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7 Reasons to Get a Card Reading

It can seem like a flaky thing to get a card reading to some. Truly, it is not as flaky as it seems. Card readings can be sources of great clarity and insight for a person if the connection between the reader and readee is right.

Readings can look into any area of your life. They are not just limited to relationships, or the spiritual, or your health. They can look at your finances, your career, your gifts. Literally, anything can be read with a confident reader.

You can be as vague as you want “Tell me whatever the cards say!” or “ I’m not sure what I want to know.” That type of intent for the reading will allow you to receive the information or guidance that serves you most at that particular time.

When you are more specific, say, you have a topic, but there is a lot you want to know about it, or there are several paths you can choose from it is easy to create a spread that looks into each option. What will each option bring into your life? Example: ‘I can go steady with Joe or Tom or I can just move to Hawaii and see how that goes.’ Or “ I’m not sure if I want to travel or if I want to stay here and get a job for the summer.”

Then you can be specific. So specific there is no question of what you want to know. Example: ‘I want to know where my relationship with Todd is going. Will we get married and have kids?’

Here are the reasons I feel that most people come to see me in my work, and what I feel they often get out of it.

Reason 1: To receive confirmation of your intuition.

Card readings are so much more than getting your future told. They often tell you what you already know, what you may have lost sight if because your mind has become busy working out the situation.

Reason 2: To gain insight on your future and your current life path.

This can be invaluable information that can tell you where your easiest, most harmonious and joyful future is. A reading can clarify where you are going, and give you suggestions if you want to go in a different direction.

Reason 3: To gain an outside perspective from someone that has no ties to you or your life.

Sometimes we get so lost in our thoughts, feelings or both that we get focused in a really small part of what is actually going on. When you visit a card reader most often you are meeting a stranger who doesn’t know anything about you and can see the big picture and give you new perspectives.

Reason 4: To receive what you most need to hear at the time to move forward.

Sometimes we get stuck. In life, in our heads, in our emotions and we don’t know what we can do to move forward. A reading can often give you something to chew on, something to think about that may be what gets you moving and out of that rut.

Reason 5: To hear what the universe and your intuition is trying to say to you.

Sometimes we get lost in the loops of our mind, and though we’ve heard what our intuition is saying we can no longer identify what is our intuition, our mind, other people, or whatever. We’ve thought so much about something there is no differentiation between what is our truth or another truth. Card readings often bring forth what you already know, the intuitive stuff that is your truth even though you may not be able to recognize it or put words to until another person does.

Reason 6: To gain further understanding about what is happening in your life.

Sometimes life gives us experiences or we find ourselves in situations that leave us scratching our heads. It can sometimes be helpful to go to a card reader or psychic to gain further understanding about what is going on. Often psychics have a different framework and way of being in the world that includes energy patterns, past lives, karmic ties, soul contracts and other such ideas. Sometimes the insight you will receive will be something like “ah, yes, this was a past karma that was being released” or “You have certain things that need to be learned from this person before this relationship will end” and so on.

Reason 7: And last but not least, for fun! And curiosity.

Who has not wondered about their future? Or what might happen to them? Karma, destiny, are these things true? Readings can be done just to see what a reader might get for you. They can be done just to see what happens. Enjoy it. Ask about all the things you’ve ever wondered about. You might be surprised what comes up.

Bloodstone – Truth-Teller

We welcome you

To the reign of truth

As time beats by

Bloodstone sits still

More than all ages

Old wisdom hidden

On-lookers disbelief

As they are caught distraught

In falsities, lies, illusions

Some accept this wisdom

To grow and vibrate cleaner

But others resist and attack

Truth-teller does not judge

He simply comes to let

All illusions to fly away

So all we will see

Is our Truth and Light.

Bloodstone is a powerful stone, a crystal ally if you wish. He helps to unveil an illusions you may have, or others in the vicinity of his energy. Because of this he is good to have on you when engaging in conversations you “need answers” from.

This stone is a deep green with red dots. It was said at one time that bloodstone was created during the war of the Gods and from their spilled blood formed this crystal.

This is an excellent crystal to learn and use in times when discernment is needed for any situation. He does not like to be fooled and will bring insight and wisdom to any situation you sit and about while holding him.

Bloodstone works with the heart and root connecting them with the third eye via intuition. When Bloodstone gives insight it is very heart centred and will serve the highest good of all involved, not ego.

Meditating with bloodstone daily will begin the process of integrating or dismantling the ego if you intend it to. It is highly recommended you allow the space and time you need for this process – daily meditations might not be the best for each person as dismantling the ego can bring up a lot at times.

Bloodstone loves to sit close to people in general, so it is best to keep him in a space that has more people around, say in a dish on a coffee table in the living room. He likes to adventure and explore other places so do not be surprised if he transitions to other temporary homes.

Do you have a gemstone or mineral inside your collection that you love and are curious about it? Do you wonder how best to work with it? Or what its purpose is for you? I do gemstone readings in person and by distance! Click here to find out more.

Serafina Christine is a creative free spirited cyclist and mystic who has committed to learning how to best Follow Her Bliss. She is the creator of Willows Lavender, where she specializes in readings and gemstone therapy, including gemstone elixirs.

Sugilite – The Dreamkeeper

This is a wonderful, beautifully coloured purple gemstone that is silica based. This crystal is more often used by those who are metaphysically inclined, though it makes a beautiful piece of jewellery as well.

Resonating most wit the third eye chakra this is a gemstone that will open up your senses and allow dreams to become vivid if you have them or start them if you don’t.

As with all personal work for best results you want to combine techniques for best results. Use sugilite to kick start your dreaming, and record your dreams daily. Keep the sugilite beneath your head when you sleep. He can also be used to enhance astral projection for some. This crystal will allow certain messages to be received, heard, and kept by the dreamer.

When set in silver this crystal is amplified in its work.

Speaking to the Deva, she tells us that she has often brought visions forth and that there are many times she’s been ignored. The she stops working with the person.

Sugilite is able to draw the crown energy into the third eye removing the blockages or imbalances that may be there. When meditated with it moves stagnant energy in the etheric body where it is near placed. This crystal loves the sunlight, but be careful to him too much sun – he may loose some of his shine. An ideal meditation with sugilite would be to place a piece on the third eye with selenite and rose quartz in each hand. Tigers eye at the fee and lie down outside, on grass. This creates a grounded connection of love. Allow yourself to fall asleep if it comes.

This beautiful crystal is definitely fun to work with so enjoy experimenting!

Question: Why do we incarnate into human beings in the first place?

Q: “If we have the ability to reach a metaphysical existence, why do we incarnate into human beings in the first place? This is connected to why can we light travel in the first place; is that what we’re here to do, or is it an interesting peculiarity of humans?

I’ve heard about needing to clear densities, “repent” for past lives, and other explanations before. What are your thoughts?”

A: My favourite answer to your question is a bit of a story, but it is one that I love and suits my framework quite well:

Everything was created in the Universe by the Universe. The Universe loved all of it, but because the Universe had created it all from itself it was also everything. This meant that the Universe was not able to experience itself because there was no separation from itself. Thus the Universe decided to separate a portion from itself so that it would have the ability to experience all aspects of the Universe. That act created our souls, and all souls. Our souls then began to experience the Universe, and the Universe was able to experience all there was in its creations. Our souls travelled, lived, spoke, felt. We went everywhere and we still do – we are here, we were aliens, we were in hell, and we were in heaven. We experienced alternate realities and dimensions.

Our soul is always craving the wholeness of ‘home’, always trying to get home, often forgetting that we are here to experience, to grow, to love. By accepting and allowing that process we connect more fully to our ‘home’ which is all around us. That is how we reflect our love back to the Universe. That is how we become one with it.

Each one comes into life, into Being, with a specific purpose or intent of what they would to experience in this life, of what we would like to gift to the Universe. At the same time we use our experiences to connect deeper to our own soul and to allow our soul to come out more beautifully and to facilitate that in others. By connecting to our Soul we are the Universe, we are “enlightened”, we are “ascending”, we are One. It’s a beautiful circle of perfection.Perhaps that is why we are always trying so hard to connect – our soul birth was an act of separation and therefore we feel it so deeply as a whole?

What do you think?

Rhodonite – Love Actualization, Love in Action

Oh! The beauty of this crystal!

The deep pink of the heart

The crevices of black desire

The love that flows so simply

Ability to love made manifest

This is the stone for you

It is the stone for all

For who wouldn’t like to serve

By living their souls truth, talents?

One of our favourite crystals to work with!

Rhodonite is an amazing crystal to work with. As you carry it with you it begins to unveil to you what your loves to do. These are the things we do that we have no idea how valued they are. They are the things we’ve never done but love instantly once we do them. They are the things that bring us so much joy there is no where else we would rather be.

This stone can do something special: It can not only help you recognize all of the above and help reveal your passions, but it can also help you connect together in a meaningful and valuable way multiple passions. It shows you a coherent and workable way that you can live doing all that you love and still be generous.

Rhodonite strives to be generous and altruistic By living and using your talents you become such a gift for the world. And it reminds you that unexpected and unconditional generosity is the greatest gift you can give. By unconditional we don’t mean that you give and give and give, for you must give only as much as you can without creating an imbalance and true lack in your life. by unconditional we refer to the simple act of forgotten or lost of giving without any expectations or strange ideas. A gift from the heart. This can inspire and spark so much in the receiver!

This is the stone that teaches you and shows you how your love, your passions, and your bright spark of life can be such a blessing and a catalyst that inspires those around you to become their bright sparks too.

The world is ready for all of humanity to live by their souls. So lets help each other discover and live their souls. Lets help each other create world where that is possible. Let us create a heart-centred world.

Let rhodonite help you first, and your light. Your heart will lead the way to this New World of Hope. Just always remember the Butterfly Effect – the smallest actions have a larger effect that you cannot even imagine. You have no true idea of the scope of change your actions create in the world around you. So when it seems like you are not enough hold on to Rhodonite and Rhodocroscite together. Let their love fill you with self-love and understanding.

How do Psychics Tell the Future?

Have you ever wondered how it is possible for psychics to tell the future? Have you ever wondered how it works? How is it that a person can tell the future and it sometimes actually come true? What about all those people who claim to tell the future and it doesn’t come true?

When a client asks about the future in a reading this is what happens for me:

I feel all the various probabilities that are in existence for question. It’s very fast, and doesn’t take long because I only feel into the strongest possibilities. Those are the only ones that the client and I truly care about. It is the strongest possibility that I relate to the client. If there are several that are highly probable I tell the client all of them including with what will make each possibility happen.

Because the world we live in is energy, it is constantly shifting. The future is a finicky thing. If I knock over the salt today, maybe that’s changed everything and I simply am not aware of it.

Here’s a clip of Griffin from Men in Black 3, a character I love. He’s an awesome example of what it’s like to be a super strong conscious and aware psychic all the time. He’s always standing right on the edge of doing something because he can see all the probabilities but he doesn’t know how to act or what to do until the millisecond before the future comes true because its only then that he knows exactly which one is true.

Here’s a clip of him:

As Heraclitus infamously said: “Change is the only constant in life.”

I can only tell you possibilities, albeit the strongest possibilities.

Lazulite – The Prince of Stones

Lazulite is an amazing and beautiful blue stone without the glamour of Lapis Lazuli. It has more of a matte look to it. This little known and desired stone by the general populace is truly powerful.

We call this stone the Prince of Stones because it relates so well to how it works. Masculine in feeling it is a tad rebellious This stone has a mind of its own in a positive way. If you are unclear in anything – boundaries, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, like any rebellious teenager he will test those so that you can become clear, as clear as ice on all of these.

It is with a feeling of royalty one carries this stone. Lazulite helps all people step more into their personal power. Part of stepping into personal power is being very clear on what you want and what you don’t want, and then being able to express that in a very clear way. The Prince of Stones does this beautifully in its work with the throat chakra. By helping heaven and earth come together for you in your world he grounds your voice with precision and consciousness. He tests and stretches your boundaries and all that you stand for, helping you to release and see the dis-service you do for yourself by keeping anything false around or in your life.

Lazulite has the ability to help release all the false shells giving rise to the true self – that is essentially what the metaphor of Lazurus’s death and coming back to life is about. His false selves have died and his true self comes forth.

Lazulite is a stone that has not been overly sought after for much of humanity’s time on Earth. Its value is not seen by all even though it is a strong stone. It can be slow working, but as sensitivities increase it will ‘work faster’. Its a calm, grounding, and often chaotic at first. All lazulite wants to do is help you love your true self. Often working with it will draw more stones to be used in conjunction with lazulite.

This stone has many friends and will often help the user make new and needed friends. it is a stone that easily creates connections with others on all levels and helps bring understanding to social norms and how to interact with others.

Lazulite is a special stone of love, connections, grounding, clarity, the True Self, the throat chakra. It reminds us of how truly beautiful we are. The Prince of Stones can be tough, yet so soft, just like the Prince many women dream of.

New Years Readings

I thought it was appropriate that with this New Year coming up in a few days to let you know about two special readings that I do. Both of them were created around this time ironically enough!

The first I call the Circle Year Reading. This reading looks at your next year month by month. It brings to light the various themes that will occur month by month, quarterly as well as patterns that can occur in a year. Animal guides and other energies – like the Ascended Masters or Angels – are touched upon with the how and why. Major events and shifts are noted in the month they occur, as well as important meetings and decisions. This card reading is very detailed and layered. It always begins with the twelve months, and builds out from there.

It is highly recommended that you take notes or bring a recording device.

The Twin Flame reading brings into awareness the process that you are undergoing to prepare to meet your twin flame, and the length of time. Instructions on how to speed the process, what to expect in that process and the best way to allow the process to unfold often occur. There are often time frames given for each part of the process, suggestions to help the process flow smoothly, and shifts or things to expect.

It is highly recommended that you take notes or bring a recording device.

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If you have any questions or would like to book a reading for this new year let me know! 🙂

Sunstone – The Lovers Heart (Solstice Stone)

This stone is one of masculine light. It shows and helps develop the strength and ability to let ones light shine brightly without worrying about others. This stone feels almost harsh when placed beside it’s oft thought of counterpart moonstone. And indeed they are partners in a lot of ways; however, it is not recommended that these stones are worked with together until one is fairly aware and knowledgeable in the masculine and feminine energies. Then we say to experience a full balance meditate with sunstone in the left hand and moonstone in the right hand. A powerful meditation.

This is a stone of inner strength and balance. As the feminine likes a flow this stone likes to help the masculine stay strong. For the user this stone will allow creativity, ideas, and ingenuity flow without losing direction, focus or interval guidance.

We call this stone the lovers’ heart because it represents it so perfectly in how this stone helps humanity in general. A lover’s heart is soft, forgiving, and full of excitement and acceptance. It fills us with a sense of peace, openness and adventure. A lover’s heart is also very strong, very bright, and knows what it wants. It may experience fears, but courage comes almost too easily to the lovers’ heart as does forgiveness it seems in many cases. All of these attributes sunstone helps to surface because those in love have always done great things. Those in love have bright fires that come alive. With or without a lover these states of being can come forth and sunstone will always help with that.

Sunstone also helps one know the timing of when to end begin something. This stone doesn’t like to hang out past the expiry date, nor does it like to begin too early. It likes, and will help all who work with him, to work in time with all the energies that surround you with a confident grace of inner knowing.

Keywords: Sunstone, masculine, moonstone, meditation, lover’s hearts, heart, energy, endings, beginnings, leadership, condfidence.

Chakra: Solar Plexus

Astrological Sign: Leo

This is a wonderful stone that brings out your light. With its red-yellow phosphorescent color it resembles labordorite and moonstone, but instead of looking inside, it promotes you to shine your light – bring what’s inside of you into the world.

This is a stone commonly associated with leadership as this stone values freedom, empowerment, and individuality. Sunstone harmonizes the world, and helps create a sense of worthiness, increasing self-esteem and self-confidence along the way. It offers protection and draws wealth while bringing optimism in all aspects to the user.

Sunstone helps one to become emotionally capable to take care of oneself instead of depending on others, and will help one to learn to nurture both others and oneself. It empowers the user by removing co-dependency and the tendency to procrastinate.

It is believed to powerfully bring abundance, good fortune, prosperity and protection to the user. Sunstone is believed to reinvigorate one’s health and strength. It’s commonly used now a-days to alleviate depression, seasonal affective disorder, anxiety and stress. Sunstone energizes and empowers one’s spirit, and brightens the soul.

Sunstone is often used in grids to help relieve aches, pain, cartilage problems, rheumatism, cramps, fevers, and other similar conditions.

Sunstone is an excellent stone to use to banish fears, nightmares, phobias, inhibitions and feelings of unworthiness. It has also been used to remove any unwanted or lingering energies.

Sunstone is associated with the Sun God Helios in Ancient Greece, and used to be placed on drinking vessels in order to prevent poisoning. It is the stone of Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun.

Sunstone has been used in the past by the Vikings to actually navigate by the position of the sun. True sunstone refracts light, which makes it possible to locate the sun in fog, cloudy days and storms. Sunstone has also been said to glow when contact is made with Spirit Guides, commonly being placed in the center of the medicine wheel by Native American Medicine Men.

This particular stone has been oft used in solstice celebrations and gatherings. I feel, this is not fact, simply what I feel from my channelling and research that if you celebrate Solstice it would be highly beneficial for you to place a piece of sunstone on your alter, and at some point take time to connect with the stone by sitting with it in meditation on the Solstice. All pieces of true sunstone (not aventurine or golden sunstone but true sunstone) contain within them a connection to the part of human consciousness that has been celebrating Solstice’s past, present and future. Meditation during the Solstice will automatically draw forth all of this knowledge, and it will be shared when used in ritual, bringing to the meditator exactly what they need to receive from the reserves of old wisdom.

Try meditating with Sunstone and let me know what happens. 🙂

Key Sources

http://www.controverscial.com/Sunstone.htm

http://www.crystalvaults.com/pages/crystal_encyclopedia/sunstone.php

Moldavite – The Green Healer

This stone is amazing and powerful and a must get for all who work deeply or intensely on themselves and others. This meteorite piece was sent very particularly and in a very planned way to help all beings on the planet. It would be of no surprise if all of humanity ended up working with a piece at some point or another.

This stone is especially meant for those on what the majority of humans would call ‘the healing journey’. On our terms it is the journey of rediscovering the self. This stone works not only with the energies that are most present in the moment but also with the future and the past. The muli-dimensional qualities of this stone allow it to gently, powerfully and intensely dig into the subconscious of the person its bonded to and help release whatever comes up.

This stone doesn’t play games.

Moldavite is a serious stone intended to get deep and dirty fast. The stone will bond with any human it chooses in two weeks to a months time. During that time expect to carry it close, have intriguing dreams and not want to part with it. It loves to work in the dream world.

One piece of lore before we go: Different shapes of the stone will cause it to be used for others in particular ways. Your piece of moldavite can be placed on or used on another person after its bonded to you and will only bond with that person when your work with it is done. Moldavite is happy to be used in healing sessions with others, and if it is shaped in a wing or the bottom of a broom, it can be used to “sweep” energy; if its curved it can be used to “scoop” energy. Sometimes you will sense its mischievous spunky faye energy too.

Keywords: Healer, heart, moldavite, bond, healing, meteorite, the healing journey, rediscovery.

Chakra: Heart, Crown, All

Astrological Sign: None

Moldavite is the only extraterrestrial gemstone believed to have arrived only once 15 million years ago in a meteorite shower. It is found mainly in the Moldau Valley in the Czech Republic, where there is said to be 275 tons of Moldavite on the planet, but the commercial mining of this gemstone, a variety of tektite, will be stopped within the next ten years because there will be no more left on the planet.

This stone seems to have always been a very precious stone for humanity. They’ve been worn as amulets for good fortune and fertility. They’ve been gifts for nobility, including Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II. There are legends that state the Holy Grail was made of moldavite, which was believed to have fallen from the sky out of the crown of Lucifer during the war between God and Satan.

Moldavite is considered a powerful growth crystal centered in the heart space. It is a stone commonly used for spiritual awakening, transformation, and entering into the cosmic consciousness. When working with moldavite it creates a protective energy field around you, and helps you to detach from anything unhealthy.

This stone works deeply in the dream and vision states of consciousness. Placing it on your third eye will create vivid dreams.

Moldavite can be used to illuminate the cause or source of a physical dis-ease or imbalance and then support the user through the healing process. This stone is known for its ability to rejuvenate the physical body by slowing down the ageing process, helping memory retention, and protecting against mental degeneration.

This stone tends to trigger memories and awakenings in people when they touch the ones they feel called to work with. It is usually intense, and will provide the wearer with memories of their past lives, most often of the Stars they’ve come from. It is said that moldavite calls all the Children of the Stars to work together and accelerate their growth.

It will help release anything that is holding the person back in any way, and can inspire creativity and passion. It allows the heart and the mind to come into union, and will bring up to the surface all that the user most needs to recognize, honour, integrate and release.

It is recommended when working with this stone to meditate with it daily, and wear it to have its maximum effect, however, also use other stones such as black tourmaline, smoky quartz, hematite, and copper to keep you grounded. To complete the process that moldavite allows and assists in unfolding it is of supreme important that users and wearers of this stone stay grounded.

Important: Do not cleanse in salt water. The salt deteriorates moldavite.

Key Sources:

http://www.crystalvaults.com/pages/crystal_encyclopedia/moldavite.php

http://divinecrystals.com.au/page.html?chapter=5&id=24

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