Calming with Kyanite

Blue kyanite calls me during times that my throat needs soothing, when I feel compelled to deepen a meditative state, or when my intuition sparks into new territory. Blue kyanite is especially good at giving gentle guidance when I feel out of options and spirit enters the scene to show me by using my own internal ancient wisdom.  Metaphysical AF!

The colors can range from light blue green to vibrant blue, to a dark sea green. A few pieces I have were gifted. The woman owns a crystal shop local to me, and she told me they are great pieces to use when skrying. I love the feel of them, so cooling and comforting to hold.  Other kyanite colors available are green, red, orange, and black.

  • high frequency stone
  • helps one speak their truth
  • Helps heal the throat (useful for public speakers)
  • connection into heart center
  • stimulates psychic abilities and spiritual maturation

THROAT CHAKRA

When my throat bothers me and I feel exhausted from talking, I place a piece on my throat while envisioning blue mist covering my throat chakra. The throat chakra is the center of communication and the way we respond using our voice. The ways in which we express ourselves, how we create boundaries, and how we speak our truth relates to having an over excessive throat chakra or a deficient one. This energy center likes to flow freely with the center of our hearts and the space of our intuition, or higher knowing. 

When the throat feel tight, as if one can’t get their words out, denotes we are holding our thoughts in, denying ourselves from articulating our inner thoughts, what our heart feels, or what our gut knows as fact.  Some may call this a chakra blockage, however I don’t actually see energy as being completely blocked, but rather dense/sparse, or perhaps a slow moving/swift moving. 

Conversely, when we deliver our voice and message with harshness or frustration, anger, or impulsive reactions, this indicates an excessive energy center that needs more structure and soothing energy.  An excessive chakra would feel dense and heavy and might lead to other throat issues like, losing your voice, sore throats, etc. (super common for me). In fact so common that just last year I had surgery to remove one tonsil.  Perhaps that’s why I have so much of it!

THIRD EYE

Placing blue Kyanite on your 3rd eye 👁 brings heightened awareness of your psychic gifts. Working with this crystal, especially in tandem with moonstone, will allow you to work with your gifts in a systematic and organized fashion. Meaning, you will have the chance to work with your gifts slowly with control rather than all at once, which could easily leave the gifted person overwhelmed and feeling totally bombarded by spirit.  If you ever do feel your 3rd eye over worked or blown open by a random crystal bowl sound healing session (as one does), just place a small piece on your forehead to calm down the energy. 

CRYSTAL GRIDS

Gridding with Kyanite is amazing! So, here you can see I have 4 blue kyanite pieces, 4 moonstone pieces, and 4 clear quartz points. The center piece is a selenite sphere. Selenite is a CLEARING mineral and incredibly UPLIFTING and POSITIVE stone.  I put this piece in the middle because I wanted the energy of the surrounding crystals to be elevated in their purpose. The Moonstone is a crystal for DEEP connection to EMOTIONAL wellbeing and PSYCHIC work. She is also related to Venus (retrograde until 11/16) and a perfect stone for getting in touch with my sacred feminine and how I exert and hone myself as a spiritual being. The kyanite relates to VOICE and also psychic development. I keep my grids on my table to meditate with each morning. I try to keep them up for a week or until my cat knocks a stone out of place.

I hope this has inspired you to pick up some kyanite from your local shop! You don’t have a local shop please contact me and I can look for a special piece just for you!

For those who already have kyanite in your collection, what does it bring for you? Calm? Healing? Truth? Let me know in the comments! Thank you.

Namaste & blessed be,

Monica

 

Ritual with grace

Full moon and Emeralds

The Taurus Full Moon has passed. What did you plant into the Earth for growth, nurturance, and ? Taurus gives us a slow steadiness that progress at a seemingly turtle pace. Let that not discourage, but empower us to put forth the efforts and hard work that Taureans love to give.

What do I do for a full moon?
-I pull cards
-I meditate with crystals that call upon me, eager to work.
-I create crystal grids.
-I place some crystals in the moonlight.
-I smudge myself with sage and palo santo.
-I anoint myself with oils.

The act of ceremony and calling upon the four corners, my ancestors, my guides, and angels to help guide me to my steadfast truth , creates ritual assisting me in cultivating my hearts desire. What gives me passion? What makes me shake that I want it so badly? What can I do to make my dreams a reality?

Working with Emerald holds so much space for growth into the heart center. The ancient ones call this a manifestation stone to help attract what your heart desires to you. But one must have trust within themselves. One must be honest with goals and mindset. This stone goes back to 4000 BC and was worn and adored by Cleopatra. Emerald is a seers stone and is one of the semi-precious gems (ruby, emerald, sapphire, and Diamond).

Emeralds are great for domestic bliss as well, working into the depths of the heart chakra and allowing for openness and connection with the relationships in your life. Emeralds are stones of loyalty and trust, so when working with an emerald, one must be honest with their intentions. If you’ve worked with this stone before, please give some insight and share your own experiences. I’m brand new to this stone and I’m loving it!

Thank you,

Monica

The Modern Empath

What exactly does the term “empath” mean? You may be hearing it a lot lately as people get in touch with their Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine sides. Intuitive types use this term often to help describe someone who gets overwhelmed with their emotion or who is highly sensitive. Taken from Dictionary.com, an Empath, from the root Empathic or Empathy, is the psychological identification with the feelings, thoughts, or attitudes of others. Yep, being an empath involves more than simply feeling empathic towards someone. Think of it as more of an absorption of emotion, positive or negative.

Here’s how you can identify with being an empath:

-senses the energy of a person or a crowd
-has trouble being in highly crowded places
-deeply impacted by violence in movies, TV shows, or the News.
-can feel what someone feels without the other person saying.
-does not like drama
-strangers talk to them like a best friend would.
-feels drained, even with ample sleep
-needs solitude and alone time

There are various types of empaths, just as there are many different intuitives. Here are a few:

-feeling others emotions-individuals, groups, or collective nation
-feeling others physical ailments, like back pain, arthritis, muscle soreness, headaches, congestion, heaviness around the heart, gut issues, tight neck or shoulders, foot pain.
-feeling the energy of plants “horticultural empath” who can sense the needs of plants.
-feeling the energy of animals
-sensing energy of food-if someone made something from love or anger, the energetic vitality of the quality of food: organic vs. conventional or quick food.

Empathic people can easily get overwhelmed, and I’m sure you can see why. If you are a sponge and all these energies are coming toward you, the amount of energetic smog that you need to sift through and release can get incredibly tiresome.

Empowering yourself to handle anything that comes into your field serves as the greatest defense against the energy vampires or other things that may come your way. You must have the tools to ground, release, and recharge your batteries.

Empaths tend to drain themselves easily. They are great listeners and so everyone, including strangers, loves talking to them, telling them their life story or dumping crisis after crisis. Setting boundaries becomes fundamental as you explore your way through the energies coming at you. Differentiating between your feelings and the feelings of someone else can also get problematic if there lacks a strong system for standing up for what you need. Grounding and recharging becomes critical. Then, managing what comes into your space-TV, music, news, friends, etc becomes just as important. You can control what comes in, at least most of the time.

GROUNDING
Grounding activities include hiking, walking, dancing, yoga, Tai Chi, Capoera, Karate, pranayama, acupuncture and deep tissue massage. Basically, anything to get the energy flowing with your feet touching a surface constitutes a grounding activity. When you ground your energy you have the foundation for your light to surround you and firmly hold that auric space. Instead of holding space or others you now have the power to hold your own space. That can change everything!
I often use a grounding visual meditation that I call “Charged to the Earth’s Matrix.” Start seated or standing with your feet completely planted to the ground. Barefoot is preferred, but not required. Feel your sit bones connected to the chair if you are seated. Sit or stand up very tall, feeling the crown of your head pulling upward to the heavens as your feet press firmly into the Earth. Start to pull white light down from the cosmos through the crown of your head, through each chakra points, forehead, throat, heart, belly, lower belly, base of pelvis, feet and down into the core of the Earth. Keep breathing deeply while at the same time drawing the light through each point and into the center of the earth. It might take some time to get through each body part and into the Earths’ core, but just breathe with it. Once you hit the center you will know. Then, take the Earths’ light and bring it back up pulling up around your body like a tubular curtain, all the way up to the cosmos, once it hits the toppest point, bring the light back down and allow it to travel down your body once more to the center of the Earth. Repeat 2 more times for a total of 3-5 times. This exercise is intensly powerful and effective for grounding and shielding at the same time.

BUBBLE OF LIGHT
Once you are grounded you can start to amplify your own energetic source. One useful way to use light as a form of protection involves the bubble of light. Imagine your white light coming from the back of your belly and bringing itself forward out of your body and enveloping your entire form. You have the power to expand that light outward when you see fit. You can also envision your body or even someone else’s body, wrapped in white cotton balls or pink cotton candy.

CALLING UPON YOUR TEAM
Your team, comprised of ancestors, archangels, guardian angels, spirit guides, spirit animals, gods or goddesses, Divine source, and your higher power are there whenever you need them. How do you call upon your team? Ask them to help you guard and to help you release.

RELEASING ENERGY THAT DOES NOT BELONG TO YOU
My number one method for releasing emotional blocks or someone else’s stuff that I don’t want to hold onto anymore is always soaking in salt. I do this at least once a week. If it works for athletes’ sore muscles, I’m sure it helps with pulling out energies that are in my auric field.

Sage is another tool you can use on a daily basis or if you’re feeling drained and need to clear away some heaviness. Light a small piece and wave it around your body, hands, and feet.

Using essential oils is also useful, in particular, Rosemary, Sandlewood, Cedarwood, PaloSanto, and Patchouli.

Crystals that are great for protection include Black Tourmaline, Obsidian, Jet, Hematite, and Tigers Eye.

Stones that are critical for releasing include selentite and kyanite.

Remember, empaths need solitude and alone time to recharge. Remove yourself from a situation if you gut is telling you to get out. No explanation is necessary.

As you release energy set a clear affirmation: I release all energies that don’t belong to me, making space for light and love. I am strong in my foundation and only allow for what’s good and best for myself and the collective whole.

Lastly, as you release the energy that you are not wanting, like anger or jealousy, make sure that as you let that energy go it’s also being transmutted and transformed into positive light. You can use your minds eye to imagine the energy dissipate into purple healing light to travel back to Mother Earth or back to the Cosmic Council.

You have the ability to empower yourself with anything that gets thrown your way. Empaths will always pick up energy from others and we have the capability and intuitive adaptability to ground ourselves, move that energy through us, and then fully release and clear our spaces to start anew. The potential rests within each of us.

With love,
Monica

The Intuitive Mind

Each one of us is born with the innate gift of intuition, The Sixth Sense. Nope, it’s not just a cheesy movie. The sixth sense is the gift of knowing without having all of the information. Empathic people would describe it as more of a feeling. There are a variety of different intuitive abilities out there and we, as spiritual beings in human form, lose how to gather this information and use it in our everyday lives.
But we all have it, I promise you!

Have you ever:
-Known who was calling you before looking at your phone?
-Thought of a person who then emailed you moments later?
-Knew about a situation before you were told?
-Could feel when someone needed your help?
-Knew what someone was going to say to you before they told you?

Intuitive messages can come through thoughts, feelings, sounds, smells, visions, and dreams. We all have the ability to gain more awareness and use our intuitive gifts to help guide us in our lives.
So, if we are born with it, how does it go away?

As infants and into preschooler years our intuitive mind opens up and stays receptive to the information coming in and going out. Kids act as sponges that soak up all that we teach and what they see in the world around them. I am convinced that they “see” so much more than we do simply because they have unbiased egos.

Once children enter grade school, the intuition shifts because we are taught to shut it down. “Don’t be silly, there’s nothing there.” “Stop daydreaming.” “There’s no such thing as ghosts.” Children who were once receptive begin to question and doubt their inner voices. Doubting our own inner wisdom is psychic suicide.

Reprogramming our doubt into trust takes persistent work because sometimes many years pass before we regain that intuitive mind back. I believe doubting what we see as adults is natural because we want to have logical explanations, however intuitive knowledge isn’t always logical. Sometimes messages that come take weeks or months to come into fruition or make sense to the ego mind. This instant gratification world that we live in makes the intuitive mind seem painfully slow! Can I have answers please?! Allowing to feel and be receptive egoless beings becomes crucial to regaining the intuitive knowledge and wisdom that lies dormant within.

To tap into this knowledge we must TRUST, ALLOW, and BE STILL to listen to our inner voice guide us to our pure understanding.

Thank you for reading,
Monica

The Lure of the Tarot

The Lure of the Tarot
My first Tarot deck was the Waife deck given to me by a boy that I have lost touch with. We were 11 years old. Far too young to be playing around with the Tarot, but I was mesmerized by each card and studied the images with intensity. There was an immediate pull and I kept going back.

I remember laying out card spreads and reading the meanings without actually understanding or grasping what it really was all about. I just knew I was drawn to the energy of Tarot. Who knew that 20ish years later I would be creating spreads for people and helping them seek clarity?

The tarot helps reveal divine knowledge to a current circumstance happening in present time or even events that have happened in the past. The client typically has a question (that can’t be answered “yes’ or ‘no’) and the reader decides upon the card layout. The cards drawn by the client gives clues about what is going on in the clients’ life. Sometimes the question is answered an many other times the cards draw out Truth about what needs to be addressed immediately.

The process fascinates me. Intuitively, subtle emotional and physical elements are revealed until the Truth steps forward. Then it is up to the client to decide what to do with that knowledge.

I am opening my schedule up for clients who seek intuitive guidance. Please feel free to email me and we can set up an appointment for Tarot, oracle, or pendulum readings.

Namaste,
Monica

Transitioning into the psychic mind

A year and a half ago I came out as a psychic intuitive and medium. The past two years of preparation and transition have been amazingly soul seeking and has served as an educational springboard to my psychic intellect. I listen intently to my spirit guides (like when they told me I needed to quit drinking in order to fully step into my potential). I was terrified my gifts would then become overwhelming, as I typically used alcohol as a means to dull the psychic noise, but instead my gifts became direct, clear, and more manageable. Probably because I could see what was a message and what was ego attachment. My connection to the other side strengthened and I found it easier to connect as a medium.

Our lives are interweaved with life transitions leading us into new experiences and deeper knowing within our spirit minds. Each transition, no matter how big or small, offers us a glimpse of secret insight into our vast inner knowing. Whether the transition is starting a new school, having a baby, leaving a job, or getting married, these experiences present to us a giant platter of emotions and expose our vulnerable soft spots. How we react and respond to these heart opening emotions becomes the very source to examine with a realist magnifying glass to catch and observe our repeated behaviors and patterns of thought that either elevate us into our fullest potential or keep us stuck in our fears.

The patterns of our emotional thought making process divulge the roots of why we keep repeating behaviors, some which are fantastic, some we need to release and let go. Letting go is a true challenge. The moment I knew that I needed to let go of my drinking patterns I thought my world would crash all around me. I thought I would lose friends and that my family wouldn’t understand the reasons why, since I was able to hide it pretty well from everyone. It took me at least 3 years to muddle up the courage and just drop the habit, my coping mechanism. The truth is, I couldn’t trust myself when I got drunk. I couldn’t trust my intuition or my behavior. I had a sweet young child who now understood that the glass of wine on the table was mommy’s and every morning I would wake up feeling like dirt and promising myself I would not drink, until 6 pm rolled around and I would go get more of my coping juice. On my 36th birthday I decided I didn’t want to go one more day obsessing about alcohol. That was it. Suddenly, I was ready for my transition.

Since then everything has shifted for the better. My psychic gifts keep developing and growing, I have greater spiritual connections with my friends and family and what’s even greater, I am adding another small human to my family! Yes, another big transition awaits! No matter how big or small your current transition may be, take a few deep breaths, find your support, your close circle, your tribe, your family and stay in it. Connect to your emotional self. If ever you want to reach out to me for extra support, please feel free to email and set up an appointment for an intuitive reading. Transitions tend to be the best time to seek clarity and answers.

New Moon Wishes

September new moon energy
September new moon energy

Each new moon brings forth a reminded awareness to stay in my present self. As opposed to sinking into a pattern of particular thought, good or unpleasant. So, I need to be completely honest here. I’ve stayed away from writing for most of the year because I have been dealing with some deep soul work. I have needed to step back partly because I did not have the energy to expose myself and I was afraid to allow myself to be vulnerable. I am overwhelmed and lacking more sleep than I dare to admit. Then something wonderful happened.

I had a meltdown at the acupuncture table where I realized that I have no idea how to truly care for myself in a loving compassionate way. I’m learning that most of my choices are resulted out of fear and I’m not going to allow myself to sink into the shadows any longer. Yes, I have come a long way and I have also taken some stumbles in the process, which is all part of my journey.

So, why share my vulnerability now?

The Autumn Equinox is a time for transitioning and manifesting. Going from Spring/Summer into the Fall/Winter seasons actually takes great exertion from the body and mind. We get a rush of fall and feel the need to rush into a busier schedule when we actually need more rest than usual. Now is the time to clean up your diet so the body can perform at its highest potential. Lets also slow down so that we can actually enjoy ourselves and our loved ones.

The clean crisp air of fall also draws upon new ideals and ways of thinking. I have no problem exposing myself during energy healing sessions or Tarot card readings. But, the disconnection with my voice on paper (screen) and physical voice just doesn’t sit well with me anymore. I manifest the power and control of my voice to allow myself to be fully heard without the fears of judgment or speculation.

Last Saturday I gave a Chakra workshop and at the end one of the students asked me what sort of New Moon rituals should she do for the upcoming new moon. No questions were chakra related. They all assumed I was a witch (yes, she said that word!) because of what I talk about and the energy work that I do. Yes, I’m also a medium and the group witnessed me “tap in” to the spirit world. The quick answer would be yes, I am a witch; however, I do not identify with the word, just as I do not identify with the word psychic. I prefer the words pagan and intuitive empath.

With Pluto heading direct and the energy of the autumn equinox, this new moon gives us purpose to let go of what no longer serves us. I let go of behaviors and ways of thinking that are not serving my greater good to make space for my “witchy” behaviors that involve more meditation, yoga, and writing. I release the negative associations I have with the words “witch” and “psychic.” I release my fears of being judged. I release my feeling of being overwhelmed by my son. I make room for joy, light, and pure happiness. I manifest abundance of love and prosperity.

Blessed be.