Inner Realm

Fairies 101 By Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

Fairies 101

By Doreen Virtue, Ph.D.

Chapter 2

Houses, Careers, and Other Gifts from the Fairies

To connect with the fairies, go outdoors. This is where hey  ive. The fairies love flowers, trees, shrubs, and bodies of water. They love gardens that grow freely, without tight manicuring or pesticides. As you’ll read within these pages, the fairies can help you with your garden so that you don’t need to use chemicals!

Once you’re outside, tell the fairies that you’d like to meet them. You can do this silently, aloud, or by leaving an offering. The fairies hear your thoughts, and they love gifts. They’re especially fond of candy (unwrapped, of course) and shiny objects like crystals.

The fairies will scan you to get a sense of how well you treat the environment and animals. If you pass this test, they’ll give you an assignment that you’ll receive as a thought or feeling. Usually, the fairies will ask you to gather and dispose of trash from the area you’re standing in. If you do so, they will gladly help you with whatever you ask, as Lisa Grubb discovered:

Lisa was upset by the all the trash that littered her favorite campsite. She’d just arrived to enjoy a camping trip and was in the process of gathering firewood. Yet instead of finding wood, all she could see was rubbish covering the grounds.

So Lisa started cleaning up the mountainside. With each piece of trash she picked up, she blessed the land and forgave the people who’d littered. She gathered six large bags of rubbish, but still had no firewood for her campsite. There weren’t even any burned-out logs in the camp fire pits.

Lisa decided to drive to a nearby facility to buy some wood. So she gathered her bags of rubbish and headed down the mountain. She put the rubbish in containers but found that no one was available to sell her some firewood.

She returned to her campsite and figured that she’d find wood later or just bundle up for the night. As she neared her campsite, Lisa was amazed to find a large stack of wood that was cut, split, and neatly stacked. She’d only been gone for 15 minutes and no one else was around. Where could the wood have come from?

All throughout the week, no one came to claim the wood. That’s when Lisa knew for sure that fairies had provided for her wonderful retreat that week, and rewarded her for her thoughtful conservation efforts.

I spoke with Lisa after she submitted this story to me, and discovered that she’s been talking to the fairies since she was a little girl. She is very ecology conscious and does what she can to help the environment. She says that the fairies always help her in exchange for her kindness to nature.

Like Lisa, Priscilla Palmer was rewarded by the fairies for picking up trash. The fairies’ gifts usually consist of items made from Mother Earth, like Lisa’s firewood and Priscilla’s crystal:

As Priscilla walked along the shores of Laguna Beach, California, she noticed a cove littered with empty water bottles, fast-food containers, cigarette butts, Styrofoam cups, and other plastic trash. She heard the fairies implore her to pick up the trash. Not having any bag to put the trash into, Priscilla promised to pick up the trash later.

As much as she wanted to keep her promise, the thought of picking up trash and touching someone else’s germs disgusted her. The next day in meditation, she heard the fairies say, “You promised to pick up the trash at Moss Cove. Are you going to do it?” Before she had a chance to argue with herself or the fairies, she grabbed some trash bags and returned to the cove.

Priscilla picked up all the trash that was easily accessible. Then her eye was drawn to an empty water bottle up on the hillside. She had to balance herself precariously to reach it. Upon picking up the bottle, she found a beautiful natural quartz crystal beneath it! Here was a gift from the fairies for keeping her promise!

As Priscilla picked up the crystal, she could feel the healing ocean and earth energy within it. She held it to her heart and thanked the fairies for their kindness. She heard them say, “Thank you for your kindness!”

So fairies offer unsolicited gifts to show us their gratitude for taking care of Mother Earth. Yet, if you’re regularly showing respect toward the environment and animals, the fairies will help you whenever you ask. You don’t need to do environmental work immediately before you ask the fairies for a gift. They’ll help whenever you ask, provided that you do something nice for the planet on a regular basis.

Fairies are brilliant manifestors, meaning that they know how to attract or create dreams and make them a reality. They remind us of the importance of staying true and positive about our desires.

Lisa Center received lots of help from the fairies in turning her life around in a positive way. She had been unemployed and renting a room at a friend’s house, while her children lived apart from her. Lisa desperately wanted to live with her kids in her own home by Christmastime. She also wished to get away from her traditional social-worker career and be employed in alternative healing.

Lisa recalls, “I spent as much time as possible outdoors and searched for work daily. I dreamed of living with my kids again. I’d visualize us spending Christmas in my home, decorated as if it were Santa’s cottage.”

One morning during meditation, Lisa was guided to find a piece of construction paper. She selected a piece of pink paper and began sketching without any plans for what she’d draw. She said, “I could hear gentle whispering in my ears as I drew, saying, ‘No, longer hair. No, draw the ears more like this. Yes, that’s it.’”

Finally, Lisa asked what she was drawing. The voice answered, “Not what. Whom!” So Lisa asked whom she was drawing. The voice replied, “Lilitte. I am the fairy who will be helping you manifest your dreams. I am with you, and you can call upon me for help at any time.”

Every time Lisa would lose faith in her search for employment, she’d look at the pink paper with Lilitte’s portrait and ask her for help. Soon after, Lisa received a wonderful job offer at a hospice in a neighboring county. It was just the sort of work that she’d dreamed of. Her new boss mentioned that she knew of a home for rent near the hospice.

When she first saw the cottage, Lisa knew that she was home. A small river ran through the front yard, and Lisa drove across a wooden bridge to park in front of the house. Most of the rooms were decorated in the same shade of pink as her portrait of Lilitte, the fairy.

That Christmas, Lisa’s wish came true. She was together with her family in her mountainside cottage, which was decorated with lights, garland, and bows.

Lisa says, “I felt so blessed at Christmastime. I walked outside to place bright red bows on either side of the wooden bridge and listened to the gentle roar of the river running beneath me. I looked around at the tall trees and thanked God for the privilege of living in the mountains. I began to walk toward the house, where I could see lights and decorations from the tree through my open windows.

“The setting sun hit the bright green tin roof that sheltered my red house. I heard whispering and knew that my fairy was enjoying my joy. My little home looked just like Santa’s cottage. I walked back to the house with the sound of fairy wings buzzing in my ears.”

The following excerpt is taken from the new book Fairies 101, by Doreen Virtue, Ph.D. It is published by Hay House (February 2007) and available at all stores or clicking on the Doreen Logos on the right....