The Amazing Power of Moldavite

Posted by Ember on Aug 29 2010 | Comment now »

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Moldavite is a very unusual crystal. It is only found in the area of the Moldau river in the Czech republic and is becoming increasingly rare. It was born from the collision of a meteorite with the earth and there are a number of theories about exactly how it was formed, one of which was that it is a fusion product of meteoric material and the earthly rock that were vaporized in the tremendous heat of the collision, and the gaseous material after being propelled high into the atmosphere, cooled and then rained down on the crater and areas around it. Crystals formed this way are known as tektites. The force of the collision has been estimated at six trillion megatons, far more than all the atom bombs on the earth. Perhaps it was the same meteor strike that resulted in the demise of the dinosaurs? The  impact is said to have resulted in the reversal of the earth’s magnetic poles.

Moldavite was used as a talisman back in pre-history. It is the most powerful crystal I have ever encountered. When I meet people who are skeptical that crystals have energy, or have healing power I ask them to hold my moldavite and almost everyone has a perceptible reaction, such as their face flushing or ’seeing’ an image or getting an insight into an issue. There are many interpretations about how it’s power is used but I’ll focus on my impressions and the information from my most trusted crystal book, ‘The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach’ by Robert Simmons and Naisha Ahsian. (Link can be found on the Amazon box located on the sidebar)

Moldavite most simply described is a life-accelerator; whatever is happening in your life, positive or negative it intensifies the experience and speeds it up. My partner calls it a ‘trouble maker’ because sometimes after spending time with it things can be a bit uncomfortable! It truly is incredibly powerful, and I caution that the first time (and few times hence) that you have it around the exposure time should be limited. When I got my first piece which was tiny in relation to the photo shown below, I was excited and decided to put it under my pillow before bed. I laid my head down and immediately felt dizzy, then fell fast asleep only to wake up fifteen minutes later with a very severe headache. Even now after years of working with Moldavite I am cautious about how and when I spend time with it. Most often I use it in conjunction with Morganite which is a heart-centered stone and I find it mellows the experience and puts the direction of it’s work to a love based manifestation (when used with the right intention.)

The authors of the book I mentioned have a passion for Moldavite and have written a number of books based on it. Here are some of the ways it can be used, according to them:

  • Activates all the chakras, with vibration focusing on areas where one has blockages, first clearing these areas then moving into resonance with one’s energetic system. (Which could explain the ‘troublemaker’ analogy: to clear blockages one must face one’s wounds!)
  • Connecting with spirit guides.
  • Moldavite offers the promise of assisting in fully awakening the intelligence of the heart.
  • Effective in meditation and dream work.
  • Gives the energy of spiritual protection.
  • Enhances and accelerates  the beneficial effects on many other stones. For enhanced visionary experience use with Herkimer diamonds. (I’ve experienced this myself - very powerful!)

Robert and Naisha go so far to say that if one is stranded on a desert island with only one stone, that it should be Moldavite!

If you feel drawn to experience Moldavite and are prepared to have life stirred up a bit, I encourage you to find a piece at your local crystal shop. It can be very expensive and one way around that is to look on Ebay. The beautiful specimen pictured here was found on Ebay; a very lucky find indeed. If you got the Ebay route make sure you familiarize yourself with how Moldavite looks….there are some charltans selling fake ‘Moldavite.’ Look for a textured stone with pits and irregularities in a shade of green from light apple colored to dark emerald green. Moldavite jewelry is wonderful too, though I don’t recommend it for beginners!

Good luck on your journey! I would love to have feedback on people’s experiences.


Psychic Service Available

Posted by Ember on Aug 24 2010 | Comment now »

I would like to offer my services to my readers; I am a gifted psychic and do readings over the phone. If you’ll notice on the left sidebar there is a box showing a telephone; that shows my status as to whether or not I’m taking calls. The service is a very affordable between $1.99 to $2.99 a minute and I have numerous positive feedbacks.

I am clairvoyant, clairsentient, possess remarkable remote viewing skills and can see things past present and future. I can help guide you with making the decisions that will make a desired possible future more likely, and can counsel you from a spiritual perspective about challenges you are facing.

While I know there are many charlatans out there I can assure you that my intuitive skills are highly developed and very accurate. I don’t need tarot cards or other divination tools, just the names of the people involved.

Contact me via email should you wish to have an email reading done. The rates for those are $25 for each question asked with a 200 word in-depth view of the situation. I am compassionate but honest, and though I am sensitive and very empathetic I don’t sugar coat my readings.

Click on the phone button which will show whether or not I’m available. If I’m not, you can arrange a time with me to have a reading!

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Very Inspiring Woman

Posted by Ember on Apr 15 2010 | Comment now »

Age, nor limitations given by a doctor need curb the enthusiasm or vigor in which we choose to live our lives. That is the gist of  a wonderfully refreshing story of a 91 year old yogi found here.

Tao Porchon-Lynch could have let a broken hip and the ruling of a doctor change her life, and she chose to live according to her beliefs and at the age of 91 still teaches yoga, dances up a storm, and speaks wisdom that we all can learn from.

A Big No-No

Posted by Ember on Mar 15 2010 | Comment now »

Last week I was in the Emergency Room of our local hospital with a very bad kidney infection. The ER was busy like I had never seen before…it was like out of the movies (or more likely the TV show, ER). Even with a temperature of 104 and my pulse racing up to 145 I still could not be seen by a doctor, they were so busy. We were in the triage area and even though I was barely lucid I could tell there was an emergency of a much larger scale coming…they were calling Haz-Met teams and all the nurses were donning gas masks. All of us in triage were rushed back to the waiting room.

My companion and life partner was scared, we could see it in each others’ eyes. We could sense when the ambulance and it’s deadly cargo had arrived, and a feeling overcame me of something I had never felt before. It was utter terror of the most base kind. Pure Evil was what it felt like.

The next day after my condition had not improved we were back at the ER and we found out what was with that ambulance. It had a suicide victim; a young person who had purposefully inhaled a lot of butane. We talked about it and we discerned what we felt was that the evil feeling was as if Hell was before us. We are both certain that Suicide is never, ever an option in life. It takes you to a further hell worse than the one you are experiencing embodied, and it was something we both needed  to ’see’ for ourselves.

Suicide is a one way ticket to reverse all your karma back to the beginning to start the cycle over again. It is not in any circumstances ‘part of the plan.’ We are never given more than we can handle. Don’t try suicide - please.

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The Shift and Getting Back on Your Path

Posted by Ember on Mar 10 2010 | 1 Comment »

I’ve been hearing the two words ‘The Shift’ a lot lately. I think it must be what New Age expanded into because New Age isn’t heard so much among people who are tuned into Universal Love.

What does The Shift mean for you? How are you preparing yourself? I encourage everyone to follow their hearts and follow their path wherever it takes them, for that is the way to get there. You’ll know when you’re on your path. There is a slight buzz to it, almost an electric feeling of what some of my friends and I call ’surfing the universe.’

How do you get on your path if you don’t feel that buzz? This is my advice, and my opinion and I offer it humbly. I’ll give you a list of suggestions. Because of my failings to learn the technology of Wordpress I am unable to give a nice neat presentation but I’ll do my best.

- meditate and connect with the stillness….if it has something to say that is a clue

- go in nature and ask a question and be totally present and the answer will reveal itself

Those are a couple quick examples. What it’s really about is connecting with the stillness/divine oneness and listening. ‘Intuition’ is it’s voice. Hear what it says to do, no matter what it is; follow that and you’ll be back on course. If you’re really off course it may take a few ‘tags’ which are the a-ha moments that show you why you had the intuitive feeling. Sometimes they show immediately, sometimes not; time isn’t relevant. It’s more gratifying when they show right away, but be patient and never lose touch with hope.

Namaste!

Compassion and Challenging People

Posted by Ember on Jan 07 2010 | 2 Comments »

Challenging people challenge our sense of compassion. One could see that when we find conflict with a person we are truly facing a conflict within ourselves, because the whole world is a mirror including our peers.

I’m reading Pema Chodron’s latest book “Start Where You Are” and it says in the first chapter:

We already have everything we need. There is no need for self-improvement.

We can get so caught up in the beliefs that we have to be a certain way to be enlightened when in truth awareness is the key, and compassion not only for ourselves but those we come in contact with everyday relieves the burden of having to be perfect. If we start with these two principles the rest can fall into place.

Challenging people are part of life, and they are our teachers in the path to self-awareness. We shouldn’t look at them as splinters in our sides rather cues that more self-awareness is needed: what is it about this person that is triggering me? Then look within and see if one has the same ‘quality’ that one is avoiding facing.

Compassion for oneself makes it much easier to have compassion for others. Be gentle with yourself. Meditate to connect with the stillness that connects you to the super consciousness.

There is only one of you in the whole world and you owe it to yourself to become who you really are. Those challenging people are doing you a favor, when you can see it from a detached perspective.

Part 2 of Nature Lover City Life

Posted by Ember on Nov 15 2009 | 1 Comment »

This is the companion piece to the previous post.

Living in a city can be a serious challenge for those whose hearts long for nature in it’s unadulterated form. It is also difficult for empaths, or those who may not have a relationship with nature but do with silence and peacefulness. I recently was challenged by living in a city for six months, and even though the city wasn’t really large by city standards, it was difficult nonetheless.

Vancouver, BC was my home from mid winter until July. Even though Vancouver is a beautiful city intermingling with waters from the Pacific, the energy of so much rush-rush of it’s dwellers being in a hurry all the time infiltrated my consciousness so much that at times I felt I couldn’t think, and if I could I didn’t know if the thought was mine or something outside myself I was tuning into.

The first tool that helped me was a fairly simple grounding exercise that I did each morning. I would rise early and sit in the back yard and meditate, imagining that long roots were growing from me down deep into the earth. The visualization felt very real as my deep taproot went down far into the earth and it’s offshoot roots would intermingle with all the other roots of the other trees and plants. When I did this I would imagine that it wasn’t just nature elements I was touching with my roots, rather the souls of all things, flora and fauna as well as each human’s, all in the web of life. I then lifted my forehead to the sky and imagined the sun’s energy and all the light of universal knowing entering into me, filling me with illumination of both energy and consciousness. I would bring this lightness around me and imagine a membrane around me similar to a fine mesh.

Another way in which I coped was to take sojourns to the water whenever I could. This strategy could be adapted to whatever city one is in, as every city has some natural feature that is as strong as the city, in my opinion. The accessibility to the beaches and the paths along the seawall were very good, so at any time I could get to the water in a short amount of time. When I would get there I would sit on a rock or bench, and breathe in the cool sea air that was as delicious as chocolate to my psyche. When I would be tempted to gaze at an ocean tanker or something man made on the horizon I would not dart my glance away, rather accept it and then put it aside similar as one does to thoughts when settling into a meditation session.

Nature really is everywhere, whether it be grass growing in the cracks of concrete, or mature trees lining a street. The secret to being in harmony is to allow this dichotomy to exist and not judge it, which draws energy from oneself. Another way to think of it is this example: imagine you are at a party where you know no one and seemingly have nothing in common with the others and don’t have anything to add to conversations you hear. Perhaps you long to be somewhere else, quiet and peaceful…then across the room your eyes meet someone else’s whom you can tell feels similar to how you do. You are drawn to this person, and soon you find yourself lost in a particularly fascinating and illuminating conversation with him or her. Quite likely that wouldn’t have happened had you not attended that party. Similarly you might not enjoy your visits to the wilds as much were it not for the contrast of the city in which you dwell and may innerly resent.

These were valuable lessons that I learned during my brief time in Vancouver, and I no longer feel frightened by the prospect of visiting the city (I live about an hour away in a small town now.) I am so grateful for my reunion with nature and feel myself healing so quickly from the drain that the city had upon me. I believe that each time that I visit the city or another one I will do so with an open heart and let myself be surprised by the beauty everywhere. Sometimes one has to look a little harder, but just as a gem is found through excavation of the earth around it, a city holds gems of a different sort that are easier to find each time you try.

The Web of Life

Posted by Ember on Nov 11 2009 | 1 Comment »

I wrote this when living in the heart of Vancouver. It has a companion piece that I’ll post tomorrow.

Humankind has not woven the web of life.
 We are but one thread within it.
 Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
 All things connect.
… Chief Seattle

 

Living in respect with the web of life has a few names, one of which is animism. Animism is loosely defined as having a respect for all things animate or inanimate and recognizing the soul or spirit apparent in all beings. It is a reverence for all around us, that also recognizes our own uniqueness and sacredness. It is the web of life: we are all connected, all symbiotic beings seemingly separate but really we aren’t whether we are aware of it or not.

In modern life many of us have these beliefs yet we live in cities. It may seem to be more challenging to find the beauty and wonder in man-made things such as buildings, cement sidewalks and carefully groomed gardens tended (and seemingly) controlled by man. Yet still within all these things is an energy connecting it all. Once you can tune to the frequency of this energy, the sacredness suddenly jumps out and one can sit on a bench and have an intuitive dialogue with a tree in a park. It has much to say as do it’s brethren that live in the forests.

I myself had never lived in a city, and found myself living in one due to circumstance. I felt disillusioned, alone and scared because I didn’t have the company of my friends in nature; the boulders, babbling brooks, Columbine or Douglas Fir. My church was nature, and here I was in some sort of hell. Then one day as I sat on a concrete stair and in a moment of reverie I first heard the music in the wind, then saw the dance of the oak tree nearby….and suddenly the entire landscape came alive. It is alive, it’s a matter of one’s perception to see or feel it or not. Though it is at first harder to see, whether it be our preconceived notions of what nature should look like or our judgments at the selfish motives of man, nature still prevails. We are nature, what is made from us, of us, is nature. It all is the web of life.

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Hawaiian Clearing Technique

Posted by Ember on Nov 10 2009 | 1 Comment »

In his book ‘Zero Limits’ Joe Vitali describes a tremendously powerful clearing technique called Ho’oponopono. It is based on the idea that we are responsible for everything in our life no matter what you perceive the source to be. Only by loving yourself can you accept responsibility and change your life through cleansing and healing your higher self.

This is accomplished by repeating these phrases:

I love you.

I’m sorry.

Please forgive me.

Thank you.

The work is completely internal and can profoundly impact people and events that you don’t even have direct contact with. Dr. Ihaleeakala Hew Len uses Ho’oponopono in his medical practice at the Hawaiian State Hospital. While treating his patients he focuses on each patient and repeats the phrases, and he has seen profound healing of his patients’ mental problems without even having contact with the doctor himself.

The phrases work by reminding ourselves that we are worthy of love and that love allows you to ask forgiveness for and release the events in your life. It is only through accepting total responsibility for everything in one’s life that you can attract miracles to you.

Everyone encounters adverse events and things during our lives. If you confront the event with this technique, you are allowing yourself to release the event and open yourself up to the good in the situation. I personally believe that there is good in every situation. Sometimes it takes years for it to become apparent, but if I look back at my life and I’m honest with myself it is true that I am thankful for every thing that has led me to this moment. Without it I would not be in this moment, and being in the moment….being able to be in this moment….is the key to finding peace and harmony in life.

An Autumn Stroll

Posted by Ember on Oct 26 2009 | 2 Comments »

The autumn beauty courts me to come out and feel the breeze, forceful enough to make the trees shed their colorful wardrobe. The only thing keeping me inside is the bread baking, a never tried before recipe that marries sourdough starter with oat flour and honey. The smell is heavenly and I hope that the result reflects the richness of the aroma.

The bread looks good, and once freed from its obligation we went for a walk as the sun laid low in the sky. As imagined the path was littered with leaves that had changed color and some that had not - testimony to the strength of the wind. Another testimony came as we emerged from the wooded ravine; twin trees made a huge snap and then came crashing down in a dramatic display. A young boy nearby yelled ‘Wow, awesome!’ and his father jokingly asked if there were any casualties.

The rest of the walk was through a neighborhood and was punctuated with decorated homes for Halloween. I have to admit even the fake depictions of spiders scare me, and the homes with web throughout the bushes gave me shivers. The real resident arachnid has been absent this last week. It’s web was large enough to be jokingly called a trampoline. Nicknamed ‘Hugey’ he/she either was killed in the frost, became a tasty meal for a bird or else is lurking somewhere unseen. I don’t like the last option…