Editor’s Nook

Elizabeth Kirwin is editor and founder of FairiesInAmerica.com, a website that’s been live for 17 years. 

Magic leaves a trace in our world. FairiesInAmerica.com has been online for 17 years, and is still going strong.  Many things have changed: I have lived in 5 different states, Virginia, North Carolina, Colorado, New Jersey and now Pennsylvania. Everywhere I live there are magical people, practicing earth-based spirituality. tending the land where they live, nurturing animals, cultivating crystal magic, engaging in healing practices, expressing their sexual or gender identity, creating art and living in community. I am always amazed at the many manifestations of the magical lifestyle. For every assault on our sovereignty, whether it’s political, economic, social or personal, magic brings us back to who we deeply are, and so mote it be! May we never forget this. And, if we do, a magical companion is either there, or manifests, to remind us once again to put our feet on the path. I feel it’s so important to have magical entities in our lives that we can turn to when the world becomes dark and ominous.  Even if these entities are on the other side – our guides, our fairy co-walkers, our ancestors – we must know we are never alone

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As founder and Editor of FairiesInAmerica.com, I feel it’s essential that I tell you, the audience, who I deeply am. I have always been an avid outdoors woman, hiking, camping and backpacking in the national forests and wilderness areas of Western Virginia, Western North Carolina and Tennessee. I have practiced the magical arts for 30 years and have had many magical companions and teachers. I’m an avid practitioner of fairy magic, and am steeped in the teachings of Starhawk, R.J. Stewart and W. Y. Evans Wentz. Much of my creative work is informed by my approach to egalitarian magical practices and a pantheistic view of the world. I am a changeling in the fairy tradition. I practice shapeshifting from male to female, from changeling to god or goddess, from changeling to animal, and changeling to any other entity. The changeling is a fairy child who’s been exchanged for a human baby, and does not belong to the human world, but rather, the world of fairies. The changeling is often feared and despised by their own family (and sometimes even killed for being different). Families often refrain from killing the changeling, because they fear retribution by the fairies.  When it comes to gender identity, I call myself she and I do not identify as Cis-gendered. One thing is for sure. I know we MUST express what is within us with respect to our gender. It cannot be repressed, or it becomes dangerous. We MUST express ourselves publicly and privately and openly love our dual natures of flesh and spirit, as male and/or female – or both or neither, as animal and human, as light and dark.  Fairies know (and learn) how to assimilate duality and celebrate this illusion  – through the magic we make.