This is a reiki manual to initiate you into the energies of colors and the fairies. They prefer to be called other words than fairies since that meant originally their enchantments. Thus, fairy land means Enchanted Land. They are properly, the fays.
Before you begin to work with the fairy energies you should be able to relax and sense the outdoors, the feel of a place. Why dont you try? Find a tree and sit down nearby and breathe slowly and let your thoughts just go quiet. Let your eyes fill with the shapes of leaves and the rough textures of bark; your fingers brush the prickling of grasses, and your ears hear the gentle murmur of the wind. 2 Sense yourself. Rub your hands and sense the tingling of your skin. Gently raise and lower your arms and notice the suppleness that dances through your whole body. It is this awareness that will sense the fay.
If you wish to close your eyes, you will hear sounds all around. Now with your eyes still closed, imagine closing them again, so your inner fairy sight opens all around. Rainbows sparkle around the edges of your awareness. This is color magic. And youre doing it beautifully.
Breathe in deliberately asking to take in natural energy, and let it breathe out again. Now I will ask you to imagine it as a glowing light. To gather that light in your mouth and gently blow it out. Thats right.
Now we will cup our hands and blow into them, and let the light well up like a spring, and merrily bubble over. There is always an abundance of Light available to us.
Okay, open your eyes. Your fairy sight is still working, you just will be overwhelmed by normal vision. Allow your inner senses to add to the scene. Notice how the tree could be outlined with a glow. See where sparkles or drops of light could be hanging in the leaves. Where would they choose to be? Do they stay still, or slowly float away like thistledown?
This is seeing with both ordinary and fairy sight and a healer can use this. You can watch reiki running and pooling around blocks, draw with it to make symbols in the air, wash a room or patient clean with it.
3 Color Yellow
This is a cheerful color, and resonates with the sun and health and laughter.
Fairies of this color include Joan of the Wad who guides humans across moors and wild places. Her mischievous cousin is the Will o Wisp who appears as a glowing ball that floats above the ground at night.
The Lios Alfar are the elves of light. They are friendly and good. Frey and Freyja, the fertility Lord and Lady of the Northern gods, watch over them. Elves live in open woodlands and meadows, especially in small mounds. At certain times of the year elves make processions with horses and lanterns and ride to another home. Humans have heard the jingling of their silver bells, and their merry singing. Elves can be as tall as humans and can take lovers, and share hunts and feasts and dances with us.
Other yellow or orange energy fays include the kornbocke who is a goatish man who watches the ripening wheat harvest, and hobs who like the hearth in your home and help with the chores.
English marigold, or calendula, is a powerful fairy flower for healing and protection and the Sight. 4 Color Blue
Three special flowers should be mentioned here. Bluebells can make you drowsy and fall under fairy influence. Blue Vervain will protect you. Blue forget-me-nots help you find lost treasure.
Water fays include mermaids of course, with their scaly fish bodies from the waist down, and human tops. They are seen by sailors and people looking for things on beaches. Often good-looking, they may be a wee bit vain, but can love deeply and passionately, and do care about the life in the ocean.
Inland you will meet Guardians at wells. These ladies are motherly and have healing and great power. Some were the goddesses of olden times. People make wishes at wells and tie wishing-ribbons on trees nearby. Fays can bless water for curing, just ask.
A very important water fay is the Lady of the Lake in the legends concerning King Arthur of Britain. She gave him the magic sword Excalibur when she deemed him worthy, and fostered the knight Lancelot. She knows how to part the misty gates to reach the secret island of Avalon in fairy land which is located near the Tor of Glastonbury in our world.
5 Color Red
Red is a special color for the Celts who did not eat red foods such as apples without giving some to the fays.
Red berries mark the magic of the rowan tree which protects us, and the holly tree which battles with the summer oak for the company of the goddess of the earth.
It is said that by watching the ruddy glow of the setting sun on the ocean, you may see fairy islands in its glittering path.
Fire fays include dragons who enjoy sunlight and bonfires. They are wise and may be helpful but are a little proud. They may test your resolve. They do like riddles.
The dirne-wiebl appears in forests in Bavaria. She wears a serving-maids apron and hands out apples. These bring prosperity. She wears a red hood. She may be the origin of Little Red Riding Hood.
Salamanders are odd fairy creatures who resemble little lizards and enjoy burning fire-places. They can help with divination, treasure, and good health. Maybe they will teach you to light candles by snapping your fingers. 6 Color Green
This is a gentle and earthy color and resonates with growth and plants and recovery.
Irish leprechauns are the most famous green fays. If you see one, he will be mending one shoe. He will likely wear a green jerkin and shoes with buckles, and carries a small hammer which tap-tap-taps. He does have a secret pot of gold but he loves tricks and you wont be able to steal it. If you ask politely, he may help you with your own prosperity and workmanship.
Ghillie Dhu is a forest man who guards trees from harm and is wary of humans. Approach with a sincere wish to help ecology and he may assist you.
The Green Man is found carved on churches and you will recognize him by the leaves which form his face. He is connected with forests, fertility and allowing hunters good luck. His image is sometimes found at pantomimes and morris dances.
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Trees have their own wisdom. You can relate to the strong oaks, flowing willows, mighty beeches, humble hawthorns.
Abandoned hill-forts called raths are said to be the haunt of fairies. They are usually circled by bushes and small trees.
A tale concerns two boys out plowing. One drew a circle around a fairy thorn to mark its borders. When they were done, a cloth with cheese and beer and honey and bread appeared. The boy who ate it became wise and prosperous. The other boy fled. It seems that fairy food eaten outside of fairyland as a reward, is safe. 8 Color Brown
Brown fairy magic relates to autumn and harvest fairs, to storing food for the winter and to the earth itself.
Fallen colored leaves are the best plants to use in this magic. Brown mushrooms in rings on the grass are said to be the dance places of small fays.
Yarthkins or gnomes as they were dubbed, are little earth fays who live under the roots of big trees and gather nuts and roots and feed animals. They resemble cheerful old men with pointed caps and long beards, and wear earthen colors. They are very friendly to humans, but are rather shy and may watch you without saying anything. Hikers sometimes spot them.
At times the fays who actually work on farms bring their animals and vegetables and crafted trinkets to secret fairy markets. Humans can see these from a distance away but all vanishes up close. There are fairy gypsy caravans which wander from fair to fair and you may meet them, at least in your dreams. (Read my Ethereal Thief Reiki for an example of this.)
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Giants are very tall and large fay folk who can quickly become boulders scattered on a hillside. They range from friendly and gentle, to cranky and dangerous, but they are worth knowing. They may be an ancient memory of the Neanderthal humans who were bigger than us, and stronger.
An important fay is the Irish god Daghda. He wears a brown cloak, and a short tunic that flashes his buttocks, is big and plump and boisterous and lusty, eats huge meals of porridge and honey-cakes, and ale, chases the ladies, and has a dangerous club which brings death or life. His magic harp can sing you to sleep, to joy, or to tears. He is a protective fay of the Tuatha De Danaan, irish fairy folk who have retreated to the hills. But where they are usually tall and pale and beautiful, he is swarthy and short, and yet he is the all-knowing Father, good at every skill, afraid of nothing, bound by nothing. 10 Color Black
The fairy grim is a black dog who has glowing eyes and is as big as a pony. It will follow you along deserted roads and in church cemeteries. It may be warning you to take care of yourself. Or to watch your back.
The dock alfar are the Dark elves. In our times they would be called dwarves. They are clever in metal work and crafting mighty tools. They are lusty and so are connected with fertility. Sunlight may turn them to stone. They look short and sturdy and have long beards and are about three to four feet tall. They like the mountains and caves. Not giants.
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The Leanan Sidhe may be male or female and is a seductive fay who definitely adores humans. She knows the magic of love potions and false appearances, which is called glamourie. She can drink a lovers strength away, so is not to be trifled with.
Invisibility is another power of the fays. It is said they got it from the god of the sea, Manannan Mac Lir. He taught them to shift their shapes into those of beasts, as well.
If you wish to experiment with shape-changing, it is best to do so in your imagination. With the Sight pull in some glowing light and surround yourself with a blanket of the stuff. Then shape it into some animal. Imagine looking out its eyes, walking with its legs or flying with its wings. You can still walk around normally, holding this other-ness in part of your thoughts. Be sure to release this shaped energy body afterwards into the grass.
If you wish to be invisible, just surround yourself with a blanket of dark light that washes you out of vision and then walk where you will. Drivers of cars wont notice you so be wary of them. 12 Color White
White is a very sacred and powerful color in the fairy world.
Fairy godmothers come in white and bring wisdom, power and healing. They test us to see if we are respectful.
The white doe leads knights in the legends of King Arthur. White dogs assist the Wild Hunt and chase evil souls across the sky. White pigs come from the fairy lands hidden under the earth in Wales. White rabbits bring changes and good luck.
White flowers would be elderblossom, hawthorn blossom, meadowwort, and others.
The Welsh imagined their powerful Weaving Goddess as Arianrhod, Lady of the Silver Wheel, or Spiral Castle floating in the sky. And Stonehenge honors the moon.
13 Color Pink
This color relates to children and the home, to innocence and enthusiasm and family joy.
Pink or violet flowers of magic are the dog-rose, foxglove, lavender, and thyme.
Berchte is a young maiden in springtime, with long blond hair and a hawthorn in her hand. She is a mother of the barley and wheatfields in summer and protects the house. In winter she has an old face with a big nose and white hair, and brings gifts at Yule. She was known all over the German lands. Befana is her equivalent in Italy. They both love children and protect them.
This odd aspect of maiden mother crone is found in many cultures. She usually has a handsome male companion who dies and is reborn. The earth goddess in Britain was a lover of the oak in summer and the holly in winter, and Christmas pantomimes told this story.
Fays like this also represent the right to rule the land and marry ceremonially at least the new king, if he seems worthy.
14 How to heal with this attunement
Just say aloud (name of system) once and let the energy flow through your hands and heal as you usually do.
How to take down this attunement
Just say aloud I am now accepting the attunement to (name of system) from (name of teacher) in a way that is good for my health and spirit. So be it.
And relax for a few minutes. You may sense energy tingling in your hands or warmth, or if you close your eyes and let your mind drift away, you may see unusual pictures. It really doesnt matter. It works even if nothing is sensed at all.
How to give this attunement
Just say aloud I now attune (name of student) to the energies of (name of system) in a way that is good for both of us, in health and spirit. So be it.
Or you can put the attunement in a chi ball of imagined energy and let the student pull it down when convenient.
Best wishes and love and light, Stewart
Disclaimer: This energy system is intended for relaxation and wellness and spiritual growth, but people with medical problems should of course continue to see their doctors and get medical advice from a professional