Fairy Treat- Fairy Landscapes, Rings, and Paths

    There are countless signs of fairies in Nature, and these often exist close to or within areas that are quite built up. You will soon come to recognize them intuitively. Wherever there is a strangely twisted tree, a tufted hillock, a pile of pebbles, or a cluster of wild flowers, there you may detect fairy workings. Be aware of unusual features or anything that looks mysterious, and especially of any place that feels as if it has its own "atmosphere" -- that will be because of the fairies. Feast your eyes on meadows filled with buttercups, daisies, and emerald grass, reedy river banks and bluebell woods, knowing that the fairies are close by.

Fairy Rings

     One natural feature that has been especially credited to fairies is the "fairy ring." This is a circle of darker- colored grass, caused by the outward spread of a fungus. However, this is not the only type of ring that you will find in Nature, if you explore. Crop circles are a well-known natural phenomenon, but other vegetation (including grass) can also be found bent into a ring formation. Moss may grow in a circle, and trees may leave clear a patch of ground that is more or less circular. All these places are fairy haunts, where the Good Folk do what they so love to do-- dance. Tales are told of travelers who were led by sweet music into such a ring, whereupon they disappeared from sight, lost to the realm of Fairy. If you meditate within such a ring, you are more likely to be in tune with the fairies. 

Fairy Paths 

    Fairy pathways may often be encountered. They might be narrow trails, apparently starting nowhere in particular and either ending abruptly or going toward a stone or mound that has no obvious use. Such paths are the sign of an interface between this world and the Otherworld. Spirit beings walk upon them and are more readily glimpsed in such places, especially if you do not stare directly at the path, but walk alongside it, aware of what you see from the corner of your eye. Such paths exist within dwellings too, and it may be along them that "ghosts" are seen to walk, apparently vanishing where the path--and the link between the worlds--ends.