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Cosmic Portals – Working with the Stone World

quartz-generator-sqI must admit I love working with stones most of all; next are tree spirits…and then everything else!

Of the stones, my favorites are the quartz family, a large group composed of clear quartz, rose quartz, amethyst, citrine, carnelian, smokey quartz and assorted other types. Quartz has a very complex tetrahedral, hexagonal molecular configuration. It is molecularly formed of very tiny pyramids, set at many angles and counter rotations to each other, which enables it to pick up and project information coming in from a multitude of frequencies. Quartz is the favored stone of most medicine people because it is such an amazing communicator. It can access many planes of consciousness for information and can be directed to perform many different functions, unifying its multiple molecular facets to carry thought waves powerfully, strengthened and stabilized. Science utilizes quartz as a conductor in many machines such as the early radios and today in many watches and computers.

Stones will often take the hit for their human compatriot; they are very self-giving, serving quietly, uncomplainingly and lovingly. I have had many customers purchase stones and come back to me with amazing stories. One friend was wearing a lapis lazuli and coral pendant when her husband angrily approached her, verbally attacking her; the pendant exploded, right on her, shattering out into the room. Both she and her husband were stunned into silence.

Many customers report similar stories with other stones. Stones can also protect themselves and when it is time for them to leave an owner they do so, in a variety of eerie ways. People have gone to sleep at night with a stone on their bedstand only to awaken in the morning and find it gone.

A Native American scrying technique is to use a stone for clarifying a situation. To do this, you can go out into nature, declare to the devic realm that you need help and to please send you a stone to explain the situation. Then you start walking. When a stone energetically “pops” up at you, stop, pick it up and examine it. Slowly, as you turn it about, a story will emerge, through actual markings on the stone you might not have noticed at first. That pictograph can offer you the solution to your question, if you have approached the stone with love.

When I am having trouble staying grounded or need help to cut through an energetic anomaly, I will often sit with some rocks. Rocks are the first form of solid matter on earth, they are the most ancient of beings and they hold great patient wisdom inside their energy field. They can help a person ground into the very bones of earth herself and can also help you cut through all intervening frequencies to reach this core. They talk slowly, gently and firmly and they can help you stabilize your own energy in a particular area as per their own stone quality (e.g. amethyst for wisdom, rose quartz for love).

Stones have many facets to their personality; they are very subtle and complex when you get to know them. Large stones will change their energy as you walk around them, showing different faces to you with different functions.

The stones in some areas are stronger than in others. Sedona, Arizona and the Colorado mountains are two exceptionally powerful areas to work with stone energies.

Warriors at Bell Rock

When I pass through Sedona, I always stop to visit with the energies at Bell Rock. This rock has wonderful warrior energy that I find both energizing and soothing and I have wonderful communications with its energies. It has gifted me with a number of photographs where I have been able to show the very distinctly different personalities of the cliff’s warriors. To me, this is even better than viewing the human-carved presidents on Mt. Rushmore.

Grandfather Rock, Estes Park

Estes Park, Colorado also has very aware stones. I am especially fond of a stone clan that consists of very distinct personalities: Grandfather, Grandmother, playful grandchild, crotchety old curmudgeon and so on.

Grandfather Buffalo – Clearing Your Stones and Your Issues

Thanks to our ancestors who were healers and their connections to the mineral kingdom, we are in possession of the energies of stones and how to use them. So, with each gemstone and crystal, we are able to clear, energize, and balance our physical and spiritual bodies.

DSC00659We first need to have an understanding of clearing the crystals of the energies they bring with them and then of the energies they have picked up from your issues. There are many ways to clear your stones and so we will look at a few.

  1. Salt Water: Use a cup of pure or spring water. Add ¼ tsp. of Sea Salt. Place your crystals into the water for several hours or more. You may intuitively decide the length of time or ask your pendulum.

  2. Sea Salt: Pour Sea Salt into a bowl and then bury or place your stones in this salt. Intuitively decide the length of time needed to clear the stones or use your pendulum.

 3. Sage Stick: Using a piece of Native American Sage, light the sage and put out the flame. Then run the stone through the smoke several times.

4. Other Crystals: To clear your crystals or gemstones, place them on a Quartz cluster, Copper plate, or natural Copper ore. You may use Kyanite, Selenite, Citrine, or other high energy stones by laying your stones on them or around them.

 5. Energetic Clearing: You may also use Reiki or other energetic healing modalities to clear your stones.

 Now that your stones are clear, let’s look at the issues we may want to clear. If your are always anxious or stressed, you will want to have any of the following stones: Rose Quartz, Amethyst, Kyanite, Kunzite, Lithium Quartz to name a few. Focus on the issue and hold the stones until you are calm, try fifteen to twenty minutes. Wear a stone pendant for a period of time until you are calm. Create an elixir using the stone and pure water. Drink it periodically.

Remember to always clear your stones, clear your issues, then clear your stones.

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offerings-2_0Sage is used to clear not only stones, but energy of all kinds in your home and work environment. Offerings -An abalone shell with small cedar, desert sage, white sage and sweetgrass braid is a great combination of tools to clear energy.

 

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 If you haven’t ever worked with sage before you might like our Smudge Pack. The Smudge Pack contains the booklet Sacred Sage: How It Heals, an abalone shell, a feather and a sage stick. This is a great grouping of tools to learn why sage is a favorite space clearer, and how to use the enclosed tools to sage your own space.

From Our Friends – Tree at Cantigny Park

Veronica-Tree-ImageWe visited Cantigny Park during my father’s recent visit. He was marveling at the spring colors, tulips and the flowering trees this time of the year. He lives in the southern hemisphere, where it is mostly summer all year around.

We were so fortunate this spring, to have it all blooming at the same time, there was color and blooms everywhere we looked. Nature put on a spectacular show. Next to fall, spring became his new favorite time to visit.

While walking around the grounds, my husband noticed the trunk of this tree. An old elm tree
with what looks like eyes and coiled limbs or a snake wrapped around the trunk of the tree. A great specimen.

Thanks, Atala, for making us aware of nature and nature spirits. After being in Cantigny Park so many times, this is the first time we noticed this tree. After reading your books, our awareness of nature has changed. Because of that, we now notice more than the shade a tree has to offer.

“Look deep into nature, and then you will understand everything better”. Albert Einstein

…Veronica Montinola

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ISIC – Palo Santo Incense

Incense has been used for centuries to energetically clean spaces. The most common spaces to clean with incense are our homes or workspace. Shamans also use incense to cleanse our body’s aura. My favorite kind of incense is “Palo Santo” which is native to South America.  Palo Santo translated into english means holy stick or sacred stick. It is sold in multiple quantities in a length of about 3 inches. Palo Santo is frequently used to perform a regular cleanse as described above, but it can be used in many other unique ways.

4363144347_aa024f6c64Marcy Lebowitz, an occupational therapist in St. Charles, IL uses Palo Santo as a tool for her clients. Having helped youth in the autism spectrum for over 26 years,  Marcy is known for finding quick solutions to help the children as well as their adult caretakers and educators to relative calm and focus.  A whiff of the scent and aroma of Palo Santo along with exercises that involve the breath are the keys to her successful approach. It is an inexpensive and powerful tool.

Shaman Rodrigo Duque of Healing Arts in Batavia, IL uses Palo Santo in a couple of different ways. He makes “tea” with it and recommends soaking in a Palo Santo tea bath prior to a job interview or a court appearance.  He also recommends using it for any other stressful situations.  Bathing in it not only calms you and relaxes you but it also brings peace and clarity of mind and body.  The palo santo bath also cleanses the aura, making the bather a more likeable person gearing good energy in their favor.

To make the tea, simply place the stick in a small pot with enough water to cover the stick.  Boil the water and simmer for about 5 minutes.

He also recommends combining Palo Santo with a rose twig, without thorns, when someone is looking to enhance their love life. Use a natural twine, preferably red, to combine the sticks together. The scent of Palo Santo is pure, refreshing and soft. Palo Santo has a very pleasant feel to it and the scent cannot be confused or misinterpreted. The rose twig used for this enhancer must be a twig that has been collected in a respectful way.  What this means in the native american tradition is, you have to ask permission to the plant and make an offering of tobacco in exchange. Carry the combination with you in your purse, to attract or enhance your love life or place it in a special area of your home.

From the Feng Shui perspective, the marriage or relationship area of your bedroom is the best location for it. Palo Santo is a very versatile tool and can be purchased at Crystal Life. We hope you enjoy using it.

Blue Papaya – Basics in Bed Placement Part 3: A Practical Application

In part 1 of The Basics of Bed Placement we discussed the very basics, the do’s and the don’ts of bed location, the type of headboard and the height of the bed. In part 2 we went deeper into Feng Shui thru the use of a very accurate formula from the compass school of Feng Shui.  This formula helps us personalize our space by finding our best direction. Today we’ll take these basic principles and apply them to a consultation.

Feng Shui 3

I had a consultation with a couple who wanted to enhance their relationship, health and career. The couple were empty nesters and young grandparents who had enjoyed many great years together. After analyzing their home and questionnaire, I realized that the problem was due to the furniture placement in the bedroom, specifically the bed.

During the consultation, I found that the husband’s arms, shoulder and upper back where always sore. It was painful for him to hold the arm up at shoulder height and he needed back surgery. The wife also had health issues, but she did not require surgery. When asked when their problems started, they looked at each other and realized it started manifesting shortly after they had moved their bed to the current location.

Their bed was placed so that their head was pointing at the window, and East. Their headboard was an open brass frame.There were three things working against them following the Feng Shui principles we discussed previously. First was the location of the bed, it should not be placed by the window, there should always be a solid wall or headboard behind it. Second the direction of the bed, East was a detrimental direction for them. Third was the type of headboard. Because it was open, and backed up to the window, it did not protect them from the outside energies.  Also, a metal headboard is not a preferred choice, since it is a communicating element. It is not conducive to rest.  The metal was amplifying the energies they were exposed to in this case.  I was amazed to see how this couple’s life changed because of something so simple as the placement of the bed.

Without the protection of a solid wall and the combination they had working against them, they were vulnerable to the strong energy that came thru the window as they slept. It took less than a year for that energy to set into the physical. After the consultation, the couple changed the bed placement and headboard. They were able to put down their guard and rekindle their relationship into the deeper level they had before. Once the relationship was better, their sense of security increased. Their lives improved tremendously, as they were able to rest better, and enjoy their relationship again.

Most of the time we don’t realize how the placement of the bed affects us until problems manifest into the physical. I did not realized how important the placement of the bed was until I saw how my client’s lives were affected. The lack of rest can affect our entire life. Without restful sleep and without health, there is no joy and appreciation for life. The simple pleasures in life derive from appreciating moments we can be open to appreciate, they are little pockets in time that would otherwise be ignored by the routine of everyday life.

Start with a  good and solid bed placement, and the rest will follow.

The Basics in Bed Placement Part 1

The Basics in Bed Placement Part 2

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Veronica will be leading our next Blue Papaya gathering, which will deal with learning how to manage the home energies! May 24 at 7 pm. Youth will work with their own bedroom spaces to find the optimal way to arrange their room, and learn what to avoid.

Nature Spirit Photography – Micro-Man

MicromanHere is a nature spirit only 2 1/2″ tall, and the story that goes with him.

I had a new micro lens for my camera; I got it to take photos of jewelry for my website. A Nikon 60 mm.One warm late summer day I decided it would be fun to experiment with what could be seen in the natural world up close. So I attached the macro lens to my Nikon D90 and headed out to my favorite location – LeRoy Oakes Nature Preserve in St. Charles, IL. I greeted the nature deva at the start of my walk, and announced my light-hearted intention.

I felt inclined to go a different direction than I usually do. I walked through the woods and prairie areas, the humid summer day ripe with the scent of green things growing, golden prairie flowers, and cicada chirring. Suddenly a little fairy child appeared in front of me. She was very excited and was twirling about. “I know where there’s a tiny spirit,” she said. “Follow me!” It sounded like a happy invitation, and on a scan there was nothing wrong in her sweet invitation, so I started down the path after her.

But it was such a pretty day, with the sun shining through the summer leaves, that I kept pausing. At which point she would dance back to me. “This way,” she would say, doing a pirouette and skipping forward.

Eventually we made our way to the stream, and the fairy invited me to sit on a log, enjoy the flowing water, and relax into meditation. I sat there for a time then remembered my mission. “Where is the little nature spirit,” I asked.

The fairy child directed my attention to a “dead” log nearby, and as happens on occasion, I saw nothing until the fairy drew my attention to a specific location, where there was a tiny 2 1/2″ very dignified wood spirit looking over his domain: the shore and the water.

It was quite an eye opener for me, to take his photograph. For I soon realized that in spite of how physically small he was in my world, in his world he was very big, and packed a lot of spirit energy, dignity and wisdom.

So if you enjoy nature spirit photography, try this exercise: put a different length lens on your camera from what you usually work with – and see what there is to be seen at that distance!

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Cosmic Portals – The Significance of Field Integrity

wormholeField integrity is absolutely essential for long-term work and personal health in any area of life. Yet many people, and novice energy workers as well, do not understand this concept.

Every field of study, every person, every life form, exists in its own merkaba, or set energy field. This is their field, frequency, or resonance.

When you go to communicate with any life form, in this dimension or in some other world, you consciously or unconsciously adapt yourself to its frequency. That’s so you can be understood. Otherwise, you would be talking to the air. Your message would not be received by the other form because you are not connecting to its communication frequency.

A blanket refusal to identify with other frequencies is the situation in parts of our world today. It is a very sad fundamentalist set of mind that says my way or the highway. It refuses to adapt at all to the other energies that are present. So it ends up talking to the air – or only to others who think like it does. It does not attempt to adapt or understand or identify with anything other than its own small world.

That myopic set of mind actually extends throughout our culture at more subtle levels as well. We identify with our crowd – be it football players or ballerinas – and we don’t tend to reach out to any other frequency. Now this may serve us well, if all we want to do is play football. But if we are suddenly thrust into another set of circumstances – if we have to move, or our football days are over, or our boss is not interested in football – then we have to adapt, even if we don’t want to, or we will fail to fully connect to the people of that “world.”

On an even grander scale, humanity is myopic in believing that we are the only “group” occupying this earth. That, too, prevents actual communication. There are many other intelligent life forms co-existing with us, but on different frequency waves or bands. What they do and need may very well affect our personal lives. Since we share this earth with them, it behooves us to learn to see these life forms, and to understand existence from their point of view as well.

As human beings, we occupy a certain frequency. That is not the only frequency that can exist in this universe, and the span of frequencies is evolving and expanding, just as we humans and the universe are evolving. But if we don’t want to identify with and understand other points of view – other frequencies – we are in the same boat as the staunchest fundamentalist who refuses to recognize other human points of view.

Now here’s the rub – to be able to see into other realms, you have to first be assured you understand your own personal world, or merkabah. You need to be facile and able to turn around inside  your own skin, to see what you look like from above, below, each side, front, behind, and at your core. You need to see where you start and where you end. Because this is your home base. It is from the security of your own existence that you can safely venture out into other worlds, other frequencies, and then return to yourself.

The other side to this ability to see and travel about through dimensions or frequencies is the necessity not to get too comfortable in the world to which you have gone. Otherwise you might not come back. You can get so comfortable in that other world – say that of the faeries or the angels or some extra-terrestrial world – that you forget what you’ve got in your own personal world on earth. It is part of the Celtic lore that some folks who have traveled to the faery world have chosen to return there because they like it so much better than our gross world – they have simply disappeared from their small community. And some people who travel to other worlds and do not understand what is occurring, because our culture has not to date recognized this phenomena, appear “daft” to others because they are still in their physical body but their focus, their attention, is elsewhere.

Here’s an exercise that is very useful for those who want to travel about through time and space – or who are traveling already but need to learn to control their abilities. Practice “Be Here Now.” Whatever you are doing, set yourself a time period to completely engross and identify yourself with that action. If your attention wanders to some other task, tell yourself you’ll think about it afterwards, and jot a note to yourself. Then go back to the task at hand, whole-heartedly.

You’ll be surprised how at peace you are, whether it is washing the dishes or plowing a field, you’ll now get the opportunity to move into the “zone” where you are in rhythm with the task. Then, at the end of the allotted time, reach a point of resolution and turn your attention to something else, experiencing an equal amount of concentration for that issue, too.

In this way, you can enjoy personal fulfillment as well as train yourself to not become too attached to any course of action.

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We Are Not Alone

 

Grandfather Buffalo – A Changing Face of Healing

There are various types of healing modalities today, such that it is seemingly hard to choose which one to go with. Which one is the best for my situation you may ask? Let us see if we can list just a few.

images-31Acupuncture, acupressure, cranial sacral therapy, massage, chiropractor, matrix energetics, Reiki, Therapeutic touch, Intuitive medicine, Native American healing, Quantum touch, Past life regression, the list goes on and on.

So how does anyone begin to choose from the above list without going into any further exploration of other types of alternative healing work? The possibilities being endless, any one may assist in one’s journey of healing. It seems to me that many of these modalities are merging. It may be because of the ISIC group that Crystal Life Technology sponsors that this awareness is coming about especially within the group, but I think that is only the tip of the iceberg. We have seen many changes prior to and beyond the December 21, 2012 date. The energies come and go with the experience of a roller-coaster ride. Despite that, we are finding more clarity in our lives, and surprisingly more understanding of these differing healing modalities.

If one looks closely, we can see the inner connectedness of all of them. The number one clue being that each one has a single goal. That is the healing of the individual on a subtle level. We are not talking cures, but a balance and harmonization of one’s energy field, which gives the body a chance to heal. All of these modalities are about the shifting of energies.

Despite the many differing kinds of healing available, there are perhaps differing views of what is the correct one. Many will follow the orthodox view if it is not done “this way” exactly it is not right. They will present the specific procedures for the healing to be successful. One is not allowed to vary. While others will say,  ”This is the prescribed procedure for this modality, however let me try this intuitive approach and see the result.” So you will have the tried and true people and then you will have those who intuitively follow the new paradigm. This latter group observes the tried and true as well as intuition and guidance.

Healing is a personal experience that only occurs through the willing and accepted response of the one being healed. The healer is simply the facilitator of the healing modality being used and it is the receptivity of the client that promotes a healing experience. Today’s healers  are relying more and more through their guides to the reality that there is more than one way to assist the client to heal. We are becoming Integrative healers if you will. The surprising thing to see is that even as the healing experience is personal to the one receiving the healing, it is also not surprising to see that the healer is receiving on a personal level the process needed to heal the client.

Stones that assist today’s healers:

The Five Master Crystals: Amethyst, Clear Quartz, Smoky Quartz, Rose Quartz, Citrine.

Prehnite – Unconditional love, heals the healer

Apophyllite – Connects the physical and spiritual realm and allows for clear insight into the situation.

Kyanite – Clear connection to higher guidance.

Selenite – A tool of white light, higher guidance and the Akashic records.

 

 

 

From Our Friends – Irish Tree Spirit

Rick MeyersI just came back from a trip to Ireland.

We were walking along a small stream, running through one of the towns…. I have been searching for trees that show life form for about a year, without any luck.

This was just amazing… I could feel the energy of this tree, which was very strong.
                  …Rick Meyers

ISIC – Feng Shui and Dowsing

Some Feng Shui consultants use dowsing as a tool to help with recurring issues. After a systematic approach to Feng Shui has been applied, but the problem persists or lingers, I look at the earth and land based situations. Geopathic stress may cause the inhabitants of the home to have difficulty sleeping, concentrating, relaxing, and getting along with each other. Another common happening is that appliances at home may frequently breakdown. Symptoms may also manifest itself as different forms of depression, particularly when the energy is very low no matter how beautiful the room is.

pendulumsDowsing has been used since ancient times as a divination tool, and now in modern times it is used by many to help with a variety of everyday situations. Questions such as choosing a vitamin, where to plant flowers and trees. Also, questions about relationships with a specific person or choosing a job.  Massage therapists may use it to help diagnose blockages or areas of attention in our bodies and chakras. The device used for dowsing is called a pendulum. The pendulum acts as a conduit to the divine and the Universal Mind. It accesses our intuition for answers. The answers are given by the form of a “yes,”  “no” or a “maybe.” It is how the pendulum chooses to move. Knowing how to expand on the answers by asking specific questions will bring consistent results.

As we go forward in our conscious evolution, our intuition is becoming a necessity. By tuning into the energy fields, we can clear and balance them, if needed, and enjoy a life of greater happiness and contentment.

“At the close of this millennium, science, art and mysticism are coming closer and closer together as we realize that no part of reality is disconnected from each other; that the good of each is dependent on the good of all.” ~ Denise Linn

It is worth mentioning that Crystal Life Technology is featuring five different books on dowsing in the national newsletter through May 20th at a great value of 50% off.  They range from the basic and beginner to the advanced.  Order and enjoy your copy before its gone.