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What Is Meditation?

Meditation can be defined as a set of techniques that are intended to encourage a heightened state of awareness and focused attention. Meditation is also a consciousness-changing technique that has been shown to have a wide number of benefits on psychological well-being.

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Some key things to note about meditation:

Meditation has been practiced in cultures all over the world for thousands of years.

Nearly every religion, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Christianity, Judaism, and Islam, has a tradition of using meditative practices.

While meditation is often used for religious purposes, many people practice it independently of any religious or spiritual beliefs or practices.

Meditation can also be used as a psychotherapeutic technique.

There are many different types of meditation.

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* Types *

Meditation can take on many different forms, but there are two main types: concentrative meditation and mindfulness meditation:

Concentrative meditation involves focusing all of your attention on a specific object while tuning out everything else around you. The goal is to really experience whatever you are focusing on, whether it's your breath, a specific word, or a mantra in order to reach a higher state of being.

Mindfulness meditation includes, among others, both mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) and mindfulness-based cognitive therapy (MBCT). Mindfulness can target different issues, such as depression, which means that its focus may be different from practice to practice. Overall, it involves the state of being aware of and involved in the present moment and making yourself open, aware, and accepting.

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* Impact of Meditation *

Consciousness is often likened to a stream, shifting and changing smoothly as it passes over the terrain. Meditation is one deliberate means of changing the course of this stream, and in turn, altering how you perceive and respond to the world around you.

Research has shown that meditation can have both physiological and psychological effects. Some of the positive physiological effects include a lowered state of physical arousal, reduced respiration rate, decreased heart rate, changes in brain wave patterns, and lowered stress.

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Some of the other psychological, emotional, and health-related benefits of meditation include:

Better management of symptoms of conditions including anxiety disorders, depression, sleep disorders, pain issues, and high blood pressure

Better stress management skills

Changes in different aspects of attention and mindfulness

Increased self-awareness

Improved emotional well-being

Improved working memory and fluid intelligence

Improved immunity

Greater empathy for yourself and others

Headache relief

Source :https://www.verywellmind.com/what-is-meditation-2795927

Pictures: found on Pinterest

For meditation music go to my husband YouTube channel: https://m.youtube.com/channel/UCj6C8agtQc8jJyifGFj1JAg

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Love the aesthetic

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Always cleanse your cards 🕯️🍃🥀

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Crystal of the day: Aventurine

Chakras - dependent on colour

Zodiac - Aries ♈, Leo ♌

Element - Earth

Typical colours - Green, but may also be orange, brown, yellow, blue or grey

Aventurine is a stone of prosperity. It reinforces leadership qualities and decisiveness. Promotes compassion and empathy. Encourages perseverance. Aventurine relieves stammers and severe neuroses. It stabilises one’s state of mind, stimulates perception and enhances creativity. Aids in seeing alternatives and possibilities. Calms anger and irritation. Promotes feelings of well-being. Aventurine balances male-female energy. It encourages regeneration of the heart. Protects against environmental pollution.

Aventurine benefits the thymus gland and nervous system. It balances blood pressure and stimulates the metabolism, lowering cholesterol. Aventurine has an anti-inflammatory effect and eases skin eruptions, allergies, migraines, and soothes the eyes. It heals lungs, sinuses, heart, muscular and urogenital systems.

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*Colour Healing with Aventurine*

In addition to the generic healing properties of Aventurine, specific colours have additional attributes:

* Blue Aventurine *

Chakras - Third Eye Chakra, Throat Chakra

Blue Aventurine helps those with addictions to take responsibility for their problems. When used in meditation it will assist you in overcoming addictions. Blue Aventurine clears old, stagnant energies, helping you to open up to inner growth and spiritual work. It also strengthens communication abilities, helping you to speak out when required and being true to yourself.

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* Green Aventurine *

Chakras - Heart Chakra

Green Aventurine is a comforter and heart healer. It neutralises all sources of electromagnetic pollution, blocking out emanations from computers, television and other electronic equipment. Green Aventurine settles nausea and dissolves negative emotions and thoughts. It brings well-being and emotional calm. Also used to help strengthen eyesight. A good all-round healer.

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* Yellow Aventurine *

Chakras - Sacral Chakra, Solar Plexus Chakra

Yellow Aventurine opens and balances the Sacral and Solar Plexus Chakras. It is especially helpful for those who are oversensitive or indecisive, aiding in overcoming any feelings of problems with power and control over your own life. It can help focus intentions for manifesting a sense of ease in being yourself, in addition to increasing levels of abundance and prosperity. Yellow Aventurine also enhances creativity.

∆ Creativity ∆ Imagination ∆ Independence ∆ Prosperity ∆ Calmness ∆ Career success ∆ Balance ∆ Heals circulation ∆ Heals congestion

Source: https://www.charmsoflight.com/aventurine-healing-properties

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Constellation Perseus

Perseus was one of the legendary Greek heroes, like Hercules and is featured in many an adventure. He is immortalised in the heavens next to his beloved Andromeda . Perseus led an eventful life right from conception. His mother Danae, had been imprisoned by her father in an underground cell, lit only by a barred window in the ceiling. But the king of the gods, Zeus, desired her, and went to her in a shower of gold that fell as rain through the window. She became pregnant and gave birth to a boy-child, Perseus. Mystified and furious, her father locked them in a chest and cast them into the sea. To make a long story short, a fisherman saved them.

Later Perseus was tricked into going after the head of Medusa, one of the hideous Gorgon sisters. Medusa had snakes for hair, and her gaze would turn people into stone. But the gods were with Perseus, giving him a shining shield, a helmet that made him invisible, sword, and winged sandals so that he could fly,. Thus equipped, he flew to where the Gorgons lived. Finding Medusa, he looked at her only as a reflection in his shield. Then he sliced off her head and flew away with it. It was on his way home that he came across Andromeda chained to the to rocks, and killed the sea monster, Cetus that was about to eat her. He later married Andromeda.

The winking demon

In the sky, Perseus is depicted holding Medusa's head. The constellation lies within the Milky Way and so is a delight to sweep with binoculars. The brightest star, Alpha, is also known by its Arabic name Mirphak.

Perseus's second brightest star, Beta is located in Medusa's head. Its Arabic name is Algol, meaning demon's head and it has long been known as the Demon Star.

For most of the time, Algol shines steadily at a magnitude of about two. But about every three days, it dims noticeably. It is a kind of variable star known as an eclipsing binary. A binary is an object that looks like one star, but Is actually two, orbiting around each other. In Algol's case, one star is large and dim, the other small and bright. About every three days as we view the pair from Earth, the large, dim one covers up the small bright one, and so we see the overall brightness fall. When the dim star passes by, the former brightness returns.

Source book: " Tales of the Night Sky" by Robin Kerrod

Constellation picture from Pinterest

(click to read about Andromeda constellation )

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Lemon verbena ( Aloysia triphylla)

Behind the sunny, uplifting scent of lemon verbena lie some serious healing properties. It has a toning and strengthening effect on the nervous digestive, respiratory, and immune systems. Its antiseptic action aids healing, while anti-inflammatory properties restore tired post-workout muscles.

PERFECT BLEND

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Ideal blending partners include:

lemon, elemi, rose, bergamot, neroli, lavender, cedarwood, juniper, eucolyptus and palmarosa

WHAT IS IT GOOD FOR ?

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* Relieves anxiety and aids focus *

Lemon verbena hasa wonderfully calming, sedative effect. As well as easing feelings of panic, it also aids focus, concentration, and retention when studying or reading.

* Acts as an aphrodisiac *

The soothing effect of lemon verbena on breathing and heart rates lies behind the clalm that it can be an effective aphrodisiac for both sexes.

* Supports immunity *

As well as supporting liver function, lemon verbena helps to bring downa fever by encouraging perspiration.

* Fights colds and flu *

With its fresh citrus scent and antiseptic action, the oil relieves cold and flu symptoms, ecsing iritating coughs and loosening congestion in the sinuses and lungs.

* Soothes aches and pains *

Massaging with lemon verbena after a workout tones muscles and reduces the bulldup of lactic ocld. The oil also encouroges the repoir of weak connective tissue and speeds up the healing process of joint-related injuries. It has an anti-infiammatory effect that can help lessen the pain of arthritis and improve overall mobility.

* Soothes digestion and relieves menstrual cramps *

A gentle massage with a lemon verbena blend eases stomach upsets and nausea. Its antispasmodic properties act on menstrual cramps, and it's thought the oil helps regulate menstrual cycles.

BEST USES

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* In a diffuser *

Dispersed into the air the oil helps to calm nerves, and can also be used to bolster the spirits when dealing with periods of stress, or when feeling down and depressed.

* As a massage oil *

Lemon verbena provides skin benefits and supports health at a deeper level by lowering breathing and heart rates and boosting immunity and liver function. For a massage, blend 8-9 drops in 2 tablespoons base oil.

* In a lotion *

Add 1-2 drops of the essential oil to 1 tablespoon lotion base to help soften and tone the skin. The oil is also useful for reducing skin pufiness and infiammation.

* The essential oil *

The leaves and stalks are steam-distiled for the oil, wihich is a yellowish-green colour. It has a fresh lemony smell described as simultaneously hot and bitter. Its extremely subtle aroma has proved difficult to reproduce synthetically.

SAFE USAGE

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Use well diluted (less than 0.5 per cent). Avoid on sensitive skin ,children under 15 years old, before exposure to the sun, and during pregnancy and breastfeeding.

THE PLANT

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A native of Chile and Peru, lemon verbena now grows in many tropical areas worldwide. With its pointed pale green leaves and stems bearingg tubular flowers, the plant has a strong and distinct lemon aroma.

Source book: "Essential oils" by Neal's Yard Remedies

Pictures: used from unsplash and Pinterest

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Crystal of the day: Amazonite

Chakras - Heart Chakra, Throat Chakra

Zodiac - Virgo ♍

Planet - Uranus

Element - Earth, Water

Typical colours - Green with cream veins.

Amazonite is a soothing stone. It calms the brain and nervous system and aids in maintaining optimum health. Balances the masculine and feminine energies. Amazonite helps you to see both sides of a problem or different points of view. It soothes emotional trauma, alleviating worry and fear. Dispels negative energy, aggravation and blockages within the nervous system. Amazonite assists in manifesting universal love. It protects against electromagnetic pollution and absorbs microwaves.

Amazonite is beneficial in osteoporosis, tooth decay, calcium deficiency and calcium deposits. It relieves muscle spasms.

∆ Inspires truth ∆ Sincerity ∆ Honour ∆ Self-love ∆ Communication ∆ Eloquence ∆ Integrity ∆ Trust ∆ Clairvoyance ∆ Clarity ∆ Prophecy ∆ Psychic vision

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Why spells fail

Sometimes, even when youre doing everything right, a spell just doesn't come off.

It can happen to witches who have been casting spells for years. But why? There are lots of reasons for the odd spell failure, but if you are finding that you regularly struggle to get success, it might be something to do with one of the following:

1. Types of spell

There are so many different ways to cast a spell, so many conflicting opinions and so many spells on offer that it's easy to find yourself pulled in different directions, trying to work with candles, an altar, lunar Magick, astrology, Tarot, crystals, herbs and more. While it's an appealing idea to master them all, in reality, you should really just go with the forms that suit you. Exploring the different styles is great (after all, that's how you fhnd out what fits), but it is natural that you will be better at casting certain spells than others. Follow your strengths

2. Impossible Magick

Spells to win the lottery or influence political voting? Some spells may be just too hard for anyone. Of course, it is important to aim high and focus your spells on a specific intention with the belief that you are capable of affecting big change, but just as you might be working for one outcome, there might be lots of other witches working for the opposite outcome. Also, if something is impossible (and I'm talking something that is clearly out of whack with the natural energies that give witches their power), no amount of Magick is going to change that. You cant shoot fire from your fingers. You can't change yourself into a cat. Sorry.

3. It is working, just not in the way you thought

This is quite common in love spells. You want your partner to be more loving and attentive and so cast the appropriate spell, hoping that your relationship will explode with passion and romance before your very eyes. But instead you and your partner start arguing and you eventually break up. That spell didn't work then. But it did! A short time later you meet someone who showers you with an abundance of love. So although the spell didn't work exactly the way you thought it would, it hasn't technically failed. Sometimes you have to have a little trust that Magick has its own way of showing you success.

4. You worry too much

Are you a natural worrier? Do you spend a lot of your time in an anxious state fretting about everyday things? Chances are you are bringing your heavy, worried state to your spells, which is affecting their chances of working. We all worry about the outcome of our spells ('Will it work? 'What happens if ..), but if you are constantly worrying about the outcome, it is likely that your excessive negative energies about the spell failing will outweigh all your spell intentions. Try to shift your mind into a more positive state during your spell and immediately after, or try distracting yourself with something that you enjoy. Put the belief back in your Magick.

Source book: THE MODERN WITCH'S GUIDE TO HAPPINESS by Luna Bailey

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Important for all witches 🥀

Friendly Reminder: Salt and Casting Circles Outside

Please don’t cast circles using Salt outside, especially in the soil. Salt is absorbent and takes water away from plant life, therefore effectively killing off most things.

There is a reason why in the Ancient Near East (Egypt, Mesopotamia, Armenia, etc), Spain, Portugal, etc it was so common to SALT THE EARTH of conquered cities, or even convicted criminals, to prevent re-inhabitation . It destroys soil nutrients, absorbency, and heavily delays and/or stops plant growth all together.

So please, my Witchy Siblings, seek safer alternatives when working outside. Cast a circle in stones or branches. Draw one into the soil itself. Use a biodegradable material like eggshells instead. But please, do NOT use Salt.

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Constellation Andromeda

The constellation Andromeda is found in far northern skies, adjoining Perseus and Cassiopeia. It is often called the chained lady, for it was pictured on ancient star maps as a beautiful and tragic figure of a woman, who was bound by chains to rocks on the seashore. How did the fair Andromeda find herself in this predicament? Andromeda was the daughter of King Cepheus and Queen Cassiopeia . The queen had offended some beautiful sea nymphs, called the Nereids, by claiming to be more beautiful than they. As retribution for this affront to his charges, the sea god, Poseidon sent a monster, Cetus to wreak havoc along the shores of King Cepheus's kingdom.

In desperation, Cepheus consulted an oracle to find out if there was some way that he could put an end to the destruction the monster was causing. He was told that he had to give the monster a living sacrifice-his daughter-which is how Andromeda came to be chained to the rocks. As the terrified Andromeda waited to be devoured, the hero Perseus happened along and asked who she was and why she was in this pitiful state. At first, improbably shy, Andromeda said nothing, but gradually she told Perseus everything, ending with an ear-splitting scream as she saw Cetus approaching. Perseus, fresh from killing the Gorgon Medusa, still had her head in his hand. He turned the Gorgon's face to Cetus, which promptly turned to stone and sank. As his reward, Perseus claimed Andromeda's hand in marriage and she later bore him six children.

The great spiral 

Andromeda is easy to locate as it is joined to Pegasus, one of the most unmistakable of all constellations owing to its square of four stars. Visually, the individual stars in Andromeda are not particularly noteworthy. The most interesting object by far is a blurry patch, found roughly midway between the  Square of Pegasus and the W-shape of Cassiopeia. This patch resembles a nebula or gas cloud, but in fact it is a distant star island, or galaxy. It is often called the Great Spiral because of its structure, which shows up when viewed through a powerful telescope.

Source: "Tales of the Night Sky" by Robin Kerrod

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Apophyllite, spirit quartz and lavender

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Crystals of the day : Tourmalines

Today a bit bigger post as I decided to talk about more than one type of tourmaline 🔮

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Chakras - (depending on colour)

Zodiac - Virgo ♍, Libra ♎

Typical colours - Most commonly black, but can range from brown, violet, green, pink, or in a dual-coloured pink and green (watermelon).

Tourmaline aids in understanding oneself and others. It promotes self-confidence and diminishes fear. Tourmaline attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance and prosperity. It balances the right-left sides of the brain. Helps treat paranoia, overcomes dyslexia and improves hand-eye coordination. Tourmaline releases tension, making it helpful for spinal adjustments. It balances male-female energy within the body. Enhances energy and removes blockages.

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*Colour Healing with Tourmaline*

In addition to the generic healing properties of Tourmaline, specific colours have additional attributes:

* Black Tourmaline - also known as Schorl *

Chakras - Base Chakra

Zodiac - Capricorn ♑

Element - Earth

Vibration - Numbers 3 and 4

Black Tourmaline can be used to both repel and protect against negativity. It is excellent for deflecting radiation energy. It enhances ones physical well being by providing an increase in physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity.

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* Blue Tourmaline - also known as Indicolite *

Chakras - Throat Chakra

Zodiac - Libra ♎, Taurus ♉

Planet - Saturn

Element - Water

Vibration - Numbers 6, 9 and Master Number 55

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* Brown Tourmaline - also known as Dravide, or Dravite *

Zodiac - Aries ♈

Vibration - Numbers 2 and 9

Brown Tourmaline is used to clear and protect the aura. It clears and opens the earth chakra, (which is located approximately 12 to 18 inches below the soles of the feet - it is not within the actual physical body but is part of the etheric body), grounding you to the earth. It assists in healing dysfunctional family relationships, and helps the user feel comfortable in social groups. Can be used to to treat intestinal disorders and skin issues.

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* Green Tourmaline *

Chakras - Heart Chakra

Zodiac- Capricorn ♑

Planet - Mercury

Element - Earth

Vibration - Number 6

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* Pink Tourmaline - also known as Rubellite *

Chakras - Heart Chakra

Birthstone - October

Vibration - Number 9 and Master Number 99

∆ Flexibility ∆ Happiness ∆ Objectivity ∆ Compassion ∆ Serenity ∆ Balance ∆ Positive transformation ∆ Healing ∆ Strength ∆ Tolerance ∆ Understanding

Source: https://www.charmsoflight.com/tourmaline-healing-properties

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