Birthstones for Febuary

AQUARIUS 21st January to 19th February

PISCES 22th February to 20th March


Amethyst


The ancient Greeks believed that amethyst held many powers, among them protection against intoxication. In fact, the word Amethyst comes from the Greek word "amethystos," meaning sober. In ancient Greece, the gemstone was associated with the god of wine, and it was common practice to serve this beverage from Amethyst goblets in the belief that this would prevent over indulgence. Even today, Amethyst is considered a stabilizing force for those struggling to overcome addictive behaviours.

Amethyst is also symbolic of spirituality, and has been used to ornament churches and crosses used in religious ceremony. Amethyst has also been worn in rings and on rosaries by bishops and priests.

It is one of the most effective stones to use for meditation, because its calming attributes relax the mind so that it can release its attachment to the daily concerns of life and slip into a more expansive reality. If you'd like to meditate with this stone, place it on your forehead between your eyes.

Whatever else you may believe about amethyst, there is no doubt that the purple stone is one of the most beautiful gemstones in existence. If the amethyst is your birthstone, you are indeed lucky and blessed.

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AMETHYST Relates To:

Planet - Saturn

Zodiac - AQUARIUS, PISCES and SAGITTARIUS

Birthstone - February, also November and December

Other stones for February are TURQUOISE For more on stones and Gems see Crystals or Astrology

Relevance of Colour, Part 2

In the physical plane colour is the result of light hitting an object. the colour we see is the frequency of light that is reflected off an object as light strikes it.
Colours that we are able to see form the visible spectrum.
The easiest way to become aware of the full spectrum in pure coloured light is to take an old cd (aol cds work well) and hold it in light while watching the play of rainbow colour across it,
rainbows are of course a full spectrum and have the range of secondary and tertiary colours as well as the primary colours.

Colours react with each other either by harmonizing or contrasting with each other.

The colour wheel is a valuable tool for understanding colour. A colour wheel is an image of the spectrum bent into a circle.

The colours adjacent to each other on the colour wheel form a related harmonious sequence.


*******Colour Wheel*******


When you are mixing colours of paint or pigments, The Primary colours are Red, Yellow and Blue.
Red and yellow make orange as seen on the colour wheel. When you are working with light or modern Printer's inks the Primary colours are magenta, cyan and blue.

Your computer screen is coloured by light rather than with pigment and the green (as a visible primary) may be a much lighter yellow green than the emerald or grass green hue often used as the secondary colour in pigment-based colour charts.

Primary means that in theory you can mix all other colours from them though it is not as simple as it sounds because pure red, blue, and yellow do not exist in pigments. You cannot mix the primary colours from any other colours. orange, green and violet are secondary colours and are made by mixing equal parts of two primary colours. yellow and blue make green, blue and red make violet, red and yellow make orange.

The tertiary colours are mixed from equal parts of a primary and the secondary colour next to it on the colour wheel. yellow- green, blue- green, blue- violet, red- violet , red- orange, yellow -orange, are the tertiary colours.

White things reflect all frequencies of light, black things absorb all frequencies of light.

Until next time may your day be colourful

Relevance of Colour, Part 1

Any decorator or designer will tell you how important colour is in our lives... the colours around us can change our moods, make us more or less active, productive, amorous, glamorous.... Why? Because science will tell you that each colour is associated with a specific vibrational frequency.
In fact, each colour can be associated with a musical note! When there is a predominance of one or two colours in our environment, that vibrational frequency - and the characteristics or qualities associated with that frequency - will tend to influence the activities conducted in that environment - and the attitude of those in it, and even around it.

Changing the colour in a room, through paint, lighting or accessories will have a direct and profound affect on everything in the room - and everything that goes on there. The same applies to web site design, the choice of colours for your business or institution, and even the colours you choose to wear.

Try wearing a bright red, green or pink on the days that you are feeling down. Wear browns, greens, oranges and any of the earth tones when you want folks to feel comfortable around you. Wear blues - and especially turquoise, and bright sunny yellows when you want to stimulate some good ideas. Add red if you want folks to take action on these ideas!

Birthstones for January

CAPRICORN 22nd December to 20th January

AQUARIUS 21st January to 19th February

GARNET

Garnet symbolises fire, faith, courage, grace, honesty, compassion and fidelity.

Garnet is known as the stone for a successful business. If your business is not as good as it should be, just put 3 or more garnets on your desk.

Garnets can be used to make a person popular and have self-esteem when worn as jewellery. It helps protect one on trips.

Garnets bring constancy to friendships, and it is believed that if a garnet is put under a pillow it will cure depression. It can also help increase the sex drive.
Garnet is also said to stimulate the bloodstream, combat depression and laziness. It is associated with the thyroid and the spleen, and helps cleanse and purify both when held over the area. The Garnet is usually held in the hand or placed on top of the head when searching or meditating on past lives. Information that is beneficial and helpful will usually be released for the searcher.

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GARNET Relates To:

Planet - Mars

Zodiac - AQUARIUS, also LEO and CAPRICORN

Chakra - First Chakra - Base of spine Chakras

Birthstone - January, also February, May and October

Energies - Luck, Money, Love and Healing

Other stones for January are RUBY For more on stones and Gems see Crystals or Astrology

Grow your own!

When i was at school some of my favourite subjects was chemistry and physics, my son asked about crystals and how they form a few weeks back, so I said we could do a crystal growing experiment, have just found somewhere to buy copper sulfate which you can grow bright blue crystals with, I was told tonight online that you can get crystal growing kits here in the UK, if anyone has see any thing of that sort do let me know!


Will keep you informed of progress and take pics when they appear.

Silver or Gold?

This started out as a straight forward post about car colours but my mind started to go off at a tangent (as it does)and made me think a bit further on it so I will post here my thoughts first, it's interesting how my mind works sometimes but I will explain.

For years I said I didn't want a yellow or red car, the logic eludes me now but the point is I ended up with an orange one so had both.

This made me think of a section in the Diana Cooper book I have been reading about how our subconscious doesn't pick up on negative words, therefore taking it as 'I want a yellow or red car' rather than 'I don't want a yellow or red car' I suppose according to that rule I should of said ' I would rather have any colour other than yellow or red', which is a more positive statement, this comes across in affirmations too, it's needs to be positive to work the way it should so if you are happy where you are living don't keep saying to yourself 'I don't want to move' as the don't gets left out and you could find yourself living elsewhere without really knowing why, it does throw a spanner in the works as we all do it and add certain words to our convo's and thoughts without even realising it, so I think the reason I ended up with an orange van was because of this.
I always believed the subconscious mind to be a very powerful part of us and with genuine belief and application makes anything possible, but to say we don't register negative words explains a lot to me, think about it next time, how you phrase something you really want, or something you are trying to do that you keep repeating to yourself, do you use a negative word?.

Anyway that out of my system back to the question, which is about cars and colour. If you were buying a new or used car does the colour affect your decision?....... if so what colour do you prefer a car to be, and what one would you most avoid?...... and why?

This question does have a reason as at the moment I an reading up on colour in our lives and how we relate to it, and colour therapy, which I am doing a webpage on at the moment, and according to a recent auto magazine survey the most popular new car colour is Silver and the least popular is Gold!

Aura / Kirlian Photography

I have spent most of this evening researching this subject again, the main reason is I want a kirlian camera here for this years summer psychic event, six months ago I knew very little about this subject and learnt so much last year, decided to put it into practice this year at the event.

Last year we had an open 9 day summer psychic event held at my place here in the Essex countryside, and due to the success of the first one, I am planning this years already, last year we did an aura workshop and thought it would be good to have an aura camera here to take pictures of peoples aura, so after many e-mails and phone calls managed to find someone that had one, I even looked at buying one, then the questions in my head started!, being a person that like to know what things are started my reseach on Aura and Kirlian Photography, whats the difference?, how good are they?.... what I found out in the following weeks suprised me. Aura and Kirlian Photography are not the same thing!!!....... before I go into what I am doing research for now, (oh and by the way I cancelled the aura camera person last year!) I will post a section from a Kirlian Photography website last year, and I quote;

Kirlian photography is contact photography. The object to be photographed must touch the film directly. There is a camera on the market that takes pictures of a subjects head and torso and shows coloured lights around the person (an Aura Camera). Sometimes this unit is falsely marketed as a Kirlian camera. That camera inputs information about electrical skin resistance from the hand, and a computer uses those numbers as inputs in a formula that tells the camera what colours to use. Coloured lights are then projected onto Polaroid film. The "aura" would show up regardless of anyone posing for the picture. The skin resistance information this unit displays would be more usable as a chart, rather than an "aura". True Kirlian photography displays vastly more useful information, and does not rely on gimmicks or false advertising.

To show you the difference of the 2 there are two pictures below showing how these cameras reproduce an image, the first is the result from a Kirlian camera, the second from an aura 'camera'

There is evidence that Kirlan photographs do give indications of the health and emotional changes in living things by changes in the brightness, colour, and patterns of light. At the University of California Center for Health Sciences, a plant's leaf showed changes when being approached by a human hand and pricked.
Even when part of the leaf was cut off, the glowing portion of the amputated portion still appeared on film.
Other researchers have found that changes in the emotional conditions of humans can be detected by changes in the brightness, colour and formation patterns in the photographs. When psychic healers were photographed flares of light were seen streaming from their fingertips as they performed their respective activities.

On the other hand (excuse the pun) an aura camera, via it's electrodes connected to your fingers is 'predicting' the colour of your aura, it is NOT a photograph of your aura colours, as it said above , your don't even need to be in the picture

A real Kirlian hold no false promises, in fact a basic unit only works in black and white ( the colour is enhanced) but after my research it is the only one I would now use.
This year we will have one to test out, if I can't hire one I will buy or make one ( yes I do have the plans and circuits and a bit of a wizz with a soldering iron) so will let you know the outcome.

In the mean time (I know I will get shot down for this too) if you are considering spending £25.00 on an aura photo at a psychic fair, treat it as for what it is....entertainment!!!