New Moon in Taurus, 26th April 2017 (at 6 degrees Taurus )

With this Mercury Grade literally making my life extremely difficult, I can’t tell you all how grateful I am for this month’s New Moon falling in the astological sign of Taurus, with its slow, stable and grounding energy! So, just writing down, all the useful things we can do today,to harness this stabilizing force to recap, regroup and set some solid foundations to manifest our intentions!

So here goes! 🙂

Taurus is connected to Mother Earth, nature and environmental issues.

1. This new moon is full of grounding energy, so spending some time in nature and animals is ideal today. It is also the best time to plant new seeds and plants of just do some gardening! A new moon manifesting growth AND Taurus? Nature will flourish today!

Here are some ideas!

• Plant some herbs associated with Taurus, such as Clary Sage or rosemary! They will surely flourish and you can enjoy their many benefits all year round!
• Plant some flowers associated with Taurus and manifesting energies of the new moon! Such flowering plants such as Jasmine, Roses, Mugwort and Honeysuckle.

Create a small manifesting corner in your garden or balcony and watch both your plants and intentions flourish!

No time for gardening?

• Enjoy the essential oils of the above in your oil burner! Together with ylang ylang , sandalwood, neroli and patchouli, the associated with the loving and grounding Taurus energy.

2. With the planet Venus in Pisces at this time, connecting with the Angelic Realm will also be much stronger today. Connecting with ‘the Creator’s Eco-warrior”, AA Ariel will allow for a deeper connection to the Earth and Animals. Spending some time with animals today will definitely harness this beautiful grounding energy in Taurus today! Connecting with AA Chamuel, you can call upon his loving energies to help you manifest your intentions in love and light.

Here are some ideas!

• Take a long nature walk with your pets in nature today and take a break under the shade of a tree to ground both yourself and your pet from any unwanted energies, releasing it into the Earth.
• Leave out some food and water for birds, or other local wildlife.
• Sending healing and prayers to injured or sick animals.

3. The sign of Taurus is also associated with their love for ‘good food’. Make the effort to prepare a good, nutritious meal, with high quality ingredients, including root vegetables to strengthen your connection to the Earth!

Here are some ideas!

• Cook some slowly roasted root vegetables with rosemary and black pepper (associated with grounding and Taurus energy). If you can light a coal BBQ and cook them, even better! (There is nothing more grounding than cooking over coal!)
• Focus on the intention to establish a loving relationship with high quality nutritious food to incorporate into your diet!

4. Taurus energy is also associated with careful planning, taking slow, stable, well-organized steps towards establishing a solid foundation to build on. (Especially useful to promote financial prosperity and love into any areas of your life that you would like to improve.)

Here are some ideas!

• Take the time today, with pen and paper, to connect to this energy and allow yourself to plan out a good financial plan that you can work with. Bless it with new moon energy, through your preferred manifesting rituals (affirmations, burying your paper in the ground, writing out a check to the universe, prayers or meditation) and visualize yourself manifesting this plan into reality!

Here are some other tools that may facilitate you to increase your manifesting potential:

• Using crystals associated with grounding (such as hematite, black tourmaline etc.) together with crystals associated with Taurus and AAs Ariel and Chamuel (jade, malachite, carnelian, amber and fossilized wood) can be also used during meditation to manifest today’s New Moon Energies.
• Meditating on manifesting your intentions can be facilitated by lighting green, yellow or white candles to the sacred sound of the mantra LAM.

(Here’s a link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FOiuoRrZRwQ)

Wishing you all a blessed Full Moon and that all your desires be manifested into reality!

Bloodstone, Old Wives Tales and Holy Friday

This past week I have been lead back to the use of the crystal that goes by the name of Bloodstone or Heliotrope. One of my most powerful healing crystals, reminded me through a personal discomfort that I am experiencing, that this is Holy Week for all Christian Denominations around the world.  This tandem celebration takes place every 4 years, and till this day, I still will never understand why it is not celebrated by all simultaneously. Nonetheless, this is not an entry of any religious controversy, but one that will tell you my personal experience and witness of the story of bloodstone that, till now, I had only heard of by word of mouth from old women. One of these saw me carrying one, while walking down the street and told me to observe it during Holy Week, when it is the same for all. That was about a year ago. Naturally I had forgotten all about it. But spirit thought otherwise, and made sure through a sudden health issue associated with blood, that I was lead back to bloodstone and remember the old woman’s words.

The most widely known legend of this stone comes from the Middle Ages and claims the “Blood Stone” was formed at the crucifixion of Jesus Christ, when the blood of his wounds fell onto the dark green earth and turned to stone. Another version declares the blood of Christ, which flowed from the fatal spear-thrust, fell upon a Green Jasper lying at the foot of the Cross, and from this sprang the Bloodstone variety of Jasper. Today, as then, Bloodstone is regarded as a gem of noble sacrifice and can offer courage and solace to all who are called to give of themselves for the good of others. It elicits the highest, most altruistic character of those who wear or carry it.

The old woman had told me, that on Holy Thursday, any bloodstone would go dark green without hardly any red or orange specs in it. It represented the humble greens that were eaten at the last supper and the garden of Gesthimani, And so it was. My two Bloodstone crystals were unusually dark green. No matter how much I cleansed them or charged them, their color did not change.

I woke up on Holy Friday and saw that the red specs started to slowly emerge. So, I look my clearly cleansed crystals and charged them on the epitaph (flower-decorated church funeral beds of Jesus Christ, available in all  Greek orthodox churches on Holy Friday). The old woman had specifically said: ‘On the year when all celebrate Easter together, take your bloodstone to the epitaph. It will turn mostly red. Keep the stone on you at all times. The sacrifice that the God of Man made for humanity and the blood he shed will help you when you feel the need in your body, your flesh, your bones and your blood.’  So I did. Of course, I took only my smaller stones, for fear of being ‘stoned to death as a pagan’ by the devout Christians, who were lining up in every church to pay their respects to the epitaph. Even if they set foot in church maybe once a year.

In just five hours, not only did they change color, but in one specific crystal, one that I laid on the depiction of the body of Christ, changed color totally. The other which I lay at his feet, showed great red-orange specs on the side that touched the epitaph. A small image of an ‘M” or “Greek Sigma” together emerged on the one that turned reddish brown, while an image of a person/ or a cross ( depending on how one interprets it) emerged on the other.

The energy of these stones is now extremely strong and emits a heat-like sensation, resembling a hot water bottle when placed on various parts of the body, especially the ones that have been causing me discomfort lately.

Old wives’ tale or not, the amazing visual and energetic transformation of these stones is something that not even the scientist in me can doubt. This little crystal ‘experiment’ has further renewed my faith in the way crystals vibrate on all levels, connecting the divine, the earthly and the physical.

If you happen to have some bloodstone on you, please swing by the first church you see today on Holy Friday. Whether Christian or not, the undoubted wisdom of this ascended master, will no doubt greet you and your bloodstone with light love and healing! Try this out! Would love to hear your impressions on this!

Wishing you all a very Happy Easter to all who celebrate, with healing on all levels!

For more information on Bloodstone please refer to:

https://www.crystalvaults.com/crystal-encyclopedia/bloodstone