inspiration
Charley Brown: How do you know if you can trust someone?
Snoopy: If it barks or purrs it's 100% good and reliable.
Life Magazine...Trust
by Donna Seebo
A friend sent me this adorable cartoon of Charlie Brown and Snoopy. I thought its wisdom priceless. How often is trust an issue in our lives? It is one of the great lessons the Universe of Life often puts into our paths of experience. The challenges of trust are not to be taken lightly.
As I reflected on this delightful cartoon, I felt Charles Schultz was giving a chunk of wisdom, not just with Charlie Brown and Snoopy’s communication,
community
Paradise for Rock Lovers: The
Tucson Gem & Mineral Show
by Cecilia Ray
Take a photo walk through a few of the booths at the 2023 show. Words could not express the beauty and uniqueness of the minerals on display.
IN THIS ISSUE Feb. 22, 2023
INSPIRATION: Life Magazine...Trust by Donna Seebo
SPIRITUAL: An Evolutionary Balance by Arlene Arnold
From the Toolbox: Manifesting by Cecilia Ray
METAPHYSICS: A Pisces Plant by Darcy MacPherson
Astrological Influences During Pisces
by Allysa Taylor
Beyond the Booklet, Reading Tarot Intuitively
by Bee La Rosa
WELLNESS: What? I Can Change my Brain! by Cecilia Ray
Word Search - Aromatherapy Terms
COMMUNITY: Paradise for Rock Lovers: The Tucson Gem &
Mineral Show by Cecilia Ray
LIFESTYLE: Growing Wiser by Rosey Cat
February Meta-IQ Challenge
CRYSTALS & ROCKS: Rock of the Month - Aquamarine
by Joanie Vogel
PLACES: Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs
by Susan Homestead
REVIEWS: The Vortex, written by Ester and Jerry Hicks
RESOURCES: Events, businesses and services, rock clubs
CONTACT: Answers to Quiz, subscribe, advertising rates
metaphysics
Beyond the Booklet:
Reading Tarot Intuitively
by Bee La Rosa
You heard about tarot and wanted to learn more, so you picked up a deck or two. You've downloaded apps and eBooks and have memorized all the meanings of the cards by heart. You feel pretty confident about drawing a card or three and knowing the general gist of the message. Still, something feels a little off about your readings. You wonder how the tarot readers you see on YouTube are able to convey such rich, detailed messages and advice from just the basic definitions of the cards, while you feel like your readings are AI-generated. The secret is that professional tarot readers usually aren't relying on the card definitions to construct their readings - instead they read intuitively.
As a beginner, it's totally normal and perfectly fine to rely on the deck booklets and tarot apps to remind
wellness
What? I Can Change My Brain!
by Cecilia Ray
Recent research tells us that not only do we continue to grow new brain cells, but we can also reprogram areas of our brain to serve new functions. Our brain has plasticity. Joe Dispenza D.C., author of Evolve Your Brain, puts it this way, “We are only beginning to understand the brain’s ability to change both functionally and structurally.” Sounds terrific, doesn’t it? Maybe yes, depends on what you change.
From what I understand, our brains are much like a topographical map with different areas devoted to a lifetime of knowledge and skills learned from our environment through our senses. The more we study or focus on a certain subject or situation, the larger that area becomes on the map, and the less space other less active areas occupy.
metaphysical
Astrological Influences
During Pisces
by Allysa Taylor
New moon in Pisces and full moon in Virgo
This new moon in Pisces landed on the 19th of February. Pisces is a mystical, altruistic, creative sign. Pisces can also lead to escapism, addictive behaviors, and can create deception within the mental body. This new moon is conjunct Saturn, which can make our emotional world more serious. There can be feelings of restrictions within the home or intimate partnerships. It could feel difficult to open up and express how you truly feel to someone. There may be ego battles playing out between you and another. Going inward, meditating, getting to a zero point within your energy field can help you make a more pure decision on how to approach the ego battle.
crystals and rocks
Rock of the Month -
Aquamarine
by Joanie Vogel
Let me tell you about Aquamarine.
The Relaxer Stone
5th Chakra (Throat)
Pale Blue Color Ray
Affirmation: I AM YES I CAN.
Aquamarine is a subtle, fluid, and emotionally stable healing stone. This semi-precious stone is in the beryl family. It is a hard stone ranging 7.5 - 8 on the MOHs scale of hardness (out of 10).
“Aquamarine’s name derived from the Latin aqua (water) and marine (of the sea). Many aquamarines are blue-green.”*1
lifestyle
February Meta-IQ Challenge
How much do you know about energy healing, divination, quantum physics, ancient civilizations and cultures, leaders and authors of spiritual and holistic books, and all things metaphysical? Test your knowledge by taking our monthly quizzes.
We have ten multiple-choice questions in the Lifestyle section. See if you are a newbie or a master by testing your knowledge.
NEW! Wordsearch #2 - Aromatherapy Terms
Located on the Wellness page.
spiritual
An Evolutionary Balance
by Arlene Arnold
Since the time I finished my training and began my transformational work, I knew that balance was key to a fulfilled and meaningful life. I found balance in complementary colors (across from each other on the color wheel), in Feminine Receptive and Masculine Active Energy, and now in all of this, plus living from both the Inside World and the Outside World.
Why is this so important?
When we are stuck in life, our energy is stuck!
Balance brings back our natural flow.
When we operate primarily from either the
masculine energy or the feminine energy, we are
accessing only part of who we are. All our
attributes are not available to us.
metaphysics
A Pisces Plant -
Lauren Grape Poppy
by Darcy MacPherson
The Lauren Grape Poppy is one of the plants connected to Pieces. Darcy gives more details about Pisces Plant in the metaphysical section.
inspiration
Painted with Love
What joy brushed your heart,
Turning paint to timeless art,
With colors of love?
Cecilia
Many of the paintings of Claude Monet during the late 1800s are of his family. This one is titled "Madame Monet and Child"
Poem: Contest winner on Fanstory
Image: from Bing Stock Photos
lifestyle
World According to Rosey:
Growing Wiser
As I become a more mature cat, I am letting go of some of my kitten habits and beliefs about how things are. I know I can’t play with the cat in the mirror. Windows are like TV screens, I can see things, but I can’t catch them, and that dot I have been chasing around on the floor is not real.
But even at my age, almost two in human years (about twenty in cat years from what I have been told), there are times that I still slip back into my kitten self. The big one for me to learn was trust.
places
Grapevine Canyon Petroglyphs
by Susan Homestead
Communication is a vital part of any society and has taken many forms throughout history. In the Southwestern United States, ancient people often communicated and recorded their lives in the form of pictographs or petroglyphs. While both are a form of communication and often tell a story, there is a distinct difference between the two. Pictographs are images and designs made by using natural materials to paint on rocks. This process makes pictographs quite fragile and vulnerable to the forces of nature. If left unprotected, they do not survive the passing of time. On the other hand, petroglyphs are images created by carving, engraving, or scratching through the dark surface, often termed desert varnish, of a rock. Most of the ancient rock art we find today is in the form of petroglyphs.
reviews
The Vortex: Where the Law of
Attraction Assembles All
Cooperative Relationships
by Jerry and Esther Hicks
The Teachings of Abraham.
Hay House, Inc. 2009
The Vortex by Ester and Jerry Hicks is one of the Law of Attraction series. It is written as a succession of questions asked by Jerry and answered by Abraham though the channel, Esther.
These teachings focus on relationships of all kinds and the false premises we have accepted into our lives that keep us caught in a pattern of creating problems.
SPIRITUAL
FROM THE REALITY SHIFTING TOOLBOX
Manifesting Is Like Building
and Flying a Paper Airplane
See how these two skills involve the same process.
inspiration
Spring is knocking at the door.
Buds are pushing their way into the Northwest yards and landscapes. Soon we will be showered in colors and the scent of spring.
VIEW - Past Articles
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Lori Aletha What Have You Added to the
World Today?, Choose to be Happy, The
Purpose of Prayer
Arlene Arnold Love is the Ultimate Journey of
Life, Selecting Gifts from the Heart,
Treating Winter Depression
Rosey Cat Mirror, Mirror, on the Wall, Asks for
What You Want, What is Real?
Krystal Gibson It' All About Love, Let's Begin
Sunday Hamilton The Vision Quest
Susan Homestead White Sands, The Laughlin
Labyrinths, The Obsidian Dome
Bee La Rosa Clear Guidance from Tarot: Reveal
Choices, not Answers
Darcy MacPherson An Aquarius Plant, The Capricorn
Plant, The Sagittarius Plant
Claudia O'Malley Smokeless Smudging,
Frankincense & Myrrh, Chakra Balance
Guide, Power of Color in Feng Shui
Cecilia Ray Meditation - Today, Journal
Forward
Donna Seebo Reframing a New Year, A Coin's
Edge, Ripples
Trina Sellers The Journey
Allysa Taylor Astrological Influences During
Capricorn, Aquarius
Joanie Vogel Amethyst
Kevin Walder The Ten of Swords, Getting to
Know the Fool
COMMUNITY Creativity Grows during
Shelter-at-home, Out & About, Halloween,
GLASS QUEST STUDIO
WIT'S END BOOKSTORE
QUIZZES & PUZZLES
REVIEWS Avatar, the Movie, Psychic Abilities for Beginners, Metahuman