CHAPTER 1

Day One

Discover your Faerie Clan

The whole point of this 30 day programme is to make you morecomfortable with your wild self. When we think of faeries wethink of this wild child-like spirit which resides within us. That'swho we want to prod awake. This essence is pure creative force.It is raw, magnetic and radical. You will feel like starting projects,changing direction and throwing away your telly in favour of apaint-brush.

Faerie lore is infused within all of us. Its colourful metaphorand meanings shape and form our ideas about magic today. Evenin contemporary society, you just need to look at the amount offairy-tales, songs, festivals, magazines and films we have starringour winged counterparts to see that faeries are still relevant inour daily lives. We love our winged friends and yet there aremany theories on what they are! For me they are elementalenergies vibrating at high speed which can be worked with in cooperationwith the faerie to bring about healing and/or change.

When working with women, I see that faerie energy is thefastest way to rekindle their passion for life. Faerie likes to usestory, metaphor, magic, acting, music and feasting to help peoplerediscover their lost selves or uncover pieces yet to be seen. Theywork in unpredictable and irrational ways at times and thereforemake excellent teachers and they are eager to lead you to theirclassroom.

To me the universe is one great big metaphysical ecosystem,some parts seen and felt while others lie unseen and undetected.The ecosystem wants to thrive, grow and expand. This forwardmotion, this expansion, this ceaseless growth, is reflected in allliving things. Humans tend only to see their own small part.However we have also become far too reliant on our physicalsenses to tell us the whole story, a bit like looking through akeyhole and expecting to see the whole house. We don't seemoving beyond innocence, naivety and youthfulness asprogression, we see it as decline. We look at what we lose insteadof what we gain. Why? Because we are unaware of the role weplay in the universal ecosystem. Therefore we fear our owndeath; we see loss rather than a natural cycle that expands theevolution of the whole universal ecosystem. The universe willjust keep on expanding and as we are one with her – we'll justkeep going. Yes, you are right. There will be a time when none ofthis 'matters' – quite literally.

So now you know what I'm going to say next, right? Of courseyou do. You and faerie are the same thing. They are nature, youare nature. They are the creative spark in you and the creativespark in the universe. They make you fertile with ideas,creativity and positivity. You can see them as pretty-facedwinged beings if you like, or lights, or music, or metaphoricalpsychological parables ... believe what you like, so long as it ishelpful and enables you to become the best possible version ofyou.

Am I pecking your head?

'What you on about?' said a young woman on a workshop inManchester 'yer peckin' me head.' Everyone appreciated herhonesty, including me. Look, right now, you don't need to worryabout the big scheme. You don't even need to understand it. Noone does anyway; otherwise it would all be different. Theuniverse reflects our focus like a photon under a microscopereflects the observer's intention. You only need to self-focus. Weget out what we put in, so to speak, and I'm here to help you putin love so you get love out. The rest will then fall into place withno effort whatsoever. Okay? Cool.

Faerie clan fun

A secret of mine is that I have been talking to faeries my entirelife. I noticed how they have different feels and personalities.When I started my healing career these personalities becameclans. Each clan had a healing sigil and an empowerment sigil,animal totems and more which they lent me to help others. Byincorporating this knowledge into my work it was very easy tosee people as already healed and whole – it works wonders.

The clans are made up of archetypal...