Fairy Haunts of Ireland

In her new book Fairy Haunts of Ireland, master dowser Alanna Moore shares some of the many fairy insights she has gleaned over her years living in Ireland. In the book Alanna furnishes readers with a mix of fairy locations with photos and precious fairy lore, some of which she shares here.

So, what is meant by fairy passes in Ireland? ‘Earth energy flows have many names and a ‘fairy pass’ is one of them, also fairy lines. The Chinese might call these energy flows Dragon Lines/ Lung Mei. Here, earth energy flows in a serpentine manner around the landscape, meandering and curving, energising the land. You don’t want to obstruct them,’ Alanna cautions. ‘The fairies like to travel along these energy flows and they can get very upset, or the line will disappear if it’s disturbed.’

In her new book Alanna also delves into co-evolution with otherworldly beings, but what does this look like? ‘Nature spirits that have developed fond connections with groups of people have evolved to appear like and imitate the behaviours of humans, as seen by seers,’ she explains. ‘They enjoyed interacting energetically with people and went on to become guardian spirits, as well as the goddesses and gods, of their tribes. This has been happenning for millennia. When the tribes migrated, their tribal spirits went with them.’

Rivers, we learn, each have their own ruling goddesses. ‘From what I’ve worked out in Ireland, most of the river names were recycled from Celtic names from ancient Gaul, such as the Shannon, which is seemingly derived from the same name as the Seine in Paris,’ Alanna explains. ‘The Celtic tribes expected protection from their river deities, as rivers were often tribal boundaries. So they were beneficent sovreign beings, as well as fearsome protectors, not to be messed with!’

Not all fairy sites are benevolent, but how can we tell? ‘Fairies, by which I mean all nature spirits, have their territory and sacred places,’ Alanna reflects, ‘and if we mess them up they can get very cranky! Best to ask permission to visit ‘fairyland’, to avoid their wrath. Find out if fairiy places are present before making radical changes in your garden too.’

Most of us wouldn’t associate Ireland with a sun goddess, yet she is seen to play a treasured role . ‘Aine was Ireland’s sun goddess, but much more too,’ Alanna tells. ‘She had homes in lakes and across landscapes and was invoked to protect the crops as well as the land. The sun being so important to crop fertility in a dull, damp place, it’s not surprising really. It was common for the sun to be perceived as a goddess in ancient Europe.’

Représentation de Oisín et son voyage à Tir na nÓg – Public Domain

What then of Tir N’a Og, the Land of the Dead? Is there a relationship with fairies beyond the veil? ‘Some of the old Irish fairy tales of actual encounters speak of seeing the faces of the recently deceased amongst the ‘shee’, the fairy hordes,’ Alanna tells. ‘This suggests that the dead can be around us, just in another dimension, as the shee are. So the Land of the Dead is like a parallel universe. People who lived on the coast looked across the western ocean for the location of such a land, but people inland they knew it to be all around them, or beneath the ground.’

As a master dowser of over forty years, Alanna Moore, is author of ten books and many magazine articles. Her new book, Fairy Haunts of Ireland is now out. Alanna has made twenty-one films, produced a hundred Geomantica magazines about dowsing, and travelled extensively around Australia teaching dowsing and geomancy, and building Power Towers to enhance plant growth. Now based in Ireland, Alanna has also presented across Europe and New Zealand, in Malaysia and Taiwan. As a permaculture gardener she specialises in ‘sensitive permaculture’design, and features in the book Permaculture Pioneers. Visit her website at www.geomantica.com

The Spirit of the Land with Gaela Morrison

Some talk of the living spirit of the land – what is meant by this? Indigenous cultures all over the planet believe that there is spirit in everything, in the land, in buildings, in plants, in everything. Our relationship with the earth, with nature, with all beings includes the subtle world, the unseen realms and its many dimensions which is very much alive. There are nature spirits, spirits of the trees and plants, of the mineral kingdom, rivers, lakes, and valleys, mountains, larger over lighting spirits of the land, the spirits of the elements of earth, water, fire and air, ancestral spirits of the land.

Where There Are Dragons

Dragons mesmerise us but, in the west at least, they have slipped into the realm of pure myth. In so doing, what is lost to us? ‘The general assumption is that anything that is not seen with the physical eyes is not real. We are conditioned to look externally for our truth rather than within. As a consequence, we can forget our birthright; that anything is possible, and everything is probable,’ reflects Luisa, light-worker, coach, motivational speaker, whose experiences with dragons have been transformational.

‘Without this freedom of thought we can lose our intuitive ability to feel, to be creative, to be childlike, to sing our hearts truest song,’ Luisa explains, ‘but it [this intuitive ability] is never lost, just waiting patiently to be remembered. When you can see past illusion, we reclaim our full power as spiritual beings here to create positive change in the world.’