Crystal Readings

Posted on July 19, 2009 by Spirals of Light

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On Saturday July 25th I will be in Pagosa Springs, CO at Satori Boutique offering crystal readings from 10 am to 5 pm at the INTUITIVE ARTS FESTIVAL. 

Crystal readings are similar to other forms of readings, like Tarot. A person chooses 3 gemstones from my bag of stones by feeling for an energy connection with the stone. I begin to focus on the crystal’s energy and it’s specific meaning. I will share information on how that energy can help in your everyday life. The stones offer messages and are tools to assist us in bringing balance to our lives.

 

During a reading, crystals provide information and insight that may help answer questions about love, career, happiness or any other area of daily life.

Each semi-precious gemstone radiates a different energy and has it’s own unique vibration. The way the stones resonate with you helps you learn about yourself , as well as helps you to identify what is going on in your life and what needs healing and balancing. Crystal readings are a great way to get clarity on any issues you are experiencing. Crystal readings can also help you to know what crystals you should wear or carry at this time to assist you in improving any situation. A Crystal reading can help you release energy blockages and bring healing and balance back to your life.

My intent is to offer an opportunity to gain clarity and insight into the questions and issues that are present in your life through the use of crystals and gemstones. Crystal readings are a fun and light-hearted way of experiencing the energy of the mineral kingdom.

 I will also be selling my assortment of hand selected, high energy Crystals, Gemstones, and Jewelry. I have been buying and selling crystals and stones for more than 20 years. I’ve made great contacts with gemstones dealers from around the world. I look for the best quality, highest energy and fair prices. It is always so much fun to watch someone interact with a stone and know that they must have that stone. Feeling the stone’s subtle vibration, a connection to its energy is made, sometimes through a sensation, heat, coolness or just plain “knowing”

If you are in the 4 corners area  please come join us.  If  you would like a reading by phone, please email me and I will contact you to set up an appointment. Debra@spiralsoflight.com

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Tips on how to connect to the goddess within

Posted on July 18, 2009 by Spirals of Light
Goddess necklace with Moonstone & Tourmaline

Goddess necklace with Moonstone & Tourmaline

Crystals, Gemstones and Goddess Jewelry

I love creating Goddess jewelry.  I am always on the look out for goddess pendants to use in my goddess necklaces. I enjoy working with gemstones that are associated with the goddess and the energies of the sacred divine feminine.
Some of my favorite goddess stones are:
  • Moonstone- It is associated with the feminine and is called “The Goddess Stone”. It can enhance the intuitive side of the mind. Moonstone has been used to connect with the energy and power of the moon.
  • Amazonite- It offers us a place of quiet compassion. It encourages us to release self judgment and connect to our own power with joy and confidence. It is an empowering stone and can provide inner fulfillment when we recognize the power we hold within.
  • Garnet- Is known as a feminine energy stone. It stimulates the root chakra and the heart, allowing for manifestation of one’s heart felt desires in the world. Garnet assists one in maintaining a sense of calm and grounded connection to the present moment. It is a stone of physical love and the relationship between loving partners. It is an excellent stone to attract or invigorate a love relationship. It is a stone which brings support and balance. 
  • Larimar- It is sometimes called the stone of the Caribbean because of where it is found and also for its blue color. It is a most soothing and serene stone, able to calm and relax the emotions. It can bring peace and calm to any situation. It supports a state of well being and reminds us that all is well. It is useful for the throat chakra, providing the power of clear communication. Known as a Goddess Stone, it is useful for hot flashes, as it can bring a cooling, calm feeling.
The cycles women go through in life, from adolescence into womanhood, motherhood and the fertility years, the crone wise woman can be acknowledged and celebrated by wearing goddess jewelry.
Tips on how to connect to the goddess within:
Spiral Goddess necklace

Spiral Goddess

Listen to your intuition
Glow with inner beauty and sensuality
Shine and inspire
Share your knowledge
Radiate with love and light
Be strong like the lioness
Dream your vision into reality
Accept yourself for the beautiful radiate being you are.
Celebrate your inner beauty
Wear a Goddess Necklace symbolizing your connection to the divine feminine.
All of my Goddess jewelry is now on sale until the end of August! http://www.spiralsoflight.com/goddess-jewelry.html
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Why do Yoga?

Posted on July 6, 2009 by Spirals of Light
yoga-teton1Someone asked me the other day why I create yoga and chakra jewerly.  Good question I responded and answered with—  I began designing yoga and chakra jewelry as a way to support my own yoga practice.  The next question followed, why do you do yoga?  Even bigger question.  Lots of answers came to mind, but the next day I received this email from my friends at  Pathways www.pathwaysbayfield.com. This description of yoga really helps explain why yoga is so important to my life and why I love creating jewelry to help inspire the yoga path.
 
Why Yoga?
Developed in India, yoga is a spiritual practice that has been evolving for the last 5,000 years or so. The original yogis were reacting, in part, to India’s ancient Vedic religion, which emphasized rituals. The yogis wanted a direct spiritual experience — one on one — not symbolic ritual. So they developed yoga.
Yoga means “union” in Sanskrit, the classical language of India. In Hatha yoga, for example, postures and breathing exercises help purify the mind, body and spirit so the yogi can attain union. Yoga doesn’t discriminate. Even if you don’t believe in the spiritual side of life, you can still do yoga.  If you do yoga, chances are that you will feel its psycho-physiological effects. Moreover, the concept of union has a powerful down-to-Earth meaning. Yoga helps us get in touch with our true selves.
Yoga gives us control of ourselves. It helps cut through the layers of mis-identities that arise in response to our actions, experiences and feelings. Specifically, research shows that yoga helps manage or control anxiety, arthritis, asthma, back pain, blood pressure, carpal tunnel syndrome, chronic fatigue, depression, diabetes, epilepsy, headaches, heart disease, multiple sclerosis, stress and other conditions and diseases. It calms the frenzy, clears the clutter and allows us to get back in touch with ourselves.
 
Whether you pursue yoga as a spiritual path or for its physiological benefits, yoga is a methodology for developing a deeper experience of your self and the world. And it makes you feel really good.
 
To see some of my yoga inspired jewelry designs go to: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/yoga-jewelry.html
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Manifesting with Crystals

Posted on June 24, 2009 by Spirals of Light
 
Black Tourmaline

Black Tourmaline

I am giving a presentation tomorrow night, Thursday June 25, on Manifesting with Crystals. This event is being sponsored  by the Purple Phoenix www.purplephoenix.com.  It will be held at the Asante Center in Durango Colorado.
I’ll be talking about how to use gemstones in our everyday lives to manifest the quality of life we desire.  The secret is out, we create our own realities.  Gemstones are wonderful tools to assist us in setting intention, finding focus and bringing our desires and dreams into form.  We  are more powerful than we recognize.  We are powerful creative beings.
 
In order to manifest we have to see life as we want it, not how it is.  We give our attention and our intention to what we prefer.  This is where gemstones can come in to help us.
Gemstones are energy in form.  They can carry our intentions and desires into form.
 
If we are going to make a change in our life, bring a thought, desire, wish, dream into physical form we first need to:
1. Know what we want.  Get clear.  Sometimes a way to know what we want is to know what we don’t want.  The gemstone Hematite is a stone they can help us get clear and focus on what we want.  It is a grounding stone.  When we are grounded and connected to the earth plane we can see what it is we are wanting.  When we are ungrounded our energies are all over the place, we flit from one thought to the next, never holding on to a thought or desire long enough to bring it into form. Hematite helps us to focus.  Hematite works to bring mental clarity.
 
2. Set intention.  Setting intention gives energy to the desire.  Set focus long enough to bring it into existence.  The gemstone Citrine is a stone that can help us to put energy into intention.  It helps us to get clear on our desires and intentions.  Getting clear on our intention is really the first step in manifesting.  Chose a Citrine to help you set your intention and  it will energize your personal will  by connecting you to your solar plexus chakra.
 
3. Let go of whatever has held you back from receiving.  Let go of the negative thinking that surrounds whatever it is that you are wanting to manifest.  Sometimes this it the tricky part.  Our minds get in the way and tell us, we can never have what it is we are wanting.  Step out of old programs, old ways of thinking.  Chose Black Tourmaline as a stone that can help absorb the negative thinking.  Think of Black Tourmaline like doing a smudging of your intentions, clearing away the parts that no longer serve you, leaving you with clear, positive, powerful intention.
 
Crystals and gemstones can help us find focus and clarity, set intention and bring desires into form. 
 
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How to Balance the Root Chakra: wear a gemstone anklet!

Posted on June 8, 2009 by Spirals of Light
Root Chakra balancing anklet with Garnet & Hematite

Root Chakra balancing anklet with Garnet & Hematite

Having trouble staying focused?  Is your mind wondering all over the place?  Not  sure where you are? So many changes in life have you wondering who you are?
These are uncertain times for sure and our very survival seems to be threatened.  No wonder it is hard to keep grounded when the very ground we walk upon is shaking.
The root chakra is all about money, jobs, how we  make our living, survival, our connection to the earth, nature and the physical world around us. It has to do with the material plane.  This is where we feel balanced as we walk on the earth.  If you have issues related to survival in the physical world or need energy and vitality,  consider holding some chakra balancing gemstones like Garnet and Hematite. Better yet wear a Chakra Balancing gemstone anklet with Garnet & Hematite, available on our web site at: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/Power_Vitality.htm

I’ve just returned from four days camping in Utah’s Canyonlands, hiking and mountain biking around the magnificent red rocks was very grounding.  I returned feeling so connected to nature and the world around me, ready to create some new healing jewelry to help you stay grounded  during these unsettling times.  I’m inspired to work with some Red Jasper, Moss Agate and Jade.  Be on the look out for some new chakra balancing jewelry showing up on my web site: http://www.spiralsoflight.com
 
Here is a root chakra balancing affirmation to say when you need to feel grounded:   “My feet are firmly planted on the ground.  I am nurtured by the energy of the Earth.  I am grounded and secure.”
 
Remember to take a walk in nature, touch the earth to help balance your root chakra.
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Balancing the Chakras with Gemstones and Flower Essences

Posted on June 1, 2009 by Spirals of Light
The Chakra Energy System

The Chakra Energy System

I attended  a workshop on the healing power of flower essences and the chakra energy system this weekend with Rhonda PallasDowney, the author of ” The Healing Power of Flowers”.
Rhonda shared wonderful information on seven different flower essences, their healing qualities and how they relate to balancing the chakra energy system.
I’ve used flower essences over the years and even make my own flower essences using the flowers that grow here in Colorado as well as those in my yard in the Florida Keys.  Spending time with the flowers, getting to know their energies and “listening” to them brings me out into nature and strengthens my connection to Mother Earth.
It was fun for me to relate this information on the flower essences to the chakra energy system and extend that information into the world of gemstones. I’ve been teaching classes on the healing power of gemstones and the chakras for many years now and my gemstone jewelry chakra designs incorporates this information. Rhonda gave me information to add flower essences to my gemstone/chakra work. I purchased her “Human Energy System” kit with 7 flower essences to balance the chakras, here are the seven flower essences, gemstones and chakra they correspond with.
 
Gemstones and Flower Essences for balancing the 7 Chakras:
  1. Root Chakra- red or black gemstones, Garnet, Ruby, Red Jasper, Jet, Hematite, Black Tourmaline. Flower Essence-Indian Paintbrush
  2. Sacral Chakra-orange gemstones, Carnelian, Amber. Flower essence- Pomegranate
  3. Solar Plexus- yellow gemstones, Citrine, Tiger eye,Golden Topaz. Flower Essence- Sunflower.
  4. Heart Chakra- pink or green gemstone, Rose Quartz, Rhodonite, Aventurine, Jade, Malachite. Flower Essence-Wild Rose.
  5. Throat Chakra- blue gemstones, Turquoise, Sodalite,Lapis, Azurite. Flower Essence-Desert Larkspur
  6. 3rd Eye Chakra- purple gemstones, Amethyst,Sugilite, Charoite. Flower Essence-Aster
  7. Crown Chakra-white and clear gemstones, Quartz,Selenite,Danburite. Flower Essence-Saguaro 
For more information on  chakras and gemstones go to my web site: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/chakra_energy_system.html
To see my Chakra Jewelry collection go to: http://www.spiralsoflight.com/chakra_energy_system.html
 Rhonda PallasDowney  is a flower essence practitioner who integrates whole plant medicine with color healing.  She is the founder of Living Flower Essences. www.livingfloweressences.com
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Crystals, Gemstones and Goddess Jewelry

Posted on May 25, 2009 by Spirals of Light
goddess jewelry

goddess jewelry

I love creating Goddess jewelry.  I am always on the look out for goddess pendants to use in my goddess necklaces. I enjoy working with gemstones that are associated with the goddess and the energies of the sacred divine feminine.

Some of my favorite goddess stones are:
  • Moonstone- It is associated with the feminine and is called “The Goddess Stone”. It can enhance the intuitive side of the mind. Moonstone has been used to connect with the energy and power of the moon.
  • Amazonite- It offers us a place of quiet compassion. It encourages us to release self judgment and connect to our own power with joy and confidence. It is an empowering stone and can provide inner fulfillment when we recognize the power we hold within.
  • Garnet- Is known as a feminine energy stone. It stimulates the root chakra and the heart, allowing for manifestation of one’s heart felt desires in the world. Garnet assists one in maintaining a sense of calm and grounded connection to the present moment. It is a stone of physical love and the relationship between loving partners. It is an excellent stone to attract or invigorate a love relationship. It is a stone which brings support and balance.  
  • Larimar- It is sometimes called the stone of the Caribbean because of where it is found and also for its blue color. It is a most soothing and serene stone, able to calm and relax the emotions. It can bring peace and calm to any situation. It supports a state of well being and reminds us that all is well. It is useful for the throat chakra, providing the power of clear communication. Known as a Goddess Stone, it is useful for hot flashes, as it can bring a cooling, calm feeling.
 
 The cycles women go through in life, from adolescence into womanhood, motherhood and the fertility years, the crone wise woman can be acknowledged and celebrated by wearing goddess jewelry.
 
 
Tips on how to connect to the goddess within:
Listen to your intuition
Glow with inner beauty and sensuality
Shine and inspire
Share your knowledge
Radiate with love and light 
Be strong like the lioness
Dream your vision into reality
Accept yourself for the beautiful radiate being you are.
Celebrate your inner beauty
Wear a Goddess Necklace symbolizing your connection to the divine feminine.
 
All of my Goddess jewelry is on sale until the end of May. Click here to go  to my goddess jewelry http://www.spiralsoflight.com/goddess-jewelry.html
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Gemstone Jewelry Inspired by Nature

Posted on May 16, 2009 by Spirals of Light
Florida KeysI am en-route from my winter home in the Florida Keys to my summer home in southwest  Colorado.  Driving through this great big country, I am in awe of the beauty of nature I see passing before me.  As I look out the window I see lots and lots of color. Mostly green.  All shades of green.  I begin to associate the colors with the energy of gemstone beads and before I know it am designing gemstone necklaces in my mind.  I am seeing the light yellow green of Peridot mixing with a deeper shade of Green with Jade add in some brown pearls and the field of freshly planted corn comes alive in a new gemstone necklace.  More Peridot now added with yellow citrine reflects the green pasture that is beaming with yellow flowers.
The sky has been stormy for some of this trip and I am reminded of  some nicely faceted Labradorite beads  with color flashes of gold for the lightening that lights up the distant sky.  As we were driving out of the Keys, the water was all shades of blue-green, melting into the deeper shades of blue reflecting in the sky.  I would choose Chrysoprase, Sodalite, and bright blue Turquoise for that necklace.
I love it when nature can inspire me to create unique one of a kind necklaces with such ease. 
As soon as I set up my bead studio I will put some of these nature designs into form with my collection of gemstone beads. 
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