Saturday/Sunday – July 11-12th, 2009, 10am-6pm

Day 1: An Introduction into the Realms of Enchantment:

Faery Seership involves a collection of lore, customs, techniques and prohibitions, which originates in the Celtic and pre-Celtic tribes of Europe. It focuses on the living inner commonwealth of the sacred land and comprises a philosophy, way of life and paradigm through which we, as humans can re-enter alliance with the Earth, other living creatures, the plant/tree kingdom and other races of beings, which share the Earth's surface and underworld life with us. This workshop will cover the fundamental beliefs and basic elements of Faery Seership to include:

• Who and what are the Faery?

• Where and what is the Faery realm?

• Entrances into the Faery realms.

• The prohibitions.

• The Second Sight.

• Core elements of the Faery Seership tradition.

• Meeting the co-walker. Faery/ Human Relations.

• The “tongue that cannot lie” and the Faery touch.

• The philosophies of Faery Seership.

• The role of Faery Seership in the modern world. How to approach a life with Faery beings.

Day 2: Ancestral Voices: Working with the Spirits of the Dead in Faery Seership:

In all folk magic traditions, it is clear that the magic worker must engage and work with the spirits of the human dead (“the ancestors”) before they work with any other spirit being, be they God, Goddess, Angel or Faery. Through this work, the inner senses are developed and the outer ones are extended for perception through the worlds. Often folkloric research confuses Faery beings with the Ancestors. Likely this is because Faery practices deal with the same an enchanted realm where both Faery and ancestral spirits abide and their lore are intertwined. Traditional Faery practices always involve work with the Ancestors along with the Faery. This workshop will deal with the necromantic aspects of Faery Seership and how we can work with “our spiritual next of kin”. It focuses on ancestral reverence, redemption, partnerships, folk practices, death-bed midwifery, blood voices and other aspects of this branch of the work and includes:

• The River of Blood and the Cave of Voices

• Building the Ancestral Shrine

• Souls in pain and the power of redemption

• The Door of Parentage

• The Gate of Remembrance

• The awakening of the blood

• The Opening of the Way Rite for Transitioning Work

• Faery and Ancestral relationships

• The role of the beloved dead in inner world contact & work

• Soil as the providence of the dead

• The role of the Faery in birth and death transition• Ancestral contacts of the future and past

• Ancestral dead and the power of place

• Death as a spiritual intelligence

Advance registration fee is $250 for full 2 day series

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