Crystal of the Week: Cavansite

First discovered in India in 1988, this bright blue stone is an amazingly hard worker.  Called the "Stone of the Spiritual Healer," Cavansite will shield the healer during sessions.  It assists those working with Reiki and other spiritually healing modalities.  It can be used to ask that a disease or illness in remission does not return.  It's a great stone to teach acceptance and is known to help children accept any disabilities they may be facing.

When used with meditation, Cavansite will help stimulate astral travel and past life recall.  When placed on the third eye, it will enhance clairvoyance.  When placed on the throat, it will enhance clairaudiance.

Psychologically, this stone brings joy as it works to increase one's endorphins.

It's a great stone for mediums as it encourages one to step aside and speak spiritual truths without any self-doubt.

Because of its beautiful blue color, it's connected to the throat chakra and communication making it a wonderful stone for writers and teachers.

As a stone of spiritual guidance and healing, Cavansite assists one who is breaking through to the next level of their spiritual development.  It helps connect us with our guides and teachers.  Working with the heart, it aids clear, honest communication.

Emotionally, Cavansite increases our optimism and happiness.  It sparkles just like the night stars reminding us that we do have a divine light deep within us and that's its our right and our true purpose to shine on and share our light.

Crystal of the Week: Kyanite

Originating in Nepal and Tibet, the word Kyanite is from the Greek Kyanos meaning blue.  The lovely blue of this hard working stone helps us to speak our truth and greet the world with a sense of true honesty, courage and humility.  Kyanite works so hard for you and yet it expects nothing in return.  This stone will not take on negativity, so it never needs to be cleansed.  It will also help to attune and charge the other stones around it.

As a throat chakra stone, it's a great stone to wear as a necklace.  It will enhance psychic ability, communication and clairaudience.

Kyanite is a peaceful and calming stone which makes it a great choice for meditation.  It will work to gently open your third eye.  When slept with, it's said to increase the vividness of your dreams.

Although it's not a birthstone, it's highly recommended for those born under the sign of Aries, Libra and  Taurus.

Kyanite is said to cleanse the aura and light it up from within.

It's known for its tremendous ability to cleanse and align the chakras.  It will help remove energy blocks from the meridians and cuts through fears that are holding us back.  It pushes away depression, sadness and anger.  Kyanite is known to be a natural pain reliever.

BLACK KYANITE:  Very protective stone.  Will help ground and protect your energy
GREEN KYANITE:  Very healing.  Hard working stone that will heal and cleanse your heart chakra.

Crystal of the Week: Topaz

Topaz comes from the word “topazin” meaning “to seek.”  Known as the “Stone of True Love,” Topaz will help you seek and find love.  It’s a joyful stone that balances emotions and helps the wearer see the bigger picture.

Topaz is said to possess its own inner light and the stone will work to share this light with the wearer.  It imparts feelings of joy, empathy and generosity.  It’s a mellow, calming stone that will encourage forgiveness and acceptance. 

Topaz has a long and rich history for treating ailments and bringing good fortune.  St. Hildegard used Topaz dipped in wine to treat eye disorders.  Doctors also used Topaz elixirs during the Plague.  This beautiful stone has long been associated with the wealthy who would often wear topaz engraved with a falcon to attract more financial abundance. 

These days, Topaz is known to help to balance your emotions and open your heart to love and happiness.

If you’re trying to complete a goal and are finding it difficult to find the energy and self-esteem to see it to fruition, wearing Topaz will give you the motivation and inner resources to achieve your goal with success and speed.

While Topaz comes in a variety of hues, the two most popular and easy to find are yellow and blue. 

YELLOW TOPAZ: November’s birthstone will help you manifest your intentions and bring about positive change in your life.  It helps keep you in alignment with your true purpose.  The happy, positive energy of this stone helps attract new friends and opportunities.  Sometimes called Golden Topaz, this stone is also very healing – especially for stomach ailments.  It works to open your heart to love as it allows you to forgive and trust the process of life.  Golden Topaz will strengthen your faith.  Wear this stone when you’re feeling overstressed and irritable because it will help to calm you and instill deep inner peace and serenity instead. 

BLUE TOPAZ: December’s birthstone is a stone of clear and honest communication.  It’s a balancing stone and will bring the body, mind and spirit into alignment.   Blue Topaz is a stone of leadership that helps you take charge of your life. This is the stone to wear if you have a speaking engagement or important meeting coming up because it helps you to speak clearly and effectively.  Meditating with Blue Topaz enables you to discover the right career path for your highest potential.  It helps you to see where you’ve gone off path and recognize patterns in your life. Often called “the Writer’s Stone,” Blue Topaz will help break up writer’s block while enhancing your creativity.  Wearing Blue Topaz increases your psychic ability.  Blue Topaz brings in angelic energy and helps you connect with your angel for more joy and love in your life.

Wearing Topaz will work hard to increase your self-esteem and courage teaching you to truly believe that you deserve love, happiness, health and success.

Aromatherapy 101

Our sense of smell holds a lot of power.  It can entice us, seduce us, arouse our hunger and evoke memories from our past.  But it can also help to heal, calm and de-stress us.  Here are some practical ways to use aromatherapy in your life.

Calming Spray:  Add 10 drops of Lavender Essential Oil and 10 drops of Tangerine or Lemon Balm Essential Oil to a 4 oz. spray bottle.  Shake and mist around the house, car or office and to effect a calming mood.

Car Sickness:  If your child often experiences car sicknesses, try adding a few drops of Ginger Essential oil or Peppermint Essential oil to a tissue and have your child inhale the scent frequently throughout the trip.

Colds: Add a few drops of Eucalyptus Essential Oil to a vaporizer to reduce stuffiness.

Cuts and Scrapes: Mix 50 drops of Lavender Essential Oil with 50 drops of Tea Tree Essential Oil.  This can be stored in a small bottle for up to two years.  To sooth a cut or scrape, add 10 drops of the mixture to a 1/2 cup of water and use it to wash off the scrape.  Then add 1 drop to the bandage.

Diaper Rash Cream:  Add 1 drop of Lavender Essential Oil and 1 drop of Tea Tree Essential oil to to teaspoons of Almond Oil.

Earache: Add 3 drops of Thyme Linolol and 3 drops of Lavender Essential Oil to a warm washcloth and hold over the child's ear.

Headache Relief: Add a few drop of peppermint essential oils to a carrier oil such as Jojoba and rub into temples.

Holiday Spray:  To get in the mood for the holidays, try making this lovely concoction that will have you dreaming of sugar plums in no time.  Take a 4-ounce bottle and fill with distilled water.  Add 4 drops of pine essential oil, 2 drops of cinnamon essential oil and 1 drop of mandarin essential oil to the spray bottle.  Shake vigorously and spray.

Sponge Cleaner:  Sponges are teeming with germs.  Get into the habit of microwaving yours for 1 minute every few days.  When it's cooled, add 2 - 3 drops of orange or lemon essential oil.  The oil not only smells great, but its antibacterial properties will keep your sponge (relatively) germ free

Trash Can Fix: To keep your garbage can smelling as nice as possible, mix 2 cups of baking soda and a teaspoon of Lavender Essential Oil.  Store in a shaker container and sprinkle on the bottom of your trash can every time you change the trash bag.


TIPS FOR USING ESSENTIAL OILS:

1) Buy only pure essential oils
2) Store in their original bottles
3) Never apply directly to skin.  Essential Oils must be blended with a carrier oil first.
4) Essential Oils are for external use only.

Crystal of the Week: Green Quartz

Green Quartz works to open, balance and heal the heart chakra.  It transmutes negative energy into positive energy which makes it a great stone to have in your home or office.  Green quartz will increase your creativity, prosperity, abundance and success.  It helps to balance emotions and is wonderful for psychic healing.  It enhances psychic ability.  Green quartz is also recommended for students as it helps them retain the information they studied.


Green quartz is a gentle healer and helps to enhance one's spirituality making it a great stone for meditation.


Physically, it's said to balance the endocrine system.

As it's known to work as a stone of prosperity and abundance, Green Quartz can be used in prosperity grids.  Keep one in your wallet to assure abundance in your life or place one with your check books.  If your bills feel out of control, place a Green Quartz with your bills to help balance the energy and absorb any fears those bills can cause.

The Snowball Effect

Mercery is in Retrograde.  We are dealing with eclipses, and the holidays are fast approaching.  This is not an easy time for many.  So many clients and friends that I talk to are going through lay offs, financial worries, relationship problems and many are just feeling a generic stuck feeling -- stuck in their job, or their relationship or their financial bracket.

Sometimes when we're feeling this way, we tend to talk about it.  A lot.  To anyone who will listen.  In the beginning this is good and therapeutic but after a few days, it tends to build and create a bigger than life problem in our mind.  I call this the Snowball Effect.

Our words hold immense power.  In the bible it says God created the world with the spoken word.  We use words to create vows, contracts and partnerships.  New research proves that words and sound can physically heal our body.  All of this illustrates how important our words are that we say to ourselves and to others.

As we head into the holidays, if you're feeling the stress that's running rampant out there, take a moment each day to be mindful of your words. Good words invite good things.  Negative words invite more of the same.

I hope you all have a wonderful and peaceful week.  To all of you celebrating Thanksgiving this Thursday, I hope you have a great holiday.  I am thankful for all of you reading this!

The Doubting Psychic

It happened again.  Just this morning.  I couldn't make a connection with a client and her loved ones in heaven.  Nothing came through.  Well, that's not true.  A few things did come through -- none of which were validated by my client.  In my years of doing readings this has happened to me twice.  Now I can say it's happened three times.

I hate it when this happens.  My client was understandably upset.  I stopped the reading 15 minutes in and said, "I am so sorry but I can't make a significant connection and I don't want to waste your time.  Can I please mail your payment back to you?"  I felt just terrible.  I tried to explain that this had nothing to do with her or her loved ones in heaven who were trying to link in with me.

I wish I could explain to her, to myself, why this happened.  But I can't.  My reading before hers went great and my reading after hers went very well too.  I have no idea why this happens.  I just know that it does.  Thankfully it's not often.

So why am I sharing this sad story with you?  For two reasons.  One, to let you know that if you get a reading with a medium and they can't make a connection with you, please don't take it personally.  I know my client today had family members that wanted to talk to her.  The problem was with me -- not them and not her.  Our loved ones in heaven always want to talk with us.  But the medium has to be perfectly on.  I have to be aligned physically, mentally and spiritually.  The other reason why I'm sharing this is to inspire all you budding intuitives out there who sometimes get a miss and then feel as though you should throw in the towel and stop trying to do this work.  I believe this happens to all of us and who knows why?  Maybe our energies just didn't align.  I don't know, but it happened.  And unfortunately, it will probably happen again. Does that mean I'm going to stop doing readings?  No.

The Scottish medium Gordon Smith tells a story in his lectures of a woman in his development class who stopped doing readings for six years because once she couldn't make a connection with a client.  Six years.  I know how this woman feels.  The first time I couldn't connect with a client, I did throw in the towel.  I stopped doing readings for three months.

Doing this work can be difficult.  It pulls on your energy; it's very emotional and personal.  The messages are sometimes spot on; other times a bit vague.  Sometimes a spirit comes through so strongly, I feel like offering them a cup of tea.  Other times, it's like I'm mud diving in the Cape Fear River.  I can make out the message but it's pretty vague.  I never know why it works so easily and why other times it's so hard.

But it's also very meaningful work.  I've had non-believers write to tell me that they are now considering believing in God.  I've been able to make wonderful connections for parents who've lost their children and give them the assurance that their child is happy and safe in heaven.  I've been able to pass on lovely messages of forgiveness and gratitude from parents to their adult children.  So I will keep on keeping on.

However, I will always be honest about my work with you all.  I want people to know that this isn't science.  It can't be measured or proven.  You have to believe in it and in yourself.  Once that happens, anything really is possible.  So if some of you out there are reading this and you think you're intuitive but maybe you've had a few misses lately, please keep on keeping on.  I hope you take this blog post as a sign that being intuitive is our God given right.  It's our safety net in scary times, our compass in troubling times and our connection with our higher power in all times.