Blessings To All

Crystal Visions

I decided that I would share a list of the crystals that I now have and their metaphysical properties. Most of these stones are on a table I like to call my "manifestation table." It is in the center of where I cast my circles on the New and Full Moons. I also have a piece of skin that a snake had shed that I found. That represents to me rebirth. A letting go of the past and a chance to for rebirth and growth. I have a bear's claw as well which represents to me strength. The strength to carry on even when times get tough. Here is my list:

Celestite - It has been called a "Teacher for the New Age” and connects to the divine energy of angelic realms. These crystals can bring harmony and inner peace, and can be used with the Third Eye Chakra. Celestite can also be used to balance the Throat Chakra. Its ability to heighten divine intuition makes Celestite especially useful for a Reiki practice. Celestite gives courage to those who suffer from agoraphobia (fear of crowds), public speaking or even stage fright.

Scolecite - This stone works best on the Third Eye and Crown Chakras, instilling a sense of peace and stillness to the mind and body. It is especially beneficial to those who are driven to panic attacks in crowded rooms, bringing about a calm and relaxed state of mind. Scolecite brings about a restful sleep, which is ideal for insomniacs. Meditating with Scolecite enhances communication with spirit guides. In the workplace or home, Scolecite brings about a “team” atmosphere, helping all to work toward a common goal.

Apophylite - This crystal cleanses and balances the Heart Chakra energy. It can bring clarity to decisions and situations of the heart by allowing the holder to see all sides of the issue, untainted by fear or ego. Green Apophyllite can assist in the "letting go" of issues that no longer serve and allow the act of forgiveness and healing. It will balance the emotions with a gentle, loving energy and enhance spiritual growth.

Green Aventurine -  This stone comforts, harmonizes, and protects the heart, and can help attract love later in life. Green Aventurine is good for working with the Heart Chakra and with the Water Elements. Green Aventurine is known as the good luck stone and is often used in rituals with green candles, or kept in cash boxes or drawers to attract money. It has a particularly soothing energy behind it, and is recommended for working through unresolved emotional issues.

Amethyst - An Amethyst is a powerful and protective crystal, it was used in ancient times to recover from both physical addictions as well as addictive relationships, and became know as the “stone of sobriety”. A natural stress reliever, Amethyst encourages and supports inner strength. The strong healing energy of Amethyst can transmute lower vibrations to higher frequencies, transforming negative energy to love energy.
This crystal connects the physical plane with higher realm, making it a good choice when working with the Third Eye Chakra. Amethyst also provides a wonderful peaceful energy for meditations, and helps with developing intuition and psychic abilities. It opens and activates the Crown Chakra, allowing easier access to the divine. Amethyst enhances spiritual awareness and spiritual wisdom, promoting a higher state of consciousness. Amethyst clears and repairs holes in the aura and draws in Divine energy, as well as aligning and fostering cooperation between the energy bodies.

Blue Tiger Eye (Hawk's Eye) - This is a very calming stone and reduces stress. Blue Tiger Eye can help to calm an overactive sex drive, and is good for the Throat and Third Eye Chakras. Shimmery Blue Tiger Eye can illuminate issues that may have been difficult to see otherwise. While all forms of Tiger Eye help to raise vibrations, Tiger Eye also balances higher energies with the lower Chakras, which keeps you feeling connected when working with higher goals.

Golden Tiger Eye - Combining Earth energy with that of the Sun, Golden Brown Tiger Eye draws Spiritual energy down to the Earth, while still keeping you centered here on the ground. Tiger Eye helps to raise vibrations, while also connecting these higher energies to the lower Chakras, keeping you feeling in balance and connected when working with higher goals. Sunny Tiger Eye brings brightness and optimism to a situation, and shines insight onto problems. Known as a stone of protection, especially for travelers, Tiger Eye brings good luck and prosperity to the user. Ancients used Tiger Eye as a talisman against bad luck and curses. Tiger Eye attracts abundance and can also stimulate the rise of Kundalini energies. Golden Tiger Eye is a powerful Solar Plexus Chakra stone, helpful in manifesting ideas into reality and giving courage in times of change. Use Golden Brown Tiger Eye with the Solar Plexus Chakra to increase your personal power. With intention, surround a lit green candle with Tiger Eye to attract prosperity.

Blue Lace Agate - It is both a grounding and a spiritual stone, allowing for one to bring their spiritual experiences into their everyday reality. Agate is believed to improve mental functions and can help where issues of clarity and stability are concerned. Agate is also helpful in overcoming negative emotions by bringing love into the Chakras. Although they work very slowly and deliberately, this gentle nature of Agate helps it to have a lasting impact. Blue Lace Agate is great for activating and healing the Throat Chakra and for balancing the brain. This stone enhances verbal communication and expression, helping one to be more discerning in their word choices. It is said to be a very supportive stone, promoting the acceptance of one's emotions. This calming stone can help those who may be feeling depressed or worried, and is believed to bring peacefulness. Blue Lace Agate is also used for dissolving repressive blocks that inhibit expression. Writers can use Blue Lace Agate to help with articulating inspired ideas.

Selenite - Selenite calms, brings deep peace, and offers access to past and future lives. Selenite brings mental clarity, clearing confusion and revealing the bigger picture behind problems. A protective stone, Selenite shields a person or space from outside influences. Selenite can evoke protection from the angelic realm and also dispels negative energy. Selenite is a crystallized form of gypsum. The name Selenite comes from the Greek word for moon and means “moon glow," and these tumbled Selenite pieces do glow with a shimmery, pearl-like luster. The powerful vibration of Selenite opens the Crown and Higher Chakras and is excellent for meditation or spiritual work.

Sunstone  - Metaphysically, Sunstone is known for its powerful connection to the light and power of the sun. Sunstone brings light to all situations, and carrying a piece around with you can help your personal power to "shine." Once known as a stone of good luck, Sunstone has a bright, joyful energy that increases vitality and lightens dark moods. Sunstone helps empower those who feel persecuted or abandoned by others instilling confidence, optimism, encouraging motivation, and positive action. Sunstone is also useful in removing energy-draining ties to you or "hooks" into your energy by other people. It is a great stone for the Solar Plexus Chakra, but can clear and energize all Chakras. Sunstone was used by the Canadian Indians in medicine wheel rituals, by the ancient Greeks to represent the Sun Gods, and in ancient India for protection from dark forces from other realms.

Sodalite -  By stimulating the Pineal Gland, Sodalite clears the Third Eye, and deepens meditation. Working with the Throat and Third-Eye Chakras, Sodalite is thought to combine these energies in such a way as to allow the fusion of logic and intellect with intuitive knowledge. Sodalite is often used when altruism and/or idealism are needed in a situation. It can help facilitate a sense of internal knowing of the intuitive ideas that are necessary to one's spiritual evolution. Sodalite is said to promote companionship, and can be used in group settings where cooperation is needed. Sodalite can be quite helpful to someone in need of enhancing their intuitive abilities. Sodalite is also very helpful for those who seem to be encountering many difficulties in their life, as it can bring unhealthy ingrained patterns to the surface to be released, and it can promote deep self-examination to reveal underlying causes to one's problems. When dealing with such covert issues, one should work with the stone consistently, by meditating with it and possibly sleeping with it under the pillow to help bring productive dreams.

Unakite - Unakite balances the emotional and spiritual bodies, and provides gentle release of blockages. It is great for self-healing and recovery, and can be helpful to those suffering from chronic illness. Many use Unakite to bring the subconscious mind to a remembering of perfect health. Unakite has a gentle action of sending out peaceful vibes to those nearby. It can be useful at work or home, emanating calming energies into the environment. A Third Eye Chakra stone, Unakite is good for opening one up to spiritual growth and psychic visions. Meditate with tumbled Unakite on the Third Eye to bring knowledge in from the higher self into the heart for understanding and implementation.

Seraphinite - So named for its connectivity to the highest choir of angels, Seraphinite offers spiritually beneficial energies to those who encounter it. Seraphinite is a stone of light energy. Pulling higher vibrations into the subtle bodies, It can work with each of the Chakras, infusing them with divine energies. Seraphinite can be helpful to those experiencing a reactional depression. Working with Seraphinite during meditation can help those who lack purpose to discover their place in the universe. While it is known to work with all Chakras, Seraphinite can have stronger effects on the Heart and Crown Chakras. It is also known for connecting with the devic realm and the higher self. It clears blockages in the Chakras and enhances the aura, and it can have beneficial effects for both the wearer and the person nearby. Seraphinite also makes a great crystal to keep in the home, office, or even the car, where it can emit its protective angelic energies out into the environment. Seraphinite can be used by experienced spiritual adepts to raise the Kundalini Energies up along the spinal column.  Seraphinite is well-known as a superb healing crystal, offering balance and strength where these qualities are lacking. Many crystal healers love Seraphinite for its ability to bring light energy into the DNA, for accelerated healing. Its ability to focus on the Heart and Crown Chakras adds to its healing effects in these regions of the body.

Blue Kyanite - Blue Kyanite is especially good for working with the Throat Chakra and communication issues. It helps to speak one’s truth with clarity, making it a great stone for public speakers and performers. Blue Kyanite also facilitates an alignment of all the subtle bodies, creating a larger and stronger aura. An excellent Third-Eye Chakra stone, Blue Kyanite can pull very high vibrations in through this Chakra to be processed as messages from other realms. It can transfer a high vibration, allowing for an opening of psychic abilities, especially during meditation. Blue Kyanite can also be used to promote lucid dreaming and astral travel. Kyanite transmits and amplifies high-frequency energies, making it a great stone for attunements and meditation. Kyanite brings a calming, tranquilizing energy to the body. Kyanite clears and calms you in preparation for meditation, and assists in receiving intuitive and psychic thoughts, as well as dream recall. Kyanite restores Qi (or Ki) to the physical body, and balances yin/yang energies.

Black Kyanite - This stone has the ability to unblock stagnant energies throughout the Chakras and Nadis. Many crystal healers like it because it can be at once grounding and energizing. Meditating with Black Kyanite can help one to come up with important insights resulting from exploration of the subconscious mind.

Hematite -  This helps to absorb negative energy and calms you in times of stress or worry. Hematite is a very protective stone, and is great to carry to help you stay grounded in many situations. Hematite can boost confidence, and is also good for working with the Root Chakra. Hematite can help one to find their own gifts and to release self-imposed limitations. It can help with the ascension process, by facilitating the integration of higher spiritual energies into our physical 3-D existence. Hematite is also used to protect against geopathic stress and electromagnetic smog, and is said to be a great detoxifying stone, helpful for the liver and the blood. This stone helps when one is in need of balance and equilibrium, or when having difficulty focusing energies. Hematite is also said to be useful in legal situations, and is thought to strengthen one's self-confidence.

Black Tourmaline - This stone works with the Root Chakra to ground energy and promote vitality.
Black Tourmaline is a highly protective stone that can repel all types of negativity and electromagnetic pollution. Black Tourmaline cleanses and balances the aura. You can also use Black Tourmaline to promote a positive outlook, despite the circumstances. Many work with the purifying energies of Black Tourmaline for both physical and emotional healing purposes. It cleanses, purifies, and transforms dense energy into a lighter vibration. Carrying Tumbled Black Tourmaline can help to strengthen one's fortitude against a highly negative environment, such as what can commonly be found in the workplace. Use black tourmaline to protect against stress and to minimize obsessive thoughts. By providing much needed balance, black tourmaline can help one to remain detached and neutral, and better able to make wise decisions even during confusing situations.

Rainbow Moonstone -  Reminiscent of moonlight, the Rainbow Moonstone is partially translucent and glows with rainbow colors in blue, green, pink and/or gold. Moonstone is related to Labradorite and Rainbow Moonstone is sometimes called White Labradorite. They are perfect to use in any healing session or in your meditations. In general, Moonstone is associated with the Moon and thus is a wonderfully helpful stone for women. A stone of intuition and insight, It helps us to connect to all the different cycles we experience in life. Moonstone helps balance the emotional body, especially any aggressive tendencies in males or females. Many people find moonstone to be very soothing and use it to help relieve stress. Working with the Third-Eye and Crown Chakras, Rainbow Moonstone connects us to Divine Inspiration, and channels it into our own intuition. This stone encourages introspection and judgment, yielding easier decision making. Moonstone also enhances one's emotional vision, bringing greater creative abilities and freedom of expression. These properties are also enhanced by Rainbow Moonstone's ability to open one up to increased balance that we often cannot see due to being wrapped up in our daily routines. Rainbow Moonstone can also offer increased patience and allowing, so those newly found balances can flow into our lives unimpeded. The Rainbow Moonstone can raise our vibrational frequency to create a smoother transition into meditation. It calms the physical mind from the chatter that can affect our meditative state. This allows us to simply "BE" in that space with no distraction. Rainbow Moonstone allows the Crown Chakra and those above to open and bring in loving white healing energies that will flow through us to the very core of our being. Rainbow Moonstone helps us to remember our true nature.

Carnelian - Used in ancient times to protect the dead in their journey to the afterlife, Carnelian Agate, usually just called Carnelian, is a powerful Sacral Chakra Stone. Carnelian increases personal power and physical energy, gives courage, and boosts creativity and compassion. Mentally, Carnelian focuses analytical capabilities, and aids meditation by allowing deeper concentration and keeping out interrupting thoughts. Carnelian is useful in making decisions by keeping us focused on the here and now and not on past experiences. Carnelian calms anger and grounds you in reality, while keeping you aware of unconditional Love permeating the Universe. Carnelian encourages initiative and determination.

Needless to say I am becoming good friends with the people that work at the gem store here in Asheville, and they definitely know it's Thursday when they see me!

Enjoy Life!

Sympathy For The Devil

Ever since the moon started waning I've been working on letting go of some things that are just not working in my life and things that I feel are holding me back. Among some of those things are negative self talk, and drinking alcohol.

Back in my teens, twenties, and early thirties I drank quite heavily and pretty much every day. Something happened though and the desire to drink was completely taken away from me. I no longer even had a taste for it. I simply didn't want it. It was really weird and could almost be described as being something of a miracle. I didn't drink from my early thirties until just recently and I started drinking a little wine because I felt that would be okay. Wrong...it gave the taste for alcohol back to me.

Like I said I've been working on letting it go along with negative self talk. Something really strange happened in my mind this morning that I want to share with you. I had gotten up really super early....like 3 am early...anyway, I decided to see who was online on a website that men in my area use to hook up. I started talking to a man and found out that he lives near me. There was a problem though....neither of us drive. He was afraid to walk to my place because I live in a pretty rough area of the city. I'm used to it...I've been down on this level for a long time and have become pretty street wise. Actually, I have gotten to know most of the crackheads and prostitutes around here. I was trying to decide if I wanted to walk to his place. I told him that I couldn't make up my mind and he asked me what it would take to convince me. I thought, "Well now..." I told him that I thought that was an interesting, intriguing question. He offered to give me a couple of beers when I got there to rejuvenate me from the exertion of walking there. That did it for me....a chance to hook up and have a few beers....yee haa....

When I got there, the man had a really nice house with expensive stuff all around. He's nice looking and super intelligent and after the dirty deed I'm sitting there drinking my fourth beer in the span of like an hour and we're talking. We had a really good conversation. I found out that he does conflict resolution for law firms, has traveled extensively, and several other facts that made me want to be in his reality instead of the one I'm in. I finished my beer and told him that I had better start walking back home. I started walking and I had a damned good buzz going on. I was making my way through the city back home and suddenly a song popped into my mind. Just the first line....I couldn't remember any more of the lyrics. That first line just kept playing over and over. Please allow me to introduce myself, please allow me to introduce myself. The sun had just started coming up and I'm walking past some of the bars downtown when I started noticing really large cigarette butts on the sidewalk. I've been homeless before and not had any money and have resorted at times to picking up butts like that and smoking them so I started picking up the ones I saw this morning and sticking them in my jacket pocket for hard times.

Enter the negative self talk... I'm not going to go into all that my mind was saying to me but it wasn't good and I knew it but couldn't stop it. All the time that one lyric was playing in the background of all the negative chatter going on. Please allow me to introduce myself, please allow me to introduce myself. I was almost home when I caught a glance of the crescent moon. I remembered how I had intended to let go of the drinking and negative self talk and here I was doing both. I actually started shaking my head and kinda doing hand motions like I was shaking it all off. I did that several times and said out loud while nobody was around, "Shake it off....let it go..."

I got back in my apartment and I sat down at the computer and googled the song lyrics I had been hearing. Turned out it was an old Rolling Stones song...."Sympathy For The Devil." A song about Lucifer introducing himself to somebody. Pretty creepy huh? Now I'm trying to think what the hell that could mean. Did it mean something or was it just a weird coincidence or something? I don't know yet....what do you think? Shake it off...let it go....shake it off....let it go...

Healing

I got an incredible amount of energy from this past Full Moon and have been bombarded with helpful, healing information and resources ever since. At times I have felt a bit overwhelmed and have had the feeling of not being able to keep up with everything that has been coming to me. I have literally had to force myself to step away from it and find some time to be mindful and try to meditate on grounding myself. I have been talking to my therapist about the importance of finding balance in my life and since I've never really had that this is all new to me. Having a spiritual awakening and finding a new balance in your life at the same time is proving to be quite a challenge but I feel up to it at this time. I really feel like I can look at myself in the mirror now and say honestly, "I'm healing..." The story of the phoenix keeps popping into my mind and what is really strange is the fact that I did a fun little chart the other day that gave you your "hippy name" by using the first letter of your first name and the date of the day you were born. My "hippy name" turned out to be Phoenix Star..." I've decided I might just use that from time to time. I like the way it sounds and feels and it kind of has personal meaning for me!

Enjoy Life!

A Mother's Love....

Heartfelt

This is an experiment in free form.....I am going to make a journal post and let my thoughts just flow.....

First off I want to say that I picture my Mother in Heaven today with a beautiful tiara on with a flowing gown of jewels for the years she spent dealing with me. she suffered and she suffered a lot and worked and worked and worked may she be at rest and perfectly blissful may she escape the cycle of rebirth.....I have everything that I need I desire a lot but I need nothing nothing has changed but everything has changed it is me that has changed I am healing I know my path and i am on it now i may retrace my footsteps from time to time but i know my course and i am still on it I am healing I am coming back I am here and I have a purpose and we will all heal together and I will try to heal as many people as I can as I myself am healing. I am in the trenches and spiritual warfare is my game but I have tools that I use that will help me to overcome, I just saw a butterfly fly by my 6th floor apartment window the spirit of the gods is with me now and always.the way i see to go is clear and the path is lined as the streets of heaven with pure gold that shines as though it were glass...

Enjoy Life!

Life Is Too Ironic

I Worried

I worried a lot. Will the garden grow, will the rivers

flow in the right direction, will the earth turn

as it was taught, and if not how shall 

I correct it?

Was I right, was I wrong, will I be forgiven, can I do better?

Will I ever be able to sing, even the sparrow

can do it and I am, well,

hopeless.

Is my eyesight fading or am I just imagining it,

am I going to get rheumatism,

lockjaw, dementia?

Finally I saw that worrying had come to nothing.

And gave it up. And took my old body

and went out into the morning,

and sang.

Mary Oliver

Acrobat

Dariusz Klimczak

The Waxing Moon

There is a building increase of intentions,

Charged with particles of light and energy.

Sparkling with vibratory life,

The swirling divinity of my Soul,

Is like tingling bells through my ethereal body.

Reaching for the Lunar Goddess,

It strives to find the power of creation,

Evermore moving toward fruition.

Jeff Medford

Raven Child

There Is A Way

Oh, raven child, believe the wind,

The sun has called your name,

The lonely dark, between the stars,

May too soon make it's claim.

Your spoken song will sanctify,

The travelers of old,

Your blackened coat can testify,

The journey of your soul.

Oh, raven child the canyons wild,

Can swallow all your dreams,

Go, not alone, go well-supplied,

To deal with the extremes.

Your playful games along the cliffs,

Are strengthening your wings,

But, be advised some compromise,

Must inform all these things.

There is a way to ride the wind,

And still know where to stand,

Down by the sea, along the ridge,

Or out upon the land.

Take your time among the trees,

Follow their roots to the stream,

Learn from their fruits and their leaves,

Learn from your days and your dreams.

There is a way,

There is a way,

There is a way.

Oh, raven child, behold the trees,

Their loving limbs held high,

These open arms can shelter you,

And lift you to the sky.

Their roottedness has spoken for....

The strength of standing still...

Without our legs, we break our wings...

Our journey unfulfilled.

There is a way to ride the wind,

And still know where to stand,

Down by the sea, along the ridge,

Or out upon the land.

Take your time among the trees,

Follow their roots to the stream,

Learn from their fruits and their leaves,

Learn from your days and your dreams.

There is a way,

There is a way,

There is a way.

Richard Sackett