Lehigh Valley Pagan Pride

Don’t Go Into the Woods: The Fae in Magick, Myth, and Literature “Here, there be monsters.”  A warning in ancient times to stay where it was safe and a boundary marker telling you the relationships and patterns of your familiar life are no longer in play.  For to enter the Faerie forest, new relationships must be forged because you are betwixt and between realities. Together we’ll explore the concept of Faerie, how it is both a place and a frame of mind, and how journeys in Faerie always leave the traveler radically altered.  The Fae and humanity have an almost symbiotic relationship both in magickal practice and in literature.  What do the Good Neighbors need from us that keeps them whispering to us in dreams, abducting some, and cursing others?  The answer makes for some powerful magick and some dramatic literature! Finally we’ll learn ways to build your connection to the Fair Folk in day to day practice.  You’ll leave ready to grab a hag stone and look for a gateway to the otherworld. Molly Stanton Bio Molly J Stanton grew up in rural Idaho where cows outnumber humans fifty-to-one, and tipping them was an Olympic sport. Fed a steady diet of terrifying old Celtic fairy stories and the local firsthand tales of harrowing Sasquatch encounters, she cultivated a lifelong passion for unseen worlds.  Her pilgrimages to Ireland and other places led to a deep practice of Celtic shamanic works, becoming a Sundoor Certified Firewalk Instructor, and other ecstatic practices. More recently her travels, former career as a therapist, and all those Celtic myths led to the publication of her urban fantasy books, Hunted by Fae and The Cursed Land, the first two books in The Last Battle of Moytura series.  You can find her at mollyjstanton.com