Gemstone of the Month:  Andalusite

Andalusite is cleansing, comforting, protective, and assists in retrieving ancient information.  This is an ancient stone with a slow vibrational pattern that reflects the heartbeat of the Earth.  It is associated with the Root (1st) and Third Eye (6th) chakras.  It is a powerful stone for use by psychics and sensitives to provide psychic protection, grounding, and a sense of contentment and wellbeing. 

Because the memory of these stones is extremely long, they are used in meditation to access the Akashic Records.  It is an excellent stone to cleanse the aura.  It grounds high frequencies into the physical  and energetic bodies.  It is a wonderful stone for healers, because it guards against energy drain and can heal energetic leaks and holes and assists the healing process.

Excerpts from The Book of Stones by Simmons & Ahsian

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You've heard it before - Just Let It Go...and everything will be okay.  But what if you can't let it go?  What if the anger and hatred toward a person or situation continues to mount?

I know several people struggling with this issue right now.  They have been in relationships with family members or a romantic partner that turned out to be different than what they thought.  A lover finds someone new; a family situation is unfair.  Whether it's family or a lover, when things go bad, the sense of betrayal can be palpable.  When you continue to focus on it, seethe over it, renew the anger day by day by playing the scenario over and over again in your mind, it does not do anything to remedy the way you're feeling.

In fact, it makes it worse.  In extreme cases, holding onto the anger and betrayal leads to severe insomnia or even self-destructive behavior.  It leads to the inability to perform at work and inhibits healthy relationships with others who have nothing to do with the relationship that's causing the problem.

The most immediate strategy is to stop playing the scenario over and over again in your mind, trying to find reasons why it happened.  Wanting closure in the form of finding out why someone acts the way they do or treated you one way or another is understandable, but not always possible.  This is a situation that is out of your control and is completely up to the other person or people to offer explanations that may or may not come, so let's remove this from the list of possible solutions.

These things happen for the same reason anything else in our lives happens:  to teach us lessons we are here to learn.  Remove the anger, the hatred, the guilt, the sadness - basically, get rid of the drama - and take a look at it from an objective viewpoint.  What is held within the situation that shows you an aspect of yourself that needs to be worked on?

For example, if a long-term romantic relationship goes bad and the other person rejects you for someone else, what lesson is here?  Is it that they needed space?  Is the situation reflecting the lesson of freedom versus control?  Constantly saying to yourself that you did nothing wrong and that the situation is unfair is not going to help you see the lesson.  Step back.  What happened between you may not be right or wrong, but just may be that your energies were no longer aligned.  Could it be time to find yourself outside of the context of another person?

So when you're fuming at someone who has hurt you, take a moment to ground yourself and ask the Universe, "What is the lesson I need to get from this experience?"

 - ©Diane Wing, 2010