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The Wiccan & Faerie Grimoire of
Francesca De Grandis:
defining on-line spirituality and web culture since 1995.
This site, inspired
by the Faerie Folk, is
where
personal mysticism and writing of literary value
-- from a
multitude of diverse community members --
combine to create soul-healing and
spiritual
wholeness.
When we squarely face life's challenges, no
matter how great they are, we find inner power to stand up and make a
difference. That is an initiation. This special supplement to the Grimoire will
be regularly updated with material that can help us stay strong during our international crisis.
My newest book,
tongue-in-cheek self-help My newer newest book! Update: dead links are gone, fab ones added!
PRAYER TO THE
GODDESS
Goddess and God
Invocations
RITUAL: HOW TO MEET A
FAERIE
Wiccan Prayer of
Gratitude
Wiccan Food
Magic
A Wiccan Blessing for
a Newborn
Love Spells
If Prophets Foretell I have
gotten letters from so many folks with names like moonwolf, snow-wolf, old wolf,
new wolf, ravenwolf,
happywolf...that I thought this vision I had might appeal.
All the above material -- prayers, rites, spells... -- come from The 3rd Road, a branch of Faerie Tradition. In 1986, I created a body of liturgy combined with a new way of running energy to do spells, rites and trances. This has become a tradition called The 3rd Road
Growing Spell by Jane Lind. Jane, one of my first
initiates, says that this ritual "was inspired by a friend wanting to conceive a
child. With some simple adaptations, it can work well for any kind of familial
abundance." Knowing Jane, that includes any definition you have of family,
for example, adapting the ritual for a same sex partnership.
Yule Invocations - 1994
by Obsidiana. An excellent piece!
Yoga Mudra
by Carrie Vadnais. This poem, its author explained to me, came as the
result of the 3rd Road training.
FOR OUR LADY AND THE DEAD
by armour garland. I was attending an open
mike poetry reading in North Beach, San Francisco, land of the beat poetry
movement. It was great fun in that I felt all we poets were acting out a parody
of ourselves: the bar the reading was to be in had another event happening, so
a PA system was dragged out into Jack Kerouac alley, right by City Lights
bookstore, and we all read our poems on the street
to each other, passers by, and tourists. Silly! I heard armour read FOR OUR LADY
AND THE DEAD there. I love his poems but felt he had outdone himself with this
piece. Its rythms evoke earthy truths.
EVE by Annie Finch.
Annie was in town the night of the above mentioned open mike and read there as
well. One of my hidden (um, until now)
agendas is to try to write poems (I consider the prayers and other liturgy I
write poems) and prose that couple
literary value with in-depth spiritual awareness. I also look for poems like
Annie's
EVE to publish on this site: pieces that
demonstrate the above mentioned coupling.
This untitled poem
, by Victoria Wisdom, is both bold and feminine. In it Victoria shares a
mystical, sensual view of romantic love.
A Way To End a Ritual by Geoffrey Cohen
A Blessing For Food by Geoffrey Cohen
Teen Prayer by Jonathan Schulte. I am grateful to have been touched by
the spirituality in this young man's poem.
Look past his mispelling and need to improve his grammar; the rules of grammar
are easy to learn, and compare little to this beautiful prayer that
touched me with its sincerity, and its devotion.
A Bed Time Prayer, for All Ages by Autumn FalconWolf. Simple, sincere,
beautiful, real, effective, and poetry.
SPELL TO FREE ONESELF FROM EXCESSIVE COMPUTER ENCHANTMENT by Ian
Lurking Bear
HAIKU, BY VICTOR
ANDERSON, Grand Master of the Faerie Faith, from his forthcoming
book
Poem: Gather in
Circles
Poem: Once The
Shaman's Cat
Poem: Untelling
Creation by Scott Schulz
Poem: Another Day in the
Garden by Scott Schulz
Poem: Amen by Scott
Schulz
Poem: Hearth Wound Healing
by Matthew Beachy
Evening Message by
Phoebe Wray: when we truly follow Her path, truly follow Her path...
The Hanged Man And
The Ten Of Swords by
Mary Ann Murphy, whom I am proud to call a Third Road initiate.
Grasses They
Grow by
Raylene Abbott
The Crystal Mirror
by Ennien Ashbrook
she holds me by
15 year old Anna Kongs
Faerie Queen by Jennifer Lewis, whose poem here gives us a vital,
controversial message. You may not agree with everything she says, (I am not sure
I do!) but she touches on a truth that I know all too well, and shares an insight
that I am overjoyed to see someone other than myself revealing! Judging from this
poem, Jennifer understands
the dangers of the fey path, and knows that Faerie glamour can rob one of a real
life.
My Three Souls Wicca Wonderland is an
imaginary pagan retreat which is "Modestly priced at only $3000 a day."
This sarcastic,
um, I mean insightful, parody is the result of an insane
evening at my house during which my initiates Steven Tiongco, Molly Carter, Scott
Schulz and I somehow ended up spending an hour and a half writing
this nonsense, um, I mean creative outpouring of social criticism. I hope that
like
minded mischievious web site visitors will take our chicanery in the spirit in
which it is intended.
Alison Harlow, one of my heroes, laughed heartily when she learned she is cited
in this article as a workshop leader! BTW, a newcomer to the pagan scene may not
enjoy this piece as much because of its in-jokes -- for example references to the
schisms in the larger Faerie (as opposed to 3rd Road) community. Scott later
wrote a song that accompanies the article.
Pagans and Bush I wrote this Feb or March 2001, in response to
Bush's plans for government funding of faith-based community groups. But I will
keep it on the site long term because it, and the prayer the article offers,
addresses how all of us can be effective in serving others, whether that is as
parents, community activists, strippers, lawyers -- whatever you do as a way to
serve Goddess. I hope this article will kick off a series called
Visions of Pagan Ministry Do you have thoughts regarding ministry? Check
out the submission guidelines then send me your article, prayer, poem, or
ritual!
A Vision of Service, Comments on Spiritual Respectability, and an
Indictment
of Pagan Priest(esse)s, Not to Mention a Personal Look at the History
of This Site and Its Guiding Principles, by Francesca De Grandis. A long
article with a long ridiculous title, personal stories, and probably too much
indignation. :-)
LET'S TALK ABOUT * WATER *
with Ian Lurking Bear. This awesome article is followed by a
water rite.
What
is FAERIE TRADITION
The Sabbats of
Wicca: Because witches honor nature, they have eight festivals, or
Sabbats, that mark the year as it turns through its seasons. This article
gives basic information about these Sabbats, and includes both standard
Wiccan information as well as my personal Sabbat lore and experiences, in
other words, what I perceive the Sabbats to be.
Healing Prayer for the
Community This multi aspected article includes my
personal experiences dealing with media harassment and a prayer for
healing planet and community.
Honoring the Earth And
Ourselves Through Pagan Burial Grounds by Petherwin
Magic and Healing the
Earth by Larry Cornett
Initiate Instructions by
Ian Lurking Bear. I found this piece hilarious. It displays the impeccable wit I
expect from Ian. And more, because it is even funnier than he usually can be,
which is saying a lot! BTW, Ian is one of my initiates: could this piece
possibly be a parody of me?
Magikal Improvisation by
GoldenHawk. If this article from a reader of Be a Goddess! is not in the
spirit of that book, nothing is. I am delighted I had an on-line meeting with
this fellow: he emailed me about my site and my book, and thus I got to read this
fabulous article. Thank you, Goddess.
The Bridge At Midnight Trembles: My Story of Quebec City by Starhawk.
I told Starhawk I would love to see something of hers on this site. She sent me
The Bridge At Midnight Trembles which I told her I loved and that it made
my eyes water, my heart swell. (Goddess bless her for her writing and political
work.) She responded by noting my words "Eyes
water." Omigoddess, I had missed that! How funny! --> Her tale is a true story, a
significant part of which is about tear gas! I of course had meant that I was
deeply
moved. I hope you will be too!
Winter's Thaw: Her Story by my initiate
Francis Salmeri left me stunned. Where do these gifted people come from who study
with
me?! Um, yeah, I guess the Goddess sends them. The Clay Pit by Elfself, goes down, down,
down, chronicling the self-healing shaman.
Special 03/01 thanks to Kristen
O'Meara, who performed the ponderous task of checking every link in this Grimoire
and ferreting
out about 100 dead ones, so that I could sit down and key in updated link info
for y'all. (Yup, I'm the site's webmaster)
The 3rd Road is: a living branch
of Faerie shamanism; a Wiccan school; and a community.
WyldWytch's Web is not only the site
of a magical, wonderful community servant, WyldWytch, but home of the on-line
Be a Goddess! discussion
group. Fey-spirited souls tend
to be independent so being on the Be a Goddess! discussion list will
not cause you to be swamped with mail, but you'll have access to
connection with like-minded seekers. You need not have read Be a Goddess! to
enjoy the list. Address any queries directly to WyldWytch.
A Midsummer Night's Dream Shakespeare told a few deep truths about
Faerie.
Dawnwalker, is self-dubbed a "feri huna shaman", and is another of my
initiates with a site of their own. Um, look, it might seem odd to brag
about my initiates where all the world can see me do it, but I am very
blessed by the amazing people the Goddess has sent me to train. Dawn is a
tricker extraordinaire, a loving heart, and an amazing magician. (Hm, that kind
of describes all my initiates. Goddess, where do you find these
people you send me, and how do you find so many of them?)
Dawn's site has feri resources, pagan &
occult clipart libraries, and info on herbal medicine. : I *have* to make
public thanks for getting to use Dawn's
domain, for free no less! I couldn't afford to buy more space for my site, so am
now splitting my site between two
domains, the Well -- my original and main domain -- and Dawn's. Thus, my site
has been able to hold even
more free stuff for my visitors! And I am also thus set up to keep adding great
new stuff: new articles, reviews, wonderful goodies. Couldn't have done this
without your gift of domain space,
Dawn,thank you, thank you. I love my updated site, and as always, you
are a generous soul.
The Witches' Web is Brad's, who is
my spiritual grandson: he is a 3rd Road traveler; an initiate of one
of my initiates. The Witches' Web is an on line store filled with magical
goodies.
Tell Brad I sent you.
WACKY JAC is fabulous. Great witchy designs on shirts, mugs, and bumper
stickers!
Sexy, fun and very pagan without being typical pagan products. Tell them you
heard about them from me!
Charles De
Lint is a fantasy writer whose books I recommend to students of
Wicca, because his fantasies have better info in them about Faerie than
most Wiccan how-tos.
Scott Schulz is
an
initiate of mine. I am proud to have trained this bard; his poetry is as good as
poetry gets.
Stir the Cauldron is
my pal, Arwen's, site. She is wondrous so go enjoy yourself! She says of her site
that it "Explores mysteries of gender and offers how-to's on incense making and
bread
baking...Rocks, tarot spreads, rituals, spells, poetry, myth and more....
Witch's Brew Online: an online magazine
Serpentine Music
offers pagan music both to the public and as a wholesaler. Run by a very
nice, very efficient lady, Anne Hill.
Wiccan Events
Calendar!!!!!!! This is a listing of Pagan festivals.
NativeWeb Home Page I
love this page!
Traditions of Magic in
Late Antiquity is an on-line exhibition from the University of
Michigan Library
Every Celtic thing on the Web
Clip art, groups, magazines, you name it!
ASTRAL SEAS is run by Tom and Pat Hooper, two generous people with
an authentic sense of combining spirituality with business. They sell an
excellent and extensive assortment of ritual incenses and oils, in
addition to a unique selection of ritual tools. Let them know
you heard of them here, whether you go to their online ordering catalog with
shopping cart (retail and
wholesale catalogs) or you write them for their snail mail catalog at:
Astral Seas
POB 228
Salem Missouri 65560
Here's the rest of my links to Shamanic, Faerie
and Wiccan Resources
Search Engines so you can
find MORE ON-LINE MAGIC
FIRST
AID ONLINE A witch is always practical! However, I have not checked this
site out personally, so can't endorse it per se. If you go to it, please tell me
how it works out for you. Thanks!
Francesca's
Links has lotsa links to other magically mundane pages, including links
to help you spruce up your Web page.There's also sites about
music, movies, ...
To submit your rituals,
poems, articles, and
bardic tales read submission guidelines.
The site generates a great deal of email, so
click here to discover how to best contact me. I welcome
feedback about the site!Thank you for sharing my magic!
Yours
in the Realm of Mystery,
Francesca De Grandis
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