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Little Alters: July Full Moon - The Chakras

7/31/2013

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The Chakras

I just can't stop thinking about the Chakras. 
The rainbow colors. The symbols. 
Cleaning & Clearing them. 
Base. 
Sacral. 
Solar Plexus. 
Heart. 
Throat. 
Third Eye. 
Crown. 
1. 
2. 
3. 
4. 
5.
6.
7.
When I first looked at the 2 spaces for July, tall skinny bits they are, I planned to make a pile of Faeries. But... I couldn't get the Chakras out of my mind. So, I didn't fight the flow or the inspiration, I jumped in to work with the Chakras.  Wanting to learn the sanskrit symbols and understand why the chakras are made with 2, then 4, then many more petals, surrounding, then start all over again with 2 petals around the third eye chakra.  It seems so... so... disjointed. I figured there must be a reason.  

I looked up the symbols in all my books and checked out things online, like About.com.  I practiced the symbols by looking at them and trying my hand. Oh boy. That was WAY harder than it looked. Many of those brush or pen strokes are so foreign to my hand that they looked wobbly and weird, not like the symbol I was attempting. Argh. What to do? Time was running out fast. 
Just as my last few hours of time left before the moon deadline were quickly sprinting away, I grabbed my shrinky-dinks and my double-decker box of practically every color sharpie in the world. I cut 2 pcs of shrink plastic out in the exact dimension of the 2 spaces, pre-shrink. That meant I would not shrink them. I had no idea what I would create, how each chakra would look, if they'd have the right number of petals or other such stuff, etc. I just drew. What I ended up with is what you see immediately below on the right with my rainbow of sharpies. I loved it. I was thrilled. It was my original art (no copying, no iterations, all me) and it was the chakras. Aaaaaaaaaaand, then I tried to fit them into the 2 spots. Crap-a-doodle! They were 1" too long. Gee maybe I should measure twice before I let the muse take over. But, failed attempt resulted in an even better Chakra end result.
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Since that didn't work and I was already behind, I indulged my muse in the circles.  See, I've listened to several meditations that talk of the chakras as spinning spheres or discs. Why not make these into circles?  Why not find a way to make them spin. They don't quite free-spin the way I visualized, but the end result of 2 different sized circles spinning for the Chakras is pretty freakin awesome!  And when they shrank, oh wow. So wee & tiny!  The image above on the left is "Before" shrinking.  The images below are the full 7 Chakras "After" shrinking.  My guess is that Lou needs to learn about and play with the Chakras as much as me. So, my dear Lou here is my suggested visualization/meditation.
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Gwennie's Chakra Clearing: 

Recommended when you're feeling blocked, down, bombarded, disconnected / unable to ground, etc. Remember, you can do this for each, a few, or all chakras.  There are no hard & fast rules.  I recommend that you look up what each Chakra means/represents and take that into consideration when you are looking to do some clearing/cleaning.

To set your chakras back right & spinning...

If this is your first time, I recommend you start with the Root/Base Chakra in Red and work your way up to your Crown in Purple. Do that several times - say once a day or so until you get the hang of it or start to feel good.  Then introduce this practice whenever you are called / guided to do so.

  1. Take stock of how your chakras feel.  Are they muddy? Broken? Black? Dull? Hard? Not spinning? Flat? Do they not feel "right" or not feel like they are functioning at "your body's normal" to you? 
  2. Visualize a white light (gentle, strong, beautiful, bubbly - what ever feels right to you) being sent to that chakra/area of the body.  Allow the light to clear out the area like scrubbing bubbles, crystal clear mountain spring water, or like the fresh air after a spring rain does for your scent sense.
  3. Visualize the chakra returning to it's brilliant color - Red if base, Purple if Crown, etc. If your Chakras show you that they spin, then imagine them spinning like a top.  If they glow, then fuel that light with more so that it is positively blindingly brilliant. 
  4. Move on to each Chakra until you feel you are done.

May you find joy and bliss in every day.

~GG~
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Introducing Perspicacious Hands (pH)

7/22/2013

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Gemstone Elixirs

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Faery Felicity Sprays

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Ceremonial Smudge

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This past weekend, my Mom & I were vendors at MedFest, an annual Bellydance festival.  There, we launched our new line of magical/spritual tools called Perspicacious Hands.  We have gemstone elixirs, faery felicity sprays, and smudge to use for ceremony.  

These tools are to be used what ever way you feel Divinely guided. Divinity means many things to many people and we've found our greatest success when we listen to the Divine.  For me, it could be any number of spirits.  Mother/Father God or Great Spirit, a God or Goddess, an elemental being such as the Fae, Archangels, an ascended master (I often work with Einstein, Edison, Tesla, Buddah, Ford) or my guides or guardian angels.  I rely most heavily on clairaudient, clairvoyant, and clairsentient messages.  I hear much of what the universe whispers to me.  Sometimes I clearly hear the words, other times, I must interpret a song (riddle me this!).  Other times, I will simply know things without knowing where / how I know it.  And I will also see things - a quick image passes into my mind, a vision, a day dream, or a prophetic sleep dream.  When I pick up the sprays or elixirs, I do so often because I hear, "use the spray"  or because I just can't stop thinking about it.  There's a message here, folks!  

The response at MedFest was brilliant.  People loved them.  I explained to one guy how to use our Prosperity spray, "Lakshmi, Bring on the Prosperity Adventures" while he was spritzing it on our tester strips.  I said, use it when you feel like, "oh, I'm not worthy. I can't make enough. I'll never get ahead. I will always be in debt."  And then as you spray it, turn those phrases around, "I'm worthy. I deserve to be propserous.  I live a prosperous, delicious life. I embody wealth. There's plenty for everyone." Let me tell you... he proceeded to rub that little tester strip all over while his wife looked at me with a smile and a roll of her eyes and said, "I have to ride behind him on the motorcycle you know!"  To which I replied, "Oh no, what are you going to do with him now?  Wait! I know!! Enjoy and appreciate the wealth he's drawing into your lives." 

As quick as we can, Mom & I will be photographing and posting the sprays, elixirs and smudge to her Wild Hair Studio Etsy shop (we'll put a link from the pH website too) .  I'll post here and on our new Perspicacious Hands website as soon as we do.  If you'd like to be notified, please contact me.  Once I get our email newsletter created I'll let you know how to sign up for that.  :)  


Light & Love dearies!
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