Domythic Bliss: Ways to Make Your Home Inviting to the Fey
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Speak your intent out loud, and be specific who you seek and invite. Not all fey are benevolent.
Still set your boundaries and shield your home.
Start leaving offerings regularly. It doesn’t have to be daily, but don’t just wait for the holidays/sabbats.
Talk to the fey. Acknowledge their fun when they do relatively harmless pranks. Learn to be okay with it when they do. Try to explain to them that hiding one sock and hiding your keys are two different levels of fun, and the latter can be scary instead of humorous to humans.
Learn what they like. For instance, my fey dislike clapping or smoke bundles to clear energy, but they love the gentle ring of small brass bells.
Bring in nature. Rocks, branches, dried mushrooms. Listen to be sure what you bring in is welcome (to the item and to the faeries and to the home), and leave an offering behind. If you can’t do real plants, try dried or faux. Search for hagstones by the creek or on the beach. Let them know you’re trying to see them.
Plant faerie friendly flowers like bluebells and foxgloves in your garden.
Wish the faeries goodnight and good morning. Greet them when you get home and say goodbye when you leave for work.
If you are making changes to your home, include them. Explain what’s happening. If you have to have the tree trimmed, or have workers in your house, be sure they know.
If you’re going on a vacation or leaving for a period of time, let them know this too. See if anyone wants to travel with you.
Put up art that feels like faerie truth. Brian Froud, Wendy Froud, Iris Compiet, Brett Manning, the Victorian fairy painters, Arthur Rackham, John Bauer.
Go to nature and tell everyone there how enticing your home is. Tell your home fey where you’ve been in nature and bring gifts back for them. Moyque loves rocks. Adley loves flowers. Visit the Dambo trolls and take pictures with them. Go to a fairy trail at a public park.
Put matching faerie doors somewhere in your garden and somewhere in your home. Faeries aren’t bound by walls, so they don’t actually need them, but it’s a nice gesture.
Sing in your home. Try to listen to what sort of music they like and dislike.
Tell stories out loud. If you’re listening to an audiobook, maybe go without headphones for a while.
Dance in your home. Do it like no one is watching, even though the faeries are. They don’t judge. They just like seeing joyful movement.
Try to be environmentally kind in your choices in the home. Recycle. Try to avoid harsh chemicals. Grow your own food or buy locally when you can. Explain to the faeries you’re doing this out of respect for nature.
Add touches of seasonal whimsy to your home. Make a dandelion wish garland in spring. Weave a Brigid’s cross in late winter.
Bring a tree branch (safely, make sure no bugs call it home!) inside and invite guests to wish on it with a biodegradable ribbon. Burn the branch annually at a midsummer bonfire (or back yard fire) and choose and start a new branch for that year’s wishes.
Open your windows to let in some fresh air every now and then in every season.
Tell the fey you love them.
