Phoenix LeFae - What Is Remembered Lives: Developing Relationships with Deities, Ancestors & the Fae

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What Is Remembered Lives: Developing Relationships with Deities, Ancestors, and the Fae 2019 by Phoenix LeFae.

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First e-book edition 2019

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To Gwion, thanks for always believing in and supporting me.

To Trinity, always go after your big crazy dreams.

To Bastet, the first Goddess I knew was real.

To Sojourner Truth, an ancestor of love,
a shining example of badassery.

To the Faerie Queen, for opening the way home.

Contents

by Gede Parma

Introduction:

Chapter 1:

Chapter 2:

Section One:

Chapter 3:

Chapter 4:

Chapter 5:

Chapter 6:

Section Two:

Chapter 7:

Chapter 8:

Chapter 9:

Chapter 10:

Section Three:

Chapter 11:

Section Four:

Chapter 12:

Exercises And Rituals

Hapi RituaL: Balance,
Fullness, Delight

Acknowledgments

Im still rather in shock that this book has come to fruition. I have been teaching about working with deities for close to a decade. It is my greatest love. If it hadnt been for my partner, Gwion, urging me to put it all in writing, it never would have happened. To you, I am endlessly grateful.

I want to thank Ari Mankey, Thorn Mooney, and Stephanie Metz for helping me boost my (liquid) courage in even pitching this book. Thanks to Jason Mankey for seeing something in me.

Thanks so much to Heather Greene for being so easy to work with. Editor extraordinaire! Thanks to all the folks at Llewellyn that took the time to give their input, thoughts, and ideas. It takes a village.

I want to acknowledge and thank Gede Parma for writing the foreword. I am so grateful for your voice and vision. Thank you Suzanne Sterling for writing the beautiful Aradia song and letting me put it in this book. Thank you, Alicia Foster-Scales, for writing a powerful poem about Lilith and letting me use it in this book.

Thanks to the Godds, the ancestors, and the Fae. Truly, what is remembered lives.

Foreword

by Gede Parma

I first met Phoenix in the Mendocino woodlands, among the mighty and otherworldly Redwoods, at California WitchCamp 2012. My first impression has remained: here is a priestess who knows something about spirits, about her connection to her beloveds in the Otherworlds, and about how to pull power and work magic. Phoenix and I are initiate kin within a particular tradition of the Craft and we are both public witches, spirit-workers, authors, and diviners. This book affirms and celebrates these things, as Phoenixs work and magic is further made accessible through the written word.

In the pages of this book you will find a clear and sound invitation into cultivating connection with the Spiritsbe they Godds, the Dead and the Ancestors, or Land Spirits and Fae. And more than an invitation, here lies a model, a framework that you may explore and deepen into these mysterious and potentially intimate relationships.

It is clear that Phoenix is a thorough and focused spirit-worker, a devoted, caring, and fierce priestess with a desire to aid others in establishing and celebrating connections with the spirit-peoples. Her ecstasy and pragmatism shines through, and her retellings of some traditional folktales and grand mythological dramas provide new poetry and sensitively-attuned access. I know that I will go back to her words and read again of the trials and wonders of Vasilisa the Brave, of Aradia and her mother, Diana, and of the Avalonian Morgan Le Fay. I learnt new and intriguing things about deities I do not have relationships with, and this stirred my history-nerd fervour and desire to learn more about these beings that hold secrets of human legacy, culture, civilisation, and magic within their own mysterious origins.

I work closely and intimately with beings called deity, those who have died and become something different, and those land wights and Shining and Dark Ones we honour as Fae. Out there, in this world, I teach oracular and possessory arts to witches and spirit-workers in multiple continents; I help to bridge the void between animistic understanding and modern-day capitalist countries embedded within mechanistic and hyper-rationalist modes of thinking and doing. I was fortunate to be raised in a family that understands spirits to be quite real, magic to be an art and discipline, and the Godds to be mighty, primordial, and ever-shifting.

In reading Phoenixs words, I recalled how it was for me as a younger witch, taking steps onto the roads of these relationships and learning to navigate the Wyrd, refining my magical skills and my reaping the rewards of deep insight through the virtue of this good work. Phoenixs helpful directives and encouraging invitations support a deepening exploration of what I refer to as the web of becoming, that web of Wyrd that joins us all in the Becoming. Here is a book that supports and celebrates the skilled and radiant becoming of people drawn to the occult arts, to the powers of the priestess, and the haunting enchantments of witch-folk.