Faerie blog

20 years of the Queer Spirit Circle 3 February 2025 Albion Faeries and friends have been meeting at the Queer Spirit Circle since early 2005, when we first gathered in Stockwell in the group…

2024 Imbolc – krystal 18 December 2024 Imbolc 2024 Three times my life has changed dramatically and unexpectedly directly or indirectly through association with Glastonbury. The… Who are the Radical Faeries? 1 October 2024 “I propose that we Gay Folk, whom Great Nature has been assembling as a Separate People in these last 100,000 years, must now prepare to… Summer Transcendence Solstice Abundance Gathering 2024 1 April 2024 Where : YHA Minehead, Somerset When : 14th – 23rd June 2024 Yoo-Hoo Faeries! Come transgender spirits, gender non conforming bodies,… 2024 Decolonial Action 29 January 2024 · Workshops Decolonial Action – Radical Community Building and Recovering the Self with Carnelian Unlock decolonial wisdom! 10-week course empowers you… A Samhain Tale from the Faerie Castle 17 January 2024 · Featherstone, Gathering scribed after the Samhain 2023 gathering by NoName: In Featherstone Castle, when winter’s near, Samhain celebration, faeries gather here.…

subject:SUBJECT 23 November 2023 · Ancestors, History “When we begin to love and respect Great Mother Nature’s gift to us of gayness, we’ll discover that the bondage of our childhood and… The Mystical Art of Faerie Eclipse 13 November 2023 · Art Lose yourself in the sublime flow of these paintings by Eclipse, where they channel their creative Piscean moon feelings into visual… A new stage in the meaning of Gay Liberation. 5 March 2023 · History, Inclusivity “Fairies everywhere must begin to stand tall and beautiful in the sun. Fairies must begin to throw off the filthy green frog-skin of… 2023 A Safe Space? 5 February 2023 · Gathering, Reflection While many experience Faeriespace as a welcoming, healing space where personal growth is not only possible but inevitable, this is not the…

Radical Faerie Origins 22 June 2022 in the words of those who were there! From White Crane Journal #34, 1997 editor’s note: ‘Fairy was championed among hippie gay men, a… 2022 My Name Is Joseph And I Am A Pagan Priest. 31 May 2022 · Personal Stories, Workshops (Joe recently connected with the London Rad Faeries at a drum circle and offers us this introduction to his work…) My name is Jospeh and I… The Drum Circle Comes Home! 13 May 2022 · Events The Radical Faerie Queer Spirit Drum Circle has been meeting at south London’s Wheatsheaf Community Hall to celebrate full moons since…

An Ancient Reference to Gays as Faerie Spirits 1 October 2021 · History, Philosophy An Ancient Reference to Gays as Faerie Spirits There is an ancient religious text from Persia that directly associates men who love men…

When we once more meet together 2 December 2020 · Poetry & Prose, Reflection The Ancestors Rejoice in the Faeries as a tribe of Radical Adventurers moving beyond Pride and into the Power found inside through… Younity 19 October 2020 · Poetry & Prose By Charles Serendipity ‘In Vino Veritas’ Homage to Edward FitzGerald 1809 -1883 Smiling eyes – daring winks can lead to sharing drinks… Faerie dreaming 8 October 2020 · Featherstone, Gathering by Earth Spirit and Shokti Evening time by Earth Spirit He who sees also hears Bring onto me the babe in arms Heal the wounds of the past… Radical Faerie Gatherings: The Cultivation of Queerness 1 September 2020 · Gathering, History by Gay Socrates Radical Faeries have been gathering together and creating transient pop-up queer community for more than 40 years-ever… The Ancestors speak 12 August 2020 · Ancestors Earth Spirit been chatting with the Old Ones….. You know there were a lot of wise souls who walked the earth but people were not always… aLBIONFAERIES tHE SECOND WAVE 2012-2020 21 July 2020 · Featherstone, Gathering by Shokti At the Winter Solstice 2012, one month short of seven years since our first gathering at Featherstone Castle, the Albion Faeries… Memories from the Post-Lockdown-Bandstand-Drum-Circle 6 July 2020 · Events, Recollections Sunday 5th July 2020 By Sexual The Faeries came to play by the river. The people came out to enjoy the open space, walking, riding and… Graveyard in lockdown 24 April 2020 · Poetry & Prose 27th March 2020 Lock down conversations in a graveyard with the universe. By Grounded Spirit. I look around at the hills and wonder what… RADICAL FAERIES IN AFRICA 11 February 2020 The third GLOBAL RADICAL FAERIE GATHERING is happening at a retreat centre near Cape Town in South Africa 15-24th February, 2020. Over 100…

A NIGHT WITH THE ANCESTORS 20 November 2019 · Events The Albion Faerie Queer Spirit Drum Circle met for a post-Samhain full moon celebration of our friends the dead and all our spirit… Equinox Full Moon Queer Spirit Celebration 26 August 2019 · Events, History Wheatsheaf Hall, Wheatsheaf Lane, London SW8 2UP Friday September 13th 2019, 7 – 11pm The London Radical Faerie Drum Circle was at first… Poetry by Edward 14 April 2019 · Poetry & Prose Poem: I shall not stand by And next time you care To belittle my belovedI shall not be so Choice with my wordsI shall not stand byThe… Healing Power of the Drum 16 March 2019 “A new study published in PLoS scientifically validates what so many drum circle participants have already experienced first hand: group…

The Gates of SAMHAIN 26 October 2018 Albion Fae Samhain Circle at Oscar Wilde Temple, Clapham SW4. Photos by Mike Kear. SAMHAIN: the pagan new year festival of death and… Coming Home Healing Retreat Report 12 October 2018 · Gathering, Workshops 40 faeries gathered at the New Moon in Cancer for a week of healing retreat at Unstone Grange, a dedicated and beautiful ‘Centre for… 2018 “The Commodity of Youth in an Age of Austerity by Cunty” : A Response 30 May 2018 Radical Faerie tribal space is a cutting edge of queer consciousness, where the spirit of community, something often lamented as a lost… Redefining the Sacred, from 2 Flutes Playing 24 May 2018 · Philosophy ANDREW RAMER’s book TWO FLUTES PLAYING, written between 1980 and the early ’90s, is, in his words, “a book about Coming In, coming into… COMING HOME: A Radical Faerie Retreat 16 March 2018 · Gathering The Radical Faeries of Albion are planning a summer retreat in the Derbyshire hills at the Cancer New Moon FAERIE SEXUAL ON COMING HOME: A…