Cottingley Fairies

In the case of The Cottingley Fairies two young girls from Bradford claim to have seen fairies at the bottom of their garden. Elsie Wright born 19th July, 1901 Frances Griffiths born 4th, September, 1907. 

Frances arrived in Cottingley in April, 1917 from South Africa so she would be aged 10. Her father was in the army who used the phrase “there are fairies at the bottom of our garden” this was a code meaning there were invaders during wartime. Elsie would have been 16 years old and had lived at Cottingley and absorbed the garden and woodland long before Frances arrived. Did she control the thoughts of Francis with talk of having seen fairies before. 

The girls first photographed the fairies in July, 1917. People presumed they had copied them from the book “Princess Mary’s gift book”. Lantern slide type pictures perhaps helping them to become eternal. They took these pictures which were examined by experts and claimed to be genuine prints. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle even got involved sending a psychic expert to Cottingley to check it out. So on the 14th, August, 1921 at 9pm the expert and the children were all hiding in the woods waiting to see if the fairies came again that night. It is said that they did indeed see fairies, was the psychic now also lying.  The light from both the Sun and the Moon made the energy extremely potent and they didn’t have to wait long before the spirit creatures arrived. What did their collective energies manage to create in this time and place. The Pisces ascendant in the chart is vibrating with mystical energy and Uranus in the first house could remind us to expect the unexpected in spiritual terms. . . .

If at all possible plant an Oak tree in your garden or a woodland and they can use this as a doorway to our world. You need to have faith and a total dedication of heart, body and soul in order to see. It would appear from what is written that they did see fairies again that night. Where they real or mere thought forms yet to manifest. I would rationally say of course they are not real but the more you read on this subject the more you realise that something magical was happening in the Woods at Cottingley all those years ago. I wonder if anything new has been reported since, a story like this doesn’t just fade.

Decades later the girls said they had faked the whole thing but in such a way as to make you believe they felt it best to do so in order not to appear crazy. Sometimes the truth is so out there it’s easier to let it go than to cling to it.

For me of course there are fairies in the woods at Cottingley, there are fairies in the woods everywhere, it’s up to us to get ourselves into a position that we have eyes to see them. They are hidden only from those who do not believe. 

Enjoy your thinking and take your children out into the woods and let’s see who sees fairies first. I wonder if the pituitary gland helps children to see with the light they are emanating and as we get older our pituitary gland is not so profuse and we lose that ability to see. Make sure your children get the chance to ‘see’ whilst they are still young enough to do so. X