Friday Fill-In # 65

Friday, March 28, 2008

Friday Fill-In #65

1. Some relationships are meant to teach valuable lessons.
2. Chris Cagle is the last concert I saw; it was really bad, a complete waste of time.  The only reason I went was because my friend was dating Chris Cagle’s tour manager.  It was one of the longest nights of my life.
3. Spring should be a time of rebirth and renewal.
4. Oh no! I forgot to get my license plate renewed and it expires this month!
5. I’ve recently started to try to make a living with my art.
6. Cosmo never fails to make me smile.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to finalizing things for the art show, tomorrow my plans include exhibiting at an art festival and Sunday, I want to Start working on my pieces for the Earth Day Festival in April!  The web address is:

http://www.oakcliffearthday.com/

13 of My Favorite Goddesses

Thirteen of My Favorite Goddesses

1.  Kuan Yin - Goddess of Compassion. 

Exerpt from Goddess & Heroines by Patricia Monaghan 

Just as Catholic Christianity has provided an antidote to pure theological patriarchy by encouraging the reverence of the Virgin Mary, so Chinese Buddhism evolved a feminine bodhisattva, or Buddha-to-be, named Kuan Yin. And just as Mary captured the hearts of Catholic worshipers, so Kuan Yin far outstripped the male bodhisattvas in popularity. Both in Japan (as Kwannon, who is often pictured as male) and in pre-revolutionary China, this semidivine being was honored in virtually every home; she was the most powerful being in the entire Chinese pantheon.

It was said that Kuan Yin was so concerned for humanity that, upon receiving enlightenment, she chose to retain human form rather than transcend it as pure energy. And so she would stay until every single living creature attained enlightenment. Her name translates “she who hears the weeping world”; Kuan Yin sat on her paradise island P’u T’o Shan answering every prayer addressed to her. The mere utterance of her name in prayer was said to assure salvation from physical and spiritual harm. Even better was the observance of Kuan Yin’s own testimony of peace and mercy; her most devout worshipers ate no flesh and lived entirely without doing violence to other beings.  ************** 

2.  Oya - Change

3.  Brigid - Inspiration.

4.  Isis - Mothering

5.  Hecate - Crossroads

6.  Pele - Awakening

7.  Maya - Illusion

8.  Artemis - Selfhood

9.  Vila - Shape Shifting

10.  Maat - Justice

11.  Lakshmi - Abundance

12.  Sekhmet - Anger and Rage

13.  Ix Chel - Creativity

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My Goddess Oracle Reading

Okay, on Sunday, I did a Goddess Oracle reading.  It was very interesting.  For my past I got Blodewedd, representing betrayal.  For my present I got Sedna, representing the victim, and for my future I got Kuan Yin, one of my favorite goddesses, representing compassion.  I find these cards to be very helpful, not in an “oh what is my fortune?”  kind of way, but in using goddess as representation of  psychological archetypes.  I hate to admit it, but the cards were right on target.  I was very disappointed this weekend because I did not have my crystal healing session.  I had been looking forward to it for a long time, and I was very upset when it did not happen as planned.  I felt like I needed it.  I felt that it was important to me, and that I was being blown off.  I guess you can say that I felt what I thought was betrayal (hence the Blodewedd card).  I felt like my problems and issues were not important.  This triggered feelings from my childhood, where I was disregarded and viewed as insignificant (hence the Sedna card).  I was falling into the victim mode, where the world is against me, and that I am an insignificant and unimportant person to the people I care the most about. 

After nursing my initial wounds, I came to the realization that my issues are important (Hence the Kuan Yin Card).  I need to look at myself and my friends with compassion.  I need to step out of the Victim mode and and accept that I am lovable.  I have a hard time with people that are close to me.  I do not like to talk about my stuff, because I often feel my problems are stupid, or not important.  I need to stop being so hard on myself and my friends.  I need to give them the benefit of the doubt.  I need to open myself up and trust the people that I care about.  The only person I have ever truly trusted is my younger sister.  She really does have the ability to read my mind.  I expect my friends to have this same skill.  I need to express myself honestly and openly.  I will try harder at this, I promise!  I know my friends love and care about me, it is just very hard for me to accept.  The cards helped me to completely analyze my situation.  The Goddess Oracle Cards, are very useful for true introspection and Jungian self analysis.  If you are interested in the cards, here is the link:

http://www.goddessoracle.com/GOF-home.html

The artwork on the cards is amazing. 

Friday Fill-In #64

Friday Fill-In 

1. Creating Art is so exciting!
2. Strawberry fields are something I have never seen.  I would like to go and pick my own fresh strawberries someday.
3. Warm-Chocolate cake with vanilla ice-cream sounds like it would taste delicious!
4. Why does getting enough sleep make me feel so good?!
5. The Alhambra is something I’ve always wanted to see.
6. It’s sad when I miss my sister, when I see something That would make her laugh, When I wish I was more a part of her life, or when I think about how far away she is from me.
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to working on my art projects, tomorrow my plans include Book Club and Sunday, I want to work on more projects!

Friday’s Feast

Appetizer

On a scale of 1-10 (with 10 as highest), how much do you like your own handwriting?

That would definitely be a 1.  I hate my handwriting!

Soup

Do you prefer baths or showers?

I love them both!  A relaxing bath is always wonderful, but when I am in a hurry I love showers.

Salad

What was the last bad movie you watched?

American Pie - I know a lot of people like that movie, but I hated it.  I just wasn’t in the mood for crude/crass humor.  I will have to watch it again when I am drunk, maybe it will get better????

Main Course

Name something you are addicted to and describe how it affects your life.

I am addicted to regular sodas - especially Pepsi and Coke.  This addiction adds calories to my diet and pounds to my body.  I would drink the diet variety if I wasn’t allergic to phenylalanine and sucralose.  I am going to try to quit.  Is there a Coke/Pepsi Anonymous?

Dessert

Which instrument is your favorite to listen to?

I love the flute and all of its close cousins - piccolo, pan flute, Peruvian wood flute.

Friday Fill-Ins

Friday, March 14, 2008

1. Contact may cause increased energy and feelings of intense happiness.
2. The parties hereto do mutually agree to ever mind the rule of threes.
3. Disney parks WaHooooooo!!!!!!!!!!!!!
4. Teavana Peach Tranquility Herbal Tea, A delightfully harmonious blend of candied peach pieces, pineapple, lemon myrtle, Roman chamomile, sunflower petals and rosehips, sounds really good right about now!
5. I positively love Amethysts and every shade of the color purple.
6. My dog Cosmo always makes me smile :-)
7. And as for the weekend, tonight I’m looking forward to Sleeping, tomorrow my plans include a crystal healing and Sunday, I want to work on my art projects!

 


You Are a Mermaid


You are a total daydreamer, and people tend to think you’re flakier than you actually are.

While your head is often in the clouds, you’ll always come back to earth to help someone in need.

Beyond being a caring person, you are also very intelligent and rational.

You understand the connections of the universe better than almost anyone else.

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What Your Sleeping Position Says


You are calm and rational person with a good deal of balance in your life.
Friends consider you to be kind, caring, and truly loyal.
You are easy going and trusting. However, you are too sensible to fall for mind games.
Open to the world, you are not afraid to be yourself.If you don’t get enough sleep, you are: Able to cope

It’s hard to sleep next to you because: You’re a bed hog

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Jewelry and Art Objects

This has been a busy week.  I have been working on getting my jewelry ready to sell.  I will be selling them on etsy.com.  I have been making new pieces and taking photos.  My store name is AmethystsArt.etsy.com.  I hope to have everything up and running today.  WhooHoo!!!  Check out my healing stone jewelry.  I want to coincide the start of my site with the New Moon.  This is a great time to start something new.  I send love and light to everyone!!!

Thursday Thirteen Plus One Extra

Thirteen Things About Colors - Plus One

WHITE Meditation/ 
Dream:
Truth of the highest order. Enlightenment. Energy in its most pure form. Divinity.
Aura: Never a predominate color in the aura unless you are looking at an angel or an ascended master.
Healing: Charging the energy field,  bringing peace and comfort, divine light or whole white light entering.

 

VIOLET 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Conjures feelings of enchantment, wishes fulfilled, of dreams made fact. Transformation of the self or of some aspect of your life into a higher form. Connecting to your higher self.
Aura: This color in the aura is the highest vibration for the human spirit. A person who is in command of his life and energy. A visionary. Violet with a gold outline is a person who is one with spirit and is in service to mankind.
Healing: Connecting to spirit, the opening of the third eye, the clearing of the head, purging the auric field of distortions.

 

BLUE 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Blue is the energy of pacification, self protection, sweetness and tenderness, and of loyalty. It represents contentment and reunion with the Earth.
Aura: Blue in the aura represents a teacher or a very sensitive person. They are kind and caring and will do much to help others grow. 
Healing: Cooling, calming, restructuring of the etheric level, taking away pain when doing deep tissue work and work on bone cells. Blue also helps to expand a person’s field to connect to his/her life task.

 

GREEN 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Taken most directly from nature, these hues often are expressive of constancy, self-affirmation, security, self-esteem, and of deeply rooted pride. A healing meditation may contain green, as it is the color of new growth.
Aura: Green in the aura signals a very intellectual person who may possess healing gifts. At the very least it signals a nurturer personality and one that will do what they can to make another comfortable.
Healing: Charging the heart chakra, balancing the aura, general healing, sometimes charging the aura to ensure well being and health, and to remove illness.

 

YELLOW 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Representative of cheerfulness, radiance, relaxation and release from burdens. It is warmth of sunlight, the halo around the Holy Grail. Yellow is hope and also intelligence.
Aura: Yellow, like green also signals a very intellectual person. They are powerful thinkers, and idea makers.
Healing: Charging the brow chakra, clearing a foggy head.

 

ORANGE 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Symbolic of fire, of expanding energy, power and the omnipotence of the sun and the majesty of sunsets. Energy to accomplish ones goals.
Aura: A very ambitions person who needs to succeed and has the energy to do so.
Healing: Charging the auric field, increasing sexual potency, increasing the immunity system.

 

ROSE 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
In meditation or dreams represents self-love, also resurrection. The color of flesh, of sensuality and emotion, romantic love, and supportive love.
Aura: A person in-love with another or in-love with one’s created environment.
Healing: Subtle healing and love. This energy puts back a sense of self love and self worth.

 

RED 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Red represents the will to achieve, energy, intensity, and struggle. It is also appetite, desire, and reproduction. It is life in the “now.”
Aura: People with mostly red in their aura are fiery spontaneous people. They are often fearless, or appear that way. Red’s make good police and firemen and soldiers. Red will also be found in the normal aura for brief periods during great anger or passion.
Healing: Super charging the auric field, burning out cancer, warming cold areas.

 

GOLD 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Divinity transforming lower energy to upper energy. Spiritual power in all aspects operating for the greater good.
Aura: Gold in the aura is rarely a predominate color, however you can find it as an outline to another color, like violet. Gold as an outline in the aura adds the dimension of spiritual nobility and rank, a person that has and is achieving great spiritual progress and work.
Healing: The restructuring of the seventh layer of the aura.

 

GRAY 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Grey in a dream or meditation signals excessive energy being burnt off. it is also a lifting of intense fear or some life-threatening situation.
Aura: A person who’s life-force is leaking away due to unhappiness, sadness, depression, or illness. With the color black a person with advanced cancer.
Healing: Only used during a healing when excessive energy must be removed because the person can’t handle it.

 

BLACK 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
In the shinny black variety it is a closing in of energy and resource to protect ones self. The velvet or shinny black is not a negative color to get in a meditation, especially if you are feeling burnt out. A velvet black light opens up the Aura so that it can accept higher colors.
Aura: A dull lifeless black in the aura shows a person who is very far removed from the constructive forces of the universe. With the grey streaks, it shows a person being destroyed by his or her own actions and lack of spirituality.
Note: Wearing black is very common and it opens up the human aura to all the other colors.  Wearing black also protects your energy from leaking out to others.
Healing: The velvet black color is used to bring a patient into the state of grace, silence, and peace.

 

SILVER 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Silver relates to the moon, the subconscious, and the female aspect of the universe. 
Aura: Not a color usually present in the aura in any great quantity.
Healing: Used to purge the auric field and to charge the sixth level of being (karmic level), to remove old karma that is no longer needed.

 

INDIGO 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Purple or indigo in a dream or meditation signals  some kind of psychic power or ability or some kind of psychic force.
Aura: In the aura shows a very intuitive person, a person with prepackaged abilities that come from before birth to be used physically in this incarnation. These people tend to be square pegs as far as society and fitting in is concerned. This will change as  more of the current generation is born with this color and takes its place in society.
Healing: The opening up of intuition or of some psychic ability.

 

CRYSTAL 
Meditation/ 
Dream:
Transformation into a new form or a higher energy state. Crystals amplify and a crystal light will amplify your own energy to a higher level.
Aura: A crystal aura around a person is clear but will have other colors intermingled with it. This is the ‘chameleon’ aura. People with this aura will take on the attitudes and ways of those around them. The aura of others becomes their own aura. It is important for these crystal people to only surround themselves with the best influences possible, for obvious reasons. A person with a crystal aura must learn how to separate themselves from everybody else. 
Healing: Sometimes used to fill in an empty spot where some energy was removed, so that nothing unwanted takes it’s place, till the person’s energy field can replace the vacuum with its own energy field.

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