Archive - December 2009
Capture Janus's January Blessings
The first month of the year is named after the Roman God Janus. Images show him with two faces, one facing forward to the year ahead and the other facing backwards to the one just ended.
Janus helps us see things clearly, so we can move forward with our lives. He's also the guardian of doorways and houses and protects our private space. To summon his help, leave a basket or bowl of fruit near the front door or hang dried herbs or flowers there.
Related articles:
A spell to protect you from negative energy
Banish bad vibes with crystal power
Posted on Wed 14th Dec 2011
Make A Date With The Moon - Healing
As our big beautiful moon hangs in the sky, very few of us realise how closely associated it is to us and how it can affect our moods and lives. For witches, the moon is seen as having a magical presence.
Although we have a good scientific understanding of the moon and magnetic forces that control our tides, it is still steeped in mystery and magic. Most of the astronauts who have visited the moon returned home to earth more in tune with their spiritual side.
There is no proof that the moon is magical but some studies have shown that a person's demeanour changes depending on what the moon is doing. This is because, as with astrology, and the planets, each moon phase throws out a different energy, so there are certain spells that are best cast during particular moon phases.
For instance, the waxing moon which falls next month from 1st- 8th January and again on the 31st - is great for healing, as it has soothing energy and a calming influence. Why not harness its power to give healling to anyone you know who may be ill or feeling sad? During a waxing phases, place your hand on the back of their neck for 10 minutes and ask the spirit word to alleviate their discomfort.
Related articles:
Posted on Tue 13th Dec 2011
Angel Nurse
From the US comes the story of a mother who believes her desperately sick son was cured by an angel.
In 1998, Luke was diagnosed with bone cancer at the age of eight years old. As sometimes happens, he came down with an infection, which meant he had to go to the hospital. He was there for about two weeks, and that's when something remarkable happened.
One evening, Luke's mother was sitting at his bedside quietly praying as he slept. A nurse came into the room to check Luke's temperature, but his mother noted something rather peculiar about her. The nurse was wearing an old-fashioned uniform of the type that would have been common 30 years previously, in the 1960s. The nurse noticed that Luke's mother had a Bible by the side of his bed. She said that she was a Christian, too, and said she would pray for Luke's healing. Luke's family had never seen this odd nurse before nor again in Luke's remaining time in the hospital.
"I came out of the hospital fully healed of my infection," says Luke, who is now 19. More remarkable, he is completely free of cancer. "My mum believes this nurse could have been a guardian angel coming down to give my mum some hope," Luke says. "If she wasn't an angel, why would she be wearing 1960s old-fashioned nurse clothing?"
Posted on Tue 28th Dec 2010
Supermarket's spirit gave staff the spooks
Supermarket worker Liam shares spooky encounters at the former Kwik Save, Hightown, Wrexham.
" I worked there for two years and in that period I had some pretty weird experiences. My first came when I was stood at the bottom of the stairs that lead up to the canteen and store rooms. It was almost silent, except for the sound of chairs and cups being moved upstairs. As it was the end of the night, no-one was up there.
Then, one day, my boss and workmate were in the backshop stockroom and they both heard the sound of a child crying. They went to inspect the aisles but there was none to be seen. About 20 minutes later I was walking toward the backshop when I heard a highpitched scream come from there. I went white!
The old butcher's room has seen its fair share of action too - apparently when it was being built when a man fell through the roof and died. A former worker was eating her lunch when she heard singing in her ear. The radio was also known to come on by its own accord.
The cleaner, Pauline, claimed to be 'sensitive' to these things and, in the past, seen the upper half of a man's body in working overalls in the backshop. Creepy as hell! "
Related Articles:
Footsteps when no one is there, the ghostly laughter of children… Is America’s oldest house haunted?
Posted on Tue 28th Dec 2010
Dead Butterflies
Ali describes strange experiences while living in a spooky house in the village of Bangor on Dee, near Wrexham
In August 1998, I rented an old lodge house on a country estate just outside Bangor-on-Dee, Wrexham. From the moment I moved in, I felt welcome, at ease and happy. The house was very old, at least 100 years or so, and had originally been quite small, so a kitchen and spare bedroom above had been added.
Almost immediately, I noticed one or two odd things. The original parts of the house were always very cold, despite central heating, an open fire and even the boost of a fan heater. At first I put this down to the thick stone walls and suspected there was some damp.
Then there was the smell of soot. In one corner of the lounge or in the stairwell, there would sometimes be a strong sooty smell, even though I had not had the fire let recently. It would come and go, usually accompanied by a corresponding 'cold spot'. These things can no doubt be explained away fairly easily. The following however cannot.
A few days after moving in, I began finding dead butterflies in my bedroom. And not just an odd one or two. There would be half a dozen at a time, just scattered on the floor, always the same kind. I hovered them up, checked under the bed and all around the room and went out for a few hours. When I returned, there were several more. This happened regularly during the 12 months I lived in the house, even in the winter when there was snow outside and not a live butterfly to be seen anywhere. The room had a fireplace, but this was blocked up and never used. The windows were original leaded ones but with secondary glazing over the top and were always kept closed. I was the only one with keys to the house and the burglar alarm code, so no-one could have entered while I was out. There was no way that the butterflies could have entered the room that I could find. They were always dead. You would expect one or two to at least be fluttering about a bit, but these were dead, old and dried out.
I moved out as I met someone and we bought a house together out of the area, but when I did leave I felt a tremendous feeling of regret and loss. Shortly after I moved out, a man rented the house, but only stayed for two months. My friend from Worthenbury went out with him at the time, and he told her that he could not live there because he felt threatened and unwelcome, and had the feeling that someone was standing behind him 'giving him daggers'. However, what really frightened him out of the house him was the dead bats he kept finding in the bedroom.
At this point, I had not mentioned the butterflies to my friend, although she subsequently asked me if I had experienced anything odd there, then mentioned her boyfriend's experiences. My dog and cat also refused to stay in the bedroom, even if I was there.
Related Articles:
Footsteps when no one is there, the ghostly laughter of children… Is America’s oldest house haunted?
Posted on Wed 22nd Dec 2010
Heavenly Escort
Marie, from Newcastle sends this touching tale of an angelic encounter she experienced when she was a young nursing student.
Meg writes:
When I was a student nurse back in the early 1980s, I was responsible for taking care of a middle-aged lady who was dying of leukaemia.
She was a lonely soul as her daughters , and her husband rarely visited her (he already had a new woman in his life). One evening, after making my patient comfortable, I glanced out of the window and saw a figure in the gardens outside. As I tried to look closely, the figure seemed to fade out, becoming unfocused. I put it down to tiredness and dismissed the whole episode.
As time progressed, and my patient declined toward her end, the figure appeared more and more regularly. I told some colleagues about it and they laughed, saying that I had an over-active imagination. Each day, I would look through the window and if the figure was there, and I would wave a greeting.
One day, arriving on the ward, I went to my patient only to find the bed empty. My lady friend had died in the night and I worried that she was frightened and experienced it alone. Looking through the same window in days to follow, I never did see that figure again. I can take comfort that this strange being was probably my patient's guardian angel who waited to escort her away from this life to a place of peace and happiness. I certainly hope so!
Posted on Mon 20th Dec 2010
What to do with premonitions?
In the weeks following the terrible events of 9/11 many people claimed that they had actually foreseen what would happen. Some said that they had had premonitions of the attacks days or even weeks before that fateful day.
Anyone can say they've had a premonition about a train crash, the winners of the World Cup, political elections, or the outcome or some other event after the fact. What makes them worthy of serious consideration is proof that you indeed had the premonition well before the event.
Most of us have experienced premonitions – a feeling about something that is going to happen – to one degree or another. The phone rings and you "know" who it is calling, even though the call was unexpected. Sometimes the premonition isn't as specific, but just as strong – or stronger: a great, unexplained feeling of sadness has been bothering you all day; it is only later that you learn that a close relative has died. A premonition is foretelling the future.
There are many such instances that we experience now and then, and sometimes (sceptics would say always) they can be put down to coincidence. There are times, however, when a premonition is so strong that the person experiencing it has little doubt that it is going to happen. These powerful premonitions are much rarer, but happen often enough that serious researchers know they are real. Some people seem to be more sensitive to these types of feelings; we call them "sensitives" or "psychics."
Premonitions can be as subtle as a nagging feeling or can be so overwhelming that they jolt you out of your everyday routine and prevent you from thinking of little else. They can be vague, nothing more than a feeling, or they can be so vivid that some experiencers say it is like watching a film. Premonitions can foretell something that happens a minute later... or weeks or even many months later. They can come while you're doing the dishes or they can come in dreams.
If you are prone to premonitions that very often come true, or you've had a strong premonition about some future event, you must document it. If you care about being believed, an undocumented premonition is virtually worthless.
You're probably not going to want to document every little premonition you have. In fact, it may not be possible to document some of them: for example, that phone call that comes just two minutes after your premonition.
Let's say, however, you've had a fairly strong premonition, or a vivid dream, about your sister Joanne. Although you haven't talked to her in a while, you've had a premonition that Joanne is about to experience a major life change – somehow you just know she's pregnant. This is just one example, of course; the premonition could be of anything – a plane crash, an accident involving a relative or a natural disaster.
So how do you document your premonition? There are several ways:
Keep a diary. Get a journal and write down any premonitions you might have. Be sure to note the time and date that you experienced it. The weakness in this method, as far as verification by others is concerned, is that such diaries can be altered and faked – putting down a pre-dated notation for an event that's already happened. The value of a diary, assuming you are being honest, is that you have a personal record of your premonitions, the success rate of which you can track.
Tell others. Don't keep your premonitions a secret. You won't want to become an annoying bore by harrassing your friends with every little premonition you have, but if you think it may be something important, tell someone you trust. It's another piece of evidence. Using the example above, you'd certainly want to surprise your sister Joanne with your premonition about her pregnancy before she has a chance to tell you! The weakness in this method is that it, too, relies on human honesty and sometimes faulty memories. Using e-mail might be better. Although e-mails can be altered, they are initially date-stamped.
Use a date-stamped location. The best way to document your premonition is in a date-stamped location that is not in your control. And the Internet provides an easy (and free) way to do this. One website, which has been established expressly for this purpose, is the Central Premonitions Registry. On this website, you can register in real time any precognitive visions, feelings or dreams. A simple form on this page asks for your name and e-mail address, then provides a space where you can write your premonition. (If you've already written out in a word processor, you can cut and paste into the form.) Your premonition is recorded and date-stamped. And later, if you believe your premonition has been fulfilled, you can return to this same page and fill out the fulfillment report form.
These methods provide very convincing and compelling evidence for the date of your premonition.
Be Specific
Regardless of the methods you use, be thorough in the description of your premonition, including as many specifics as you can recall. It's sometimes difficult to describe feelings, but do your best. Describe locations, people, names, landmarks, shapes, colors, smells, temperatures and emotions that you sensed. Guard against padding your descriptions with things you didn't really sense. You want to be as accurate and honest as possible.
If you believe your premonition has been fulfilled, be as honest about that as well. It may not be 100 percent accurate, but there should be enough correct detail to verify your premonition. This is where your detailed report comes in. If you just say, "I sense a train crash somewhere in the south of the Uk" your credibility goes way down because, unfortunately, train crashes in the south of england are not that rare.The more likely an event is to happen, the less seriously your vague premonition will be taken.
Don't let your premonitions slip by. The more verifiable evidence we have for this phenomenon, the closer we will come to understanding it.
Posted on Thu 16th Dec 2010
Psychic Love Readings
PSYCHIC LOVE READING
by Linda your psychic guide
I’d say that around 90% of my clients consult me for a psychic email reading about their love life.
Well they do say that love makes the world go around!
Whilst a psychic love reading may sound a bit of a silly phrase it does sum up quite nicely what the love psychic reading will focus on.
Everyone of course has a slightly different question for their psychic love reading but there's definately similarities
Many people long to have someone special in their lives yet they can’t seem to find the right partner. And this is often because they have a repeating pattern in their love lives. They always fall for the same type! A type they know are just not right for them. Unreliable, unfaithfull, unsupportive,etc. This results in in a cycle of destructive relationships that leave them emotionally exhausted and disillusioned by the whole idea of love.
If this is describes your life it's time to break free and find someone who will love, care and respect for you. You have a right to be happy. You have a right to be valued. You have a right to walk away when something just isn't working. Liberate yourself whilst you still have your dignity intact.
And then there are some clients who tell me they are looking for the ‘perfect partner’. You don't have to be a genius to work out this is why they are alone or finding that a new love relationship quickly comes to an end.
There is no such thing as the ‘perfect relationship’. Each and every one of us has our faults and trying to find someone who ticks all the boxes could lead to you to sitting alone every night instead of enjoying a cosy twosome.
If you are alone and have impossible standards and expectations about what love involves then it would be a good idea to have a serious re-think .
Loosen up a bit and remember all good relationships are about love and mutual respect. A sense of humour and good communications between you both improve the chances of it turning into a long term commitment.
I'm here if your need some good psychic advice about your love relationships. GET YOUR PSYCHIC ONLINE TAROT READING NOW
Posted on Tue 1st Dec 2009