Month: August 2015

For those of you who know me, you will understand that I simply couldn’t resist this title when I found these immortal words describing the energy of the second eclipse in September… and probably by the end of the month, we will all be wishing we were on a starship with Captain Kirk, boldly splitting infinitives as we dash across the galaxy rather than hanging around on the earthplane with all the chaos! I know I’m ready to go now, so please: Beam me up, Scotty… even though, if you are a real Star Trek fan, you will know Kirk never actually said that…
So, what is happening in September…
6.9 – Venus goes direct. This is the best part of the month, so make the most of it because the energy of Venus can, if we allow it, shower us with love and abundance. I’m ready for that now and we may all need this just to survive the month!
 9.9 – a double date vibrational portal following on from 8.8. Happily, it won’t be as intense, but you might feel a bit wobbly on the day. If you want the download, please use the usual format (See the Working with Sirius blog if you’ve forgotten).
13.9 – Partial Solar Eclipse – The energy of this eclipse brings with it the need to put things in order because it occurs in Virgo and relationships, work and health are highlighted. So a useful tip is: write down any things you can do to ensure your life is more organised. You might not manage to do everything on your list, but at least you will have some kind of plan when the energy hits!
17.9 – Mercury goes retrograde – well, what more can you say …..?
23.9 – Autumn Equinox – usually equinoxes are rather nice. It is all about coming back into balance. Unfortunately, due to all the energetic activity, the actual balancing may be rather harder than usual since there is just SO much going on. Also, the six month portal which opened at Spring Equinox is closing at the Autumn Equinox, so please take a look at what was going on in the middle of March and see how that is affecting what is going on for you now… and what you need to do about it.
28.9 – Total Lunar Eclipse. Watch out for this one. The effects of a lunar eclipse can last up to three months, and this eclipse will kick start an intense cleansing and healing process or a joyous, re-birth process. The choice is yours! My advice, after reading huge amounts of information, is: give up all the stuff you know has no place in your life any more so you can avoid all the nastiness of resisting the changes you know are coming. If you ask me, we’ve all done quite enough purging this year and need to avoid repeating it all over again at all costs if we can. Look at your life before 28th and see what you can give up before the energy hits. It will specifically bring up any unresolved issues in primary relationships which may have been festering since the new moon in April 2015… so watch out. Try thinking before speaking if you feel any bottled up emotions erupting from the depths. It will make clearing the issues a lot easier.

Point to Remember:

At an Eclipse, the Moon comes between the Earth and the Sun. This interrupts the flow of solar energy and it is rather like a reboot… on a cosmic scale, of course! Your whole operating system is kick started when the energy flow resumes at the end of the eclipse, so the question is – what do you want to upgrade when your new operating system comes on line as the solar energy flows back into your energy system? Think about it. With two eclipses this month, this means you have two huge opportunities to bring about radical change in your life – but only if you chose to do it.
And to make our joy complete, it is likely that all these energy shifts will continue through October as well, though they will not be as intense… phew!!

Symptoms to watch out for:
1. Strange things happening around your ears and hearing
2. As we continue to detach from 3D reality – even stranger things may happen to your feet. Apparently, this is because we are freeing ourselves from the old and re-grounding in the new. Personally I’d just like to have feet which would stop hurting in bizarre ways …
3. Sinus problems, especially inflammation.
4. That really familiar symptom which just loves us SO much it won’t go away – being tired. And for tired on some days please read exhausted for no apparent reason!
5. Odd and unexpected anxiety attacks. Apparently, this is the body adjusting to all the new energies. Be supportive. Your body will be having a difficult time with all the energetic adjustments this month!
6. Emotional instability – some days you may feel up one minute and down the next. Whatever is happening just hang in there – it will pass.
7. Inability to make decisions and trouble even deciding what to do next … mainly, I suppose, because we just don’t have a clue what is going on from moment to moment most days. Living in the Now is the only way!
8. Feeling grief and loss and disorientation – due to all the things which are leaving our lives .. sometimes on a daily basis. Once again – just hang in there and, of course, welcome all the new things coming into your lives to replace them. And, be aware if you have not fully grieved for something you have lost – it will all be coming up now to be dealt with.
9. Feeling disconnected from people, places and situations which are in the process of leaving your life.
10. An overwhelming need to sleep some days or a disrupted sleep pattern.
11. Feeling dizzy and ungrounded – and you’ve all had the lecture on that, so you should know what to do!

All this change will bring new levels of transformation which will lead you into the next phase of your awakening process. This will include increased intuitive perception on all levels and heightened awareness. And for those of us who are already hyper-sensitive due to all the other energy shifts this year – be kind to yourself while you adjust!!
And, if you get the feeling your conscious mind is struggling with the idea of so many new possibilities heading your way almost every day, please move from your head down into your heart. It is the only way to survive this intense period. You just can’t think your way out of it. You have to trust all will be well and keep moving to a higher level of trust … over and over again! Your mind will still want to try and understand what is happening, but that won’t always be possible. Stay in your heart and look at your life from there .. with great love and compassion. And if you can – move to a higher level of compassion, especially for yourself, as well.
Also, the single most important thing you can do is learn to live in the beautiful energy of Love rather than just exist in fear. After all, fear at its most basic level is a lack of love, so living in the energy of love will eradicate the fear one way or another!
Well, I really think that’s more than enough for one month, don’t you? If you need any help, the workshops on 12th September will help you prepare for everything.
10.00 – 12.30 Working with the Mercury Retrograde £30
1.30 – 4.00 New Beginnings – preparing for the energy shifts of the equinox, the eclipses and everything else! £30
If you think either (or both) will help, feel free to book in and come.
Bright Blessings Gailx
www.crystaldragongail.com
info@crystaldragongail.com

Green crystal energy is used primarily to clear blockages in the heart chakra and re-balance the chakra after the release process. Some helpful stones even re-generate the heart, allowing you to feel and love and share again – the best one for this is the beautiful and extremely gentle aventurine.

But the very lovely malachite is just SO good to use because, if your heart needs healing, it not only clears the rubbish causing your distress, it also allows you to see why you created the rubbish in the first place. It takes you deep within your heart so you can start to understand your needs and your emotional responses to them. This can be a quite painful (or at least uncomfortable) process and it means you will have to be extremely honest while you are working with the stone otherwise there is no point. But if you let Malachite guide you through the whole release process, it will eventually help you find the best way to clear all the rubbish out of your heart, not to mention explore ways to stop re-generating the horrible energy once you have gone to the trouble of removing it! Malachite is a stone which just keeps on giving! I love it.

Although Malachite is green and is technically a heart chakra stone, it is a fabulous solar plexus stone because its key word is: WILL.

It stimulates the solar plexus and helps increase, self-confidence, self-esteem and, of course, strengthens your will power. It also helps you come to terms with the thing that makes lots of people uncomfortable – your personal power.

Malachite acts like a hoover on the solar plexus and, depending on what intention you set before you place it on the chakra – it will just keep pulling junk out of the chakra. However – a word of warning – it is relentless. It will just keep working until all the negative energy associated with your healing request is gone, so be sure you are ready for an intense session if you ask it to do this for you. Judy Hall calls this stone merciless and I’m inclined to agree with her! At the solar plexus, it facilitates deep emotional healing, releasing any negative experiences or old traumas it finds!

But Malachite is a huge asset if you want to change. It is called the stone of transformation and it can do this in so many different ways, it will probably make your head spin if you considered them all! All you need to do is be really sure you want to change – on all levels.

Malachite encourages change and emotional risk-taking and teaches you exactly how and why YOU are responsible for your own thoughts and actions…there is no blaming someone else if you work with this stone! And we are back to merciless and relentless all over again.

Malachite is not the stone to choose if you are not ready to take a long, hard look inside yourself, nuke all your junk and move on. When you work with it seriously, it will reveal the truth about yourself and bring to the surface all the things which are stuck in your unconscious mind. They will eventually pop up into the conscious mind and you will have to deal with them. It’s not always pretty, but it is always worthwhile! And when you use it in meditation, it will show you anything which is impeding spiritual growth.

And, as if that wasn’t enough, if you can use Malachite on the brow chakra, where it will stimulate visualization and inner vision and it is one of the stones which will also clear and activate all the other chakras.

One other gift Malachite has to give is – if you hold a stone in each hand, it will help you concentrate and bring balance to the mind, relieving that horrible feeling of being scattered and unfocused. Now that is really useful because I suspect most of us are experiencing that most of the time at the moment. I know I am!

The only thing left to say is – as Malachite is a better hoover than a turbo-charged Dyson, please always remember to clean it after you have used it. If it sucks up all your rubbish, the least you can do is get rid of it afterwards rather than leave it sitting in the stone. Let’s face it, you know how awful the energy feels since it’s been stuck inside you, so you know the stone certainly won’t like it if it is stuck inside the crystalline matrix!

And now the obligatory Health and safety warning 🙂

Always used tumbled Malachite.

If you touch raw Malachite, wash your hands as soon as you can and please don’t touch your eyes or mouth. The dust on the surface of raw Malachite is poisonous, but only in large doses. A little bit won’t kill you, but it can cause skin irritation… something which should be avoided!! But, rest assured, you are perfectly safe if it has been through the tumbling process. This also means that if you make an elixir, make it using the indirect method … stone in a small glass container inside a larger glass container holding the water.

Malachite is one of my very favourite stones… I hope it soon becomes one of yours!

Bright Blessings Gailx

www.crystaldragongail.com

info@crystaldragongail.com

All You Ever Wanted to Know About the Lion’s Gate But Were Afraid to Ask ….

No, this isn’t a blog about the production company who made the brilliant Dresden Files and told wonderful tales about the P.I. who is actaully a real live wizard … which is shame. I could type for hours on how great that is. If you haven’t seen it, go on Amazon and buy it immediately. It’s fab!!! Or be radical – by a book! There are 16 now!

But I digress – this is a blog about THE 8:8 Lions Gate. It will be profound this year and aligning with will give you a quite remarkable opportunity for expansion – who can resist that?

Well, none of us, for a start. It’s coming and we need to be ready! We signed on that dratted dotted line before we incarnated and agreed to hold the energy for all those on the earthplane… whoops! Too late to try and change our minds now.

This wave of intense Light is from the Galactic Centre and it contains the new Light Codes for the next year/cycle, which will include a DNA upgrade for your physical body as well.  Phew!

The Lion’s Gate is an annual portal, or energetic gateway which opens at the planetary new year in July and reaches a climax on August 8^th It allows intense waves of light to flow into us and the Earth’s energy grid. It is associated Leo and with Sirius; and it is called the Lion’s Gate because the Sun enters into the sign of Leo at this time, and the downloads are integrated into the us and the Earth grid in the energy of the Lion.

This annual influx of light is to recalibrate our energy systems and raise the frequency of the Earth so higher levels of consciousness can emerge after the portal closes. And the only word to describe it is – unfortunately for all of us sensitives out there – INTENSE!! Especially as we are on an 8-8-8 year! And it may well be – at some point during the portal window – intense to the point of being surreal. Well, nothing new there, then!!

While it is all happening, you may become aware of old 3D patterns which are still stored in your energy matrix. These will be surfacing to be released and replaced by new 5D patterns which will allow you to function at a much higher frequency. Of course, because we tend to be completely daft and we are often emotionally attached to some of these old 3D patterns, this can make life difficult for us. You really think we’d all know better by now! But we don’t, so any attachments will have to go and you will need to find a way to fully surrender them – on all levels, so you can make the shift upwards into new and better ways of operating on the earthplane during this transitional period.

If you have already activated your Light Body, this whole process will be slightly easier. All you have to do is set the intention that you want the new Light Codes to be integrated into your system … but always with ease and grace!

Due to the symbolic shape associated with this portal – the infinity sign (which we have triple this year – 8 – 8 and 2+0+1+ 5 = 8) it creates a gateway which you can access and it will allow you to…

transcend all previous limitations.

Just take a moment to really think about that. This is a huge opportunity, but it is, as always, up to you to decide if you want to make the most of it. I would, especially as all it takes is one meditation to open for the download … oh – okay … and several hours lying in a darkened room afterwards gibbering while the energy settles, but we can’t have everything!!

8 is a number which signifies going beyond what you know to be your normal boundaries and on 8.8 you are physically (and energetically) given the chance to do this during the Light Code download. It is in effect spiritual atomic energy! All you have to do is decide if a mega explosion is really what you want in your life. Me – I’d take it. Detonating all my rubbish seems like too good an opportunity to miss really. I can always pick up the pieces later!!

And to add to our joy … the 8^th day of the 8^th month in an 8 year will also give us a triple karmic number, so we will have the opportunity to clear our past karma, both individually and collectively.

On 8:8 you will need to be aware of this vast amount of in-coming energy – in the form of high frequency light – and set the intention that you would like it to flow into your system at the most appropriate frequency for you on the day. You must also let it flow through you into the Earth to help Mother’s upgrade process as well.

It comes from the Great Central Sun (otherwise known as super massive black hole at the centre of our galaxy) and it stepped down in frequency by Sirius and our own Sun, so when it arrives on the earthplane it doesn’t fry all out energetic circuitry. It comes in through the Sphinx and also the Great Pyramid of Giza, which radiates the energy out across the earthplane.

So all you have to do now is decide if you want to receive it … well, actually it is coming, so you will receive it. The question is will you consciously align with it to get the full benefit of the download or not? I would if I were you. It is, if nothing else, easier than resisting it!! Resistance is, after all, futile….

For those of you who feel you might need a little help, there is a handy workshop since 8:8 falls on a Saturday this year. The details are below. Feel free to book a place – info@crystaldragongail.com – is the place to send your email. And be aware the portal will be open until about 25^th August to give you a good chance of integrating everything you need to move forward in your life!

Download instrcutions are the same as the ones in the Working with Sirius blog. Please make sure you are really, truly grounded before you start. This energy is coming from a super massive black hole!!!

Have fun! And, of course, please be aware that this may be a strange new usage of the word fun that you were previously unaware of….

Bright Blessings Gailxx

www.crystaldragongail.com

info@crystaldragongail.com

So, Lion …. I guess it’s no real surprise why this spirit animal turned up at work to spend a couple of days with me. I have had a great deal of thoughts about lions recently… though I have to say they were huge big energetic beings guarding the Lion’s Gate portal, not big scary cats with paws and claws who would probably want to eat me for lunch if they were given half a chance!

The first thing I found was … “if Lion enters your life, you may experience your own true, radiant self – your soul – rising to the surface.” Well, who is ready for that revelation on a quiet, uneventful afternoon? Still, whether we are ready or not, the energy of Lion is heading our way. There is the energy of Leo and there is the Lion’s Gate and, of course, there is the lovely Lion which is still insisting that he likes being a receptionist. It is perhaps a blessing that no one else can see him…. and I suppose I should also be pleased he doesn’t want to answer the telephone… But he’s there … just sitting.. and waiting. But then if you think of lions, they do that a lot … just sitting in the sunshine, absorbing all that solar energy, which is probably why they also represent gold and the Sun. Who knew they sat for almost twenty hours a day? Not a bad totem to hang out with if you want to relax, then …

So, what does Lion symbolize? The short answer is – courage … as well as the astrological sign of Leo, of course, which rules the heart and courage ultimately comes from the heart and from a deep sense of personal authority. If you can find a way to truly act from your heart, you will be capable of leading yourself and other people and the kind of success that encourages the accomplishments of others. This is the gift of Lion. He cares for his Pride. Lion also shows you how to have the courage to be true to yourself and working with the energy of Lion will empower you to act and live in ways which resonate with the highest and most beautiful aspect of yourself – your soul. And, finally, as if that wasn’t already enough, Lion will show you the true meaning of self esteem, without any illusion. GULP!

And Lion’s message is that true strength comes from the ability to control and master your emotions, in learning to stay centred in your core power, the power of a balanced solar plexus. Lion is the totem for this chakra and drawing Lion’s energy directly into this chakra will empower you on many, many levels and allow you to feel the quiet strength of complete confidence, to speak calmly and with authority. Okay – be honest – who doesn’t want that?

Lion is just waiting to teach you to be brave and courageous, to know your own nobility, to know your own value in the world… and never forget Lion roars. Lion will help you to find your authentic voice. So, why not take a moment, take a long deep breath and invite the spirit of Lion to fill you so you can ROAR! Why not? If your answer is no, ask yourself another question – why? What’s wrong with roaring? Let Lion teach you how to be bold.. to be brave… to be fierce!

Keywords for Lion:

Courage, Strength, Wisdom, Freedom, Expansion, Focus, Fearless Communication, Patience and Timing, Intuition and Awareness, Pride, Playfulness, Family, The Power of Silence.

Take some time and sit with Lion. Consider quietly all the gifts he can bring into your life and how they would be a blessing. Lion is there … just waiting. Go and sit in the sunshine with him. Talk to him. Run with him. But most important of all … ROAR with him.

I insist…and so does Lion! 

Bright Blessings Gailxxx info@crystaldragongail.com www.crystaldragongail.com

Playing with Lions

£30 Saturday 8th August 10.00 – 12.30

In preparation for the opening of the Lion’s Gate workshop in the afternoon, spend some time working with Lion, journeying with him and see what energy he offer you at this special time of year. And as we will be in the energy of Lion, we may get a visit from Sekhmet as well! This Egyptian goddess is an experience not to be missed!

The Lion’s Gate

£30 Saturday 8th August 1.30 – 4.00

8-8-8 as 2015 is 2 + 0 + 1 + 5 = 8 … Working with the energy of the first of the significant double date portals.

“The second powerful moment will be at the planetary new year from 26th July to 12th August, including the energies of the Lion’s Gate as a fulcrum of evolutionary and creative progress. The high point will be on 8th August at the 8/8/8 Time Gate. The cosmic energies which pass through the Lion’s Gate will amplify the new higher energies and create opportunities for many to begin new projects or to step into a new career path that will be more in alignment with their revised mission and purpose on Earth.”

Archangel Michael through Celia Fenn If you do both workshops please bring lunch, but they do not follow on. You can do one or both, depending on what energy you are drawn to work with.