LavenderHeather

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“Like, do faeries have certain elemental affinities? Though I talk about the earth and nature a lot I find that it’s water and air more specifically that I’m drawn to.”

Some do, others do not. It’s certainly not a requirement.

“And do faeries really have wings or are they more like projections of energy/aura?”

Good question! In older traditional lore of northwestern Europe, the human-shaped otherworldly peoples (fairy folk, alfar, daoine sidhe) don’t have wings (or pointed ears for that matter) – see https://lairbhan.blogspot.com/2017/12/why-do-elves-have-pointed-ears.html for some more on this, and why they may have come in through the practices of Victorian-era theater. But that said, a lot of fae otherkin seem to have them in one form or another. In the winged forms I remember they were at least partly physical but not used for flight, and by the same token they were at least partly nonphysical and more like energy projections; I’ve used the phrase “a tattoo of light on the air”. One of the folks in the SF Bay Otherkin meetup (a pixie, I think) says she thinks of wings as a metaphor for an energy shape.

“How would I be able to tell what mine look like?”

My not-useful answer is that I just kinda know. It’s just part of what I think of when I picture myself, the same way I know what color my hair is.

Hello! I’ve recently come to understand that I am also a fae, and my search for more knowledge on this brought me to Otherkin. I’d love to connect, and talk! I’m a bit confused and lost too 😕