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Good Friday morning to all of you beautiful bloggies!
I feel so great about the next few days. As many of you know, Ash and I have decided to do a group abundance ritual/meditation tonight. You can find the details for it here.

At 5:55 EST this morning, the moon entered into the house of Taurus.

My almanac says:In Taurus, thing begun DO last, tend to increase in their value, and become hard to alter. Brings out an appreciation for beauty and sensory experience.

She’ll be in Taurus until She v/c @ 7:15 am on Sunday 02-21 until 1:47pm when She settles into Gemini.

I intend to attend my group ritual tonight and charge my money clip talisman and spend time meditating on the abundance all around. Thursday I ventured into the snowy wood to leave gifts of coins and beautiful stones for my Earthy Elementals. Saturday I will do it again. Taurus brings out an appreciation for beauty and there’s nothing I find more beautiful than the sanctity of nature.

I foresee a lazy Sunday morning. With the moon v/c, I like to take my cue to just chill! And what better time to chill with my family than on a lazy Sunday morning.

The moon will be headed straight into airy Gemini Sunday afternoon @ 1:47pm, but I’ll see you again before then. *wink*

You Say Potato, I Say Organic

I am sold.  I am all about the organic potato.  This wasn’t always the case however.

Why I didn’t want to try them.

I can buy a 10 pound bag of Idaho potatoes for $3 or I can buy a 3 pound bag of organic potatoes for $2.50.  Unfortunately math was my strong subject.

Why I decided to try them.

I stumbled upon a top 10 list of produce that retains the highest percentages of chemicals and are best bought organic. Potatoes were #1.  Coffee was #2, but with the amount of coffee I drink, I’d go broke!  One change at a time please.

Why I’m sold.

I bought the 3# of organic potatoes for $2.50.  *cringes* I took them home and the first thing I made with them was french fries.  I scrubbed them with my produce brush (LG fingernail brush), put them through the french fry cutter and dropped them into a bag with some olive oil and sea salt.  I shook them around to coat them and threw them into a 400 degree oven on parchment paper for about 15 minutes.

1* Normally I do up a bunch of potatoes and bake them.  We eat.  What’s left is left.  Usually the dogs get what’s left.  ~  How much money was I wasting by OVER cooking so often.  As I cut up the expensive organics, I was much more conscious to the amount that I would need and I even put out more vegetables to compensate for the smaller amount of potatoes.  Everyone ate everything.

2* These were, by far, the best tasting potatoes I’ve ever eaten.  I didn’t even realize that potatoes really HAD a flavor.  I always thought of them as bland and absorbing whatever flavor they’re added to, but that’s not true.  Potatoes are phenomenally delicious!

So that’s my testimonial for spending the extra money and buying the organic potatoes.  Give them a try, you won’t be sorry!

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This is a manifestation technique that I swear by. I believe that synchronicity, also known as coincidence, is the divine language of the Universe. It is the guidance system that can easily lead you when you follow the signs and allow the meanings to reveal themselves.

People often tell me that they believe synchronicity is special but more as a wink from the Universe and they don’t understand how one can “follow” synchronicity. I always reply, just follow… think about what you feel pulled to… put your focus wherever you see the synchronicity and it will lead you into the lap of the manifestation you desire.

Unfortunately, I am generally hard pressed to give an example. Not because they’re so few, but because they are so constant around me and seemingly interwoven with everything else. Some synchronicity begins leading me YEARS in advance, which you will soon see.

It truly is a magical life and I feel blessed more deeply than I can express at having the opportunity to live it. Without further ado, my synchronicity testimonial.

*) Be Blessed in the Arms of the One ~

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I posted last week about having a UTI and drinking baking soda water and feeling much better. Well, that didn’t last long. That remedy has worked for me in the past, but Friday morning I woke up with a major sinus headache with minor congestion and kept sneezing my head off. Oh, and the return of the burn.

In my opinion… Because I was being invaded by a virus and bacteria at the same time, my immune system couldn’t handle it and I ended up with an unavoided, full blown case of both things. Friday mid morning, I was in the ER reading a book awaiting the results of my urinalysis from the lab.

So, I started taking the dreaded antibiotics on Friday. Saturday I got out of bed to go to the bathroom twice and other than that, I just prayed for death.. Sunday was better, but I still sported my jammies and while I would normally have created my schedule for the week and typed up the Moonday Manifestor, I only had the strength to look up the information. I just couldn’t sit here to type, so back to bed I went.

I noted that the moon came into Pisces early Sunday morning and Pisces is great for dreams and all things psychic. I decided, since I’m taking it easy, I should take advantage of the down time to meditate and focus inward and strengthen that psychic connection that seems to be getting stronger all the time.

So Sunday, I meditated… Monday I was up and around a little more. The boys didn’t have school so we went to lunch with grandma because she doesn’t get to see them much during the school year. When we got back, I was relaxed and happy and felt compelled to pick a tarot card for the day.

I asked where I was heading and I drew the 4 of Pentacles. That told me to cultivate a feeling of gratitude to maintain my current advantage because the time of the creation of my legacy is at hand. That is true. We’re starting a family business soon. We’re still in the very beginning stages right now, but it is imminent… and exciting!

So that buoyed my spirit and gave me pause to consider just what my “current advantage” might be. I checked back to my lunar information for the week and saw that focusing on my psychicness in Pisces was only going to happen through the rest of that day (Monday) through til Tuesday evening.

After that She’d take a turn through passionate and impulsive Aries and land in Taurus @ 5:55am on Friday.

“Wow!” I thought. Here we are in the waxing moon… the best time to expand and create… charging right into Taurus’ staying power. Spells cast and things begun in Taurus are known to increase in their value and be hard to alter… That’s the staying power. I’ve also found that numbers call out to me. Spirit speaks to me through numbers all the time so they always get my attention.

The 5:55 grabbed my eyes immediately and I knew it was a synchronicity I was meant to pay attention to. So I did. I decided that on Friday, in Taurus, I’m going to be doing a ritual for increasing abundance. The timing really IS quite perfect, so mote it be.

I made a notation and went about my day Monday. That night I got an email from a wonderful yahoo group I’m a member of. In it it talked about how to basically stretch your psychic muscles and tune yourself in to what you’re looking for. It suggested sitting quietly in meditation and trying to see, feel, sense, smell WHATEVER.. 3 things from the next day… predictions. I thought it might be fun, especially since increasing my sense of premonition is of great interest to me. I flagged the email and left it to go back to another time.

I went back to the laundry and a thought occurred to me.

One of my personal symbols is an infinity sign. ∞ It appears in several unlikely places in my home and on many belongings. It even appears inside my van, which I manifested from a vision board a couple years ago. The ∞ was how I knew it was the one I was seeking. *snickers* My best friend is even marked with one that she acquired prior to our meeting.

It’s a symbol of peace and eternity and love and everlasting Spirit to me. It brings a certain… vibration to me.

I wonder if you could pick a different symbol. Even something only in your mind, that could represent your desired manifestation. When you’re bored, you could doodle the symbol and connect to the desire… or simply conjure the image in your mind.

I decided it was a thought worth pursuing and made a mental note to bounce the idea off of Ash in the morning, then went off to my room to squeeze in a prerecorded episode of Charmed before bed. The episode was all about talisman and good-luck charms. Curious.

Hubby ended up being called to work and I ended up getting to watch another episode of Charmed. In the second episode, in begins with Phoebe digging through her sister, Piper’s, suitcase. She holds things a moment and focuses, then sets them aside in search of something else. In walks Prue who inquires as to what she’s doing. Phoebe replies that she’s trying to strengthen her psychic muscle by trying to call a premonition TO her instead of waiting for one to strike.

Hmmm… Double curious. Down right synchronistic.

Tuesday morning, I told Ash my idea and she agreed it was interesting and worth pursuit. Then I told her about how I was going to be exercising my psychic muscle and invited her to join me. I went off to my group to copy the instructions and found an email right above it about charging and carrying a talisman.

*My synchronicity siren started screaming*

I copied both things and pasted them over and then recounted the previous night’s encounter with my television show synchronicity reinforcing my “exercising of my psychic muscle”…. Then we talked about the synchronicity of the talisman email and how well that fits exactly what I’d been thinking with the creation of a symbolic intention.

This (Wednesday) morning, my exercise began. I volunteer at the school on Wednesday. Same class, same kids, same teacher. I did some meditation and a little focus work and tried to see what the teacher would be wearing when I got there I said black, conservative shoes… they were brown. I said tan slacks and they were. I said blue top and it was a sweater with a bunch of blue pattern. I was really close.
Satisfied.

I was also meeting K today and decided to try to see what she wore also. I saw her in black boots and she was… dark blue jeans and she was, pink button up blouse but it was tan. I’d seen her hair cut and it wasn’t. I saw her wearing glasses instead of contacts but I was wrong. They were contacts.  But one of the first things she said to me once in the van was “I was thinking we could stop and you could help me pick out a hairdo and I could get a haircut while we’re out!”
Satisfied… Like, totally wowed actually.

So… after all my running, I sat down to chat up my Ash, as I’m apt to do in the afternoon, and I told her about how I needed to find a talisman by Friday and she should too:

me: You need a talisman… btw…something to carry or wear. Before Friday…

Ash: okay! what should it be?

me: It should be anything that represents whatever you want to increase in value or have an abundance of… I was thinking about painting a symbol on a crystal and charging it in Taurus on Friday…
Because it’s not uncommon for me to carry a crystal in my pocket.
If you’re aim is to attract monetary abundance, you could use a money clip…

Ash: *nods

me: I have one…it’s like.. copper or bronze… and its a beetle…Funny… I’ve always held onto it…
I found it on the beach in the sand one day and fell in love… and I’ve even used it…
And because I just suddenly had that snap into my mind… I do believe it’s my talisman :)
I’m going to go find it.

*Synchronicity*

And I did.  Only I couldn’t find it.  I looked where I thought it’s be but to no avail.  This morning however, I drew a tarot card for the day that told me to take a Spiritual approach to my problems and not an egoic one.  So I cleared my mind and placed my hands, palms together, at my heart and recited the following charm three times.

Money clip, money clip come to me.  Let me have you.  Let it be.

After the third recitation, I saw it in my mind’s eye… in the little blue basket by the front door. I turned and left my bedroom and found my money clip exactly where I’d seen it.

*Psychic stretch*

I also found a dime, slid in the middle.  It’s already brought me money :)

Then, while I had time after that, I looked it up online.  I’ve always found this little clip quite curious and I love it.  I didn’t know why there was a beetle on it but I always felt that it was important, so finally, after owning it for 12 years, I looked up the symbolic meaning to the beetle.

According to Kendall-BioResearch.co.uk :

The Sacred Scarab in Egyptian Mythology

According to their ancient texts, the Egyptians believed that the scarab beetle came into being spontaneously from balls of dung and they associated this with their religious ideology of self-creation and resurrection. Thus, the scarab beetle was worshipped under the name Khepri (meaning ‘he who has come into being’ or ‘he who came forth from the earth’). As a self-created deity, Khepri became synonymous with the creator-god, Atum, of earlier times. Furthermore, in the same way that the scarab beetle pushed a ball of dung before it, the Egyptians imagined that Khepri rolled the sun (the solar ‘ball’) across the sky from east to west each day, and so they also regarded Khepri as a form of the sun-god, Ra (or Re). Hence, the scarab became an important symbol of creation, resurrection and everlasting life in the religious mythology of ancient Egypt. Small jars and coffins containing dried (mummified) scarabs were often placed in Egyptian tombs as part of their ancient funeral rites to ensure eternal resurrection (ref. 1).

Large statues of scarab beetles were probably a common feature in ancient Egyptian temples – a colossal scarab statue is still preserved in situ beside the sacred lake in the temple of Amun at Karnak, and a similar colossal scarab carved in granite can be seen on display at the British Museum in London.

The sacred ’sun’ scarab, giving light and warmth, became a popular symbol in everyday life and small amulets (or seals) in the form of scarab beetles were produced in large quantities, either carved in stone or moulded in glass or faience (a ceramic material made from crushed quartz). The flat underside of such scarab amulets was often decorated with geometric patterns or hieroglyphic inscriptions (as shown in the picture below). Scarab amulets were sometimes set into elaborate pieces of jewelry, but more often they were pierced for threading on a simple cord necklace. There were also special unpierced funerial-type scarab amulets, like the so called ‘heart scarab’ shown below. These were placed with the mummified bodies of deceased people in their coffins and tombs as a symbol of resurrection and new life (ref. 2).

HA! Figures I’ve been walking around with an Egyptian God in my pocket!  Even back before I even cared to know the difference.  The pre-earth witch days. LOL

As I read the above for the first time, I started to think about this little money clip.  I found it while very unhappily married to my ex husband.  I was walking on the beach and there it was in the sand. I picked it up and fell immediately in love with it.  It was so weird.  Perfect.

Now, think what you want, but about a month after I started carrying it, my entire life changed.  I met the man who is now my husband and was finally able to break away from the man I was bound to.  The  new man I ‘d met turned out to be the man of my dreams.  Truly.  It’s been a virtual fairy tale for us since.  Even through the rough times.

I’ve never considered the money clip to be of good or bad luck and I never considered the time similarities of my life taking a turn and my finding it.  As far as the money clip goes, I literally never considered it.. at all… in any way.  Yet now I find myself staring in awe.

And as I allowed the idea in, that the clip itself may have always BEEN my talisman already, I had a sudden memory…

I realized that, last year when I found those (2) $50 bills in the parking lot at the grocery store, it was RIGHT after I’d started carrying this clip again.  I recall specifically because the bills were wet and I wrapped the wet bills around the outside of the dry bills and carefully slid the clip down over the $100 that put me in the black for the month.  Before the end of the day, I gave away 10%.

So here I am… following the synchronicity that guides my life.  I’m having a ritual/group focus/group meditation on Friday.  I’ve asked Ash and she’ll be joining me in it.

Group focus is SO much stronger than solitary, so if you’d like to join us in our “Increase & Abundance Meditation” you will need to do the following before Friday:

• Gather yourself a talisman that you will charge and carry with you so you may carry the energy you are wanting to attract.  It can be something you will wear or something you carry in a pocket.  Anything that represents to you whatever it is you want to increase.
• Make sure you know the time for your time zone.  The goal is to all participate at the same time.  We all add the power of our intentions to YOUR attraction and YOU add your power to ours.
• I intend to journal my results.  Any additional monetary abundance that dances into my life on the breath of the wind I intend to note.  I’m learning through my “psychic stretches” that tracking hits it important!
• Increasing monetary abundance is an Earthy goal where increasing love is a Watery goal.  Know the elemental backing your intention.  Patchouli, Jet, & Jasper are also Earthy and will be my incense and crystals for this ritual.  As an extra bonus, my incense holder is a simple, short, glass jar filled with sand.  Nothing like adding Earth Herself to a ritual :) Because I’m a little old school, I’ll probably take a walk to the back corner of our property and offer a gift (coin or two) to the gnomes of the Earth and wish them blessings of much abundance that they may also bless me in return.

I’ll post here on Friday morning with the exact time.  I can ballpark it as being between likely 8 and 10pm EST.  I really hope we can get one or two more.  The more, the merrier.  Hope to… uh… sense you there?.. LOL

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This is what I’ve decided to construct. Not a Book of Shadows. I know that the name of that book is part of the witches tradition, but that is the beauty of being a Solitary and making your own traditions in my humble opinion.

I thought about constructing a Book of Shadows and was giving thought to what I’d want to include and the more I thought about it, the more I thought of things I would include. Then the more things I listed to include, the more the similarity of the nature of those things seemed.

The nature of all of the things I would include in my Book of Shadows are things related to energy and healing and life and creation and joy and love. Those are not things of shadow. Those are things of light.

I also believe that working around some of the seemingly darker aspects of “witchcraft” will help me to reach a broader audience and be more readily accepted if not understood. And it’s not that I’m seeking anyone’s acceptance, but more that I believe that if I can bridge the gap between myself and someone else simply by altering my language, why shouldn’t I?

Besides, I find the idea of a Book of Light so much more appealing.
I know witches are said to/to have kept information regarding their magic in their Book of Shadows, but I see it like this.

My LIFE is my magic! Everything in my life, I have created… manifested. Everything I am interested in and am pursuing is under my spell and part of my magic. And my LIFE and my interests and pursuits center specifically around my home and family and health and Spiritual growth.

Maybe it’s… non-traditional, but I went and got myself a 3 ring binder. If I read something online I want to include in my personal book, I print it, punch it and include it. I’m free to use my trusty highlighter and make notes in every margin to my heart’s content! I even have section separators and folders. It organized so many things for me. I had information floating all over about all kinds of things and now I have a single location for all of it!

This translates over to everyone! You don’t have to be a witch to have your own book. Especially for the homemaker or mother. There’s so much we do and are responsible for. It really is wonderful to have a place to put it and a place to find it later! I even include a journal, calendar and my own personal “Tame the House” cleaning schedule/routine that helps me to conquer the chaos of life with boys!

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Happy Afternoon!

I’m so happy to be able to finally sit down and talk a little about these chakra meditations. I’m really enjoying my daily meditations. It’s been very cool learning about each one each day. I can tell you for SURE that I’ve got some balancing to do. Funny how little aches and pains and issues now make a LOT more sense.

Anyway, I’m going to put a cork in it and get on with the good stuff!

Wednesday was solar plexus day. The solar plexus is located in the center of your body at the base of your breast bone. It is the center of personal power, ambition, desire and emotion.

Typical symptoms of an out of balance solar plexus are:

• Lack of concentration
• Failing memory
• Falling asleep during the day
• Insomnia
• Digestive disorders
• Eating disorders
• Stress-related skin conditions

Meditating to find balance in the solar plexus:
After your preliminary relaxation techniques, imagine a glowing golden light emanating from your solar plexus that grows in brightness with every breath. Feel it’s warmth and allow it to energize your body.

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Thursday was heart chakra day. The heart chakra is located in the center of your chest. It is the center of your connection to everyone and everything around you.

Typical symptoms of an out of balance heart charka are:

• Emotional confusion
• Unloving and uncaring attitude
• Narrow-mindedness
• Relationship breakdown
• Heart disease
• Chest, lung and respiratory disorders
• Early signs of physical aging

Meditating to find balance in the heart chakra:
Focus on your breath as your breathe in feeling it go deep through your body and back out your nose. Once you’re relaxed, see a healing green light in the air as you breathe deeply and let it fill your body. Fill your heart chakra with the healing green light and allow it to swirl and dance however it will.

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Friday is the throat chakra day. The throat chakra is located midway up the neck between the collar bone and chin. Around the “Adam’s Apple” in men. It is the communication center. It’s the center that allows up to express out uniqueness in the world.

Typical symptoms of an unbalanced throat chakra are:

• Skin rashes
• Heart attack
• Weak or bad back
• Digestive problems such as IBS
• Fear of speaking your mind
• Lack of concentration
• Attention deficit disorders
• Feelings of unease and anxiety

Meditating to find balance in the throat chakra:
After your initial relaxation exercises, see a cool, blue ball of light around your throat chakra. Focus on your breath and feel it as though your actually pulling the air THROUGH your throat chakra. Feel the cool blue light twist in your breath and watch your exhale carry away anything negative in the blue mist

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So that’s where I’m at now. All caught up. Tomorrow is brow chakra day.

Here in the states it’s a holiday weekend. I hope you all have a safe and enlightening weekend :)
See you tomorrow!

All of the above chakra information was summarized from:
The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing:Energy Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit

Today I focus upon the second or sacral chakra. It is my understanding from what I’ve been reading that, the sacral chakra can extend from your belly button all the way down to the top of your pelvis. It’s signature color is orange, but it can be viewed as shades of blues, purples and golds depending on the person.

The sacral chakra governs creativity, attraction, manifestation, passion, sex, personal identity and is where healers shine the brightest and draw their healing energy from. It’s element is water and it is associated with the moon. It presides over our cycles. All our cycles. We are mostly water and all our cycles require water balance.

This really makes sense to me because I’ve been working through emotional issues over the past couple years and it seems like every time I have a breakthrough, I notice a boost it my own creativity and manifesting. Emotions are also water based and would be associated with the sacral chakra.

It also seems, in retrospect, that the more I let go of what society expects and thinks… and let go of the programming I’ve lived under all my life…. and the more I really have discovered just who I am and what I’m all about… the better my relationship has been with Spirit and the more “in the flow” I feel. The more I strike out to be myself… and keep excitedly discovering new things about myself… the easier and faster I seem to bring manifestations into being.

So, yeah…. what I’m reading about the second chakra really does make a LOT of sense to me.

Last night, I did my root chakra meditation in bed. Today I was walking around outside in the sunshine and was suddenly struck by the urge to do these chakra meditations outside. I mean, barefoot and on the earth seems like the best way to balance your energies. I even read somewhere that just walking around barefoot can help keep a balanced root chakra balanced. You literally draw the energy from the earth up through your feet.

Anyway, my whole evening got away from me because I cooked a big dinner and trashed my kitchen so I didn’t get the chance to do my meditation outside. I’m going to do it in bed again tonight, but I think I’m going to do the third chakra outside sometime before noon tomorrow.

Have a great night :) See you on the upswing!

I’ve started my chakra meditations today.
I’m finding myself very excited about committing to doing this for the next month. I’ve decided to go from today, Monday August 31, 2009 until Sunday September 27, 2009. That’s a 28 day round. One main chakra focus each day and each chakra will end up being the daily focus four separate times.

My main references for this little experiment are 3 books.

I have:

The Complete Guide to Crystal Chakra Healing: Energy Medicine for Mind, Body and Spirit
The Crystal Chakra Healing book is by Philip Permutt and came with a deck of chakra cards. There’s one card for each chakra that lists the associated crystals, incense, colors and a meditation. I’ll be doing the meditations on each card without using crystals for the first week. I may decide to incorporate the crystals later.

Energy Medicine: Balancing Your Body’s Energies for Optimal Health, Joy, and VitalityUpdated and Expanded
This one is by Donna Eden whom I LOVE! You can search for her on youtube and see videos of her energy exercises. It’s a little unconventional, but hey… so am I :) This book goes WAY beyond just chakra energy and covers acupuncture meridians and EFT to name just a bit. I HIGHLY recommend it to anyone interested in energy healing or anything related.

The Subtle Body: An Encyclopedia of Your Energetic Anatomy
This last book is by Cyndi Dale. It goes WAY WAY deeper than the first two. This one is more for someone very interested in the human body’s energetic systems. It covers chakras and pressure points and meridians and so much more I can’t even BEGIN to list it all here. It’s a very large, 500 page reference manual.

I really love all three of these books and am reading the relevant chakra section out of each of them on the appropriate day. My intention over the next 28 days is to not only stimulate and heal my chakras but also to learn and retain the information I read and write about.

Today I started with the root or base chakra. This is the chakra associated with the base of the spine and most commonly, the color red. It can appear, to individuals who can physically SEE energy, in gold tones and purple hues also.

As I walked around all day, I kept my root chakra in the back of my mind. Any time I found myself immobile, I would focus my consciousness into it and allow myself to feel it spinning. I suppose I must have focused directly on it 5 or 6 times throughout the day for maybe 2-3 minutes each time.

I also did a formal meditation. The card said basically to take the standard deep breaths to relax and then visualize a red light glowing from within and growing in intensity. Then see and feel it sink down through your body into your root chakra at the base of your spine…then down your legs and through your feet into the ground and then see it spreading out like red roots. I also took note of the spinning sensation. I love that part.

Tomorrow, I think I’m going to start with my root chakra and move into my sacral chakra. It is said that energy moves into your body through the root chakra and networks up through the others. I figure starting at the bottom and moving upward each day should keep things stimulated and moving.

Hope you all have a great night. See ya tomorrow!

♥ Happy Spirit Day!! ♥

I keep having the human pineal glad pulled into my awareness via synchronicity, so I decided to do some research today. I found out some pretty awesome things!

1. Fluoride (which is a POISON) accumulates in the pineal glad and can trigger early puberty in children. No wonder there’s so much teen aged pregnancy! They put poison in the water and biology takes care of the rest.

2. DMT is a chemical secreted by the pineal glad that is said to be highly hallucinogenic.
3. The pineal glad is recognized through all major religions as an important link between the human and the spirit. That’s right! Not JUST the eastern religions, but Catholicism too.

The pineal glad is associated with the brow chakra, or third eye. In looking through search results in my research, I ended up on youtube watching videos on the 7 chakras. Focusing on chakra meditation is something I’ve been wanting to do for quite some time now.

I considered for a moment, the idea that I’d ended up watching videos about chakras from a search about the pineal glad. I’ve been wanting to do that. Maybe I’ll do a month of chakra meditations. OOoo I could blog about it. How convenient that a new month starts in just one day. Then I thought…. If I was going to do it, I’d want to start with the base chakra on a Monday so I’d end up at the crown on Sunday. What a coincidence…. tomorrow is Monday.

SO! That’s what I’m going to do. I’m going to start tomorrow and focus on one chakra each day, starting with the base/root chakra.
I just love synchronicity. It’s always gently suggesting the best ideas.

I’m looking forward to my first official, back to school, Day Spa Monday tomorrow.
I intend to soak and exfoliate and clip and shave and pluck and buff and externally renew and beautify!! I’ve missed having my own time. I’m going to start the day by going for a bike ride with the dogs and then make a quick run to the bank. I’ll stop at the store on my way home and then I won’t have to leave again for the rest of the day.

Then it will just be me, the huge, bubble filled, candle encircled bath tub and all the DIY Day Spa Monday equipment in my arsenal. I think the tub will be the location of my first official chakra meditation. I suppose I’ll have to nail down a guided chakra meditation to start with. I love my MP3 player :)

I hope you all had a fantatic weekend.
When you wake up tomorrow, start the day by listing 10 things that will be GREAT about your day.
It’s a wonderful way to start your day and a phenomenal way to start your week.