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.

What Is Oral Tradition?

Posted on October 9, 2025 by Francesca

What is Oral Tradition?

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Oral Tradition

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

People being—operative word being—together.

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

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

How to Learn Oral Tradition

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

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

2) Pay attention to more than their words.

3) Choose someone who is loving to sit beside.

Let’s look more thoroughly at those guidelines:

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

A Story about Learning Oral Tradition

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

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

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

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

Oral Tradition and Magic

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

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

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

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

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

Let me expand on the two reasons.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Learning Magic from My Mother Experientially

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

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

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

Here are more illustrations:

Teaching Magic Experientially

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

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

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

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

Where to Go from Here for Oral Tradition Shamanism

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

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

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

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

A New Fairy Witch Course

Posted on July 3, 2025 by Francesca

Magic Lemonade—A New Fairy Witch Class:

Learn 13 Ways to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Begins July 20, 2025

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

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

The same can happen for you.

Fairy Witch Practices That Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

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

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

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

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

Why I Created Magic Lessons about Using Problems as Assets

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

How To Attend

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

Schedule

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

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

Enrollment

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

Enroll by midnight July 16.

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

Hard Work, Magic Fun, and Fighting Subjugation

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Hard as a Diamond

Posted on February 16, 2025 by Francesca

Hard as a Diamond

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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New Fairy Witch Class

Posted on January 9, 2025 by Francesca

Begins February 2025

Join the Fairy Magic Circus

Ecstatic Spirituality, Sacred Play, Joyful Wonder

Magic to Reach Every Goal

Joy, fun, wonder, and even silliness are powerful magics that help create prosperity, community, justice, self-expression, career success, soul-healing, freedom, and your other life goals. This course will show you how.

We’ll travel into the Fey realm to go to the Fairy Magic Circus. We will learn the magical powers of sacred joy from the masters of happiness: The clown, aerialist, strength performer, contortionist, juggler, wild animal handler, and ring master/mistress will teach you magic spells.

These archetypes will help you cast happy spells for everything you want.

The RingMaster/Mistress’s Powers

Fun Is Holy

Fun is holy. I cannot doubt it when I watch a child play. They seek fun the way a mystic seeks the Divine: with ferocity and reverence. The result is the child and mystic experiencing fulfillment, peace, power, and joy.

My Gods, being Pagan, bless fun activities.

Joy Is Holy

I need joy. Joy heals. Joy reminds me of my power and connects me to it. Joy unites me with tribe so that we can stand strong together, empowered to defeat adversity. Joy cuts through my illusions and discouragement to settle me into love for and from others. Joy brings forth my inner goodness: for example, respect for—and right action concerning—other people.

We will work with all these aspects of joy. We will also work with joy as a pure magic unto itself: The course will show how joy can create miracles.

A sense of wonder—or call it awe—nourishes my spirit. When I am starving for hope and motivation, awe is my food—a feast! Then I know that the Universe has happy plans for me.

I love circus artists because they focus on creating wonder, whether as circus barkers or trapeze artists. For me, that demonstrates they are masters of ecstatic spirituality.

Their shows embody sheer joy, both the experience of it and the giving of it. In their way, they teach ecstatic spirituality.

Let’s run away and join the Fairy Magic Circus to learn unapologetic joy, empowering wonder, and powerful happy witchcraft from the happiness experts.

You will learn to use wonder as a magic that creates miracles.

In the Fairy Magic Circus, we will also experience sacred silliness that lifts us so we transcend our dilemmas, and then roots us into our common sense so that we know how to solve those problems.

And the circus performer archetypes will teach how to find joy, wonder, and happiness even during hard times. For example, joy is a sacred sensibility that can permeate all activities.

How To Attend

Call the event phone number to attend. The group meets by teleconference. No special technology is needed. You receive the number after enrolling.

Schedule

We meet every week for four months, in one-hour lessons.

You have two scheduling options:

Enroll in the class that meets Sundays 1:00 to 2:00 pm PST,
from February 16, 2025 through June 15.

Or the class that meets Thursdays 6:00 to 7:00 pm PST,
from February 20, 2025 through June 19.

Reserve the class hour on Sunday June 22 or Thursday June 26, respectively, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned meetings.

Enrollment

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

Enroll by February 12, midnight.

To enroll securely through PayPal, provide your phone number in the field below, then click the Subscribe button.

When I receive your enrollment, I will email you to ask which of the two class schedules you chose.

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

Join the Fairy Magic Circus can be used as one of the two qualifying electives needed to participate in the advanced Fairy Witch Training.

Simplicity is among the most advanced magics. It gives me stunning spiritual and material victories. This class’s simple happy witchcraft is helping me reach all my goals more than ever.

Sometimes I develop curriculums that get shelved, no matter how much I’ve worked on them. Perhaps a few pieces of the curriculum remain elusive, so it isn’t ready to teach yet. Or I am too far ahead of the curve. Or another course I am creating feels more timely. I’ve wanted to teach Join the Fairy Magic Circus for years, it is such powerful versatile magic, and finally:

It is time. Let’s go! Get your ticket to the Fairy Magic Circus!

I Joined the Fairy Circus

Posted on August 18, 2024 by Francesca

I Joined the Fairy Circus

Look at my face as a child. Do I look like I was ever suited to a “normal” life?

Obviously, I had to join the circus of life, become a fairground barker, jump on a magic carousel, perform in the Fairy Big Top, and travel with a carnival between the worlds.

Hard Traveling

William, the man who raised me, started traveling poor and hard when he was about twelve. My research indicates that his mom couldn’t afford to feed him, so he left home at age seven to work on a farm. A census puts him on a farm at that time, but not in his mom’s household. This is corroborated by a family member mentioning an “uncle” whose farm she visited as a child. The “uncle’s” name is the same as little William’s employer. There is also a relevant photo.

A census also shows that William (Bill) returned home, where his mother now lived with a new husband and his son. That unfortunate young boy stole milk from his front porch after the milkman delivered it because there was not enough food in the home. He would drink from the bottle and then add water to hide his theft. He told this to his daughter, my cousin, who passed the story on to me when I told her I suspected Dad had lived in poverty as a child.

It appears that young Bill left home again soon, to hit the road at age twelve. This was a common solution if a household had too many mouths to feed.

If my earlier writing about Bill contradicts anything here, it is likely because my research netted new information.

Request: It seems that the expression hard traveling predates its use in a Woody Guthrie song. If you know otherwise, please tell me. The expression is magical to me.

It might seem odd that a phrase describing hardship is magical to me. It might even appear callous toward individuals who suffer—or have suffered—on the road. I am in no way romanticizing hard traveling or otherwise minimizing it. My family history, including my own, is why the phrase is magic for me. I won’t didactically spell out further explanation here. The situation is nuanced, so perhaps explanations require an oral give-and-take dialogue. But this essay explains in part, not didactically but experientially and embodied.

A Witch Raised on Optimism and Descended from Society’s Hedge Rows

I wonder if Dad’s love of music came from traveling. His adoration of music seemed incongruent with everything else about him. He even loved musicals. But perhaps his love of show tunes came from his mother, who was a showgirl.

I descended from people who were on the edges of society, but they were not always what most people would imagine.

I assumed showgirl was the family euphemism for stripper. But later, I saw a family painting that I was told is a portrait of Bill’s mom. Curious, I went online, armed with the painter’s name: W Haskell Coffin. I discovered he was known for painting Ziegfeld showgirls. If the portrait is Bill’s mother, she was probably in the Ziegfeld Follies or a similar group.

That is not incompatible with being poor. Here are two reasons. Many performers experience economic hardship. As in any business, some people accumulate wealth, some people barely scrape by. If she did make decent money, she would’ve been past the age of a youthful Ziegfeld girl by the time she suffered poverty with young William. He was born six years after the Follies began. Her money could’ve run out by then.

I’ve spent decades researching my family history, trying to understand it. I’m not a trained researcher. My conclusions could easily be amiss. I tell the story best I can. That’s the job of a circus barker. Perhaps putting a family history together best you can is a necessity when you come from the margins. There were so many roadblocks. For example, I contacted an organization that archives material on Ziegfeld girls. The person with whom I spoke explained that a lot of material was lost because, after Ziegfeld died, there was no money to be made from the archives, so no one took care of them. Marginalized because of lack of money.

The following snapshot of the portrait isn’t great. I took it without great equipment decades ago at a family member’s home:

(Update: Further investigation suggests this might not be my grandmother, despite the family’s claim and all the time I’d already spent researching the painting. At least it opened my mind to her being a showgirl instead of a stripper. I hope I discover the group(s) in which she performed, and I am still looking into Ziegfeld. Research is a living process; new findings lead to—or suggest—new conclusions. Unfortunately, most people in the know have passed on. Of the few that remain, I only know one who is a reliable source. Speaking of new findings: After I wrote the above part of this paragraph, I spoke with that trustworthy source—e.g., when her source might be unreliable, she acknowledges it. She provided new history: She too was told Grandma was a showgirl. She was also told that Grandma was an actress. She added that it was implied—though not said outright—that Grandma was not well regarded by the family because of her work.)

Another example of outliers in the family: Bill was as close-minded as they come. But as a teenager, I brought home a stranger. He had no place to sleep, was due to enter the Marines the next day, and carried a guitar. I assumed Dad would angrily turn him away. That would’ve been typical of my close-minded, bitter father. But he gave the guy a bed. I imagine it was in part because the fellow was soon to be a Marine, but that the guitar had a lot to do with it too.

Dad, unexpectedly, adored folk music, not just show tunes. After his World War II military stint, he didn’t return from Europe to his wife and kids right away (I wasn’t born yet, but I know the story). He went south and hung out with hillbillies. Had they met as hard-traveling children? Thus far, I don’t know where else this extremely conservative man could’ve acquired a love of folk music. And unless he had experienced it rooted in his life experiences and worldview, he would’ve loathed it in the ‘60s when it was associated with radical politics.

I am 74 years old. Previous generations of my family are long gone. Their deaths impelled me to investigate old newspapers, public records, etc., long ago. That has been and continues to be fruitful and fascinating. I will keep at it to answer my new questions about Bill and the rest of the family. Plus, the family member who I know to be reliable remains, ever-ready to talk. And the beloved dead appear in visions to point out directions I might pursue or even tell me stories.)

More Lineage from Society’s Hedge-Row Edges

Bill was not my biological dad. DNA indicates my biological father likely descended from nomads. A family story: An Indian prince proposed to Mom but she chose Bill instead. I don’t know what the family meant by Indian. Mom aside, the family’s lack of education and abundance of prejudice means family members might have considered various peoples as Indian. Was my father Arabic? Iranian? Or?

Grandma a showgirl, Bill a hard traveler, biological father possibly a royal nomad, and Mom a fortuneteller from a long line of Italian witches. I was grown in the edges—society’s hedge rows. Add that I was raised on old musicals with their fantastically optimistic themes, and I had to become a performer in the Fairy circus of life—a nomad traveling for sheer joy, both the experience of it and the giving of it.

Hard Times Taught Me Unapologetic Joy

I am grateful to know a beautiful joy that you can learn from hard times. It is a joy you learn to nurture regardless of circumstances. It is a pure, untainted joy.

That’s one reason I love the circus. Circus artists focus on creating joy and wonder, whether as a clown or trapeze artist. Their shows embody unapologetic joy.

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La Vecchia Religione

Posted on January 30, 2023 by Francesca

Online Course:
La Vecchia Religione—
An Inside View of Traditional Italian Witchcraft

“La Vecchia Religione” is Italian for “The Old Religion” and refers to the traditional practices of a strega. “Strega” translates into “witch.”

I was born into an Italian shamanic family tradition that dates back hundreds of years. Our family has many magics. This online course focuses on one of the most pivotal. Traditional magic is taught contextually, so lessons also provide a mystical overview of La Vecchia Religione.

The Strega practice we’ll focus on is considered the most advanced magic possible, can improve every aspect of life substantially, yet is accessible to a magical beginner.

This course has five powerful aspects:

One) Weekly lessons received by email. Each lesson is a digital Book of Shadows entry (PDF).

Storytelling relays a great deal of the course’s information, making lessons easy and fun for you. I’ll share tales of an Italian shamanic family tradition.

I’ll add other relevant chronicles, too, as well as more material needed to understand the aforementioned pivotal strega practice and traditional Italian witchcraft as a whole.

La Vecchia Religione is a shamanic path. Some shamans invoke magic simply through their personal, quite human stories. If you want strega magic, it’s in such stories.

Your reading this course’s stories, with no more effort on your part than when you read a fantasy novel, magically transforms every part of your life—large improvements everywhere. After the course, a special enchantment always remains available to continue creating numerous, marvelous changes for you.

Benefits of merely reading the stories:

* You automatically start becoming a new you, with greater wholeness of being and peace. You notice your power growing magically and in other parts of your life, so you have better access to all the inner resources needed to reach life goals.

* Your circumstances automatically start improving. Your most cherished goals become more viable and attainable.

* The stories transport you to a Fey-touched realm. And this course’s stories are true-life Faerie tales with real magic that helps you live in your own special Faerie tale: dreams can come true.

Our lessons will bring us into the presence of Diana Magna Mater (Great Mother Goddess). She gave humankind magic so we can live free and prosperously, overcoming challenges, including liberating ourselves from oppression. She will protect and guide us in our journey.

Lessons also provide easy shamanic exercises that reinforce the tales’ enchantments and deepen your relationship with them.

Two) My full-color art ornaments the PDF Book of Shadows pages, including new paintings created especially for this course. I joyfully painted for ages to create fifty new page ornamentations specifically for these lessons! I wanted imagery to convey the enchantment of Italian sorcery.

Think of medieval illuminations, except they are not painted by a stuffy repressed monk but by a modern wild-hearted Pagan. My paintings are filled with magic that blesses your day.

Three) Nine audio files recorded expressly for this course. Spoken word is a way you and I can be in a sacred space together. So I recite excerpts of the PDFs.

Four) Two fun, easy crafts projects. I’m thrilled about my Pagan-style craft ideas because they’re sooo magical: they help you experience the power of Italian witchery, deepen the magical journey, and increase its benefits. I’ve never seen anything like these projects, and I’m not going to say here what they are, heh. They’re special, and I’m saving them for you.

I painted art especially for these projects, making your part easy: you receive full-color digital files of my Pagan art, so you only need to print the artwork and follow a few simple instructions. I can barely wait for you to have the art! Heck, I’m chomping at the bit, waiting for you to have the rest of the course, too.

Five) One-on-one support. I’m available by phone for up to 45 minutes. If you have questions about the material, need help because your commitment to doing the lessons falters, want to further explore a particularly tantalizing part of the curriculum, 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.

I love integrating my art into my writing. Ditto creating audio portions and being available by phone. The five parts of the course (text, art, audio, etc.,) weave together to take you on a mystical journey into the heart of Italian witchery. During it, along with the benefits already listed:

* You gain confidence in your own journey—its spiritual, magical, and mundane aspects.

* You find confidence in yourself, just as you are, right now.

* Important insights come to you—wisdom needed to get the maximum out of life.

* You claim your birthright—your heritage of magic and wildness as a Fey-touched child of the Old Gods.

In addition to being transformative, this journey is core to understanding Italian witchcraft as a whole. In other words, along with improving your life, the journey is also an experiential lesson that conveys a mystical overview of: traditional Italian witchcraft as a magical culture, its otherworldly sensibilities, and its history.

Though they impart an overview and history, lessons are easy, not like reading a textbook. This is not dry history, not dry material, not a dreary recitation of facts, charts, and lists that you have to memorize, plod your way through, or otherwise labor over. You experience La Vecchia Religione in your spirit.

This look into my family’s magic is traditional Italian shamanism no one else teaches. A lot of this is material I’ve never taught until this course.

The course starts February 27, with your first lesson. You receive one lesson a week by email for 11 weeks.

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

Tuition: The regular price is $209 a month for three months, but I’ve lowered the cost to $167 a month. That is 20% off!

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No experience needed. But even advanced practitioners benefit greatly. If you need more information, or want to discuss scholarship, trade, or a payment plan other than the above subscription, call me at the number below. No refunds. My online courses aren’t transcriptions of oral tradition lessons. (I teach oral tradition by phone.) The online courses are special unto themselves—magic tailored to be spectacularly effective, relevant, exciting, and safe when learned online.

Magic When You Are Stuck

Magic to Remove Roadblocks and Succeed

Clear the Path, Reach Your Goal

Magic in My Cauldron for You

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One-on-One Mentoring

Book of Shadows Pages

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Magic in My Cauldron

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The Enchanted Kitchen: An Online Course

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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 Oral Tradition?

How to Learn Oral Tradition

A Story about Learning Oral Tradition

Oral Tradition and Magic

Learning Magic from My Mother Experientially

Teaching Magic Experientially

Where to Go from Here for Oral Tradition Shamanism

Magic Lemonade—A New Fairy Witch Class:

Learn 13 Ways to Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Fairy Witch Practices That Turn Obstacles into Opportunities

Why I Created Magic Lessons about Using Problems as Assets

How To Attend

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Hard Work, Magic Fun, and Fighting Subjugation

Hard as a Diamond

Join the Fairy Magic Circus

Ecstatic Spirituality, Sacred Play, Joyful Wonder

Magic to Reach Every Goal

Fun Is Holy

Joy Is Holy

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I Joined the Fairy Circus

Hard Traveling

A Witch Raised on Optimism and Descended from Society’s Hedge Rows

More Lineage from Society’s Hedge-Row Edges

Hard Times Taught Me Unapologetic Joy

The Enchanted Kitchen:
An Online Course