RJStewart.org The Faery Tradition

Do you believe in faeries? Your not-so-distant ancestors probably did, but not as little glitzy people with gossamer dresses and butterfly wings. If you want to experience the faery realm directly, this practical intensive event is for you. A unique feature of this weekend will be material from an 18th century journal, as published in RJ's new book, The Living World of Faery. This material includes the Faery Breath, physical relocation by faery allies, Scottish seers in Virginia, and faery teachings regarding the life of the planet. This workshop will also give you insights and methods for further work with:

See the Faery Healing page for extracts from R J Stewart's forthcoming book, "Faery Healing, from Tradition to Earth Healing"

Did you know that there are ancient teachings and methods of healing arts within the faery traditions of Britain and Europe?

During this weekend workshop we will explore, with R J Stewart, some of the principles and practices of Faery Healing, and discover how we can apply and develop the techniques today. This workshop contains the introductory teaching on Faery Healing. It is followed by the more advanced workshop The Well of Light, From Faery Healing to Earth Healing, (based on the book and CD of the same name, available from http://www.rjstewart.net)

R J Stewart, originally from Scotland, is the leading writer and teacher of Faery and UnderWorld material in the USA. His books The UnderWorld Initiation, Earth Light, and Power Within the Land, have become classics for people and groups exploring Earth spirituality.

Many people think of the faery tradition as being a mixture of folkloric customs and beliefs, handed down from ancestral culture. While this is true, there are also magical arts hidden and implied within the folkloric traditions. In this three-part workshop series, RJ Stewart, the leading writer, teacher, and expert, on the Faery Tradition, will reveal practical and powerful methods of Faery Ritual Magic. These are not, as we might think, limited to folk customs, but contain deeper and enduring magical arts found within the faery tradition. This three part series will focus on an old traditional form The Magic of Three Sticks, restated for the present day.

Bring with you: three small sticks, preferably uncut, about the length of your longest finger. Also three larger sticks, up to your own height or somewhat higher.

This workshop is only open to those who have done Faery Ritual Magic 1 and 2 with R J Stewart, or by invitation. You may be eligible if you have done previous workshops with RJ: no new members are allowed for this event. To inquire about eligibility, please contact R.J. Stewart. In this third workshop, we work to empower the Three Sticks, with the spiritual directions Human, Faery, and Living Creature. This is done through a unique and powerful ceremony mediated during the workshop. You will also learn how to do this fully contacted ceremony yourself, for ongoing work with the spirit mentors and allies of this faery ritual magic tradition. Bring your Three Sticks, and prepare for the workshop by practicing the Forms that you learned in the two previous sessions. Group members are advised to refrain from alcohol or other substances for at least one week before the event.

Please note, this series will not be offered again in this area for at least one year.

The Immortal Hour is a Celtic and Faery ritual drama, written by the 19th century poet and mystic Fiona Macleod (William Sharp). It tells the love story of Etain, an Otherworld Faery woman, and Eochaid, High King of Erin. They are brought together by the power of Dalua, the Mad One of Darkness. Etain represents the spirit world, Eochaid the human world, and Dalua the universal power of death and change.

In the early 1900's The Immortal Hour was set to music by English composer Rutland Boughton, and became the longest running music drama or light opera of all time. Boughton's lyrical and inspiring music is ideal for the songs and poems of the play.

In this workshop we will explore the deep and hidden aspects of the ritual drama in meditation, vision, and ceremony. Fiona Macleod created a "Mystery", which is the ancient word for a spiritual drama that brings through transformative subtle powers.

We will also work with the wonderful music by Boughton, discovering how it can be used in vision and inspiration.

RJ Stewart has been exploring and developing deep inner work with The Immortal Hour for ten years. He brings special insights to this ritual drama through his long term work within the Celtic Faery tradition, and his association with the British magical order of which Fiona Macleod/William Sharp was a member.

All are welcome at this event: previous experience of visualization and meditation will be helpful.

The Faery Cord is a powerful magical aid, companion, and embodiment of a tradition with origins in the ancestral past, presented now with unique methods taught only by R J Stewart.

The Faert Cord stands for, and replaces, “implements of magic”, enabling an almost invisible method of creating power patterns, that you can take anywhere.

The Cord can be used uniquely, in its own right, without other forms of spiritual or magical work, and it may also be used with the Magic of Three Sticks, as taught by R J.

Empowering a Cord: the Ritual of Inhabitation. This is a simple ceremony that may be repeated easily, to attune and empower your Cord. We work at the deeper levels with this empowering ceremony on Sunday, therefore there is no “Sunday only” attendance.
The information, techniques and (most important) the powerful faery contacts and spiritual forces of this gathering enable one single cord to become all of the following:
- The Cord of Sustenance: which Nourishes, Protects, and stands for many. Used in personal meditation and magical work to define boundaries, provide subtle sustenance and inner strength, and to embody, and work as, a synthesis of all magical tools.
- The Cord of Connection: which joins us to both humans and spirits. Used in personal and group work to enable and open out our connections to Allies, Cousins, Co-Walkers, and Ancestors. Also works as a modulating or mediating cord for the deep UnderWorld spiritual forces of the Land, Ocean, and Planet.
- The Cord of Memory: which deepens and opens the mind. Since ancient times, a cord has been used in connection with memory: we will work together on some of the memory enhancing and memory opening techniques that are possible with your cord.
- The Great Cord: making and using a long-term Cord. This Cord can last your entire life, and has many spiritual implications. It is, essentially, the same Cord that you will be empowering during the Ritual of Inhabitation (above) and attuning during each session of the workshop.

Bring a Cord of approximately your own height. Any color. May be braided or woven (Great Cord). Single strands or thin cord may be brought for making Small Cords.

The Second Workshop in the Cord Series, with R J Stewart. The Full Series includes: The Faery Cord, The Faery and Spirit Cord, & The Cord of Life and Death.

The Cord is the most effective and powerful spiritual tool that we can develop and use. It functions as, and ultimately replaces, all other implements, assists, symbols, or magical tools. The Cord can be taken anywhere, and used “invisibly” in meditation, visualization, and spiritual magic. There are many curious, often unknown, powers in a Cord!

In this second workshop in the Cord series R J Stewart reveals further ways of working with the Cord. You will need a woven cord, of your own height.

This is not a folkloric or historical workshop. You will discover how to attune your Cord to inner contacts, how to use it to work with spiritual allies and subtle forces. The emphasis will be on intense practical forms of cord work, both for group and individual use.

To join this workshop: you should have participated in the first workshop in the series, The Faery Cord 1 with R J, or completed all three parts of The Magic of Three Sticks.

Part 3 of the Cord Series.At its deepest level of sacro-magical power, the Cord is associated with the experiences of birth, life, and death. From the umbilical cord to the Silver Cord and Golden Bowl of spiritual traditions, the Cord is both our lifeline and our deathline.

In this two-day workshop, R J will teach a series of forms (sacro-magical techniques) for working with a physical Cord that connects to spiritual and transformative forces. For those who have done previous work with R J Stewart, these forms bridge between the Faery and UnderWorld traditions, and the Inner Temple traditions.

Subjects will include: Coming into Birth/ the birth forces of the Lunar World/ archangelic and angelic powers and traditions of birth and death/ the Cord ceremony for peaceful death/ working with the death forces of the Lunar World/ Connecting to ancestral consciousness through the Cord/ Ascending through the Three Worlds/ Spiritual or inner contacts at work through the Cord.

To join this workshop you must have previously attended Cord 2, the Faery and Spirit Cord, or be a member of the R J Stewart Inner Temple traditions core group. If you are not sure if you qualify, please contact or your local workshop organizer.

This is a powerful and deeply effective workshop: there is no “one day only” attendance. No exceptions to this rule.

Announcing The Well of Light, an intensive workshop based on the book and CD by RJ Stewart. The Well of Light, from Faery Healing to Earth Healing, is RJ's long awaited new book on transformative and healing magic within the Faery and UnderWorld traditions. Packed with many practical techniques, this workshop will give you powerful methods for working with allies, cousins, and co-walkers in the arts of Faery Healing. The Well of Light is not another summary of folklore, as there are many books that provide such summaries already. Instead the traditional concepts of Faery and UnderWorld magic are reassessed for the 21st century, wherein Earth Healing is the task before all members of the Threefold Alliance of Human, Faery, and Living Creature.

A unique feature of this material is an introduction to The Mystery of the Double Rose, a precise practical teaching received from inner contacts on the advanced communion that is possible between human, faery, and living creatures. The Mystery of the Double Rose is the basis for the advanced work undertaken by R J Stewart, which is now being taught to groups in various parts of the USA.

This unique workshop is taught only by R J Stewart, and forms part of his ongoing series of faery and underworld spiritual teachings: R J has been teaching faery magic workshops since 1981, in Britain, Europe, USA and Canada. He is the author of 41 books, and many CD recordings as a both a musician and spiritual teacher. Based on an ancient traditional form of folkloric magic from British and Irish faery tradition, this practical workshop introduces us to the empowerment of three small sticks for magic, meditation, and spiritual communion. One stick is for the Faery consciousness, one for the Human and Ancestral, and one for the Living Creatures. Bring three small sticks, approximately 3 to 4 inches, and a bag to keep them in. Your sticks should be "snapped" or found, and not cut with steel.We will discover and experience methods of empowering the sticks to enable them as ongoing powerful tools that greatly enhance magical spiritual life and inner work in many ways.

This workshop is open to all, no previous experience is necessary. If you have done Three Sticks training with R J before, this is a good opportunity to revise, renew, re-empower your sticks.

Books by R J that relate to this workshop are : Earthlight, Power Within the Land, The Well of Light (book and CD), The Living World of Faery. For more information browse the Stewart websites at: www.rjstewart.net www.rjstewart.org www.innerconvocation.com and www.dreampower.com. In the Autumn 2009 edition of Witches and Pagans magazine, read the feature faery interview, all about R J, interviewed by Thorn Coyle.