{"id":14224,"date":"2017-06-01T01:10:03","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T06:10:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/paganpages.org\/content\/?p=14707"},"modified":"2017-05-30T11:50:08","modified_gmt":"2017-05-30T16:50:08","slug":"interview-with-evernia-fay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/2017\/06\/01\/interview-with-evernia-fay\/","title":{"rendered":"Interview with Evernia Fay"},"content":{"rendered":"

Interview with\u00a0Evernia Fay:\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/b><\/span><\/span><\/span>The life &\u00a0Craft of this Connecticut Witch are One<\/span><\/b><\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Moss, dirt, lichen, bones, crystals, bark and a cicada all find their way into <\/span><\/span><\/span>one<\/span><\/span><\/span>-of-a-<\/span><\/span><\/span>kind<\/span><\/span><\/span> living botanical pendants made by Evernia Fay. Each contains its own spirit and energies. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cQuest,\u201d composed of mountain fork moss and Queen Anne’s lace with an amethyst point, is a talisman that brings balance, according to Fay\u2019s website, by integrating \u201cthe wisdom and magick of the dreamtime into your life. She connects what you learn into your waking time.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Broken fork moss with a triple scepter quartz makes up \u201cBirth\u201d \u2013 \u201ca <\/span><\/span><\/span>manifestation miracle<\/span><\/span><\/span>\u201d with power flowing through her crystal heart.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cStarman” \u2013 a combination of earth and meteorite \u2013 will connect the wearer with the cosmic energies and higher vibrations, expanding energies from the base chakra, up and outward.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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There are dozens more to choose from.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As a child, Fay was drawn to nature. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom the time I was little \u2026 I was always collecting things from nature and doing little rituals,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The moon always fascinated her.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cEspecially around full moons. I would be more sensitive to spirits and other things outside. I don\u2019t think I had imaginary friends when I was a kid, I think they were spirits. I think I was maybe 3 when I saw the first one in my room at night.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cAll the other kids thought I was weird, thought I was different. I didn\u2019t really have a lot of friends. I did a lot of stuff on my own out in the woods. I used to go out and get different things from plants and tree sap and make different topical salves for cuts and scrapes. I don\u2019t think I made anything that I ate.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She played with bees and snakes and communicated with stones and trees. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

As an adult, she continues to spend much time in the woods and wanted to be able to keep a part of it with her.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI wanted something I could wear for myself, so I came up with the idea \u2026 of a living <\/span><\/span><\/span>terrarium<\/span><\/span><\/span>.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

It began with a small locket from a craft store that she could put something in. So many people liked the picture of it she posted on Facebook, she started making them. Now they are encased in silver mixed metals and acrylic. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWear the earth and carry her energy with you,\u201d became the product\u2019s tagline.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Items are collected from nature in a sustainable fashion after asking permission and, if it\u2019s for magical use, leaving something as an offering.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Moss is a simple plant \u2013 its leaves are only one cell thick and it has no root system like other plants, she states on her website. It creates its nutrients from sunlight using photosynthesis. It is versatile and resilient; it can dry out completely yet remain alive, \u201cspringing up and enabling the reproduction process when soaked with water. It can be frozen for long periods of time and thaw fully awake and green.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lichens are related to moss \u2013 both having evolved from algae. It is a combination of algae and fungus and thus able to survive in places one or the other alone could not.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI am always drawn to the mosses and lichens when I hike. I love rubbing my bare feet on moss patches and drying my feet on the mossy banks of streams,\u201d Fay wrote. \u201cI can picture myself lying on a bed on moss under the trees deep in the woods, dreaming and breathing in all of the scents of the forest. I find moss very grounding. The lichens catch my attention and create a feeling of connection.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fay associates protection, connection, relationship, authenticity, versatility, resilience, renewal, rebirth, freedom and travel with moss and lichen. She sees them as magical beings with a connection to the ancients.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The jewelry she makes with them can be found on her website, <\/span><\/span><\/span>thewildfay.com<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/a><\/u>. She also sells at events, primarily in Connecticut and Massachusetts, but also at other festivals in the Northeast.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

I addition, Fay crafts charms and talismans using Frozen Charlotte dolls. The small Victorian-era china bisque dolls were made in Germany from 1850-1920 and got their name because they are pale and rigid, as if they were a girl who had frozen to death. Hers were excavated from the remains of factories in Nuremberg that had been bombed and ransacked. They are dated from 1860-1890.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She made \u201cCharlotte Rue,\u201d a protection talisman, using rue and other herbs. She has snakeskin at her base and is wrapped in black ribbon. She was made on a Saturday, anointed with oil and is associated with the energies of Saturn.<\/span><\/span><\/span>_ <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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\u201cCharlotte Eve\u201d is holding a bundle of mugwort and other herbs. Anointed with oil and wrapped in white ribbon, she has a protective spirit charm attached. She was made on Monday and carries the energies of the moon.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Other charms are made with doll hands that are anointed with oils for the specific days and planetary influences. They have veins and ribbon in the associated colors of the days and influence. Charged with an intended purpose, \u201cHelping Hands\u201d offer such outcomes as protection, finding lost articles, controlling emotions and monetary gain.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Her newest creation \u2013 launched in late May \u2013 are handmade herbal pendants and pocket pieces: one for prosperity and one for new beginnings.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThey are made on the specific day for the most potent energies, with the appropriate herbs and\/or oils and are made during the waxing moon in order to increase the desired purpose,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She prepared the herbs, and made the clay.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cInstructions to personally charge them will be included,\u201d she said.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Pieces for additional purposes were in the works.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

They, too, can be found on her website and at shows. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Fay talked about her life, recalling a time when she tried to \u201cfit in\u201d with the mainstream. She said she gave up after \u201ca lot of really bad stuff happened. \u2026 I lost myself.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

About 14, she began reading books on paganism, witchcraft and the occult, and everything seemed to make sense.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI started with basic candle and crystal magic, divination and nature work. I found that I could cause street lights to turn off at will as I passed. <\/span><\/span><\/span>.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cWhen I was in college, there was a girl who was interested in witchcraft, so we made up our own rituals.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

For the most part, she depended on her intuition and books to guide her along her path.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

After practicing as solitary for a long time, earlier this year, she took an oath and joined a coven, The Society of Witchcraft and Old Magick, and noted, \u201cOur path incorporates both ceremonial [high] and folk [low] magick.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

She wrote in a blog post, \u201cWitchcraft in and of itself is a practice and a craft. It is not necessarily a religion. Magick is a science. I am pagan and I am a witch.\u201d <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cPeople who are interested in witchcraft and look into it and start working with it will decide either they are or they aren\u2019t [a witch]. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as much of a practice as something you are, that you find, or that finds you,\u201d she said. \u201cI was born this way.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Once she began creating magickal, energetic things, she said, everything fell into place. She began living her craft. And that, she said, is when the real magic happens. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cI keep thinking of what I want to start doing,\u201d Fay said of creating witch balls and \u201call these other \u2026 magically and spelly kinds of things.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

Find Evernia Fay on Facebook <\/a>and online at thewildfay.com<\/a>.<\/i><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Interview with\u00a0Evernia Fay:\u00a0The life &\u00a0Craft of this Connecticut Witch are One Moss, dirt, lichen, bones, crystals, bark and a cicada all find their way into one-of-a-kind living botanical pendants made by Evernia Fay. Each contains its own spirit and energies. \u201cQuest,\u201d composed of mountain fork moss and Queen Anne’s lace with an amethyst point, is a talisman that brings balance, according to Fay\u2019s website, by integrating \u201cthe wisdom and magick of the dreamtime into your life. She connects what you learn into your waking time.\u201d Broken fork moss with a triple scepter quartz makes up \u201cBirth\u201d \u2013 \u201ca manifestation miracle\u201d with power flowing through her crystal heart. \u201cStarman” \u2013 a combination of earth and meteorite \u2013 will connect the wearer with the cosmic energies and higher vibrations, expanding energies from the base chakra, up and outward. There are dozens more to choose from. As a child, Fay was drawn to nature. \u201cFrom the time I was little \u2026 I was always collecting things from nature and doing little rituals,\u201d she said. The moon always fascinated her. \u201cEspecially around full moons. I would be more sensitive to spirits and other things outside. I don\u2019t think I had imaginary friends when I was a kid, I think they were spirits. I think I was maybe 3 when I saw the first one in my room at night. \u201cAll the other kids thought I was weird, thought I was different. I didn\u2019t really have a lot of friends. I did a lot of stuff on my own out in the woods. I used to go out and get different things from plants and tree sap and make different topical salves for cuts and scrapes. I don\u2019t think I made anything that I ate.\u201d She played with bees and snakes and communicated with stones and trees. As an adult, she continues to spend much time in the woods and wanted to be able to keep a part of it with her. \u201cI wanted something I could wear for myself, so I came up with the idea \u2026 of a living terrarium.\u201d It began with a small locket from a craft store that she could put something in. So many people liked the picture of it she posted on Facebook, she started making them. Now they are encased in silver mixed metals and acrylic. \u201cWear the earth and carry her energy with you,\u201d became the product\u2019s tagline. Items are collected from nature in a sustainable fashion after asking permission and, if it\u2019s for magical use, leaving something as an offering. Moss is a simple plant \u2013 its leaves are only one cell thick and it has no root system like other plants, she states on her website. It creates its nutrients from sunlight using photosynthesis. It is versatile and resilient; it can dry out completely yet remain alive, \u201cspringing up and enabling the reproduction process when soaked with water. It can be frozen for long periods of time and thaw fully awake and green.\u201d Lichens are related to moss \u2013 both having evolved from algae. It is a combination of algae and fungus and thus able to survive in places one or the other alone could not. \u201cI am always drawn to the mosses and lichens when I hike. I love rubbing my bare feet on moss patches and drying my feet on the mossy banks of streams,\u201d Fay wrote. \u201cI can picture myself lying on a bed on moss under the trees deep in the woods, dreaming and breathing in all of the scents of the forest. I find moss very grounding. The lichens catch my attention and create a feeling of connection.\u201d Fay associates protection, connection, relationship, authenticity, versatility, resilience, renewal, rebirth, freedom and travel with moss and lichen. She sees them as magical beings with a connection to the ancients. The jewelry she makes with them can be found on her website, thewildfay.com. She also sells at events, primarily in Connecticut and Massachusetts, but also at other festivals in the Northeast. I addition, Fay crafts charms and talismans using Frozen Charlotte dolls. The small Victorian-era china bisque dolls were made in Germany from 1850-1920 and got their name because they are pale and rigid, as if they were a girl who had frozen to death. Hers were excavated from the remains of factories in Nuremberg that had been bombed and ransacked. They are dated from 1860-1890. She made \u201cCharlotte Rue,\u201d a protection talisman, using rue and other herbs. She has snakeskin at her base and is wrapped in black ribbon. She was made on a Saturday, anointed with oil and is associated with the energies of Saturn._ \u201cCharlotte Eve\u201d is holding a bundle of mugwort and other herbs. Anointed with oil and wrapped in white ribbon, she has a protective spirit charm attached. She was made on Monday and carries the energies of the moon. Other charms are made with doll hands that are anointed with oils for the specific days and planetary influences. They have veins and ribbon in the associated colors of the days and influence. Charged with an intended purpose, \u201cHelping Hands\u201d offer such outcomes as protection, finding lost articles, controlling emotions and monetary gain. Her newest creation \u2013 launched in late May \u2013 are handmade herbal pendants and pocket pieces: one for prosperity and one for new beginnings. \u201cThey are made on the specific day for the most potent energies, with the appropriate herbs and\/or oils and are made during the waxing moon in order to increase the desired purpose,\u201d she said. She prepared the herbs, and made the clay. \u201cInstructions to personally charge them will be included,\u201d she said. Pieces for additional purposes were in the works. They, too, can be found on her website and at shows. Fay talked about her life, recalling a time when she tried to \u201cfit in\u201d with the mainstream. She said she gave up after \u201ca lot of really bad stuff happened. \u2026 I lost myself.\u201d About 14, she began reading books on paganism, witchcraft and the occult, and everything seemed to make sense. \u201cI started with basic candle and crystal magic, divination and nature work. I found that I could cause street lights to turn off at will as I passed. . \u201cWhen I was in college, there was a girl who was interested in witchcraft, so we made up our own rituals.\u201d For the most part, she depended on her intuition and books to guide her along her path. After practicing as solitary for a long time, earlier this year, she took an oath and joined a coven, The Society of Witchcraft and Old Magick, and noted, \u201cOur path incorporates both ceremonial [high] and folk [low] magick.\u201d She wrote in a blog post, \u201cWitchcraft in and of itself is a practice and a craft. It is not necessarily a religion. Magick is a science. I am pagan and I am a witch.\u201d \u201cPeople who are interested in witchcraft and look into it and start working with it will decide either they are or they aren\u2019t [a witch]. I don\u2019t think it\u2019s as much of a practice as something you are, that you find, or that finds you,\u201d she said. \u201cI was born this way.\u201d Once she began creating magickal, energetic things, she said, everything fell into place. She began living her craft. And that, she said, is when the real magic happens. \u201cI keep thinking of what I want to start doing,\u201d Fay said of creating witch balls and \u201call these other \u2026 magically and spelly kinds of things.\u201d Find Evernia Fay on Facebook and online at thewildfay.com.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":210,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":2,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/210"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14224\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/paganpages.org\/emagazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}