More Dream Images

1. People of all shapes and sizes walking in circles around a large clock-face singing, "What is the world going to do today? What in the world? What in the world?



2. My childhood room -

3. A time machine.

4. A man with the plague stirring a cauldron, (not a good dream!)

(I had a better cauldron dream once, where a beautiful woman with dark hair sang a skeleton on a table back to life.)

5. In a rain forest, gathered round a Mayan sacred pool with other warriors, (I was one)...

6. Watching lions run down a beach as the oceans receeded... an apocalyptic sort of dream...

7. Dancing with a circle of women around a fire on a mountain ... there were drums in the distance... one woman turned to me and her eyes flashed yellow like a cat's and her teeth barred showing fangs... "Sorry", she said, "sometimes that just happens."

Eyes of Erzulie Flambeau

8.  An army of Cardinals moving in kaliedoscopic patterns over a U.N. Conference...

9. An ancient maypole...

10. The real Scarborough Fair

11. That I'm a fox running across Sutton Hoo...

I must go back to keeping a dream journal...

The Meaning of Moonstones

Some Beliefs About Moonstones

1.Moonstone is the most valuable stone from the feldspar group.

2. It was named by the Romans.

3. A sacred stone in India, it was believed to bring the wearer beautiful visions. Indian astrologers say that the stone was used to befriend the Moon.


4. Moonstones were and are used for scrying and some ancients believed that to tell your own fortune you needed to hold a moonstone in your mouth.

5. Other ancient people believed you could see the crescent and waning phases of the Moon in the stone.

6. In many areas of the world, moonstone is believed to bring good fortune to its wearer.
7. It is believed in some cultures to specifically protect women and children.

8. Moonstones are also believed to enhance passion, strengthen emotional and subconscious aspects, our intuition and our capacity to understand.


9. The Moonstone is also called the lover's stone, said to enhance feelings and safeguard love/keeps lovers faithful.

10. In Arab countries moonstone a symbol of fertility and women often sew them into their garments. 


11. From Antiquity to the Middle Ages the moonstone was assigned to the planets Neptune and Venus.

12. Moonstone is said to be of help for headaches and backache.
13. Some legends say moonstones were formed out of the rays of the moon.

14. Other legends say you can see the future in a moonstone during a waning moon.  

Crystals - Some Metaphysical Properties

Agate

•Agate: Balances ying-yang energy and stabilizes the aura. Imparts strength and courage. Opens one to innate creative talents.

•Amber: Purifies body, mind, and spirit. Balances electromagnetic of the body and allows even flow of energies. Provides a positive, soothing energy. Spiritualizes the intellect.

•Amethyst: Calming energy. Encourages spirituality and contentment. Stone of stability, strength, and peace. Enhances psychic ability.


•Aventurine: Independence, leadership, creativity. Balances male and female energies. Aligns intellectual, physical, emotional, and etheric bodies.

•Aquamarine: Courage, intellect, protection. Assists spiritual awareness and actualization.

•Azurite: Awakens psychic ability, insight, and intuition. 

Azurite

•Amazonite: Balancing energy, harmony, and fosters Universal love.

•Bloodstone: Bloodstone imparts strength, courage, and the self-confidence needed to succeed in business and legal affairs. Attracts wealth, sexual potency, insures victory.
•Carnelian: Carnelian is a healing stone that counteracts feelings of apathy, fear and rage. Fosters peace within and without, imparts self-confidence, and inspired verbal and written communication.

•Celestite: Excellent stone for dream recall and astral travel.

•Chrysocolla: Strength and balance. Promotes harmony and attunement to the Earth. Purifies one’s environment.

•Citrine: Dissipates negative energy. Encourages warmth, joy, and optimism.

•Diamond: Purity, perfection, abundance, and inspiration.

Flourite

•Emerald: Loyalty, sensitivity, harmony, and tranquillity. Assists in memory retention and mental clarity.

•Fluorite: Stability, order, discernment, and concentration. Helps one to understand and maintain ideals.
•Garnet: Commitment, devotion, love, stability and order. Even flow of energy.

•Hematite: Excellent for the mind, and grounding.

•Jade: Harmony, peace, fidelity, confidence. A great dream stone.

•Jasper: Protection, awareness, insight, and grounding.
•Labradorite: Represents the light of the Universe. Intuition and illumination.

•Lapis Lazuli: Knowledge, wisdom, perfection, protection, and creative expression.

•Lepidolite: Honesty, stability, hope, acceptance. Assists in change and transition. 

Labradorite

•Lodestone: Lodestones are natural magnets, used primarily to attract things to the one using them- good luck, healing, money, love.

•Malachite: Transformation and spiritual development. Clears the way to attain goals.

•Moldavite: Clarity and eternity. Inter-dimensional properties.

•Moonstone: Lunar female energy. Emotional and intuitive. Rhythms, cycles, and destiny.

•Obsidian: Dispels negativity. Grounding, healing, protective. Helps one to clearly see one’s flaws and the changes that are necessary.

•Onyx: Centring, self-control, and intuitive guidance. Assists in the grieving process.

•Opal: Creativity, inspiration, and imagination.

•Peridot: Healing and protective. Allows one to understand changes in one’s life.

•Petrified Wood: Grounding provides strength. Stone of transformation.

Moonstone

•Pyrite: Shields from negative energy, good stone of protection. Enhances intellect and memory. Symbol of the sun.

•Clear Quartz: Universal crystal, clarity of consciousness. 

•Rose Quartz: Empowers and attracts the energies of love, happiness and peace. Encourages healing on all levels.

•Ruby: Love, nurturing, spirituality, wealth, and protection.
•Sapphire: Beauty and prosperity.

•Shiva Lingam: Said to contain the loftiest vibration of all stones on Earth. The stone represents both the male energy of knowledge & the female energy of wisdom.

•Smoky Quartz: Dissolves negativity, grounding, and balancing. Excellent for meditation.

•Sodalite: Logic, efficiency, and truthfulness. Enhances group communication.

Smokey Quartz

•Sugilite: Spiritual love, perfection, inspiration, confidence. Alleviates negative/destructive emotions.

•Tiger-eye: Earthy, grounding. Represents sun and earth. Optimism, insight, personal power.

•Topaz: Success, true love, individuality, creativity, and joy.

•Tourmaline: Inspiration, understanding, self-confidence, balancing.
•Turquoise: Spiritual attunement, strength, and grounding.

Reference: Pagan.org

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2. Orpheus Descending

3. Zen Quotes by Sun Sign #1 and Zen Quotes by Sun Sign #2

4. Rune Poems

5. My Interview With Don Miguel Ruiz

6. Buddhist Chant, Shingon and AUM Chant

7. How to Tell Fortunes With Dice

8. Victorian Ghost Stories, 'The Judge's House' by Bram Stoker

9. Omens

10. How to Make Corn Husk Dolls and Their Role in Legend and Ritual

11. How to Tell Fortunes With Tea Leaves

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The World of the Witch of Endor - Canaanite Artifacts

When the Witch of Endor communicated with the dead for the Biblica King Saul, she wasn't practicing witchcraft as we think of it at all but rather the Cannaanite religion. A core part of their beliefs and practices included veneration of ancestors, who were sometimes asked for help by the living. It was believed that, after the death of the physical body, the soul went to a place called Mot. Offerings of food and drink were made after death to the deceased, and the deceased were also buried with possessions to accompany them in Mot.

Mot, or Mawat, the God of death, was not worshipped or given offerings. The name, interestingly, survives in our English term, 'check mate'. Another interesting aside, the notorious Jezebel was also a Canaanite priestess. They were a cosmopolitan and sophisticated people.

Unfortunately, little is known about their culture and religion.

Canaanite Artifacts:

Lady of Ibzia

Bronze Mirror with Goddess Handle

Beautiful Glass:

Chimera

Bronze Dieties

Gold Bull

Pig Vessel

 Fertility Goddess

 Astarte

 Head of Figure

Forks

 Water, Wine or Oil Vessel

Gold Jar

Mosaic

Religious Relief

Baal Figure

Sword

Bronze Statue

Cup From the Time of Isaac

Goddess

Another Cup From the Time of Isaac

Axe

Dagger

Animal Figure

Girl With Drum

Pitcher

Limestone Mask

Alabaster Jar

Glass Pitcher

Chariot Figurine

Face Vessel

Sarcophagi