Faerie Taoism

2016 Update: The following piece is in my newly released Book of Shadows. Most of the Book of Shadows entries have never been published until now! I also included a few previously-published favorites, like the one in this blog. For more information about the Book of Shadows: http://stardrenched.com/2016/10/01/book-of-shadows/

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Faerie Taoism

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Faerie Taoism

We’re born magic.
Born stardust.
Born touching
Divinity.

Be magic.
Be Stardust.
Touch Divinity.

It is effortless,
because
it is who you are.

It is effortless;
allow yourself to be
who you are.

It is effortless.
It is who you are.

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A Faerie Book of Shadows, available only from the author. Click here for information: http://stardrenched.com/2016/10/01/book-of-shadows/

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Free Ritual Jan, 2014

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Fellow Stardusted Traveler,

Please join me for a ritual on Thursday, January 16, from noon to 1:00 EST.

One of my favorite quotes is “The last thing we learn is simplicity.”

Simplicity. The ritual will respond to the inner need to streamline our day, and let all dross fall away, so that we spend each day on our dearest goals.

We’ll create a 2014 that is peaceful and sincere, instead of being swayed by New Year promotional hype or other nonsense that appears in the coming year.

The event is a group phone call. Free and open to all. (You might pay long-distance charges, depending on your long-distance plan. If so, they appear on your phone bill. The event is a U.S. area code.).

No experience needed.

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

Mark your calendar. Let’s start a great 2014 together.

In starlit fellowship, Francesca De Grandis

PS Sources contradict author of the above quote.

I hope you sign up for my newsletter because I am all about sharing the journey with fellow star-dusted travelers. Yes! Here is the link: https://www.outlawbunny.com/newsletter/

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The Dark Is Still Deep

Happy new year! A blessing on our 2014: Music about post-Yule darkness and light.

The Dark Is Still Deep
Francesca De Grandis

The light returns.
My friends draw near,
my friend the deer,
my friend the air,
my friend the Bear,
my friends who care.

The dark is still deep.
The snow is still steep.
My soul will still sleep
in dreams of a God who sleeps
in dreams of me.

The Light returns.
My friends draw near,
my friends who care,
my friends who care,
my friends who care.

Written/recorded 2011. What I said about it then: “Day after solstice. I needed a new song to sing to God and self tonight, so had to write it. I look forward to when I have time to get into my recording studio, cause I want to build harmonies and instrumentation and, oh, I am jazzed. But tonight, I recorded with the app built into my iPhone. So forgive audio quality, but it’s that or nothing. The skull is so you have something to look at other than me desperately trying to read lyrics and melody while holding the camera. I love writing complex melodies but wrote a simple song tonight, bc I needed something to sing right away. Had the simplicity not worked, I would have stopped the project, knowing it was not meant to be. I am not saying I give up on difficult writing; I will take forever to get a song; but I wanted a song to use right away, and if I could not write something worth singing, I would have stopped the writing.”

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Yule Magic Wishes

Letters to Santa—Yule Magic Wishes
A simple holiday ritual for children of all ages.

2015 update: Yup, you can still make your wishes to Pagan Santa. But instead of scrolling down to do it, click here for the updated page. End of update.
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Click on Santa to see that twinkle in his eye clearly. It is part of his magic.

Back story, unless you already know I’m one of Santa’s elves: Most of the year, I’m a vagabond shaman, traveling astrally, as a shamanic guide and talismanic artist. But come late fall, though I continue working as a guide long-distance, I retreat to the North Pole, where I create talismanic art to fill Santa’s bag a.k.a. my online Etsy shop. End of backstory.

This year, Santa gave me an additional job. It’s very special. He’s asked me to gather Yule wishes to him. I’m thrilled to be doing this, it’s very important work. And I am honored that he trusts me with it.

Here’s how to send Santa your wish. In a comment field below, make a wish or wishes to Santa. He’s a “jolly elf.” So he has the magic to grant your heart’s desires.

I will give Santa your comment!

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Click on my Yule letter to Santa to see it clearly. Note that my wishes are not for Yule per se, but for the overall season. Santa loves to give.

And remember: He knows if you’ve been naughty or nice, so be a good girl or boy or gender-marvel or faerie or wolf or rabbit or dragon or girl-boy-gender-marvel-faerie-wolf-rabbit-dragon or whatever you are. Eat your veggies and play nice with others. I can’t wait to see your wish, and I promise not to get too proud about Santa giving me this big job.

Please post a wish or wishes now, before you forget. I don’t want Santa to think I’m doing a bad job. I really want to be a good Yule elf.

You can come back later to post more wishes, if you remember. Bring your children, for mystical pagan Yule fun.

But post now, because I want to make sure you get your wish(es)!

EtsyBotmBnrYule

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Only If …

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I want people to get presents
only if they believe in Santa Claus.

Keep Santa in Christmas.

#KeepSantaInChristmas

(I could not resist, I just could not resist.)

On a more serious note, I had to make that joke. I am feeling a little paranoid that someone will get mad at me, but it is such a straw man to insist on Christmas remaining Christian when it was originally Yule and, worse, constitutes unkind lies about our holy day, that I had to take the high road and make a joke instead of getting resentful.

Happy holy days, whatever your religion!

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Winter Joy

Winter Joy: A Direct Spiritual Transmission, starting December 9, 2013

It’s easy to be overwhelmed by holiday responsibilities and anxiety.

So I am giving a direct spiritual transmission that helps you:
* Have a peaceful, joyful winter, blessed by happy camaraderie.
* Manage holiday busyness without holiday madness.
* And take care of you even while you fulfill responsibilities to others.

imageIf you do everything in the above list already, the transmission can help ensure you stay on top of it. Or if you’re just beginning to want a better holiday season and need a big boost, I got your back. And if you are somewhere in between those two examples, we’re still good. The transmission adapts to your specific needs.

The spiritual transmission is a whole month-long, and its effects can be permanent. During the month, I will do the transmission five days of each week.

Again, it starts December 9. If you want to receive this transmission, it is easy and sliding scale. Simply pay what you can honestly afford, whether that is high or low. Scroll down.


Sliding Scale
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* Upon receipt of payment, I’ll send you email confirmation of registration. No refunds.
* If you can’t afford payment, not to worry. Phone me. I only can give scholarships to someone I speak with. 814-337-2490
* If you need more info, do not email me; my disabilities do not allow enough time at the computer. Call 814-337-2490.

Francesca De Grandis, 2013

Francesca De Grandis, 2013

No experience needed. But even advanced practitioners are deeply impacted—for example, no matter how strong previous headway, it can be strengthened or regained.

You do not have to attend an event, just register for the transmission, and I do the work for you. Receive!

A shamanic treatment is not a substitute for proper medical care by a trained physician, psychiatric counseling, or other therapeutic treatments. Participants are personally responsible for the consequences of their voluntary participation. This spiritual treatment is extraordinarily effective, but may not work for some individuals.

This spiritual empowerment can be the perfect holiday gift to yourself. Allow yourself to receive it.

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Joyful Tears

Keep scrolling to read why the following photograph made me break into tears.

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I recently sold the ritual robe in the photo. Its buyer, Evangelina, kindly sent me the above photo of herself in it. When I saw the photo, I cried like a fool.

I phoned a friend, and was sobbing joyfully, because the photo showed me that Evangelina belonged in this wearable art. And I was sobbing because she had made the decision to buy it. And I was sobbing because the smile on Evangelina’s face was beautiful.

Those would have been reasons enough. But I continued to cry for an additional joy.

Backstory: I’d long ago embraced the lesson that it is good to earn your living doing what you love, but there’s always new layers of a lesson.

A typical artist, I find pricing my art challenging, particularly if a piece needs the high end of my prices.

Click on this photo to see it full size.

Click on this photo to see it full size.

This was the highest price I’d ever set on one of my paintings. The robe is hand-dyed, all hand-painted, and a one-of-a-kind work. I made it for its one unique buyer (though I did not know who it would be). This dress took immense time. End of backstory.

Evangelina’s purchase worked magic on me, helping me trust more than ever the propriety of earning my way with my art (that includes teaching shamanic classes, which I consider one of my art forms).

Then Evangelina’s photo caused an even newer layer of that lesson, causing the aforementioned additional joyful tears. Because one of the purposes of my work hit me more than ever: Here was this woman in all her beauty, and I had been given the privilege of adorning her. She is a goddess. I am crying again as I write this.

Look at the pride shining in Evangelina’s eyes. I got to adorn that healthy pride.

Evangelina’s photo will help me never again doubt that we should offer what we love as our profession.

EtsyBotmBnr4

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Wow! 100 People Update #2

If you missed the first update, check it out. A lot of folks, including moi, posted their experiences: https://www.outlawbunny.com/2013/10/15/hundred-people-update/

Now that the 100 People direct spiritual transmission is over, I hope we continue to feel internal shifts for months—if not years—whether or not the movement seems related to this community project overtly.

But I took to take a couple of weeks to absorb the initial effect and let it carry me. Now that I’ve digested it, here are a few thoughts. I hope you will post your own experiences, in turn, in a comment field below.

imageIt would take a whole book to discuss the blessings I received from the hundred people project. But I want to touch on one thing.

Backstory: One of the great gifts of my life was learning that I always have the power to handle life. The even greater gift was learning that I cannot handle it all on my own. My gods taught me that no matter what comes, I am up to the challenge. Sometimes, I rise to the challenge through support from my fellow seekers.

The backstory continues: When I function as a guide in my shamanic consultation and classes, I do not have the notion of, “You are a poor pitiful thing because you need my help. I am so much better than you.”

Instead, I’ve learned over the years that we all need each other’s help, we are all powerful and beautiful, and my particular job as a shaman (I would not presume to say what your job as a shaman or anything else is) is to help you know your power and beauty better.

My students and clients are so clearly my fellow seekers, walking shoulder to shoulder with me. As are many other individuals. End of backstory.

The hundred people project strengthened both my sense of how wonderful people can be, and my commitment to reach out for support when I need it.

This happened from two things:

1) Your support of the project brought the need for mutual help home to me in a whole new way. The generous love you gave by your announcements of the project wrapped around me, lifting me up, filling me, adding so much beauty to my life. I learned more than ever that we’re all in this life together.

image2) As I said in the original announcement, we’d each receive something different from the transmission, suited to our own unique lives. One thing I received was an opening of my heart and mind, an opening to give and receive love, more than ever before, an opening to acknowledging more than ever the love that humans and the rest of the cosmos bestow on me. So I was able to feel your love in deeper ways than I might have previously. (Since I am the one who sent the transmission, the Gods sent it first through me, which means I received what I personally need from the Gods, just like everyone else who received the transmission.)

I’ve seen the disasters caused by people who think they are Oh-Great-Shaman-Who-Doesn’t-Need-Help-from-Anybody. A truly great shaman knows when they need help. So I’vr been asking for more support, and it has * really * helped me.

I thank you, from the bottom of my heart, because your support of the project helped give me one of the most important of all the lessons and powers I received during the 100 People project.

If you want more about my experience with the transmission, check out my blog, The Faerie Queen’s Innocence. It details another lovely blessing I received

I know the transmission and your loving support for the project will fuel my work and personal life for months, if not years.

Yes, good energy is not over yet, tada!

The energy I sent will continue to reach out a goodly while. And my transmissions nudge internal shifts that continue long after the transmission.

I would love to know your experience. And if you already posted how the hundred people transmission impacted you, what is it like now that it’s been a few weeks? Post below.

Hugs!

CnslingBotmBnr2

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Wonderful Personal News

I need to express my gratitude and share wonderful personal news.

If you’re a close friend, or have read “Share My Insanity: It Improves Everything,” you know 2001 began ten+ awful years for me. (“Share My Insanity” might be misleading in this context. The dismal years did not include the hell of mental illness. Thank my gods! And to anyone trolling for gross injustices, the book and its title was supported by many members of the mental health community. In fact, writing the book probably helped me not go insane! Back to my point:

I’ve had a miraculous turnaround over a period of months. When it comes to the light at the end of the tunnel, I’ve gotten through a decade-long darkness, and am reveling in light. Financially, emotionally, spiritually, and physically I’ve been doing great for a substantial time now. (So I figure I can trust it enough to mention it publicly.)

Francesca De Grandis, 2013

Francesca De Grandis, 2013

My enormous physical improvement is relative to how I have been. I am still seriously ill and weak. But some friends did ceremony with me to end that, so mote it be!

I thank my gods for the power to keep working my spiritual and magical tools the past 10 years so that I overcame my challenges.

There is one particular spiritual discipline I need to mention: Serving the community. Despite everything that was going on, the gods continued to use me as a channel. It blows me away. Apparently, my deep inner turmoil did not disqualify me from being their vessel. I continued my work as a shamanic guide.

Had I not continued working, my soul and body would not have healed. I am grateful my gods gave me the ability to serve despite tremendous illness and spiritual pain. When we serve, we ourselves heal.

To celebrate, I’d love to hear what *you* are grateful for. Please post!

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Hundred People Update

The direct spiritual transmission can happen because we have 100+ people! Thank you! Thank you!

After I announced the project, your enthusiasm about my “weird” proposal touched me deeply!

imageYou added immense love to the project by sending the announcement out into the spiral of life and community.

I’ve received a lot, without even giving the transmission yet. Other folks said the same.

Some free events garner no response. I don’t think folks became part of 100 people simply because there is no cost. Instead, there was a profound response of “We’re all in this life together.”

I thanked most of you individually. I apologize for missing a few of you: Personal events made it impossible to know who I missed.

I took time with each post on the 100 People page:
* Many of you are new to me. If your post linked to your website, I enjoyed checking it out.
* Others of you I knew but hadn’t heard from in a while; it was deeply touching to see your post.
* Others are immediate in my current spiritual journey. Continuing that is a spiritual lifeline for me.

imageHere’s an example of how strangers and friends from different communities worldwide joined to support 100+ people:

Between checking out websites, and already knowing some participants, I learned that the majority of the 100+ are healers. This shows healers who, devoted to growth, want to cooperate with another healer’s work. Wow, stunning love!

There’s a theory: When enough people make the same shift, a critical mass is hit whereby many other people automatically make an identical shift, whether or not they’re in proximity to anyone in the original group or have knowledge, even by example, of the original group’s transformation.

You created a possibility whereby, when I finish the direct spiritual transmission on we hundred, hundreds more may also experience new wholeness. Be proud of you. You did this.

I’m available by phone if you want to discuss the 100 people project. 814-337-2490

imageDrumroll! Details of the 100 People direct spiritual transmission:

I’ll start the transmission Thursday October 17 and continue it over the course of a week. I’ll take two days off from it at some point during the week, then start up again. The last day of it will be Oct 23.

To receive the transmission, you don’t have to show up at an event. You don’t have to meditate. Just go about your business. This is solely about you having a chance to simply receive whatever would make you more whole. (Which means, you don’t have see this post in order to receive the transmission!)

No matter how far or little one has come, one is capable of greater wholeness. That will come in different forms for each of us. It might be peace of mind, freedom from longterm illness, confidence, or anything else. For some people, greater wholeness might be a combination of things—e.g., trust of their own wisdom, money coming in, and a resurgence of hope.

Disclaimer: My treatments may not work for some individuals. A shamanic treatment is not a substitute for care by a trained physician, psychiatric counseling, or other therapeutic treatments. Participants are personally responsible for the consequences of their voluntary participation.

A few suggestions (not requirements):

imageDon’t expect a spiritual transmission to feel a certain way, even if you’ve received them previously. Even if you received them from me, this one is unique unto itself. Open to new experiences.

Acknowledge small gifts. Don’t tell yourself, “That’s too small to be important.” Small gifts can be the beginning of large ones or might prove vital in themselves.

Let me do this for you instead of you feeling you always have to struggle to grow. As I said above, you really get to just receive.

Worrying about whether you’re in the “correct” state to receive or are “worthy” might block the divine flow to you.

Remind yourself on awakening that this practice is being done for you.

Post-transmission suggestions:
* Sit with experiences you had/have, letting them sink in deeper.
* Eat well and get enough rest.
* My transmissions can bring you to new places, return you to places you’ve lost, or deepen experiences of familiar places. Only you can keep yourself in those places. Do/learn the spiritual practices needed; take the spiritual journey needed.
* Don’t kick yourself if you regress, it can be part of the process. Love heals us, not harsh judgement. If the transmission does not seem to “hold,” you might need to love you exactly as you are for a time before change can fully “take.”

Below, you are welcome to post experiences you had leading up to, during, or after the transmission. Or ask questions. I’d love to hear from you, and am sure it would help others, too.

In gratitude and awe of you, Francesca De Grandis

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