January 2012 Blog Posts (38)

Quartz is the Master Healer and the "stone of power"! This crystal has the appearance of frozen water and clear quartz appears to look like ice!

Probably the most versatile multipurpose healing stone. Easy to cleanse, store information/energy in, program or amplify energy and is used as a healing instrument. The natural tendency for quartz is for harmony. Quartz can both draw and send energy therefore it is effective for sending/receiving guidance.

Quartz is used for…

Today, Tarot brings us the Shadowscapes Fool card, and what a wonderful message it is, on what feels like a bright spring day in Nova.  The Robins are back, there are all sorts of little songbirds in the bushes, the sun shines... and it's easy for one's spirit to adopt the pose in the card.…

Always a gut twisting card when it shows up from this deck, todays draw is the Three of Swords. 

 I am always taken by the fact that there are three different swords, the poor swan has known betrayal from more than one friend, and yet still tries to raise her head. 

 It…

The draw today is the very "ent"-ish looking Hierophant from the Shadowscapes Tarot.  On his hand rests  little salamander asking a very big question.  I am greatfull for a less "Catholic" Hierpohant, one who seems to be more of a guide than a doctrinaire.   He's dispensing wisdom, not dogma.…

  Today's card is one of my favorite "Sun" cards.

His hand looks like he's feeding the crowd of colorful birds, so that's what today is about, feeding the neighborhood birds (and likely squirrels).  Also suggestive of greeting the sunrise in a special…

This is the beginning of the new lunar calendar. In celebration of the Chinese New Year, I will be discussing the many wonderful contributions the Asian cultures have given the world in relation to alternative medicine.

Celebrating Chinese New Year: The Year of the Dragon

Chinese New Year starts with the New Moon on the first day of the new year and ends on the full moon 15 days later. The 15th day of the new year is called the Lantern Festival, which is…

A while back, one of my artist friends, Joanna Powell Colbert, wrote something that forever changed the way I looked at my backyard.  

Crystals for Capricorn

 

The Seagoat is duty bound, ambitious, serious with single minded focus. Their drive makes them efficient, faithful, even sensual, yet they tend toward showing the conservative/traditional side. Capricorn are prudent, realistic, formal, methodical, disciplined, traditional, cautious, conventional, hardworking, persevering, self-reliant, businesslike, career oriented, authoritative, conscientious, and competent.

Crystals for Capricorn. Choose a stone…