Forgiveness: A Key to Inner Peace
Posted by admin on Sep 4, 2010
©2002, 2010 by Annabeth Meister
So often nowadays we hear people who have suffered a great wrong insisting that they must have CLOSURE before they can let go of what happened. The demand for closure has become a modern Must Have, as though it were an inalienable right like liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Yet, this vengeance-based demand has the potential to create nearly as much unhappiness as the original wrongful act. 
If you believe that you must have closure, what happens when those who wronged you go unpunished? What if they are acquitted, or if they elude capture, or you don’t know who did it, or if the thing that was done is not even against the law? What if it were long ago and the person is dead or has disappeared from your life? What if you confront them, even repeatedly, and they simply won’t acknowledge that what they did was harmful? Are you then stuck for the rest of your life with an aching sense of unfulfillment or unfinished business due to this mental attachment to the idea of closure?
Even people who succeed in getting closure may not find satisfaction in it. Have you not seen interviews with people who witnessed the executions of those who killed their loved ones? Many of them say they feel empty afterwards, as though the person’s death was not enough. The closure that seemed so essential, then, may very well not bring inner peace.
Rethinking Positive Affirmations
Posted by admin on Aug 21, 2010
By Deborah Bier, PhD, Publisher and Editor of Vibration and maker of the Whole Energy Essences
As we move through life’s challenges, it’s important to give encouragement and affirmation to both ourselves and others. A popular method is to use affirmations, positive statements to help create positive outcomes. Many essence practitioners use this extensively, adding affirmation to the essence-taking process. This is often done at the moment an essence is taken to help the user orient themselves on their goals.
However, I’ve always been a bit standoffish about the use of positive affirmations. For some reason, they have always seemed to me like convincing myself or others of something, rather than working towards the desired outcome. While I’m all over having an optimistic point of view every day, reciting affirmations just doesn’t somehow cut it for me… nor has it for many of my patients/clients. The whole thing is often accompanied by a lot of “if you’re not talking positive all the time, you’re messing up your life,” kind of trash talk… hardly positive, but that’s part of the baggage the practice of positive affirmations all too often drags along.
It turns out recent research shows that using affirmative statements to help create positive outcomes is not as effective as many might hope. There is a better way to create the results we’d like, and that is to form the desired outcome into a question. Using the same example as above, “Will I have a great day today?” would be a way to use this technique. I think it would be important to encourage asking such questions in a state of open curiosity, not fearfulness.
Making Yourself a Birthday Essence At the Solar Return
Posted by admin on Jun 5, 2010
©2010 Donna Cunningham, MSW
As Vibration Magazine celebrates its 12th birthday this month, and as we in the northern hemisphere head into primetime as far as flower essence making is concerned, I wanted to tell you about a very special and personal vibrational essence you can make yourself each year around your birthday.
The moment of your astrological birthday, called the Solar Return, results in a special chart each year. This chart shows what special opportunities and challenges you will face between this birthday and next. Many people consult astrologers for an annual update around their birthday for precisely that reason.
Your astrological birthday is not always the same as your chronological birthday but may be a day before or after. This is true for the same reason we need a leap year every four years–the true year is 365.25 days, so there is a four-year cycle in Solar Returns as well. To be technical, this moment–which we rely on astrological software to find–occurs when the Sun returns to the same zodiacal degree, minute, and second it was at your birth. Read the rest of this entry »
Uranus in Aries–Essences to Help You Ride out the Changes It Brings
Posted by admin on May 28, 2010
©2010 by Laurie A. Baum, MSW
Uranus, the planet of dramatic change, entered the fiery sign of Aries on May 27, 2010, the first time it has done so since 1935. Jupiter, the planet of good fortune, will join the revolutionary planet Uranus in Aries on June 8, 2010, intensifying the transformative energy of the Great Awakener.
Uranus is the planet that influences the striving for individuality and independence of adolescence and the questioning of one’s life path at the mid-life crisis. When Uranus conjoins, squares, opposes, or trines a planet or angle in your natal horoscope, you will feel like breaking from your personal traditions and rituals to experiment with new clothing, hairstyles, foods, healing modalities, relationships, place of residence, or lifestyle choices.
What You May Expect from Uranus in Aries
Uranus will bring sudden change to your life to rouse you to a higher level of consciousness. It will help you let go of those things that are no longer working in your life. It will help you get rid of that which is restricting you. You will be moved to implement more evolved, quickly moving, and liberating ways of being and doing. You will feel different from how you think you “normally” feel.
You will crave new experiences and interaction with others who are different from yourself. You also will need time alone to integrate new aspects of yourself, qualities that have always been there but have not until now been catalyzed into action. You will need space to experience these new qualities and freedom to grow, evolve, and become more of who you truly are.
Moon Flower Essences—Accessing and Healing Past Lives
Posted by admin on May 22, 2010
©2009 by Simon France, maker of Aquarius Flower Remedies
Nearly all flower remedies utilise the power of sunlight to capture their therapeutic vibrational impulses. However, the Moon Flowers of Aquarius Flower Remedies are made under moonlight and have a very different energy to solarised flowers.
They are used to heal the wounds we carry from the past, be that from this lifetime or previous lives. The absorption of moonlight into flower remedies allows their healing to reach down into our souls, helping us to release deeply held dysfunctional energetic patterns we have carried with us for many years.
The Moon shines at night, when we sleep and dream. The sub-conscious is the lunar realm. Its light, reflected from the Sun, is pale and cold, making the world look very different. Within the realms of the Moon there is less to stimulate our senses, more opportunities for our inner world to emerge. Unlike the Sun, the lunar disk constantly changes.
The Moon speaks to a different part of our being, yet a part that is as important to us as our solar spirit, life-force or ego. The solar part of our being is extrovert and projects, while the lunar part is introvert and reflects. This solar part can be considered masculine, while the lunar feminine. The Sun is our spirit and the Moon is our soul. Like the spirit, the soul is eternal.
If we open our hearts and minds to the possibility that our eternal soul incarnates, not once but many times in the physical form, each time growing, maturing and evolving, we begin to perceive life with more depth. We can reconcile within us traumatic, tragic, negative or unlucky events if we believe that as their effects filter down they provide material from which the soul can grow and evolve, become wiser, more experienced and better equipped for future lives.
How We Came to Love Wild Oat for The Cardinal T-Square
Posted by admin on Mar 27, 2010
Editors’ Note: Following up on last week’s blogathon, we were discussing this topic amongst ourselves and some of our authors. After emailing one another, we realized that we had developed an interesting and hopefully helpful piece for this blog.
Auntie Moon/CJ Wright:
Wouldn’t it be cool if there was a Cardinal T-Square Blogathon essence and we could all be sipping it right now? Maybe we could just drink a bunch of “Drank” or “Mary Jane,” anti-energy drinks, until we find the right one:
http://intoxicatedzodiac.com/blog/2010/02/22/anti-energy-drinks-are-the-new-energy-drinks/ Read the rest of this entry »
A Collection of Articles about How to Combine Astrology with Flower Essences
Posted by admin on Mar 19, 2010
A Collection of Articles about Combining Essences and Astrology
Vibration Magazine — educational journal on flower essences – is one of the hosts of a web-based event called a Blogathon to celebrate International Astrology Day, 2010.
The focus of the event is on a difficult triangle of astrological influences called a cardinal t-square that Pluto, Saturn, and Uranus are forming in the sky for many months this year and next. Read the rest of this entry »
Australian Flower Essences and the Collective Crisis: A Time of Creative Possibility
Posted by admin on Feb 27, 2010
©2010 by Eve Dembowski
All of us have experienced difficult times that are reflected by challenging personal astrological cycles. There have also been many difficult times in our collective history that have been reflected in the difficult astrological aspects present at the time. Read the rest of this entry »
Flower Essences: How they Enhance the Work of other Helping Professions
Posted by admin on Jan 31, 2010
©2010 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
Vibration Magazine has never been exclusively a flower essence journal. It has always been the meeting place for practitioners and clients of a great variety of the healing arts to explore how multiple forms of healing can combine with essences for a stronger, more effective healing result.
Flower Essences and Astrology—Getting through our Collective Crisis
Posted by admin on Jan 18, 2010
©2009 by Donna Cunningham, MSW
Sudden upsurges of despair and generalized turmoil like we’re experiencing just now are related to—BUT NOT CAUSED BY—current astrological conditions. As an astrologer who has studied planetary patterns for over 40 years, I’m sensitive to the prevailing cosmic winds. Slow-moving astrological conditions, some lasting as much as two years, shed light on our collective experience and major changes in the world. Astrological insights, combined with pertinent flower essences, can help us make progress despite the stresses and strains. Read the rest of this entry »
