Claiming Power Arm-in-Arm

Power, Wealth, Amulets, Community. Francesca De Grandis, Jan 2025

Power, Wealth, Amulets, Community

We can be happy, free, prosperous, and whole
when we strive toward these goals with each other.

Money Magic

I love being a witch.

One of my longtime students had a temporary downward financial shift so couldn’t afford my upcoming Fairy Shamanism class. I asked, “If I do a spell that the money for the course comes to you, and the spell succeeds, will you enroll?”

She said yes. Within a few days I received an enrollment payment.

Ahahahahaha.

When I help other people succeed, it feeds my success!

If the only thing between you and my upcoming class is money, and you want me to do the spell for you that I did for the aforementioned student, call me at the number below. Before I do the spell, we need to talk briefly by phone.

Powerful Does Not Mean You Are Alone

The student for whom I did the money spell does excellent money magic. We all need help sometimes. My money magic is great, but occasionally I ask a friend to do a prosperity spell for me.

I read somewhere that a lot of people support women to become powerful until they become powerful. Truth!

I try to create Shamanic courses that not only help people find power, joy, wealth, and the ability to be of maximum service, but also help them maintain these gifts. This mindset is crucial to moving forward as a society.

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Movements to give everyone power often fail because, as soon as some community members have power, they ally with oppressors. But another reason for failure is that many community members attack anyone who has managed to get a leg up. I try to build a community that supports its members through their struggles and victories.

The American Lone Hero Archetype
Is Tailored to Isolate You

Many Americans think that no one understands them and that they’re struggling all alone. This feeling is strengthened by half of Hollywood movies. In such films, the hero is misunderstood; no one sees their strength, honor, or skills. Whether it takes place in high school or later in life, the protagonist is miserable and mocked until, at the film’s end, the protagonist saves the day for everyone. Then the entire cast recognizes that the lead character is amazing.

These films brainwash people into isolation. The scripts are so prevalent and successful because the majority of viewers identify with the sad hero. And the fact is, perhaps we were isolated as youths, mocked and otherwise punished for our unusual talents. However, the world is filled with unusual talented, brilliant people who can recognize each other if they try. Operative word try. Then, when we work together, it is joy and creates success.

Avoid Harmful Advice from
“Self-Made” Entrepreneurs

Many individuals whose parents gave them huge sums of money to start a business will insist everyone needs to pull themselves up by the bootstraps. Don’t listen. They are not building power arm-and-arm with community members. They are building strength for a ruling class. Their advice is meant to shame you. Why? It is a strategy: Shame can preoccupy you, thus distracting you from noticing systemic oppression.

It is likely that everyone has to struggle and work strenuously to succeed. Life is hard (even though it’s also beautiful). Everyone probably faces awful struggles and pain. Everyone probably has to either work hard or fail at goals. However, most people raised with wealth ignore the immense obstacles that only less advantaged individuals face.

Often, supposed self-made entrepreneurs speak of their supposed challenges by appropriating stories from those who had to fight systemic oppression tooth and nail for what they got.

Fake rag-to-riches narratives reinforce systemic oppression, trying to gaslight oppressed communities into thinking that they don’t work hard enough. Don’t be shamed. Don’t be taken in by someone’s announcement that getting their amazing new gig was a great struggle, when they’re not admitting that their dad was in a fraternity with their new boss. Again, there are degrees of struggle and types of struggle. Whatever emotional, spiritual, societal, or magical struggles anyone went through, I welcome them to tell me about those struggles, yes, as long as they honor mine, including struggles I overcame that they never had to face.

False prophets are not including me in their community by sharing false teachings. They are reinforcing hierarchy.

Wealth is possible for everyone in a fair game. Here’s how I create abundance despite a rigged game:

1) My Goddess-given talent for magic helps create my financial and other success.

2) I find financial and other success by listening to wisdom from my Goddess. It often comes via advice from down-to-earth friends. My students are among those friends. We are all in this together. If you come from wealth and long for community instead of hierarchy, join us. You are truly welcome.

Mourning the Loss of Community Members

As mentioned, oppressive structures are not the only obstacles to success. Sometimes in-fighting is the problem.

For example, there is only one time that I lose a lot of newsletter subscribers. It is when I express especially unapologetic joy, hope, confidence, or power in a newsletter. Then a good number of people cancel their subscriptions.

It is an interesting phenomenon. I hope my theories about why it happens are wrong. However, I imagine that most cancellations are by oppressed people not supporting other oppressed people who get ahead.

It makes me sad because it means fewer people shoulder to shoulder with me. Less people to support me and fewer people that I can help improve their lives. But it’s not going to stop me. My Shamanic students not only work toward freedom, joy, confidence, power, and the ability to be of service, they also support each other and me when any of us reaches a new level with those goals.

Emma Goldman, Feminist (1869-1940): At the dances I was one of the most untiring and gayest. … A young boy, took me aside. With a grave face, as if he were about to announce the death of a dear comrade, he whispered to me that it did not behoove an agitator to dance… My frivolity would only hurt the Cause. I grew furious at the impudent interference of the boy. I told him to mind his own business, I was tired of having the Cause constantly thrown into my face. I did not believe that a Cause which stood for a beautiful ideal, for anarchism, for release and freedom from conventions and prejudice, … should demand the denial of life and joy. . . If it meant that, I did not want it. …. I want freedom, the right to self-expression, everybody’s right to beautiful, radiant things. Anarchism meant that to me, and I would live it in spite of the whole world—prisons, persecution, everything. Yes, even in spite of the condemnation of my own comrades I would live my beautiful ideal. From Dances with Feminists by Alix Kates Shulman

Mourning the Loss of Other Community Members

I also have mourned the loss of community members who are privileged and consistently chose to oppress instead of being in union with the larger whole. I experienced great sadness because their choice means fewer people to support me and fewer that I can support.

I also mourn them in compassion because I do not believe they are happy. I have seen how their greed exhausts them and fulfills only momentarily. Then it grows to become even more exhausting. Greed endlessly accelerates until it steals all of the selfish person’s time, energy, and joy

One way I heal my sadness about them is to remind myself that, in their way, they are still part of a larger whole and exactly where they need to be on their paths.

Apologies for Breathing

Back to unapologetic living:

Never apologize for joy, hope, confidence, or power. Apologizing diminishes your joy, hope, confidence, and power. People who have suffered immense oppression might apologize for even breathing.

I am trying to stop apologizing. Sometimes, apologies are subtle. For example, I might list a lot of pain that occurred en route to a victory. If I make that list because it might help someone, that’s good. But if I’m making it so that no one attacks me, no.

Self-Examination and Magic

I examine myself to see if I desert or otherwise punish a friend who gets ahead. I ask myself the following questions. Some of them address bad attitudes I used to have, and I want to avoid their return. Others were aimed at me, which was painful, and I don’t want to inflict that pain on anyone.

Am I assuming someone’s struggle wasn’t as great as mine, and that’s why they could succeed?

Do I assume they succeeded because they didn’t have to overcome the terrors that I face?

Do I assume they didn’t have to overcome the internalized oppression that haunts me?

If their struggles and depths are not apparent, do I assume they don’t exist?

Do I think their focus on hope and solutions proves they are shallow?

Checking in by asking myself these questions frees me from bitterness, self-defeating beliefs, and obsession about other people’s lives.

Thus free, I can focus on gaining power and helping others do the same. Thus free, my magic flows truer, more powerfully, and safer.

My Vow as a Fairy Witch Teacher

The following vow embodies my commitment to success for us all when it comes to my classes.

Whether a person is facing powerlessness and tragedy,
or someone is on top of the world and wants even greater success,
I provide magic lessons that help them have—and maintain
freedom, joy, confidence, power, money,
and the ability to be of maximum service.

To adapt that vow for other parts of my life, I replace “I provide magic lessons that help them …” with “I give support that helps them …”.

Supporting Friends During Trauma

Stress can bring out our best and our worst. Considering the state of the world, more than ever I need to remain compassionate when people are not nice. I pray, “Gods, please help me remain compassionate to everyone, including me.”

Compassion and Boundaries

Compassion for myself includes making a boundary when needed. I do not have to be support every single second. Other people can pick up the slack. It takes a village! 

Compassion does not mean I have to accept abuse. Compassion does mean that I don’t always have to respond in kind. Recently, I was talking to someone with whom I was mildly acquainted. It was an amiable phone call until suddenly I was attacked. It felt awful to have someone unexpectedly light into me.

I am proud that I responded kindly, while also taking care of myself because I have worked hard to be able to do that. I remained supportive while also maintaining boundaries: I said in a gentle, calm voice, “I need to get off the phone now. Bye. Take care.” And I will never get on the phone with that person again (unless they recognize the harm they did so that they can take action to not repeat it).

My Prayer to
Remain Whole, Happy, and of Service
During Hard Times

Goddess,
You are all things and the union of all things.
Help me create union and live in union.

You are everything and thus have all power.
So I know You can help me do anything.

You are the love at the center of the atom
and throughout the atom.
Help me find Your love in my every atom
and express love with my every atom.

So mote it be!

I turn to the Goddess repeatedly, including saying the above prayer and acting in the spirit of it. Focusing on Her is so empowering that oppressors systematically try to erase Her, Her power, and ways to access it.

A benefit of teaching courses rooted in the Goddess spirituality is that every class I teach roots me in Her loving power, which makes me happy, free, prosperous, and whole.

However, you don’t have to teach Goddess spirituality for that to happen. Any act of service—driving an elderly neighbor to the grocery store, detangling a child’s knotted hair—roots you in Her loving empowerment.

Finding Ways to Support Each Other

I’m giving a lot of thought to more ways I can support my community members, to help keep us all gaining power together.

Looking at some ways I do this gave me ideas about more ways. Maybe it will give you ideas, too:

I mentioned my classes, but also a students in one of my courses will usually receive a digital talisman I paint, if not several. And I add my witch art to class handouts, to bless them. I am happy I can give my students detailed, high quality, digital pieces.

I bless my blogs with art I create, like the art in this post. Unfortunately, the site requires small files aka deterioration of the image to avoid a long load time for site visitors. That makes the opportunity to send high-quality art to my students all the more precious to me.

My digital books include my art, to enlarge their magic.

I offer scholarships, partial scholarships, and trades for most of my events. A community based on who can afford to join is a hierarchy, not a community.

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I gift magical freebies to subscribers.

I write blogs on magic. Speaking of digital talismans: Check out the ones in my blog, Moon Mandalas, Amulets, and Talismans. The blog explains how to use them for peace, healing, power, self-acceptance, being in the moment, and other blessings.

I chose to be a professional Shaman. Earning my living as a Shaman allows me to focus on using my exceptional magical skills to be of service all week long instead of trying to cram it in during my off hours. (I am not suggesting that anyone is obligated to use their magical skills professionally. Nor am I suggesting that individuals who work in “non-service” occupations do not serve community during their workday. Nor am I suggesting that cramming in service during off hours is wrong; it is admirable.)

It is important, especially now, for me to keep questing for ways to weave my growth with other people’s. Here’s a bit more of that quest:

Contemplating Power, Peace, Wealth, and Service

The following photo shows an amulet necklace I made for myself this month (Jan 2025). I titled it Power, Peace, Wealth, Service.

Making a talisman necklace is a contemplative Shamanic journey that helps me grow. I mostly make talismanic necklaces for myself, and sometimes as gifts to friends. I do not make many to sell because I’m not set up to sell much product (aside from digital books).

However, the initial contemplation on the Power, Peace, Wealth, Service amulet led to making two necklaces simultaneously, one for me and one to sell. This is yet another way to embody us all gaining power together.

I titled both necklaces Power, Peace, Wealth, Service. It is unusual for me to give two talisman necklaces the same name.

Here they are together:

Selling this one instead of giving it away embodies claiming my power while fostering someone else’s. Mind you, when I gift someone a talisman, I claim my power while fostering someone else’s. But selling a necklace represents a balance in which I remind myself that I deserve to be paid when appropriate. And that payment helps me continue my Shamanic community work.

Weaving the two necklaces alongside each other permitted contemplation on empowering a whole tribe. Making necklaces as a meditative Shamanic practice helps make these amulets powerful.

The second necklace is for someone who, like me, is committed to gaining power alongside tribe.

A Talisman for
Power, Peace, Wealth, Honesty, and Service

Like the one I made for myself, the second necklace draws power, peace, and wealth if its owner serves community and is prone to examining themself for shortcomings and admitting them.

Otherwise, the necklace’s magic might be destructive to the wearer: I am not trying to guilt trip anyone; it is false egalitarianism to insist that all magics suit all people.

Fairytales abound with examples of amulets wreaking havoc because individuals who were not the right people to use them did so anyway. Mindset is important to magic.

However, these talismans do nurture your ability to examine yourself for shortcomings, admit them, and serve community.

The talismans will also center their wearers into the insights, inner strengths, and outer routes to power, peace, and wealth.

These Talismans’ Components

The pendants on both necklaces are the gemstone Pietersite. When I channeled information about it, the Fairy Queen showed me that it is a fierce and Fey stone. She explained it is a specific Feyness and fierceness that demand the self-honesty, etc., that I discussed above, or it causes harm to its user and others.

The two necklaces have different designs and components because they’re for two different people.

Let’s bypass the rest of the components for the necklace I’m keeping. Here are the rest of the components for the available necklace:

The necklace, with a few enchanted exceptions that I will mention momentarily, has glass designer beads. Some, if not all, are Czechoslovakian.

Another ingredient is the hours I spend hunting for perfect beads. That adds magic. Plus, when designing a talisman necklace for a particular pendant and specific magics, I often have the perfect beads at hand.

I even hunt for perfect tiny beads. Wee bits of glass that have been etched, given patinas, or are subtly multicolored can appear otherworldly. (For example, they might look weathered.) That suits my designs. Some wee beads have subtleties that are hard to see unless examined closely, but they augment my necklaces’ designs and magical energies.

There are also two carved horn beads, one about halfway up on one side, and one higher up on the other side. They invoke the fierce wild magic of Herne and Elen, God and Goddess of the forest.

The beads are woven onto waxed linen cord, and the necklace is a Boho length. While weaving, I contemplated community power.

Along with blessings that I wove into the necklace while planning and weaving it, I blessed the amulet in an additional Faerie rite.

I do not repeat my designs, possibly made only one amulet necklace to sell last year, and sold all the ones made previously (unless my recent move made me overlook a few remaining items).

This talisman is for one buyer who thinks, “This is mine.” if you’re unsure because, as I said, I am unable to post high quality images here, let me know, and I will send you beautiful versions of the talismans photos.

How to Buy This Talisman

Click the payment button below to pay securely through PayPal. The cost is $150 plus $12 shipping. I ship only to U.S. non-military addresses.

If someone buys the necklace, I will update this post to reflect that.



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New Event: Ongoing Effective Magical Support

New Event:
Ongoing Effective Magical Support

I Have Your Back. You can count on it.

Six-Months of Blessing Ceremonies
performed for you,
starting December 23, 2024

You don’t have to attend an event, meditate, or do anything else. I do the work for you. Receiving this transmission is easy. Simply enroll. Then I perform a blessing ceremony for you every week.

Enroll by December 18.

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Shamanic Magic Tailored to You

My blessing ceremonies are best described as direct spiritual transmissions. Nonetheless, I don’t know of anyone who defines spiritual transmissions the way I do:

I’m a good-luck charm. I was born generating a beneficial field of energy that adapts itself to fulfill your specific physical, spiritual, and emotional needs, even when they change from moment to moment. Examples:
* financial security
* spiritual strength to get back up after life’s knocked you down
* creativity
* safety
* joy
* soul healing
* insights
* romance
* career
* health
* numerous blessings simultaneously.

I don’t have to know what you need or want because the transmission’s energy automatically transforms to help fulfill your desires.

For example, profound spiritual healing occurs if you need it to be proactive about abundance, peace, and self-realization.

In addition, my transmissions bless you as a whole and multifaceted being and bring good luck.

Recipients usually see substantial improvements immediately, with more and more occurring. And they tend to snowball. After the six months, benefits tend to remain and continue to have a ripple effect.

Fairy Blessings for You

From birth, I was taught to hone my ability as a good luck charm. My particular transmissions are a Faerie Witch method. From my earliest memory, my mom wrapped the ancient Faery Faith around me, not as an abstract idea but as a living, loving magic. My Fey-touched mother’s maternal love provided a role model for direct spiritual transmissions.

Serving you is my privilege, joy, and sacred Fey profession. You can count on me to have your back because this is what my life is about.

I have spent decades honing my natural-born magical gifts.

A Bounty of Magic, Hope, Possibilities

Six months of weekly ceremonies is a lot of magic: a bounty of blessings for the now and the future.

Whatever’s going on in your life, major shifts can happen any moment.

Whatever you’re feeling or doing, important changes can happen.

No experience is needed to benefit from these blessing ceremonies.

If you feel powerless, the transmissions help you recognize—and use—the power in and around you. The transmissions help you survive and soar.

Adepts are deeply impacted by my work.

Even if you’re a Shaman, you deserve a constant ally.

If you have enormous power, you still profit from my services. The transmissions build on your achievements, helping you soar higher than before. If your flight hits storms, I help you remain aloft.

Reviews for Francesca De Grandis’s Shamanism

If you could compare me from last week to this week, you would swear I was a different person.—Arwen Professional Joy Seeker

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

I was feeling stuck. I was angry, I wanted to escape my life, I wanted help to escape. What I got was just the opposite, it made me see clearly how I wanted to run away from myself, run from my fears, my weaknesses, from my insecurities, from taking responsibility… and it gave me the strength to face myself, to take finally a fearless look. It was what I really needed. I am still amazed by it, and hey! I love my life now.—Clarisse Gagnon

I got the second transmission a couple months ago, I was doing well, I had good momentum going. Some things, concepts, ideas, I had been working towards for a few years I finally understood, within two weeks of the transmission, I don’t think I’ve ever felt this good before.—Clarisse Gagnon

Embrace Magic, Hope, and Possibilities

Enrolling for these ceremonies is a way to embrace hope and possibilities.

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Whatever you need help with, I have your back. Always.

Francesca De Grandis 2024, photo by Susanne Kaspar

Francesca De Grandis is the best-selling author of “Be a Goddess!” Her work couples Goddess mysticism with practical magic and a down-to-earth philosophy. She was raised in an ancient European Witchcraft tradition that is a multicultural Faerie Shamanism. The De Grandis family tradition is a Strega (Italian Witchcraft) tradition that also has Celtic, African, and other Shamanic roots. Biased scholars insist there is no centuries-old European Shamanism. And that they could not have been multicultural. And that Shamanism and Witchcraft are never synonymous. These erroneous premises support colonizer culture.

Magic is not a substitute for psychiatric counseling or medical care. Participants are responsible for the consequences of their participation.

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Three Forest Paths Meet: Goddess Diana’s Trivia Crossroads

Three Forest Paths Meet:
Goddess Diana’s Trivia Crossroads. Francesca De Grandis,
October 14, 2024

October 14, 2024

They say all roads lead to Rome.
It’s true because all my roads to Italy led to Reno.
I move there on November 15.

Sudden?
No.
Three Italian language courses,
two years of grueling application for Italian citizenship,
the reduction of my possessions
so I could bring their essence across the sea,
dogged pursuit of flexibility,
recovery from shattered trust,
Italian songs memorized,
and … and …—
all those efforts combined to create
a shortcut where a wind is at my back.
I am swiftly, easily, peacefully, and happily
relocating to the land of The People:
Paiute, Shoshone, and Washoe.

Every effort enlarged my capacity for joy.
I smile about a Mediterranean climate
unlike Rome’s.
Rome gets wetter,
but Reno is hotter, sunnier, and more extreme.

I wanted to return to my ancestors’ land.
Maybe I will. My application for Italian citizenship continues.

But life’s roads go where they will.
I am merely their traveler.

Goddess Diana’s three-pronged crossroads,
made by wild animals,
is where I make choices.

… My Anglo grandmother was a showgirl.
Reno is not my ancestral land,
however my grandmother’s spirit will greet me there.

Life is Magic

Note: She was not my biological grandmother, but my stepfather’s mom. She is an ancestor in spirit.

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Abundantly Well and a Tribe of Kindred Spirits

Abundantly Well
and a Tribe of Kindred Spirits

This article started as a review of Susun Weed’s’ book Abundantly Well—Seven Medicines. As you will see below, I did write the review. And doing so led to wanting to share a personal story. Here goes:

Finding a Kindred Spirit: Spiritual Outlaws

Looking for a like-minded individual is like hunting for long-lost pirate’s gold. The search is not easy for everyone. A sought-after treasure can end up a shiny disappointment.

Luckily, over the years, I have been able to build a tribe of spiritual outlaws.

I Used to Feel Like the Lone Ranger

I teach Shamanism. Among my lessons are principles that are contrary not only to mainstream beliefs but also to a lot of Paganism. Here are three of those teachings:

1) The Great Goddess—Magna Mater, Creator of All—and life are the same. By life, I mean both the force of creation and every happening—nursing a baby, riding a bus, walking a dog, sleeping, losing a loved one. Within the Goddess are all powers. Thus, life can keep my spirit whole and heal it when needed.

Shamanism that removes us from life, tossing us up into the air without wings, is neither traditional nor healthy. No spiritual or mystical teaching replaces life. Shamanic teachers and techniques are vital. But I want Shamanism that has my head in the clouds, feet on the ground.

One of my goals as a Shaman is to create rituals that help you embrace life in all its beauty, horror, and empowerment.

The rituals include ones that help you circumvent rabbit holes, wild goose chases, and other distractions from your power.

2) Life is the body’s ultimate healer too. The erroneous idea that doctors, herbs, etc., are the healers interferes with letting life heal us. Western medicine, herbs, massage, acupuncture, and other treatment modalities are wonderful parts of life, not replacements for it.

3) Leaning into whatever life brings can help overcome barriers to life goals. Accommodating life just as it is can also help heal health problems, anxiety, and even trauma. Leaning into life is leaning into a magic that carries all blessings to me and carries me to all blessings.

The above teachings and almost everything else I teach go against oppressive culture. After sharing my teachings since the ‘60s, I felt like the Lone Ranger sometimes—an outcast.

Supporting a Sister Wild Child

But I have found my kindred spirits. Susun Weed is among them.

I read one of her books a few decades ago and thought, Oh my Goddess, she sounds like me. I need to meet this woman. I recognized someone who represents the unpopular type of wisdoms I espouse.

I do not mean represents those wisdoms only in the sense of talking about them. I have my share of imitators who talk my talk, but I can tell they do not walk it. They co-opted my ideas because—as an example—they thought appropriating material from my best-sellers would give them best-sellers too. Susun is another matter. She is no imitator. Her words come from her cells and her desire to serve.

I love opportunities to support Susun in gratitude for a kindred spirit:

She is an organized wild woman
devoted to
organizing herself and tribes to create
joy, wholeness, and fruitful rebellion.

Spiritual outlaws support each other. When someone is a wild child, they do fabulous things that I want to support. Like this book:

Susun’s Weed’s Abundantly Well—Seven Medicines

I am excited about Abundantly Well because it is amazingly useful.

I also support it simply because I’m grateful to know someone other than me who insists that life is the ultimate healer. I do not care if all her ideas on the topic are the same as mine. Below, I’ll talk about how important it is that she and I are different. But I have immense gratitude for her in-depth understanding of life as healer, with its many subtleties.

For example, a number of authors present music, laughter, or orgasm as healing modalities. That’s an important service to the community. And many of these authors could serve community even more. Their writing limits results by representing music, laughter, or orgasm as health-giving activities if set apart from life. That approach disconnects readers from some innate healing abilities.

Abundantly Well is a much-needed contrast. Susun’s discussion of music, laughter, and orgasm embodies life as healing.

I am also grateful for all the commonalities in our teachings. They have helped keep me from feeling like I’ve been the Lone Ranger saying unpopular things for decades.

Instead, I feel like Susun is another friend shoulder to shoulder with me.

I Love Rebels Like Me
Who Are Also Not Like Me

Susun and I are very different and teach in different styles, in different areas. For example, she focuses on medicine and brings ritual into it, while I focus on ritual and am not an herbalist, although herbs are my close friends.

Forgive the kind of false distinctions in the above paragraph. Medicine, herbs, ritual, and my feet are all the same when I look at them with my otherworldly eyes. Sometimes, dividing life into categories stops us from understanding any part of life. However, I need to use categories sometimes, just to be able to speak.

An important aside: I truly experience a world in which everything is everything. But saying, “Everything is everything” is not always useful input.

Another important aside: Life, Goddess, and Shamanism are the same. However, remarks are often contextual. For example, during their wedding ceremony, if marital partners say, “I love you,” they are probably expressing romantic love and devotion. If someone makes a hilarious joke and I laughingly respond with I love you, my remark is likely an appreciation of their humor.

The statement Life, Goddess, and Shamanism are the same could be misunderstood in the context of this essay. For example, I do not mean that Shamanism is a replacement for medical treatments. But I feel compelled to say:

One of my core beliefs/understandings is that Goddess and Shamanism are one, and living accordingly has been endlessly fruitful. So much abundance, beauty, and power come my way. As do chances to be of service and ways to overcome adversity. I could only learn this truth experientially, embraced by Shamanic culture instead of stifled by Western cultural norms.

Everything is everything and Life, Goddess, and Shamanism are the same cannot be understood in the context of Western culture. But they become practical and can be applied to maximum benefits in a tribe that embodies Shamanic culture.

Participants in my classes receive experiential lessons in Shamanic culture, become part of a community, and learn practical applications of my Everything is everything type of statements. This empowers them to manifest abundance, serenity, and other life goals. For information about upcoming courses, subscribe to my newsletter here.

Back to what I had been saying: Susun and I are very different and teach in different styles, in different areas. The Gods need many roads to journey to our aid. It’s wonderful that Susun’s and my different approaches work to the same ends—power, freedom, joy, lustiness, choosing your destiny, and more.

I am blessed with a community. I am blessed that its members represent a diversity that allows true change through many different strengths working together. I am blessed that my students come from all walks of life, adding their love and power to my tribe.

Wild organizing dedicated to joy, fruitful rebellion, and wholeness of individuals and community fosters, embraces, and celebrates diversity.

Review of Susun Weed’s book
Abundantly Well—Seven Medicines

The full title is Abundantly Well–Seven Medicines: The Complementary Integrated Medicine Revolution. The publisher reports that the seven medicines encompass all options for optimum health.

That promises a lot in one book. It is not hype. Susun delivers many times over what some might think possible. The back cover of the book has more promises you can trust:

* More than 125 complementary medicines to build good health
* Protection if you need drugs, surgery, or chemo/radiation
* Certain to become a cherished reference
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Bardic Performance on Zoom

Update: Tickets Are No Longer Available

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A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey

A One-Woman Show
in the Tradition of the Wandering Bard

* Original Pagan Music * Lyrical Storytelling *
* Ecstatic Witchcraft *

The performance will be live on Zoom.

A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey. A One-Woman Show in the Tradition of the Wandering Bard

2024 New Event

You are invited to a new and unusual
musical theater experience.

A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey is ritual theatre. It takes place in the Fey realms. We will traverse other worlds, in a nomadic adventure that fosters new awareness and honors your power.

The nomadic spirit is part of being human. A nomad’s powers are deep within every person, even those who always live in one place.

Whether you roam or stay home, you can embrace your nomadic powers: In A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey, we celebrate free spirits, relish sacred wildness, and honor the significance of following our own stars.

Bardic tales, Enchanting Music,
and Unique Magical Fun

Reviews of Previous Shows

Reclaiming Quarterly: There’s nothing ordinary. Francesca’s heart and gut echoing the timeless quandary of human beings. You will be as touched and enchanted as I was.

Oberon Zell: Francesca rocks! Her musical performances are alive, magical, witty, fun and fabulous!

Gary Menger: Vibrant. Compelling. A real-one-of-a-kind. Her voice and her on-stage personality are unique.

The Bay Area Reporter, Adele Prandini—former artistic director, Theater Rhino: A dynamic stage presence. Her voice seems propelled from her entire body. A marvelous entertainer with lots of heart and soul.

Understanding the Venue:
What to Expect and What to Do

A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey is a live performance on Zoom. You need a Zoom account to attend. Free accounts are available here.

Please arrive five to fifteen minutes before the scheduled time so you can settle in before the show starts. You might also need that time if you are not used to Zoom, experience technical difficulties, etc.

Dates and Times for
A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey

The show is approximately an hour and fifteen minutes. There is also a fifteen-minute intermission halfway through.

There are two performances:

Sunday, October 27, 1:00 PST

Friday, November 1, 6:30 pm PST

You Choose What to Pay

I’m excited to announce that A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey is a fundraiser to support the next leg of my nomadic travels—wherever the winds may take me!

I will be enormously grateful to all contributors. Your kind patronage helps open Fey-touched roads for all who wander.

Admission prices range from $20 to $1000. Choose your price in the drop-down menu below.

If you can’t afford admission, scroll past the payment details for assistance.

Limited seating. Admission purchases are not accepted after midnight October 16. Purchases are non-refundable and non-transferable to another person, date, or event.



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After payment, watch for an email with the Zoom code and password you need to attend the show.

If you don’t see that email within a few days, check your spam. If the email isn’t there, you have questions about Zoom, or you need other information about the event, please call me at the following number.

No One Turned Away Due to Lack of Funds

Call me by October 12 to learn about free admission. I promise a friendly chat—no hoops to jump through! In the past, many people requested to have costs waived for events, even when they could easily afford it. Others expressed interest in participating for free but didn’t show up, leaving empty seats someone else could’ve used. So I began asking for a phone call. The troublesome individuals I described won’t usually call. This spares me headaches and helps secure a spot for you. I look forward to hearing from you. Call me at the above number.

To attend the event, you do not need any more information. The rest of this post is for anyone interested in my thoughts about the show and its history. I feel so passionately about A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey that I wanted to share my happiness by posting the following material.

Happy Productive Wandering

My experiences as a spiritual explorer inform this bardic show. So do the many physical roads I have traveled. For example, many people think wandering is a foolish choice. E.g, it is called flaky. However, spiritual and physical wandering can be irreplaceable pilgrimages. This show provides a joyful pilgrimage for everyone who comes.

After trusting my wandering for decades, I understood and embraced it even more once I wrote this two-word poem: Fairy Nomad.

A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey will be a journey you and I share. We will be Fairy Nomads together.

A Personal Story and Mini-History of the Show

I produced and appeared in one-woman shows in San Francisco decades ago. I returned to live in San Francisco a few years ago. Shortly after, I started writing this play. I hoped to serve the Bay Area community with shows again.

I also thought A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey would be a fun fundraiser for the next leg of my nomadic travels.

The S.F. in which I had flourished years ago was so grassroots that my almost nonexistent budget was enough for my shows to be in major Bay Area venues. Things changed. Now, it is play to pay. That is unsuitable when I’m trying to raise money and not spend the cash I’ve saved bit by bit for my next nomadic adventure. (Please don’t insist, “Spend more to raise more.” I know what works for me. Started producing shows in major clubs when I was 14 years old.)

Life wanders this way and that. As it does, life events bring messages from my Gods and clarify them. A message came—the seeds of a script for a musical—in a vision. During the same ritual, almost simultaneously, my longing to serve the Bay Area community as a performer emerged after years of not doing shows. My longing was another part of the message; my desires can be signposts from the Gods.

San Francisco’s changed art scene helped clarify the message: I believe in Divine Synchronicity—the city’s change was a block in the road, and a roadblock is often a message. It was that a Zoom performance could offer fun, music, and magic to more people than the local Bay Area performance that I had originally envisioned. During all these twists and turns, members of my tribe asked how to support my next move. Their requests were additional guidance. It opened me to receiving support—which can be hard for me to do sometimes. Offers of support also opened me to my magical show being a fundraiser. Message complete and clear!

Life wanders,
messages wander,
friends wander
alongside me,
Gods wander
alongside me
in my journey as a Fairy nomad.

Content Creates Beautiful Form

I like the expression “Content over form.” Mainstream art is often polished until it is bland.

Instead of polishing a performance until nothing is left except shine—so no earthiness remains—I want to offer a substantive experience by presenting a whole. If I am shown an entire tree, from its leaves glistening in the sun to its dirt-covered roots being eaten by insects, I am more likely to notice a wild-eyed Fairy hiding in its trunk. That grubby mystic might be extraordinarily entertaining and educational.

I work hard to perfect a performance. This includes carefully choosing where to focus my efforts—what to polish most. In a standard entertainment venue or recording studio, I usually go high-tech. Tech provides specific opportunities to communicate from my heart.

In other venues, like this new show, I go low-tech, low-fi. It helps a show be personal, powerful, and magical—all of which is also from my heart.

Focusing on what’s important gives me the time and energy to do the important stuff right.

Happy Reminders

Preparing for A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey, I came across two old photos from the 80s. The first was a publicity shot. The second was a snapshot taken during a show. Here they are.

I probably won’t play an instrument during A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey. The photos are happy reminders of my gender-bending back when women were “not supposed to” play electric guitar. That memory spurs on my attempt to break new ground in A Fairy Nomad’s Shamanic Journey. The electric guitar also symbolizes my love for writing bardic songs in the rock, jazz, blues, and European folk genres. I can’t wait to sing for you in the new show.

I’m in my 70s and don’t look like the photos. Every wrinkle on my face marks a road I traveled. That is good.

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Fairy Witches, Neurodiversity, and Taking Pride in Yourself

Fairy Witches, Neurodiversity,
and Taking Pride in Yourself

Most Fairy Witches I know are neurodiverse. That says something wonderful about autism, ADHD, dyslexia, and the like. It says something equally spectacular about Fairy Witches.

I Take Pride in My Neurodiversity

I do not consider my autism a pathology. My autism is a blessing from Fairy Gods. I celebrate it.

If someone doesn’t accept me, I still accept myself as an amazing person. I wrote two fun affirmations to help me do that:

Knowing I am fabulous is part of my autism.

Knowing I am fabulous is part of my autism and threatens oppressors.

If those affirmations do not seem powerful, I hope you try them anyway. They help me. They are tongue-in-cheek, which I think adds power but may make them appear less powerful.

If you are not neurodiverse, I hope you take pride in yourself.

Here are the affirmations adapted for everyone:

I know I am fabulous because Fairies told me so.

Knowing I am fabulous threatens oppressors.

Everyone Is Magic

Magical Gods made me. I am innately magical. Every part of me is part of my magic.

My experience is that finding the magic in me and using it well gets easier the more I accept myself as I am, take pride in who I am, and celebrate who I am.

That includes accepting, taking pride in, and celebrating my autism. I’m going to do that right now by saying the following: My neurodiversity helps me in every part of my life, including my magic.

Neurodiversity and Magic

You can find personal accounts—including my own—of how magic and art weave with neurodiversity here.

Stickers To Celebrate Neurodiversity

A few years ago, I put each of the affirmations about autism on a sticker. I painted celebratory tongue-in-cheek borders to match the sentiments of the affirmations.

Only six of each affirmation sticker were printed. I had designed them for my personal use and only wanted a few. But the smallest number I could print was six of each. I gave some away already. One of each is left. I’m raffling them off to my newsletter subscribers.

One of my lucky newsletter subscribers will receive both. Here’s what they look like:

Raffles and Giveaways for Fey-touched Pagans

The raffle is exclusively for subscribers. If you do not subscribe to my free Fairy Witch newsletter yet, it is too late to enter this raffle, but click the banner below to participate in future giveaways and raffles. I celebrate you.

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Happy Mental Meanderings

Happy Mental Meanderings / Sacred Wandering / Impermanence Feels Natural / I … Just … Move / Francesca De Grandis May 18, 2024 / Dedicated to my nomadic companions

Happy Mental Meanderings
Sacred Wandering * Impermanence Feels Natural * I … Just … Move

For decades, I have tried to wander through my day without rigid plans. It puts me in a good mood and, lo, following the day’s path as it unwinds is not irresponsible. My responsibilities get met. And then some.

I’ve pursued this wandering on and off, as I am able.

A DNA test points toward my having nomad blood.

In her book, The Hero Within: Six Archetypes We Live By, Carol S. Pearson says the wanderer archetype is looked down upon, and yet it is vital to self-realization. (I am paraphrasing because I no longer have my full library, so I might be misrepresenting it. In any case:)

Tolkien wrote, “Not all those who wander are lost.”

A recent development allows me to claim my wanderings in new ways. Here’s how:

The Italian city I was planning on living in is probably not viable. I am making a list of other cities that I want to live in. There’s no time to research any cities in depth before I move in December … should everything work out for me to still move in December. … I suspect that what I consider less research might be what most people consider too much. In any case, assuming I can move in December or shortly thereafter, I just move. I … just … move. Regardless of the amount of research. That is new freedom. That freedom feels incredible. That freedom feels natural to me. I am a nomad, a wanderer. I’m claiming that more completely now.

I suspect that most people equate permanency with safety. While I was thinking about not having time to research places as much as is my wont, the idea of impermanence hit me, as joyously welcoming as a lighthouse beacon to someone drifting at sea. I now assume impermanence in Italy or wherever else I land. If too many residents of a place wish me harm me, so what, I’ll leave. I don’t need a lot of friends. I will get the ones I need. I got stuck In Meadville, but I’m not stuck anymore. Impermanence is freedom. I’m a nomad.

My example about moving if I am disliked might imply that impermanence beckons because it allows me escape. However, it’s so much more than that. Impermanence in and of itself seems second nature to me and offers an abundance of blessings only found when I wander.

Impermanence feels natural and normal. I’m a nomad, a wanderer. I’m finally claiming that completely. I can breathe more fully now. I can live more fully … even grieve more fully until the sorrow is spent. In all ways, I am more fully alive, present, and powerful.

For me, impermanence is a path that leads to new opportunities every day—chances to create abundance, experience joy, learn wonderful crafts, and know all other blessings.

Affirmation: I trust what feels natural and normal. It is a gift from the Fairy Gods. I respect my inclinations, drive, and impulses. These are gifts from Fairy Gods. In all ways, I am fully alive, present, and powerful. The Gods help me choose fluidity over fearful rigidity. My nomad path brings new opportunities every day, helping me strive for all blessings. So mote it be!


Note: My mental meandering is not comprised of non-sequiturs, exceptions aside. There is a logical rather than random sequence. I notice connections between ideas or events that some people do not see. I point the connections out, perhaps indirectly by providing an experiential process whereby the reader can discover them firsthand. Sometimes, when I move from one topic to another, I might wonder if I’m off on a tangent. But if I keep going, I usually find the underpinning logic: my subconscious made vital connections, and mental meanderings bring the connections to my conscious mind.

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Wandering Holy

Wandering Holy, Before I Move to Italy, Francesca De Grandis, May 9, 2024

For Doric, who endures my distracting muttering when walking me through computer problems. For Cassandra, because I sent her a DM then realized it was the first line of a poem—this post.

I’m wandering through the apartment addled and hapless.

It is 250 square feet. The refrigerator, kitchen counters, shower stall—everything—is in that space.

It’s hard to wander addled and hapless in less than 250 square feet.

But I’m wandering through a studio, addled and hapless, getting things done.

For one, am preparing to throw out my old desktop computer—it’s gotten too hard to use—by removing all its files, etc.

… Need to update something on the hard drive to even use the desktop. … It hasn’t been updated for a year? It’s been that long since I used it? Waiting for the update to finish, I put laundry away. I set the paint on a blouse I painted two days ago.

An album of my original music wasn’t on the desktop. Hunting through both laptops, I can’t find it there either. … Maybe the files are in that other folder. … The update failed. I start over.

It’s okay, I have an archival CD of the album. But why can’t I find it on my laptop?

I kept the desktop for so long in hopes that, in its antiquity, it could process music files from my ancient recording studio equipment.

I hang wet clothes, which take up more of what little space is in this studio. The desktop is a no-go. The unreleased music album on my recording studio equipment may be lost. Years of work. Compositions and recordings drawn out like fine needle aspiration biopsies from the centers of all my cells.

There is no waste. Everything is fodder.

So I am as proliferate as God.

Is everything a Shamanic quest, all the losses, all the laundry, all the love? All the liturgies comprised of wanderers’ wonderings? Even the addled hapless hours?

Yes, everything. I asked because I had forgotten—once again.

I lived in San Francisco for a quarter of a century, then rurally for 20 years. Now, back in SF, I use my city magic. Wandering a San Francisco studio apartment, I’m on a safari through civilized wilds, a shaman hunting not for the answer but for a question. … It is an urban nomad ritual. Wandering is holy.

Wandering is magic.

Wandering is ritual.

It is 4 in the morning. I feel lovely—content, serene, and embodying my Fairy ancestors. I’m going to eat breakfast and then go to bed.

Note: It took until my 70s to fully admit I am semi-nomadic. Seventy-four years were enough to settle down sometimes and give it a good try. But remaining in place never worked. Even during many consecutive years of residence in San Francisco, I left to live in Europe for a while (wait, living in Europe negates consecutive years), moved within the city more times than I can count, and otherwise needed to be in movement.

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New Faerie Shamanism Class

Fairy Nomad Magic: A New Course in Traditional Witchcraft

Fairy Nomad Magic:
A New Course
in Traditional Witchcraft

Cast Unusual Spells
to Be a Free Spirit and Reach Life Goals

Whether you roam or stay home, this class is yours. Nomads symbolize free spirits, self-realization, and the ability to live as you choose. The nomadic spirit is part of being human.

In the Fairy Nomad Magic three-month course:

* Your sweet, sacred wildness is empowered, even if you remain a happy homebody.

* You learn nomadic mysticism that creates prosperity and all other blessings, whether you hit the road or not.

* Unusual magical spells are revealed—rituals that can make all the difference in your life.

The Powers of a Happy Wanderer
Have Been Obscured

I believe nomadic cultures embody specific strengths that are less developed in settled cultures. I have always had some of these powers, have claimed more of them, and now will teach as many of them as I can pack into these lessons.

I believe Shamanic nomadic culture fostered these powers in some ancient nomadic tribes. And that recorded history retains only remnants of Shamanic nomadic cultures that included large bodies of rituals, sophisticated wisdom, and lore.

Unusual Magic Spells
that Are Missing Pieces of the Puzzle

My heart, DNA, and common sense always told me that settled civilizations lack crucial rituals, wisdoms, and other Shamanic culture. I needed these missing pieces of Shamanism to successfully navigate life and knew they had to have been in ancient nomadic culture. I cannot prove that, but new archaeological finds usually validate beliefs that stem from inspiration.

I invoked ancient nomadic Shamans to help me channel the missing material—Fairy nomads rituals, wisdom, and other Shamanic nomad culture. This unusual material probably has the missing pieces you need for effectiveness, wholeness, prosperity, and other important goals.

Shamanic Nomadic Culture and
Baba Yaga’s Wandering Hut

There is good reason some people dream of hitting the road, living off their wits, and going with the flow.

The highways and byways symbolize untold wonders and triumphs—like the Fey enchantments you’ll learn in this course and the triumphs they will give you.

A bit of Gandalf’s adventurousness is in everyone, including people who happily remain in one place. Baba Yaga’s wandering hut resonates in many a Witch’s heart. Travel between the worlds with me to
* Discover a nomadic style of flexibility that is a magical spell for everything you desire.
* Experience visions that you need right now.
* Learn a Nomadic mindset that helps you travel light instead of carrying excess emotional, psychic, and spiritual baggage.
* Be a happy wanderer who discovers pleasure and adventure whether on the road, in a settled location, or between the worlds.

The open road symbolizes other wonders too. Keep reading.

Be Feral, Happy, and Magic like a Cat

Here are more wonders that the Fairy Nomad Magic class explores:

* Your primal, ferocious intelligence. You came into life as a wise wild child. Society often suppresses that energy. We will nurture it. The wild child’s feral wisdom, savvy joy, and simple magic free you to do what you want.

* Nomadic creativity. I believe some nomadic cultures have specific creative approaches. They help you form creative solutions to seemingly insurmountable dilemmas and brainstorm about how to be serene and prosperous in your life journey.

* Mystical adventures that lead you to your deepest truths. I will be your fellow traveler and guide.
I noticed a hidden path. It led to a Fairy realm. A dragon shared his treasure with me.

Francesca De Grandis 1997 photo by Susanne Kaspar

In addition to the benefits already described in this post, the unusual shamanic material helps you:
* Overcome stress, trauma, and oppression.
* Stop feeling stuck, befuddled, and overwhelmed as you drift in mind and spirit. Instead wander creatively and mystically to reach your goals.
* Fully battle, celebrate, and create the life you want, by unleashing your untamed spirit.

Practical Magic:
Wander to Good Purpose

I teach Shamanism that transforms you and your life. The Fairy Nomad Magic lessons are practical—not musings from an ivory tower. I do not have an idealized, misled, romanticized notion of nomadism. For decades, I have taught people how to wander to good purpose, which helps them succeed on the mundane plane.

When I began teaching, I started a tribe that continues today. Building a longstanding community of feral freethinkers required practical—yet unusual—community-building skills. I will share tips with you on building a tribe of high-functioning spiritual explorers.

Attend by Phone. It’s Easy!

We meet in group phone calls. No app needed. Simply call the event phone number to attend.

We meet in group phone calls. No app needed.
Simply call the event phone number to attend.

Schedule

We meet for 13 consecutive weeks.

You have two schedules to choose from:

Enroll in the class that meets Sundays
from 4:00 to 5:00 pm PST, starting August 18, 2024.

Or in the class that meets Wednesdays
from noon to 1:00 PST, starting August 21, 2024.

Reserve the usual hour on Sunday November 17 or Wednesday November 20, respectively, for a makeup session in case I’m unavailable for one of the planned meetings.

Enrollment

Enrollment ends Midnight Wednesday August 14.

Cost is $200 a month for three months. Your carrier might charge you for the calls. No refunds. However, if you want to drop out, cancel your subscription once it pays for your current month of classes.

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After I receive your enrollment, I email you to ask which of the two class schedules you choose. If you don’t receive that email within a few days, check your spam. If the email isn’t there, or you want to discuss a scholarship, semi-scholarship, trade, or payment plan other than the subscription, or you need additional information about the classes, please call me at the phone number below. A few days before our first meeting, you receive an email with the event phone number and other details.

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

My Qualifications for Teaching Fairy Nomad Magic

I am a Shamanic guide with over 40 years’ experience helping people from all walks of life reach cherished goals.

I have lived semi-nomadically. Seventy years on this planet has given me time to be nomadic a lot and be settled in place a lot. My happy wanderings and happy times in one place inform this course.

I live head in the clouds, feet on the ground. For example, the mysticism in my book Be a Goddess! broke publishing rules; even the book’s mystically-based lesson organization was new and frowned on. But I had my feet thoroughly on the ground: got a top literary agent and turned Be a Goddess! into a best-seller.

Since then, the book’s organizational style, voice, and other mystical attributes have repeatedly been copied by people because they wanted bestselling books. They missed the point. They followed my star, not theirs. Explorers looking to celestial bodies for direction know which ones to rely on. I follow my star, so I can help you find and follow yours.

I created this course material through my visions and intuition, integrated with my more left-brain abilities. My approach resulted in lessons unavailable elsewhere. I didn’t try to create unusual material. But new—and yet ancient—magic came through me.

My left-brain approach included anthropology.

De Grandis’s insightful research in anthropology led to her innovative work in the modalities of spiritual healing. She made numerous breakthroughs.—Steven Kushner, Professor of Anthropology

To acquire my degree in Shamanic studies in the ‘80s, I created my own course of studies. My research included anthropological perspectives on Shamanism, myth, and urban environments. (Cities are settled societies. Looking at them from an anthropological perspective helped me understand nomad society.)

My father probably descended from a nomadic tribe. His DNA impels me to wander. I’ve tried to understand this through various means. For one, I drew on my love of anthropology to research traditional and modern nomadic life, from the practical to the spiritual, from the plundering nomadic hoards of Genghis Khan to traditional nomadic agricultural practices. (Agriculture does not always rely on settled civilizations.)

I have also come to understand the influence of my DNA in the way a free spirit does: My intuition, heart, and whole self taught me.

Efforts to understand how nomadic DNA influences me were in-depth experiential lessons that increased my sovereignty and autonomy. In turn, I can help you increase yours.

My Adventures
Bridge Fey and Human Realms:
An Affirmation

When I hike a mountain trail
or cross a room carrying laundry,
I walk in magic.
I am always home.
Its enchanted hearth
and well-stocked larder
keep me safe and sated
wherever I am.


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International Summer Solstice Ritual 2024

The Generous Sun, Francesca De Grandis, 2013

In my upcoming international Summer Solstice ritual, there will be a guided Fairy Witch meditation. During it, the Goddess will appear to participants and help them
* Overcome obstacles inside and out.
* Enjoy a blessed life.

Also, I will give everyone who attends a direct spiritual transmission. The spiritual transmission gives good luck and protection. It also provides other benefits, which you can learn about here.

The ritual, including the spiritual transmission, is free. I usually charge over $100 for one of my transmissions.

This one-hour Fairy Witch ritual can make all the difference. Or can be a vital beginning.

No experience is needed. But advanced magicians will experience the depths and power they need.

The event will be a teleseminar—aka group phone call. Participants can call in from anywhere.

If you subscribe to my newsletter, you have the information about how to attend.

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I hope to see you at a ritual soon.

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