Crystal Lore ~ Aqua Aura

Aqua Aura Quartz is a beautiful bright blue colour, but this colour is not natural. It is the result of a specific treatment process, where the crystals are heated, and finely vaporised gold is bonded to the stone's surface.

Although this is created by a completely unnatural process that permanently changes these crystals, it actually has a positive effect on the stone.

These quartz crystals have very powerful metaphysical properties, and this is partly due to the fact that they are quartz crystals.

But it also relates to the layer of fine gold that covers the stone. These crystals resonate strongly with a vibration that is powerful to aid communication and psychic gifts. These lovely stones have a very high and quite intense energy, that activates all of the chakras.

Aqua Aura is an outstanding tool for people wishing  to increase their psychic skills and awareness. Aqua Aura strengthens meditation which can enhance any psychic endeavours. Aqua Aura is used to empower and enhance telepathy, clairaudience, clairvoyance, psychic healing, and automatic writing as well as other modalities. In part. this psychic empowerment is due to bringing more intense energy to the effort.

The strength of Aqua Aura is also excellent protection from psychic attacks.   It helps strengthen and heal the auric field which is the first line against negative psychic energy. It can protect against psychic "vampires", and other parasitic or draining negative energies.

Aqua Aura is used by crystal healers and others to calm the emotions and the emotional body. It is a powerful stress reliever. It is also a strong energy for reducing or eliminating anger. It is said to help process emotional disturbances, grief, and traumas to a point where they are no longer stressful.

Physically Aqua Aura is reputed to help with throat problems, stress-related physical or mental illness,   depression and anxiety disorders, thymus bland, vertigo,  immune system issues. Aqua Aura is particularly helpful for distance spiritual energy healing because of its ability to send energy. It is also said to be outstanding at activating and energising other stones for healing, making it especially good for crystal layout or grid healing.

Aqua Aura is related primarily to the throat and third eye chakras.

Some people feel that since Aqua Aura is created through a man-made, unnatural process, that it is a spiritually and metaphysically dead stone.

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Rock Lore & Tidbits:

Aqua aura is quartz that is gold infused. It is created by heating quartz crystals to over 1500F in a vacuum equal to 2 earth atmospheres. Once the right heat and vacuum are attained, chemically purified gold vapours are let into the chamber with the crystals This bonds the gold to the lattice of the crystal, forming a permanent bond to the surface of the quartz, giving it an electric blue colour. Sometimes carved or cabochons of quartz crystal are infused with gold to become aqua aura, but the most common forms are points and clusters. Often natural points and clusters show internal fractures due to the high heat and pressure in their birth as Aqua Aura. This in no way lessens the beauty or the energy of the crystals and often shows rainbows inside.

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Like I'm Gonna Lose You - Jasmine Thompson Lyrics 

(Meghan Trainor &John Legend Cover)

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Pieces of me...

~ Introducing the INFJ World

Pinterest ~ Pieces of Me

A New Discovery ~ Interesting results that I received from online tests - INFJ

Jungian functional preference ordering:  INFJ

Dominant: Introverted Intuition

Auxiliary: Extraverted Feeling

Tertiary: Introverted Thinking

Inferior: Extraverted Sensing

Portrait of an INFJ - Introverted iNtuitive Feeling Judging

(Introverted Intuition with Extraverted Feeling)

The Protector

As an INFJ, your primary mode of living is focused internally, where you take things in primarily via intuition. Your secondary mode is external, where you deal with things according to how you feel about them, or how they fit with your personal value system.

INFJs are gentle, caring, complex and highly intuitive individuals. Artistic and creative, they live in a world of hidden meanings and possibilities. Only one percent of the population has an INFJ Personality Type, making it the most rare of all the types.

INFJs place great importance on havings things orderly and systematic in their outer world. They put a lot of energy into identifying the best system for getting things done, and constantly define and re-define the priorities in their lives. On the other hand, INFJs operate within themselves on an intuitive basis which is entirely spontaneous. They know things intuitively, without being able to pinpoint why, and without detailed knowledge of the subject at hand. They are usually right, and they usually know it. Consequently, INFJs put a tremendous amount of faith into their instincts and intuitions. This is something of a conflict between the inner and outer worlds, and may result in the INFJ not being as organized as other Judging types tend to be. Or we may see some signs of disarray in an otherwise orderly tendency, such as a consistently messy desk.

INFJs have uncanny insight into people and situations. They get "feelings" about things and intuitively understand them. As an extreme example, some INFJs report experiences of a psychic nature, such as getting strong feelings about there being a problem with a loved one, and discovering later that they were in a car accident. This is the sort of thing that other types may scorn and scoff at, and the INFJ themself does not really understand their intuition at a level which can be verbalized. Consequently, most INFJs are protective of their inner selves, sharing only what they choose to share when they choose to share it. They are deep, complex individuals, who are quite private and typically difficult to understand. INFJs hold back part of themselves, and can be secretive.

But the INFJ is as genuinely warm as they are complex. INFJs hold a special place in the heart of people who they are close to, who are able to see their special gifts and depth of caring. INFJs are concerned for people's feelings, and try to be gentle to avoid hurting anyone. They are very sensitive to conflict, and cannot tolerate it very well. Situations which are charged with conflict may drive the normally peaceful INFJ into a state of agitation or charged anger. They may tend to internalize conflict into their bodies, and experience health problems when under a lot of stress.

Because the INFJ has such strong intuitive capabilities, they trust their own instincts above all else. This may result in an INFJ stubborness and tendency to ignore other people's opinions. They believe that they're right. On the other hand, INFJ is a perfectionist who doubts that they are living up to their full potential. INFJs are rarely at complete peace with themselves - there's always something else they should be doing to improve themselves and the world around them. They believe in constant growth, and don't often take time to revel in their accomplishments. They have strong value systems, and need to live their lives in accordance with what they feel is right. In deference to the Feeling aspect of their personalities, INFJs are in some ways gentle and easy going. Conversely, they have very high expectations of themselves, and frequently of their families. They don't believe in compromising their ideals.

INFJ is a natural nurturer; patient, devoted and protective. They make loving parents and usually have strong bonds with their offspring. They have high expectations of their children, and push them to be the best that they can be. This can sometimes manifest itself in the INFJ being hard-nosed and stubborn. But generally, children of an INFJ get devoted and sincere parental guidance, combined with deep caring.

In the workplace, the INFJ usually shows up in areas where they can be creative and somewhat independent. They have a natural affinity for art, and many excel in the sciences, where they make use of their intuition. INFJs can also be found in service-oriented professions. They are not good at dealing with minutia or very detailed tasks. The INFJ will either avoid such things, or else go to the other extreme and become enveloped in the details to the extent that they can no longer see the big picture. An INFJ who has gone the route of becoming meticulous about details may be highly critical of other individuals who are not.

The INFJ individual is gifted in ways that other types are not. Life is not necessarily easy for the INFJ, but they are capable of great depth of feeling and personal achievement.

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Tolkien's World ~ Manuscript pages from Edel Silmarillion

Benjamin Harff, Tolkien illustrator and creator of the Edel-Silmarillion

The whole process took about half a year, plus about half a year where I dealt mainly with the illustrations but also collected knowledge and made sketches for calligraphy, says  Benjamin.

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The Holy Grail of the Unconscious ~ Jung

An interesting find...
By Sara Corbett HERE

A story about a nearly 100-year-old book bound in red leather, which has spent the last quarter century secreted away in a bank vault in Switzerland. The book is big and heavy and its spine is etched with gold letters that say "Liber Novus," which is Latin for "New Book." Its pages are made from thick cream-colored parchment and filled with paintings of otherworldly creatures and handwritten dialogues with gods and devils. If you didn't know the book's vintage, you might confuse it for a lost medieval tome. And yet between the book's heavy covers, a very modern story unfolds. It goes as follows: Man skids into midlife and loses his soul. Man goes looking for soul. After a lot of instructive hardship and adventure - taking place entirely in his head - he finds it again.

Most of what has been said about the book - what it is, what it means - is the product of guesswork, because from the time it was begun in 1914 in a smallish town in Switzerland, it seems that only about two dozen people have managed to read or even have much of a look at it.

Of those who did see it, at least one person, an educated Englishwoman who was allowed to read some of the book in the 1920s, thought it held infinite wisdom - "There are people in my country who would read it from cover to cover without stopping to breathe scarcely," she wrote - while another, a well-known literary type who glimpsed it shortly after, deemed it both fascinating and worrisome, concluding that it was the work of a psychotic.

So for the better part of the past century, despite the fact that it is thought to be the pivotal work of one of the era's great thinkers, the book has existed mostly just as a rumour, cosseted behind the skeins of its own legend - revered and puzzled over only from a great distance.

Illustration by CG Jung for his Red Book, a.k.a. Liber Novus 

The book tells the story of Jung trying to face down his own demons as they emerged from the shadows. The results are humiliating, sometimes unsavoury.

He worked on his red book - and he called it just that, the Red Book - on and off for about 16 years, long after his personal crisis had passed, but he never managed to finish it. He actively fretted over it, wondering whether to have it published and face ridicule from his scientifically oriented peers or to put it in a drawer and forget it. Regarding the significance of what the book contained, however, Jung was unequivocal. "All my works, all my creative activity," he would recall later, "has come from those initial fantasies and dreams."

Jung evidently kept the Red Book locked in a cupboard in his house in the Zurich suburb of Küsnacht. When he died in 1961, he left no specific instructions about what to do with it. His son, Franz, an architect and the third of Jung's five children, took over running the house and chose to leave the book, with its strange musings and elaborate paintings, where it was. Later, in 1984, the family transferred it to the bank, where since then it has fulminated as both an asset and a liability.

Anytime someone did ask to see the Red Book, family members said, without hesitation and sometimes without decorum, no. The book was private, they asserted, an intensely personal work.

Carl Jung founded the field of analytical psychology and, along with Sigmund Freud, was responsible for popularising the idea that a person's interior life merited not just attention but dedicated exploration - a notion that has since propelled tens of millions of people into psychotherapy. Freud, who started as Jung's mentor and later became his rival, generally viewed the unconscious mind as a warehouse for repressed desires, which could then be codified and pathologized and treated. Jung, over time, came to see the psyche as an inherently more spiritual and fluid place, an ocean that could be fished for enlightenment and healing.

Whether or not he would have wanted it this way, Jung - who regarded himself as a scientist - is today remembered more as a countercultural icon, a proponent of spirituality outside religion and the ultimate champion of dreamers and seekers everywhere, which has earned him both posthumous respect and posthumous ridicule. Jung's ideas laid the foundation for the widely used Myers-Briggs personality test and influenced the creation of Alcoholics Anonymous. His central tenets - the existence of a collective unconscious and the power of archetypes - have seeped into the larger domain of New Age thinking while remaining more at the fringes of mainstream psychology.

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Trace

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