tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21354621527568391012024-03-16T20:29:57.485-07:00Stacie's Metaphysical CornerRead the musings on healing crystals and gemstones, Reiki, and spirituality by Stacie Coller of Enter the Earth, Asheville, NC. http://entertheearth.netStaciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.comBlogger31125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-40225105278929182032013-10-30T11:16:00.000-07:002015-01-20T12:01:53.677-08:00Meaning of Epidote Included Quartz: Green Earth Healing Quartz<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
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<b><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Epidote Included Quartz</span></b></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The black to green mineral epidote may
form in quartz as long rods, like tourmaline, encrustations, or
phantoms, ranging in color from slate gray to pistachio green. It is
often sold under the trade names “Reiki Quartz”, “Dream
Quartz”, or “Green Earth Keepers”, especially the elestiated
green phantom quartz from Columbia and Madagascar. The term “Earth
Keeper” refers to especially large quartz found at locations around
the world, thought to support the earth's ley lines and vortices.
Because large pieces of epidote included quartz are rare, we are
using the name “Green Earth Healer” instead, since they carry a
similar vibration, regardless of their size. {This paragraph is
courtesy of Christopher Lee Matthews. Thanks Chris!} </span></div>
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Green Earth Healer Quartz has many extremely powerful and practical
qualities that makes it a must-have in the tool box of the serious
energy worker, healer, herbalist, or for anyone who requires deep and
profound healing, restoration, or “plugging back in” to systems
of support in either the spiritual or physical levels. Green Earth
Healer Quartz is a bridge, an amplifier, a weaver, an anchor, a
purifier, and a teacher of the hidden wisdom of nature. Use it to
assist you to maximize the vital properties of the herbal kingdom, to
attract or call in abundance and prosperity, or to fully anchor and
regulate higher spiritual energies to the physical level for healing,
reconnection, or manifestation. It can be used as a an active
healing tool during energy work sessions, in a gem elixir, as
meditation piece, or in earth healing ceremony.
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I did our initial reading on epidote included quartz back in June of 2013. I immediately began putting one in my pillow case as a sleep stone and then included them in grids for earth healing work and personal support. One got buried at a sacred site with a medicine bundle intended to dispel negative energy associated with my divorce and to help release me from inappropriate energetic connections/intent coming from my ex. (Yeah, that's why I've been so quiet lately. It's been an intense several months for me!) So, I dare say, these sweet green crystals have already made a significant, positive contribution in real ways in my own world. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>General Qualities of Epidote Included Quartz</strong></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Weaving
Energetic Structure</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bundles </span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Creating
Intention Sets</span></div>
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Nets</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> <em>Altered
State Assistance</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bridge</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Grounds/Anchors
Energy/Spiritual Work into the Physical</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Optimizes
healing efforts</span></div>
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of any kind</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Full
system worker</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Affinity
to Nature, Nature Spirits, Devas</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Global
Lightwork (Distant or Local)</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">
</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Modulation
of work done for good of all</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Activates
the vital principles of nature</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Connection
to with Wisdom of Nature</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Key
to Sacred Sites on Planet</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moderates
ability to pull from Earth Energy for healing and vitality.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Bridge</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Purification</em></span></div>
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Blow Torch</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Antidote</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Removes
Parasites/Cords</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Detoxification</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Clears
Patterns/Awareness of Patterns</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Clearing
energy pathways</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Corrects
misalignments by removing blockages in free flow of system.</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Communication/Wisdom/Perception</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Assists
in understanding signatures or characteristics of other things</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Access
to Wisdom of Nature</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understanding
of personal needs for health and healing</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Green
Goggles</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Healing</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Restoration</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Revitalization</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Protection/Strengthening</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sanctuary</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Divine
Template Realignment
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Abundance
and Success</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anchors
spiritual assistance to the physical</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Success
in long term career situations</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good
Luck</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>Dream/Dreamtime/Altered
States</em></span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Restoration</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good
time to access assistance</span></div>
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</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Interpretation
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Woven Baskets and Nets</b>: Clearly an energy weaver. This makes it useful for assembling end game energy work, such as manifestation work, cooperative spiritual energy work, or any work associated with pulling from multiple modalities. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bridge</b>: The crystal seems to be a bridge in a few ways. One, it clearly represents both the mineral and herbal kingdom. Two, it is a bridge between the spiritual and physical levels. The elestial versions of this crystal would have magnified “bridge” qualities as elestials are also seen as a bridge between the physical and spiritual levels. It is also a bridge between humans and the natural world to help you connect in with the land for meditation, lightwork, to interact with sacred site energy, or to do corrective work on the earth, or on your personal land. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cocoon</b>: In my own work, energetic cocoons were a protocol in healing processes that required a person or situation to be buffered and “treated” with a particular vibration to initiate and support a healing shift of some sort that unfolded over a period of time. Cocoons are a form of protection, but generally the type of protection that is useful while in the vulnerable period of undergoing a change of state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Green Flame/Green Torch</b>: <span style="font-weight: normal;">There is a purification element associated with the epidote included quartz that I think is best facilitated with intention. The visuals were of negativity being blasted away into green flames. In my own experience, since the initial reading, it seems that the epidote, while being a bridge, can also “burn bridges”, or interrupt inappropriate connections, such as removing negative attachments, sometimes referred to as “cords”. This would make using this kind of crystal quite useful in de-cording work, or what I call “Inner Door Work”. Also, the purification element of this crystal also specifically referenced removing negative patterns within a system, which would make this a good tool for those who are trying to do repair and correction work, or to bring their system back into alignment with their pure templates. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Anchor</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: As part of the same message as a bridge between the spiritual and physical worlds, this crystal helps to process and regulate energies so that they can be optimally applied at this level of being. This means, essentially, that energy healers can use the crystal to help download, regulate, and process healing energy, which is likely why one of its trade names is “Reiki Quartz”. Also, any manifestation process is enhanced by the regulation and grounding of higher vibrational energies or ideals to this level. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Cave</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">:</span><b> </b><span style="font-weight: normal;">Caves are associated as “Womb of the Earth”, the alchemical, as a place for retreat, recovery, and rest. This is not unlike the cocoon reference. So we are getting two similar, if slightly nuanced, ideas of the crystal being like a safe natural place of refuge, recovery, and transformation. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Green Glasses</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: The wearing of rose colored glasses means that you see things through the lens or perspective of a loving or idealistic viewpoint. To wear “green glasses” would mean to be able to toggle your perspective more readily to the natural world, or to the Wisdom of Nature. This would make this type of crystal very useful for herbalists, global lightworkers, environmentalists, or anyone who needs to apply natural wisdom within their work. It would also help to connect to land related spirits. The perspective shift would also support you to understand the natural world better and to glean information and wisdom. For example, the epidote included quartz would make an excellent tool with which to discern the metaphysical properties of any natural object, such as a rock or plant. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Bear</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: Bear symbolism is associated with altered states, dreams, healing, rest, herbal medicine, and physical vitality. Bears are also, of course, associated with hibernating inside of caves, which was also mentioned by itself. So we have reference to both the sacred space of healing and becoming, as well as the totemic medicine associated with that type of space. This is likely where the “Dream Quartz” associations come in, as it seems to be indicating that it can do its work well through periods of recovery. It is possible that this kind of quartz may be able to enhance lucid dreaming or medicine dreams, as well as to help connect you to your own spiritual helpers to provide you with a healing session during your dream state.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Turtle Dragon</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: . Christopher saw the crystal deva riding a dragon with the shell of a turtle, which is a mythical Chinese creature. A turtle has its buffered home around him, into which he can retreat at a moments notice, so here is a third mention of this “safe going within” aspect to the energies. Turtles also represent restoration, protection, earth healing, the cosmos, longevity, and good luck. When you add the dragon, you add raw elemental power and potency, but it is expressed through the taming energy of the turtle, which would give it a steady and balanced output, particularly in increasing abundance in ones career. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Snake</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: Christopher had a healing experience while we were reading the crystal. His heart filled up with green fluid and then spread out to his body. He described the movement down his spine as “snake energy”. This would translate as “nadi” clearing (subtle energy channels), as well as bringing in themes of transformation, death/rebirth, healing, removal of poison, and major life transitions. Again, we see themes of purification, regulation, healing, transformation, and the removal of things that are harmful. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Emeralds</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: Whenever other stones are referenced within a reading, it means, “I am like this energy too.” Emeralds were mentioned within the symbols of purification. Emeralds used to be known as a way to counteract poison. In this instance, both Christopher and I were reminded of “anti-curse” work we have done to support ourselves through the negative intentions directed at us from others, and that is to what the emerald reference seemed to refer. Anti-curse work is a type of “bridge burning”, in my opinion, or de-cording from inappropriate influence. </span> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Jade</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: Jade is associated with longevity, healing, strength, prosperity, endurance, fortitude, and dreams. This crosses over several previous associations. Whenever you begin to see multiple references in a reading, you are getting a good hit on the validity of its patterns of energy.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Ammolite</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: Ammonites regulate how energy moves and maximizes and optimizes flow within the chakra system. Ammolite, which is the opalescent layer of an ammonite, is associated with success. In this reference, we see the patterns of abundance, success, and regulation of energy, yet again.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Wormwood</b>: This leaf is known for its medicinal uses of expelling parasites from the system. I believe that this speaks to the purification qualities, already mentioned, as energetic parasites often represent blockages within a system.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Apothecary</b><span style="font-weight: normal;">: The apothecary reference means that the crystal can be used to magnify and maximize the potency of the herbal medicines, tinctures, or even vibrational elixirs, such as gem elixirs. The epidote included quartz would make an excellent gem elixir on it's own, or to help strengthen other blends as a “technical worker”.</span></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request to connect to God/the Divine, my Higher Self, and my appropriate Spiritual Helpers, now please.”</i></span></span></strong></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I ask for all work to be corrected and applied in perfection.”</i></span></span></strong></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request to initiate cleansing, clearing, and purification, and to remove anything not present in my Highest Good, now please.” (For yourself or for the land.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request to restore a smooth and harmonious energy flow within my system, now please.” (Or apply it to the land.)</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request to anchor to and restore a smooth and harmonious flow between myself and the Earth, now please.” </i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request to anchor to and restore a smooth and harmonious flow between myself and the spiritual level, and for any incoming spiritual energies to be perfectly regulated according to my ability to process and integrate them safely, now please.” </i> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">“<i>I request for all work to be Blessed, Optimized, Stabilized, Amplified, and Sealed, under God/Divine Will, now please.”</i></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span></div>
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</span>Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com19tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-20873181736587165732013-06-19T13:33:00.001-07:002015-05-07T12:26:05.801-07:00Ocean Jasper - Metaphysical Meaning - Radiating Goodness<strong>Ocean Jasper</strong>®:<strong> The Metaphysical Meaning - He Said/She Said</strong><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Christopher and Stacie at the AAWIP Holistic Fair in 2013</td></tr>
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My co-worker, Christopher Lee Matthews and I do a lot of "He Said/She Said" articles, to cover the same topic from two perspectives. He is more of a scholar and I am more of a story-teller. Our impressions are often similar, but are sometimes different. It is in the differences that we both learn and grow.<br />
Christopher has written two, extremely thorough and well organized articles. One of the articles is exclusively about the geology and history of Ocean Jasper and the other is about the metaphysical properties of Ocean Jasper from his perspective. You can click on the links to see those articles below.<br />
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<li><a href="http://www.entertheearth.com/the-geology-varieties-and-history-of-ocean-jasper-part-one/" target="_blank">The Geology, Varieties, and History of Ocean Jasper®- Part One</a></li>
<li><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/ocean-jasper/" target="_blank">The Metaphysical Properties of Ocean Jasper®</a></li>
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<b>Our Connection to Ocean Jasper: <a href="http://www.entertheearth.com/" target="_blank">Enter the Earth</a> </b></div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Enter the Earth inside the Grove Arcade in Asheville, North Carolina</td></tr>
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"Enter the Earth" is the company for which Christopher and I both work. It is based here in <a href="http://www.exploreasheville.com/" target="_blank">Asheville, North Carolina</a>. We have a retail location inside of the historic <a href="http://www.grovearcade.com/" target="_blank">Grove Arcade</a> in down town Asheville, which I happily manage. The both of us manage <a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/" target="_blank">Enter the Earth's Metaphysical Department</a>, which is totally on-line. And yes, I do love my job. Manifestation Level- Expert. Ha. </div>
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The growth of Enter the Earth, and all the wonderful things that have happened because of it, certainly in my own life, all start with Ocean Jasper. This perfectly demonstrates one of my favorite things about Ocean Jasper. It has a radiating quality about it, like the beautiful little orbicular
“flowers” on its surface, that goes off in a 360 degree
star-burst of a positive domino effects. It is why I chose the title: "Radiating Goodness". </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Happy Little Sphere Showing Ocean Jasper Flower Bursts</td></tr>
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<b>On Reading Ocean Jasper: The Back Story</b></div>
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Christopher and I decided
to do a reading on Ocean Jasper because it's ETE's specialty and the readings
that are out there felt incomplete. Most of the readings draw their
information from OJ's association with the ocean (healing/emotional
body), the moon (intuition/Divine Feminine/adjustment of mood), its
orbicular eyes (protection/insight/connection to the Divine), and of
frothy happiness and joyfulness. Those things are <i>true</i>, but
there are many more qualities to Ocean Jasper that make it an important
accessory in any energy worker's took kit. So, we wanted to do a
reading to fill in the blanks of what has already been said and to
take the understanding to a higher level.
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Chris and
I thought that we knew a lot about Ocean Jasper, and
when we might grab it for work, but I have to say, I'm both impressed
with what we <i>didn't</i> know and incredibly grateful by the timing
of the new understanding in my own life. Long story short, I just
left a 15 year marriage because it no longer felt like a safe place.
I'm fine, I <i>was</i> fine, but that wasn't guaranteed forever if I
chose to stay. Umm, the Universe wasn't ambiguous about it either.
I'm rather clear that I'm not interested in being the subject of a
Lifetime movie. Nope. Not even a little. <i><span style="font-weight: normal;">
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When we began the Ocean
Jasper reading, I was still “in process” from a healing session
that I had received two days before. Anyway, the quick version of the story is that I had two
trauma events that came up that normally also include some kind of
soul loss or need for soul retrieval. I also suspected that my
ended marriage may have created some kind of fracture in my system in
non-obvious ways.
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After we recorded Chris'
journey, I began plugging in and touching the rough piece that Chris
was called to bring in as a sample. Immediately, I was taken down so
far into an altered state and <i>worked on,</i> that I couldn't walk
right going to my car at the end of the day. The best I can describe
it was a sensation of a slow and deeply penetrating wave of movement,
clearing, and adjustment. I became aware of some kind of “hook”
through my body on my left side and my ability to see clairvoyant
visuals (which is usually not my thing) increased. I confirmed
several of the various totemic associations that Christopher saw
during his journey, as well as some other images that were new, which
was very nice for me.</div>
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<tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/jasper-ocean/" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;" target="_blank"><img alt="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/jasper-ocean/" border="0" height="320" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjRSbJ71roMDNOfk56cHNkpi7pWmX6TV6supaSXBic4CkLcHK5NEh2zl5EBhvx607tI7X5uTlKGNtVWqCn8dlg4am6daE-v2Iy9Q1fBh4cT6Rh4fqW89prITI_-NJlHnoCQleMPmqhJlr4/s320/oj2.jpg" width="320" /></a></td></tr>
<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Click on the photo to see Ocean Jasper at etemetaphysical.com</td></tr>
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<b>She Said: The Metaphysical Meaning and Healing Properties of Ocean Jasper</b><br />
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<strong>Major Work Themes</strong>
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<strong>“<i>The Parts of a
Whole” Worker</i></strong></div>
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One of the main points,
which came up so often, is that Ocean Jasper is a “parts of a whole”
worker, a system worker, anything that requires the process of
bringing things back to original “wholeness”. This covers
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<strong>Soul Retrieval</strong>: If
you have fracture in your system, this is a form of “parts of a
whole” that needs integration. When I had my healing experience
during the reading, Christopher envisioned an owl totem bringing me
a little bone that was retrieved from an image of my wedding ring,
which was then brought back to me for “graceful integration and
processing”.
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<strong>Past-Life Healing</strong>:
Same thing as above, but taking it to the level of your Soul Self,
instead of this single life time.
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<strong>System/Group Worker</strong>:
Again, systems rely on the interrelationship of parts that must be
working in harmony and balance to be healthy, efficient, useful. OJ
helps organize and bring into balance/oneness/flow of <i>any kind</i>
of system with parts making up a whole. <i>Think about that because
it is big stuff.</i> Communities are systems. Families are
systems. Your body is a system. All of creation is a system of
smaller parts that make up the whole. To me, this also means a
deeper connection and integration into the Divine and All Creation.
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<strong>Self/Family/Group
Integrity</strong>: This is a specific application of being a system worker.
What was specifically brought up was the concept of being able to
“buffer bubble” a member of the family/group who was
disproportionately affecting the stability of the system, so that
they would have less negative impact energetically. Also, the self
could be fortified for greater personal integrity within systems, so
if you have a crazy ass family, you could put yourself in a buffer
bubble so that you can maintain your sense of self without the
family “stuff” impacting you on such a direct level. Same with
the work place, same with a neighborhood. Parts of a whole can be
defined on all sorts of levels.</div>
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<strong>Protection/Buffering</strong>:
Just as OJ is a system worker through the concept of wholeness, it
can also manage the parts individually, such as with protection and
buffering of one thing from another where spill over is harmful or
destabilizing to another part of the system. Like the above concept
of a “buffer bubble”, it can also buffer a healing room from the
rest of the house, your home from the rest of the neighborhood, your
car from the rest of the cars on the highway, and so on.</div>
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<i><strong>Manifestation/Path/Perspective
Worker</strong> </i><br />
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This message came through
repeatedly during the reading as well. Mainly, perspective
modification for achievement and tending to your goals, which
ultimately is connected to what you manifest in your world. </div>
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<strong>Perceptual
Distortion Correction</strong>: OJ is an ally for you to find your proper
path by helping you eliminate patterns of perceptual distortions
that prevent you from seeing something in an authentic way.
Basically, it helps you get over your own “stuff” that isn't
true. It helps to cut through delusion, when you are overwhelmed
emotionally, to help you discern between choices that are “real”
and those which are fantasy.</div>
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<strong>3D
Integrity/Opportunity</strong>: This means that you are living in the
physical/material world in a successful way. It's not just about
abundance. It asks, how do you apply and balance your spiritual
wisdom and life with your physical life? You can dance all you want
to the Music of the Spheres, but if you forget to pay your rent,
you're just another crazy cracker on the street. We have the unique
challenge of walking in both worlds. It also helps you to make
fortuitous choices that allow you to take advantage of events of
positive opportunity in which timing is everything. </div>
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<strong>Problem
Solving/Creative Solution/Decision</strong>: If you are feeling stuck and
need that extra bit of Divine Inspiration, OJ can help focus you
into the push and pull interaction of the spiritual and material
worlds through creative endeavors of any kind. Go loose and dance.
Pick up a pen and doodle. Write a poem. Sing a song. Get into the
creative flow and see what new epiphany shows up in your noggin that
helps to push you to the next level. Definitely look for the
epiphany. There was some indication that Ocean Jasper likes the Q & A
format of leading you to the answers you seek. When you are in need
of guidance, start asking yourself questions that revolve around the
problem, then fully assess your answers. This may be a logical
process, in a way, but think of an ebb and flow (like the ocean!) of
leading you to the wisdom that you have, and to apply that onto the
issue in question. This is another form of helping you release
perceptual distortions, in my opinion, because if you have to sort
through a situation in a rational way, with polite insight being
provided to help you sort something out, you may discover in what
way you have held a belief that isn't authentic and that may be
limiting you in some way.</div>
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<strong>Radiating Goodness</strong>:
Think, star-bursts. Think sparkles and wonderfulness that flows
through you and outward into the world. It kinda reminds me of that
commercial that used to be on TV that showed people doing something
kind for a stranger, then a stranger watching this action and doing
something kind for another person, and so on, and so on, until it
was back to the original person. It supports the radiating of
positive effects in all directions, like a ripple in the water.
When you look at OJ, you can see the little “flowers” and “star
bursts” clearly on the surface. This also is good for “path
work”, because the positive impact within a system means greater
coherence, greater synchronicity, greater synergy with individual
members of the greater whole within which you function.
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<i><strong>Healing/Energy Body
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Since Ocean Jasper is a system
worker, this necessarily means that it is an energy body worker, but
it is an Earth energy body worker too, so it would be a perfect stone
to grab for Earth healing ceremony of any kind.</div>
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<strong>Healing</strong>: Here we go
again...a topic that makes me twitchy; rocks and physical healing.
I will state again that I am not a doctor and that I rarely go to
the mineral kingdom for physical healing, however, that being said,
the green color in most specimens of Ocean Jasper is chlorite, which
is the same mineral that is in many stones that are considered
“healing” on many levels. Use it as a compliment, not a
treatment, kay?</div>
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<strong>Emotional Healing</strong>:
OJ's connection to the ocean and to the moon give it a strong
emotional healing aspect. Many people describe its energy as
“happy”, which suggests an ability to shift emotional states to
something lighter. The crystal deva, with whom Christopher
interacted, was extremely child-like, playful, and joyful.</div>
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<strong>Alignment/Release of
Blockages</strong>: The radiating qualities of OJ suggest that it is good for
both chakra/energy body alignment, as well as the bringing to the
surface and removal of knots or blockages within the system.
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<strong>Completeness</strong>: This
directly relates to spiritual connections, the idea of ascension,
and even the concept of the Lightbody/Merkaba being activated and
plugged in because the spheres in OJ represent totality of
completeness and oneness.</div>
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<strong>Strength</strong>: OJ helps
with the fortification of the self, or the reclaiming of power that
is rightly yours. It covers the inspiration that invigorates you,
overcoming obstacles, vitalization, confidence, all of which
prepares your body and environment for success of “choosing the
higher path”. It supports the seeds that you sow to blossom into
long lasting achievement because you resolve conflict between the
inner and outer elements in your system.</div>
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<strong>Celestial Battery</strong>:
There was indication that OJ gathers both solar and lunar energy,
which it can then radiate. It would be good to leave it outside
during important moon cycles or outside in the sun. I'm also seeing
a thunderstorm now, so it's saying, it can gather up natural
energies as well. Sha-wing. Make sure your OJ gets some deck time
once and awhile to increase the “battery” output function.</div>
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<strong>Global Healing</strong>: OJ
is born of all the elements in a way. Water from the ocean, earth
from being partially above water in the cliff face, fire from the
volcanic transformation the rock undergoes, and air from the windy
beach cliff. If you are plugging in to the Earth's systems to
assist sending love, balance, or clearing negative/misaligned
patterns, these are all qualities that make it useful for any kind
of healing work. It may be quite useful for dowsers to find/reveal
patterns of misalignment, or to find a pattern that is desirable,
like with finding water.</div>
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<strong>Time/Space Fluidity</strong>:
When you work with OJ, keep in mind that it has the ability to move
through time references as well. This means that if you were
working on past-life anything (accessing wisdom or healing), or if
you are dealing with your Ancestral Matrix for whatever, or Earth
Healing that deals with traumatic past events, OJ is able to fluidly
move through points of reference, as even events in time are parts
of a whole. There was a “bi-location” aspect to it, which might
be useful for shamanic journeying or for any work in which there
would be benefit to being in two places, like distance healing work,
“visiting” with someone who is not physically with you for a
little cosmic cuddle, that kind of thing.</div>
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<span style="font-style: normal;"><strong>Psychic
Development/Intuition Enhancement</strong>: </span>Ocean Jasper's orbicular
nature, its eyes, and its star-bursts directly symbolize “seeing”,
enhancing clairvoyance, and developing those qualities. I had a
direct experience with that when I had the healing experience. My
inner visuals were way better than usual, which I think was a direct
result of the adjustment that was going on as well.
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<strong>Dreamtime/Sleep</strong>:
OJ's direct lunar influence makes it an appropriate stone for
protecting and guarding the time of sleep, astral travel, and
meditation states. You can put it in your pillow case for general
purpose sleep support.
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<strong>Gates/Doors</strong>: I saw
“halls” and “doorways” to other dimensional places,
particularly those associated with “heavenly” or “Christ
Consciousness”. I was basically shown a door with Christmas
decoration on it that opened up to a banquet hall that had the most
beautiful crystal chandelier. One of the hand polished pebbles that
I have since claimed as my own has a druzy opening that, I swear,
looks like it has stairs with a figure waiting at the top of it. If
you have a piece that has openings, see if you can “enter” them
with your imagination and just see what happens!
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<strong>Shamanic/Totemic
Associations</strong>: We saw lots of critters during the reading of OJ, but
you can actually pick out a few from the patterns on the physical
rock as well. Some of the animal and plant totems seen were:
mermaid, lemur, dragon, owl, bat, horses, abalone, alligator,
dolphin, chrysanthemum, trumpet vine, ebony. It seems to be more of
a connector to the wisdom and spiritual nature of the Earth, which
would cover pretty much every plant and animal out there, if you
wanted to look at it that way. I just wanted to share the specific
ones that revealed themselves during the reading.
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<strong><em>In Summary</em></strong></div>
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My thoughts and experiences with Ocean Jasper continue to bloom. I invite any of you to share your own experiences to help us broaden our understanding. In the meantime, I do seem to grab OJ almost daily and in nearly any kind of energy work situation. It's just an exceptional helper for all sorts of work or it helps synergize individual pieces so that they work better together. Any way you look at it, that's g<em>ood stuff.</em><br />
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Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com9tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-79743115199730016832013-04-02T09:02:00.003-07:002015-01-20T12:07:54.517-08:00The Hidden Blessing of GriefGrief sucks.<br />
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There is no way around it, really. When someone dies, whom you love deeply, it hurts in a way that punctures your soul and leaves it weeping... sometimes permanently.<br />
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I want you to know, however, there is a hidden blessing and wisdom in the process of grief. I also know that you want to tell me to "shove it" about hidden blessings and wisdom while you are in deep grief. Of course you do, but it doesn't make it less true... and eventually, you will have the choice to let your sense of loss continue to be defined as a dark void within you, or if you will fill that new empty space with something miraculous that affirms YOUR life.<br />
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My life path completely changed when my father was sick with cancer for 5 years before his death. He knew it was coming. We all did. He had done his job already. I was a grown woman in my early 30's with my own life, but I think that anyone who has lost a parent will agree that there is never an age when you feel you don't need them. There is never an age when it feels okay.<br />
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In my circumstance, my father and I were always very similar. I remember thinking that I was more like my father than perhaps any other human being on the planet. He had an uncommon gift in the way he processed information. Some would have called him a genius, or inventive, or creative... or whatever, you get my drift. He had it within him to do something new and different, to chart some new course, to define or explain something in a new and unusual way that would matter to the world. He knew in his bones that he had this looming, overwhelming potential. And ultimately, his deepest struggle and regret at the end of his life was that he felt he did not accomplish whatever it was that he was put on the planet to do. <br />
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That's the ticket, isn't it? Are we here to do something? Is there some unremembered life purpose that we have, which is written in the marrow of our being, that haunts us with some familiar song we can barely hear?<br />
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I think the answer to that is, "yes". <br />
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My father's sickness and death made the song of my own life path so loud that I'm not sure how much of a choice I actually had to ignore it. Death has a way of clearing the dross, and bits of silly nonsense, which we seem to think is important, right out of the way. I mean... totally. Mortality also seems to make it necessary to consider a ~spiritual reality~ as something authentic. So, without much background or framework in formal religion, I found that when I reached out to a spiritual reality... that it absolutely reached back to me. It didn't just reach out to touch me. It swallowed me whole, chewed me up, and spit me back out onto a completely different course. It felt like that too. It wasn't gentle. It was a "holy-shit-get-the-license-plate-number-of-the-truck-that-just-hit-me" kind of <em>not subtle</em>.<br />
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It was the most important "path correction" I hope I will ever need. I don't want to do it again. It hurt like a Mo Fo and I'm still finding places within me that require healing and care because of it. Always a process, this evolving stuff, eh? Chip, chip, chip away at it. Eventually, the Art in the Stone will emerge from all the trimmings. I believe that, even if the process leaves me exhausted sometimes. Who am I to question the way it is done? I just wish it didn't hurt so much sometimes. I wish that for me, I wish that for you... but we have to work with what we have. Sometimes what we have in front of us is a world of pain. It is our choice what we do with it.<br />
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Grief offers us a choice to examine the course of our own life path, to ask the question, "At the end of my life, what will I regret?" <br />
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The answer to that, I believe, is that you will regret not doing what you were put on this planet to do. You will regret not making amends, not forgiving others, not expressing your love and passions, not expressing your unique potential as God gave you. <br />
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So, the most important thing you can do to honor the person you love who has died and left you this precious gift of crisis and trauma...is to find out what you were put on this planet to do, then get to the business of <em>doing it</em>.<br />
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In the cocoon of pain and loss, you have a clear line to your own spiritual reality. There is such tremendous power and support here. Reach out for it... surrender to it... let it consume you completely and cast you on whatever strange shore Divine Wisdom knows is right for you.<br />
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It's going to be a bumpy ride. You <em>will</em> feel unhinged, and at times, crazy as hell. Just keep reaching. Keep surrendering. Keep putting one foot in front of the other and fight with every ounce of your being to have courage when you want to run screaming from the building. <br />
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I can't tell you where you will end up... that is between you and God. <br />
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I can't tell you that you will feel endless waves of bliss and peace, even if you do find your life's path and follow it as sincerely as you can. Pain is one of the best catalysts, it seems, for change and evolution. The Divine can wield this tool with brutal precision when we aren't listening to more gentle persuasion. <br />
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I can tell you that your life will never be boring again and that the fire in your belly, the passion that fuels your ride, will have its own rewards. You will need very little from others that you cannot access from within. You will care much less about what other people think. Score. You will be living a life that is authentic for you... and the normal human duck-and-hide from what is important.... just falls away.<br />
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Allow your grief to<em> give your life back to you</em>. The window of opportunity is greatest in the moments of your greatest pain. Reach for it. Ask for help. Surrender. <br />
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Thanks Dad, for giving me the gift of living this wild and weird, but authentic life... of being on a path that I know I will not regret at the end of it. I may not be doing it perfectly, but I am <em>doing</em> it. I'm doing it with every ounce of my heart and soul...and every once and awhile, I discover more of myself hidden in some corner I didn't know existed, until it did. <br />
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It has not been easy... but it has been worth it. <br />
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May you be comforted and cared for in the Highest Possible way. May all those who suffer find solace. May your grief bless you with whatever shift in perspective you may need to truly live your life's purpose. May you receive what you need to support you in your Highest Good with as much Ease, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Love as possible. <br />
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Amen.<br />
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Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br />
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Our new website is here:<br />
<a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br />
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Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br />
<a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a>Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-34382719219201973492013-03-27T11:23:00.001-07:002015-01-20T12:10:23.382-08:00Manifesting a Luscious Life<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mmm... A luscious life. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yep, I want one of those. I bet you do too.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Luscious. Hmm. What is that exactly? I know I really like the word and how it rolls off the tongue. It has substance and texture. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>According to Oxford</em> </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Luscious</strong>: having a pleasingly rich, sweet taste, richly verdant or opulent, or very sexually attractive. (Ooo, la, la!)</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There are a lot of other terms going on here, so I want to go ahead and define some of those too:</span></em><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Verdant</strong>:green with grass or other rich vegetation, of the bright green color of lush grass.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Opulent</strong>:ostentatiously rich and luxurious or lavish.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Luxurious</strong>: extremely comfortable, elegant, or enjoyable, especially in a way that involves great expense.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Lavish</strong>: sumptuously rich, elaborate, or luxurious, very generous or extravagant:, spent or given in profusion, such as lavish praise.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Sumptuous</strong>: splendid and expensive-looking.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Splendid</strong>: magnificent; very impressive, excellent; very good.</span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">~~In my humble opinion, I think that a "luscious life" is one that is sweet and magnificent in a way that is valuable <strong>to you personally</strong>.~~</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My idea of a luscious life might be radically different than the luscious life of others. Though, I think that human beings tend to need some of the same things on a general basis.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher Lee Mathhews and I facilitated a workshop the other weekend called, "Luscious Life: Abundance, Good Luck, and Manifestation", and while we did discuss the stones that are traditionally linked to these concepts, and some techniques to use to activate those energies, we linked some fairly zoomy direct energy work protocols into the fun. Our workshops seem to be quickly morphing into informative healing sessions, instead of just technique/concept lessons. I dig it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris is a sound healer, a pretty darn good one at that, and I can't recreate that here in the blog for you, but I'm the intention set artist and energy download weaver, and I can do my best to weave the work into an easy to use format that you should be able to simply "call in" once we do the appropriate set up. Game? :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><I stole some text from my Solar Storm Mitigation article below, so if this looks familiar, you aren't having a psychic moment. I just wrote up the process of what I do well enough in that article that I snagged it for this one too, and just tweaked it to apply to this specific work. The technique is the technique is the technique. Only the details change depending on the type of assistance you are trying to set up.></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Some of you are familiar with the way I set up energy work, like in my book, </span><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Awake-Angelscape-Scenic-Route-Sacred/dp/0981765416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239316079&sr=8-1" target="_blank"><span style="color: #336699; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Awake in Angelscape</span></a><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">. It's kind of the "easy button" way of
creating energy weaves of useful assistance. It is like creating a download or
process within one action command. I used to call these "moments", now I just
call the phrase to call the energy set an "action statement". Umm, think it of
like a prayer that is set up so all you have to do is call it by name, instead
of reciting the whole thing to connect in with the energies. I've also
described it as calling into a pre-recorded message, but the message is an
energy download intended to deal with a specific issue. It is a spiritually
based "ask and receive" system, as it does absolutely require spiritual
cooperation to work. In fact, I call this kind of work "Cooperative Spiritual
Energy Work" cause.. well, I don't know what else to call it and it fits.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Anyway, the process isn't that difficult, but
it does require some up front time-on-task. I essentially articulate the goal
that I want from the work. In this instance, I have called it "Manifesting a Luscious Life". That is the goal. We want to manifest a Luscious Life for ourselves in whatever way makes sense to us as individuals. I'm going to use a longer concept goal or objective in this instance, instead of just a simple phrase. I do it both ways, short phrase goal v. long winded goal, depending on what kind of work I'm doing. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><Note: For this work, I am going to use MY idea of a Luscious Life. I will articulate both the goal/objective and the intention set details that make sense to ME...<em><strong>which you can use as a template to edit and tweak as you see fit.</strong></em> "Stacie's Luscious Life" may suck ass to some of you, so don't be lazy about this, you will have to actually do some thinking and considering about what YOU want for your own life. There are some technical support details that you should keep "as is", such as the creation of a Guide Team, and so on, but I will clearly mark the technical intentions.></span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stacie's "Luscious Life" Goal/Objective Statement</span></strong></div>
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I would like to manifest and maintain a Luscious Life. To me, this means to live a spiritually guided and Divinely Aligned life that is lived with courage, joy, passion, purpose, and gratitude, in which I have everything I need to evolve, sustain, nurture, inspire, and share my unique gifts, skills, talents, and abilities with the world, and to empower others to do the same.</span></em></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>OK, now it's your turn. What is your goal/objective statement for your Luscious Life? If you like mine so much you want to use it, fine with me. If you want to scrap it and start over, fine with me. Just ~own it~.</strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The next step is to list the intention
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I try to put as much thought into this
part because it seems to matter that I articulate my "free will" in a specific
way. However, since I am aware that I'm a tiny, little, limited human (at the
moment), I then take what I <em>think</em> I need and kick it up to the
spiritual level to be corrected in perfection and brought within Divine Will. I
call this "Spiritual CYA" (Cover Your Ass) because, well, just because you
<em>can</em> throw your free will around in the manifestation process, doesn't
mean you <em>should</em>. I give God/Divine Will overriding editing rights over
every utterance I make, every intention I assemble, because... well, I'm not
interested in working against Divine Will. Once it's been kicked up to the Big
Guy/Gal for correction and editing, then I seal the work so it maintains its
integrity in perpetuity. </span></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Intention Set Supporting Goal</span></strong></div>
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<em><strong><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Stacie's Luscious Life is one...</span></strong></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*in which I feel supported, guided, protected, safe, nurtured, and loved to be the best version of myself through God as possible, which means that I continually cultivate and evolve into what I call my “Sacred Self” or “Divine Self”.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial;">*where I am physically, emotionally, mentally, and spiritually healthy, vital, and fit.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial;">*where my loved ones are safe, healthy, and thriving.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I get to apply my God-given talents, skills, abilities, and passions, in productive and prosperous ways, in service to the Highest Possible Outcome to Unfold on Earth with as much Ease, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Love as possible. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I have enough material resources to meet my real world needs, as well as to engage in opportunities and experiences that bring me joy, or in some way enhance my life in the Highest Good, such as travel, educational experiences, and so on.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I have enough material, emotional, and spiritual resources to share freely in whatever way I believe increases joy in others.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*in which I can express myself creatively through whatever medium I care to play with at any given time. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*in which I have trust, faith, and courage to experience things beyond my comfort zone and to release that which no longer serves me with as much Ease and Grace as possible.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where there is mutual love, respect, support, and empowerment in my close and personal relationships. </span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I have a passionate, loving, and mutually supportive relationship with a life-partner.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*that, barring the opportunity to be supported and loved by friends, family, or an intimate life-partner, that I still feel supported and loved by the Divine, and that I consistently endeavor to fill my need for love and acceptance at the Divine Level first.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I accept myself in all my Divinely Imperfect Humanness, and where I can forgive myself when I don’t always accept myself in all my Divine Imperfect Humanness.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*where I continue to grow, experience new things, and explore, both my inner and outer worlds, and where there is always challenge to my perceived limits, with Ease and Grace.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*that takes unavoidable events of pain, loss, and discomfort and allows them to refine, improve, and move me beyond my own attachments, distortions, and limitations, with as much Ease and Grace as possible.</span></em><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*that continually brings me to a place of fewer and fewer limits, of any kind, with Ease and Grace, until I am able to responsibly wield and purposefully engage having no limits at all. </span></em><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><em>*that, at its conclusion, has left the world a better place for having lived it, and which leaves no regrets worth mentioning, no mistakes unforgiven, and no authentic and deep love or passion unexpressed.</em> </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>OK, now it's your turn. What are your intentions supporting your goal/objective statement for your Luscious Life? Yes, I did give mine some thought and I have been at this "intention creation" stuff for many, many years. Still, that doesn't mean I got them all. I'm not "all that and a bag of chips" of intentions. If you have some good intentions, leave them as a comment so you can share your insight with others. </strong></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><Note: I think this has been said before, but you need to edit and tweak the intention set above, unless my Luscious Life looks Luscious to you too. If you like my intentions, but have more of your own, add them. If you want to scrap it all and make your own, scrap them. I don't care. You have to put your back into defining your own Luscious Life.></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><Note #2: OK, below are the technical intentions, which I recommend you leave intact, unless you have an ideological issue with any of it and need to tweak it to fit your belief system. This sets up the spiritual guide team (consistent to your own religious and spiritual reality) and gives "God/The Divine" permission to do the heavy lifting, aka "Divine Intervention". Groovy? > </span><br />
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<em><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I request the creation of an authentic and Divinely Aligned "Guidance Team" for immediate and ongoing support for me to consistently be guided and supported to make the most appropriate choices, and to take advantage of the most appropriate opportunities and circumstances, which will manifest a Luscious Life, as defined by me.</span></em><br />
<em><br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I give permission for God/my Guide Team to assist me in any way that is appropriate and in Divine Alignment/Will to support me in acknowledging, defining, and achieving as Luscious of a Life as possible, within my personal level of development. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I give my Guide Team permission to facilitate, on my behalf, any appropriate and Divinely Aligned energy healing, or other appropriate shifts, known or unknown, as needed, to support my living a Luscious Life, with Ease and Grace.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I give permission for the Divine to intervene, correct, and provide me with perfected integrity in life, such that I may function, receive, and manifest above and beyond my limits and personal level of development, when appropriate and in the Highest Good.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I give permission for the Divine to make improvements to my vision and understanding of a Luscious Life, to include opportunities, events, and experiences so wonderful that I may not be able to envision them myself at this time.</span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I request the purification and removal of any obstacles, known or unknown, to living a Luscious Life now; such as the correction of perceptual distortions of any kind, the removal of incoherent, contrary, or subversive patterns of any kind, the neutralization and removal of inappropriate influence of any kind, and the removal of energetic blockages of any kind that hinders the Divine Flow that supports a Luscious Life. </span><br />
<br /><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I request ongoing support to understand, heal, and shift any other obstacles to living a Luscious Life, which cannot be shifted at this time, because it serves a purpose as part of my spiritual growth and evolution. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I request all lessons and growth events to be initiated with Ease and Grace. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*I request to Hold Space to anchor the energies of living a Luscious Life outward into larger systems, as appropriate, when appropriate, for Humanity in general. (Think of it like a positive domino effect on a global level.) </span><br />
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Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-57851143866514268082013-02-14T09:29:00.000-08:002015-01-20T12:14:46.738-08:00Mercury Retrograde Mitigation: Making Life Easier<div style="text-align: justify;">
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am not an astrologer. It was just too much math for me to want to master, but some of my closest spiritual friends are way deep into astrology. That helped me to have a somewhat better than absolute beginner grasp on it, but only by association. :) </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I pay attention to just 4 astrological influences/events, which are: solar return (aka: birthday), the moon (full/new), Saturn Return (because it kicks your ass- if you would like to look up yours, go <a href="http://www.astrocal.co.uk/saturn-return.php" target="_blank">here</a>) and Mercury Retrograde. I'm sure there are other things that smack me upside my head and I just haven't figured out the pattern yet. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The uber simple explanation is that when something astrological is in “retrograde”, it basically means that it seems to be going backwards in the heavens. Bass Akward, in this instance.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Mercury rules technology, communication, travel, mental/thought processes, and a bunch of things that we take for granted in the course of a normal day. These are things that we immediately miss when it gets yanked out from under us, such as during a retro.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If for some reason, I have forgotten to mark the approximately 3 week period of Mercury Retrograde on my calendar, I almost always know when it is happening after about a week... by simply measuring how close I am to throwing my computer out of a window. I recommend giving yourself some heads up so that you know ahead of time to be in a more chill frame of mind when things start going kabloowie around you.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This year, 2013, the periods of Mercury Retrograde are as follows</strong>: </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">February 23–March 17</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">June 26–July 20</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">October 21–November 10</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher reminded me that the effects of Mercury Retro are felt strongest at the start and end date of the cycle, when the planet is motionless. It can also be felt a couple of weeks before and after as the planet is slower. So, we have to be aware even before the dates. *sigh* </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Oh, Mercury Retro, how do you bug me? Let me count the ways...</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">1. It makes me stupid. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">2. It messes with my computer and any programs I care to use on it. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">3. I cannot find my way out of a box, or something happens with my car, or my GPS decides that it is also stupid.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">4. It takes 5 times longer to get something done. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">5. I can't get words to do anything useful or to come out right.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">6. It makes me stupid. Right, I said that already, but I can count it twice.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>Some things that you can do to ride out the Merc Retro with as much grace as possible</strong>:</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Plan all travel well. Don't just rely on your GPS, but get written directions too and leave plenty of time to get where you want to be going. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Service your car before going anywhere and make sure it's functioning well! Gas up!</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Don't sign any contracts or make final decisions on anything important.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Don't throw your computer out of a window. It can't help being a butt head during this time frame.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Try not to do any big projects or proposals, but if you do, do 3 times more prep work than usual and practice your butt off so that communicating what you mean to say is automatic.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Spend time dreaming, thinking, introspecting, journaling, considering, sorting, meditating, and going within... but do NOT chart any active course, action, or decision. Just kinda let it all hang out and get jiggy in your head. Let it wash over you without attaching to an outcome yet.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Tend to creative and artsy projects that you have begun, but that have ended up collecting dust in some corner of your hobby area.</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Doodle mindlessly and then get a symbol book to decipher what the heck you captured on the page. </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*If you want to write, Dear God, let it be poetry instead of an instruction manual. Then, do not show your poetry to anyone until you have re-read it after Mercury goes direct. :)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Do not drunk dial, text, or Facebook old lovers. (Word!)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">*Do things that mitigate the areas of your world that are most affected by Mercury being Bass Ackward, such as things that assist clear thinking and communicating with gemstone support, flower essences, nutrition, and asking for plenty of assistance.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Since we like our rocks up in here, that is usually my go to “mitigation” support, though I do love me some flower/gem essences too. It probably wouldn't hurt to take some gingko biloba and eat some fresh salmon either. I mean really, throw your back into it. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher, my ETE workmate, and I spent time batting rock selections back and forth to come up with a grouping of stones for grids or pouches that we would recommend for Mercury Retro Mitigation.We included historical and traditional stones that are directly linked to Mercury as well as stones that are good for mental clarity, communication, introspection, and safe travel. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris has a great article his blog about the gemstones of Mercury, which you can find here: </span><a href="http://houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/2012/06/planetary-gemstones-of-mercury.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/2012/06/planetary-gemstones-of-mercury.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Chris also has a blog article that describes retrograde planetary effects, in general. You can read that here: </span><a href="http://www.houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/2012/07/meaning-of-retrograde-motion.html"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">http://www.houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/2012/07/meaning-of-retrograde-motion.html</span></a><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong>This stones selected have the intention to counter balance the astral influence of Mercury, like:</strong></span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Mercury retrograde and other transits of Mercury, when the planet interacts with an element in a person's birth chart</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-Transits of other planets through Gemini and Virgo, ruled by Mercury, or the Third and Sixth House, associated with Mercury</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-A challenging placement of Mercury in a person's birth chart</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Magnetic hematite is a ferromagnetic ceramic, meaning a man made magnet produced by combining iron oxide minerals like hematite with a ceramic. Hematite is associated with Mercury because it resembles the liquid metal mercury and man made materials were traditionally ruled by Mercury, because of its associations with innovation. Hematite is one of the most grounding stones you can work with. It stabilizes chaotic energies and brings upper level congestion down through the system to be moved out. It helps restore proper flow and brings greater clarity to the system. It is associated with the planet/energies of Mercury because it has the physical appearance of mercury, as well as being a stone that is good for mental clarity.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Emerald's deep green color has been associated with abundance, royalty, and Divine Love. It is also a stone that is sacred to Venus, for its connection with fertility, beauty, and love. They tend to grow as small stones, but for their small size, they have a extraordinary energy. It is regal and dignified and personifies the luxury and opulence of the Earth. It embodies the energies that connect us to Heart Wisdom and to all else in the Web of Life. The legendary figure Hermes Trismegistus, who combines traits of the Greek God Mercury and the Egyptian god Thoth, is also associated with emeralds through the “Emerald Tablet” associated with him. It was often used to “cure” Mercury type afflictions. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fluorite is a mentally centering and balancing stone. It brings one to a meditative and even state of mind, or brings one from a place of mental chaos and activity to greater order and concentration. It is one of the few 'dreamy' stones that isn't ungrounding. In fact, in many ways Fluorite is one of the best stabilizers of all the stones that could be used. It's balancing and stabilizing properties enhances the capacity for one to be grounded within the activity of choice; whether that is getting work done at the office, attending to soccer game schedules, recovering after a hectic day, or doing spiritual or meditative work. It also is particularly well suited to provide additional protection and integrity to dreams or other altered states of consciousness. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Moonstone is all about mother love and is often used to assist new mothers through pregnancy and childbirth. It has its pulse on the very energies that wrap us up in a comforter and attend to us when we scrape our knees or hearts. It is also the embodiment of the mystery of the night and the magic of womanhood. It helps us to connect with the Divine Feminine, our own inner Goddess Power, as well as connecting us to meditative, introspective, and periods of “going within”. Moonstone has also traditionally been used to provide safety during travel, particularly over water. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Kyanite is one of my favorite stones as it is protective, aligning to the chakra system, meditative, and it does all of those things well. It has been connected to Archangel Michael and the Blue Flaming Sword of Truth. It stimulates both the 3rd Eye and Throat Chakras, so it assists in both mental clarity as well as supporting clear communication.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Labradorite is said to act upon the entire auric field as it has a near full spectrum of colors represented within it. It fills in places within your auric field that are weaker, thereby making you more resilient to inappropriate energetic influences. It is full of magic and mystery, revealing truth and beauty to those who have the wisdom to look beyond the surface to the divinity within. It represents flashes of insight, clarity, and wisdom.</span></div>
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Lace Agate is a spiritual stone that assists in connecting one with
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Throat Chakra. It is one of the best cleansers to clear up energetic
congestion clogging up direct links to higher guidance. </span></span>Agates are traditionally linked to Mercury and are used as a cure for astrological influences involving that planet.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Sodalite has a rich deep blue color with streaks of white. It is the color of the night sky and full of hidden charms. It is a stone of respite and care. It helps us to restore ourselves when we have pushed too far and traveled too hard. It brings a sense of quiet anchor to a beleaguered soul and moves this spirit into a balanced openness with its Higher Self. It is enriching and empowering to the psychic senses and calming and cooling to the system that has been stretched thin in obvious or non-obvious ways. It assists to calm intense reactions and emotions to situations and allows us to function in a more structured and intentional way. It helps us to do this without being sidetracked by the intensity and impact of an overly emotional perspective. I consider sodalite to be an “anti-drama” stone because of the support it provides to have an objective mental view point, instead of being emotional reactive to something. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you are making your own grid, or wish to assemble a medicine pouch of single stones, you will want to consider stones that are multi-colored, dark blue, light blue, or that cover the areas of clear thinking, safety in travel, good luck, and clear communication, or any of the stones that Christopher wrote about in his Planetary Gemstones of Mercury blog article.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Good luck to all during Mercury Retrograde....and my your computers not be butt heads!!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"></span><br />Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-43588086978007616882013-02-03T12:38:00.000-08:002015-01-20T12:19:57.820-08:00Rocks for Lovers: Bow Chicka Wow WowNot just love, love... but bow chicka wow wow, blow your mind, curl your toes, red hot passion, put your back into it, kinda love. Do I have your attention yet? ;)<br />
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OK. Maybe we've lost enough of that holiday weight at this point that we can muster up enough give-a-bleep about having a super sexy evening with our respective Snuggle Bunnies. Groovy. I'm in. (If you aren't into it this year, no worries, just flip Hallmark the bird and put your sweats on and have some chocolate anyway. :) </div>
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If you are an energy baby, like I am, and would like something buzzy to support love, passion, and intimacy events, well by golly, you've come to the right place.</div>
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I bent Christopher's ear, my ETE work-mate, to see what he considered to be "rocks for love", and we constructed a crystalline grid that we both thought would do the trick, so to speak. He's really good with the historical and traditional body of knowledge about rocks, and I am more a "do and learn" kind of person, so it's always interesting to see in what ways we come up with the same things and in what way we don't. </div>
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When you think love and passion, there are several types of energy centers/colors that come up. Obviously, red. Red is a root chakra color and we definitely want to tickle that area. Orange is next, that is the belly/sacral chakra that actually is directly related to sexuality, creativity, and other zesty things. However, while things are all hot and bothered "down below", you also want to cultivate a whole lot of heart and emotional support "above". (Let's be honest, without soulful, meaningful love... you might as well just invest in a really good toy and have lots of batteries.) The heart center is tickled by both pink and green. </div>
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When you consider the larger picture, the entire system is involved in true love making. So there is a lot of wiggle room when considering what stones you might wish to select in any love support combination. Make sure you pay attention to what is calling you on a personal level, eh? </div>
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Christopher turned me on to some other stones too, which I wouldn't have necessarily known were love stones, but it made perfect sense to me when he explained it. Stones that have a traditional connection to love goddess/planetary energies, like Venus, were considered to be love stones. When we were first playing with the grid energies, he said the version that I liked was a little "butch", so he added some Venusian influences, like a layer of emerald and a copper rich center stone that is a chrysocolla in matrix, also known by the trade name of "Quantum Quattro Silica". It is afterall, a grid meant for two genders, at least this one, though it makes sense I responded to a more butch model at first. (Yee haw.) Both the emerald and the chrysocolla in matrix would correspond to traditional "Venus" associated rocks. He also has introduced me to the "attraction" of magnetite and lodestone, which are natural magnets, when it comes to attracting to you what you want, such as in an abundance grid, or just in "attracting" in general, like in a love grid. He's such a smart boy, that one. </div>
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Chris wrote a whole blog article on the planetary gemstones of Venus linked rocks, which you can find here: <a href="http://houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/search/label/gems%20of%20Venus" target="_blank">Planetary Gemstones of Venus</a></div>
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OK, so here is what we put together for a seductive Valentines Grid that has a little something-something for both male and female participants. Keep in mind we have a warehouse full of rocks from which to choose, and this is the combination that seemed to pop the best. It isn't the only combination, by a long shot. If you are constructing your own, have fun with it. ;)<br />
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<strong>Chrysocolla in Matrix</strong> (may also have: shattuckite, ajoite, malachite, smoky quartz, dioptase): This adds the Venus energy with copper, but the blue would correspond to communication as well as stimulating the psychic and spiritual centers.</div>
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<strong>Magenta Rose Quartz</strong>: This would help to open the heart, which is always a good thing.</div>
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<strong>Garnet</strong>: I call garnets "happy marriage" stones because they are known for passion and intimacy. </div>
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<strong>Emerald</strong>: For deep love, also a Venus linked stone.</div>
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<strong>Starry Jasper</strong>: This is a red jasper that has both pyrite and hematite inclusions. I love this stone because it pulls complex duty; release, vitality, spirituality, warmth, groundedness.</div>
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<strong>Magnetite</strong>: For attraction!</div>
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<strong>River Carnelian</strong>: This tickles the belly chakra, but I also like that they were in a river. Flow, rush, gush. </div>
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Crystalline grids can be set up and activated under a bed or on a nightstand next to the bed since they radiate a nice broad energy field when they are up and running. </div>
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There are other options, of course. You could simply get 4 rocks and do a four-stone bed grid, if you don't want too much fuss. The only question in this instance is what single rock would you want to amplify under your bed for rockin' love making? I asked Chris which type of rock he would want to use to grid his bed, if he could only choose one. I thought he'd say Shiva Lingam, but I was wrong. He actually selected carnelian because he said it would be good for stamina, activating the sexual centers, and that kind of thing. He said stamina twice. (Boys.) It's a solid selection, really. I particularly like the river tumbled carnelian because it is fire and water at the same time.</div>
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If I had to select a single stone to grid my bed, hmmm... that is a tough one. I might actually select shungite because it is all about alchemical blending of elements, which is pretty sexy, but it is also about melting into the primal pulse of creation. Umm, yeah, Mamma like. It also isn't a very subtle energy and seems quite competent to get a party started and move some serious energy. You can read my blog article about shungite <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/11/shungite-not-for-sissies.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </div>
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If I were going to make a gem elixir of various stones to drop into my pre-love libations, hmmm... rose quartz, moonstone, sunstone, shungite, garnet, ruby, carnelian, heck, why choose. Throw them all in the pool and make it a free-for-all. </div>
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If you aren't familiar with gem elixirs, you can read my blog article about them <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/06/gem-elixirs-drink-in-energy-of-your.html" target="_blank">here</a>.</div>
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Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br />
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Our new website is here:<br />
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Right Brained to me suggests being kinda "wooey". Wooey is an affectionate
description for being spiritual, eclectic, sensitive, artsy,
metaphysical, and “Ashevilley”. Wooey is organic flow,
star-kissed dew, and inspirational gush. Wooey is right-brained,
feminine, intuitive, and receptive. I am a wooey woman. I am also
an author that <i>almost</i> never was because “wooey” and “book
writing” are opposite actions. Scratch that, wooey and FINISHING a book are opposite actions.<br />
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I have always known I had a book
inside of me, waiting patiently for me to acquire the necessary
maturity to be born. What was not in me, however, was one ounce of
left-brain structure or organization—<i>that</i> I had to develop
(aka: beat into myself). It was not enough for me to take the
tantric ride of my own creative “gush rush”. Creative
inspiration has a purpose beyond the luscious “potential new life”
sensation that feels so good. It also charges us with a sacred
opportunity of bringing forth that life to do its happy little thing
in the world. The gush, however, only takes us so far, and often
deposits us in a perpetual state of half-completed projects. That’s
fine for scrapbooking, artwork, and knitting, but creative <i>writing</i>—a
book project—is a mess left in your <i>head</i> if you don’t
bring it to completion.
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I knew I needed to find a
cistern for my gush, to capture it, structure it, and allow it to be
translated into English. I knew I could not take the chaos of my
creativity, share it in draft form, and expect anyone to be able to
understand me. It had to be hammered into a linear reality, or else
it would merely be the ramblings of a potentially lunatic mind. (Not
that there is anything wrong with that.) I had to learn to value and
utilize my left-brain functions in a <i>right-brain</i> way. I know
there are so many wooey folks out there with a book inside of them
too, struggling with structure, the antithesis to creativity. I want
to share the strategies I developed to complete my book, which is
sitting its pretty self on Amazon.com. If I can do it, you can do it,
but it does take determination, courage, and being a little crazy is
also helpful. </div>
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I tried to write while
still in the “gathering” stage, but that was as pointless as
trying to ride two different trains at the same time. Ideas never
came in any kind of order to make sense right away, but rather would
drop into my head in degrees of emotional importance and intensity.
I needed the organization to <i>emerge</i> from the pieces themselves
once there were enough to order. The first strategy was to document
the individual pieces, catch the drops, without trying to force them
to make sense prematurely. I used a spiral bound set of index cards
that had a perforated edge. The spiral kept them together, but the
perforation allowed me to remove the cards when I was ready. I spent
months letting the individual pieces drop, gush, and flow—one
concept to one card. Bliss. I carried this index card “notebook”
in my purse, because the spontaneous bits and pieces would come in
any time they dang well pleased, not necessarily when I was looking
for them. I didn’t try to analyze the data yet; the cards were
just a collection of pure, random thoughts and ideas. This part was
easy. The only left-brain thing I had to do was to remember to write
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One day, I was finally
prompted to play with the cards. I ripped them from the spiral
notebooks and began to sort through them. I arranged the cards into
piles of ideas that seemed related to one another. A dim sense of
main supporting themes began to emerge the more I played, sorted, and
rearranged my piles. The piles grew as the conspicuously missing
pieces easily dropped into my mind. It was almost hypnotic, because
if I allowed myself to look loosely and without force, a pattern
absolutely began to reveal itself. I spent weeks in this stage,
somewhere between chaos and order, allowing the <i>book</i> to tell
me what main ideas it wanted to express. I had never thought that
applying an intuitive flow to organization would be so effective, but
it really was. This part was much more fun than I expected. I was
accessing left-brain functions, but in a “practical” wooey way.
I began to warm to the idea of structure. </div>
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The next part was about
sequencing the piles into a logical, linear flow. I needed the
activities in the book to have a start, middle, and end. I had to
ask myself what made the most intuitive sense to introduce first,
second, third, and so on. This was harder for me because the
activities felt similarly “important”, which is how I usually
sort my “to do” list in life. That strategy just didn’t work
with the book because <i>everything</i> felt important. I found
myself trying to say too much at once in a loud heap of urgency. I
had to step back and find a way to unravel the knot so I could lay
out the activities in a balanced progression. The steps needed to
flow into one another, to make sense in a linear time line. This
part <i>never</i> felt natural to me. If you are like me, it will
never feel natural to you either. Wooey people don’t process
information in “sequence”, which is a line. We process
information “holographically”, which is a sphere. You <i>have</i>
to unravel the sphere into a line in order to write a book, there is
no getting around it. My strategy was to <i>settle</i> on the best
order I could and simply keep going. You have to get tough with
yourself here. Give yourself permission to feel uncomfortable,
decide on a sequence anyway, and move forward. The book will <i>tell
you</i> if you need to shuffle things around later. Once this part
is done, even though I promise you it will never feel right (because
it’s left!), you will have a rough map to begin writing the details
of your book. It will be okay. I promise. </div>
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The next strategy I used
was a Focus Group of about a dozen people to try out the activities
in the book as written text. It wasn’t intended as a support
group for me to get the writing done, but it ended up that way
because once I set the schedule with them, I showed up for it. The
group gave me the gift of accountability to have a certain amount of
work accomplished each week. It wasn’t their primary purpose, but
it ended up being critical support for developing good permanent work
habits. I highly recommend joining a writer’s support group that
meets regularly, or find an on-line group where you swap and comment
on each others work. Create a solid, but “doable” writing
schedule with clear goals. I sent the Focus Group new activities
each Monday. They did the activities as independent homework and
turned in descriptions of their experiences when they were finished.
This system worked great and helped me produce the equivalent of one
activity section each week. I started to see the heart of the book
take form over the 15 weeks that I worked with the Focus Group on the
activities. Things started to fall into place and the momentum of
“maybe I really <i>can</i> do this” soared in me like the Little
Engine that Could, which is good, because even though I had some
sense of “gush closure” after writing the activities, the book
was far from being complete. </div>
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I began a new phase of
index cards to help me figure out the structure of the rest of the
book. I started to “catch the drops” about what information I
needed to explain in order for the activities in the book to make
sense. Drop, drop, drop—pile, pile, pile—sort, sort,
sort—grumble, sequence, sequence, grumble, sequence. I took the
map that was left (pun intended) and began to write the actual text
of the book. I had to belt myself into my computer chair and fight
through the fatigue. Thankfully, the four months with the Focus
Group helped me to develop productive writing habits. I did not
permit myself to sit and spin in wooey spirals of unstructured la-la
time during the workweek. I dropped off my daughter, gave myself
until 8:30am to get my unstructured computer time out of the way, and
then I parked myself in the manuscript word document. While I was
writing, everything else was off. I wrote on good days, bad days,
and blah days, even if it meant that I spun my wheels for a while. I
discovered one thing that might be the most important tip I can give
you; <i>momentum</i> <i>matters</i>. Staying in the motion of
writing was sometimes enough to start a new flow of text that I
didn’t expect would come that day. Remember to stay in motion and
the text <i>will</i> come. </div>
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It <i>was</i> mentally
exhausting. I coped by taking the weekends off and not touching the
computer until Monday morning. During the week, when I “hit a
wall” after a few hours of productive writing, I honored that and
got away from the computer for a little while. The periods of short
rest were good, but I always forced myself to go back to the computer
to finish up for the day. I tried not to take more than a 45-minute
break at any one time because momentum matters enough to say twice.
I had to vigilantly balance the need to let my brain cool off with my
inclination to grind to an “all stop” if I am still for too long.
Thankfully, little bits of encouragement would show up when I was
scraping bottom. I always got the much-needed gusts of second wind
right before my head was about to hit the keyboard. I found that if
I just kept putting one foot in front of the other and refused to
quit, the universal support would make itself known and I would feel
that surge of energy bring my dog-tired noodle back into commission
for yet another round of writing. </div>
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The home stretch is
always the hardest. After writing the full draft of the book, it was
time to edit. My use of language is okay, but I knew the editing
would be the biggest left-brain challenge of all. There is almost
<i>nothing</i> right-brained about editing. I gave myself a couple
weeks to rest and change “hats” by reading, <i>The Elements of
Style, </i>by Strunk and White. I decided to be creative with this
part too, so I requested for Strunk and White to be added to my
spiritual guide team through the editing process (both are dead).
Yes, I know, that’s a little strange (to you non-wooey people), but
it was my way of attuning myself to the unemotional, logical inner
voice necessary to rip my poetic blather down to a concise bundle.
And you know what? It <i>worked</i>. As I weeded through the words,
I saw grammar, structure, punctuation, spelling, and the places where
I went off into an irrelevant, but warm and fuzzy tangent. I cut,
slashed, and simplified without sentiment, attachment, and sometimes,
without mercy. I could not have done that without a ceremonial
change of perspective from right to left. Dead editors, or not, find
a creative way to shift from thinking like an intuitive, wooey person
to thinking like an unemotional editor. Strunk and White get 5-stars
in the helpful dead editor department, if such a thing exists. One
of them has a wicked sense of dry humor too, helpful on dreary
left-brain days. </div>
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Deciding when the
manuscript was finished being edited was more difficult than you
might think. I fiddled, refined, reworded, double guessed myself,
over thought, under thought, fiddle, fiddle, and fiddle. My husband,
who is logic personified, had to intervene because I must have looked
like Gollum hunched over the pages, whispering, “My Precious”. I
wanted it to be perfect, but there is no such thing. You can, quite
literally, edit through any manuscript <i>forever</i> and find
<i>something</i> that you might want to keep tweaking, rewording, or
cutting. This never felt natural to me either, the idea of being
<i>finished. </i> You will want to keep going, and going, and going.
Give yourself an editing deadline or you will drive yourself wonky.
Don’t be sloppy about it, of course, you still need to hand in as
clean of a manuscript as possible, but <i>feel</i> when you should
stop. Sometimes more fiddling is just more fiddling. If it doesn’t
make the book better, stop. Publishers use their own editors as
well, so even when it leaves your hands, it has more filters through
which to pass. If you don’t have a publisher yet, go to your
favorite left-brain friends and beg them to proof your work before
you attempt to send it out. </div>
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Writing my book was like
participating in a triathlon because each part was grueling, long,
and had new skills to master in order to finish that particular
segment. It took sheer, stubborn grit for me to ride through to the
finish line. I mean, seriously. Brain dead, burnt out—but taking
the next step anyway—kind of grit. I couldn’t conceive that it
would ever truly be finished, but one incredible morning it actually<i>
</i>was super-duper-absolutely-final-book-draft.doc done. I began
writing in September of 2006. The book was ready on Amazon.com at
the end of March 2009. I wish I could say that the story ends with
my book being on the NY Times Best Sellers list, but writing the book
was just the beginning. (What?!) Once a book is written and on the
market, you actually have to communicate about its existence. There
goes a brand spanking new set of skills to learn and “not fun”
things to figure out, but I am going forth far better equipped than I
used to be. I have made <i>friends</i> with my left-brain, my
logical and orderly “inner dude”. He’s not so bad after all.
Going “left” has made me more of myself, if that is possible. It
wasn’t the foreign land that I had feared it would be, even though
some of it was rocky. It’s also not the stuffy, business-suit
wearing ‘Gent’ that I thought it would be. My left-brain is more
like a deliciously flamboyant, impeccably dressed gay man who knows
how to tidy me up and send me off into the world feeling fabulous.
He is the cistern to my fount and the yang to my yin, which is a
fancy way of saying; I can get more stuff done now. Bliss. </div>
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About my Book: <i>Awake
in Angelscape: The Scenic Route to the Sacred Self</i><br />
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The greatest journey you will ever take begins with a leap of faith... <br />
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Awake in Angelscape is a guided meditation book that uses a journey through an imaginary landscape to initiate a progression of 30 self-healing and wholeness activities. The book activities seek to provide the Reader with deeply moving experiences and inner tools that respect the way the brain responds to internally generated imagery. The work in the book uses a synergy of the Reader's imagination, clear intentions, and personal spiritual faith to weave a potent interactive journey to the Sacred Self. The book's activities provide protocols to address the major processes of self-healing and wholeness work. These processes are: 1) flushing the system of accumulated energetic and emotional congestion, 2) fortifying the system to be resilient against harmful or negative influence, 3) rectifying negative perceptions and patterns, 4) restoring a sense of wholeness and harmony within the system 5) empowering the Self to identify, cultivate, and express the most sacred and evolved aspects of itself as an individual and as a member of larger systems, 6) embracing and having compassion for "being human", so that forward progress is viewed as a cumulative journey instead of a destination.</div>
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The real skinny of it is this:<br />
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The
book I wrote is my “mitzvah” to the world, which is Jewish for,
“a kind deed performed as a religious duty”. I wrote it because
I was supposed to. Who is supposed to read it? Heck if I know.
Hopefully, I didn't spend 2 years of my life writing a book that only
6 people needed to read, but I admit that it's entirely possible.
I'm better for having given birth to it and now it's out there doing
its own thing. Once and awhile, I get a postcard. I'm good with
that and already on to other projects. </div>
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<i>Awake
in Angelscape</i> is an activity book that details energy work
protocols that were developed and refined over more than a decade of
near hermitage up on my mountain outside of Asheville, North
Carolina. Like many authors, I wrote the book that I personally
needed earlier in my life. The work was developed the honest way; by
slogging through the foreign terrain of rapid spiritual expansion,
while desperately and persistently insisting that the process not
turn me into an ungrounded mystic who was unable to actually live in
this world and ~get to work~. I utterly submerged in higher
dimensions with very little foothold in this one for quite a long
time. There was wisdom there to drag back, hammer into some kind of
linear format, and share. So that is what I did. </div>
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Many
people find the book very complex, and I guess that is true, but it
is as simple as I could have made it. It is just as thorough and
deep as it should to be to fill a need for people who are ready to do
significant and substantive inner-work that uses a strong spiritual
base. It is not easy reading. It is an ass load of work. I did not
write it with my typically humorous slant and often irreverent nod to
behavioral language. I wish I could have without diluting the
potency of the work itself. I'm not saying this is channeled work,
because it's not, but I guarantee you that I am not capable of what
it took to write that book without a very hefty dose of Divine
Intervention and support. Sometimes I open it and read a random page
and think, “Day-um. That was definitely not all me.” </div>
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Maybe
some day I'll write a fluffy and entertaining book, but this one
ain’t it. If you are, however, ready to do some serious soul level
work, the book may be a good tool for you to move on to a higher
level. It is a process book. It doesn't just give you the work, it
shows you how the work is done. By the time you finish the book, you
will have solid skill sets to go off in your own direction of
service, which was always the point. You don't start first with
global service, even though I know you want to. You start first by
taking care of yourself and making sure you have the necessary skill
set and integrity to do the larger work. First within, then without.
There is no short-cut. Well, you can try, but it will get beaten
out of you soon enough. Good luck with that. </div>
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if you want to read more about the book, you can click on the book cover or click <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Awake-In-Angelscape-Scenic-Sacred/dp/0981765416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1359838361&sr=8-1&keywords=awake+in+angelscape" target="_blank">here</a>. If any
of you have read it already or have an opinion one way or another, I
would appreciate a “like”, or shout out on Amazon, since it is
clear that the only way that people will learn about this book is
through word-of-mouth. It is a niche book for spiritual seekers who
know they have work to do, but who are at a loss for finding a
practical way to do that work. You can always just plug in with your
personal guidance and ask, “Would this book be helpful to me?”
If you get a bunch of goosebumps or some kind of energy rush, perhaps
you should consider taking the plunge.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">Many people are finding themselves wandering through a journey of healing, growth, and discovery. Humanity (at least some of it) is waking up to the fact that we are in a period of choice that is unprecedented in our collective memory. We are in a not-so-subtle dance with the chaotic underpinnings of an unfolding destiny. This destiny seems directly related to our ability to evolve beyond our current levels of functioning within ourselves, with each other, and with the Earth. Some of us feel that the solution rests squarely with our ability to connect with and function from an authentic spiritual reality to direct our way. Because of this, the population of “seekers” and those willing to undergo “the journey” has never been bigger. </span></div>
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<span style="color: black;">The largest challenge is that the journey to higher functioning requires us to grow and expand in ways that may not always be welcome, comfortable, or that fit into our shared notions of how things work. In my own journey, I have formulated four working theories, with a new fifth kicker, that have helped me move more gracefully through my growth edges and personal limitations. I call these five rules “working theories” because everything I learn or adopt, I hold with open hands. Why? The answer is described in working theory number one.</span><br />
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<span style="color: black;"><strong>Working Theory One: We are toddlers.</strong> </span></div>
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Deciding that we know and actually knowing are different things. If we decide we know, we have effectively shut all doors to greater understanding because we will dismiss everything that counters or confronts what we think is true. If we, instead, move forward understanding that we cannot possibly fully grasp something, we can far more gracefully update and expand what we think is true when new understanding unfolds.</div>
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I do not believe we can actually master a spiritual reality any more than a toddler can be brought to understand calculus. The capacity to count on our fingers does not make us mathematical masters no matter how loudly our parents cheer or how accomplished we feel when we reach the number 10. We cannot get to calculus without being able to count to the number 10, but there is a world of incremental and hard-won steps of greater understanding that separate the two. As toddlers, our math task is simply to learn to count on our fingers—and that is important. If we fail to build proper foundations, we fail to progress. It brings me to working theory number two.</div>
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<strong>Working Theory Two: It’s important to work the piece directly in front of you.</strong><br />
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We have no more reason to rage against our level of spiritual development than a toddler should rage against being a toddler. Yes, we often fantasize about being older when we are children, but all we can observe is the greater freedom of choice. Children do not comprehend the higher degree of necessary maturity and responsibility that comes with that freedom of choice. Maturity is a process of gradual development. We need to work the tiny piece directly in front of us at any given time. These pieces unfold before us as “teachable moments” in the ordinary course of our day-to-day lives. </div>
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Whatever shows up on your path, be it a challenge or delight—that is the piece in front of you. Stop and explore it, play with it, be present with what that piece is bringing to your attention, what is does, how it fits in, and ultimately, where it leads you next. You do not have to worry about the next step until you have allowed yourself to soak in the scope of what your current piece is telling you. The next step will take care of itself if you stay focused and engaged.</div>
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The piece you are working may be one-of-many that eventually begin to show you a larger pattern or picture. If you rush by it without gaining insight, you will likely be provided with more experiences until you master the “piece de jour”. If it is a particularly unpleasant piece, something that requires you to upgrade a concept that you do not want to release, or a piece that requires you to look at something about yourself that is not flattering—the experience may not feel like “playtime” at all. This brings me to working theory number three.</div>
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<strong>Working Theory Three: A spiritual journey is about growth, not comfort.</strong></div>
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The irony of a spiritual path is that many first engage it in search of “inner peace” and serenity. Instead, many end up in situations that confront their deepest fears, inconsistencies, and weaknesses—which is anything but serene. In order to move to a higher level of functioning, sometimes we are brought through experiences that wrestle us from our limited beliefs that stand in the way of moving forward. Beliefs are a set of rules or conclusions that construct the basis of what we think is “real and true”. These beliefs define our reality. When you come into direct contact with something that contradicts the beliefs you have adopted (shared or personal), it can feel a whole lot like “going crazy” because it is necessarily unhinging you from your limited sense of reality. Congratulations, if your palms are sweaty and you’re in tears, you just hit your “growth ceiling”. Higher functioning awaits you on the other side. One of the most challenging parts of a spiritual journey is to remain firm instead of running screaming from the building when you hit a growth spurt, but you can do it if you have trust in the process (and copious amounts of dark chocolate and Rescue Remedy). This brings us to working theory number four. </div>
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In whatever way you define the term God, if you are on a spiritual path, you are likely doing so to seek greater alignment and harmony with what you perceive as God (aka: highest spiritual consciousness). In order to allow yourself to be guided through a journey, you have to decide if you trust and have faith in God. How can anyone undertake a spiritual journey if they do not trust that God is competent? Once we have invested in the working theory that God is competent, it means we don’t always have to be. It’s okay for us to be imperfect, overwhelmed, and generally flummoxed. We just have to be willing to be led in the right direction and to trust the process. </div>
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I have discovered that my serenity is not feeling endless waves of bliss 24/7. Serenity, in my opinion, is the practical application of the working theory that no matter what is placed on my path, that I have the faith necessary to put one foot in front of the other until I find a way through. I do not doubt that a way through exists. I do not worry if I am capable. If I trust God, then I have to trust that what is put in front of me, I can handle. I simply work the piece in front of me and wait for the path to be shown. My only remaining question is, “Where do I place my next step?” After all, the greatest journeys are the ones that begin with a leap of faith. </div>
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<strong>Working Theory Five: A Spiritual Life is Funky</strong></div>
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(A direct quote from Christopher Lee Matthews, my Metaphysical Department workmate, with whom I whole-heartedly agree.) A spiritual life <em>is</em> funky. I think that if you are putting your back into it, you may begin to feel like Alice dropping down the rabbit hole sometimes. Yeah, that hole has no bottom...so what? The more you can adapt to reality being somewhat fluid, the better you will be. The party is outside of your comfort zone and you can't dance unless you are willing to have your mind blown every now and again. Anything can happen, yes, and you can always be thrown through your "weird ceiling". Just keep breathing. I cope with having a healthy dose of humor because... well, I find that laughing makes it easier for me to not run screaming from the building when I'm experiencing a "growth spurt". : D Find ways to comfort yourself, use your tools, and that trust thing is very helpful at this point too. True dat. <br />
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Welp, shungite. There is a whole lot of stuff being said of shungite that ranges from miracle healer to water purifier... to it having every element within it... to, well... there is a lot of stuff being said. The briefest gloss is that shungite is kinda like jet, because it is carbon that is created by decaying organic material, in shungite's case, underwater. The difference between jet and shungite is that shungite was made from the first algae that gave birth to our atmosphere because there were no plants yet. Then the organic material was exposed to and transformed by volcanic heat.<br />
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This gives shungite all of the elemental associations (which is as sexy as it gets with a rock, so to speak). Water, because it the decaying matter was in water. Air, because the algae from which it was formed created our atmosphere. Earth, because, well.. it's a rock. Fire, because of the transformation undergone through the volcanic heat. And Spirit, because the initial biomaterial was alive. It's pretty dang old too, though the range on the scientific sites varying its age between millions to approximately 2 billion years old. Meh, it's old.<br />
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There is also another thing I can say about shungite. It isn't terribly happy about the information that is currently out there. Chris and I were in the computer room at the warehouse trying to locate good information about shungite since we had some to put up in the on-line store. After a few minutes, it became clear that the information out there was hopelessly skewed. There were mentions of this study and that study with no link whatsoever to the actual studies. The geology info was "sketch", as my daughter says. There were also claims that shungite cleaned dirty water, which I hope no one has actually tried yet without doing testing on the water before drinking it. It IS carbon, which IS used in water filters, but... uhhh, without using it like a filter, I don't know what kind of help it would be for physical pollutants. It makes an awesome gem elixir, however, but use CLEAN water to create it!<br />
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Anyway, so I say... "I think shungite needs a fresh reading." Chris agreed. Then I got, what I like to call, the ~Shungite Smackdown~. I literally had a sudden and strong interdimensional whack, or some kind of distinct shove, go through my body. I sometimes feel distinct motion within my energy body that I attribute to some kind of fluctuations going on in the Earth, but this was far stronger and I almost blipped out. I asked Chris if "he felt it too", and he had... but he was lucky enough to be sitting in a dang chair instead of standing up. Weirdness. I asked Chris what he thought it was and he just said, "I think shungite really wants a new reading." I am sensitive to rock energy, obviously, but I've never been bitch slapped by one before. That was new.<br />
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Within moments of this event, the computer that we use to do posting and writing at the warehouse had a pop up window virus that literally brought our day of working on the computer to an end. There was nothing else we could do with our day. So, shungite want reading, shungite want reading NOW. So that's what we did. We did a reading on Shungite, that very moment... that very afternoon. Umm, since our schedule became wide open all of a sudden. Not weird at all. Nope.<br />
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<b>Key Themes for Shungite:</b></div>
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Shungite as "Earth Worker": It has witnessed history, many changes, many deaths, human cycles, Earth cycles. I saw a galloping white horse with a rider (death), a bicycle (cycles in movement), mud volcanoes (primordial elemental creation forces).</div>
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Cosmic Mother: Connection to cosmic flow, primordial patterns of physical manifestation on Earth, connection to corrective/rectification of Divine Blueprints within physical manifestation, including global patterns, not just human ones. I see "Pottery Mother", a symbol that I equate with primal creation that can make new "pots" from clay, fill in cracks/voids/weaknesses on pots that have damage, but can also smash up broken pots, or forms that are no longer useful, to be dissolved and reclaimed to be used in the making of things that are useful. Recycling. Reclaiming. Repurposing. Nothing wasted. Nothing truly lost either. Form changes, but mud is mud, is mud, is mud.</div>
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Purification: Shungite could be used in any healing work that involves the dissolution or purification of patterns that are not in Divine Alignment, or that no longer serve. It could be partnered with other cleansing and rectification stones, such as Himalayan salt, any type of obsidian (fire), river stones (water), or ceremonies/protocols that seek to cleanse a system of misqualfied or negative programming/patterns. Shungite would be fantastic in Earth Healing work of any kind, including and perhaps especially in areas of significant trauma and disturbance. There is also a protective aspect of shungite from significant disturbances or harmful influence of any kind. (The best form of protection is to be out of range of the arrows, however.) </div>
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Ouroboros/Alchemy: One of the visuals I saw was of the ouroboros, or of a snake eating its own tail. This really says nearly the same as the Cosmic Mother information. Wikipedia says this about it: The Ouroboros often represents self-reflexivity or cyclicality, especially in the sense of something constantly re-creating itself, the eternal return, and other things perceived as cycles that begin anew as soon as they end (compare with phoenix). It can also represent the idea of primordial unity related to something existing in or persisting from the beginning with such force or qualities it cannot be extinguished.</div>
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Modulation of Incoherent Vibrations to Coherency: Basically, the idea here is that shungite, since it has access to ancient patterns of all kinds, can help to bridge the gap, vibrationally speaking, between various energies, kinda like how Herkimer diamonds can help to attune one thing to another. If you do any kind of healing work, activational work, Reiki attunements, distance healing, shungite would be helpful as a technical worker to get everyone on the same page first. </div>
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Soul Wisdom/Ancient Memory: Of course, shungite being billions of years old basically means that it has seen it all. If you want to gain access to deeper soul wisdom or information about ancient civilizations, your ancestral matrix, etc, shungite would be the first to grab. I would partner it with record keepers of any kind. </div>
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Transition/Death/Cycle Worker: Shungite would be an excellent transition worker, such as the clearing of ghosts, assisting one through the death process (or birth, for that matter), or any other large transitional undertaking. Shungite would be helpful for any "in process" event of great consequence. I would partner it with lepidolite. And some Rescue Remedy. And a pacifier. Perhaps a shot of vodka. (It is from Russia, afterall.)</div>
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Breath Work: Shungite was created from the algae that gave birth to our atmosphere, so it has deep connection to air and the breath. I've gone to some very powerful breath work sessions facilitated by Pheonyx Roland Smith, of the OCG Project, during which I had some shungite in my pocket. It was a pretty intense experience. Because the breath and sound are connected, it would also be good for toning work. (Pheonyx has since passed and is doing the good work on the other side of the veil. Spiritual hugs to Pheonyx.) </div>
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Sacred Union: This has alchemical undertones too, really. The union of opposites, the combining of the yin and yang, Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine, that kind of thing. If you are engaging in sacred sexuality practices, tantra, or kundalini rising work (which often includes conscious breathing)... or if you are trying to conceive a baby with sacred intent, shungite would be great to put in a grid under your bed or in the room in which the activities are in process. This would also include ecstatic union with the Divine in a more abstract sense that doesn't include bow chicka wow wow with another human being. In this kind of grid, I would probably start with shungite, rose quartz, garnet, pyrite (unless you have nuggets of gold hanging around your house), Herkimer diamonds, Fire Quartz, selenite, phantom quartz, ummmm... among other options. If you don't have a ton of stone resources, shungite in the middle with rose quartz on the outside would likely work well enough. </div>
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Energetic Support of Physical Healing: Ok, I want you all to hear me. ~I am not a doctor, nor do I necessarily look to the mineral kingdom for physical healing issues.~ It makes me twitchy when people look to rocks for physical healing. I see the mineral kingdom as being subtle energy that supports shifts in more subtle energy bodies, not the physical ones. The plant kingdom is far more impactful on the physical level. I've given shungite to a dear friend who was battling cancer, and she recently passed anyway. So much for shungite being a miracle worker, eh? But, I do feel that shungite being integrated into <i>intentional</i> healing energy work would still be useful. We're still talking about moving patterns back to primal patterns. What is illness, but a departure in the system from original, pure patterns? Still... work with it with <i>intent</i>. I would use a guided meditation where the ill person imagines their flesh being disintegrated or burned off down to the bone, then clean the bones in Holy Water, then imagine the body being reformed with clean mud, then transformed back to flesh, with perfected patterns in place...reconsecrated and aligned with the person's Divine Physical Template. More mud work, basically. Mud is mud, is mud, is mud.</div>
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Err... dudes, seriously. Yes, much of shungite is carbon, which is kinda the same thing as what's in your water pitcher filter, but shungite bearing rock (which is most of what is on the market) is only 50-70% carbon. The rest is ~other stuff~. Some of the ~other stuff~ may or may not be okay to be leeching into your drinking water!! I love it when pyrite is in my shungite. I do not love it when pyrite leeches into my drinking water.</div>
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I know it's a popular and trendy thing to do, to chuck a bunch of shungite in water and then drink it, but if you don't know what the ~other stuff~ is in your shungite, you may be cleaning and charging your water in one hand and putting something not okay in it with the other. </div>
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We often do workshops about creating gem elixirs and our first rule of thumb is that when in doubt, use a NON-CONTACT method of zooming up your water. We've got some awesome new shungite tiles that are perfect as charging coasters for water that don't require a direct contact method with the water, but you can use a tumbled stone or any shungite in your keeping if you just hold it up to the glass. </div>
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<span style="font-size: small;"><br /></span><b>Further Personal Observations...</b></div>
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Since that fun day at the warehouse, I've noticed that I am super sensitive to shungite. Not just as a rock, but as a distinct voice and layer of consciousness of Mamma Gaia (maybe even something larger). The Earth and all upon her are in a fairly tumultuous time of change and transition. Shungite ain't no fluffy, white light, "feel good" stone. Shungite is more like the Dark Cosmic Mother stirring up whatever is in the Cauldron of Creation...<i>briskly</i>. She is a master at the cycles of death, birth, transition, and all the bits and pieces of the primordial creation process. Even the stuff that hurts, the stuff that terrifies, and that challenges each of us to let go of the status quo within our personal and collective lives to undergo transformation into something <i>more</i>. If you want to run screaming from the building, this would be the time. </div>
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<b>Shungite Plays Well With...</b></div>
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Well, shungite doesn't "play", but there are stones with which is it particularly suited to work to get stuff done. This is just a partial listing. Please follow your own prompts when you partner shungite with other stone helpers. My personal pocket rock partners are Presili Blue Stones and lodestone with pyrite. That is pretty much my standard go-to support for me on an average day outside of the house.<br />
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<i>Other Healing, Integration, and System Workers</i><br />
<a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2013/06/a-fresh-perspective-on-ocean-jasper.html?showComment=1423236919662#c1590321514526234931" target="_blank">Ocean Jasper</a><br />
<a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2013/10/epidote-included-quartz-green-earth.html" target="_blank">Green Earth Healing Quartz</a><br />
Tibetan Quartz<br />
Presili Blue Stone<br />
Red Jasper<br />
Bloodstone<br />
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<i>Other Carbon Based, Deep Earth, or Elemental Stones:</i><br />
Jet<br />
<a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/03/indigo-gabbro.html" target="_blank">Indigo Gabbro</a><br />
<a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/obsidian/" target="_blank">Obsidian</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/salt/" target="_blank">Salt</a><br />
<i>High Light Spiritual Stones</i><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/moldavite/" target="_blank">Moldavite</a><br />
<a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/selenite/" target="_blank">Selenite</a><br />
Scolecite<br />
<a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/quartz-herkimer-diamond/" target="_blank">Herkimer Diamonds</a><br />
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<i>Stones that Comfort or Help through Crisis</i><br />
<a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/rose-quartz-all-day/" target="_blank">Rose Quartz</a><br />
<a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/sacred-heart-rose-quartz/" target="_blank">Sacred Heart Rose Quartz</a><br />
<a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/08/lepidolite-oh-sht-stone.html" target="_blank">Lepidolite</a><br />
Mangano Calcite<br />
Sodalite<br />
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<b>To Sum it Up...</b> <br />
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Shungite no woogy rock. Shungite is shit kicker. Shungite no care about what make you comfortable. Shungite here to move you. Into the fire. Into the blackness. Into the Void. Shungite is Primordial Mud Worker. Shungite strip you bare until nothing left but what is true. </div>
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We are in one doozy of an Earth cycle and shungite is one serious worker and ally that can assist us transition through this cycle. If you are doing any kind of global lightwork, professional healing work, or personal healing work, I guarantee you that shungite would be an excellent stone to grab. <br />
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To sum it up (in case I haven't been crystal clear about it to this point) ~<i>shungite ain't for sissies~</i>. If you are grabbing it, be ready for change, be ready for your cracked pot to be tossed into a big ole pile and disintegrated into primoridal bits. Human beings hold onto and believe an incredible amount of bullshit that isn't authentic. We aren't big fans of change either. Soooo, put those things in your pipe and smoke it at the same time and you are looking at one full-on "oh shit" party. Sound like fun? Awesome, join me. :) I don't want to be the only one in a straight jacket laughing and crying at the same time. </div>
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I call these times of rapid transition "screaming down the mountain"... and <i>surrender </i>is really the only sane response. I've been doing a lot of surrendering these days. I'm getting damned good at it at this point, too. Hurts less. </div>
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(Not to be confused with <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/10/solar-storm-mitigation.html" target="_blank">Solar Storm Mitigation</a>, which is about dealing with solar activity that messes with us ugly.)</div>
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This is essentially prayer work that you can engage, just in case our praying for a better outcome for global issues makes one fig of a difference. I choose to believe it does, but I'm willing to waste my time if I'm wrong. So lets continue.<br />
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"Storm Mitigation" is a piece of Cooperative Spiritual Energy Work that seeks to minimize damage associated with severe weather events. A friend and I assembled this energy work many years ago, so the details of it aren't exactly ummm... in my head anymore. My brain is getting older. What can I say? I should be sucking on a ginkgo tree while rubbing a fish on my head. Maybe that would help. I am going to have to cough up an actionable intention set anyway. <br />
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*****If you would prefer to skip my immense blather, you can connect in right now and just say, "I request to initiate Storm Mitigation, now please."***** </h3>
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For those of you with a stomach for immense blather... please continue. :)<br />
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Unlike in math class back in grade school, I actually like "showing my work" when I share this kind of protocol. Cooperative Spiritual Energy Work, when we are asking for things we might actually be able to receive, is efficient and puts all the big effort on the front end of the task, then allows you to basically hit the "easy button" for the same work any other time you need it. </div>
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I'm going to write out the work in steps so that you can see what is going on here. Again, there is nothing special about me except that I spent a decade working this out instead of pretending to be normal. You can do this as easily as I can. Honest. Frankly, if you have a young fresh brain.. you might do better!</div>
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Step One: Articulate the goal and give the work a name that can be called again and again.</div>
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Work Name: "Storm Mitigation"</div>
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Goal: The overarching goal of this energy work is to <em>minimize damage and harm associated with extreme weather or geologic/elemental activity or events of any kind</em>.</div>
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Step Two: Articulate, to the best of your ability and level of understanding, specific intentions that support the stated goal. Be simple or be technical, be redundantly redundant multiple times if you want. Our being able to state appropriate intentions is part of the "ask and receive" part of this system. We may not need to know everything, but we do have to make the effort to clarify our intentions to the best of our ability. It's the part that makes your brain itch, but you only have to do it once, so do it as thoroughly as possible. </div>
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Step Three: Kick the work up to God/the spiritual level to be corrected in perfection (Spiritual CYA), brought within Divine Will, and then sealed properly so that the work maintains its integrity through time. I usually add this to my intention set so that it is clearly stated, especially if I share the work with others and intend for it to be group supported woven work. </div>
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Step Four: Run it! </div>
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OK, here's the hard part. Make your brain smoke until there is nothing left. Get it all out. Connect in with your guidance and ask for direction. If you ask for guidance, you don't need to know everything ahead of time. Thank God for that. I would be screwed if this work depended upon my own competency and knowledge. </div>
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Mitigation of damage to property and mitigation of harm and suffering to life (all life, not just humans) associated with severe weather of any kind, such as hurricanes, thunderstorms, snow, tornadoes, and so on.</div>
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Mitigation of damage to property and mitigation of harm and suffering to life (all life) for elementally severe conditions of any kind, such as occurs with too much or too little fire, water, air, or earth. For example: flooding or drought, fire events of any kind (even if from human origin), volcanic activity, severe wind, tornadoes, dust storms, or geologic stress from the earth, such as earthquakes and techtonic plate shifting, mudslides, and so on. </div>
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Mitigation and minimization, as possible, of global warming or any other direct or indirect systemic impact that increases stress and imbalance within the Earth's weather, geologic, or elemental systems. </div>
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Correction, rectification, and purification of human dissonance patterns and any kind of pollution created by humans that may be aversely directing weather patterns or geologic and elemental imbalance. (Some believe that the collective human bullshit negativity actually causes severe weather and the like, so I'm throwing it in the intention set in case there is any truth to it!)</div>
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Support to humanity to evolve in as graceful a way as possible so that we have increasingly more mastery over our own bullshit negativity (pollution of any kind, energetic or physical), so we don't miscreate and cause havoc in other systems, such as weather and geologic/elemental patterns on the planet.</div>
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Request for forgiveness and understanding for humanity from other layers and levels of creation that are aversly impacted by our bullshit negativity and pollution. (We are little and stupid, please forgive us and help us to buy a clue so we can improve.) </div>
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Request for comfort, care, transition support, and support of any kind needed... provided for any suffering or damage created by weather, geologic, elemental events of any kind that cannot be mitigated fully because the consequences somehow serve the Highest Outcome to unfold within Divine Will, beyond our ability to understand. (When the Divine Word is, "No, you cannot mitigate this storm.", please support those who will need care and comfort in the best way possible. All life, not just humans.) </div>
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Support to the elemental, natural, Gaia-linked consciousness to discharge storm/elemental/geologic energy in a way that is in alignment with the Highest Good of the planet with as little suffering to all life as possible. (The Earth may need to shake off some of this energy for her own good and we should respect that need too, but all things equal, shaking it off with as little suffering as possible seems like a relevant and wise request.) </div>
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Support and cooperation for and with all relevant levels of conscious creation within Divine Will to work for and with humanity to rectify and bring into perfected integrity and balance the patterns and systems that govern planetary weather, elemental, and geologic activity.</div>
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Since I am not a geologist or a weather girl, I request that all those who have specific scientific knowledge about these systems, be allowed to articulate and add specific intentions to this work to strengthen and improve it in any way that is within Divine Will and that supports the Highest Possible Outcome to unfold on Earth and for humanity with as much Ease, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Love as possible. </div>
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We request to support and network this work through all relevant systems of earthly and spiritual connectivity, such as the earth grid system, spiritual grid systems, and human grid system (I call it the Tapestry of Light).</div>
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We request to Hold Space, individually and collectively, in whatever way is appropriate and in the Highest Good, to support the goal and intentions of this work, including the specific request for Divine Intervention and Grace. We ask that we are supported, individually and collectively, to meet the challenges of this work in perfected integrity and for participation in this work to be moderated, protected, and adjusted at the spiritual level for optimal efficiency and Grace.</div>
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We request for all intentions to be corrected in perfection and any intentions not articulated, but relevant and useful to the goal, to be added at the spiritual level in Eternal Time, and for all intentions to be brought within Divine Will.</div>
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We request for this work, once perfected, to be Blessed, Optimized, Stabilized, Amplified, and Sealed under God.</div>
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Now... run it by saying, "I request to initiate Storm Mitigation, now please."</div>
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Anytime you want to run it and Hold Space for this work in the future, you just use that phrase, or intend to connect and Hold Space in whatever way you feel guided. The more people plugging in and doing this, the better! </div>
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If you are a geologist or weather person (or mystic with great guidance) and you have other intentions that you believe should be contained within this list, please leave a note about it below, or... just ask to add them to this work in your own mind. I'd like to learn, so I would appreciate the articulation of specifics so I can put it in my head too. It may not stick in there, but I like to at least try. :)</div>
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If you would like to create a crystalline grid or medicine pouch to support this work, Christopher and I recommend any stones that are formed by, or have resonance with, the elements, such as obsidian, fulgurites, river/ocean stones, enhydros of any kind, stones that spark (flint, pyrite, quartz), stones that have associations with water or rain, like turquoise, opals, malachite, or stones that have a natural spiral pattern, like ammonites, that mimic the spiral nature of a lot of storm systems. Things associated with tidal patterns too, like moonstone or lunar linked stones, would be cool. Plug in with your guidance and just let it rip. </div>
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OK, see y'all later. I need to get up off this sofa now. I've been sitting here writing for so long that my butt is numb. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span></div>
Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-29671706240971817492012-10-10T14:19:00.001-07:002015-01-20T12:43:43.002-08:00Solar Storm Mitigation: Solar Flare Support <div style="text-align: justify;">
OMG. The solar flares this year are so flipping active that it seems like every other week we are having to deal with another CME (Coronal Mass Ejection) that's smacking solar particles into Earth's geomagnetic energy field. Yes, it can create beautiful Northern Lights, but for those of us who are a little sensitive... Geez Louise... enough already. We're about ready to crawl into a hole and cry for awhile.</div>
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The <a href="https://www.facebook.com/messages/579029133#!/groups/73761903298/" target="_blank">Metaphysical Corner</a> chat group on Facebook is awash in stories of people really having a hard time staying comfortable through the more active solar activity. The symptoms include feeling like you are having PMS, brain fog, inability to ground, an increase in migraines and other physical pain, exhaustion, nausea, inability to sleep or trouble sleeping, or that feeling of being wired and tired simultaneously. I have noticed that solar plexus "power issues" also seem to pop up, which is something that I solved in my own space with a couple of well placed <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/09/golden-moonstone-sunny-moon-moonie-sun.html" target="_blank">golden moonstone</a>. These kinds of issues are getting more intense as the year progresses. So, it's just ~up~. </div>
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There are enough people having a really hard time that Christopher and I spent all day in the warehouse here at Enter the Earth to connect in with our guidance and get some relief going.</div>
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Some of you are familiar with the way I set up energy work, like in my book, <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Awake-Angelscape-Scenic-Route-Sacred/dp/0981765416/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1239316079&sr=8-1" target="_blank">Awake in Angelscape</a>. It's kind of the "easy button" way of creating energy weaves of useful assistance. It is like creating a download or process within one action command. I used to call these "moments", now I just call the phrase to call the energy set an "action statement". Umm, think it of like a prayer that is set up so all you have to do is call it by name, instead of reciting the whole thing to connect in with the energies. I've also described it as calling into a pre-recorded message, but the message is an energy download intended to deal with a specific issue. It is a spiritually based "ask and receive" system, as it does absolutely require spiritual cooperation to work. In fact, I call this kind of work "Cooperative Spiritual Energy Work" cause.. well, I don't know what else to call it and it fits. </div>
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Anyway, the process isn't that difficult, but it does require some up front time-on-task. I essentially articulate the goal that I want from the work. In this instance, I have called it "Solar Storm Mitigation". That is the goal. We want to mitigate the shit storm of OMG that is created from all this solar activity. The next step is to list the intention set that I think supports the goal of the work. </div>
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I try to put as much thought into this part because it seems to matter that I articulate my free will in a specific way. However, since I am aware that I'm a tiny, little, limited human (at the moment), I then take what I <em>think</em> I need and kick it up to the spiritual level to be corrected in perfection and brought within Divine Will. I call this "Spiritual CYA" (Cover Your Ass) because, well, just because you <em>can</em> throw your free will around in the manifestation process, doesn't mean you <em>should</em>. I give God/Divine Will overriding editing rights over every utterance I make, every intention I assemble, because... well, I'm not interested in working against Divine Will. Once it's been kicked up to the Big Guy for correction and editing, then I seal the work so it maintains its integrity in perpetuity. I do that with this action statement, "I ask to Bless, Optimize, Stabilize, Amplify, and Seal the work under God, now please."</div>
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Anyway...so that is a little instruction on how I set up energy work, which seemed relevant. It's not rocket surgery. You can do it too. There is nothing special about me except that I actually spent a decade sorting this kind of work out instead of trying to be normal. Everyone has their thing. This is mine. </div>
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<li>Mitigation of discomfort and imbalances in our systems caused by solar activity of any kind.</li>
<li>Oh Shit Mitigation (My phrase for whatever state it is when you are rocking, holding your head in your hands, and saying, "Oh Shit", in response to any particular event/issue/stimuli. It's my way of saying, please give us super comfort when we are pushed beyond our ability to cope and make it so that we can cope. Thank you, Oh Beautiful Master of the Universe.).</li>
<li>Enhanced/Optimal grounding to relevant layers, levels, and systems of relevance, such as, but not limited to, the Earth's grid system, the spiritual grid system, the system of other energetically plugged in human beings (I call that the Tapestry of Light), and whatever else is relevant, God's Choice.</li>
<li>Optimal Assistance from us to whatever the Bigger Picture happens to be. If there is a way for us to be used as instruments for these solar storms to be mitigated on a global level, or somehow utilized in a productive way for human evolution or whatever else beneficial, please let us be instruments of the Highest Possible Outcome to unfold on Earth and for Humanity within Divine Will.</li>
<li>Mitigation of the specific complaints of PMS-pissy, emotional weepy stuff, fatigue, wired/tired, sleep issues, brain fog, power issues, migraines, physical pain, and general lack of feeling in ones body properly.</li>
<li>All Body/Whole Self Support in any way needed: mental, emotional, physical, and spiritual, as well as in any subtle energy systems or subsystems, such as chakras, meridians. </li>
<li>EMF protection for sensitive technical systems, such as satellites, communications, and any other mechanical/technical stuff I can't even name that would be messed up with really strong flare activity that would make people lose their flipping minds. (i-phone kaputnick mitigation?)</li>
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<li>Graceful integration of any beneficial shifts, or any other kind of benefit (known or unknown) associated with increased solar activity. (Hey, maybe there is a point to this somehow.)</li>
<li>Optimal spiritual assistance, guidance, and cooperation with and from relevant helpers that are in Divine Alignment, and working exclusively within Divine Will, to support the Highest Possible Outcome to unfold on Earth and for Humanity within Divine Will with as much Ease, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Love as possible. (Yes, I am redundantly redundant about being within Divine Will. I find it an exceedingly good practice.)</li>
<li>I request for the Highest Possible Outcome to unfold on Earth and for Humanity within Divine Will with as much Ease, Grace, Mercy, Compassion, and Love as possible. I ask to Hold Space in whatever way I may to support that request. (That is my go to prayer and I'm redunantly redundant about that too.)</li>
<li>I request for this goal and intention set to be corrected in perfection and brought within Divine Will and for any other appropriate intentions to be added at the spiritual level that may be needed or useful to the goal. </li>
<li>I request for any beneficial upgrades to be woven into the work automatically at the spiritual level as new needs emerge. If those intentions need to be made at the human level, please send enough guidance for us to figure it out and articulate those intentions in perfect time.</li>
<li>I request to Bless, Optimize, Stabilize, Amplify and Seal the Solar Storm Mitigation work under God/Divine Will, such that it maintains its integrity through time. </li>
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Alrighty then.... so this work is available now. To connect to it just say, "I request to initiate Solar Storm Mitigation, now please." (Or something like that... you could actually just say "Run Solar Storm Mitigation. Or, "Solar Storm Mitigation now." Whatever, God is competent. )</div>
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On the physical tool side of things... obviously, I'm partial to rocks. They are pretty and they give me a buzz. You don't need them to receive the benefits of this work, but since we are physical beings, sometimes it's quite nice to have something physical to use to connect to the energies.</div>
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The best rock, at least available here at this huge warehouse of rocks, is Girasol Quartz. It gave Christopher and I both the biggest hits. It also is a good anchor to the Solar Storm Mitigation energy download. We attuned all the Girasol Quartz in the warehouse to Solar Storm Mitigation, but... well, we asked for it to be rolled out to all Girasol Quartz on the planet, if it was okay for us to ask for that. It sure seemed like it was okay to ask for it, but it's hard to tell what the heck is going on when you are all wooed out and in an altered state. We asked. If you have Girasol Quartz at home, go and give it a feel and see if it has an 'upgrade'. If so, you might want to use it as a carry around piece if you are feeling uncomfortable.</div>
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So, for a single stone assist... get a nice Girasol Quartz piece. If you want to go through the process of anchoring it to Solar Storm Mitigation for good measure, hold your rock and say, "I request to attune this rock to the Solar Storm Mitigation work, now please." Give it a minute, then say, "I request to Bless, Optimize, Stabilize, Amplify, and Seal this under God/Divine Will, now please."<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/girasol-quartz-buttons-mdsg001/" target="_blank">Single Girasol Quartz for Solar Storm Mitigation at Enter the Earth</a></td></tr>
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Next, Christopher and I went down a long list of rock resources to figure out what would be a really good crystalline grid to set up for Solar Storm Mitigation. The ones that ended up in our crystalline grid are: girasol quartz, with layers of yellow opal, smoky/amethyst elestials, ruby, lepidolite, magnetite, and shungite. </div>
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When we activated the grid, first, I felt completely normal. I mean... just normal, which I guess is the point of mitigation work. You WANT to feel normal, not all flipped out. Then, the energy spread. Then it spread some more. It felt like it was weaving outward, which makes sense if we asked specifically to be anchored to appropriate systems. It did feel like it went into the Earth's grid system, so that one activated grid may actually cover quite a bit of ground, perhaps even regionally. Seems like a mighty nice thing to do for the neighborhood.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/solar-storm-mitigation-grid-mdgrid005/" target="_blank">Solar Mitigation Crystalline Grid at Enter the Earth</a></td></tr>
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The other option we set up was a simple medicine set that has one of each of the stones in the grid. This way it is a little more affordable, but you can do a lot with the single energies. You can make yourself a medicine pouch, use the stones in your pillow case, stuff it in your bra, make a non-contact gem elixir, and so on. <br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/solar-storm-mitigation-stone-synergy-pouch-mdph002/" target="_blank">Solar Storm Mitigation Medicine Set at Enter the Earth</a></td></tr>
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Anyway. So. Solar Storm Mitigation. We gave our best whack at it and hope that it helps some of you sweet, sensitive souls. Hugs to All. Keep breathing. It will be okay. I know, I'm redundantly redundant about that too. :)</div>
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<br />Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-68864896019846762572012-09-19T04:41:00.001-07:002015-01-20T12:50:17.639-08:00Golden Moonstone: Sunny Moon, Moonie Sun.<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/golden-moonstone-sphere-mdmn001/" target="_blank">Beautiful Golden Moonstone Sphere at Enter the Earth</a></td></tr>
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Nader, Glorious Owner of Enter the Earth, just got in a new shipment of goodies from Madagascar not too many weeks ago. Sometimes, when he is traveling to the mines and surveying what specimens to buy, a very limited supply of one thing or another shows up and he buys it. (See,they like Nader over there and keep the "best stuff" for him.) Anyway, this golden moonstone was among the ~stop my heart~, weird and wonderful stones that showed up in the boxes. <br />
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What I believe about these special moonstones is that they are Divine Masculine/Divine Feminine... hmm, <i>rectification</i>. Obviously, the color indicates that it interacts with and "tickles" the solar plexus. The solar plexus is all about will, power, strength, action, and even charisma, like having a "sunny personality". So, this stone interacts with personal power, potency, and will. If you are out of balance in this area, you might be a bit of a bully or way too easy to push around, depending on which way your imbalance swings.</div>
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If, for example, you have an Alpha Male at home, and all that testosterone is being amplified "ugly" by the extremes in the magnetic field of the earth lately (darn solar flares!)...this would be an excellent type of stone to have within the energy field of that man to help redirect, realign, and harmonize that manly, man energy so that it, how shall I say... chills him the heck out? Brings him back into balance with his softer side? Ummmm... yes, put a little yin in that yang already, you're knocking things over with that swing!<br />
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Likewise, this golden moonstone would help a female to butch up a little, if she is not embodying and holding her personal power in an appropriate way. So, yes.. put a little yang in that yin already, no one can hear you! You've got a roar in there, I just KNOW you do.</div>
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After hanging out with this golden moonstone for a little while, I realized that I have felt this energy before. I had to look back into my crystal whisper archives to refresh my memory, but I did locate the reading. The first time I was introduced to this vibration was in the form of yellow jade. The reading was pretty long, but the jist was that the energy of the stone wasn't just a vibration, but a doorway to a type of healing space that was manned (ha!) by a collective of solar/lunar female spiritual beings. The healing work that they assisted with was for the Sacred Union of the Divine Fe/Male. It also spoke of "joy infusion" for those of us who were feeling weary about the unfolding world conditions...so a type of global lightworker support too. The healing work, that I then envisioned was facilitated by solar aligned "lunar goddesses" was done while a person was asleep. </div>
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Because the former reading recommended sleep work, I decided that I would explore the golden moonstone energies in my own space. See, I have me one of those alpha males at home, and lately, he's been waaay too yang. Since I have standing permission to do healing work on him, so long as I don't bug him about it, I basically shoved a flat golden moonstone gallet (flat oval stone) under the mattress, in roughly the space that would line up with his solar plexus. Likewise, I shoved a second one under my side of the bed, also lined up with my solar plexus. The intention that I set was for both of us to be supported and balanced at the solar plexus and to rectify any fe/male power imbalance. </div>
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Wow, I'm happy to say, he responded almost immediately. His yang is evening out now, and let me tell you, I'm grateful. Since he is unaware of this work (and he doesn't read my blog), I cannot chalk the shift in him to "suggestion". I did also put a tourmalinated quartz under the mattress, up by his head, but otherwise, nothing else changed from one week to the next. My guess is that all the actual solar activity and geomagnetic stuff is kicking up a shit storm of yangy-ness in men who might tend to get pushed off-balance at the solar plexus (control/will/power) by stress to the system. </div>
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I highly recommend using the golden moonstone in a "his and her" mattress set in exactly the way I have tried it. You might want to make sure you take your vitamins too, cause when "his and her" issues are in balance, it tends to get "bow chika wow wow", if you know what I mean.<br />
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<span style="color: purple;">(1/20/15--Tales from the future. The Golden Moonstone did not save my marriage. I've been divorced since 6/9/14, but the year before I left, when the ex-hubs was particularly unstable, I did notice that the golden moonstone did even him out for a small length of time. I'm sure it helped me to have the courage to get out of dodge when it was clear I couldn't stay. For what it's worth... SC.)</span><br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/golden-moonstone-palm-stone-mdsg014/" target="_blank">Golden Moonstone Palm Stones at Enter the Earth</a></td></tr>
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Christopher, my male work counterpart, also has some important things to add about the golden moonstone. Let me copy and paste his opinion on the golden moonstone below. You can read his blog at the <a href="http://houseofdaedalus.blogspot.com/" target="_blank">House of Daedalus</a>. </div>
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Sunstone, moonstone, and labradorite are all cousins in the mineral family called feldspar. As the names imply, sunstone is associated with the sun, moonstone the moon. Labradorite represents the stars, especially the material from Madagascar which may contain specks of pyrite. That's sure a lot of sky in one stone family!</div>
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This golden yellow feldspar is an interesting paradox. In many traditions, yellow represents the sun and masculine energy. However almost all colorful forms of feldspar are called moonstones in the market, which is associated with the feminine. Hence the trade name yellow golden moonstone. It would be a good tool to harness the monthly sun and moon cycle, especially new moon, when only the sun is visible. These celestial bodies are also metaphors for the flow of energy in the body. Use golden yellow moonstone to balance the chakras, nadi (the channels that connect the chakras), and kundalini.</div>
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Its golden color connects it to prosperity, especially those working through childhood, emotional, or dysfunctional family patterns connected to money. Also the Navel Chakra, depicted as yellow in contemporary sources, which rules the intellect, identity, and energy levels. Work with golden yellow moonstone to reduce worry and stress, which may throw off third chakra associated body parts like the stomach.<br />
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<br />Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-79879254362272075142012-09-10T08:21:00.001-07:002015-01-20T12:52:11.074-08:00Judgement: The Trouble with "Us" v."Them" <div style="text-align: justify;">
I've had this article written for awhile, and since I have a blog, and I hear that people yack about things that are running through their heads in them, well... here you go. (After a little chocolate and a glass of wine, this bout of being serious should subside and I shall return to talking about pretty sparkly things.)<br />
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During this political year, the ever widening gap of "us" v. "them" troubles and saddens me. Our government seems to be ripping itself apart in a frenzy of finger pointing and demonization of the other. Each side so convinced of their point of view that there is no longer room for compromise or even mutual respect. It's not just the realm of politics unfolding on CNN that troubles me, but to some degree or another, so many normal people are gathering themselves up into philosophical, like-minded herds that necessarily alienate them from anyone who has differing view points. More disturbing, the "us" v. "them" attitude is some venomous smearing of politics, religion, nationality, philosophy, class, sex, gender preference, and race. I may have even missed a few. <br />
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Philosophers have long mused what is at the heart of human darkness. What is the most corrupting flaw that turns human beings into the monsters of one another? Lately, my opinion has been that pride that expresses as <em>self-righteousness</em> is the worst offender. Self-righteousness is a draped predator in the corner of perception, settling into the conviction of those who simply <em>decide</em> that they have it right. Self-righteousness is the suspension of humility and the donning of the deluded belief that personal perception is so flawless, so pure, that one is capable of knowing and speaking for Absolute Truth (or God, if the belief is founded in religion). Self-righteous people feel <em>entitled</em> to judge, condemn, vilify, and perhaps even to <em>punish</em>. The "us" vs. "them" dynamic is so pronounced that whomever "they" represent are often seen as an authentic threat in both general and personal ways. Also, "they" are corrupting others with "their" wrong ways. Now we have a fight and struggle against "them" for the opinion and agreement of those with more neutral views. Annie, get your gun, <em>they</em> are coming. </div>
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A self-righteous human being assumes to know or understand Truth so well that there is a sense that this superior understanding <em>should</em> place him/her in a position of power and dominion over others... who are clearly too stupid or corrupted to understand the Truth. Every fanatic that has used a bomb on a crowded market or a Planned Parenthood, shoved people into a gas chamber, beat a homosexual to death, threw a noose over a tree limb, tossed a "witch" into a fire, or held a ridiculously hateful sign at a military funeral is forged first in the <em>delusion of flawless perception</em>. <br />
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There is no such thing as perfect human because there is no such thing as perfect human perception. Someone who is self-righteous has suspended awareness of personal bias, limitation, and the possibility of personal perceptual distortions. <em>That</em> is why we should not be in the business of judging one another or defining Universal Truth with 100% certainty. We all see through our own colored lenses from a lifetime of experiences and beliefs that shape how we define everything else. Our beliefs are often incomplete, biased, limited, or inaccurate. Our conclusions are easily shuffled into absurd, shadowy, and grandiose places that can make monsters of anything or anyone. Like beauty, <em>ugliness</em> is also often within the eye, or perception, of the Beholder. </div>
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Be wary of the process of your own judgements and beliefs that shove other people or conclusions into tiny boxes of your own creation. Question them. Dig at them. Peel them back and <em>seek to know your own motives and intentions</em>. Human beings are incredibly complex. We are at the mercy of influences from every direction that are not necessarily consciously understood. We do not have the wisdom or authority to know or judge the heart and mind of any other human being. We barely scratch the surface of understanding our own. We are like blind people gathered around an elephant, trying to describe the truth of what is in front of us. Yes, our small perspective might be right, but to dismiss other reports as wrong is to ignore the fullness of the picture.<br />
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To solve our problems, to even just be <em>adaptable for continued human survival</em>, we must begin to erase the deeply etched lines in the sand between "Us" and "Them". The answers to the problems we have will almost certainly be found somewhere in the middle. Forgive yourself and your fellow human being for being so small. We can't help it. It is just the way it is. Bless Our Hearts, we are generally clueless to the overall picture, don't you think? I have come to embrace and forgive that about myself and others, and do my best to hold working theories in an open hand, instead of a belief system inside a white knuckled fist. I will strive (and sometimes fail) to see others through a lens of love and acceptance. If that makes me a crystal-toting, tree-hugging, hippie, Pollyanna, dreamer, hmmmm....then bring on the patchouli and, I don't know, whatever else "those people" are into. If I'm going to be shoved in a box, I want to be in the box where the people are totally groovy. Oh right, I live here. It's called <em>Asheville</em>. :) <br />
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Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-58280853324447008292012-08-07T16:05:00.002-07:002020-05-26T12:07:10.395-07:00Lepidolite: The "Oh Sh*t" Stone<div style="text-align: justify;">
I tell people all the time that if I could live in a rose quartz house and sleep on a lepidolite bed, that I would be a happy girl. Lepidolite is the stone that I grab when I'm holding my head in my hands and saying, "Oh Sh*t!" It's the stone I grab when I'm stressed, pushed beyond my ability to cope, being thrown through my "weird ceiling", or dancing on the edge of being okay and not okay. <br />
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Lepidolite is full of lithium, which is a psychiatric drug...and that would explain why I grab lepidolite when I feel like a<i> ~Hot Effing Mess~. </i>Thankfully, that doesn't happen very often and I have enough tools to right myself fairly quickly. Maybe it is the large lepidolite slab that I have slipped inside my mattress that helps. I love that thing. It's the closest I can come to having a lepidolite bed, I guess. <br />
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Like rose quartz, I could put lepidolite with anything, for any job, in any combination, and for any purpose... because... any healing work we do, or transitions we endure, require that we create some kind of shift from one state to another. This means<em> change</em>. Sometimes it means a whole lot of change, sometimes just a little... but we humans pretty much suck at "change". It really tends to flip us out and makes us very uncomfortable, but there are a lot of changes that are positive, necessary, and good. There are some changes which behoove us to ~suck up and deal~. No one ever said growth was easy. If it were, everyone would be doing it. :) </div>
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Lepidolite is all about our being able to change, grow, evolve, expand, and move through necessary developmental "break throughs" with as much ease as possible. Lately, it seems like we are all being tossed unceremoniously through our own "weird ceilings" in one way or another. A weird ceiling is basically how far you can be pushed before freaking-the-heck-out and becoming a hot mess. It happens when you come to an experience that contradicts a previous belief you may have held that isn't quite true. For example, if you believed there were no such thing as ghosts/spirits or the afterlife, and one day ~tada~, your dear Aunt Edna shows up in front of you then vanishes moments after she died. Umm, that would probably be a <i>little weird</i>, eh?</div>
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The process of updating a limited, distorted, or false perception...well, it feels a lot like <i>going crazy</i>. Think about it... your perception literally defines what you think is "real".... and real is what defines your "reality". When your sense of reality gets a bit more expansive, you will first feel like you are going crazy. That is where the "Oh Sh*t!" comes in. Yeah, and you can't decide to take the blue pill after taking the red one. Sorry, but there is no pushing that horse back into the barn once it's out. If there was, I might have had a millisecond of temptation to be normal again. But just a millisecond. Thankfully, there is lepidolite to help me not lose my head when strange things are afoot. And believe it or not, even as high as my weird ceiling is at this point in my life, I <i>know</i> I can still be thrown through it. I learned <b>not</b> to say, "Nothing could surprise me anymore." That's just telling the Universe that you are ready for the next big "holy shit" moment to knock you over. Just take my word for that. Or don't, and enjoy the consequences. :) <br />
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I'll be honest. I almost never pay attention to the different "master" crystal formations. I could give a fig about whether something is this, that, or the other. I usually just respond to intuitive hits, not physical attributes. But, I have one exception... Record Keepers. When I pick up a crystal, the first thing I do is scan the faces for those little tell-tale triangles. The triangles are supposed to designate a crystal as one that holds energetic information of some kind. Of course, there are other crystals that don't have a triangle that I'm pretty sure have some information in em too. You know what I mean, those crystals that you just<em> had</em> to have... the ones that really wrapped their little crystal fingers around you and said, "I AM YOURS. TAKE ME HOME." <br />
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Years ago, I used to do really in depth readings on crystals. I called them <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/03/crystal-whispering-going-layers-deeper.html" target="_blank">"Crystal Whispers"</a> and I blogged about how to do that on another article. I had a bunch of friends that did them too. We learned quite a lot of useful lightwork information. (Anyone that says, "dumb as a box of rocks", clearly hasn't tried to have a conversation with a rock. Turns out, they are pretty flippin smart.) </div>
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Anyway, it took many years, but we figured something out that is worth sharing about retrieving information that might be stored within certain crystals. Every once and awhile we had a crystal that wouldn't really talk to us or give us much information. We called them our Stevie Nicks crystals because they gave us sweet visuals of a lovely, sprite-like woman in a flowing white dress just walking through the forest. Nice... Stevie Nicks, but was there any meat in that conversation? No. No meat. Just a gypsy... that she was.<br />
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I'm not sure which one of us figured the keying thing out, but eventually, we were prompted to go through a process with our crystals that was something like showing a soul identification card. Think of it like a pass card to gain entrance to a secured area. Some crystals seem to have information or gifts that are specific to an individual (that only one person can access) or the information/energetic gifts can be individualized (many people can access, but everyone gets whatever it is that they personally need). </div>
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Once we began "keying" the crystals, sometimes a whole new world of information or energetic shifts opened up to us. We also discovered that the Stevie Nicks crystals, which didn't offer much information on the first pass, often finally gave up some goods once they were keyed. And, well..some of the information in crystals is really just some kind of energetic shift, not "information" that is in English. It's just a buzz. Sometimes the buzz offers something useful, but we will never really know what it was. Just sorta the way it is in this great big land of ambiguity.<br />
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The stones/crystals you should key are definitely the obvious record keepers with the raised triangles, but also any crystal or stone (doesn't have to just be quartz) to which you have had a very strong reaction. The ones that feel personal to you...yes, and the ones that are flashing through your mind right now.<br />
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Imagine a line of light going from your 3rd Eye (middle of your forehead), or from your heart, connecting into your crystal. <br />
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I recommend that you jot down any symbolic messages or out-in-out information immediately. It also might be groovy to do an actual reading on the rock however you normally do that, or by using the crystal whispering strategies that I blogged about before <a href="http://stacierocks.blogspot.com/2012/03/crystal-whispering-going-layers-deeper.html" target="_blank">here</a>.<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span> </div>
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Nah, you don't need to do that. Helping stuck spirits move along to the next appropriate place in their progression is actually not that difficult. It was one of the first protocols that I hashed out about 14 years ago. I was still pretty new to the process of energy work and whatnot and had a father dying of cancer. I went on a quest to find a symbol for "transitioning spirit" and didn't find one. So, I asked to receive one and... well, the Happy Trails non-traditional Reiki symbol for transition sorta slid out of me on All Saints Day, November, 1998. I did use it successfully on my father to help him transition, but then found out that this symbol and process is also good for moving along ghosts, if you believe in that kind of thing. </div>
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More funny history... I posted this symbol on my website at the time with some rudimentary instructions, and low and behold... 14 years later, if you Google it... it's all over the place. I actually snagged my original jpg off someone elses site. (Figured that was okay since I actually drew it.) I think someone is selling Happy Trails Reiki attunements somewhere. Interesting, considering that they want to give you a lovely Reiki lineage certificate with it. They do actually post me at the top, which was nice of them, but the people who claim me in their lineage... yeah, I have <em>no idea</em> who they are. If you paid for Happy Trails Reiki at some point, I apologize that I wasn't better at sharing it for free, which was my actual intention when I posted it on my website. It literally never entered my mind that someone would cut, paste, and make you pay. *shrugs* Whatever. Not my karma issue... I hope.</div>
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OK, so let me remedy this now... since I have a friend who needs this kind of coaching right now...and I had someone else that needed it earlier this week. So, seems kinda "up". Might as well just blog it and be able to direct folks to the information from now on, without y'all having to pay... uhhh...whomever them Reiki Peeps are. </div>
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Here are some easy instructions.... you don't actually even need to use the symbol. The intention set is fully set and sealed and can be easily called upon without any need to draw symbols. Back in the day, symbols were how I rolled with intention. Nowadays, it seems more useful to just go to the intention set itself. If you want to use the symbol, knock yourself out and go ahead and use it. I'll add the step for Spirit Direct Attunement for it, if you would like to do that. If you've ever taken Reiki from me before, you already have been attuned to this symbol in the Reiki process. </div>
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1) Connect with God, your Higher Self through God, and the appropriate Spiritual Helpers through God. (I find it better to let God assign the Spiritual Helpers, but if you have a particular religious or spiritual belief system, go ahead and use the Helpers that you normally work with so long as you add "through God" to your request, please.)</div>
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The intention is for the Spiritual Helpers to go and gently fetch, clear, cleanse, purify, and bring healing to whatever Being might be stuck that needs some help moving along. As well as to clear the area of any lingering yuck, and pretty much bring as much Light and Love into the situation as possible. You can intend to clear a house, a neighborhood... a site being featured on a paranormal TV show while you are watching it, whatever. You aren't doing the heavy lifting, the Spiritual Helpers are doing the heavy lifting. YOUR JOB is to be a Free Will Advocate for Divine Intervention to happen. The Divine Intervention part ain't your job, so don't worry about that part. It's over our pay grade.</div>
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Ok Darlings... there you go. Who you gonna call? Ha, yeah... God and some Spiritual Helpers, basically. You just use that beautiful God-given Free Will to ask for Divine Intervention to happen for those poor souls. Who knew it was that easy, eh?</div>
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And <em><strong>thank you</strong></em> for doing this work. Wouldn't it just suck ass to be stuck inbetween dimensions, feeling like you've been abandoned? Yuck. Too sad. Let's help our brothers and sisters without bodies get to where they need to be going. It's only right.</div>
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amazing that it made you want to cry a little? Honest to goodness, I had me one
of those this past Tuesday... and boy, did I need it. Thank you April. See, I had dropped my only child off at her new apartment in Greensboro after she attempted to drive there herself and suffered a car break down about an hour and a half away from Asheville. *sigh* Exactly... was hoping for a less dramatic 'kid flying from the nest' dealio... but did not get it. So, Monday... kid launching into her college years (leaving me with an empty nest) and then a 6 hour round trip to drop her off that I didn't intend to do because her car died.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">Can you say....maybe I was just a wee bit constricted in my body? Maybe <em>The Momma</em> needed a little nurturing and care? Hell yes, I did. And thank you, Universe, for sending me April to help me rebalance myself with abundant, joyful ME time after the Monday of the Empty Nest. I know that April was doing the massage, but I honestly felt like I was being cared for by a Cosmic Momma through her....and I just went limp and surrendered to the process. I remember thinking, "I gratefully receive whatever nurturing and assistance I need at this time. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you."</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">April came into the store one day in May before I facilitated the Lightbody Activation Ceremony at the White Horse Music and Spirit Center in Black Mountain. See, April was due to fly to the UK to have her Reiki Master Attunement INSIDE Stonehenge that coming Monday. She felt strongly prompted to do the Lightbody Activation before going. Well... shoot, when she told me that, I absolutely got the impression that the timing of the workshop had everything to do about her going to Stonehenge... since the Lightbody Activation work basically plugs people into the Earth Grid System, Christ Consciousness Grids, and to the Tapestry of Light of other Lightworkers on the planet. Get what I'm saying... ? </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-size: 12px;"><span style="font-family: Arial;">So, sweet... modest April. Yep. Not fooling me. I'm thanking you for your service. I've got no idea what you may have Held Space for while you were in the UK, but I'm grateful. Mmm hmm. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">On the road trip to find the farm where the Lightbody event was being held, it came out in conversation that April had been in Mexico and spent time studying with Hunbatz Men. Ex-squeeze me? So, there is another sacred site she's plugging into...umm...with Hunbatz (flippin) Men? Right. OK Girlfriend... yep. Nice rainbow, by the way. :) Thanks again, for... uh... <em>whatever</em> it was. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">April works through the Healing House of Weaverville, which is a really cool house that used to belong to Mr. Weaver... for whom the town is named. The place feels so nice. The other practitioners there were great too.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Also... and goodie for you... if you mention that you saw this blog article you will get a $10 discount off your session.</span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 12px;">Alrighty Darlings.... that is my featured Asheville Area Practitioner for July. April "Mojo" Morley.... do yourself a favor and allow yourself to be nurtured for some seriously wonderful You Time that may just be a bit ~more~ than you might have anticipated. Weee Hawww.</span></span></div>
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True unadulterated citrine. It's ~divine~. It's like petrified, golden sunlight. Natural, As-Mother-Made-It, citrine is actually quite rare. There is some coming out of Brazil, some from Africa, and some from Madagascar, but most of the "citrine" on the market is actually heat-treated amethyst. See, they take amethyst that is too light to sell well as amethyst, and they "cook it" until it turns that brassy orange color. </div>
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And you know what, I dunno, heat-treating rocks doesn't offend me nearly as much as irradiation offends me. I have some heat-treated citrine in the house that I've used for energy work before and it's fine... but... it is definitely <em>different</em> than natural citrine. They are, well... truthfully, two different crystals. </div>
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The heat-treated citrine (that began as light amethyst)...hmm, has a more assertive energy after being heated. It is like a delicate, shy person went through an extreme "motivational" seminar to change its personality to become more "fiery", and then kinda over-did it, becoming a bit brassy. In fact, heat-treated citrine is probably an excellent crystal for those who <em>are</em> shy that would like to become more assertive, or to add a little more momentum and oomph to generally slow moving, peaceful energies. Heat treated citrine is, quite literally, the poster child for having someone light a fire under your bottom when you need to shift from passive to active energies. So, hear me when I say that I am not ~dissing~ it. It has its place in the world... and when you cannot find natural citrine, use it. Heat-treated citrine has a more orange color, than yellow, however... so it's more a belly chakra energy than solar plexus. I bet that a lax artist or writer might really benefit from hanging on to some of the treated citrine to get a fire going under the creative process. Perhaps it would be good to resolve writer's or artist's creative blocks. </div>
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Anyway, I want to discuss citrine, The Real Thing. It is a totally differerent than the other stuff. The energies of true citrine are not as assertive as treated citrine, but they are higher, lighter, and more, I dunno... "divine" probably <em>does</em> describe it. Natural citrine holds the energy of both the yellow and golden rays... and it tickles you both in the solar plexus as well as the crown. There is a decidedly angelic quality about natural citrine. If you paired natural citrine with a "spiritual helper" stone, like angelite or celestite, my guess is that you would be able to plug into some fairly high levels of vibrational assistance, or you could spend the time to attune to your own Higher Self that maintains connection to to those lighter vibrational spaces within. </div>
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Yes, we all know that citrine is a major prosperity stone. Also, as per Melody of "Love is in the Earth", it also shares "never needs cleansing" qualities with kyanite. Kyanite is also an angelic stone, or should I say "archangelic" stone. Because of this, natural citrine helps to shed lower vibrational energies from your field. If you are feeling low or depressed (after you have seen your doctor please), sometimes natural citrine can help to "lighten your mood". This may not work if you are chemically out of synch, which is different than needing to shed emotional congestion that makes you feel heavy. </div>
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Then, there are the miraculous and amazing citrines... or are they smokies.... err, well, they are both. We call them Smoky Citrine or Golden Smoky, same rock. This happens when natural citrine and natural smoky have a baby and live happily ever after. Those specimens sometimes are citrine with smoky phantoms. Yum. The combination of citrine and smoky is well... hmm.... smoking. (I know, that was weak. I haven't had my second cup of coffe yet. I'll be funnier later.) The citrine maintains that golden ray, high vibe thing and the smoky pulls all that wonderful high stuff deep down through your toes and into the Earth. Smoky is inherently protective and stabilizing and provides excellent boundary integrity, so it's like the citrine energy is coming with it's own "bouncer" that makes sure that all the wonderful spiritual shifts and sloughing off of heavier energy is, well... good and permanent.<br />
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I would highly recommend having at least one little natural citrine in your collection. They are expensive, as they are so rare, but a little goes a long way.<br />
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Pocket Rock/Nearness: When you are feeling down and need a big infusion of beautiful, bright, high vibrational energy to counteract the funk, keep your citrine with you. Get as much "nearness" with it as you can. Breathe with it, stick it in your bra for the day, go outside in the sun with it, just stick it in your pocket. </div>
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Gem Elixir: Drink it in, Baby. Citrine is fine for direct contact methods of gem elixir making. Plop your sweet baby gently in a large glass of clean water, put a little platic wrap over the top so you don't collect bugs, and leave it in the sunshine for an hour or so. Then, and this is an IMPORTANT step, hold the glass in both hands while saying, "Expand, Bless, Optimize, Stabilize, Amplify, and Seal". Wait until the sealing process comes to a conclusion (you may feel the energy kick in, build, then come back down). Then drink and enjoy. See the blog on Gem Elixirs if you want to learn more about this process.</div>
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Coin Purse: Citrine is famous for being an abudance stone, and who doesn't need a little infusion of that, eh? Get a wee one and put it in your coin purse.. or leave one in the prosperity section of your home via Feng Shui. </div>
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If you liked this article, be a dear and g+ or share it with your citrine loving friends. Thank you! :)Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-74790902541575469212012-06-28T06:04:00.000-07:002015-01-20T13:19:50.195-08:00Repeating Numbers Like 11:11, and So On...So what's all the hullabaloo about repeating numbers anyway?<br />
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Do you find yourself looking up at the clock at exactly a repeating number so often that it seems not quite a coincidence?<br />
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Maybe you did a Google search on it and ended up getting such an eyefull of weird-ass information that you just backed away slowly? But the pattern of your looking up at just those precise times continues and every time... makes you go ......"hmmmmmmmmmmm".<br />
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Yeah, you and like a squillion other people.<br />
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There are a lot of "conclusions" about what this number thing is all about. Probably my favorite is from Solara's book that is simply titled <a href="http://www.amazon.com/11-Inside-Doorway-Solara/dp/1878246054/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1340882528&sr=8-1&keywords=Solara+11%3A11" target="_blank">"11:11".</a> It <em>is</em> weird-ass information, but so what? My weird ceiling is pretty high. Whatever. <br />
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The long and the short of it is that repeating numbers are activational codes that are tugging at our awareness because they serve as... I dunno... a type of spiritual alarm clock, I guess. <br />
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But why an alarm clock at all? <br />
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The working theory at the moment is that humanity is on the verge of a jump in consciousness of some sort (groovy) and there are some who volunteered to either be of some assistance in this process or to pave the way by hacking through the jungle of evolution themselves to make it easier for the next chap. <br />
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A lot of people like to make "conclusions" about what this jump in consciousness is about, and who THEY are all about (being a volunteer and all), and throw around a lot of terms like "awakening", "ascension", "5th dimension", "starborn"....yada, yada. <br />
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So what.<br />
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I want to share the power of that statement with you as things start going a little odd in your life. <br />
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So, maybe you are on Earth because you are "here to help"....whatever that means.<br />
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Ok, cool. So what?<br />
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Perhaps you've dropped down the rabbit hole already and are swirling around in the amazing, miraculous, ever-present sense of Spirit working in and through your life.... <br />
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Ok, cool. So what?<br />
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I want to encourage you to release yourself from conclusions about whatever this process is... and why. Clearly, something weird-ass is happening. There is a spiritual, bigger-than-us phenomena going on. The repeating numbers are just one little "Hey, something is going on here. Deal." among many.<br />
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I want to encourage you to say, "So what."<br />
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I want to encourage you to read or watch whatever you want, listen to whatever theories are out there... expose yourself to the vast collection of folks who claim to "know" something... and once you put it through your wonderful brain-stuff.... say, "So what."<br />
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I decided a long time ago to abandon the Path for Knowledge. It just wasn't very satisfying. I tried to make conclusions. I held strong beliefs of "what is" at some point... and I have to say, every single one of them got beaten out of me. Well, all but the one about a being One. That one seemed to stick.<br />
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Instead of trying to walk the Path of Knowledge, which kept me hyper-focused on the world of wonderful, Cosmic Me... I hopped over to the Path of Service.<br />
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Let me tell you what I do now when I see the repeating numbers.... which I still see, all the flipping time. <br />
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I pray.<br />
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Hut Hike.<br />
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So what if your soul came from another dimension or star system, afterall? If it is true for you, it is true for a squillion of us, maybe ALL of us. Your personal myth is entertaining and all, but is it really necessary to get to work?<br />
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I encourage you to take those bits of miraculous, Spirit-knocking-on-your-door moments...and simply Get To Work. Spin and weave the tales of wonderful, Cosmic You after you pray. <br />
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You do not have to be a fully enlightened being to pray. You do not have to be a Reiki Master, or some other Masterful Yada Yada, to pray. <br />
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Pray however you pray. Say the Lord's Prayer if you want (it's actually pretty energetically sound, as far as intention sets go)... send love down into the Earth Grid system if you want.... connect into the 50'th dimenion of the Realm of the Beneficent Hoo Ha, if that is what you believe, but <em>intend</em> the Highest Good within Divine Will to happen Here NOW.<br />
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I encourage you to use those pregnant moments of wonder, when you feel deep down in your bones that a spiritual reality exists and is ~looking right at you~, as a <em>call to action</em>.<br />
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Someday, I hope...we understand all this weird-ass, ambiguous stuff. Perhaps when the job is done (whatever that means), we will all be in some groovy, cosmic Cafe, chatting about the good ole days on Earth and having ourselves a good cosmic belly laugh over the trippy journey.<br />
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Ok, so I agree... something a bit weird-ass is going on and maybe we are Cosmic Beings on a mission.<br />
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Maybe we are. Maybe we're not. Maybe everything is. Whatever. So what. We ain't going to clarify it here at this level. So let. it. go. Hold concepts of knowing in an open hand, not a sweaty fist. Your sanity will thank you for it.<br />
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And say it with me........."So what. So what. So what." <br />
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Until then... hows about we just <em>get in the game</em>? <br />
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I'm in. You? And if we happen to pray at the same time? Wouldn't that be groovy?<br />
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11:11, 2:22, 3:33.... Hut Hike!<br />
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(Not to exclude 4:44, 5:55, 10:10, 12:12, 1:11, and any others I may have missed...)<br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span> Staciehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14741395408529027350noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2135462152756839101.post-88275514956694271552012-06-26T08:45:00.000-07:002015-01-20T13:22:08.210-08:00Inner Door Work: Cord Cutting Hello Darlings... <br />
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Inner Door work is the equivalent to "cord cutting" work. I just use the visual symbol of a door. It works.</div>
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OK, consider that every person with whom you have interacted in any meaningful way throughout your entire life has some type of energetic connection to you. For purposes of this work, I would prefer you visualize these connections as doorways instead of cords. Each door represents a single connection. Now imagine that all of these doors are in a single large, cylindrical building, many stories tall. </div>
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I kinda see mine like the Leaning Tower of Pisa...</div>
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Except, it ain't leaning... and I'm on the inside...and it's way, way, way taller than Pisa. The doors are all on the outer edge of the building, facing in, and overlooking the ground floor, where I imagine that I stand when I do this work. Have you ever been to an Embassy Suites where all doors over-look the lobby? That's what I'm talking about. You can see your doors, or at least the floors... regardless of how many stories it may be.</div>
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OK... Doors. Now imagine that the deeper the connection, the closer to "ground floor" the doors are that symbolize your relationship/energetic connection to a single person. Obviously, your immediate family is ground floor and your good friends are probably second floor... but, even those folks to whom you may no longer have an active relationship, but to whom you did share a very deep bond at some point...may be situated on lower floors too. The less emotional of a connection, the higher up they are.</div>
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And guess what, every person with whom you have had sexual contact with... yep.... that is a deep energetic bonding.... whether you had a significant emotional relationship with them or not, is going to be on a lower floor. One night stands, yep. That cute frat boy you hooked up with and who then dodged you the rest of the year, yep. That amazing dude (or dudette) at the Panic show, yep. Your first love, yep. All of your ex-boyfriends, yep. All of your ex-husbands, yep. Get the idea? If you did the Diddly with someone, they have a significant door. I can hear some of you saying, "Oh Shit." I won't tell (glass houses and all...) It's okay. But... yes... the more doors you have G'friend... the more "at risk" you are of inappropriate influence messing around in your system. </div>
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Now... if you do not practice any type of "Boundary Integrity" or "Energetic/Spiritual Protection", consider that those Inner Doors are <em>not</em> secured. I don't know about you, but I have some ex-boyfriends that I definitely do not want to have energetic access to me in any way, shape, or form. (For those of you who have had very sticky issues with individuals, I bet the dedicated "Cord Cutting" work for a single relationship is fabulous and absolutely worth it.) But, not just them, really... I do not want <em>anyone</em> I have ever had a relationship with, on any level, to have energetic access to me in any way that is not in Divine Alignment or that doesn't support my Highest Good. </div>
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Don't go away mad... just go away, kind of thing. </div>
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The Inner Door Work was developed as a way to do a full-sweeping, system-wide scan and rectification of any inappropriate energetic connection to you through all of your relationships throughout this life-time. </div>
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Why? Because 'inappropriate influence' can push you around a bit, sometimes without your even knowing it. If you are sensitive or empathic, good golly Miss Molly, it's even worse. Life is hard enough just handling and healing our own "yuck". You don't really want to have other people's "yuck" oozing in your general direction because you simply did not disallow it, right?</div>
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Seems like human beings should have come with some fine print, so we know these things ahead of time. It would save a lot of grief. But, whatever... we figure it out as we go, I guess.</div>
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1) Connect in with your Higher Self through God and your Spiritual Helpers, whomever they are. I find that asking for the "appropriate" Spiritual Helpers through God works for me, instead of asking for specific ones. If you follow a particular spiritual tradition, it makes sense for you to use it in your work. For example, my Catholic friends would be hitting up Big J for this, or perhaps Mother Mary. </div>
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2) State your intention to initiate Inner Door Work, which means that you want a full scan and rectification of all your connections, such that only that which is in your Highest Good is allowed access... and all that which is not in your Highest Good is not allowed access. </div>
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3) Imagine yourself within your "Hall of Doors".... or that imaginary, symbolic building I yacked about earlier. Imagine your Spiritual Helper(s) standing next to you, ready to do the heavy lifting. You are going to allow your Spiritual Helpers through God to make the decisions as to door "positioning", okay? If you KNOW you have a troubled connection with someone... definitely discuss it with your Spiritual Helpers. </div>
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4) Energy Command #1: <strong><em>"I request to close all Inner Doors that should be closed, now please."</em></strong> </div>
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Imagine hearing a bunch of doors slamming shut from all levels of the building. Slam. Slam. Slam. Slam. Slam. Thank you.. thank you... thank you. </div>
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5) Energy Command #2: <strong><em>"I request to lock and seal all Inner Doors that should be locked and sealed, now please."</em></strong></div>
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Oh gosh, do you hear all those locks turning? You may even see some doors being boarded shut. Word. </div>
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6) Energy Command #3: <strong><em>"I request to have guarded all Inner Doors that need guarding, now please."</em></strong></div>
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Probably the doors that are boarded up, now have a guard posted in front of it. Don't be alarmed if your "guard" is an animal. For whatever reason, Griffin's and the like sometimes show up for guard duty... sometimes angels... whatever. It is what it is. It's your head, after all. </div>
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OK, you won't see this part.. cause it's on the other side of the door. Basically imagine a nice group of Warrior Guardian Angels going down these "halls" with blow torches of Holy Fire... burning the yuck "between" you and whomever the door represents. If you want to do forgiveness and release work here, golly, that would probably be groovy for you.</div>
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8) Energy Command #5: <strong><em>"I request to open all Inner Doors that should be open, now please."</em></strong></div>
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Yes, that's right... how about asking to empower the connections that are truly good for you... the people, places, events, opportunities that you should connect with. I imagine this as new light and fresh air streaming into the building... so refreshing. Mmmm... good people. Come to me. :)</div>
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9) Energy Command #6: <strong><em>"I request to Bless, Optimize, Stabilize, Amplify, and Seal this work under Divine Will, such that it maintains integrity in perpetuity. Amen and Thank You."</em></strong></div>
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Ummmm..... perhaps a nice salt bath afterward.</div>
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<strong>Making Gem Elixirs</strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Using a</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> “</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">Bottle Blank</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">”</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">:</span><span style="background-color: transparent; color: black; font-family: "arial"; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;"> You can prepare glass dropper/spray bottle blanks, which will allow you to easily facilitate “non-contact” elixir preparation for any method you like. The most potent strategy I have found is to prepare your bottle by filling it ½ with distilled water, then add one small clean crystal that volunteers to be a “vibration keeper”, a pinch of sea salt, then top off the bottle with vodka or brandy for preservation. If you prefer preservation without alcohol, use a good quality, organic apple cider vinegar as the entire fluid in the bottle. The bottle blank is used in the elixir making process while fully sealed, so no other rocks come into physical contact with the fluid you intend to ingest. You can get bottles in various colors. I find that the amber colored bottles are great with solar infusions, or more physically aimed elixirs. The cobalt colored bottles seem great for lunar, or more spiritually aimed elixirs. Clear bottles are fine too, but you should store them out of direct light or in the fridge. </span></div>
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Mmmmmmoonstone. I think a lot of us who have energetic sensitivity are fans of the ~family feldspar~ (labradorite, rainbow moonstone, sunstone, amazonite, etc). Sometimes they have a colorful flash, as with rainbow moonstone or labradorite... and sometimes they have the flashy, cats-eye chatoyancy. Whatever, it's all awesome. </div>
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All moonstone is connected to the Divine Feminine, water, intuition, dreams, visions, fertility, and the ~female mystique~. </div>
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There are various shades of moonstone from the milky white, grey, peach, and less often, black. True black moonstone is somewhat more rare and can be found (as far as I have heard) only in India and Madagascar. This is because Madagascar and India used to be connected before the tectonic plates did their boogie to their current location. They share several of the same mineral resources for this reason.</div>
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The first day I began working at Enter the Earth, there was a black moonstone display that was so rich and dark that I thought it was smoky quartz at first. When I finally had a moment to actually fix my eyes and senses on the display, I just stood there and marveled. I had never seen moonstone so dark. Some of the luscious, hand-polished "pebbles" were deep black with a stunning silver sheen (silver is another Divine Feminine color) and others had the black with a beautiful peach within it. </div>
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I have to say that most of the time, I do not grab a rock to deal with a physical issue. I normally go to the plant kingdom for physical issues. I had one exception in my collection many years ago. I had this wonderful, rough peach moonstone that I would flop on my belly when I was having bad menstrual cramps. Without fail, the peach moonstone (peach corresponds to the belly chakra as a light orange color) actually helped my cramps go away. Womb wonderful. I eventually gifted my cramp relieving stone to a lovely lady who was pregnant and about to have a baby. I figured that she needed it more than I did, and that was that. I haven't found a replacement for that special piece until I began working at Enter the Earth. Ahhh... sweet relief. Pass the chocolate and my black moonstone, please.... and just back away slowly. </div>
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The black moonstone from Madagascar is definitely a ~womb stone~ (Isn't it cool how womb stone even sounds like moonstone?). I have a nice sized sphere of it, but then I had to go back and get some pocket rocks for those times when... well... being a woman is uncomfortable. I feel that these beautiful and unique moonstones are rock #1 to support the workings of our regenerative Lady Bits. It would be the first stone I recommend to anyone who was pregnant, having troubles/pain with their lady plumbing, or who wanted to encourage fertility. Keep in mind, that I normally do not recommend rocks for physical issues, but with moonstone, I make an exception. Obviously, do not use moonstone in lieu of actual medical treatment, okay? I, nor the moonstone, are doctors. </div>
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Many also connect black moonstone to "new moon" energies, which corresponds to the birth of new things... from babies, projects, to ideas. So, if you are about to start something important and new, the black moonstone would still be a good stone to grab. I also like it in crystalline grids from anything from intuition, creativity, fertility, connection to any counter-part of the Divine Feminine, to healing shadow, and so on. I would absolutely love it in a "birth grid" during labor (with every other color of moonstone, rose quartz, and lepidolite)... but I recommend setting it up ~under~ the bed/delivery table because if I had had a rock in my hand during labor, I might have tossed it at my husband's head at some point. I'm pretty sure I am not alone. </div>
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If you'd like it as a moon-time relieving rock, I recommend that you either get two smaller polished rocks, so you can stuff them in your pockets... or one really hunky polished or rough piece to flop on your belly at home. If you want to amp up the effectiveness, just imagine breathing the moonstone energy into your womb area, relaxing the tension. Also recommended, chocolate, wine, a good chick flick, and a box of tissues. You might as well roll around in your femininity and make it a party.</div>
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Okay, so why smoky quartz? First, if you are a "sensitive" person, like I am, you definitely need smoky quartz for expanded energetic/spiritual protection, aka "boundary integrity". </div>
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Seriously, that is a great measure of how sensitive you are to outside energetic influence. If you cannot hack Walmart during the holidays because it makes you feel all squirrel, uneasy, and agitated... congratulations, you are likely fairly energetically sensitive. When I first began to open up energetically, there was no way in hell that I would go into a Walmart during the holidays. Any day, actually, it was somewhat uncomfortable... but the holidays definitely kicked my ass. I just couldn't do it. I've come a long way in adapting to my level of sensitivity and one of the best tools that I have found is good, ol' smoky quartz. </div>
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Maybe your anxiety when in a large group of people has more to do with your being smacked around with everyones "energetic crap" than it being something about "you". It's pretty common for sensitive folks to suffer from social anxiety because they haven't identified that it is an energetic issue. Here is how to see if your issues are energetic and not personal: Get two juicy smoky quartz rocks to put in each pant pocket, pushed deep by the groin area.... then go out on your regular public errands and rate your comfort level vs. without the smoky. I bet you will feel better, more settled, less twitchy. <br />
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The additional added benefit is that smoky quartz will pull you back into your body so that you can "be here now" instead of floating around the spiritual levels without bringing it back down to Earth. We need you on Earth. This is where the party is. No light can be turned on without also being grounded. Smoky helps the Space Cadets out there to be a bit more together for functioning at this level. My nickname has sometimes been "Spacie Stacie". It was a runner up for blog title. :) Anyway...<br />
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Smoky quartz is unfortunately one of the most "messed with" stones on the market. Distributors will artificially irradiate smoky quartz to make it darker, which they think is more "marketable", and hence, make them more money. Blah, phooey. I wish these dudes would smarten up already and leave the smoky quartz alone. The Earth gives Her smoky quartz a little zap that makes them perfect. Everything else is unnecessary. The picture below is from a Cal Tech website that had an interesting discussion about rock treatments. I've linked the site through the photo, if you'd like to see it.<br />
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Natural smoky quartz is gently shaded and can often have wisps of "smoke" through the crystal. Irradiated smoky quartz is super dark, pitch black... and is often so dark that you cannot see through it. A lot of the time, man-irradiated smoky quartz has to have all sorts of care and restoration before it is "work ready". [If you have a smoky quartz to rehabilitate from being traumatized by irradiation, I would recommend burying it or placing it by a favorite tree for an extended time. It can be used after some special care, I've used irradiated smoky before... but it feels more like we are helping to care for ~it~ vs. it taking care of us.] <br />
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A lot of the natural smoky quartz can have just a slight golden undertone, some people would call it a smoky citrine. Those are lovely. If you can find one, grab it. Likewise, smoky quartz that has amethyst and inclusions are also awesome. I've already written about them on an earlier blog post.<br />
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One of the most impressive things to me when I began working at Enter the Earth was that the smoky quartz and citrine in the store was natural and not treated. I could immediately tell the difference. The smoky "pebbles" are beautiful, juicy and hand polished... which make them perfect for "pocket stones".</div>
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Larger crystals are wonderful for "boundary integrity" and the creation of "sacred space" in your home, but for going out and about in the world, I highly recommend getting two tumbled smokies that are large enough to be juicy, but small enough to fit in your front pockets. </div>
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In crystal healing, your front pocket position corresponds to the "root chakra", which is the chakra that smoky quartz most "tickles". So, placing the stones in your pockets, pushed down to the end near the crease of your legs (groin area) actually put smoky quartz <em>exactly where it wants to be to do the most good for you</em>. Yes, wearing smoky quartz in jewelry will help too, but having the stone in the proper chakra placement ~optimizes~ the effects. So, pocket rocks.... root chakra stones. It works.</div>
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I use one natural smoky quartz and one labradorite. For whatever reason, the smoky goes in my left pocket and the labradorite goes in my right pocket. It just feels right. The smoky keeps me grounded with enhanced "boundary integrity" and my labradorite helps to fill in any weakness in my overall auric field. Labradorite is protective and stabilizing because it makes my energy field stronger and less vulnerable to inappropriate energetic influence from others or the environment. It's the energetic equivalent of "walking softly and carrying a big stick". I like this combination very much, but if I didn't have a nice labradorite to put in my right pocket, I would have a smoky in each pocket. </div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span> </div>
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<strong>Gratitude Rocks</strong><br />
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I wanted to spend a moment to talk about having gratitude and providing care and maintenance for your hard-working, sparkly rock friends. It's just good manners to give before you take, right? The same rules that apply to your human friends also applies to your rocks. You don't want to show up demanding service without also considering, well... their needs. In the spirit of all of creation being a part of the Universal Mind, and especially if you are using your rocks for spiritual and healing purposes, it just makes heart-sense to treat your tools with a sense of kindness and respect. <br />
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Every rock that you have in your collection began first as a part of Mother Earth, a special alchemical dance of the elements and unique geological properties of the region of origin, and perhaps even a unique dance of some kind of sentient, Gaia-linked devic consciousness. Lord knows, I spent a lot of time 'whispering' or 'reading' rocks to figure out how to best work with them and there were quite a few that I would describe as "somebody being home" in a direct or semi-direct way. Native Americans often refer to rocks as "Stone People" and I can see why. It's a rather beautiful and poetic way of viewing how things work, don't you think? </div>
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<strong>The Crystal Care Series</strong></div>
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Let's talk a little about the gratitude part. We know that rocks are mined and taken from their original locations. Sometimes the people doing the mining are respectful human beings and sometimes they are butt-heads with shovels, who don't have an evolved bone in their body (yet). That's just the truth of the matter. One of the first things I do when I interact with a new stone or crystal is to run, what I call "The Crystal Care Series". The Crystal Care Series is a direct energy download that I assembled and refined many years ago as a way to initiate well-rounded healing/gratitude work on behalf of the "Stone People" that was quick and efficient. </div>
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It's super simple to use. Simply hold your rock, or intentionally designate the rocks to which you would like to direct the work, such as "all the rocks in a rock shop" that you are walking through, or "that mountain yonder"... or whatever... and say, <strong><em>"I request to initiate the Crystal Care Series for this rock (or whatever rock/s), now please."</em></strong> </div>
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For your personal rocks, it's nice to hold them for the process because if you are energetically tactile (aka: feeling the buzz), you'll be able to feel the energies begin, build, then wane when it is completed. The intentions that are compiled in this automatic download include every imaginable care, cleansing, purification, rectification of human misuse or tampering (irradiation, color treatment, etc.), misaligned previous energy work/programming, energetic depletion/exhaustion, then the good stuff of adding whatever appropriate energetics or upgrades that are in Divine Alignment, as well as Love and Gratitude and any kind of Earth Healing necessary for the rock and the ~place of origin~ from where it was mined, as well as sending support for those mining in that area to evolve and grow into better non-butt-head kind of people. I spent a few years upgrading and refining the intentions of The Crystal Care Series and I find that barring a rock's personal preference for some other kind of care... it seems to do the job pretty well. </div>
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If you don't care to try The Crystal Care Series, please do send Love and Gratitude to your rock, as well to the land from which it came, in whatever way makes sense to you and your personal beliefs and traditions. It's just nice to be nice.<br />
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<strong>How Do You Know When to Administer Care? </strong><br />
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There are quite a few more traditional ways to provide care and maintenance for your pretty, precious sparklies, but how do you know when they want and need some good old TLC? You can use a few strategies. Routine times for care include the instances of when the rock is new to your collection, is about to be used for work, or after it has done bouts of work, and so on. I used to do routine care <em>once a month</em> during the full moon, but I abandoned that when it began taking me fifty trips back and forth to my deck to put them outside. (Plus, I'm pretty sure that the raccoons snaked a few of my precious ones during some full moon care sessions!) <br />
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When I dropped the monthly full moon care, I made an agreement with my collection that if anyone needed special care that they could "flash themselves to me", in my mind's eye, to let me know that they needed some care. At that point I would fetch the stone who was looking for my attention and simply ask what kind of care it wanted. That method still seems to work for me. So, my strategy was to provide routine care for newbies and anyone about to work, or who had been to work... and then the rest could send me a memo.<br />
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OK, there are so many ways to care for your rocks that you can either do what is convenient, what moves you, or what your rocks seem to want. The following list may not be exhaustive...and if you have a fun way to care for your crystals that isn't on the list, by all means, leave a comment and share it with your fellow sparkly lovers.<br />
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<strong>Soaking in the Rays:</strong><br />
Full Moon/New Moon Soak<br />
Sunshine Soak (some crystals fade in sunlight)<br />
Rainbow (if you can catch em!)<br />
Reiki/Channeled Energy<br />
Flower Essence/Vibrational Elixirs<br />
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<strong>Taking a Dip in Water:</strong><br />
Faucet (well water)<br />
Fresh Water (lake, stream)<br />
Rainstorm<br />
Ocean/Salt Water<br />
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<strong>Blowing/Smoke:</strong><br />
Smudging (with white sage or other ceremonial cleansing herb)<br />
Incense<br />
Energy Breath/Reiki Breath<br />
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<strong>Outside:</strong><br />
Deck Time (time outside through mulitple days)<br />
Tree Time (resting by the roots of a tree)<br />
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Hanging with Other Crystals <br />
Sand Time for Crystals (being in sand is like being back in the cluster for quartz points)<br />
Hanging on a Quartz Cluster<br />
Hanging on Selenite<br />
Hanging in Sea Salt or Super Duper Selenite Salt Crystal Clearing Sand (see recipe below)<br />
Hanging in a Potted Plant<br />
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<strong>Recipe for Stacie's Super Duper Selenite Crystal Clearing Sand</strong><br />
<em>Modify proportions to your liking. My stones LOVED this mixture. You can even attune the sand to Reiki so that it radiates healing energy too.</em><br />
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<strong>And... would you all join me in a great big hug and Thank You to Madagascar! Thank You Madagascar!!!!! We love you! Muah!</strong><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christopher and I have a brand new website and blog. :) I'm going to leave archived blog articles up in here, but all new articles will be published under the new site.<br /><br /> Our new website is here:<br /><a href="http://www.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://www.etemetaphysical.com</span></a><br /><br /> Our new blog, which we have integrated together, is here:<br /><a href="http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/"><span style="color: #336699;">http://blog.etemetaphysical.com/</span></a></span> <br />
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OK, a full reading has finally been done on these amazing quartz points from Madagascar. They are a new find, so my rock buddies and I sat down and did our best to juice out the energies. </div>
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I think the physical characteristics of these crystals, namely the white hexagonal layers that sometimes contain a light teal central core, speak to the purpose of these crystals quite nicely. </div>
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I believe that these crystals assist with "Divine Core Alignment". </div>
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The first thing that everyone noticed who experienced these crystals was that they had a very potent first pass. Some of my whispering buddies even had to put their crystal down for a moment because they were a bit overwhelmed by it. The sensation was that the crystals facilitated a "turning on" of lights within, or that they had an activational component. I have noticed that the "big buzz" sensation has now calmed down quite a bit when I pick up the crystals, as if I have been attuned to the energies in a permanent way. In other words, it shifted my vibrations to be closer to it... so that it no longer feels like new buzz. It feels like... well, me. This makes sense if the crystals help us to attune to our Core Selves, right? It wouldn't think it would feel foreign to be be brought into greater alignment with higher parts of yourself, eh?</div>
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If you aren't looking at the base of the crystal, they look somewhat milky, but otherwise normal. I've asked Nader about the teal central core on some of them and he seems to think that it is the beginning of a chlorite phantom. Yeah, I don't know about that. It feels more like ajoite than chlorite, but Madagascar rocks have stumped me before. It definitely looks more teal than green to me. Whatever. The teal core is amazing, but so are the ones that just have the hexagonal layers. I don't think I've ever seen that before on a crystal.</div>
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OK, so Divine Core Alignment work. Who knew. This does speak immediately to personal spiritual evolution. How you are brought into alignment with the systems of yourself means a couple of things. First, Divine Core Alignment would suggest how you are aligned with layers of your Soul Self, up to and including your Higher Self (or however you define that). The visual that I got was of those Russian nesting dolls being placed back into configuration. When you are in greater alignment with those other aspects of yourself, you can more easily toggle, such as having a doorway or connection, between those perspectives of wisdom. Second, Divine Core Alignment also speaks to how you are oriented within greater systems, such as with your spouse, your family, your friends, and your network of connections... as well as all other systems, including animal, plant, mineral systems. Divine Core Alignment has everything to do with how you are woven into the web of creation.</div>
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There were two images that repeated between multiple people (we didn't share until we were done receiving images) that I think are worth sharing... an eagle and a pyramid. I consulted a couple of symbol books and thought it would be interesting to share. </div>
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Pyramid, as described by the Women's Sacred Symbols and Objects, is a meeting place between deities and mortals, is the structure at the core of a city, is considered "gates of the gods", also is the symbol for fire. It may have represented a volcanic cone. In Greek, pyramid means, spirit, thoughts, symbol, or idea of fire. To me, this translates as the place where the regular you and the Divine You get together and where you can pass through the layers, or gates, to access Divine Wisdom. Fire is activational or purifying, so perhaps there is that activational quality we felt so strongly.</div>
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<em>"To align oneself with Eagle medicine is to take on the responsibility and the power of becoming so much more than you now appear to be. From a karmic aspect, it reflects that the events will now fly faster, and the repercussions for everything you think, do or say (or fail to think, do or say)--positive and negative--will be both stronger and quicker. To accept the Eagle as totem is to accept a powerful new dimension to life, and a heightened responsibility for your spiritual growth. But only through doing so do you learn how to move between worlds, touch all life with healing, and become the mediator and bearer of new creative force within the world."</em></div>
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I recommend that you "key" the crystal first, by imagining a line of light connecting your 3rd Eye to the inside of the crystal. Imagine sliding a key down that line and into the crystal, providing the crystal with your soul signature as a way to "unlock" further work. It's basically a way to say, "Hi, I'm here. Do we have work to do together?" </div>
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Then, request Divine Core Alignment work... such as by saying, "I request to initiate Divine Core Alignment, now please."</div>
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You can also take it to other systems...</div>
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"I request to initiate Divine Core Alignment with my spouse, now please."</div>
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...or my friend group and network of connection...</div>
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...or...with... well...whatever........ God, Creation, whatever you feel like you should be brought into proper core alignment. </div>
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See what I mean... pretty potent stuff. You might even be able to do it through the photo of the crystals. It's worth a shot.</div>
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The crystals are currently under the rough rock table at Enter the Earth in the Grove Arcade in downtown Asheville, NC. I'm sorta hiding them from people who are not energy workers because there just isn't more than a couple dozen at this point. They probably can do their own duck and look uninteresting from the masses, but still. Nader, the owner of Enter the Earth, said that the next time he went to Madagascar (which is just a few weeks away) that he would look for more. If we get more, we are going to send the crystal away to see what the teal core part is. I hope he can get more. These crystals feel pretty dang special.</div>
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