Start a fae day after your shower with a purifying, refreshing spray of rosewater or your own natural mix of several essential oils based in vodka!  I use a combination of lavendar, bergamot, and lemon oils to make the ancient Hungary Water.

For near-crones (or fully crones like me!) I advise a sparkly dusting of white powder under both brows and the application of sparkly silver over the upper eyelids followed by outlining the lower lids with darkest blue.  This will restore a bit the eyefolds that develop for us older ladies and also make the eye whites whiter!  Follow up by brushing your long tresses while hanging your upper torso upside-down.  Gives the hair more body!  And AS ABOVE-SO BELOW!

Ready to start your morning?

MERRY MEET AT THE MORNING MIRROR

Mirror, mirror on the wall,

Who's the faerest of them all?

Lovely faerie, can't you see

The goddess in the mirror is me!

Aurora, Goddess of the Dawn,

Bless this soul I look upon!

MFT/TTT

On to some Magickal Faerie Fare-------------hazelnut coffee or blackberry tea honors Brighid of the Slim Faery Folk.  Or in the winter, go Avalonian with hot apple cider stirred by a cinnamon stick.  In the summer, cold apple juice with a sprig of mint.  Or an apple sliced to expose the sacred pentagram pattern formed by its seeds.  The apple contains nutrients that serve as protection against cancer and neurodegenerative disease.

Along with your coffee, tea, juice, or cider, MEDITATE/INVOKE/PLAN/DIVINE/JOURNAL!  you could take this time to enter dreams in a dream journal or choose to open yourself to special observations for this particular day or to do a certain service or project.  Or you could read Caitlin Matthews's inspiring CELTIC DEVOTIONAL or explore your Tarot  cards or Froud's & Macbeth's FAERIE ORACLE  cards or recite an Invocation.  The following is my favorite:

Thanks be to Thee, my Lady for

Bringing me from the beauty of night

To the joyous light of this day,

Courage, generosity, & beauty

To earn for my spirit

With good intent.

And for every gift of faery

Thou bestowest on me,

My thoughts, my words,

My deeds, my desire

I consecrate to Thee.

Source:  Carmina Gadelica?

Perhaps you do Yoga?  If so, sit upon your mat and do the Spiral Rite.  Recite the poem a couple times, the first time bending your head and upper torso in a clockwise movement and the second time in a counterclockwise movement.  The bluestar is the Heavenly Blue Morning Glory.

I will be as a bluestar

Upon a field of green,

Circling upwards

Towards the golden sun.

In the drear of near winter,

Sere leaves have sunk to rest.

Barren branches reminisce

Secrets humans haven't guessed.

Dryads tense their limbs skyward

Questing towards their friends:

The swooping, winged faeriefolk

Our Mother Nature sends.

With dryads and with feathered families,

Dwelling in the trees,

The sylphs, the pixies, bees and elves

Repose themselves in ease

Among the boughs in the nests

With birds to crest the breeze.

Arduinna and the Queen of Wind

Sweep their mystic wands,

Co-conducting syphonies

In forests floored by fronds

Of swaying ferny greenery

Beside dense reeded ponds.

The birds do trill, and bees do buzz,

And faeriefolk raise chants.

The dryads hum; the branches sough;

The Greenman springs in dance.

The messages from Sun above

Harmonize with Awe

When Earthly creatures celebrate

Our Universal Law.

This joyful vibrancy comes forth

Beneath the foliage veil

Of trees attired for Summertide

In meadow, woods, and dale.

At Wintertide, the trees stand stark

Exposed to human eyes.

Now one might guess their vernal secrets

Concealed under Summer skies.

MFT/TTT

Hot here in the Fields & Forests of WI!  Here's a magickal tip for getting a cool sensation! It's been found that talcum powder can be harmful to one's lungs, so use cornstarch as a powder, which is so silky soft to the skin and absorbs perspiration.  I get a nice round, shallow jar or old make-up container and almost fill it with the cornstarch, which you can find in the baking section of your local supermarket.  And it's very inexpensive. 

 Add drops of essential peppermint oil and stir.  Do this several times until you get a nice minty waft of scent!  Get a powder puff from your local pharmacy to apply to underarms, Lady's Upper Double Beauties (if you're a lady), inside of thighs, bottoms of feet.  Watch out for using it in the genitalia areas as it can be quite ZINGY! 

 Adding a few drops of peppermint oil to a small atomizer bottle for car use is great, too.  I spray it onto my neck during traffic jams or soak a bandana in it to tie around my neck on hot days.

Don't forget to honor the Peppermint Faerie for her magickal elle-mentality!  Yes, she's a female faerie!

The Ninefold Sisters are reputed to be the daughters of King Afallach and are muses and a triple version of the Triple Goddess, being Maidens, Mothers, and Crones.  They are shamans and shapeshifters seen as crows, doves, and sometimes the sunny shapes found between the boughs of willows.  They are Keepers of Memory, residing in the UnderWorld of Annwn, beneath the Glastonbury Tor where they tend the Greater Grail or cauldron of innovation, immortality, and rebirth.  They are our Faery Ancestors, Old Ones.

I composed this poem called TO THE MORGENS.

Maidens, Mothers, GrandDames:

Share with me your lore.

Maidens3, Mothers3, GrandDames3,

I implore.

Thitis, WaterMaiden, Queen of the Sea,

Secure me, Silver-footed Fae,

Entrust to me your magiick key.

At Imbolc's Portal Gate I enter

Toward Avalon my heart to center.

Cliton Lady of the Forest,

Orchestrate our Silver Bough song!

Amass your herbs 'neath vernal skies

To heal & make us strong.

Gliten, glide glittering waves

And trail your maiden jet tresses.

Bluebells scent your ivory skin

That Summer's breath caresses.

O Maidens3:

I dance with thee,

I heal with thee,

I follow thee.

Murmuring Lady, Mother Thetis,

Nereide of the snow-white breasts:

Chant Beltaine orisons of sea-pearly bliss,

Amid frothy ocean crests.

Rise, resplendent Glitonea,

To bless the Lammas grain.

Your Lord Sun is near waning,

But you;ll birth a Son again.

Mother Moronea!  Host the Feast of Avalon,

Harvest of Wine & Grace.

Your courtly feet exhalt the Earth,

Queen of Autumn & Magick Fae race.

O Mothers3:

I partake with thee.

I bear with thee.

I attune with thee.

Beneath the Samhain moon holds fortrh

GrandDame Mazoe,

Lyriciizaing life & death into a Magick lay.

Her Sister Tyrone holds reign

In bitter, blighting Winter.

She carols Hymns of Transformation

Bidding us to enter.

The Goddess GrandDame Morgan

In black velvet dressed--

Her choice it is to cure us

Or to take us to the West.

She is the Queen of Setting Sun,

Mistress of Mysteries.

She holds the Gate of Belle Regarde,

Recasts our lives to histories.

O GrandDames3:

I rest with thee.

I chant with thee.

I verse with thee.

Morgens9 of Annwn charge the vaster Grail.

Maidens, Mothers, GrandDames beyond the Mystic Veil.

Triple Goddess, Faery:  the 9 are 3 is One.

I pledge my life to live by thee

As well when life is done.

MFT/TTT

Transforn an abandoned birdnest into a magickal miniature .  There are many ways to do it; but I did it my way today.

1.Make solution of waterglue by diluting Elmer's Glue.  Baste side of nest with it.

2.Sprinkle very fine faerie dust glitter all over the nest sides.  I used gold.

3.Fill nest partially with lavendare buds for scent & to discourage pests.

4.Choose a small, round doily.  Place it in the nest, over the lavendar, allowing a bit of the doily edge to drape over the sides.  BUT FIRST stitich asuspended beads around the doily edge.

I have a porcelain posable pillywiggin, Arduinna, dressed in silk green leaves.  I have posed her in the nest with one arm extended as though waking & stretching and the other arm & hand behind her head.  Her feet are crossed.

Most elegant & ethereal!  Thaks to Mme. Robin who originally constructed this wondrous complex nest!

See Tatiana Katara's site for some really fabulous faerie houses she makes!!!!!

ANYONE ELSE HAVE OR MAKE FAERIE FURNITURE?