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We'll experience lots of astrological shifts this week, as three planetary events shift our focus and raise our awareness. Venus will move into Capricorn on Tuesday, and could inspire a personal or home makeover. Venus isn't really concerned with your budget, and could have you spending lots of money to revise your world to reflect the new year and new you coming into view! We'll have a full Moon in Leo on Thursday, which is also a more self-focused event, though because full Moons represent release, could have you clearing out closets and clutter to make room for new purchase down the road. Uranus will turn direct on Friday after five months of backward motion, and because it is the planet that rules Aquarius, again we'll be looking at what changes we can make to create a more perfect world. Upgrading or revising our friendships and relationships could be a theme under this aspect, so if it's time to let go of connections that are draining you or go in search of new friends, this next three months are great for clearing out and restocking your social "closet."

365 Days of Crystal Feng Shui for Your Home, by Sandra Kynes

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The laying on of crystals, or crystal therapy, is a powerful way to align and balance the energy of our bodies. Even simply wearing crystals can have an effect on us. Similarly, through the placement of crystals in our homes, we can attract prosperity, augment relationships, and initiate changes in our lives.

A number of years ago, I became interested in the Chinese practice of feng shui mainly because of its use of crystals. I had been following my intuition and placing crystals around my home for years, but the principles of feng shui provided a structure. It opened the door to a whole new way of approaching what I was doing. While a traditional feng shui practice can be complicated, even applying the basic concepts with crystals can bring results.

The most fundamental principle of feng shui—creating flow, harmony, and balance—is often illustrated with the yin/yang symbol. Although the white and black sections of the symbol are equal, they do not split the circle in half down the middle; instead, they flow into each other, creating balance and harmony.

Yin and yang can best be described as the harmonious dynamic of opposites. They are regarded as the binding forces that hold the universe together. However, because the forces of yin and yang are constantly changing, the universe is anything but static. As anyone who has done energy work on any level knows, it's an ongoing process. Using them throughout the year keeps both our homes and ourselves in balance. What's more, crystals are such powerful tools for energy work because they are formed by the dynamic forces for Mother Earth.

According to feng shui theory, negative energy is called sha, and it occurs where yin and yang are out of balance. Sha can occur in two extremes: fast moving (too yang) or stagnating and depleted (too yin). In the home, when energy is trapped in a corner of a room it stagnates and lacks life-giving vitality. Likewise, energy can be forced into a straight line, for example by a long hallway, where it can gain momentum and become uncomfortable or destructive. Chi is the positive, calm energy in between the two extremes of sha. To keep things in balance, positive energy needs to flow unimpeded through the home.

The art of feng shui is a balancing act between neutralizing negative energy and fostering positive energy. Creating energetic balance in our homes lays the foundation for tackling personal issues or cultivating a particular atmosphere. Just think about it: how can you plan a romantic evening if your home has an undercurrent of tension?

The Three A's of Working with Energy
Okay, now that we know energy needs to be in balance, where do we start? With the three As: awareness, adjustment, and activation. First, be aware and assess your surroundings. Take a few minutes to sit quietly in a room. If something doesn't feel right, look for a source of negative energy. Make an adjustment by placing a crystal or two where you feel it. Choose a crystal that will calm fast-moving energy or stimulate slow energy. If you're not sure, use a crystal that will balance energy.

It is often helpful to begin your assessment by looking outside your home. The artificial environments of towns and cities with busy roads can have a strong impact on the energy of our homes. Assess how energy flows toward your house or apartment building. If you live on a busy street, you may be bombarded with fast-moving energy that can drain positive energy from your home. If you live on a cul-de-sac, energy may be stagnating and creating a pool of negativity.

To deal with negative energy that is outside, place a crystal or two on a windowsill or near the wall in the direction of the problem. If you need to calm fast-moving or chaotic energy, place a piece of amethyst in the direct of the flow. This will both calm and balance the energy. Alternatively, use one piece each of white quartz and opal to do the job. To get energy moving, try clear quartz or peridot and obsidian. Table 1 below contains examples of crystals that can be used for this process. Some crystals have a two-fold function in either calming or stimulating and balancing energy.

Assess the Energy Inside Your Home
After looking outside, assess how energy enters and moves through your home. The front door is regarded as the main entry point for energy. Any blockage here will inhibit positive energy from entering and circulating freely to create a balanced environment. Blessings and abundance could get stuck on your doorstep instead of bringing them into your life. A crystal hung above the front door or placed near the door can help regulate the flow of energy.

Continue through your home. Look for areas where energy can get boxed in or where it may speed up. Place a crystal in the area where you want to change and balance the energy. Get creative; crystals can be placed just about anywhere.

As mentioned, after dispatching negativity and balancing energy you're ready to deal with personal issues or cultivate an aspect of your life. This also extends to the family. For example, the dining room and kitchen are places where families come together, not only for nourishment, but also for discussion and decision-making. Place several crystals, such as aventurine or charoite, around the room to foster a sense of family and community. Rhodochrosite, rose quartz, or tourmaline can be used in the dining room or kitchen to attract abundance to the family.

Sometimes we carry tension home with us from work and sometimes a conflict in the family can create unsettled energy. In addition, the energy of a room may just feel "off" without an apparent reason. Use calming crystals to change the quality of the energy. Blue lace agate, celestine, larimar, and selenite are particularly effective to restore harmony. Table 2 below provides an overview of crystals that can be used for specific purposes.

The time of year and weather can also effect the energy of our homes. During the excitement of the holiday season with an increase in family and friends visiting, we may need to tone down the energy to avoid an atmosphere of chaos. However, after the holidays, and especially in northern areas where it is cold and dark, we may want to ratchet-up the level of energy.

Before Using Crystals
While there are many ways to do a crystal cleansing, one of the easiest is to use your own energy. To do this, hold the crystal in both hands in front of your heart. Close your eyes and bring your awareness to the energy above your head. It may help to visualize it as a soft white, pink, or lavender glow. Feel it gently touch the crown of your head, and then move down activating your third-eye chakra, located between and slightly above the eyebrows. As this energy descends to the throat and chest, it activates the heart chakra.

From here, visualize the energy moving along your arms to your hands and into the stone. Visualize the light pulsing and glowing around the crystal. Now imagine it moving back up your arms, and then down your spine, legs, and into your feet. Become aware of the bottoms of your feet. Visualize the energy moving from your feet into the floor and eventually into the ground taking away old energy and any negativity with it. If you are not going to use the crystal immediately for energy work, wrap it in a cloth and put it away.

A cursory glance at Table 2 shows that crystals sometimes serve a number of functions. When you are ready to use a crystal for a specific function, use your energy to program it. Hold the crystal in front of your heart and think of your particular purpose for it. Visualize your energy moving from your heart, down your arms into the crystal to pattern it with your intention and willpower. Hold an image of this energy in your mind for a moment, and then place the crystal where its energy is needed.

After each use, cleanse the crystal to have it ready for the next purpose. Of course, if you're like me you probably enjoy having your crystals out where you can see and enjoy them. When you want to use a crystal that's on display for a specific purpose, go through the energy cleansing and programming, and then place it where it is needed.

The key to success with crystal therapy for the home is to start small. Don't try to take on the whole house at once. Start with any exterior source of negativity. After that, focus on the front door to make sure positive energy is coming in. Follow that by working individually with one room or one area within a room. Take your time to make adjustments and live with the results. Most importantly, let the crystals speak to you. Use your intuition to help you tap into the deeper power and wisdom of the mineral kingdom.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2018. All rights reserved.

My mom told me that two weeks prior to my birth, she had a dream in which she was sitting by the sea when all of a sudden the sea parted, and right in the middle of the sea walking towards her was a beautiful woman in white, carrying a tiny baby girl. She said the woman floated towards her, looked at her and smiled, and gave the baby to her. In this dream she was pregnant, so she was wondering why the woman gave her the child. The woman turned back and went back into the sea, and the sea came together again. Two weeks later, she gave birth to the same child - me! As a child, I was haunted by dreams in which I was swimming with mermaids and fishes. I had a whole series of them. Then I woke up one day and needed to urinate, but I couldn't because in place of my two legs was a fish tail. I went back to sleep and when I woke up again, it was gone! There are so many things I can't explain. I am considered to be a highly gifted young woman, and I still do odd things in my sleep. WHO AM I? How do I make good use of the powers I know I possess? I see dead friends in my sleep and we talk, and the whole time I know that they are on the other side. I'm really wondering if there is something different about me related to these mermaid dreams. What do you think?

- Nola

Dreamchaser:

I believe your mother had a prophetic dream of what you were going to look like. I also see that your mother considers you a gift from the Universe. You didn't tell us your birth date, but are you by any chance a water sign?

It's quite common for a woman to dream of the child she is carrying. When we are pregnant, we're forming a psychic bond with the child in our bellies. I've heard many stories of women who "saw" their children in dreams or visions.

You've had very active dreams your entire life, and you do a lot of your soul work while you're sleeping. As I have stated over and over here, when we sleep, our souls leave our bodies and go to where they most need to go to clean up from today and prepare for tomorrow. Some people (like you) remember their dreams vividly, while others (like me) rarely remember a dream. We both are doing the same amount of soul work in our sleep - you just happen to remember your soul work more easily than I do.

Water and things IN water have always signified emotions. When we dream of water and the things that water holds, we are working through emotional issues. As a child, you were quite emotional. You felt out of place, and you had a lot of emotional issues to deal with as a result of not fitting in like the other kids. You dealt with lots of those issues while you were sleeping.

When you dreamed of being in the water, it was an environment that other people could not enter, for they were human. YOU fit in there and you felt like you belonged with the other fish and mer-people. It was your mind's way of dealing with not being accepted into the society you had to live in every day.

I have always heard that when we need to urinate, we often dream of water. I am not in any way trying to minimize your dreams, but you mentioned yourself that you would wake up having to go to the bathroom.

As you've grown, you've started to associate with spirits on the Otherside that you know (and also many you do not know) when you sleep. Again, you are doing most of your soul work and psychic work while you sleep.

You have to accept the fact that you are psychic, and that you are never going to fit into "normal" society. Stop trying to do so. Once you do stop trying and accept that you are different in a wonderful way, you will see this work coming into your physical world, and not so much in your dream world. If we suppress what we are, it WILL manifest in some way. Your way is to dream it.

I wish you acceptance of your special nature!

*****

Astrea:

What an interesting story! You mother was visited by a Sea Goddess who wanted you to have what she never experienced: a human life! You were given to your mom because SHE has a special connection to the sea too. You were probably mother and daughter in a mermaid incarnation. Your fishtail dream was a "memory" of that incarnation, and also a MESSAGE from that Sea Goddess that you need to get started on your mission in life.

Why would the Sea Goddess give up her own daughter to a human existence, when humans have to suffer, grow old and die? If you explore mermaid lore, you'll discover that mermaids aren't actually very sweet. In fact, in most depictions, they are shown to be rather mean-spirited creatures. They are forever trying to down ships and drown an assortment of people, mostly sailors. Your sea mother didn't want you to have to experience all that. Also, she had a higher plan for your human life in mind.

If you want to fulfill your highest destiny, listen carefully. If you're not in the communications field yet, get as much information as you can about how you can move into that arena as quickly as possible. Look for a university that is engaged in studying human/dolphin communication. (Dolphins, by the way, could tell you a lot about your past lives, because dolphins can remember all their incarnations vividly). I believe USC San Diego does that - also UCLA Berkley. Get a grant (one will become magically available as soon as you begin to look) to attend that university and start studying!

In a short time, you'll begin to see more and more that your mission in life is to help unite the sea world with the world of humans. Sadly, human beings are so abusive to the sea. Perhaps we're seeing such deadly tsunamis and hurricanes these days so we wake up to its blessings and power.

You could be a trailblazer in a new field called "Marine Life Communication," and there will be many discoveries that you will make with a new partner who also has had incarnations in the sea. This person will enter your life as a fellow student. As time passes, you'll be very instrumental in garnering attention for important ocean issues.

It's going to be a big job, and you'll need lots of support. The next time you're at the shore, write a letter to your Sea Mother in the sand at low tide. When the tide comes in and covers your letter, the waves will take your message to her. She's been waiting a long time to hear from you, and she'll guide you and help you along your path.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.