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The week opens under a Gemini Moon, and that being said, we’ll be all talk and no action on Monday and Tuesday. The urge to socialize, surf the web (YouTube rabbit hole, I’m just sayin…), and explore the unknown will be a theme. Wednesday’s Cancer new Moon is the perfect time to make a wish, as it generates two weeks of new beginnings and magical happenings! Mercury will move into Leo on Thursday, which could bring out our dramatic sides and cause us to exaggerate or make promises we can’t make. Best to think before you speak, and not make any commitments you aren’t quite sure of for the next couple of weeks. Friday and Saturday unfold under a Leo Moon, which will bring out our generous and humanitarian sides. Look around to see how your loved ones are doing and if they could use your help or at the very least, a little “pep” talk! Sunday is all about getting organized as the Moon travels through Virgo, so make it a point to clear out that closet, organize those files, or declutter the garage!

Just What Is Energy Medicine and What Can It Do For Me?, by Linnie Thomas

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

When you took general science classes in school, your teachers told you that when electricity goes through a wire, a field forms around that wire. Something similar happens in and around your body. You have electrical, magnetic, and life force energy flowing through your body. Of course, the body is much more complicated than a wire. It has legs and arms and all sorts of things including a head, so the field has many forms.

Your energy field begins in the center of your body and radiates outward several feet from your physical body. Some people call it an aura, though it can be easier to simply refer to it as the energy field (people may be more comfortable with that). Within the energy field, there are seven major energy centers, often called chakras, that look like little tornadoes and are found at the top of the head, along the spine, and at the bottom of the spine. Each bone joint has its own minor energy center.

Pathways of energy called meridians flow within your body (with today's technology, scientists now have ways of following those meridians). The last major part of your energy system is called the "hara column," and it goes from above your head, down through the middle of your body, and continues on into the ground.

When you suffer from an injury, surgery, illness, trauma, or an emotional upset, energy can become congested and its natural flow through your body and field blocked. That's where an energy medicine practitioner comes in to help you heal; they remove the congestion and restore the energy system back to its healthy, balanced state.

It is important to note that energy medicine is not a replacement for traditional Western medical practices. It is complementary to it, another tool in the toolbox to help people get well. By balancing the energy field, the body does not have to do it itself. In some cases, the body doesn't get around to bringing the energy system back into balance. Congested energy can stay in place for years.

As one example, a man came into a clinic with an extremely bad headache. He was sent to the hospital for tests, at where the personnel there could find nothing wrong with him. A nurse who had recently taken an energy medicine course asked the man if she could try energy medicine to help with the pain. He was so desperate that he gave permission.

The nurse checked over the field. While doing this, she noticed a lot of heavy congestion around his big toe. "What happened to your toe?" she asked.

"I broke it and it had to be operated on to reconstruct the bone," he said.

"When did this happen?"

"About five years ago."

"And when did the headaches start?"

"About the same time."

The nurse cleared the congestion around his toe and the headache disappeared. No one had cleared the congestion from both the trauma of breaking the toe and the ensuing surgery. For some reason, the congestion was such that the body didn't clear it on its own.

Congested energy can show up anywhere in the body, even though physical symptoms may be found in another part of the body. It's all connected. While the above example is a little on the unusual side, it does show how energy medicine can be helpful.

Most practitioners specialize in one or more of the energy systems. Some practitioners work with the energy field and the energy centers. Others like removing blockages and clearing the meridian system (acupuncture is one such modality that specializes in meridian work). It depends upon which form or forms appeals to the practitioner as well as their comfort in using each.

An energy healing treatment begins when the client requests an appointment. When the client arrives, the practitioner works to make the person comfortable. An explanation of what is about to happen might be needed. The client may be asked to sign an informed consent form that states the client understands the type of treatment being offered.

An intake follows the initial introductions to a session. The practitioner listens to the client's issues and requests for services, and together they set goals for the session. Once that is done, the practitioner performs an assessment.

The practitioner runs their hands over the energy field and notes differences and similarities. Sometimes a practitioner will use a pendulum to assess what is happening in the energy centers. When open, an energy center spins clockwise. When it is blocked, it may stop spinning; swing perpendicularly, diagonally, or horizontally to the body; make an elliptical pattern, or even spin counterclockwise. Hand scans of the energy field tell the practitioner about differences and similarities in the field. Blockages in the form of congested energy may be found anywhere on and around the body. Removing these pockets of congested energy help to bring the field back into balance.

After the assessment is completed, the practitioner then performs techniques to clear and balance the energy system. A reassessment is done to see if the client needs more work. The end of the session comes in the form of grounding the client.

Stress is a big issue in our culture, and energy medicine is definitely good for relieving any emotional stress. Rare is the person who is not feeling stress when they come for treatment! A stressed person has a highly agitated energy field. Many forms of techniques can remove congestion and balance the field to relieve some of the stress.

Pain is another reason for seeing an energy medicine practitioner. It shows up during an assessment in a number of ways. Through practice, each practitioner learns how to recognize pain in the energy field. Most forms of energy medicine have techniques to help relieve pain.

Animals are interesting to treat. When an animal is in pain, it often turns the injured part of the body toward the practitioner. Once the animal feels better, it lets the practitioner know by simply walking away or maybe yawning. I have a dog who sometimes visits other dogs for a play time; they can run for hours. But, the next day I'll know when my dog has sore muscles. He'll jump in my lap and put his front paws on my shoulders assuming a pose we have worked out together. I do a pain removal technique and then run my hands over his field, while sending soothing energy into his muscles. He tells me when it's done by getting down off my lap and taking a nap. Animals don't sit around wondering if this type of treatment is going to help them; rather, they accept it without question. You don't have to believe in energy medicine for it to work. All it takes is a willingness to receive it.

Traditional western medicine and energy medicine work well together. As another example: a construction worker falls from a ladder, lands in the mud, and breaks his leg. It's a nasty compound fracture and a piece of the bone pierces the skin. Someone sends for an ambulance and he is taken to the hospital, where several forms of treatment occur. In the emergency room, the break in the skin is cleaned and sterilized. The emergency room doctor sends him out for x-rays. A surgeon resets the bone. Pins may be used to hold the bone in place while it is healing. Then the surgeon sews the incision together. A cast covers the leg. To prevent infection, a doctor prescribes antibiotics. In addition, when an energy medicine practitioner balances the disturbed energy field, they help the patient heal faster with fewer complications, lower pain levels, and ease some of the stress from the event.

Each of these treatments has a part in the healing process. They all work together to help the patient walk again and go back to work. Not one of them can stand alone to complete the healing process. Each one is a unique tool to help the person get well.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2023. All rights reserved.

My family and I recently moved from the house we lived in for six years into another house. While I very much love this new house, I'm finding it difficult to feel really comfortable here. I'm happy that we have moved, but for some reason, it just doesn't feel like home to me. Is there something I can do to create that sense of home, or do we just have to wait until we're more settled in?

- Mandy

Dreamchaser:

This "discomfort" in your new home has a few causes. First, you really did love the house you just moved from. You may not have loved the structure, but you loved all that happened in it. It was full of happy memories. The house you live in now is a great house for your structural needs, but it is empty of those treasured family memories.

Also, your new house is "haunted." Every house you enter has spirits in it, but that is because you can sense energies that most other people can't see or feel. Actually, ALL places are haunted; we just may not know it. Every place on earth holds the energy of whatever was there before. So in moving to a new place, you are now sensing NEW energies that are unfamiliar to you, which you may not yet have made peace with.

These energies are not negative, they are just new. I suggest when the house is empty at some point, or when everyone else is in bed, you make yourself comfortable in the middle of the living room. Lie on the floor or sit on a floor pillow or whatever you want to do.

I want you to then ask God/ Universe/ Spirit - whatever name you prefer - to protect you and only allow Love and Light in your house and around your family. Then just allow yourself to get very quiet and FEEL the energy of the house and the land that the house is built on. Allow yourself to get acquainted with the energies of the beings that inhabit your house with you. They are more than anxious to "introduce" themselves to you.

As you do this, you will actually feel changes in vibration, temperature, your mood, your thoughts, etc. Once you "meet" them, then you will feel more at home and comfortable around them.

Another thing you should do to make the house feel like home is to let IT help you decorate it. A lot of the things you had in your old house that looked great there don't look so great in the new house. They don't feel right. Spend a little money here and there, and see what "calls out to you" when you are out in stores. The house has its own vibe and needs its own energies to shine through.

I know this sounds a little silly, but try it. Walk from room to room and look at the walls and the furniture and the layout and see what comes to you. For example, while I never liked brown in the past, when I moved into my current house, I felt the urge to decorate it in browns, and it now has a warm, happy feeling.

I wish you and yours a warm, love-filled home.

*****

Astrea:

It's normal to feel out of place in a new place, for it takes a while to become comfortable. The noises it makes are different, the wind sounds different when it touches the roof, and the sun comes through the windows at a different slant. It's normal to miss the memories of our prior home too, but it's time you moved on in your heart so you can really LOVE your new place.

Try this simple rite of purification to bring peace and love into your new home. If you honor the Goddesses, be sure to include Hestia, Brigid and Freya. Set aside a whole weekend for this ritual.

Take off all your jewelry before you start, even your wedding ring, and place the important pieces you wear daily on a white plate, then place the plate on your altar. Also, wear something white as you do this ritual.

Sprinkle the floors with salt and rosemary, and while you do this, visualize all negativity and discord that could ever enter your new house being swept away. Burn several scented white candles to purify the air and encourage peace and contentment. Place rose quartz crystals in the south windows to invite more love into your home. Think about all the love, contentment and peace now filling your life here. That evening, vacuum up the salt and rosemary, and burn the bag in a fire-safe container outside. As the smoke rises, ask the Goddesses to bless your house and your family as you live and work there.

Sunday morning, it's time to bless your yard. Invite the magical beings of Earth and Air into your life by decorating a small wooden birdhouse with the astrological Sun signs of each member of your family. You can add birds, stars, spirals, or whatever else you like. Hang ribbons of red, green and gold in sets of three from the new Spirit House. Let the Garden Spirits know that their new home is ready by waving a stick of burning incense over the roof and all around the sides of the house. Make sure some of the fragrant smoke enters the house too.

With these two easy rituals, you can count on all the GOOD Spirits who have dwelt with you in your OTHER home to feel welcome in your new house. Home is where you and your family are, and if this house is what you wanted, this house is going to feel like home in time.

Give yourself PERMISSION to stop grieving for your old home. The memories you'll make in this new house will be just as vibrant and happy as the ones in your old house. Blessings and benevolence will be yours.

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.