Neil Geddes-Ward - Faeriecraft

Also by Alicen & Neil Geddes-Ward

Music and Meditation CDs

Sleeve notes and illustrations for Llewellyn and Juliana,
Journey to the Fairies, New World Music, 2003

The Faerie Cottage: Guided Meditation for Relaxation
and Imagination,featuring music by Llewellyn, New World Music, 2004

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Hay House Titles of Related Interest

Books*/Card Decks

*The Art of Wiccan Healing, by Sally Morningstar
Ask Your Guides Oracle Cards, by Sonia Choquette
Developing Your Intuition with Magic Mirrors, by Uma Reed
*Healing with the Angels, by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. (also a card deck)
*Healing with the Fairies, by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. (also a card deck)
Magical Spells Cards, by Lucy Cavendish
The Oracle Tarot Cards, by Lucy Cavendish
*Sacred Ceremony, by Steven D. Farmer, Ph.D.
*Secrets & Mysteries of the World, by Sylvia Browne
*Spellbinding, by Claudia Blaxell

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All of the above are available at your local bookstore,
or may be ordered by visiting:

Hay House USA: www.hayhouse.com
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Hay House South Africa: orders@psdprom.co.za

Copyright 2005 by Alicen and Neil Geddes-Ward

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Library of Congress Control Number: 2005923712

ISBN 13: 978-1-4019-0610-8
ISBN 10: 1-4019-0610-9

08 07 06 05 4 3 2 1
1st printing, July 2005

Printed in the United States of America

Faeriecraft brings us wonderful reminders of the
importance of connecting with the fairies and with
nature. The book is filled with excellent suggestions
for working, healing, and celebrating with the fairies.
The fairies are the environmentalist angels, and the
more that we believe in them, the more power they
have to clean up our world. Its my sincere prayer that
everyone who reads Faeriecraft will go to a park or
garden and get to know the fairies who live there.

DOREEN VIRTUE, PH.D., THE BEST-SELLING AUTHOR OF
HEALING WITH THE FAIRIESAND ANGEL MEDICINE

Just follow the first and only rule of faeriecraft
and you will get along. just fine

Rule one: Normal rules do not apply

From the Editor: To our American readers,
please note that, for the most part, we have maintained
the British style of spelling, grammar, punctuation
, and syntax of the original text in order to
preserve the editorial intent of the authors
(who hail from the United Kingdom).

Contents

Our queen and her elves come here anon.

WILLIAM SHAKESPEARE,
A MIDSUMMER NIGHTS DREAM

The Faerie Rite; this is how it all began.

I remember the sweetest of scents on the night air as the maiden placed a bowl of honey on our faerie altar. The tree stump at the centre of our circle was covered in moss and decorated in chains of white frothy hawthorn flowers. This was the night of Beltaine, the night when the veil to the Land of Elphame draws thin. It was to be a one-off, never to be repeated before or since, because we would enter a realm so entrancing, so captivating and all-consuming that we would never need to go there again. We knew that faeries were the inner knowing within us, the secret places that we could not reach alone. We were about to be given our words worth.

The maiden took up the besom and as she began to sweep the circle of the woodland floor, I gasped as I saw tiny blue sparks, like electricity, flying off the broomstick. Spider, spider, what are you spinning? A cloak for a faerie, Im just beginning, the maiden sang as she swept and I could not keep my eyes from the broomstick that danced its sweeping way around our circle.

Once the circle had been prepared and cast, the Faerie Priest and I stood opposite one another. This was when I saw it: the beginning of the feeling that was never to end. We had both closed our eyes and as he invoked the Faerie King, the elfin magic that I shall never forget took us by the hands, drenching us in a star-spangled mind place. I invoked the Faerie Queen Mab and it was then that we partook of the indrinking spell of one another. We entered Faerie Land, the place of spiritual ecstasy and enrapture, where our existence and the place between the worlds kiss.

EXTRACT FROMTHE KISS OF TWO WORLDS,
A NOVEL BY ALICEN GEDDES-WARD

We would like to thank all our very patient and delightful models who became immortalized as faeries: Gabriella Clark, Morgan Geddes-Ward, Francesca Pandolfino, Lara (Velvet) Rayburn and Chad Hall.

Special thanks go to those gifted friends who helped us at photo shoots: Dominic Williams, Rick Clark and Claire Bond.

Thank you also to Llewellyn and Juliana for their inspiration and encouragement in everything creative that we do and, most importantly, for always believing in us.