On  5/27/13, I will be walking the Memorial Day Parade with my fellow Girl Scout friends. I am very pleased with the weather tomorrow for Memorial Day Parade. 

   

    Today and yesterday's weather was horrid!!!! I hated it. I even walked on the Nokomis running track. I walked in pouring rain with wind going against my face. It was also making rain pour in my face. 




  Anyway I hope whoever is reading this will have a blessed Memorial Day. Keep up your hopes. Don't ever forget. 







Written by: Abigail Bagley

Blue Apatite energetically acts as a hunger suppressant. Simply wear or carry a piece with you throughout the day. Blue Apatite also eliminates blockages and returns the body to balance. Blue Apatite can cleanse the aura of cluttered energies, bringing a renewed sensation to the body. Blue Apatite is a good stone to help balance the chakras, as well as the energies of Yin and Yang.

Blue Apatite enhances manifestation of ideas to reality and facilitates getting results. It has traditionally been associated with humanitarian efforts and teaching. Blue Apatite is also known for bringing clarity of mind and expansion of insights, and is especially helpful when diligent study is needed to uncover the truth.

Blue Apatite enhances communication and self-expression on all levels, making this a great stone for teachers and writers. Blue Apatite encourages openness and ease in social situations, a quality that makes it especially useful for autistic children. Blue Apatite acts as a good balancer of energies, emotions, chakras, and subtle bodies, as well as the male and female aspects of the self.

Blue Apatite can help to effectively work within the dream state to form solutions to perplexing problems. Those who are overemotional can benefit from Apatite's ability to highlight logical solutions and induce calm states of mind.

Blue Apatite can also be used as a Third Eye Chakra connecting the user to higher levels of spiritual guidance. Use Blue Apatite to deepen and maintain focus in meditation. Blue Apatite can also initiate, stimulate, and/or increase the development of psychic abilities, such as clairvoyance and clairaudience. Meditation with a Blue Apatite Crystal on the Third-Eye Chakra can open this chakra up to more subtle vibrations.

Used at a physical level, Blue Apatite will focus healing energy on the body's systems, glands, meridians and organs. It also strengthens bones and teeth as well as cartilage. Apatite is also quite handy to take with you to the dentist, as it eases the fear associated with such visits.

Blue Apatite chips/chunks would be the perfect companion for pockets, crystal pouches and medicine bags. Add Blue Apatite chips/chunks to a special grid or to clear the energies in a space.


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Howlite is one of the “attunement stones”  which link the user to higher spiritual consciousness.  Howlite opens and prepares the mind to receive the energies and wisdom of attunements.

Howlite is a lovely stone to use when needing to reduce anxiety, tensions and stress.  Howlite can be used to facilitate awareness, encourage emotional expression and assist in the elimination of pain, stress and/or rage.

Howlite will calm and soothe the emotions, slow the overactive mind and help to achieve a deep and restful sleep.  Howlite can help to access/retrieve wisdom during the dream state and bring it back into consciousness upon waking.

Howlite brings mental awareness, both to current and past-life issues, and facilitates a calm communication of these issues.  Keep a piece of Howlite in your pocket to absorb anger and negative energy.  Meditating with Howlite can help one to connect with the higher realms, allowing for greater communication of higher frequencies into the higher chakras, to be assimilated by the unconscious mind, which helps one to slowly remove the veils blocking truth.  Howlite strengthens positive character traits, removing selfishness, rude behaviour, and greed.

Physically, Howlite can help with the absorption of calcium into the bones and teeth, and can balance the emotions.  Howlite also assists in relaxing and releasing muscular tension.

Amazonite soothes aggravation and emotional trauma, eases irritation, and calms all of the chakras.

Amazonite is helpful in clearing energy blockages and balancing the Yin and Yang energies.   

Meditating with Amazonite can bring the subtle bodies into alignment, and help to open one's subconscious to subtle messages from the higher realms.

Amazonite also assists the user in seeing different sides of the same issue, and balances masculine and feminine energy as well as different personality traits.  Use tumbled Amazonite on the Heart and Throat Chakras to enhance loving expression, or with the Third Eye Chakra to open intuition.  Amazonite can aid in a peaceful transition when it is time to leave this life. 

Amazonite is great for non-verbal expression.  It is a good energy filter, blocking geopathic stress as well as electromagnetic pollution emitted from computers, microwaves, or cell phones.  Amazonite soothes aggravation and emotional trauma, eases irritation, and calms all of the chakras. 

Amazonite also assists the user in seeing different sides of the same issue, and balances masculine and feminine energy as well as different personality traits.

Amazonite can be used to connect and communicate with Fairies and Nature Spirits. 

Amazonite is a “Stone of Success and Abundance”, attracting focus and good luck.  Amazonite can aid in a peaceful transition when it is time to leave this life.  Amazonite aligns the physical and subtle bodies, and assists in balancing the yin and yang (male and female) energies, helping one to escape the illusion of separation from the Divine.

Physically, Amazonite can assist with throat, sinus, chest and lung issues.  Use Amazonite to help in maintaining overall health and a healthy lifestyle.

Carnelian

Creativity, grounding, Physical Vitality
Chakra: Sacral
Astrological Signs: Cancer and Leo

Carnelian crystals are perfect to use in any healing session or in your meditations. The coin shapes make them convenient to put on a person during a session and they are small and flat to be able to fit into your pocket or crystal pouch. 

Carnelian has been used in ancient times to protect the dead in their journey to afterlife, Carnelian Agate, usually just called Carnelian, is a powerful Sacral Chakra Stone.  

Carnelian increases personal power and physical energy, gives courage, and boosts creativity and compassion.  Carnelian calms anger and grounds you in reality, while keeping you aware of unconditional Love permeating the Universe.  

Mentally, Carnelian focuses analytical capabilities, and aids meditation by allowing deeper concentration and keeping out interrupting thoughts.  

Carnelian is one of the few stones that never needs clearing, and can be kept in a bag or box with other stones to keep them cleared as well.  

Carnelian is useful in making decisions - keeping us focused on the here and now, and not on past experiences.  Carnelian is especially good for Libra and Gemini, and encourages initiative and determination.

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