Free Faery Craft: Weaving Connections with the Enchanted Realm by Emily Carding Page A

important to be a strong singer, but it doesn’t help to be fearful of being heard. If the note or notes come direct from you and with pure intent, then not only will they will be effective, but in time your voice will become stronger. When we combine this simple technique with journey work and meditation, we can find particular musical phrases and vowel sounds for different tasks. For example, I have a musical phrase that acts as an invocation, calling the sidhe to meet with me. I also have phrases that I use to honour the ancestors, to clear space, or when giving offerings, as well as simply allowing notes to emerge spontaneously as they will. I advise singing to trees, wells, rivers, animals…whenever you feel moved by nature, allow the feeling to emerge through your voice. One day you may hear them singing back to you.

    Exercise: Finding Your Voice
    First let the feeling come. You may find it helpful to perform the Faery Tree exercise until the energies are meeting in your centre. Allow your internal focus to settle on the space just below the centre of your rib cage—this is where a sheet of muscle called the diaphragm lies and where your voice needs to be coming from. Try putting your hand over this part of your body and panting lightly to a “ha” sound, and you will feel the muscle working. This muscle is the foundation of your voice. Relax and breathe deeply, breathing right into the full capacity of your lungs and expanding your rib cage. When your rib cage is expanded, your diaphragm has more strength and so is able to lend more support to your voice.
    Practice breathing in deeply and releasing your breath slowly with a hissing sound, allowing the breath to exit the bottom of your lungs first, leaving the rib cage expanded until the last of the air is expelled. Now try this again, but with a humming sound. Settle on a note that feels comfortable and resonant within your body. You may feel your back and chest or perhaps even other parts of your body vibrate. When you have found this note, allow your humming to become stronger and increase in volume. This can all happen over as many breaths as you need it to, but remember to take good, deep breaths and keep your rib cage expanded. When you are ready, open your mouth and allow the humming sound to expand into a vowel sound, any vowel sound that comes.
    When you are confident in this technique, allow the note and vowel sounds to vary, and you’ll soon find yourself bringing through simple and powerful melodies. However, you don’t need to use your voice to sing tunes; the act of finding your true resonant note is a powerful exercise in itself. All things in existence vibrate at different frequencies and join together to create the harmony of the song of the universe. By performing this exercise we are consciously joining the song and expressing our true spiritual self.
    When you have found your voice, allow it to emerge out in nature, carrying the intent of connection. Picture your voice carrying a golden light from your centre that extends out like a web to touch all the life around you. Know that you are a part of the land and that the land is part of you, and allow your voice to celebrate this knowledge.

    The Elements and Elemental Beings
    Different cultures around the world have interpreted, categorised, and divided the elements in different ways according to their understanding. The Western Mystery tradition, which is based on the teachings of ancient Greece and Egypt, uses a system of four elements. These elements are air, fire, water, and earth, and they are considered to be the building blocks of physical existence.
    Although many Faery beings are often slightly inaccurately referred to in a number of modern works as elementals, like us, they are normally composed of more than one element (although they may show strong inclinations towards one in particular). The true elementals are the spiritual expression of the elements in their purest form. They