Yes, next Thursday will be the shortest day of the year ! Yay ! Then the days slowly get longer and ( hopefully a bit warmer.) well, for all of us down under in the Southern Hemisphere of course as this is our Winter Solstice.
In times past this was a much more important celebration. The return of Summer was not a foregone conclusion. Just perhaps, Winter would stay forever ! In that case, definitely you’d celebrate with a genuine sense of relief when you saw the Summer Sun was slowly stirring and thinking about getting up earlier :-)
Really the Winter Solstice is the start of the New Year,...
Hi everyone and hope you're all keeping well.
Gilding the Back of the Buddha is a lovely saying from Thailand. It's actually to do with Charity. Some people want everyone to know they've donated and want it up front for all to see. The truly charitable, however, gild the back of the Buddha, not the front, because to them the act of donation is it's own reward.
Crystal Heart, of course, is more of a commercial Temple :-) but still I've been totally occupied in behind the scenes stuff rather than new uploads.
Leah made a lovely post by Leah on our Facebook Page about the New Moon in Taurus ...
Well it's a cold wet windy winter evening here in Melbourne. I just can sense all those creative writers huddling round the heaters, pens or laptops in hand, striving to sublimate the atmospherics into their words. Well I've got an overdue Blog to write, that'll do me :-)
So Hi ! How are you ? I sincerely hope you are all doing well because it seems to have been a stressful energy last month ! All of us at the Heart have been tested with various stresses. Thankfully we've survived. So condolences and congratulations to you all for surviving and hopefully prospering.
Had a visit from Marco D...
Hi Everyone and hope you all had a good week. It's been pretty intense here at the Heart with everything happening at once ~ I don't know what's been happening in the Stars but the whole World seems to have been going a little more crazy than usual. All I can say is I'm glad it's all over and we've survived !
Can't help wondering whether that extra hit of Tanzanite had something to do with all this because I certainly feel more evolved ! Hey, I even managed the first mail out since Christmas !
Anyway, between all the dramas I've certainly been on a creative high. Product descriptions have i...
Hi Everyone and hope you're all keeping well. It's another Saturday night ! The shop has just closed but I'm not ready to leave the party yet :-)
Tonight Tanzanite is on my mind. Here's a pic of the largest crystal ever found ~ 3.37 Kgs ! It's called the Mawenzie, and apologies to whoever owns it for not asking permission.
Tanzanite has become one of my favourite stones. I'm sure it's no coincidence that this stone arrived in my life as I was wanting to perfect my business and website. See my write up here, heading the Tanzanite Collection.
Loving this stone and unable to find any read...
Today I learned a new expression. To swallow the frog ! By which I mean an alive, slimy, probably kicking member of the Animal Kingdom. Not something you really want to do. But last night and today I swallowed the frog that is the AMETHYST COLLECTION
Over the years I've tried different approaches and finally decided that each piece should be defined first by stone then by style ( Pendant, Earring etc ) then by form ~ cab or cut.
That meant a lot of work because the Amethyst collection had become a melange of any different systems ~ but it's now all organised. I've been avoiding this particu...