Turquoise

A good general healer for all illnesses and excellent conductor (high copper). This gentle, cool, soothing stone is a Native American classic. It opens the Throat Chakra, for open communication, creativity, serenity, spiritual bonding, upliftment; Opens the Heart Chakra for giving/receiving. Symbolizes our source spirit/sky) and spiritual love for healing, help. On brow: Psychic connection to Great Spirit. Strengthens and aligns all meridians, chakras, and energy fields.

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*Aquamarine*

 *Divinatory Interpretation*

*Aquamarine is a sign of communication in a reading. The interpretation of the reading will depend on whether the stone is located in a favourable or a difficult position. In a favourable position, this stone suggests companionship, conviviality, and a sharing of joy and optimism with loved ones. When surrounded by difficult energies, however, aquamarine may suggest that thoughtless gossip or the spreading of lies is causing problems. It may also indicate deception. Like imitations of the stone itself, this sort of behaviour will become clear if you patiently examine the situation from many different angles. It is important, thought, not to become to emotionally involved- in other words, keep your cool. In some positions, aquamarine may also suggest travel over water.

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Synaesthesia: The Crossing of the Senses by Cheryl Lynne Bradley

“We interpret one sense by another.”
William Hazlitt

 
“Although medicine has known about synaesthesia for three centuries, it keeps forgetting that it knows. Richard Cytowic, in “Synaesthesia: Phenomenology and Neuropsychology
a Review of Current Knowledge” Could you imagine going through life every day seeing sound, hearing colour, tasting shapes, hearing smells or tasting colours. These are some of the ways a synesthete experiences the world. One synesthete describes the experience of listening to a saxaphone as a writhing mass of neon-purple snakes hovering in the air another describes a mint as a cool, smooth glass tube.

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PRE-MEDITATIVE MEAD

Gallons: 1.5
Ingredients
6 lb. honey. (I used honey from a beekeeper that put his hives under apple trees)
1.5 gallons water
2 pinches Woodruff (Added when cool)
6 seeds Grains of Paradise crushed (Added after boil)
1 packet Cote De Blanc with 1.5 tsp yeast nutrient.

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