Blog — blue

TRUE BLUE    Blue is about relationships.  It is the color of givers, helpers, teachers, etc., but perhaps most of all, friends.  Blue energizes the fifth chakra, which is located in the throat.  It is the pure essence of truth.  The phrase, true blue, refers to being loyal and is often used to describe a best friend - someone who will stand up for you when others do not.  Indeed, those of us who have a friend who is true blue are among the very fortunate.    BLUE IS PROFESSIONAL Blue connects us to feelings of reliability, trustworthiness, honesty, sincerity...

 The Essence of True Blue Whether it is through writing, speaking, music, dance, the visual arts, performing arts, culinary arts or any other creative endeavor, the color blue encourages self expression.  Centered in the fifth or throat chakra, this energy is about finding your truth and expressing it to the outside world through creative forms.   Using a blue stone is a fabulous aid to energizing this area of the chakra system.  There are quite a few blue stones in nature that activate the throat chakra and can be very helpful in guiding you to your own truth.  Blue chalcedony, sodalite, amazonite and turquoise are all...

Where Science and Spirit Meet I have always loved rainbows.  The movie, Pollyanna, staring Haley Mills, featured a scene of a bedridden woman whose bedroom was filled with rainbows thanks to the crystals taken off her chandelier and strung across the windows.  Each day at the same time, the whole room was filled with rainbows, and the bedridden woman eventually found her way back to a happier, healthier place.  It turned out she was so emotionally upset that she'd become unable to function, but being bathed in the pure light from prisms gave her a clarity about living her life...

Light waves and Chakras Some years ago, I herniated a disc in my lower back.  I was given a prescription medication for pain, but the side effects were so severe I could not take it.  I ended up trying acupuncture, which made me feel  uncommunicative and very withdrawn (not my normal state).  While I didn't find the acupuncture especially helpful for my back- sorry, but I'm being honest here, my acupuncturist added something to my treatment that was most extraordinary.  In fact, it affected so greatly that I still remember it many years later in vivid detail. Bathed in Color...

  Flashy Labradorite Labradorite is a tricky sort of stone.  In the right light, it displays breathtaking flashes of color, from lavender and pink to neon blues and greens.  It is like holding stone made out of the northern lights.  Wow!  What makes it tricky is that the orientation of the stone has to be exactly right to reveal the brilliant flashes of color inside.  If the stone is not cut to show the flash, it appears a watery dull gray.  This makes cutting the stone of utmost importance!  One tiny tweak in how the stone sits in a piece of jewelry...