Crystal Arts & Health Blog

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Crystal Healing

Zoisite – Powerful healer, detoxifier, stimulates healing, enhances creativity, individuality, helps fertility, helps recovery after illness.

Herbalism

Star Anise (http://www.herbmoonhollow.com/)

Latin Name -Illicium Verum

Health benefits: Used as an antidepressant, aids digestion; drink tea for memory. Magically used to protect and for safety during travel.

Comfrey Root (Symphytum officinale) (http://www.herbmoonhollow.com/)

Actions: Vulnerary, demulcent, astringent, expectortant

Recipe: Comfrey Baby Oil: 4 oz Sweet Almond Oil, 2 Tbs comfrey 1 drop lavender oil. Pour oil over the comfrey. Leave in a dark warm place for 2 days, strain and add lavender oil. Shake well . Can be used as a moisturizer.

Dosage: Put 1-3 tsp of dried herb in a cup of water, brings to boil, simmer 10- 15 minutes, drink x 3 a day (especially for gastric and duodenal ulcers, soothes bronchitis, irritating cough, internal bleeding. For external applications, can be used in ointment, poultice or compress. Caution: don’t use for deep wounds, will cause wounds to heal up too quickly causing a risk of abscess.

Yoga

Purity – Sattva

Sattvic Foods – “The foods which increase life, purity, strength, health, joy, and cheerfulness, which are savory and oleaginous, substantial and agreeable, are dear to sattvic people.” Bhagavad Gita 17-8

Foods that are pure, wholesome, naturally delicious, without preservatives or artificial flavourings. Include fresh and dried fruits and berries, pure fruit juices, raw or lightly cooked vegetables, salads, grains, legumes, nuts, seeds, whole meal breads, honey, fresh herbs, herbal teas, dairy products such as milk and butter. This diet will help eliminate fatigue. Yogis believe that people’s food preference reflect their level of mental purity, and will alter as they develop spiritually.

Poetry


Annabel Lee

Edgar Allan Poe (About.com Guide)

It was many and many a year ago,
In a kingdom by the sea,
That a maiden there lived whom you may know
By the name of ANNABEL LEE;
And this maiden she lived with no other thought
Than to love and be loved by me.

I was a child and she was a child,
In this kingdom by the sea;
But we loved with a love that was more than love
I and my Annabel Lee;
With a love that the winged seraphs of heaven
Coveted her and me.


And this was the reason that, long ago,
In this kingdom by the sea,
A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling
My beautiful Annabel Lee;
So that her highborn kinsman came
And bore her away from me,
To shut her up in a sepulchre
In this kingdom by the sea.

The angels, not half so happy in heaven,
Went envying her and me
Yes! that was the reason (as all men know,
In this kingdom by the sea)
That the wind came out of the cloud by night,
Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.

But our love it was stronger by far than the love
Of those who were older than we
Of many far wiser than we
And neither the angels in heaven above,
Nor the demons down under the sea,
Can ever dissever my soul from the soul
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee.

For the moon never beams without bringing me dreams
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And the stars never rise but I feel the bright eyes
Of the beautiful Annabel Lee;
And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side
Of my darling - my darling - my life and my bride,
In the sepulchre there by the sea,
In her tomb by the sounding sea.

The triolet is a very brief, tightly rhymed poem takes part of its structure from the repetition of entire lines. A triolet is eight lines, as follows:

1st line A
2nd line B
3rd line a (rhymes with A)
4th line A (entire 1st line repeated)
5th line a (rhymes with A)
6th line b (rhymes with B)
7th line A (entire 1st line repeated)
8th line B (entire 2nd line repeated)

Each line is usually iambic tetrameter, but modern poets have varied the line length and often make subtle changes in the repeated lines, whose meanings evolve as a reader moves through the poem.

Triolets were originally written in the French of the Middle Ages. The first triolets in English were prayers written by Patrick Carey, a Benedictine monk of the 17th century. Robert Bridges, an English poet and critic who later was named Poet Laureate and saw to the publication of Gerard Manley Hopkins’ poems, reintroduced the triolet into English at the end of the 19th century. Since its brief vogue back then, only a few poets have written triolets—most contemporary poets shy away from its extreme repetition and limited rhymes.

Example of triolet

How Great My Grief

Thomas Hardy (1901)

How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee!—
Have the slow years not brought to view
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Nor memory shaped old times anew,
Nor loving-kindness helped to show thee
How great my grief, my joys how few,
Since first it was my fate to know thee?

Music

Medieval music resources

http://www.medieval.org/


http://www.stanford.edu/~jrdx/medieval.html

Medieval composers

Hildegard von Bingen

http://www.hildegard.org/music/music.html

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