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Weekly Wisdom by Mirasol – 6 January 2020

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In this first week of 2020 we meet The Hermit from the Modern Witch Tarot. Inspired by Pamela Colman Smith’s stylish artwork from the Rider-Waite Tarot, the witches’ female hermit is depicted gracefully standing with her left hand raised and her right hand either opening or closing her laptop. The hooded robe is a sign of choosing to be alone and to withdraw temporarily from the outer world, to later re-emerge with insights not only for ourselves but also for our community. Around her neck hangs a glowing star which offers guidance.

The Hermit’s gift is that of wisdom through contemplation. When we are alone we receive wisdom from ourselves and also through our connection to the universe. In solitude and silence we hear and understand better through embodied listening. The shining star allows for empowerment in your inner sanctum. You are free to roam with your own thoughts, nobody is present to interfere with your mystic processes, the messages you receive and send could be transcending unknown and/or parallel worlds.

The Hermit encourages you to be still, to explore your inner mind by staying away from temptations and overspending, both materially and energetically. Listen to your spiritual heart and be open to the transformation which occurs in voluntary solitude. The glowing star is a guiding light for the unconscious mind and it is a pathway to a breakthrough.

The full moon eclipse in Cancer on 10 January will enable us to tap into our emotional sources and make us realise how we react to the triggers that upset us. Utilise the energy of the eclipse to temporarily becoming The Hermit. Instead of reacting to the challenges of the external environment focus on conserving your energy. This will help you to connect to the outer world in welcoming the new era with a compassionate mind.

Meditation with The Hermit

Try this meditation with The Hermit.

Sit down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

Look at the image of the female Hermit and how she is either closing and opening her laptop, choosing which information she is receiving and/or sending out. She is silently contemplating on making a decision for her own best benefit. The hooded robe is a sign that she is conserving her energy and taking a step back to connect to the embodied message she is receiving in silent retreat. Observe the shining star hanging at solar plexus level, it is a reminder to trust in your own strength.

Stay in meditation for 5 to 10 minutes.

After the meditation, journal about the below questions.

What did The Hermit show you?

How can you expand your imagination?

Additional practice – tapping into your unlimited imagination with Charoite

Charoite is an enchanting crystal ranging in colour from bright violet and lavender to deep purple, with a pearly lustre and marbling patterns from inclusions of quartz or manganese. Discovered in the 1940s, it was only revealed to the rest of the world in 1978. The name Charoite is derived from the Chara River in eastern Siberia, Russia and the only place where it is found. In Russian, the word chary means magic or charms. Charoite is monoclinic in structure and it is a complex silicate, containing sodium, potassium, calcium and barium amongst others.

Charoite is a dream stone and illuminator of our soul and it provides access to lessons learned in past lives and heals emotional fears of living in the present, and makes us receive spiritual guidance to accept the future. It connects the crown and heart chakra and unites spiritual energy with physical unconditional love and brings it to Mother Earth. Charoite has the ability to help you to realise your dreams through its’ unwavering unconditional energy of love and acceptance. Charoite gives collective hope since it connects us to the community of peaceful dreamers and enables us to be of service rather than focusing on ego-centred goals. It is a stone for the current age, promoting positive change for Mother Earth. Charoite corresponds to the Violet Ray and can be used in Violet Flame meditations.

For the healing ceremony, lie down in a comfortable place. Place the Charoite on your Bindu or Moon chakra situated at the back of the head, where the bones of the back and the sides meet, the occiput and the parietal. This is the point of emptiness and the source of creation, and the point where divine information can be dropped. It is the point through which all elements manifest. After placing the Charoite on your Bindu, take a deep breath and relax. Sense how the beautiful purple energy is entering your Bindu chakra and awakening it. Then sense how the Charoite vibration is travelling up to your crown chakra, then down to your third eye, the throat chakra, heart, solar plexus, sacral, root and knee chakras, down to your feet, toes and then connecting to Mother Earth. Feel how the vibration of Charoite is awakening your Bindu and how this deep sensation is connecting all chakras and pathways in your whole body. Stay in the sacred energy of Charoite and feel how your soul is connecting to your whole being and to the cosmos. Note any messages you receive at this point.

Take a deep breath and say thank you to Charoite and its’ healing gift.

You can repeat this practice when you wish to awaken your Bindu chakra and experience the bliss of deep imagination.

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Weekly Wisdom by Mirasol – 25 December 2019

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This week, the last of 2019, we encounter the Archangels Haniel, Metatron and Orion from the Angel Prayers Oracle Cards by Kyle Gray. Haniel, the Grace of God, with turquoise wings and white-blue hair, holds a turquoise lotus, offering it to you as a confirmation of your sensitivity. She reminds you of the need to pay attention to your feelings and to be honest about them. Metatron, the throne next to God, is radiating light from his hands in prayer position. He is bringing a message of clearing, saying that now is a dynamic time to sweep away any stuck energy which may weigh you down. Clutter clearing of material excess is needed, perhaps by gifting, which creates space for the new to arrive. Finally, Orion, the Archangel of Cosmos, a handsome dark blue vision embellished with shining stars, is reminding you of the mastery of manifestation and your own skills to call in and receive that which you desire. He reassures us that miracles happen magically, and when we wish upon a star, it is already reality.

The combined message of the three Archangels is one of honesty, when we tap into our true feelings we know how to proceed and we also enable ourselves to be ready to receive the miracles which we have prayed for. Ceremonial work of acceptance, cleansing and receptivity with symbols, sound and meditation is consolidating the energy of the Archangels and what they wish us to know and act upon.

With the new moon in Capricorn and the Solar Eclipse, we may receive a universal request that we are ready to fully inspect our soul and its’ purpose in this life time. Use this precious cosmic timing to investigate your path and how you can further that which you already know to broaden the full spectrum of your own wisdom.

Meditation with Haniel, Metatron and Orion

Try this meditation with Haniel, Metatron and Orion.

Sit down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

Focus on the three cards. Note which card draws you in more than the others. Observe how the Archangel who called you is focused on their mission, which they want to support you with. Stay connected to their presence and energy, gaze onto their image and receive the message and/or symbol you have waited for.

Stay in meditation for 5 to 10 minutes.

After the meditation, journal about the below questions:

What can you do to evolve spiritually on your journey on Mother Earth?

Is there a practice you can set up to deepen the connection you have with your soul?

Additional practice – soul journey with black obsidian

Obsidian is a spectacular shining volcanic glass formed when lava cools down rapidly. It has minimal crystal growth and an amorphous structure which makes it the perfect crystal for exploring the soul. Obsidian has an energy of no boundaries and it can access unexplored depths of our inner selves. It also has a deep cleansing and protective quality. In pre-Columbian Central America, obsidian blades were used as surgical instruments due to their extremely sharp edges and the shiny surface of Obsidian provided excellent scrying tools in the shape of circular mirrors. Because of its’ fluid energy, obsidian helps to access spirit guides and provides support to those who undertake shamanic journey work. It can make us encounter our shadow sides in a positive manner and helps us to realise the importance of our soul’s growth.

For the healing ceremony, lie down in a comfortable place. Place the Obsidian on your Hara point (or Tan Tien), which is located below your navel, above your sacral chakra, this is the gate to your soul and life purpose. Imagine how the earthy and sensual black colour is balancing your Hara point and flowing down to your sacral, root and knee chakras, down to your feet, toes and connecting to Mother Earth. Then sense how the Obsidian energy is travelling upwards through your solar plexus, throat, third eye and crown chakras and beyond to your soul star. Sense how the vibration of Obsidian is connecting all your chakras and energetic pathways in your whole body. Stay in the sacred energy of the Obsidian and feel how your soul is connecting to your whole being, and beyond. Note any messages you receive at this point.

Take a deep breath and say thank you to Obsidian and its’ healing gift.

You can repeat this practice when you wish to cleanse your body, mind and soul and connect to your soul’s mystery and discover it’s purpose.

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Weekly Wisdom by Mirasol – 9 December 2019

by  on  in anthropology of the tarot, clearquartz, crystalhealing, crystals, mirasol, Mystic sisters oracle by Emily Balivet, weekly wisdom

The Soma Goddess from The Mystic Sisters deck by Emily Balivet comes forward as our guide this week. Beautifully illustrated, the serene Soma Goddess is standing among three impressive red and white striped mushrooms. The ground beneath her and the horizon behind her are patterned with flowers. She rests her head to her left side, as if in a dream state, perhaps in deep meditation and/or in an exhilarating state in the psychedelic landscape.

Soma is a Vedic Sanskrit word meaning distil, extract, or sprinkle, and it is used in the context of rituals. In Vedic times, soma refers to a hallucinogenic or intoxicating liquid, made from a plant or fungus, consumed during ceremony and offered to the Gods. Soma is also used to describe the nectar secreted from the pineal gland during deep states of meditation. In yoga, soma refers to the crown chakra, opened by yogic insight, to release bliss throughout the body.

The message of the Soma Goddess is one of wholeness, integrity and being centred. She wants us to know that we are fully part of this world and all of its’ experiences. Every step on our journey is a path of growth and during this we remain whole, even if we may not feel as such. Wholeness is our birthright and knowing this gives us peace. You are exactly where you are meant to be at this moment.

With the full moon in Gemini arriving on Thursday, 12 December, we are reminded to integrate our two sides, the male and the female, the dark and the light, the receptive and the giving. The Soma Goddess knows how to flow between the wet and the dry, the solar and the lunar, the active and the passive. She utilises the knowledge through her body and soul to achieve wholeness and integration. Be alert and observe how you can utilise your own twin energetic supplies of female and male to navigate through the awakenings the full moon brings.

Meditation with the Soma Goddess

Try this meditation with the Soma Goddess and notice any messages you receive.

Sit down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

Focus on the image of the card. Observe how the Soma Goddess remains tranquil in her standing pose, resting her head to her left. The stunning large mushrooms create a psychedelic effect and transport you into another dimension. The flowery ground and horizon attribute a sensual aura to your journey. Be still and enjoy.

Stay in meditation for 5 to 10 minutes.

After the meditation, journal about the below questions.

Are you balanced in your female and male energies?

How can you step through the barriers of either energy consuming your actions?

Additional practice – healing your heart with Mangano Calcite

Mangano Calcite is a calming and gently grounding opaque stone, a calcium carbonate, rich in manganese, which creates its’ beautiful pale pink colour. Mangano Calcite will help you to understand and unfold your heart’s desires. It will heal any on-going negative patterns in your ancestral feminine lineage and releases these by bringing a feeling of safety and grandmotherly comfort. Mangano Calcite connects the higher heart to the heart chakra and increases our awareness of spiritual love and self-love. It helps you to fully accept yourself as you are. Mangano Calcite brings love and compassion into you life and it will strengthen any area of your life where love is lacking.

For the healing ceremony, lie down in a comfortable place. Place the Mangano Calcite between your higher heart and your heart chakra. Imagine how the pale pink colour is calming your higher heart and your heart chakra, providing nourishment for this area. Sense how the lovely pale pink energy is spreading down your solar plexus, sacral, root and knee chakras, down to your feet and toes, connecting you to Mother Earth. Feel how the Mangano Calcite energy is travelling upwards through your throat, third eye, crown chakra and beyond, to your soul star. Sense how the vibration of Mangano Calcite is creating a loving feeling in your whole body. Stay in the comforting energy of Mangano Calcite and feel how your heart chakras are opening to a greater sense of belonging. Note any messages you receive at this point.

Take a deep breath and say thank you to Mangano Calcite and its’ healing gift.

You can repeat this practice when you wish to ground and heal anything that is on your heart’s mind. It will bring you a feeling of wholeness and peace.

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Weekly Wisdom by Mirasol – 24 November 2019

by  on  in black moonstone, clearquartz, earth wisdom oracle by barbara moore, mirasol, weekly wisdom

This week we will look at the Big Picture card from the Earth Wisdom Oracle by Barbara Moore. A woman is sitting in front of a circular stone shield carved with the triple spiral and the triquetra motifs. She is magically receiving a glowing key from the ground. Belladonna, the highly poisonous and hallucinogenic plant, is growing around her.

The card brings a threefold message, to step back from chaos into calm, to see the bigger picture and to trust that the key will be revealed. What will you let go of? What do you desire? Are you ready to receive? The symbolism of the number three is further present in the triquetra and the triple spiral. The triquetra is a symbol of the unifying spirit of trinity, spirit, nature and the Goddess Brigid. The triple spiral is a symbol of life’s movement in everlasting cycles which creates power through transformation and growth. What three areas of your life can you pay attention to now? Earth, sea, sky. Mind, body, spirit. Past, present, future. Life, death, rebirth. Spiritual, intellectual, emotional. Plant, animal, mineral?

The presence of the Belladonna plant, the beautiful lady, which was used by women in Renaissance Italy to dilate their pupils, indicates that we have to open our sight on all levels, to be able to see the bigger picture. Belladonna’s other name Deadly Nightshade is derived from the plant’s usage as poison, and in this instance its’ message is to cut away that which is not in your future vision anymore. Letting go of the excess and chaos will provide the key to call in that which you desire.

Considering the message of this card within the current cosmic activities, we can understand the bigger picture, as explained by Flavia here. Now we are given the key, and if we let go of all expectations of what success should look like and instead focus on our Goddess-like feminine qualities, we will receive the opportunities we whole-heartedly deserve. In gratitude, sincerity and with love.

Meditation with the Big Picture card

Try this meditation with the Big Picture card and observe any messages you receive.

Sit down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

Focus on the image of the card. Observe how the woman is magically given the key to her dreams from the earth. The carved triple spiral and triquetras are calling in the power of three. The Belladonna growing around the woman is mesmerising and opening your inner sight.

Stay in meditation for 5 to 10 minutes.

After the meditation, journal about the below questions.

Are you ready to let go of all expectations to step forward in grace?

What are your three magical qualities?

Additional practice – honouring the divine feminine with black moonstone

Black Moonstone is the dark variety of its’ white sister. It belongs to the orthoclase feldspar family of crystals and exhibits a surface of waxy lustrous shimmer. Black Moonstone is connected to the moon’s cycles and the Moon Goddess herself. It will help you to access your dreams and bring insight how to follow the feminine path to realise them. It has a calming, soothing energy which helps to balance excess of masculine fire which may have been accumulated. Black Moonstone enhances energy healing and provides Goddess protection for those who follow the lunar path. It brings clarity and mystic revelations during meditation. Moonstone in general has been used to enhance fertility and to balance the female reproductive organs. The black variety is connected to the Black Madonna and Mary Magdalene and heals feminine wounding.

For the healing ceremony, lie down in a comfortable place. Place the Black Moonstone on your sacral chakra. Imagine how the watery fluidity of the Moonstone is entering your sacral chakra and spreading down your hips, legs, feet and toes, and connecting to the Earth Goddess below. Then, sense how the Moonstone energy is travelling upwards through your solar plexus, heart, throat, third eye and crown chakra, and beyond, to connect to the Moon Goddess above. Sense how the vibration of Black Moonstone is creating a soothing and calming feeling in your whole body. Stay in the divine feminine energy of Black Moonstone and feel how your body, mind and soul are united. Note any messages you receive at this point.

Take a deep breath and say thank you to Black Moonstone and its’ healing gift.

Repeat this practice as often as you wish to connect to your divine feminine and to receive nourishment and peace.

Mirasol

Sun palms

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The sun, always warming and cleansing. It breaks up the fog, makes us feel alive again. Feeling appreciated for our very being, the sun brings out the joy. Maybe the soul’s worth is measured in sun beams?

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Weekly Wisdom by Mirasol – 11 November 2019

by  on  in anthropology of the tarot, clearquartz, crystalhealing, crystals, fullmoon, girasol, mirasol, tarot del fuego, temperance, weekly wisdom

The card for this week is the Temperance card from the colourful and innovative Tarot del Fuego deck. The person in the image holds one hand raised, while the left hand is pointing, the hands seem to command the water and the fire, either flowing in or out of the cornucopias, the horns of plenty. Two red doves fly behind the person. There is a rainbow against a blue sky, with alternating images of the sun and the moon at each side of the card. A crescent moon is at the person’s feet and a sun rises behind the moon. A green hummingbird is drinking nectar from an exotic flower. The presence of multiple eyes in the card is a theme of the whole deck itself.

Temperance has a balancing presence, one which makes us look at both sides of a story. Our own life story is one which is in constant creation, fluctuating up and down as we find our own way. The rainbow indicates that we will reach our dreams and a more balanced way of life but we have to take command of the ebb and flow to magically transform and transcend the difficulties, like the elemental outbursts of fire and water. The presence of the many moons and suns suggests that the balance within us is paralleling the balance we have outside our bodies, our environment needs to be equally harmonious so that we can find the Temperance in our own lives.

This message is synchronised with the full moon in Taurus, which asks us to acknowledge our earthly needs, we need to ground and balance with the earth and communicate with people who support us. We are here on earth to be fully embodied and to find the way of life which suits us. Receive the healing of the Taurean moon and welcome the balance and the power of being here and now.

Meditation with Temperance

Try this meditation with the Temperance card and observe any messages you receive.

Sit down in a quiet space. Take a few deep breaths and relax.

Focus on the image of the card. Look how the person is commanding water and fire coming in and out of the cornucopias. Lose yourself in the colours of the rainbow and the deep blue sky. The hummingbird is fluttering its wings, perhaps carrying a message for you, while drinking the nectar from an exotic flower. The multiple suns and moons are alternating, their opposite, yet balancing and complementary energies are calling you to listen to them.

Stay in meditation for 5 to 10 minutes.

After the meditation, journal about the below questions.

What is your personal cornucopia? The secret abdundant source which you may have forgotten?

How can you nourish your body and soul with the nectar of life?

Additional practice – calling in joy with Girasol

Girasol is a lovely quartz crystal with a transclucent milky white blue colour. Girasol is named from the Italian gira sole, meaning to turn towards the sun, and originally used during the Renaissance in Venice describing the milky blue glass produced locally. The girasol effect is also used to describe the internal moving glow of a mineral under changing light. Girasol has a calming yet strong energy and it increases creativity in all areas of business, and also in artistic and practical issues. It improves communication skills and hence strengthens the connection with family, friends, lovers, partners and work colleagues. Girasol also increases high-vibrational love and passion, since it connects so well to the crown chakra.

Girasol will make you to see the truth in particular issues enabling you to speak more freely when sharing your own personal thoughts. It will help to neutralise past issues and return you to a neutral ground and to create balance. Girasol is perfect for meditation, it is relaxing and it helps to connect to deep meditative states. It is a crystal of clarity, inspiration and joy. Working with Girasol for a longer period of time will promote a fresh start and recharge the power and vitality of body, mind and soul. Other names for Girasol are moon quartz or moon opal, pearl quartz, foggy quartz and blue opal quartz.

For the healing ceremony, lie down in a comfortable place. Place the Girasol on your crown chakra. Imagine how the lovely iridescent white blue colour is illuminating your crown chakra. Feel the energy of Girasol spreading all over your body, spreading down from the crown to your face, all the way down your neck, abdomen, hips and legs, and to the feet and toes. Sense how the vibration of Girasol is creating a soothing and calming feeling in your whole body. Stay in the illuminating energy of Girasol and feel how your body, mind and soul are united. Note any messages you receive at this point.

Take a deep breath and say thank you to Girasol and its’ healing gift.

Repeat this practice as often as you wish to connect to your spiritual joy and to receive illumination and vibrancy.

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