Third Road Faerie ritual qualifies as one of the two electives needed before advanced Third Road training. Not to worry: if this ritual doesn’t appeal to you, other qualifying electives will be coming.

Nuts and bolts:
* These are group meetings by phone. To participate, just dial the phone from anywhere.
* We meets seven consecutive Thursdays, from 6:00 to 7:00 pm est, starting Thurs March 31.
* Reserve Thurs May 19 same time, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned meetings.
* Tuition: $250. Your usual long-distance charges apply, and appear on your phone bill. The event’s area code is a U.S. #.
* Upon receipt of payment, your place is reserved, and event phone #, etc., emailed to you. If you need more info, or want to discuss scholarship, trade, or payment plan, call 814-337-2490. No refunds.
* Scroll down to enroll: enter your phone number and pay securely with PayPal.

I call forth your wild self, come be with me, I call you forth, I call you forth. The shamanic dancer, I call you forth. The heartbeat of the shaman, I call you forth. Be of maximum service, run free, and otherwise go the whole nine yards: Enroll now.

I am a fey witch, so mote it be.

Upcoming Training

Posted on September 30, 2015 by Francesca

Update: The day and time of this event has been changed, so you can enroll if the new schedule suits you better. New schedule: we meet seven Sundays, from 4 to 5 PM EST, starting Sunday November 8. Classes are consecutive weeks except we skip November 29, for Thanksgiving weekend. Reserve Sunday Jan 10, same time, for a makeup class in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned sessions. Rest of class info is below:

Come Home to the Faerie Queen
A Seven-Week Faerie Shamanism Training

The Faerie Queen tells us, “I’m Mother of the Faerie Nation. And more of you are awake to your magic now—lovers, warriors, children and elders, changelings, cats in disguise, bards, wolves, gardeners, corporate executives, tricksters, star-children, and many others. Come to me, come home, I will protect you and tutor you until our starlit cells flow back and forth between us like the milky way in all its immense luminosity. You’re awake now, my Faerie children. The new global Fey village has begun.”

This class responds to the Faerie Queen’s call. You’ll create previously impossible possibilities for you, Gaia, and all beings. Honest. The curriculum is the culmination of decades’ work. Rewrite your DNA and break through to the stars.

Faerie Ancestor who is a guardian to this site. Silk Painting, Outlaw Bunny

The Fey-spark in humans re-ignited. Ancient starlit blood came forward till it finally hit critical mass; Faerie magic’s thoroughly awake in many people. This leaves us with new questions and new approaches needed to answer them:

* Have you sensed shifts in the human/plant/mineral psyche?

* Can you have self-healing, prosperity, and great sex during present times?

* Do you feel the mystic part of you desperately needed by everyone, including you, right now?

* How can we better use our new/old/undiscovered/shifted powers, both magical and mundane?

* Do you find Paganism too dogmatic, not pagan enough? Do you long for fellowship that supports your unique vision?

* How can mystics—ranging from activists to quiet magicians—come together to love, celebrate, and protect Gaia? Can Gaia—and ourselves—be happy, or even survive, without such a tribe happening globally?

This class addresses these issues with innovative magic and fresh ideas.

You also receive lessons to be your style Faerie shaman. There are different places in Faerie, each special. One is your home. This class helps you go home. If you’re already home, you’ll learn (more) about its unique magic and spirituality, and use them practically to empower your mundane life.

This teleseminar is multi-leveled, suitable to entry-level beginners and adepts.

Come Home to the Faerie Queen qualifies as one of the two electives needed before advanced Third Road training.

Nuts and bolts:
* These are group meetings by phone. To participate, just dial the phone from anywhere.
* Class meets seven Sundays, from 4 to 5 PM EST, starting Sunday November 8. Classes are consecutive weeks except we skip November 29, for Thanksgiving weekend.
* Reserve Sunday Jan 10, same time, for a makeup class in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned sessions.
* Tuition: $250. If you’ve taken it before, repeat it at half-price. Your usual long-distance charges apply and appear on your phone bill. The event’s area code is a U.S. #.
* Enroll here.
* Or pay by check or money order here.
* Upon receipt of payment, I email you event phone number, etc.
* Call me—814-337-2490—for more info or to discuss scholarship, trade, or payment plan. Do not email me. Refunds unavailable.

If you want to be part of this experience, enroll now, because I don’t know when I’ll be able to teach it again. It’s maybe been six years since the last time.

If you see someone else’s class that sounds the same, this class is original material. No one teaches it but me.

Faerie holds daily miracles. I trust that.

Enroll here.

A mystical event is no substitute for medical care by a trained physician, psychiatric counseling, or other therapeutic treatments. Participants are personally responsible for the consequences of their voluntary participation.

Faerie Freedom

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Francesca

The road to Faerie is not civilized, but kinder.

I wrote the above line in the 80s, but recently someone asked why. Good question! Here’s my answer:

Indoctrinated with the idea that our wild aspects are always ruthless and to be feared, many people’s wild, beautiful power is crushed.

Breaking out of that oppression, they often go to the other extreme, allowing themselves any actions at all, even cruel or irresponsible ones, unaware they’re being hardhearted. They might honestly believe they’re doing no harm, insisting, “I’m just being me. If you don’t like it, you’re trying to oppress me. Not my problem, because I’m a free spirit.”

I wanted to create a maxim showing a third option, other than the two extremes of suppression or hardheartedness. So I coupled the ideas of wildness and kindness.

However, it’d take a whole book to fully explain why I wrote the maxim, since I was trying to express so many ideas in it. I use my skills as a poet to write lyrical aphorisms because they can contain endless concepts and levels in a few words and touch the heart rather than just the intellect.

However, I should share: on one level, the adage refers specifically to the path I walk with my students—the Third Road—and was written as part of a blessing for students entering into a deeper level of study with me.

I wanted the blessing ceremony to include the following thoughts: We’d long ago rejected the hardheartedness mentioned above. But our upcoming shamanic journey would release more of their —and my—wild power than even our previous work together had done. When gaining another degree of wildness, it’s easy to fall prey to foolishness previously discarded. We needed to continue to integrate our wild and civilized aspects. This would more than ever make us whole in ourselves and as a community. Otherwise, we more than ever risked becoming enormously fragmented in ourselves and alienated from fellow seekers. I preferred to express all those thoughts in words that could be carried through the training not just in the mind but also the heart: “The road to Faerie is not civilized, but kinder.”

Hmm … maybe putting all the stuff in the above paragraph into the ceremony would’ve made things clearer, LOL.

Always happy to answer a question! I can’t always explain my poetry, because sometimes poetry is the only way I can explain something. But I tried my best today.

Blessed be.

Faerie Lammas Ritual 2015

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Francesca

Please join me for a Third Road harvest celebration, Thursday July 30 at noon to 1:00 EST.

Let’s celebrate our harvests and manifest additional bounty.

Let’s honor ancestors, Gaia, and other Gods.

The event is a group phone call. Free and open to all. (Your usual long-distance charges apply, and appear on your phone bill.) No experience needed.

To participate, call 1-712-775-7000. When prompted, enter 1095248#. Dial three to five minutes before noon; it can take a bit to connect, and latecomers are not allowed.

If you want to experience oral tradition, this ritual is an opportunity.

Mark your calendar.

Goddess Bless, Francesca De Grandis

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