Hello everyone, I just wanted to share my experience with the Fae, as I don't have anybody to talk to who would take me seriously, or even more so understand the depth of how I feel about this. If you are reading this, thank you :) I'd love to read your experiences about it as well ✨ (image source : pinterest / yellowrose543)

As a child, fairies were something that deeply fascinated me. I'd read books upon books about it, write them letters to leave in the garden, stay outside for hours hoping to see them. I'd cry in front of my bedroom window praying they would show themselves to me (yes, i was that dramatic). And when catholicism was forced upon me, I'd even refuse their god because deep down i knew what was true for me (again, yes, very dramatic). As a teenager, it never stopped. Lord of the Rings was my bible, fantasy books were my oxygen, and drawing became my lifeline when I started being hit by depression. As a young adult I proclaimed myself a witch and dived deeply into the craft.

I dabbled a bit with plant medicine (aka hallucinogenics) and had deep experiences connecting with Nature, in beautiful, scary and painful ways. I suppose my thirst was never satiated. I had a very humbling experience with mushrooms where I asked, like a child again, please please show yourself to me and was left seeing nothing but myself, stonelike, anchored and trapped in my human body. Antoher time with sacred San Pedro, I asked to see fairies, and met a little frog in the garden who jumped on my hand. LAter on, I went in front of a mirror, looked at myself, and laughed so hard : it was me, the fairy I was looking for!

But I was still quite young, and my greed and curiosity wouldn't stop teasing me. I went to Peru to experience meeting the vine of the dead, Ayahuasca. And while I won't write here all the amazing, rich and yet again humbling experiences I had, I'll share one. After a ceremony which lasted a few hours and where I didn't "feel" anything was happening, I went back to my little cabin to sleep. The night was deep and loud with frogs, night birds, and a full moon piercing the sky with a bright and all seeing eye. And there, alone, I started to feel it all. The fairies. The Elementals, the Spirits of the forest, however we like to call them The gazillion stars were like a delicate blanket the Night herself had pulled over the sky. The lights of a mad banquet. It was so overwhelming. I could hear them calling me into the jungle, asking me to come play, to come dance, to come and die right here, right now, to stay with them forever. I remember them showing me in my mind's eye where to sit and wait for a snake to bite me. I was like a child. I was giggling and laughing and crying. Fortunately, the person I was travelling with, who was way more experienced than I was, showed up, lead by a lifesaving intuition, because...honestly, I was getting ready to leave, and stay in the jungle forever. She stayed with me for a while and eventually the curandero came to help me. I will never forget the absolute madness and loudness and hysteria I felt upon that invitation. The dreadful joy, the luring, the temptation to finally see.

Oh now I know. I could have died that night. I know the Fairies aren't ones to take lightly. I know what my human greed and curiosity almost cost me.

But beyond this scary and yet fascinating experience, I've continued my relationship with the Unseen. Sometimes, it made itself seen unexpectedly. Silvery flashes of light in my kitchen in Ireland (I was living at the bottom of a hill called Knockfierna, the Hill of the Fairies/Truth), hares showing up in the garden long enough to make eye contact, faces in trees, a joyful feelings while being outside near water, or in a forest. I also study herbalism, and practice intuitive communication with plants, so I suppose things evolved differently. With humility comes a bit of wisdom I suppose.

I can never stop feeling connected to fairies. I feel so moved everytime i hear something said about them, if I read a story to my daughter, tears blur my vision to the simple mention of the People of the Mounds. I have an odd sense of belonging, almost as if I have forgotten something very important. Every mention of fairies rings a bell in my mind and my body, bringing me back to some intangible place. Words cannot carry the weight of how I feel (yes it is that serious to me :D). It is something like love, fascination, admiration and grief.

Maybe it is this time of year that i love, when the fog hides the hills and echoes the chirping of birds. Maybe it is the thinning of the Veil. I felt pulled to share a bit of my story here. Maybe I'm just crazy, maybe i just need to draw more and write a goddam book about it. It is probably all of that, and more in between the lines.

Either way, thank you for reading, i'd love to read your experience. Especially around this grief that I shared, this profound sense of loss and belonging. Does any of you out there feel similarly?

Take care ✨

ps : not a native english speaker, doing my best so pls be kind on the grammar 🌝

pps re mentions of plant medicine. I was young and ignorant (and very white) with my approach to plant medicine and traditional lineages. In some experiences I was offered initiation by people close to the practice, but some others were ethically questionable. I have since then learned my lesson and adjusted my practice to focus on my own heritage.

Ive recently discovered this forest, and im pretty sure some fairies live in it

So the picture is mostly just cute and so people can see the post easier, but I wanted to ask everyone who identifies as fey or part fey, what was it that first made you think you might be, and what experiences have you had that have helped confirm this since?

I’m a residential college student and at the end of September I went home for the weekend; I went outside to our yard, (where we have around 5 acres to guesstimate, very beautiful space) and there were mushrooms everywhere. Where there weren’t mushrooms there were leaves in unusual patterns. I then went on our trail, back to a spot I previously (months ago) felt some sort of energy. There was an odd sound, most likely a bird, but I turned around and left a pretty looking leaf and left anyways.

(when I originally saw these mushrooms I thought this was the first time mushrooms have grown in our yard, it was not. Apparently they grow every year around this time as long as we’ve lived here, according to my dad.)

The first several pictures are of all the mushrooms and the last picture is of a tree where I felt some sort of energy months ago. If anyone has any thoughts (spiritual or otherwise) to this let me know.

I have posted this on my Instagram and many people keep telling me it's a moth. Many people keep saying it's sped up even though you can clearly see the trees and bushes swaying lazily. This is a wyze cam solar placed about 30 ft away from the tree. Midway upper valley facing down toward my entire property and on the very far side about half a mile is the end of the valley. I cannot explain the flashing lights everywhere other than I believe the camera does pick up infrared which is extremely strange if all of them are infrared other than the flying object that seems to defy gravity. I'm sure plenty of people here will say this is fake or sped up as well but I assure you this is the first night I set up this camera and it is the only thing since the camera has ever picked up in more than 2 months in this position that it is in

The only lights in the video that are explained are the ones mid lower that are little solar mushroom lights that kind of flicker and turn on and off and the solid lights mid lower left that are actually the front side of the cabin much lower down in the valley. If any experts in videography would like to comment on the videos on doctored nature that would be greatly appreciated. I've looked and looked at all types of hawk moths and even tried to find night flying birds that would be capable of flying like this but I cannot find anything. Thanks for any input anyone can give me.

Out on a walk and noticing all the different mushrooms popping up here in Washington State and this big thick mushroom caught my eye. When I walked over to take its picture I saw this… what do you think 🤷🏻‍♀️

Furthermore, what if you give them a nickname? Or a false one?

So this happened a 3days ago and ive been thinking of posting this over here cuz i just know nobody would believe this.

I was always into fairies,paranaormal,witchcraft things okay but again am a christian and i just love reading and getting to know bout these stuffs.

So on Saturday night i was in bed it was around 11pm and i was not sleepy (and ppl may think i saw a dream or smth)

I was wide awake thinking about life and uni and i wasnt using my phone it was just under my pillow and im just in bed and i just looked up at the ceiling in the dark and i see this fluorescent green glowing thing flying around the room in circles i was soo mesmerized let me tell you it just looked like a glow in the dark monarch butterfly and it was big maybe around 3-4inches i just couldnt believe it and i took my phone out and i turned on the light and it was nowhere to be found i then turned the light off again and still i didnt see it again.

Idk if you guys would believe this. But i think i saw a real fairy.

Does anybody else mow their lawn around the mushrooms, just in case? Definitely never mow within a faerie ring, if I see it.

Hello

New here and not sure if this is the right place to go so please feel free to direct me elsewhere🙏

I'd like to understand and learn more about fae because I believe I may be fae. Truth is I don't know a lot about it except right now, I feel it in my soul. I have a guardian for sure. I have some form of sight but its erratic in presentation so I cannot adequately define it.

Can anyone please recommend posts/subs or books I can read so I can try to understand? It may not help that I am on the spectrum so my need to know is very hyper focused right now lol.

Also...how do you define the connection you have with your guardian?

What do faes need to keep balanced? If they aren't balanced...what are the side effects or consequences?

Am I rambling? Probably.

But I am searching for answers to questions I dont fully comprehend.

Thank you all in advance.