Ruby

In the shop last week, we had a bit of a run on ruby's....It is one of those synchronous things that happen often, when, for months, a particular stone may go unmentioned, then one day someone comes in asking for that stone. Well this time it was ruby's turn ! On the same day three people came in asking for ruby...It is possible that they all read the same magazine promoting ruby's ! The funny thing is though, I had also been thinking about these stones too, the day before !

Ruby is known as a stone of life force, a reminder that we are electrical conduits of Light, and when we are fully connected, just like an electrical circuit, we can shine our Light onto others transmitting Love and Understanding, whatever the circumstances.

Ruby transmits a frequency that is in alignment with our root chakra and our etheric field, it can help us understand that there is an infinite flowing energy available to us all, from Planet Earth and from The Universe. It can help us release any difficulties relating to our families and any feelings that we are unloved or unwanted, or fears that we might somehow be left behind.

Ruby can be placed at the base of your bed or kept in your pocket, if you are ever feeling depleted, tired or drained, connect with ruby's energy and ask for your Light quotient to be increased. If you are experiencing financial difficulties, ruby can guide you to a better loving awareness of where true abundance can be found.

With Love and Blessings

xxXxx

Energy Interference Patterning (EIP) & 12 & Infinite Strand DNA Activation

Energy Interference Patterning is a profound way at having a look at our ancestrally inherited genetic memory which is stored in our energetic DNA. By activating our 12 & Infinite strand energetic DNA, it allows our awareness of these memories to be raised resulting in access being provided to genetic memories inherited through our 44 chromosomes from our parents. 12 strand DNA activation also increases our psychic abilities including clairvoyance, clairaudience & clairsentience and allows an awareness of the multi dimensional nature of our existence as human beings, beyond the denseness that are the restrictions of 3rd dimensional space and time. During an EIP, specific ancestrally inherited memory is discovered as being the root cause of current life time issues. Awareness is raised as to the strategy we develop to deal with these issues and the triggers that allow this ancestrally inherited memory to be brought to the surface in the form of energy interference resulting in challenges, difficulties and illnesses.

Any energies that are not serving our path to Light are then neutralised and returned to Source of Love within the 4th dimension and a new reality manifested in the 5th dimension. These treatments can be so profound as to enable instant results not just for the client but for all family members and souls, running the same pattern.

12 Strand DNA activations are a prerequisite for this kind of work as they activate access to cellular memory held within DNA. Whilst we hold all the memories of our forefathers (and our fore children !) within our infinite strand DNA, we have to be able to access it in order to return it, successfully, to Source.

Some crystals which can be used in conjunction with this are Quartz, Danburite, Charoite, Amethyst, Lepidolite and Apophylite, these stones will also help connection with your Higher Self and will aid in helping to ground in Soul Impulse.

12 & infinite strand DNA activation and Energy Interference Patterning, along with Crystal Energy Treatments and Crystal Card readings take place at The Crystal Merchant. Treatments can also be undertaken over the telephone and take about an hour or an hour and a half.

A pathway towards All Angels Day on 16th May 2009 and 5th & 6th December 2009

I had always been drawn, as a teenager, to the occult and the unknown, burning incense through my twenties and chasing a Spiritual but mainly material dream through my thirties and it wasn’t until my forties that I realised my pursuit of happiness was better served by going within, rather than the shallower pursuits that my material world had to offer.

A conscious beginning to becoming the path was kick started after an experience in a garden of a Gatehouse that I had rented. A friend of mine had made a chair, it can only be described as a Wizards chair, for that is what it looks like, made of oak and roughly hewn together, it is tall with a pointed top and has a magical feel, not unlike its creator, Andy. Sitting in this garden, on this chair, with a friend nearby, who is a Crystal Healer, I had a sensation like that I have never experienced before, being engulfed within the radiance of a very strong and vibrating shaft of light which seem to penetrate deep into the planet. It was like a prolonged, slow and exceptionally pleasant electric charge. At this point, my friend who was observing, and could see what was happening, said it was Archangel Metatron.

I had never heard of Metatron, indeed I always felt a little naive and embarrassed when my friend mentioned masters such as Jesus, Saint Germaine and others.

This experience really helped the way forward in setting up The Crystal Merchant, a shop and Light Centre specialising in Crystals and Jewellery, Meditation, Crystal Energy Therapy and Energy Interference Patterning. I had left the material world as I knew it and wasn't sure what I was going to do next, and when I returned from a weekend with a friend who had a crystal shop in East Sussex, I knew this is what I had to do, in my home town of Bury St Edmund's. I had made a list of requirements, the shop had to be in the old medieval part of town, between the two ley lines (The Michael and Mary ley Lines run from St Michael's Mount in Cornwall through Avebury, Glastonbury, Royston and Bury St Edmund's in Suffolk and out to sea at Hopton) in a historic building, requiring renovation, with a magical feel and accommodation above.The next day took me into Bury St Edmund's to follow up my quest. And there it was , a vacant shop, next to and in between the Michael and Mary line, in the medieval grid, requiring modernisation, living accommodation above and with a magical energy. This happened in September and after a short trip to India, I opened up on December 12th 2005.

In the summer of 2007, I went on holiday with my son
and, as we were driving to Glendalough in the Wicklow Mountains during a rain storm, the car was completely engulfed in an extremely bright electric blue light as the car was struck by lightning. It was a beautiful experience to have shared together, leading, later in the day, to visiting the sacred site of Glendalough, founded by St Kevin in about 600AD. Whilst climbing up the other side of the mountain away from the tourists, we discovered a hidden and overgrown cave. We felt perhaps that this cave might have been used by St Kevin ! As we were walking down the mountain side I turned around and took the most amazing photograph of a rainbow orb of extraordinary detail and beauty(shown at the top here). I sent a copy to Diana Cooper who very kindly offered the following interpretation:

‘I have had another look at your amazing Orb and we have now been told it contains Archangels Chamuel, Gabriel, Raphael, Michael, Uriel, Metatron, Butalyil (who is in charge of the cosmic grids for Earth) and Gersisa (in charge of the leylines and grids in the centre of the Earth). It also contains eleven Masters. St Germain, El Morya, Kuthumi, Maitreya, Melchizedek, Hilarion, Paul the Venetian, Dwjhal Kuhl, Serapis Bey, Lanto, Ashtar.
The Orb connects space to the centre of the Earth. It is helping to anchor the Metatron Cube. It is also helping to bring the energy of the four ascension planets to connect with Roquiel, the universal angel in charge of the centre of the Earth, Sandalphon and Lady Gaia.
It also contains an invitation to go into space during sleep.
This is an Orb to heal the planet.'

So, it was quite a revelation to get an interpretation such as this, especially because of my earlier experience of Archangel Metatron, my connection with all the Angels and masters mentioned in Diana’s description and, that I had adopted Metatrons cube as my business’s logo !

Back in September last year, 2008, I woke up one morning with a very strong impulse that I was to help organize an event with Angels, here in Bury St Edmund's, but at that time I had little idea what it was to be except it would involve Angels ! A few days later I was walking my dog in the graveyard between the Cathedral and St Marys church when I had another impulse that it should be a mind body spirit event. As I had this thought the bell in the small bell tower in the cathedral sounded 3 times, then 3 times then 3 times ! This happened at about 9.20. This must be a clear indication that these plans were in alignment with my Higher Self and The Universe. I went back to the shop and opened up for 9.30. Unusually, almost immediately, my first customer of the day came in, a lady who I didn’t recognize, asking for 2 crystal Angels !!! Well, I was stunned ! This lady actually chose and paid for 3 Angels when I asked her whether she worked with Angels thinking that I must ask her to join me in helping to organize this Day ! She then reminded me that we had done a crystal workshop together, we had even worked with each other trying out new techniques and she introduced herself again as Debbie Rye, who is a gifted geomancer and crystal energy practitioner as well as working with Angels. Debbie agreed and then we were two ! Shortly after, the Group developed to 9 and includes Jo Duffy, Linda Graham, Glenda Parkinson, Ria Wilson, Marie Huggett, Angela Hahn and Jayne Franz (creator of the beautiful Angel at the top of the page). I later found out from Glenda (who unsurprisingly had a childhood connection with Glendalough) that when the 3 bells sounded 3 times signifies the commencement of The Angelus in the church service !

All Angels Day
A Celebration of Light
Saturday 16th May 2009
The Athenaeum, Angel Hill, Bury St Edmunds
10 am – 5pm
All Angels Day is a new Mind, Body and Spirit fair with an Angelic difference. It is a day of inspiration, information, communication and an opportunity to spread Love and Light throughout the community.
This event is going to be held at The Athenaeum, a recently refurbished grade 1 listed building, on Angel Hill, in the beautiful market town of Bury St Edmunds. The main area is a Georgian chandeliered Ballroom with two large rooms upstairs to hold approximately 50 exhibitors. These will range from Angelic Readings, Crystal Energy, Reiki and Meditation to Crystals, Jewellery, Organic suppliers and natural products, with catering, supplied by The Self Centre.
There will also be an opportunity to attend workshops, taster sessions, story telling for children and activities designed to be uplifting, fun and inspiring to show a holistic, sustainable and Angelic way to health, happiness and prosperity.
For further information or to exhibit on the day, please visit

http://www.allangelsday.org/

or ring 01284 752907
Entrance Fee: - £2.50 Children U12: - Free
A minimum donation of 20% will be allocated to 2 charities
St Nicholas Hospice - www.stnicholashospice.org.uk
East Anglian Children Hospices - www.each.org.uk

God Bless America !

Caught up in the spontaneity of the moment a couple of weeks ago (anybody wanting to try this, get some calcite, it helps remind us that spontaneity is the spice of Life !), I bought a ticket to Phoenix to attend a mineral fair in Tucson some two hours south, about 60 miles from the Mexican border.

For me, travelling to Phoenix was also a metaphor for releasing old energies and relationships that weren't serving my highest and best good. A Phoenix is a mythical bird with a tail of beautiful gold and red or purple and blue feathers with a 500 to 1,000 year life-cycle, near the end of which it builds itself a nest of myrrh twigs that it then ignites; both nest and bird burn fiercely and are reduced to ashes, from which a new, young Phoenix arises, reborn anew to live again. The new Phoenix is destined to live as long as its old self and the bird was also said to regenerate when hurt or wounded by a foe. The phoenix is a symbol of fire and divinity.

The city was named because in was sited on land occupied by the Hohokam peoples who created 135 miles of irrigation canals, making the desert land arable many thousands of years before, hence the Phoenix arising from an old civilisation and being reborn.

I hired a camper van and headed south to Tucson where I spent 5 days going around the most amazing mineral fair I have ever attended, sprawled out over hundreds of venues, hotels, parks and civic centres. In the evenings I would head out to the absolute silence of the surrounding desert, meditating, writing and sorting through my crystal friends. I had heard that it was snowing back in the UK and whilst the temperature dropped considerably at night, during the day it was in the early 80's !

Everything I saw in America was big, the cars, the people, the towns, the camper vans and above all the welcome smiles and friendly hello's. It was great to get there so soon after the election of Barack Obama, a beacon of Light and a force for Good, born in a particularly good year (the same as mine, an Ox !) from the land that epitomizes Healing, Love and the New Age that is Hawaii. Baraka is a middle eastern word meaning Blessings and amabo (Obama backwards) means 'I will Love' in Latin. These are indeed exciting and challenging times but what a wonderful endorsement of all that is great for the American people to elect a man of this kind at this time !

Love and Blessings

Cosmo

XxX

Sunrise at Oak Lane Labyrinth

Crystalline pictures on car roof

Quartz with ice crystals

Entrance to Oak Lane Labyrinth

Labyrinth Walk

As I awoke this morning, a thought came to me to walk Oak Lane Labyrinth, a Chartres style Labyrinth a few miles away in Rougham. I spent longer than normal in that state between states getting the physical body in gear and motivated enough to make the sometimes giant leap into daily consciousness !

What stones to bring with me ? Immediately Stromatolite made itself known. These are fossilised microorganisms (from Greek stroma meaning mattress, bed, or stratum, and lithos meaning rock) which are layered accretionary structures formed in shallow water by the trapping, binding, and cementation of sedimentary grains of blue-green algae. They are one of Planet Earths earliest known lifeforms are were extremely prolific over a billion years ago. They can still be seen in parts of Australia. The energy of these stones, for me, is that of connecting with our ancestors and the genetic inheritance that is ours. It also helps remind us that we are all from the same Source physically and esoterically. They are quite often used for grounding and problem solving, letting go of obsolete thought patterns and, in this case, for birthing new ideas. (The example that I took is in the shape of an egg !)

As I walked to the kitchen I was touched by the gentle lunar energy radiating from afar in the palest bluest sky and thought...Wow..its going to be a Magical morning !

As time continued its relentless course and the gap between now and opening the shop drew closer, I got to my car and was again struck by another burst of incredible beauty in the form of the most amazing crystalline pictures all over the car body and windows...it was just getting better and better....

It was with an air of expectation as the Labyrinth still lay hidden in its frosty splendour, as yet untouched by the Rays of the Golden Sun as I set off. The Magical Splendour of seeing the labyrinth layered with sparkling ice crystals and the crisp air was literally breathtaking !

For me, walking a labyrinth is like a pilgrimage and whilst the focal point is the centre, it is like walking and clearing the neural pathways, the joining together of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine in Unity. We become the Path rather than just walking it and we are drawn to appreciate the journey rather than the destination.

As our journey to Light begins we may begin to understand that this Journey is Infinite.

Having been in complete rapture at the beauty before me, the Sun appeared...... casting Light and reflecting rainbows through a myriad of prisms.

If you ever wonder about Heaven, it is here, within us all, reflected in the Glory of all that is before us !

Like any pilgrimage, all are warmly welcomed at Oak Lane Labyrinth and whilst there is no charge for being en-tranced, an energy exchange in the form of a donation for the upkeep is always a good idea. It may also be wise to call first as there are groups and meetings taking place within this gorgeous and sacred landscape.

http://www.oaklanelabyrinth.co.uk/

With Love and Blessings

Cosmo

XxX

Amethyst

Amethyst is a form of Quartz with a rich and beautiful violet colour caused by the presence of aluminium and/or iron with earths natural radiation. For me, this magical stone represents all that is the New Age, representing the incoming 7th Ray of Ceremonial Order and Magic, leaving behind the 6th Ray of Devotion, the negative aspects of which, can be coercion and manipulation. For many, Amethyst is a protective and purifying stone, which can be used in conjunction with the Ascended Master St Germaine and his violet flame of purification. He can be called upon in meditation to clear any negative thinking by visualising the most beautiful violet flame cleansing away any unwanted negative energies.

One legend surrounding Amethyst relates how Bacchus, perhaps with a sore head after some serious partying, had suffered a slight of some sort, and in order to avenge himself vowed that the first person he came across should be devoured by tigers. As it happens, Amethyst, a fair and beautiful maiden, on her way to pray at the Shrine of Diana was passing by as the tigers sprang at her. Seeking protection from Diana, she was turned to a white stone to render the attack useless. Bacchus meanwhile, repenting after his cruelty and making an offering to Diana, poured the juice of the grape over the petrified body of Amethyst creating the gorgeous violet hue that we know today.

Amethyst has taken on the attribute of being able to protect people against the self sabotaging technique of drinking to excess. It acts as a reminder that contact with our higher self is of the utmost importance and that excess of any drugs, one of the most potent of which is alcohol, should be avoided. Anything that takes us away from knowing ourselves can lead to separation thus hindering our connection with Source and Ascension.

Gridding ones workplace with amethyst helps raise the energy of a healing room or bedroom. Place a stone in each corner and one on the ceiling in the middle (etherically if it isn't physically possible) and connect each stone together using a crystal wand and your intent. See a laser beam of light being transmitted from the tip of the crystal and see each amethyst being joined creating a square or whatever shaped room you have. I then connect each stone to the crystal on the ceiling (or on the floor above) creating a pyramid of light. With a sweeping motion I create a laser show of Light creating the apex of the pyramid. In my mind, every time you walk into this room, it will be like walking into a beautiful pyramid of amethyst light...feel the difference of energy for yourself ! In essence, this kind of grid work can be utilised with any crystal and over any space from a few meters to many miles. Oh, you can take this a step further...if using a pyramid, why not create an octahedron (perhaps refer to blog of 2nd of December), by visualising the bottom part of the pyramid mirrored, as above, so below...why not spin it...feel the difference !

With Love

Cosmo

XxX

Having established one of the fundamental attributes of the crystalline structure of quartz, in being able to receive and transmit light (as previously written about-silicon chips as semi conductors) through a silicon helix of tetrahedrons, it becomes apparent that there is little difference between programming a computer with the aid of a 'mind' and a (possibly remote) keyboard, and doing the same with a quartz crystal. In the same way that we can delete information stored on our computers, it becomes necessary to do the same with crystals. Like computers they are not discerning and will store everything. The crystal will start receiving and transmitting light within the human energy field upon the intent being set by the operator. As this transformation of energy takes place, all the memories are stored within the crystal so it becomes necessary to have a clear out, retaining the new soul impulse and releasing experiences no longer relevant.

There are many ways to cleanse a crystal, the best, in my opinion is to use ones imagination and dream up a new and personal way, alternatively, the Sun is always an option, sunbathing for crystals is as enjoying as for humans, if you have spheres however, perhaps a little caution would be advisable if they are placed in direct sunlight, inside for example. They act like magnifying glasses, and can easily cause fires.

Moon bathing is another way, at the time of the full moon, this is always a good option because many people seem a little unsettled at this time, so by meditating and focusing with the crystals, this imbalance can be alleviated.

Finding a quiet, serene, spiritual, peaceful and harmonious waterfall in a beautiful and mountainous region in Paradise is another option....whilst this is one of the best techniques available, it is not available to all....or is it....? By visualising a walk along a mountainous path, approaching this dream like waterfall and gently placing your crystal under the cold and revitalising stream of crystal clear water and seeing any negative energies and experiences no longer serving you, leaving the crystal as beautiful rose petals or butterfly's. If you are particularly hot under the collar, take a little dip under the gently flowing water and cleanse your own liquid crystalline structure ! The particular beauty of this way is that by following this visualisation one begins to create this reality as part of our experiences...

After this, one can visualise a shaft of Light, from Source, streaming through the crystal and down into the centre of the Planet (see the same meditation technique for humans !) through the other side, around and back down through the stone.....This is aligning the Human and The Crystal into a harmonious frequency with each other, with all other crystals on the planet and in turn , with all other Humans and Life forms too...

Incense is good and so are bells, cymbals, gongs, bowls, music of a certain vibration, singing and toning too, if you ever set off the smoke alarm with too much incense or sage as I do, then you can also get a double dose of cleansing as the fire alarm goes off with the piercing screech enough to clear out any etheric cobwebs...

Remember...Planet Earth is a large sphere of a crystalline structure, The Love Light Energy is being magnified by all these sublime beings in total resonance and Harmony, when we program a crystal to serve in Light, lets expand this programming to all Crystals throughout the Land !

With Love

Cosmo

XxX