Archives for May 2015

Time to do some cleansing and purifying in your relationships.

Black Tourmaline is great for absorbing all the toxins and lower level energies or other people’s energies that may be stuck in your physical and emotional/spiritual field. As a result, your overall sense and being is cleansed, grounded, and ready to take on whatever tasks are laid out in front of you.

Black Tourmaline is also a great protection stone – after clearing you and your field of the yucky stuff, it also works to help protect you from any other energies that may want to stick themselves back onto your now clean self. And this includes potentially harmful EMF energies from all the electronics many of us surround ourselves with in our daily lives.

That this stone came up with Partnerships & Alliances leads me to suggest that we take particular care to look at any and all of our relationships. This, of course, includes our interpersonal relationships with family members, loved ones, friends, and colleagues. But this goes beyond that to include our relationships to ideas and concepts. How would you define your relationships with money and prosperity? With health and wellness? Your idea of purpose and duty? Can you say you have a healthy relationship with these beliefs or are there things you want to address?

An easy way to gauge your relationship is to see how you stand today with these things – how does your bank account look? What came up at your last doctor’s appointment and wellness check? Are you happy and joyous with your work or counting the days until you can retire, even if it’s years into the future?

Take a moment or a few to reflect on these. Remember, it’s not about berating yourself and staying in a mindset of sadness or unhappiness if things aren’t exactly the way you want them to be. Instead, honor the current situation and feel into how the relationship can change more towards what you do want. There may be something to inspire change if you only just quiet the mind and listen. It’s a thought at least, right?

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As an aside, I want to share my experience in doing this exercise. The relationship that has been wanting a lot of attention lately – relationship with self, and in particular, self-care.

The world has really been trying to get my attention and stressing the fact that I need to take care of myself better. Getting so sick and cutting off my hearing for so long was a huge part of it. My cat got sick the same time I did, partially because he was taking on my stuff for me and trying to take care of me. Today’s reading has a hand in it. A conversation I had with a colleague brought it up that I’m perhaps limiting my moving forward by not taking care of me first. I’ve had people reach out and try to help me out and part of me continues to brush it off, my independent side rebelling and saying I don’t need the help.

Well, I do, and the first one to help me is me. The reminder? I need to go outside more. I need to be in nature. Go hike, run, play at the beach (well, at least the beach part has been working fine as I’ve been able to go almost every month since moving back to California), enjoy the sunshine. My meditation and yoga practices had been put on hold for the simple reason of being lazy.

Today, no more. Time for me to actually schedule these into my calendar as that’s the only way I can commit myself to these activities until they become more habit. At least it’s a step in the right direction, yes? =) Pleasant journey to you!

It’s a day to reflect and especially concentrate on one’s emotional state. This is represented by the blue-green colors in today’s stones and card.

Now I don’t know about you, but there’s been a lot of shifting going on the past few days and weeks. For many, it’s shown up as sickness or illness. For others, there has been computer or other technological glitches going on. Even others are experiencing maybe even some non-characteristic emotional ups and downs as a result of the different things or patterns being broken in day to day life.

Whatever is going on in your life, if it’s one of the above or all or something different, The Universe is gently reminding you to connect in and reflect on all that you’ve accomplished thus far and if there are any emotional thoughts that want to be shifted at this time. That could mean letting go of the disappointment over not having certain items. It could mean letting go of the stress and anxiety over all the latest projects you have to get done ASAP at work. It could mean letting go of sadness after something didn’t turn out the way you had expected or hoped.

Malachite itself helps draw out deep feelings, breaking unwanted ties and worn out patterns, releases inhibitions, and encourages expressing feeling. And, according to Judy Hall’s Crystal Bible, if you place a piece on your solar plexus, it can physically assist in deep emotional healing by releasing negative experiences and old trauma, bringing suppressed feelings to the surface, and restoring the body’s ability to breathe deeply.

Turquoise balances Malachite’s intense work with its powerful healing properties, which promotes well-being and balance for the mind and body.

All of this in the face of an all-knowing, all-supportive world and universe is a reminder that no matter the struggles or the emotional charges or difficulties facing us, we are always given he chance to connect to universal consciousness and realize that in the end, a lot of this is all mind-chatter and really, life is good, grand, great.

Well, I had honestly been hoping for a more driving kind of energy today but as today’s pull indicates, it’s more of another accepting and learning kind of day.

Opals are delicate stones that assist in stimulating originality and dynamic creativity. It aids in accessing and expressing one’s true self. Psychologically, Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation. Enhancing self-worth, it helps you to understand your full potential. It encourages putting out positive emotions.

With its pink color, this particular type of Opal can be used to activate the heart chakra while providing both centering and grounding, since the color is deeply associated with love and compassion. This reiterates Opal’s message of self-acceptance and love, giving insight into ways that will help to enhance one’s emotional, spiritual, and intellectual self.

To complement today’s stone, what jumps out of today’s card, Patience & Planning, is the whirlwind of leaves and debris behind the two columns. For me, this signifies another stirring and clearing up of the old in preparation for the new. Today is a day for active, inner contemplation, recognizing the patterns and beliefs that truly aren’t serving us any longer and letting them go. Even if the “junk” is in the background, not anywhere near the surface of anything where we think others may be able to perceive it, the fact that it’s still there is, in some ways, limiting us from fully moving forward into full greatness and glory. A part of us continues to spend energy hiding it away, tucking it in a corner to “deal with later.”

Well, that later is now. It’s time to address those old stories and accept the messages and lessons to be learned from them, despite the pain, sorrow, or whatever other emotion comes up. We will come out better and stronger as a result.

So I feel bad for falling off the writing after doing being so consistent the first few days, but this latest flu-cold-illness has literally knocked me out where even sleeping for twelve hours didn’t do much to alleviate any symptoms. I was finally able to get to a doctor and get some antibiotics yesterday but… let’s just say it’s going to take awhile for my hearing to go anywhere near back to normal. They’ve been plugged for a week and treating with tea tree oil helped a little bit and now it’s time to treat with drugs too. The message there is “What am I not listening to?” Literally, why does my body have to scream and kick and go into full blown illness with my first ever ear infection (and it had to be both ears!) for me to slow down and listen to my body? … Which I’m still resisting… Yeah, I’m still working on that…

Today’s crystal pull for the collective is that of Tree Agate (or Dendritic Agate, depending on sources), really highlights the message of going still today. Now, I only pulled this stone just a few days ago so as a reminder, Agates are very stable crystals. They’re great for grounding and centering and for bringing about balance to the emotions, physical body, and intellect. A soothing and calming stone, Agate works slowly but brings great strength. Its multiple layers can bring hidden information to light. Psychologically, Agate gently facilitates acceptance of one’s self to build self-confidence.

Tree Agate specifically is a stone of inner peace and stability. That’s not surprising given its association with the heart chakra, which is all about connecting the mind and body, connecting the upper chakras with the lower. It can assist with introspection of one’s life experiences and self-discovery, which in turn can help give a wider viewpoint of the world. Think of a really old tree and imagine its roots and branches spreading and reaching out in all directions – it takes in all nutrition from its environment and uses it, slowly, steadily, to continue to grow and reach even further. You could even think of a neural network with all the dendrites reaching to remote places in the body. Tree Agate encourages perseverance and patience , giving us an example of how to work slowly yet deliberately to be make sure its connections are all in place and it’s growing as efficiently as possible. Tree Agate works deliberately to connect one to a more natural state, which is no surprise given its deep connection to nature.

Lastly, and because of this connection to nature, Tree Agate, which is also known as a Stone of Plenitude, is said to be a stone that brings good fortune and fullness – bringing plentiful crops (material goods in today’s standards) and prosperity and an abundance of love. Besides helping you deepen your connection to the earth, this crystal can also enhance the health of house plants and create a peaceful environment, just to add that too.

So I apologize for not writing these last couple of days as I’ve been traveling and haven’t been able to connect to a computer until now. And I also have been fighting the flu as of late so I’m recovering from that as well.

So on to today’s energy reading. Citrine is a great, sunny stone, known for bringing really bright, happy, positive energy to its environment. It actually actively works to transmute and change negative energy into joy and light. Because of its yellow color, it is associated with the solar plexus, which is the seat of self-confidence and self-worth, so it’s a great stone to meditate and sit with to help you tap into those feelings. Last, but not least, it can be used to help attract abundance into your life, be it material or otherwise.

The sun in the card is highlighting itself today. There’s the reminder to go outdoors and breathe in some fresh air, turn your face to the sun for a few moments, and let the warm rays soak in. Being embraced in the light and warmth allows you the moment to let the stresses of life to simply melt away. Between Citrine and the sun, those stresses can be transformed and shifted, allowing you to move forward (seems to be an overlying pattern as of late, right?) towards wherever you want to go next.

So look to the sun, look to the positive. Let go of the negative, what no longer serves you, what continues to stress you out or drain you of energy. Imagine giving those stresses to the light, to the earth, to Universe and God and allowing them to deal with it as they see fit. It is no longer of your concern. It is all well. You focus on the steps you need to take, one step at a time, towards your dreams, your goals, your desires. You do know what those are, right? Have you written them down lately? Don’t forget to be specific. Get them onto a list and then place it under the Citrine or in the sunlight to have it charged up. Then watch for the miracles to unfold.

Choices, choices, choices! How does one decide what to focus on when one is overwhelmed with the choices the world is giving us? It feels like this week has been so full of forward movement and building things up that I need a moment to just take it all in, see what I’ve created for myself, and – honestly – fight a bit of the panic that has set in over the mountain of choices that I feel I need to make now.

When I read through Peridot’s description for today, not a lot of it feels to resonate with today’s energy except for this: it helps release negative patterns and old vibrations so that a new frequency can be accessed, helping you to understand your destiny and your spiritual purpose. Hmm… Okay…

But then pair it off with today’s card… All I see are gateways and each with its own unique treasures. I don’t want to go through one and miss out on the other stuff, all the other goodies I can catch glimpses of through the other doorways.

Then again, who’s to say that on the other side of these gates, they’re not all interconnected anyway? We’re looking from inside one chamber at different doorways. Who am I to assume that one we step through one, we’re actually stepping through one door and out into a big world? Like a home or building with multiple exits out into the same world we live in now, why wouldn’t this be the same thing?

So again, today’s invitation is to really just go through a door already and start living. Remember, there are no bad choices. There are only choices and the lessons you opt to take away from them. Each step will take you closer to your goal, whatever that may be. Just keep moving. Don’t stop. There’s a big world out there to enjoy.