Wow I bet that was intense. That's pretty cool.

Did it help you spiritually? How did it feel after besides the headache and the throat being sore? Did it help you overcome things or remove blocks? You don't have to get into detail if you don't want to I'm just really curious. I meditate to binaural beats sometimes and it helps me focus better.

Absolutely and that is wonderful. Thank you for sharing.

Simple but it works for me ......
 

:candle: Great thread Ebon! I love hearing all the ways people use to attune themselves. Honestly, right now my best meditations and self realizations come to me free floating in water. The deeper the better. There is something I have with trust in water, that frees my emotions and helps me get to my core. It soothes me, when I am upset or off balance the water brings me home to clarity. It's even better under the moonlight.......

Tried to use the black tourmaline to meditate and astral project by putting it on my third eye. As soon as I put it on my head I got a headache. Then I found out today that it totally blocks the 3rd eye and it goes on the base chakra. :|

catch whatever precipitation you can, where you are, this weekend. The water can be used with oils during the year....

Full moon?

no, in prep for Samhain. Present the water mixed with your choice of oils on your alter on Samhain...

Happy New Year.

Have a question. Has anyone had a past life reading done? It seems like a lot of people were Cleopatra. Has anyone ever had an experience where they actually saw their past life.

I have become acquainted with several of my past lives, via meditations, readings and better still, actual moments of recognition of the people involved.

I did a two year study at my university on eastern spirituality. During that time, I worked at understanding the universe and all of its domains. Earthly and otherwise. Past lives were an important part of this research.

My daughter grew up around this. She came to Know about past lives as easily as other children know about communion or baptism. It is no wonder she has become a past life reader. She has always had the knack to See. When one isnt shamed nor denied their gifts, they develop and flow....

One of my most important lives involved two samarai brothers. I have met both, at different times, this life. As in all life, we gave each other lessons and gifts with this meeting. Some easy. Some very hard. I loved them both, and have walked away from them both, in all our lives.

if people are being told they are cleopatra, then perhaps they are seeing archetypes and not actual past lives. Archetypes surfaces to give us lessons and to make us observe something about ourselves. Pay attention and See. Look thru your third eye. And be patient. The lessons or Knowledge will come.

It's amazing how life experiences teaches us so much about ourselves and people in general. Life is changing for me and at the same time I can see that I have learned so much from this last chapter in my left. My next chapter has already been visualized and I know it will come to fruition, I just have to do the work on my part of course. I'm actually excited about the adventure and experiences that I will have. I will go into them with an open heart and mind. I need to get to the next level in my journey of consciousness. I hope everyone is well.

Light & Love

Ebon

So Ebon, what do you see as your next level in your journey of consciousness? What does that look like? What tools do you envision enabling you to move to the next level?

My journey right now is trying to integrate and utilize what I have learnt about myself and my spiritual path in the last year. I have worked on the soil of my soul diligently in the last year. In the spring/early summer I saw myself as a field freshly plowed, exposing the deep rich soil of my soul. Bare, black and holding my breath, almost with excitement of the potential of growth. The summer passed, much has changed. I now am in the Dark of the Year and see hibernating within me small seeds of change. My Spirit knows a Mighty Oak grows but from a single small Acorn. What will I look like as I continue to grow.

The Celebration/Ritual I am holding on Dec 22 is called Dreaming the Dark. There are three parts to choose from for the attendees... Aspecting, Joiking and Drumming. Each has an important part to play. For each needs the other. The Spirit we are Aspecting is Eros...Love... the spirit born of Night and Choas.

So, as you move Ebon, and others, into the new chapter, new phase, out of the Darkness of the Season, I do wonder what it is we envision for our change. How will we manifest and change ourselves... for better or worse?? What does Eros have to teach me. What can I learn from the parents of Love... Night and Chaos?? Which parent am I more drawn to?? How much of Eros can I bring into myself??

We hear so often... it is all about Love... and the Darkness that lives within me begs me to question that. Before Love what was there??

I am talking in circles. Trying to formulate my own ideas. I am comforted by the Change. I am held by Change. I am called forth to stand and be strong in Change. I am asked to embrace Change. I am required to wear Change.

Ahhhhhh I love this time of year. Reflection. Introspection. Inspiration. Dreams.

That is absolutely beautiful. That's exactly what I am hoping for. I really feel like I am fertile soil and I've planted my seeds. I'm just waiting for them to grow, working on my garden self as I go along and seeing where the Universe takes me. I try not to look at my bad times as dark times, I try to look at them as harder learning experiences. I'm going through one of them right now but I know, as always I will be fine. Just trying to figure out the lesson in all of this.

regarding crystals,

In my treatment room ( I do bodywork, Reiki and hypnotherapy) I keep several quartz crystals on the windowsill. I have rose quartz which I keep in my bra and a bracelet of amethyst. I keep a variety of these under my treatment chair as well. Sea salts in tea candle holders around the room and each day before I start i clear the room by burning candles on a makeshift alter, white on the left and black on the right, I channel all negativatey out so I can start with a clean room.In between clients I do a cleansing of sorts. I also keep quartz crystals over the door at the clinic and here at home.


Today a gentleman came in for a foot treatment. As I worked the energy was spinning and the room was hot as Hades! After we chatted a bit he told me that he is a level 3 Reiki practitioner and afterwards he felt wonderful and clear. At the end of each treatment I sweep the meridians and roll the chakras, the gold I keep seeing in my head was the brightest color I've ever seen, just amazing!

Light and Love everyone.