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My book Crystal Healing & The Chakra System has recently been published. It covers the Chakra system, Crystal identification and uses, making crystal essences and meditation with crystals.
I am an Herbalist and Crystal Healing Practitioner and have a line of products Crystal Essence TM that combine, aromatherapy, herbal products and crystal essences for "Holistic Wellbeing for Auric & Physical Body"
See http://www.crystalartsandhealth.org.uk/ for the new Autumn/Winter Catalogue and for the new products in the e-shop. We have started making shaving soaps, solid shampoo soaps, and baby products and there are lots of new fun shapes for soaps, perfect for gift bags or stocking fillers.
Crystal Healing
Peridot – Cleansing, Refreshing, Invigorating, removes toxins from body. Combats negative train of thought. Strengthens personal identity, helps let go of past. Enhances natural healing processes, use with a grounding stone base of throat, one by heart, one near each kidney. Releases stress.
Herbalism
Lady’s mantle (Alchemilla vulgaris)
Actions: Astringent, diuretic, anti-inflammatory, vulnerary. Long tradition of use for “women’s complaints”, eases period pains and excessive bleeding, also aides in the changes of the menopause, can be used internally in diarrhea, and externally for cuts and wounds. Dosage: 2 teaspoons to a cup of water, steep 10-15 minutes, drink x 3 a day.
False Unicorn Root (Chamaelirium luteum)
Action: Uterine tonic, diuretic, anthelmintic, emetic. Tonic and strengthener of reproductive system. Also beneficial for men. normalizes hormones. Helpful to prevent miscarriage, (can be drunk in larger quantities for this purpose) eases vomiting in pregnancy. (Caution: large doses can cause vomiting). Dosage put 1-2 teaspoons of root in a cup of water, simmer gently, 10 to 15 minutes. Drink x 3 a day. Tincture take 2-4 ml of tincture x 3 a day.
Yoga
The Crow (Kakasana)
Strengthens the arms, wrists, and shoulders. Increases flexibility. Stretches, and lubricates joints, tendons, ligaments of the upper body. Expands the chest and increases breathing capacity. Revitalizes nerves and muscles of hands, wrists, and forearms. Prepares chest and arms for any kind of strenuous work. Develops power of concentration, nourishes mental poise and awareness. Encourages feeling of inner balance. Prepares the mind for meditation.
Poetry
A Visit from St. Nicholas
Attributed to Clement Clark Moore (1822)
More probably written by Major Henry Livingston, Jr. (1808)
’Twas the night before Christmas, when all through the house
Not a creature was stirring, not even a mouse;
The stockings were hung by the chimney with care, I
n hopes that St. Nicholas soon would be there;
The children were nestled all snug in their beds,
While visions of sugar-plums danced in their heads;
And mamma in her ’kerchief, and I in my cap,
Had just settled our brains for a long winter’s nap,
When out on the lawn there arose such a clatter,
I sprang from the bed to see what was the matter.
Away to the window I flew like a flash,
Tore open the shutters and threw up the sash.
The moon on the breast of the new-fallen snow
Gave the lustre of mid-day to objects below,
When, what to my wondering eyes should appear,
But a miniature sleigh, and eight tiny reindeer,
With a little old driver, so lively and quick,
I knew in a moment it must be St. Nick.
More rapid than eagles his coursers they came,
And he whistled, and shouted, and called them by name;
“Now, Dasher! now, Dancer! now, Prancer and Vixen!
On, Comet! on, Cupid! on, Donder and Blitzen!
To the top of the porch! to the top of the wall!
Now dash away! dash away! dash away all!”
As dry leaves that before the wild hurricane fly,
When they meet with an obstacle, mount to the sky;
So up to the house-top the coursers they flew,
With the sleigh full of Toys, and St. Nicholas too.
And then, in a twinkling, I heard on the roof
The prancing and pawing of each little hoof.
As I drew in my head, and was turning around,
Down the chimney St. Nicholas came with a bound.
He was dressed all in fur, from his head to his foot,
And his clothes were all tarnished with ashes and soot;
A bundle of Toys he had flung on his back,
And he looked like a pedler just opening his pack.
His eyes—how they twinkled! his dimples how merry!
His cheeks were like roses, his nose like a cherry!
His droll little mouth was drawn up like a bow
And the beard of his chin was as white as the snow;
The stump of a pipe he held tight in his teeth,
And the smoke it encircled his head like a wreath;
He had a broad face and a little round belly,
That shook when he laughed, like a bowlful of jelly.
He was chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf,
And I laughed when I saw him, in spite of myself;
A wink of his eye and a twist of his head,
Soon gave me to know I had nothing to dread;
He spoke not a word, but went straight to his work,
And filled all the stockings; then turned with a jerk,
And laying his finger aside of his nose,
And giving a nod, up the chimney he rose;
He sprang to his sleigh, to his team gave a whistle,
And away they all flew like the down of a thistle,
But I heard him exclaim, ere he drove out of sight,
“Happy Christmas to all, and to all a good-night.”
Music
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Happy Winter Solstice and Happy Christmas and New Year!
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