Clear Quartz: What to do With it

My crystal, this is the photo that I saw and knew I had to buy it

I knew I wanted a crystal, I wanted one I could wear all the time. I decided one night to get on etsy.com and search "crystals". Boy it didn't take long and the photo you see is what I saw. The difference between what you see and what I saw was the energy.

When I saw it, my heart fluttered. I had this URGE to buy it. A need, I KNEW it was MINE. I looked around more just to be certain but nothing gave me the feeling like this one did. I bought it and couldn't wait for it to get here. The day it showed up in my mailbox I felt it waiting for me and had to rush and grab it.

I put it on and NEVER wanted to take it off, but soon there was a pull. There had to be more to it than just a pretty stone I wore around with me. Sure, crystals take in bad energy and can help protect you, but there had to be more. It didn't take long for the crystal and my guides to work together and show me what it can do.

First, I stumbled...okay there was no stumbling, my guides showed me, a website that talked about placing stones and crystals under the full moon, next to a healthy plant. This will charge the stones/crystals with spiritual growth. Lucky me, the full moon was that night. So I did! Since then I have definitely felt the growth but I also learned my crystal did other things.

I was drawn to pendulums, I had never used one before. I had bought a charm that I put on my necklace with my crystal. I was playing around one day and realized if I took off my necklace, moved the charm to the top and held it by the charm, my crystal became a full functioning pendulum. Pretty darn cool in my book.

Not only did it work, the energy was amazing!! The clear quartz, crystal...whatever you want to call it, holds a lot of power. It can be used for so many things and I believe each one's energy can accomplish different things to a different degree. Listen to is, and listen to your guides. Find different ways to charge your crystal. It can be a lot of fun and you will learn so much.

Just remember when buying one, go with what you feel. Your guides will let you know and you will feel the energy from the crystal. I am having a lot of fun learning about my crystal and what I can do with it. Learning the energy it holds.

What about you? What have you done or wanted to try?

Patience: A Lesson That Sucks

Okay so it's not the most spiritual title but it is honest. Living in a fast paced world, in a world of instant gratification it can be really hard to accept patience. It is a lesson so many of us are getting and so many of us struggle with.

It is pretty hard to slow down and smell the flowers when the rest of the world seems to be rushing by at highway speeds, but with patience that's what we have to do. While patience is usually a life lesson, something that we will have to go through several times, I want to offer a few tips that will hopefully help you in this lesson.

When I am being taught patience all of a sudden grocery lines take forever, traffic hits and people are late for everything. Getting frustrated only proves you are not learning your lesson and will make these things and more continue to happen. So what should you do?

In a line? Take the time to just observe everyone around you, listen to their stories or get to know the stranger in front or behind you. Take the moment to pick up a magazine in the check out and just read it. Simply remind yourself there is a lesson in all this, to slow down.

In traffic? Turn up the radio and enjoy the time you have to listen to the music, or talk to your guides. If you are running late, all you can do is breathe and remember there is a reason or maybe you should have left sooner, but you are not the Moses of traffic and no matter what you do you cannot part the cars and move faster, all you can do is accept your lesson and learn.

So what is the point of all of this? First of all, the spirit world has no time, so when we are over here in this world of time, waiting for our lessons it can seem like it's taking forever and we get frustrated and give up before it has even truly started. Learning to be patient with physical things can help us become patient with spiritual things.

I think the irony of the whole lesson of patience is once we truly learn to let things happen at their own pace and we truly let go of the control, things start happening faster. This does not mean one can simply say, "I accept and will let things happen at their own pace." You must believe it, practice it and FEEL it.

It is perfectly okay to ask for help from your guides and Angels, it is perfectly okay to use stones and any other tool you may find useful. Learning patience is hard, believe in yourself because you can and will learn. Do not give up because the rewards of accepting and learning are absolutely beautiful!

Forgiveness

Forgiveness is not about forgetting, it's not about pretending something never happened and moving forward with the person you are forgiving. Forgiveness is about letting go. Letting go of the guilt and power.

When something happens between you and another person usually two things happen. They have so much power of you because you are angry, sad and hurt. You also hold a lot of guilt because you may feel you could have, should have done something different.

I have forgiven a lot of people in my life, doesn't mean I forgot what happened. I have forgiven myself for the mistakes that I made and let go of a lot of guilt that I held on to. Forgiveness is all about letting go and moving forward.

Ever wonder how a mother could forgive the person that killed their child? They have accepted that it happened, accepted that they couldn't do anything to change the outcome and have let go of the power the person had over them. They are not forgiving them in the sense that they will start visiting and chatting, nor to a point that they will love that person. They are simply breaking the negative cord that is attached and choosing to move forward in their life.

Life isn't perfect, nor will it ever be. Perfection is something that we cannot have here on earth. The only perfection we have is know we are a perfect piece in the grand scheme of the universal picture. We make mistakes, others make mistakes. We have made bad choices and so have others, forgiveness is a powerful thing. A learning experience and can release you of so much.

No one truly expects you to forgive overnight. If they do, they do not understand what forgiveness truly means. It takes time and may even take a few times. You may find yourself forgiving someone for the same thing several times in your life and that is okay.

So remember, open your heart, let go of the guilt, don't let the person have power over you and move forward...as many times as you need to.

Rose Quartz can help assist you in your path to forgiveness.

Welcome

There has been a lot of talk about starting a spiritual blog. I have mentioned it on my last blog and mentioned it many times on my Facebook page. THIS is where my two worlds collide. Those of you that are here mean to world to me, you have accepted both worlds.

For those of you that don't know I ran a blog for over a year at www.motherhoodtruth.com it was a place that taught me a lot about writing, advertising, dealing with my darkest times, laughing at the ridiculous ones and a place where I met many amazing people. It was a HUGE chapter in my life, but one that recently needed to come to a close.

Here I am, reading to spread my messages, teach others and share my personal stories from my very own spiritual journey. There are many ways you can follow this blog. You can stay up to date by bookmarking the page, liking me on Facebook, following me on Twitter, add you e-mail to the sign up on the left and get an email when I post something new, "follow" the blog or even add my RSS feed to your reader, like Google Reader.

Take a look around, there will be a few changed through out the next few weeks, just to add a little more of a personal touch. I am excited for what this page will bring.

August 31st, a friend and I will be hosting a Facebook workshop on communicating with your guides. You can see the details on the "classes" tab up top.