Saturday, 13 February 2010

Traditional Birthstones for Each Month

You might think that birthstones are only associated with the
Zodiac signs. This is not exactly true. They are also associated
with what month you are born in. The origin of the twelve monthly
birthstones was thought to have originated in Bible as they were
found on the breastplates of Aaron.

Yet another difference between the monthly and the Zodiac stones is
that the monthly stones have more a numerological association
whereas the Zodiac stones relate more to astrology.

January - The garnet is named as the January birth stone in just
about every tradition or culture The glittering red garnet is the
stone representing January in Hebrew, Roman, Arabic, Polish and
Russian traditions. In the ancient Hindu tradition the stone for
January was the serpent stone, but this is not a stone that has been
seen by anyone. Chances are it was a ruby or a black stone.

February - The symbolic stone is agreed upon as being the amethyst
according to North American, Hebrew, Roman, Arabic, Polish and
Russian traditions. In ancient Hindu it was the chandrakankta
which once again is a stone nobody living today has ever seen so
it cannot be described.

March - Modern North America culture names the aquamarine as the
stone for this month. However in Hebrew, Roman, Arabic, Polish and
Russian traditions the stone for this stormy month is the
bloodstone. In the ancient Hindu tradition it was a stone called
gold-sivalinga which once again is not a stone ever seen by
contemporary eyes.

April - North American culture names the diamond as the birth stone
for April. In Jewish, Hindu and Polish cultures the diamond is also
named as the April birthstone. However in Roma, Persian and
Russian traditions, the stone that has symbolized the month is
sapphire.

May - In contemporary North American, Arabic, Hindu, Polish and
Russian traditions, the birthstone for the month of May is emerald.
However the Hebrew and Roman traditions say the month belongs to
the agate.

June - June is one of those months that seem to be symbolized by an
array of stones. Contemporary North American culture names the
stone of the month to be moonstone, pearl or alexandrite. Ancient
Hindu tradition also names the pearl as the birthstone for June.
However in ancient Roman and Hebrew traditions June was ruled by
the emerald (possibly because the green represented summer.) In
Russian, Polish and Arabic cultures the stone that rules this month
is agate, which to make things even more confusing is a striped
stone comes in many colors.

July- In North American, Polish and Russian culture the birthstone
for this mid summer month is ruby. In Hebrew and Roman traditions
it is onyx. The Arabic culture assigns the carnelian to July and
the Hindu religion says a sapphire represents this month.

August - Many different stones are often said to belong to the
month of August. The modern North American tradition says the month
is symbolized by peridot. The Hebrew and Roman traditions attribute
it to the carnelian. The Arabic and Polish traditions say the month
belongs to the sardonyx. The Hindu tradition assigns August the
ruby and the Russian tradition assigns it the alexandrite.

September - In modern North American traditions, this autumn month
is said to be ruled by the sapphire. However in Hebrew, Roman,
Arabic, Polish and Russian traditions peridot is given as the
ruling stone. The Hindu tradition assigns the zircon to September.

October - The opal or the tourmaline is usually assigned to
October. However Hebrew, Roman, Arabic and Polish birth gem stone
traditions say that aquamarine is the symbolic stone. The Russian
culture says the month is ruled by the beryl. Ancient Hindu
tradition says the stone is coral.

November - The North American tradition assigns either yellow topaz
or citrine as the gemstones for this month. The Hebrew, Roman,
Arabic and Russian traditions also say it belongs to topaz.
November is symbolized by the cat's eye in the Hindu culture.

December - The North American tradition says December is symbolized
by three choices of three blue stones: tanzanite, turquoise or blue
topaz. The Hindu religion also assigns it to topaz, and the Russian
and Polish traditions assign it to turquoise. The Arabic, Roman and
Hebrew traditions say the rosy colored ruby rules this month.

This is interesting because very often your choice of a Zodiac
stone will conflict with what is the birth month stone. Some of
the stones also cross over to astrology. For instance if you are
born in November the symbolic stone is topaz and if you are a
Sagittarian born after the 23rd then your stone will be at topaz as
well.

For more on what individual stone look like, visit my main site at Psychic Visions Here

Sunday, 15 November 2009

Keep an open mind

For many years I have been able to see things that for many don’t exist or at least would deem a figment of the imagination but with now nearly 45 years of experiences of things not only seen but heard and felt feel it’s a little bit more than childhood vivid imagination.

Even at the age of six I remember some of, what at the time seemed like dreams but looking back on it was actually happening around me.

As I got older more started to happen and even to a point of frightening me, not because it was nasty but because I didn’t understand at the time what was going on.

Most of what goes on around us or seen by clairvoyants like me is explainable with science fact, actually science and reality is far stranger than you think.

Let me explain;

Most of what I have seen can be put down to one major factor, (no, not that I am mad) energy, unseen energy all around us, it exists and has been proven in many ways.

All living things have an electro magnetic field around them also known as an aura but this field although weaker is everywhere and around everything not just living matter.

Anyone that has hear of feng shui will know this is the art of making ‘chi’ energy flow in the right directions a bit like water in a brook, if there is a stone in the water, the water will eddy around it, energy as in feng shui reacts the same and reacts differently with different materials such as wood, fabric, metal and so on.

As a rule this energy although subtle can be seen with a heightened awareness and can be seen eddying around object that they encounter, ok with me so far, now if you put a ball in a wind tunnel and turn on the smoke the smoke will find it’s way around the ball creating an eddy of it’s own, but what if the ball was invisible? Would that change, no because the obstruction is still there….. this is what I see when something or someone steps into the energy not a person but an outline of a person and not always a person shape the most common it in fact a ball or just a random eddy of the energy for what seems no apparent reason, if you look at some of the pictures on this page what I see as random energy looks exactly like that seen in the pictures, orbs on the other hand are fast moving specks or intense light not ball shaped, although this could be the surrounding energy field caught in a cameras flash.

One thing to remember, this is my views based on my experiences and what I myself have encountered.

A lot of this is subjective because I can’t prove it but lets look at the reality of things next,

Over the last 25 years at least I have researched and studied many things from metaphysics, psychics, atomic structure, psychics, feng shui, reiki and spiritualism as well and read numerous books an articles.

I have tried a lot of things to with differing results which in a way gives me the grounding to be a skeptic as well as a psychic, always looking for a reasonable explanation if I can.
On the subject of atomics put simply and at a risk of boring a few readers here I will keep it brief in this article;

Everything is made of atoms, not seen by the naked eye but are there, we can’t see them but they have been proven and seen, everything form the chair you are sitting on now to the cushions on the sofa the only difference is the way the atoms react with each other and more importantly the spacing between them, this can make an object either hard or soft or red or clear like glass and the other thing is they all have a frequency or vibration of their own, in fact nothing is actually solid, it all vibrates and moves it just we can't see it, as does energy around us, that higher awareness I was talking about earlier in theory if you can find the frequency of any given object and vibrate at the same rate then the theory is you will see right through it…….

On the other hand if something you can’t see has a vibration of it’s own frequency then it is logical that if you can raise your awareness to it’s vibration then you will sense it’s presence or even see it, this is how a medium works by raising their vibration to a level higher than their own.

Psychics tend to work on a lower vibration of the human aura where we store all our experiences and memories.

All science theories start out as ideas which had to be proved but one thing that will surprise you is there are many scientists that have a large interest in all things spiritual and continue to try to prove the existence of those things yet to be explained.

Always keep an open mind but don’t assume that something is unexplained, it is only by looking at what can be explained that we can see the real side of the spirit world and our own god given psychic abilities that we all have and is our legacy from the past.