Secret Pal Candlelight Swap

Imbolc is a holiday that happens around February 1st or 2nd each year.  It marks the end of Winter and the beginning of Spring.  This is often represented through the symbolism of lighting candles, torches and fire in general.  This is a purifying time, to get rid of the old and in with the new.


For Faeries, the Candlelight Moon represents the second Moon of the year during the month of February.  This moon phase moves past the midway point between Winter Solstice and Spring Equinox.  


Candles are lit to represent the warming of the earth as the frosts melt away and green shoots poke out of the frozen ground.  The real or symbolic re-lighting of the Balefire (for fae, a wellspring of glamor and magic) is performed at this time of year.  It is perfect to start tilling the grounds of daily life in preparation for accomplishments to grow and manifest.  


This is also the time of Carnivale, rich with the return of color and the reunion of the masculine and feminine. Find ways to invigorate yourself and your relationships by melting away the grey and weaving some iridescence into the tapestry of your life.


In celebration of the Candlelight Moon, I'm going to host a secret pal candle swap!  
1) For one week (until Monday the 17th) I will collect names & addresses of anyone who wants to participate. Leave me a note and I'll contact you in private :)
2) On Monday, I will match everyone up 1-to-1.  
3) Each person's job will be to either make, buy, recycle a candle to send to their pal.  Don't overspend if you buy - it's the gesture that counts, not the cost :)
4) You can decorate it however you want!


If you would like to buy handmade online, here are some awesome stores that I'd suggest!
Moonlit Herbals on Artfire
White Magick Shoppe on Etsy


Share a little magic!

Card or Coal?

Where's WOTAN??

Yuletide greetings my fairy friends, both near and far!  Last week I decided to snail mail some holiday postcards.  Sending Christmas cards filled with magic is one of my favorite things to do every year.

Of course, anytime I decide on a project or fun adventure, that pesky barbarian WOTAN is always around to try to pluck the wings off my fun.

Writing Fairy Postcards

This time I was prepared! I looked high and low, left and right, before beginning.  WOTAN was nowhere to be found, so I sat down with my long list and boy-howdy was it looooooong!

I collected all the names of every sparkling friend out there that needed a card mailed to them: Abigail, Reianna, Dominic, Nicholas, Mia Loriette, Genevieve, Gwen, Brianna, Katie, Connor, Abbie, Megan, Lili, Skylar, Logan, Salud, Niko, Nora, Aiden, Malia, Renee, Hannah, Ella, Serena, Sierra and Mikayla - That's an impressive list!

Off to the Pixie Post!

Donning my frothy princess pink feather quill, I went to work.  One by one all the cards were filled out.  Each one was carefully decorated, stamped and ready for the Pixie Post Office (as you can imagine, things get a little crazy with a horde of frantic pixies trying to sort through all that faerie mail!)


Fortunately I wasn't interrupted at all as I filled out all the postcards for my friends.  Lavendina the Dragon helped me get them all into the mailbox without a single WOTAN sighting.

Card or Coal for WOTAN?...hm...

In fact, I was beginning to wonder...what should I send to WOTAN?  He spent all year terrorizing myself and my faerie court!  He tried to smash me at Norwescon.  Then he used a magical bear to defeat my champion then sold me to some pirates at Midsummer Faire.  After that at Orycon he left me cockroaches and a rat!


Of course...he did sneak a kiss on my cheek at Midsummer and he did write me a love note at Orycon (even though he denies everything)...


What do you think? Should I send a Yule Card to WOTAN?  Or should I instead send him a Christmas Coal?


I need your help to decide!  Cast your vote for Card or Coal on the upper right and next week I'll send him one......or the other :)