The Wheel of the Year & Moon phases

BEING IN TUNE WITH NATURE

The wheel of the year consists of 8  ' festivals'.  Four of these celebrating the season equinox's and solstices (Sun Festivals):

Yule - Mid Winter (21 December)

Ostara - Spring, (March 21st/22nd)

Litha - Midsummer (21st/22nd June)

Mabon - Autumn. (September 21st-23rd)

The observation of the seasons were vital to our ancestors and their lives depended on these festivals for harvest, planting etc

The other four observations are known as Fire Festivals - 

Imbolc - Candlemas, or Brigid's Day (February 2nd)

Beltaine - Celtic May Day (April 30th/May 1st)

Lammas - Lughnasadh (August 2, July 31st/Aug 1st)

Samhain - Summers End, Halloween (October 31st)

 



Another day that is on the calendar is:

Nebyn - 12th Night - The Twelfth Night is also traditionally the time that the winter celebrating and feasting would end.

Image refs:
http://kmareka.com/2010/10/30/happy-samhain/,  http://www.thewhitegoddess.co.uk/the_wheel_of_the_year/index.asp
http://www.moonconnection.com/moon_phases.phtml

MOON PHASES

Next full moon is

in about 2 days

Last Quarter Oct 20 03:30

New Moon Oct 26 19:56

First Quarter Nov 2 16:38

Full Moon Nov 10 20:16

Lunar phases are created by changing angles/ positions of the earth, moon and sun, as the moon orbits the earth.


The 1st quarter and 3rd quarter moons - "half moons", occur when the moon is at a 90 degrees to the earth and sun. We see exactly half of the moon illuminated and the other half in shadow(invisible).



You will need to understand  lunar phase names:
crescent, 
gibbous, 
waxing, and 
waning. 


The word crescent refers to the phases where the moon is less that half illuminated. The word gibbous refers to phases where the moon is more than half illuminated. Waxing essentially means "growing" or expanding in illumination, and waning means "shrinking" or decreasing in illumination.


Combine the 2 words to create the phase name, as follows:


After the new moon, the sunlit portion is increasing, but less than half, so it is waxing crescent. 


After the first quarter, the sunlit portion is still increasing, but now it is more than half, so it is waxing gibbous. 


After the full moon (maximum illumination), the light continually decreases. So the waning gibbous phase occurs next. 


Following the third quarter is the waning crescent, which wanes until the light is completely gone -- a new moon.



Other sources for info:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wheel_of_the_Year, 
www.paganfed.org/pagan-wheel.shtml, 
www.bbc.co.uk/religion/religions/paganism/holydays/year.shtml, 
www.gaias-garden.co.uk/articles/woty.html, 
www.mindspring.com/~stardancer/wheeloftheyear.org/, 
www.witchway.net/days/days.html 

Merlins spells (TV Series)

These are quite fun ;)

Look at the videos here

http://www.bbc.co.uk/merlin/basic/videos/spell_10/#/videos

There's money, guess what your thinking tearing and mending paper, and lots of others

Orbits of the 5 inner Planets

This post details something I saw when I was doing a maths problem on Polygons, in particular Pentagons, and the 5 sided figure that is geometrically constructed inside a pentagon ie.e Pentagram.

This lead to many links of various natures regarding the origin and belief systems surrounding the pentagram (5 sided star).

One of these sites linked to an image of the orbits of the earth which is quite fascinating.  I also picked up a similar image on another site.

BELOW:  ".......When viewed from Earth, successive inferior conjunctions of Venus plot a nearly perfect pentagram shape around the zodiac every eight years."


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Image source: http://www.esotericonline.net/group/sacredgeometry/forum/topics/sacred-geometrythe-pentagram?commentId=3204576%3AComment%3A9364&groupId=3204576%3AGroup%3A9042


BELOW:  Orbits of the inner planets viewed from the Earth



Image Source:  http://montessorimuddle.org/tag/space/

The Tears of Lord Siva are Rudraksha - the original Vedic Beads of Power worn by the Yogis of India and the Himalayas for thousands of years to maintain health and to gain self empowerment and fearless life on their path to Enlightenment and Liberation.

The many Devotees of Truth who deliberately live their lives according to Eternal Natural Law that is Sanatana Dharma Know that Rudraksha Beads are a Gift from The Almighty God and are a Natural Birth Right of the Mankind.

The Holy Rudraksha beads are based in the Absolute Field of Consciousness and they manifest in the Relative Field for the good of all concerned to help relieve sin and suffering and pain world wide.

Rudraksha beads have been used for thousands of years as an aid to Self Empowerment and the Fearless Life.

Hindu Japa malas are usually worn around the neck when not in use. Rudraksha are used to recite mantras, holding the mala with the right hand.

Hindu Style malas are usually made from Sandalwood or Rudraksha beads.

Rudraksha Malas natural seeds come from an Indian or Indonesian Himalayan Rudraksha Tree.

The beads called Rawa".

The beads are slightly rough to the touch.

A mala has 108 tigers eye markers and guru beads.

The word Rudra is the name of Lord Shiva and aksha means tears.

There was a demon called Tripura Sur who was gaining more and power and becoming invincible. Lord Brahma, Vishnu and other Gods and Goddess went to Lord Shiva for help. They asked him to control the devil and conquer him.

Lord Shiva used his most fierce fire weapon called ‘Aaghor’ to destroy the demon. But Lord Shiva knew about the devastating effect of this weapon and this brought tears to his eyes. When he opened his eyes, a few teardrops fell on the earth. Wherever his tears fell, trees grew and were named the Rudraksha trees meaning ‘Tears of Lord Shiva’.

 

How to make Holy Water

This is such an interesting posts

Read the article here:  http://networkedblogs.com/dZwDR (brilliant site)

Extract: 


"The rural people of the British Isles also believed in the power and sacredness of water and used holy water in many of their folk magic rites. Even though the British Isles have been Christianized for centuries, it is the farmers, fishermen, and housewives, men and women alike, who consecrate the holy water and not a Catholic priest. This goes against the teachings of the church as well as more modern Christian and Hoodoo superstitions that holy water can only be blessed by man of God. I believe the consecration and use of holy water in the British Isles is a remnant from Paganism as are the magical rites the water is used for."

Mythology: The Inner and Outer Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland

Read the full article here http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebridean_Myths_and_Legends

Extract:

The Inner and Outer Hebrides off the western coast of Scotland are made up of a great number of large and small islands. These isolated and mostly uninhabited islands are the source of a number of Hebridean myths and legends. It is a part of Scotland which has always relied on the surrounding sea to sustain the small communities which have occupied parts of the islands for centuries, therefore, it is natural that these seas are a source for many of these legends.

Contents 1 Water Spirits 1.1 Kelpies 1.2 Blue Men 1.3 Seonaidh (Shonny) 2 Merpeople 3 Water Monsters 3.1 Loch Monsters 3.2 Sea Monsters 4 Werewolves 5 Will-o'-the-wisp 6 Fairies 7 See also 8 References

[edit] Water Spirits

[edit] Kelpies

"Boy on white horse" by Theodor Kittelsen.

Kelpies were said to occupy several lochs, including one at Leurbost.

[edit] Blue Men

The Blue Men of the Minch (also known as storm kelpies), who occupy the stretch of water between Lewis and mainland Scotland, looking for sailors to drown and stricken boats to sink.

[edit] Seonaidh (Shonny)

Seonaidh - a water-spirit who had to be offered ale.

[edit] Merpeople

A Mermaid by John William Waterhouse.

It has been claimed that there is a mermaid's grave in Benbecula, but the exact location is unknown. The mermaid was killed in the early nineteenth century after having been seen for a couple of days, before a teenage boy threw a rock at it, killing the entity. Accounts stated that the upper part of the creature was the size of an infant, while the bottom was like a salmon.

[edit] Water Monsters

[edit] Loch Monsters

Searrach Uisge - a monster who was said to occupy Loch Suainbhal. Resembling a capsized boat, this creature has been reported swimming around for one and a half centuries. Locals say lambs were once offered annually to the creature^[1]. Other such creatures have been reported in several other lochs, including Loch Urubhal.
At Loch Duvat in Eriskay, while out looking for a horse that escaped his farm in the mist, a farmer saw what he thought was his missing beast in the loch. As he approached, he realised he was looking at a strange creature which gave an unearthly yell, sending the farmer running home.^[1]

[edit] Sea Monsters

Various sea monsters have been reported off the shores of Lewis over the years, including a sighting reported in 1882 by a German ship off the Butt of Lewis. The ship, 15 kilometres off the coast, reported a sea serpent around 40 metres in length, several bumps protruding from the water, along its back. Sea serpents have also been reported at the southern side of the island.^[1]

[edit] Werewolves

A German woodcut from 1722

A family of werewolves were said to occupy an island on Loch Langavat. Although long deceased, they promised to rise if their graves were disturbed.^[1]

[edit] Will-o'-the-wisp

Wills-o'-the-wisp have been reported in the area of Sandwick. The lights that float around the area normally announce approaching death for a local. Some say the light belongs to an Irish merchant who was robbed and murdered on the island.^[1]

[edit] Fairies

At Luskentyre in Harris, a hound has been known to leave oversized paw prints on the damp sand which vanish suddenly half way across the beach. It is alleged that this is a fairy hound.^[1]. Then in South Uist, a woman walking with two friends in the pitch dark watched as a self-illuminating dog, the size of a collie but with a small head and no eyes, ran towards her. The creature vanished as it bounded past. On reaching home, she described what had happened to her aunt, the older woman told her it was a Cu Sìth, a fairy dog. One of the heirlooms of the chiefs of Clan Macleod is the Fairy Flag. Numerous traditions state that the flag originated as a gift from the fairies.

See also

• Scottish mythology
• Celtic mythology
• History of the Outer Hebrides
• Hebrides
• Rocabarraigh

References

1. ^ ^{a b c d e f} Paranormal Database, Outer Hebrides Pages

Hedgecrossing Ritual - have a look at this great site (Link below)

The Witch of Forest Grove

« The Evolving Botanica

Hedgecrossing Ritual

This ritual is designed for 1-2 persons, but could be used by a group as well with one person acting as watcher. How one crosses the hedge differs from person to person as one technique doesn’t work for everyone. Due to this, there are many options presented within this ritual to customize it to your own preferences. The term “hedgecrossing” is modern in usage stemming from the Germanic term haegtessa meaning hedge witch. In the shamanic community this technique is called “shamanic journeying”. Hedgecrossing doesn’t necessarily mean flying out of body. Hedgecrossing is truly an altered state of consciousness commonly known as trance. When in this altered state certain persons can see, hear, and interact with gods and spirits, receive visions, as well as perform divinations as a seer or oracle.
First you’ll need to pick your stimulus. Your stimulus is what aids you to go into trance and it becomes a repetitive ritual action you do over and over so your body, mind, and soul know that now is the time to fall into trance. You could play a traditional trance-inducing instrument like a drum, rattle, or sistrum using fast beats and rhythms. Fast repetitive drumming has been scientifically proven to alter some people’s state of consciousness as much as an entheogen would, but it doesn’t work for everyone. Some find drumming distracting and prefer a more silent stimulus. Others may have trouble keeping up playing an instrument during trance and for this I recommend making a recording when starting out. If you make a recording it also allows you to set a time limit on your travels; when the music stops, it’s time to return.
Your stimulus could be an entheogen, but I wouldn’t recommend starting out with harsh ones as you wouldn’t know if your experience was real or if you were just hallucinating. If you choose this method use a milder entheogen like wormwood, mugwort, tobacco, or even alcohol and then work your way up to flying ointments if entheogens are part of your practice. Entheogens can be a tool in hedgecrossing, but they aren’t a requirement. If you choose to use an entheogen be aware that it can leave you open to possession or harm by spirits and protective talismans, a protector familiar, or a person acting as watcher are necessary to prevent this.
Other stimuli can include ecstatic trance postures, breathing techniques, a chant or rhyme, donning a ritual costume, ecstatic dancing, or even performing the rite somewhere in complete darkness like a cave, a room with no windows, or a blacked-out room. Such stimuli are aids to those with trouble and mental blocks when it comes to slipping into trance and letting go of normal consciousness. I recommend trying a few different stimuli when starting to find one that works best for you.
To perform this ritual you will need: a notebook and pen, a warm blanket, a pillow, a blindfold (optional), a musical instrument (optional), a stave (wand, stang, or staff), and incense or offerings for your gatekeeper deity and your familiar spirits. Now that you have chosen your trance cue and have gathered all your items needed, you can begin the ritual:

1. Purify yourself with spring water and smoke – wipe or sprinkle your face, hands, and feet with the water and waft incense or smoke from smudge over your body with your hands.
2. Cast a protective sphere around the space you’ll be using with whatever your chosen method is. I like to hold onto a wand or have my stang in the center of the ritual space when I cast a caim and hedgecross.
3. Invoke a gatekeeper to open the door between worlds. If you worship gods call a psychopomp or messenger (i.e. Hekate, Hermes, Prometheus, Manannán mac Lir, Gwyn ap Nudd, Nicneven, Odin, Heimdall, Papa Legba, etc). Be sure to ask which door. It is best to start with the underworld or upperworld –avoid the middle world until you truly know what you are doing.
4. If you are an animist, invoke a “crossroads” animal instead (owl, serpent, frog/toad, etc) or the great World Tree itself.
5. Give offering to the gatekeeper, animal, or tree in thanks; incense, alcohol, tobacco, food –whatever their favourite offering is.
6. Call your familiar spirits. You will need one protector to watch over your body and one guide to lead and protect you in the otherworld. If you use fetiches as spirit vessels for animal or ancestral familiars use your vessels to summon them. If the fetiche is something you can wear on your person, even better.
7. If you need to, set a time limit. If you have a watcher, they can gently bring you back with a song, a musical instrument, or by burning incense when your time is up. If you’re alone set a “gentle” alarm. If you have the luxury of time you won’t need a limit. If you are alone and not setting a time limit you will need a cue so you remember to return. A safety word or chant to use while wandering in the otherworld should work.
8. Lay down on the floor either on your back or stomach (there are differing opinions as to which is better so I leave it up to you), and cover yourself with the blanket so your body being cold doesn’t bring you out of trance. If you’ll be drumming or playing another instrument throughout you can stay sitting up, and just make yourself comfortable with blanket and pillow. If light distracts you, wear a blindfold.
9. Pick a place to start/enter. Is there a tree you go to, a cave, a stairway, a well? Fall up or down the rabbit hole like Alice. You can have a specific destination in mind or person/spirit/god to reach or you can have no plan and see what you see and go where you go. Both are rewarding. Let the images and experiences and words come. Don’t fight what you experience and don’t try to control it. Relax and let it happen.
10. Remember this is spirit work and the most important thing is manners, manners, manners. Be very polite to whatever and whoever you meet. Read fairy tales to brush yourself up on spirit manners as well as how to protect from the dangerous ones. I hold a Rowan wand when travelling as spirits cannot harm one touching the wood and sometimes it can be used to open more doors once in the otherworld.
11. Don’t rush back – retrace your steps and find a way back. If you need help, ask your familiar guide to lead you back. When you are fully back in your body wait a moment to rest, collect all the bits of your soul back together, and think on your experience. When you are ready, sit up.
12. Write down your experiences and any messages you received right away so you don’t forget. No matter how much you think you’ll remember it later, you won’t.
13. Thank your familiars and leave them their favourite offerings. You don’t need to banish familiars because they are a part of you.
14. Ask the gatekeeper/animal/tree to close the door between worlds. The gate is closed – lock it with your stave as key. Leave them another offering and say farewell to gently banish their presence from your space and their power from your stave.
15. Take down your protective space and ground. Eating is the easiest way to ground after travelling about as it reminds you you’re flesh and blood.

The 1st day of Spring - 1 Feb 2011 - Brighde's Eve

- also known as Candlemas, Imbolg, Oimelc

Here is some info from http://www.llewellyn.com/journal/article/345

Extract: 

Brighde /Brigit is the Celtic goddess of healing, smithcraft, and inspiration. She is a multi-talented goddess, like Minerva of Rome, Isis of Egypt, or Freya of the Northlands.

She is also a saint of the Roman Catholic Church.

If you explore her story, you will find it complex and amazing.

She is a healer extraordinaire, a poetess and wellspring of creativity, a metalworker ranked with Hephaestus and Vulcan.

To mention only a few of her accomplishments, she is a fire goddess, the Lady of sovereignty who conferred her blessing on kings and queens, and teacher and patron of warfare and the martial arts.

She is the one who calligraphers and scribes prayed to before they touched quill to parchment. She is the great protectress who guards us from all evil and calamity. She is the goddess who taught women the caoine, keening to mourn their beloved dead. She guards the health of flocks and herds, she invented whistling, and they say she likes beer.

The image that stays with us is that of the flame alight in the midst of winter. When February second dawned in ancient northern Europe, the first signs of spring could be seen in the British Isles.

But across the isles and the continent, people knew that the storms were not over, that long months lay between the first buds pushing through the snow and the ripe fields of crops ready to be harvested.

Symbol of Hope
Yet there was Brigit, herself the eternal flame. Here was this solitary, indomitable spark who spoke one word to all of us, “Hope.” We believe it was she who inspired Camus to say, “In the midst of winter, I discovered within myself an invincible summer.” She is the harbinger of spring, a goddess of fertility, flowers, and lambs. In that respect she is the promise of survival year by year, for ourselves, families, communities, and the circle of life. Yet she is more significant even than that. She is hope in all circumstances at all times.

We look at a world filled with human suffering, where children starve, where men kill over their beliefs or territory, where there is never enough medicine but always enough weapons. We see the parade of history punctuated by the Inquisition, slavery, oppression, ethnic cleansing, and now by the events of September 11.

Perhaps we are deeply mired in our own personal tragedies: a childhood of abuse, an incurable disease, a faithless or cruel spouse, a parent with Alzheimer’s, or a dead-end job and poverty. We have heard it said that every person you meet this day has a personal tragedy that we don’t know about. And yet, in the middle of heartbreak and chaos, we keep going. We feed our children, care for our ill, even smile at the people around us. We fight for social justice, better education, kindness to animals, and peace.

Brigit’s Gift
Where does this courage and compassion come from? How can it exist in this harsh world? Why have we not surrendered? We do not understand it, but we have names for its source: God. Goddess. Providence. Original Source. The Tao. Buddha. Mary. Jesus. Isis. Allah. The Sacred.

One of those names is Brigit. Whether you see her as goddess, archetype, myth, spirit—or as a woman in fifth-century Ireland who showed us how brave and loving a human being can be—she is a perfect symbol of the light in darkness, the warm place in the blizzard, the invincible hope that keeps us going in a hard world.

Original article by Amber K
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Pagan sabbats
Eostre/ Ostara is the festival of the spring goddess,
Lammas/Lughnassad is the celebration of the Celtic Lugh of the Long Arm,
Beltane is sacred to the shining god Bel
Candlemas, /Imbolg, Oimelc, /Brigit’s Eve - 1st of spring (N/Hemisphere)

Astronomy: Looking at the skies - Feb 2011

Read the full article here :  Keep Looking Up by Merrill Butler, III: Feb. 1st – Feb 8th

by Magis Center of Reason and Faith on Wednesday, 02 February 2011 at 15:27

 

Extract:

There are some interesting alignments of moons of Jupiter and Saturn. These alignments allow one to see all four of Jupiter’s largest moons and Saturn has a similar display.

Jupiter
On the night of February 5th at approximately 9:30pm look at Jupiter in the West.

Take your telescope and look to the south east of the planetary disc. You will see all four of the Galilean moons lined up in a diagonal. The names of those moons are, starting from the closest in to furthest out are Europa, Io, Ganymede, and Calisto.  Remember that Europa is the moon with an ocean encased by ice and JPL is in the planning stages of designing a mission to land there.  While looking at Jupiter don’t forget to look for the south equatorial band that is still missing. It has been missing before but not this long.

Saturn
On the night of February 4th and 5th take a look at the Solar System’s showpiece, and on both nights you find a triangle of three moons, which lie to the southeast of the planet. They are Dionne, Tethys (upper corner), and Rhea. In addition if you look directly above Saturn’s disk you will see that famous red-orange dot better known as Titan: The moon with an atmosphere and lakes of liquid methane.

Comet Hartley
Comet Hartley is now exiting (left) and will not be visible to amateur astronomers for 12 years.

It did put on quite a show and now the EPOXI mission, which photographed in its unusual shape, is publicizing some scientific results (it is shaped like a potato). 

The results show that the comet’s nucleus contains frozen water and carbon dioxide. The outgassing, which the EPOXI Mission saw in great detail, was driven by the carbon dioxide which sublimated or converted itself from solid to gas! That was confirmed by looking at the dust that was being distributed.  See picture provided.

* Personally I think its shaped exactly like a chicken drumstick - don't you?   LOL!

Chinese New Year - 12 Feb 2011

Hey, its the Chinese New Year on 12 Feb.  We are entering the year of the RABBIT.

Crystals for healing, meditations and everyday use.

My favourites are natural/raw/rough crystals, gem stones.  My family has been doing crystal healing and UE Healing since 1993 and I learnt it myself as an apprentice in my everyday life.  There are so many times I have used it for animals and people and we all use it everyday.  Our house is full of crystals and each crystal has a different use and energy.

I have my own personal collection of crystals which I treasure and my favourites are rose quartz, amethyst, quartz, amber, onyx, tigers eye, topaz, sapphire, jasper, adverturine, jade, obsidian, tourmaline, emerald, ruby, agate, flint.....

We also use crystals for protection.

This is a good site for referencing the properties of various crystals and gemstones:

Metaphysical, New Age and Crystal Healing Lore Information, Spiritual Thoughts

http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/metaphysical_healing.html

Here is the page that list the index for the various crystal stones:
http://www.crystalsandjewelry.com/metaphysicalproperties.html

EXTRACT:

Quartz, Rose
Rose quartz is a stone of unconditional love. It opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. Rose quartz has excellent protection energies during pregnancy and childbirth. The elevated energy of quartz gives rose quartz a property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. It also brings gentleness, forgiveness, and tolerance. Rose quartz is also said to be helpful with weight loss. Rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra.

The above mentioned site also has a downloadable pdf of the healing properties of various crystals.

The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide

The Ghost Hunter's Field Guide

Spirits to the Rescue

Spirits to the Rescue

Fairy Tale Rituals

Fairy Tale Rituals

Mastering Astral Projection

Mastering Astral Projection

Chakra Kit

This looks like a good Chakra Kit



EXTRACT:

We have been doing work with chakra's and crystals since before I was born and have our own chakra wand for healing and chakra stone sets but this looks like a good book and set for my very own kit.

The chakras are vortexes of energy that correspond to major areas of our lives, such as love, communication, perception, survival.

This unique kit features seven stones and crystals—each resonating with one of the seven major chakras. Laura Tuan offers guidance for using these stones to open and align your chakras and maintain the steady flow of vital energy within.
Boxed kit (5¼ x 8¼) includes seven chakra stones and crystals, a bag, and a 64-page book

Crystal Awareness

This looks like a cool book: Crystal Awareness

I have been working with crystals since I was born and am very familar with lots of them. We have some really cool books and a large collection of awesome crystals.

Mostly we use them for crystal healing with animals and people, for meditation and for protection.

Its always cool to find a good book!




Extract:

Now you can learn the secrets of crystals and how to use them for meditation, healing, and personal energy by reading Crystal Awareness by Catherine Bowman. Virtually everything you need to know about crystals is included. That's why over 130,000 people already have this book. You should have it, too!

First, you will learn about the basic nature of crystals. You'll learn what they're made of and their different forms. You'll also learn about the different powers of each. What type of crystal should you use when doing healings? How can you use clusters of crystals? What are the differences between small crystals and large ones? The answers are all found in Crystal Awareness.  More than anything, this book is practical. You'll learn how crystals have energy fields and how they can interplay with your personal energy fields. This book explains how to use crystals in meditation and how they can open you to deeper personal awareness as your meditations go deeper than ever before. Included is information on the effect of working with color and crystals when meditating.

Crystal Awareness also reveals the secrets of healing with crystals. You'll learn how to program crystals for healing and how to lay them in arrays around the head or feet. You'll see the effect of large crystals and clusters on healing as well as how colored quartz can be used for different healing purposes.

Simply put, this is the best book to introduce you to working with crystals. Get your copy today.

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MY Pendulum

I bought a really cool pendulum last year and I have been working with it.  Its really nicely balanced and responsive.  Unfort my mother totally loves it and is trying to steal it from me!  She has her own but she covets mine!  I do say mine is totally cool!.  It is a sunstone and has a shorter chain and the end of the chain is a small ball of sunstone.  It has a really good feel.   I still have to programme it properly but I am just experimenting.  Its totally awesome that it moves on its own and there are so many patterns, more than most people think.  At the moment I just have to keep it out of my mothers reach as it seems to like her too.  LOL.

I will post a photo of it too.

My mothers pendulum is a rose quartz one and its really cool too.

The most important thing about a pendulum is that it must be well balanced and you need to find the right length.  Apart from that you need to be patient and learn about it and and bond with it and you will need to programme it for your own use and for its dedicated use when you decided what you intend to  use it mostly for.

You can use it for dowsing and some other things.

Tea Reading

My granny taught my mum how to read tea leaves and her mum taught her.  Its been handed down through the generations in our family.

I just learnt about it the other day from my mum and we also had a look at some good sites.  It does depend on the tea leves you use though and you need the tea leaves not the tea bags.

There needs to be a good ratio of tea leaves to stalks.

You can also read coffee grinds and some other stuff.

The placing in the cup determines if its in the past, future or present or if it relates to you or your family and its a little like cloud reading which my sister and I are really good at.

I will write more about this again.

Cosmic Energy?

here is a link to the full article Can You Feel the Cosmic Energy?

Extract:

Can You Feel the Cosmic Energy?

This article was written by Anne Jirsch
posted under Health & Healing

Every day of your life you are aware of energy. Energy is in those moments when you think of someone and feel a warm glow, or you walk into a room and feel bad vibes, or how color can create stress, or a piece of music can make you cry or want to dance. The truth is that we are all made up of cosmic energy. Everything you see, smell, taste, and touch is made up of energy. The chair you are sitting in, the magazine you are holding, your thoughts and feelings; these items are all pure energy. Even where there appears to be nothing, like empty space, there is energy. Everything in the universe and beyond is made up of chi—energy, the universal force. Luckily we can access this knowledge and use cosmic energy in all areas of our lives. I have been working with future life progression for many years. This is a technique whereby I go into a trance and move forward in time to view the future. It is the flip side of regression. I take my clients forward for them to see where they will be and what they will be doing in years to come, even in their next lifetime. I began to wonder what our future selves knew that would be useful for us to know. Mankind faces many challenges and we as individuals need guidance with our own lives. For two years I took trips into the future to find out what we know in the next century. Time and time again the same answer came back: our future selves are more aware of cosmic energy. They know how to utilize energy in many different ways. They are aware of the subtle nature of energy and the difference a small change can make. For twenty years I have also worked with past life regression; I am constantly amazed at how aware our ancient selves were. They understood energy, they flowed with the seasons. They knew how to use energy to their benefit. It came naturally to them. During this time I discovered techniques and ideas, then came back and tried them out in my workshops. In short, they worked. Our current, so-called civilized selves have forgotten how to use this energy. We think that we are clever using our mobile phones and emails, yet our past and future selves often used telepathy. We have made great medical advances, but we once knew how to use our own energy to heal ourselves. We work hard, but once knew how to attract everything we needed. We have forgotten so much. Once you understand that cosmic energy really exists, that it’s all around you, and impacts your every day life, you can connect with its flow easily and naturally. When you know how to connect with this cosmic energy you can work with it to bring into your life whatever you need, be it love money or good health. Once you accept the notion of cosmic energy anything is possible. It becomes natural to send telepathic messages and to travel astrally. It becomes easy to feel in advance if a place or person is good for you. You become aware of yourself as a soul, a being of energy that has existed in some form or other throughout time. You become aware of your own unique purpose your reason for being. As a being of energy it becomes natural that you can move through time and space; you understand your connection to everything and everyone. This is where the fun begins. You become aware of all the love and abundance in the world, making it easier to flow to you. You can raise your love vibration attracting wonderful people into your life including your soul mate. You can shine at interviews or parties. When your cosmic energy is flowing, you get the job, people are drawn to you, and life becomes easier. The problem is that many people are vibrating at a low frequency. Each and every day we are bombarded with negativity from the news and the people around us. Our past experiences and ancestral history can also produce a poor flow of energy. Let me give you an example. Imagine having a relationship, and after six months it ends unexpectedly and abruptly. At that time, your personal cosmic energy will drop and you will be vibrating on a lower frequency as you feel sadness, hurt, and rejection. Now, because your vibration is quite low, what will you attract? Other people vibrating at a lower frequency. And so as you meet a new partner or friend you are dismayed when they do not treat you well, and your vibration drops even further. You begin the downward spiral. This is when we hit a bad patch and wonder, "Why does this always happen to me?" The same can happen with work; once we have had a bad experience such as a back-stabbing colleague or a bullying boss, our energy will drop. Guess what? We will continue to attract more of the same. Luckily, my jaunts into the future taught me many techniques to raise our vibration, which not only allows us to attract great things into our lives butt also make us feel great. Our future selves are more aware of what is good for them; they feel the subtle vibrations. They use telepathy and astral travel to connect with others. They use a combination of color, sound, and smell to produce a powerful synergistic effect and, with millions of different combinations, they can produce virtually any effect they wish. During my visits I discovered how they use their own etheric energy to tap into people and discover just what they are thinking and feeling. They can even leave a little of their etheric energy behind them; this is useful in many situations (at, say, an interview when you want to leave a lasting impression). From this I developed my own Etheric Energy Technique. In this busy world it is easy to lose track of what is important and to lose our connection with cosmic energy. We get waylaid with gadgets and toys and television shows, yet the real magic is all around us every moment of every day. And this energy is just waiting for you to tap into it, to improve all areas of your life. You are a wonderful, powerful being of energy and you are meant to be connected to the universal cosmic force; the more you connect the better life will become. I believe the energy crisis on earth is actually a symbol of the energy crisis people have within themselves. But as we become aware of our own energy the situation will resolve. As we begin to create a wonderful energy within and around ourselves and others, the earth will receive our vibration and this will help the world to become a better place.

Anne Jirsch Anne Jirsch (United Kingdom) is a psychic intuitive with an international following that includes heads of industry, politicians, and celebrities. She pioneered the revolutionary Etheric Energy Technique and conducts workshops and classes. Visit her...  Read more

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