What do Fairies ACTUALLY
look like?

by Alice

I have read all of your pages, including "How to see Fairies". Now, you said we Mortals imagine them to be little Humans with wings. Well, I don't mean to be rude, but you haven't made it clear to me what they actually look like. I can't imagine a little human, I just can't, but possibly that's what some look like. So please help me, what do Fairies REALLY look like? Thankyou very much.

Ophelia Fey says -- Alice, thank you for asking this question. I am sure others wonder the same thing. It is difficult to narrow this down, because humans see with human eyes, and tend to only see forms that they are used to seeing. Most do not see other energy forms in nature, which is what we are. And also, it depends on:
Who is looking?
Perhaps that sounds strange.
But your eyes see energy patterns differently than those of a reptile, which see emanations of energy, like heat. So everything looks quite different to them. And a dog will see something else.

Let me begin by saying, we are what we are in our natural state. And then we are what we are when we choose to take on more form, or densify ourselves, you might say -- change our frequency -- to interact with different dimensions. Most nature spirits do not do this. Yet we are present around you. Some of us do, as it is our purpose and of interest for us to interact.

Therefore, when we do take on form, we would appear to you in a way in which you are familiar. You may have read stories about people seeing angels -- who do much the same thing, taking on a familiar form for you. Otherwise, people would not know what they are seeing. Obviously, they would not look like you in the heavenly world.

That is how it is with us, and why very small fae have been seen as small, sort of human shapes, with wings. Yet probably transparent looking, and as if camouflaged in the nature around them. As if morphing out of it. But we are not all small. I certainly am not, although I could become a small form if I so desired. But why would I. Well I supposed I would under certain circumstances. But I digress...

And so we appear as we appear. To whomever is looking.
Therefore, a reptile may say, "It looked this way."
But a dog may say, "Not at all, it looked this way."
A nature spirit would say, about one of our own, "Actually, we look quite another way."
And a person may say, "No, it looked this way, and I know it did, because I saw it." But they only saw it with their own eyes. Do you see?

I would say, to make it less confusing, that we would mostly look to you like light forms, with a body of sorts. And the wings that you see would be emanations of energy that are emitted from our forms as we move. This is how we would mostly look in our most natural state. That is how some of you may see us. Yet some who can see into the Unseen, may see more detail.

For us in Faerie, however, our forms look quite "real" and complex to us, just as yours do to you. It's just that most of you cannot perceive us the same way as we perceive ourselves.

I hope this has not confused matters even more. It is difficult to describe things to another being who is from another place. But the bottom line is, we look as we look to whomever is looking.

Ophelia Fey