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With the energy of the New Moon on 4^thJuly being about moving forward and releasing everything which is holding you back, and Mars going direct this week to help, here is an energy exercise which will compliment both, allowing you to clear your system and take new energy in.

Better to create a new beginning with new, clean energy in your system rather than do it with old, stagnant stuff. That will only get you exactly the same thing!

And, if you have never used energy before – you can still do this just by setting the intention (i.e. silently saying what you want to happen) that you want to breathe energy into the parts of the body listed below. The best energy to use to do this, if you are not familiar with the many different frequencies which are available, is white light or sunlight – just breathe it in! That’s all it takes! But just remember at the end of the exercise to set the intention at the end to stop breathing it in otherwise you will just keep doing it with every breath you take.

Here’s the basic exercise – do what you want with it!!!

Revitalising your Energy Exercise

This simple self-treatment to use at any time to replace energy when you feel depleted in any way – and any frequency can be used. Your intention to use it is all it takes! You can also use it to release negative energy by adding this intention.

Decide which energy you wish to work with – you can even ask for angelic energy and sit quietly allowing your chosen angel to place their energy in the two places listed below. The only thing which will limit the way you use this exercise is what you think you can or cannot do with it.

Be adventurous! What have you got to lose? The worst thing that will happen is that you will feel better….

• Relax and focus on your breath.
• Connect with the energy you have chosen to work with or ask an angelic to join you and send their energy to you.
• Place a hand over your solar plexus chakra and the other directly underneath, touching your stomach. Or tell your helper and guide this is where you would like them to place their energy.
• Allow the energy to flow into these two places for ten to fifteen minutes. Or longer if you wish. You can even do this before you go to sleep and it won’t matter if you drop off. The energy will stop on its own when your system is re-calibrated.
• Ground firmly.

Additional Points:

• You can increase the effectiveness of this exercise by setting the intention to breathe the energy into both these places while you are working. It will intensify the flow.
• You can also set the intention to release any stagnant energy on your out breath, which will mean there is more room for positive energy to flow into your system afterwards.
• You can use specific energy to get specific results. The Violet Fame of Transmutation will cleanse everything on a very deep level. Quan Yin’s energy will help you with issues around love and compassion. Aphrodite’s energy will help you with self-love. Archangel Raphael’s angelic ray will be deeply healing… you get the idea. Decide what you want and go for it in a big way! Reiki will support your physical body – it is fabulous for that. Mahatma will help you increase your Light Quotient … as will Metatron’s energy. You can do anything with this very basic exercise… play with it and find the best way for you to use it.
• And don’t forget a fabulous way to fill yourself with energising energy is to use the Sun, setting the intention to breathe it in to these two places. Solar energy in the solar plexus is particularly effective and invigorating!
• And if you have a sudden urge to be attuned to a specific energy – you know where I am – or at least how to contact me! Happy to get that sorted for you! One I would heartily recommend is Quan Yin’s Lavader Flame … beautiful energy and you can do it in a day!

Have fun!

Bright Blessings

Gailx

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Key Words for the Colour Turquoise

cool, refreshing, imaginative, motivated, dynamic, renewal, calmness, peaceful, truthfulness, joyful, relaxed, healing, tranquillity, forgiveness, patience, creativity, sleep, dream work, inventions, innovation, originality, renewal, brotherhood, peace, humanism, emotion, prosperity, growth, purity, awareness, meditation, love, healing, generosity, communication, intuition, individual responsibility, self-reliance, independence, feminine, sophisticated, energy, wisdom, serenity, wholeness, emotional balance, good luck, spiritual grounding, friendship, love, joy, intuition, and loyalty.

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Yes, I know you probably expected me to write about the stone, but while I was looking for inspiration, I kept finding articles about the actual colour, so I took it as a sign that what I really needed to do was investigate further and then write a blog.

However, rest assured I also kept getting little nudges about doing the same for the lovely stone, so watch this space for that… at least I won’t have to do any work first, though, as I’ve been using the stone for years. It is fabulous! But, as always, I could be just a little bit biased!

So, what about the colour? I love it. I have always loved it, so it was interesting to see why I wanted (or needed) the vibration around me… and the times I drawn to it. It was actually quite illuminating.

It represents open communication and clarity of thought… something we could all do with really, but it also does heaps of other useful stuff – as you can see from the list above, which is very impressive. It is also the colour of communication, self-awareness and initiative.

Turquoise is obviously blue and yellow combined, so it radiates peace, calm and tranquillity from blue frequency and from yellow it gifts you with an uplifting an invigorating energy. Then, as a final bonus – from green you get balance and growth. Also, just looking at the colour brings a feeling of serenity and stability – who wouldn’t want all that?

But the most important thing for me is the fact that this is the colour of the evolved soul. So go and get something turquoise immediately, so you have this energy around you. We are all evolving at an astonishing rate, and will be for the next few months, so we may as well give in gracefully to the whole process and enhance it by using the energy of this lovely colour … well, everywhere really!It is such a useful colour to use when you are stuck and don’t know what to do next.

The short version of what Turquoise does is:

Turquoise brings:

• calmness, relaxation and peace.
• emotional balance and control, though too much of the colour could lead to excessive emotional control, which is not so good.
• clarity of mind and creativity.
• the ability to reflect and focus on your needs, thoughts and feelings.
• higher self-esteem and self-love, though too much of it can bring aloofness and self-centredness, which could make you shut out other people.
• creative expression rather than with rational thought.
• empathy and caring
• the ability to identify new ways to move forward, balancing the pros and cons, the right and wrong, of any situation.
• heightened intuitive ability and spiritual growth
• the ability to love others unconditionally
• heightened skills connected to observation and perception and discrimination.

Additional Points

• It recharges you during times of stress and exhaustion and, if you focus on it during meditation or wear it, you will immediately feel calm and,thankfully, feel as if you are ready to face the world again.
• It is particularly useful to have in your environment during a crisis because it helps with clear thinking and decision-making, which usually goes straight out of the window if you are in a panic!
• It also enhances organizational skills … always helpful if you are lacking in this area!
• It opens communication between the heart and the throat, especially when speaking.It helpfully gives you control over speech and expression, and builds confidence.
• It helps you control your emotional responses which in turn will allow you to create a new level of emotional balance and stability in your life. However, during this healing process you may have an increase of emotional instability before everything clears through your system.

Too much can over-stimulate your mind and create emotional imbalance. It can also lead to emotional stress, lack of communication skills, unreliability and deception.

Too little can cause you to hide your feelings and emotions, resulting in secrecy and confusion about your direction in life.

Negative meaning of Turquoise relates to being either over-emotional or non-emotional, lacking communication skills, being unreliable and deceptive. It can also make you self-centred, always putting your own needs above all others.

Shades of Turquoise

Aqua – refreshing, uplifting, creative and cheerful, as well as strong and independent.

Aquamarine– strengthens creativity and inspiration. It soothes and balances the mind and the emotions.

Teal- symbolizes credibility and reliability. It also promotes spiritual development.

So, think about the colour and if you aren’t filled with the sudden urge to dash out and get something, take a moment to ask yourself why … try and find out which part of you is resisting all the great things this frequency of light has to offer and then find a way to help it evolve and move out of fear into love,,,,

Bright Blessings Gailx

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Solstice comes from two Latin words: sol: sun and sistit: stands or stay – because for several days before and after each solstice, astronomically speaking, the sun appears to stand still.

As this festival revolves around the sun, one thing which is often suggested is burning a candle for the whole day, especially if it is cloudy or raining. The flame represents the sun and is a reminder of the power and the energy which is available to you while the sun is in the sky. Rituals are best if they are performed at noon, when the sun is at the height of its power. It starts to fade when the sun starts moving again a few days after the longest day.

It is also known as Litha – which means Light

Keywords: Power, leadership, authority

Element: Fire

Associations:  Power, joy, courage, happiness, strength, energy, self-confidence, identity, health, wealth and career, maximising opportunities, seizing chances and enjoying the present.

Symbols: Brightly-coloured flowers, oak boughs or tall broad indigenous trees, scarlet, orange and yellow ribbons, gold coloured coins and any gold jewellery, any golden fruit or vegetables.

Animal: Bear

Tree: Oak

Incenses, flower and herbs: Chamomile, dill, elder, fennel, lavender, frankincense, orange, marigolds, rosemary, sage and sagebrush, St. John’s Wort, lemon verbena and vervain, any golden, red or orange flowers

Candle colours: Red, orange, gold

Crystals: Amber, carnelian, red jasper, sun stone, clear quartz, citrine

Things To Do

• Meditate on the Sun or on the Fire element and use the energy to transform your life in some way. (See Solar Power Blog)
• Meditate on the key words of the festival – power, leadership and authority and see if you can claim them in new and exciting ways to enhance your life. You can also ask if you are the one who has power, leadership and authority in your life – or have you given it away to someone else. This would be the perfect day to claim it back using the energy of the Sun to literally fire you up about taking back control of your life on all levels!
• Find new ways to cleanse your solar plexus chakra – this is where the fire element lives in your energy system. Also if you cleanse it the night before, on Solstice Day you can set the intention to absorb the energy of the sun in this chakra from dawn until noon to energize everything!
• Call on Nathaniel – the Angel of Fire – and see what you can co-create with him on Solstice Day using the energy of Fire and his beautiful angelic vibrations.(See Nathaniel blog)
• Make sun water – place a bowl of still mineral water outside with cleansed clear quartz or citrine in the water, and cover it with film or mesh from dawn till noon. Remove the covering and the crystals at noon. You can then usesmall amounts of the water in your bath or in your drinks to either heal or energise – or both! You can also use it to open your crown chakra by placing a few drops on your head, or place the water in a spray bottle and use it to cleanse your aura.
• Place gold jewellery in the sunlight from dawn until noon with the intention of allowing it to absorb the Sun’s energy so you can then transfer into your energy system when you wear the jewellery later. If it is not a sunny day, light a gold candle and place the jewellery around it until the candle burns though.
• Light sun oils, frankincense, juniper, rosemary, orange or benzoin or burn them to bring the power of the Sun into where you live or where you work.

But, whatever you decide to do to celebrate on 21st… enjoy it!

Bright Blessings

Gailx

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Nathaniel brings balance, harmony and trust, and can help you connect with the spiritual, angelic and higher realms. He also gifts you with a sense of inner-peace and confidence when you start working with him.

Colour: Red and Orange
Chakra: Heart Chakra – though I would also say Solar Plexus as well because this is the chakra which holds the energy of the fire element. He opens and expands both energy centres.
Celestial Body: Sun, or any star
Crystals: Carnelian, Orange Calcite, Garnet, Rutilated Quartz,

Element: Fire

Fire energy is forceful, passion, prosperity, protection, cleansing purifying mind, body, and spirit. Also – intention, motivation, and passion.

Angelic Energy: Orange Flame of Transformation

You can ask Nathaniel to send the energy of this flame into any area of your life to transform it and transmute any negative energy which is associated with the thing you want to change or release.

Red Candle

When working with Nathaniel, you can light a red candle with the intention of clearing from your life on all levels – physical, mental, emotional and spiritual – anything which no longer serves your highest good. Focus on the flame and simply allow all your thoughts to float away. Set the intention to breathe out anything which you no longer need in your life and breathe in Nathaniel’s energy, allowing it to flow everywhere to enhance the release process.

The very lovely Nathaniel is also known as the Angel of Energy, the Angel of Purification, the Angel of Divinity and the Angel of Life Purpose. He’s a very busy guy! But lovely with it, I have to say. But since he also works with the spiritual law of Cause and Effect he always makes sure you really understand that what you send out into the world will always come back to you.- one way or another! But on the bright side you can ask him help you ensure you only send out positive energy so more comes back to you!

Nathaniel resonates with the element of Fire and the energy associated with it – purification, transformation, transcendence, prosperity, protection, cleansing, motivation, passion and enthusiasm. So if you feel you are lacking in any of these areas, he is the angel you need to call into your life … immediately! He works by transferring the energy of fire to your life and your world where it can – very effectively! – burn away anything which no longer serves your highest and greatest good.

You ask for his help when you feel stagnant or stuck and are ready to move forward in your life because he will literally light a fire under you and get everything moving again! He instigates change on many, many levels and if you start to work with him you must be prepared for rapid and intense change. But he will always ensure all the changes are for your highest and greatest good and he will help you adapt gracefully during any transition period.

Archangel Nathaniel –

• encourages you to maintain a strong belief in your dreams so he can help you manifest them on the earthplane. His energy will always help you to manifest your intentions.
• helps you to connect with your personal power.
• encourages you to follow your heart’s desires
• encourages you to do what you love
• encourages you to embrace and follow your life or soul purpose.
• helps to remain grounded during meditation and while you are doing any kind of spiritual work
• encourages you to use all your gifts and talents to help yourself and others.
• helps you to overcome obstacles
• helps you to see the Divine spark inside you and anyone else
• helps you to discern between things that enlighten, inspire and encourage you and things that distract you.
• helps you focus your thoughts and emotions, bringing clarity to both
• encourages you to release things which no longer positively serve you – on any level – and he also helps you to release them with love and gratitude
• helps you embrace new experiences and opportunities.
• helps you move from 3D to 5D with ease and grace

Nathaniel brings the energies of purification, protection and cleansing into your life, and will always help you clear away anything which is no longer useful to you or your spiritual journey. Is it time to have a chat with him? I would!

Bright Blessings

Gailx

www.crystaldragongail.com

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Well, after doing a class on Lapis Lazuli I decided I’d better turn my notes into a blog so everyone can experience how very useful this stone is and how much it can help you in a very short time. And for any of those who did the class – here’s all the instructions so you can do it all over again!

As it does SO much, please use it with a very clear intention to ensure you get the best results, not to mention the results you actually want! Of course, the stone is perfectly capable of working on its own, but co-creation of your desired outcome is always far more powerful.

Read all the details below and sit for a minute with a piece of Lapis Lazuli, allowing it to connect you to your higher guidance, or your own inner wisdom – both are fabulous! And then work out what you need to do, what order you need to do it in and then go for it!

This is such a wonderful stone it can help with almost anything … and invariably does! So make it your new best friend and see how much progress you can make in a short time with its invaluable help. I think one of the best things it does (besides clear vast amounts of negativity, which is always helpful!) is it helps you clarify your thoughts when you are surrounded by chaos … and since we seem to be stuck in chaos quite a lot of time at the moment – that single thing is simply great!

And don’t forget to say thank you afterwards either!

One last thing – it doesn’t like being in water for a long time, so if you do cleanse it that way, don’t leave it and dry with a towel as soon as it comes out of the water. All other methods are absolutely fine, though I have personally found the stone rather likes being cleaned with Divine White Light! Who doesn’t?

Lapis Lazuli

Lapis Lazuli contains calcite, lazurite, pyrite and sodalite. Pyrite gives the stone its gold flecks and marbling.

Pyrite Inclusions: grounds and stabilizes the whole auric field and replenishes depleted energy

Calcite Inclusions: cleanses and purifies the entire bio-system. Has an amplifying effect which energizes you and increases the power of the lapis.

Sodalite: see previous blog. This stone is fabulous all on its own!

Key Word: Self-Knowledge

Qualities

Inner Peace, Honour, Wisdom, Truth, Inner Vision, Serenity, Self-Confidence, Intuition.

Stone of communication – bringing truthfulness, openness, and mental clarity.

Primary Chakras: Throat and Brow

Secondary Chakras: Solar Plexus and Crown

Angel: Archangel Michael. It also resonates with Michael’s Blue Angelic Ray.

Always use with a very clear intention to get the best results.

Higher Connection – use at brow to open the mind to receive message from the higher aspects of yourself you are currently working with. It attunes you to a higher level of guidance and expands your consciousness.

Auric Maintenance – place a stone within the auric sheath and ask it to do one thing at a time, cleaning after each use.

• Clear negativity
• Repair
• Strengthen
• Seal (optional – remove if it feels uncomfortable)

Additional Uses

• Opens the door to self-acceptance – use at brow and ask what blocks this for you.
• Improves connection with your guardian angel
• Placed on the palms, chest or around the neck, it enables contact with other helpers and guides
• Helps you speak out
• Encourages you to take charge of your life
• Possesses the strength to lift the illusion that we have wrongly accepted as reality.
• Helps you set boundaries when necessary
• Brings qualities of honesty, compassion and morality to the personality
• Releases stress
• Helps you release those elements of your past that are no longer needed, but it should be used with caution, since the emotional wounds of the past can bring to the surface a lot of suppressed pain.
• Protects from psychic and physical attacks. It can be used in protection grids, worn, or carried to connect with these protection energies. It can also be used to protect an environment when placed in the four corners.

Lapis lazuli helps with problem solving, intellectual analysis and it inspires new ideas. It also encourages learning, sparking a desire for new knowledge. The ability to understand new ideas and remember what has been learned is also enhanced by this stone. It is also a stone of truth. It inspires honesty in written and spoken words. All forms of communication are improved by using this crystal.

Additional Uses:

• Wear at the neck to prevent or combat sadness and depression.

• Wear earrings -this will provide a steady flow of lapis lazuli energy to clear the Throat and Brow chakras.

Lapis Lazuli Meditation

Lapis lazuli is a visionary stone which encourages communication through mental images rather than words. A state of expanded consciousness and higher awareness can be achieved by using it during meditation. Connections to past life experiences in Atlantis, Egypt, India, Peru and Sumaria are often created so memories and knowledge from these lost civilizations can be retrieved to help you in your current incarnation.

Chakras

Throat chakra – acts as a type of valve which is responsible for the flow of energy between the crown and brow chakras and the chakras located below the throat. Using lapis lazuli on the throat chakra helps open and balance it and the rest of your energy system.

Brow: it is often combined with the soothing effect of rose quartz, aventurine or amethyst when working here.

Crown: opens this energy centre

Ten to Fifteen Minutes Per Day on Chakras will:

Throat: helps overcome shyness, clear difficulties with speaking and communication.

Brow: helps overcome shyness, connection to intuition, enhances concentration, releases negative thought patterns.

Crown: helps attain knowledge and wisdom, enhances understanding, encourages positive thinking.

Combine with:

• It works with other brow chakra stones –Pietersite, Sugilite, Turquoise, Blue Topaz, Chrysocolla, Blue Calcite and Larimar.
• It also works well with Aqua Aura Quartz, Blue Tourmaline, or Sodalite.
• Used in meditation with Vanadinite it will help you to get answers on how to utilize your psychic gifts.
• To help you speak your truth, use it with Preseli Bluestone, Azurite, Turquoise, White Topaz or Amazonite.
• To enhance your intuitive choices, use it with Mookaite or Lepidocrocite.
• Used with Moldavite it will make your whole transformational process even more powerful.

Enjoy your new best friend… it will be once you start working with it. I promise!

Bright Blessings

Gailxx

www.crystaldragongail.com

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Since the sun is blessing us with SO much energy at the moment why not use it to your advantage? Yes, all the flares, coronal holes and magnetic storms are knocking those of us who are sensitive around quite a bit, but… that comes with being foolish enough to incarnate on a planet at a time its sun which is doing incredible things! It must be driving the scientists mad because solar maximum should have ended years ago, but here we are still stuck in the middle of it!!

The Sun, of course, is a star… and what do stars do? They shine… they emit heat, light, and energy and Sol is the biggest example of the elemental energy of Fire that we have to work with in our solar system. So the energy it gives to us every moment of every day (because the moon is, after all, nothing but reflected sun light!) also comes with the energetic qualities of fire – transformation, transmutation, cleansing and purification, which we can use.

The light is also very good at illuminating darkness… so we can use it to help us see all the things we have buried and bring them up into the light to work with and clear from our system.

How you work with the energy is, as always, your choice, but here are several meditational processes which can help you embody the Sun’s energy in your system. Do one, none or all of them – you’ll know what’s right for you!

Fire is the element of authority and leadership – so you can also use the energy of the Sun to ignite these qualities in you. And leadership doesn’t always mean leading other people. It can mean developing a backbone and leading yourself…something most of us find a little more difficult! The energy of the Sun and Fire can help you take responsibility for your life and everything in it and it will also give you the energy you need to clear things away and create what you really want in your life. It can burn anything we don’t need completely away.

Fire lives in the solar plexus chakra which is the chakra of Willpower – so it is extremely useful if you are lacking in this area. It can ignite this for you and help you move on in your life with drive and passion and dedication. This chakra is also linked with the personal power, so you can use the energy of the Sun to clear any negative issues you have with this as well.

If you want to use a crystal to help you connect with the Fire element – use carnelian

If you want to work with fire goddesses – Brigid and Pele are two I like.

If you can’t face, working directly with the energy of the Sun … it is, after all, large and very energetic and can be overwhelming if you are having a bad day – use a candle. Same energy, but just smaller!

Notes for the Meditations.
1. Always start by relaxing and focussing on your breath
2. Think about what you want to achieve during your meditation and set your intention – clear intention get clear results. When using the cosmic ordering service it pays to be VERY precise!
3. Always GROUND firmly before you begin!

Meditation One
• Set the intention that you want to connect with the energy of the Sun and take your awareness to your crown chakra. Then allow the energy of the Sun to fill the chakra and flow down to fill your central channel.
• Now visualize the bright, beautiful energy of the Sun flowing out to fill your heart chakra. See more and more energy flowing into the chakra and see or sense the energy and light of the Sun flowing down from your crown chakra growing larger and stronger until you create sun and it starts to shine in the centre of your chest, gently warming you and the whole of your physical body.
• See or sense this inner sun gently increasing in size and intensity, gently burning away whatever you know longer want or need from your Four Body System. If there is something specific you want to clear, name it and direct the energy of your inner sun towards it. If not, a general cleansing request will work just fine!
• When you feel the cleansing is complete, allow the energy of your inner sun to send beneficial energy out into your physical body, renewing every cell and molecule in your body, and every particle in your energy field. Once your body is full see the light radiating out into your aura and your energy bodies.
• Allow yourself to feel invigorated, energized and positive while this energy flows in, through and around you on all levels  and feel a sense of warmth, health and vitality filling the whole of your physical body
• Now you need to lower the rate at which you are vibrating, so go back to your heart space and your inner sun and see or sense it getting smaller and smaller and smaller until it is just a spark in the centre of your heart. Then decide if the spark needs to go or you need to keep it for a while. The choice is yours… you always know exactly what you need. So just go with it!
• Ground and return your awareness to the room.

Meditation Two
• Visualize either sunshine or the Sun directly above your head and let the light illuminate and open your crown chakra, filling it completely – cleansing it on a very, very deep level.
• Now let the light (or the Sun – but a very small version!) go down to the brow chakra and see or sense the energy radiating out of the chakra in all directions – back and front
• Allow the light to illuminate any darkness in the chakra, any old thought and behaviour patterns which no longer serve your highest and greatest good and let them dissolve in the light.
• Now work your way down all the other chakras, finishing at the base or the earthstar, depending on whether your earthstar is activated or not and let the light of the Sun clear everything. Again if there is something specific in any chakra that you want to clear, name it and direct the light towards it.
• Ground at the end.

Meditation Three
• Visualise the Sun in your heart chakra, shining brightly and set the intention that you want the energy to be vibrating at the most appropriate frequency for you at this time so it doesn’t overload your energy system.
• See or sense the Sun growing larger and larger until it fills the chakra.
• Now let the energy flow down into the solar plexus and up into the throat and create a Sun in the centre of these chakras.
• When they are full of energy, let it flow up and down again to create a Sun in the sacral and brow
• Repeat with the base and crown.
• Sit in this energy for as long as you want to, then let it all flow back to the sun in the heart chakra and see or sense it getting smaller and smaller and smaller until it is just a spark in the centre of your heart. Then decide if the spark needs to go or you need to keep it for a while. The choice is yours… you always know exactly what you need. So just go with it!
• Ground and return your awareness to the room.

If you don’t have much time and can’t fit one of these meditations into your day, just set an intention in the morning that you want to breathe the light and energy of the Sun into each of your chakras as you go about your day and let it just happen without any effort at all on your part. You can do one chakra if you feel it needs help or just do all of them at once. The energy of the Sun is always around you – make it work for you! All you have to do is decide what you want the energy to do once it is in your chakras – cleanse, energise, transform … you’ll know! Just start believing you know!!

Or another fabulous thing to do it sit with your palms up in the sunshine and ask for the energy of the Sun to flow into your system through the two palm chakras to re-energize the whole of your system. Works a treat and it doesn’t take very long.

So, have a wonderful time working with the energy of Fire and the Sun… and I am off now to try and figure out what I am going to do for the blog on the Summer Solstice next month. It was going to be this….

Ah – once last thing – the obligatory H&S warning…. never look directly at the Sun, please…. Not even with sun glasses!!

Bright Blessings  Gailx
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This lovely Fire festival is coming on 1st May , so it would be a good idea to start to become aware of what “light’s your fire”  – that way you will be ready to align with it on the big day!

Beltane is the perfect time of year to enhance the qualities associated with Fire because it is a festival which resonates with the energy of Fire and new growth and fertility of all kinds. In the old days it was a fertility festival, so why not run with the energy rather than resist it? Align with it and let it flow in, through ad around you, helping you get what you want in your life. Fire is so good at this because its greatest gift to us is change and transmutation… almost instantaneously!

Think about what fills you with all the energies associated with Fire – excitement, energy, creativity, joy and, of course, happiness.. and be aware that Fire will ignite any of these things. I mean if you are happy it will allow you to feel  really, really happy … and who wouldn’t want that?

So think about what you want to use the energy of Beltane for in your life right now and make a conscious connection on 1st May, letting it flow into you and your life.

One easy way to do this is to start meditating with flames – a real one using a candle or just  a visualisation of a flame. All you have to do is breathe the energy into your system.. and a good place to do this is through your solar plexus chakra because this is where the element of Fire lives in your energy system. You can simply use your breath to draw in the energy of Fire into the chakra on your inbreath and release anything it has cleared as black smoke on your outbreath. After a while when the energy of the chakra has been cleared completely, just breathe the energy of Fire into your system to enhance whatever else you want to do. It really is that simple.

The most basic use of Fire in the chakra system is simply to draw the energy in to cleanse each chakra in turn because that’s what Fire does – it transmutes negative energy. So you can just do that if you don’t want to do anything else. Simply sit with a candle and breathe the energy created by the flame into each chakra (and energy body) until you feel really, really clean.

You can also breathe Fire into all the other chakras to stimulate the qualities held in them. If you draw it into the base, you can intend to ignite and enhance the life force energy stored there … if you draw it into your sacral, you can intend to ignite your creativity. You get the idea! The only thing which will limit what can do with the energy of Fire will, of course, be what you think you can or cannot do with it. It will be your mind which limits you, not the Fire element.

So before 1st May think about what you can do to bring the energy of Fire into your life in a very real way. Then on the day make an effort to do something to bring you into resonance with the first day of Spring on the Wheel of the Year… yes, Summer doesn’t start until summer solstice. We are just entering the really potent first stage of outward growth at Beltane, fuelled by Fire to bring about radical change in our lives through the transmutational qualities of the element of Fire. How exciting is that?

So a few ways to do connect with Fire in a practical way are:
• Create something – anything! As long as it makes you happy while you are creating it!
• Give up being responsible (within reason, I hasten to add!) for the day and just do something which is fun and brings you a great deal of pleasure.
• Find a way to stimulate all five senses – but only with things that please you.
• Make a list of things which bring joy into your life and do at least one of them!
• Carnelian is the crystal associated with Fire, Wear it or meditate with it, asking it to bless you with the energy of Fire which resides within it.
The only thing I would add to that list is possibly – don’t forget the fire elementals – the very lovely salamaders. Meditate with them. Journey with them and see where they take you …. They are lovely beings! Though, of course, as usual, I may be a tad biased being shaman!

A simple Fire meditation is to connect to the Fire element held in the Sun, which is, of course, made of Fire!

• GROUND! This is a powerful energy – you know how BIG the Sun is, after all!!! Connecting with it on a conscious level can be very impressive!
• Sit quietly and intend to breathe in the energy of the Sun, asking for it to ignite a spark in your solar plexus and light your Inner Fire (or the Fire element within you).
• See this spark growing and growing with each in breath – that is – let Air feed the Fire – and spread out to fill you completely. This energy will help you to connect to and enhance your will power, your creative ability, your ability to take action and sexual expression.
• Stay with it for a while and watch how it burns – this will tell you a lot about yourself. Is it a small flame or a large one? Does it burn with great heat or not? Does it keep going out? Learn from the amount of Fire element you hold in your energy system.
• After a while – make sure you disconnect fully – on every level – and earth any excess energy in your system which will have been generated by connecting with a star!

In its negative aspect, the Fire element can also spark your anger, your fear and prevent you from taking action if you are not properly aligned to your will power. None of these things are wrong. They are just showing you that your Fire energy is not properly balanced in your system in some way, but after you notice them you can do something about it.

Also you can have a lack of Fire in your system or an excess and either of these will be easy to spot! If you lack Fire, stimulate it in some way, and if you have an excess – use Water to balance it. You can visualise Water in some form in your solar plexus chakra, or you can use an aquamarine at the chakra point with the intention of balancing your Fire element. This crystal holds the energy of the Water element within it.

So – spend some time between now and Beltane thinking about Fire and how its fabulous, vibrant energy can help you.

Bright Blessings.
Gailx

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I was asked about Flidais the other day so since I knew nothing about her, I looked her up and I wrote the piece below. I was going to save it for Mabon, but decided that was probably a foolish move because by September who knows if I would ever find it again if I put it in that proverbial safe place..!

But, the more I typed, the more I became aware of her energy and it occurred to me that with all the energy shifts in March and the chaos this month with all the heart opening energy, Flidais may just be the perfect goddess for us to work with now as well.

Flidais represents the cycles of growth and rebirth … and we are all growing and being reborn relentlessly at the moment as old, redundant bits of us die…but, not literally, of course! In many ways she carries the same energy that Pluto is blessing us with at the moment, so it would certainly benefit all of us to work with her as well to enhance the healing process and clear out all the old and embody the new… and come into balance.

So read the piece below and see if she calls to you.

If she doesn’t call to you now, remember her in September and work with her then. But, seriously, anyone who is going to help re-connect us with our personal power and bless us with abundance and creativity…what else could we want possibly want?

Balance alone in this volatile energetic time is a huge gift all on its own … I’ll be asking for it right now! Maybe you should too … otherwise why would I have been asked about a very obscure Celtic goddess and why would you be reading the blog?

Bright Blessings Gailx

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Celebrate Flidais at Mabon
Celtic Earth Goddess, Lady of the Forest, Goddess of the Hunt and Healing Goddess
(pronounced flee-ish)
Quality: Balance
Autumn Equinox is also known as Mabon – a festival which celebrates the end of the harvest. It is a day of perfect balance when dark and light are equal and it is the start of our journey into the dark time of the year. She represents both our domestic and our wild natures so she is the perfect goddess to work with on a day which is perfectly balanced.

Flidais first appears in the ancient mythology as an Earth Mother – mother of the Irish cultivator heroes, Arden, and Bé Téite and the “she-farmers” Bé Chuille and  Dinand. She taught them to cultivate and work the earth for their community. Nowadays, she is seen as a woodland goddess and, as the Lady of the Forest, she protects wild fauna and flora. But in the old tales she is always connected to domestic and wild animals. Deer and cattle are her sacred animals, both of whom she milks and she is said to calls all the wild animals “her cattle.” This association with milk and milking also shows she was mostly likely a goddess of Abundance as well.

You work with Flidais when you feel out of balance because she represents the cycles of growth and rebirth. She also embodies our domestic and wild natures, so she will help us find that balance within ourselves. She can connect with the deepest, wild parts of ourselves, including our sexuality, relieving any guilt modern civilization has created around this part of us.

Flidais can also help us re-connect with our own sense of empowerment and as a shape-shifter, she can helps us shift the shape of our lives. She allows us to see everything in a new light, and blesses us with abundance and creativity.  .

Additional Info:
• Flidais is also a shape-shifter, a goddess of Sexuality, and a healing goddess.
• Her colours are brown and green.
• She rides a chariot drawn by deer.
• Her name means doe and deer can represent her
• Trees are also sacred to Flidais
• She is the protector of the trees and the animals of the forest.
• She is the protector of the poor she will help any who call on her, including outcasts.
• She provides for all who rely on her.
• She claims the right to give her nurturing, abundance, and sensuality to whomever she chooses.
• She is also known as a Goddess of the Hunt – similar to Diana and Artemis, though she is not a virgin goddess

I have been thinking of doing a blog on Quan Yin for some time. She has been nudging me towards my keyboard … very gently… for a while. I just didn’t know where to start. I mean – even her name has many spellings … Quan Yin, Kuan Yin, Kwan Yin and Guanyin.

I know her simply as Quan… and I was astonished to find she has been with me all my life. I was just so daft I didn’t even notice her until I was in my late 40’s. Quite how I managed to ignore such a powerful presence and such a beautiful energy never ceases to amaze me, but I did. It just goes to show how blind we can be if we do not want to see, or we are afraid to really open our hearts. We do anything to avoid the pain… the trouble was I never realised Quan Yin was the answer to my pain. But, thankfully, she got to me in the end, and my heart opened… whether I was ready or not! Quan Yin, it seems, really can work miracles, bless her.

Of all the light beings who have helped me over the years, Quan Yin has probably done the most in her own subtle but powerful way – apart from the very lovely Metatron – but that’s is not just one other blog it’s probably a whole series. He’s like that!  And I have become aware over the last few weeks that she is wanting to help a lot of other people. But how to put down in words all she can do? An impossible task because even though I could quite happily write for pages and pages about her, it all amounts to nothing until you actually experience her beautiful, peaceful and deeply healing energy.

Quan Yin holds, unconditional love, mercy, forgiveness and compassion and all of us could benefit from any one of those qualities, or, in fact, all four of them! So you see why she is such a help on any healing journey. And my favourite title for her – although she has so many it is almost ridiculous – is She Who Hears The Cries of The World.

When you are in trouble and you feel alone and you feel no one can help or no one is listening …. Quan Yin is there. She is a Divine Mother and she holds the same energy as Mother, Mary of God in Christianity, or Isis in Egypt, or Shakti in Hinduism. But, of all those goddesses, I find her the most approachable, the most kind and helpful when you feel vulnerable and in need of a little TLC, the most easy to talk to and the most wonderful goddess to sit with. You can heal just by being in her energy…. Do you get how much I love her? She is quite simply… beloved….

So, although I could sit here and type nice lists, telling you which crystal to use when working with her, which colour is best to use on your altar, what things are associated with her… they are just words. What you need to do is just ask her in your own way (although there are many rituals you can look up on the internet if you want to) to come and sit with you. All you have to really do is Just be in her energy and breathe it into your heart. Let her energy open your heart and allow her to bless you over and over again until you really begin to understand unconditional love. It can flow relentlessly from her heart directly into your heart, if you allow it, not to mention accept it. Can you truly imagine love with no strings attached? Not many of us can when we start out because we are conditioned to give and receive love in an entirely different way … unfortunately for us!

But unconditional love – just being loved warts and all – is an astonishing thing to experience and sitting with Quan Yin gives you direct access to this and you can let it flow into your heart … don’t think about it. Just do it! What have you got to lose? Apart from your pain, your fear, your anger, your anxiety, your sadness, and any other negative emotional state that plagues you…  just let Quan Yin’s four qualities flow into your heart and eradicate everything else! Even if you do it a little bit at a time, you will get there in the end. I promise you..if nothing else, I am living proof it actually works. I resisted for over forty years for goodness sake. But she got me in the end and changed my life radically… for the better, I hasten to add.

I know I usually give you lots of information and things to do, but it is so much better to find your own way to call Quan Yin, your own way to accept her peaceful and loving energy into your heart. But if you really need something to get you started … find a recording of her mantra Om Mani Padme Hum and play it while you ask her to join you. This is one of the mostly deeply healing mantras you are ever likely to encounter. You will feel better even if you just sit and listen without asking Quan Yin to join you. Try it and see… there are loads of versions on youtube if you don’t have a CD. But make sure you find one you like. There all sound different, depending on who is chanting them. My personal favourite is by Deborah Van Dyke – here’s the reference. One click and you are away … https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X2m98JO2g3s

Or if you want a crystal – the standard one to use and place on your heart while you are working with Quan Yin is, of course, rose quartz. But that can be harsh if you are vulnerable. I would personally recommend pink kunzite. Its energy is almost as gentle and exquisite as Quan Yin’s, so it works really well. Or if you and hurting inside– go for green aventurine. It’s is so gentle and it nurtures you as you heal and grow. It is the energy of the first green shoots in spring time… perfect for this kind of work.

So, after reading this what do you do? Close down your computer, find a quiet place and ask Quan Yin to join you. That is truly all you have to do. Just ask her to come and sit with you and let her heal you on all levels. I promise it will be one of the most profound experiences of your life… so far …. There are plenty of other goddess who can help you embody your Authentic Self in many other ways once Quan Yin has opened and activated your heartspace in so many new and exciting ways.

Journey well with her….

Bright Blessings

Gailxx

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Carnelian is a stabilising stone with very high energy levels and it is excellent for restoring your vitality and motivation. Also due to its stabilising effect it is the perfect stone for anchoring you in the present NOW moment.

The key phrase for carnelian is one of my very favourite statements attached to a crystal – it is: Since there is nothing but love, you have no choice but to love and love will return to you exponentially.

And if that doesn’t get you reaching for your carnelian or running to a shop to buy some – nothing will! And don’t forget with this kind of energy held in the crystal you can use it on your heart as well as the base and sacral, even though it is not specifically listed as a heart chakra stone. No one told carnelian it couldn’t work on that energy centre because it wasn’t green or pink. It just goes right ahead and works anyway – crystals are like that! We categorise them and they ignore it!!

QUALITIES
stability ~ emotional warmth ~ sociability ~ creativity ~ individuality ~ memory
appreciation of nature ~ harmony ~ courage ~ happiness ~ self-esteem ~ reincarnation ~ past life recall ~ rebirth

Chakras – Base and Sacral Chakras
THINGS TO DO WITH CARNELIAN

When used in meditation, Carnelian will help you understand how to bring a concept into being, and how to manifest it into action. This is because it stimulates creativity when placed on the sacral chakra. It also grounds and anchors you into reality, which really helps the manifestation process. It also encourages you to stop waiting for dreams to appear, and help to make them appear.
I was going to do a whole list of properties for the stone, but you can get that kind of information anywhere, so I am going straight to how carnelian can help you!

ONE
Hold a carnelian in each hand and place a smokey quartz on the base chakra. The smokey quartz is a strong grounding stone, and when used with carnelian, so it will create a strong flow of downward energy, which will take any excess energy out of your system. It will also allow energy to flow into your earthstar chakra.

TWO
Hold a carnelian in each hand and focus on your sacral chakra. Then visualise a small flame in the chakra and let the energy of the fire element held within the stone to warm this area of your body. Then gradually allow the flame to grow until it fills the chakra and set the intention you want the energy of the flame to clear the chakra.
After you have done the meditation several times, you can make the flame grow even larger until it reaches up into the solar plexus. Set the intention that you want the energy of the flame to ignite the fire energy held in this chakra and clear it of anything which no longer serves your highest and greatest good.

THREE
Letting Go of Pain and Trauma Layout
You will need six small carnelian tumblestones.
Lie on the floor and place the stones as follows.
One at the crown chakra, one of your throat chakra, one either side of your body at the solar plexus, one at calf-level between your legs, one just below your feet .
Lie with the stones for as long as you feel you need to.

The first time you use this layout you may feel uncomfortable as the stones bring old pain and trauma to the surface to be released. Stay with the release process if you can. If you can’t, stop and try again later. Releasing the negativity a little at a time may be easier for you than trying to do it all at once. You will know what to do when you are doing it!

USING CARNELIAN WITH OTHER STONES
To amplify the energy held in a carnelian and use it to enhance your creativity, use the stone with Golden Labradorite, Amber, Yellow Apatite, or Sardonyx.

To stimulate your willpower, use carnelian at ther solar plexus with Pyrite, Sardonyx, Malachite, Pietersite or Preseli Bluestone.

Combined with either Green Aventurine or with Green Calcite,
For physical healing of the organs in the lower  half of the body, including the liver and pancreas, gall bladder and kidneys – use the stone with green aventurine or green calcite.

Enjoy working with such a lovely stone!

Bright Blessings, Gail!

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