May 2024 Blog 🌹 Nurture 🌹 Green Amythest
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Crystal: Green Amethyst
Spotlight on: Empathy
Event: Sound Baths at Kinosaito Arts Center - Friday 5/17/24 at 6 PM - Get your tickets now.
Full Moon: 5/23/24 @ 9:53 AM
Quote: The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart aligned with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but on the soul. ” Alfred Austin
Welcome May. We are truly embracing the energy of spring now - you can see it in the blooming trees and sprouting leaves. May is also the month we celebrate Mother’s day and all the incredible women in our lives as well as Memorial Day our sacred day of observance for those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for America. More about that in a bit.
“The glory of gardening: hands in the dirt, head in the sun, heart aligned with nature. To nurture a garden is to feed not just on the body, but on the soul. ”
Our theme for May is “Nurture”. Particularly self – nurturing. So how do you allow yourself time for self-care? If you are a mother of young children do you believe that it is even in your realm of possibility? We each need to give ourselves permission for rest, relaxation and self-care. There is that old saying on the plane, please place your own oxygen mask on before attempting to help others. Another aspect of being a nurturing person is possibly also being called an empathetic person or an “empath”. Empaths’ seem to be getting more and more attention these days as people who “feel too much”.
“Empathy” definition from Wikipedia: Empathy is the capacity to understand or feel what another person is experiencing from within their frame of reference, i.e., the capacity to place oneself in another's position. There are many definitions for empathy that encompass a broad range of emotional states. Types of empathy include cognitive empathy, emotional empathy, and somatic empathy.
If you think you a person who feels “too much” and might be picking up on other people’s energy, then you might want to consider these few steps to self-care:
Establish a daily practice that you do for yourself. A daily prayer, meditation, walk in nature or whatever feeds your soul and helps you be connected to you and spirit. Your daily practice does not need to be elaborate!
Learn to say “NO”. No is a complete sentence. It does not require any further explanation. You can add “NO, thank you.” If it makes you feel better.
Have regular body work. Massage, Craniosacral Therapy, Accupuncture or whatever calls to you.
Try a new things perhaps a virtual hands-off energy medicine session.
Reach out to Rose Healing Center and ask how we can help ;-)
As I think about Mother’s Day this year, I am using it as a time to reflect on the many amazing women in my life who helped to shape and inform the woman have become. May is the perfect month to acknowledge them. I encourage all of you to make a list of the incredible women/mothers in your life. As I went through this list, I really found myself in such deep gratitude for these amazing women of distinction.
I honor first my mother Harriet and my grandmothers Rose, and Mary. Then my sister Laurie and my nieces Samantha and Isabella. Then there are the Aunts who had a significant role in my life and my many accomplished cousins who are more like sisters. Finally there are my many female friends, true spiritual warriors and goddesses. There are so many incredible role models, mentors and friends. As I think of the women who have influenced my life, many have now passed but their wise wisdom and love lives on in their children, grandchildren and through the many lives they touched including mine. I am so grateful.
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Sound Baths at Kinosaito Arts Center Ongoing through September 2024
For those of you who love my Sound Baths - I am still at Kinosaito through September, 2024. If you are interested in attending one of these events please get your tickets in advance as they almost always sell out. NEW DATES being released soon for July - August - September.
Continuing our theme for May, 2024
In May we also honor those who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our Nation in the marking of Memorial Day. Memorial Day is often described as the “unofficial start of summer” with a 3 day weekend filled with grilling, corn on the cob, and delicious desserts. But it is (or should be) so much more than that.
Memorial Day itself is a sacred day of observance, centered on acknowledging, remembering, and thanking the millions of people in uniform who gave their lives for this country. Before anything else, it's about those brave heroes and the incredible sacrifice they made so that we could all be free.
Of course, in order to properly pause, reflect, and pay your respects to the soldiers to whom we owe our many freedoms, you'll have to first know when to do so. Memorial day is May 27th this year.
The Full Moon in May
May is the month when hundreds of native flowers, sedges, bushes and trees blossom throughout North America bloom. Columbine’s intricate red and yellow bell-like flowers with deep nectaries provide early season food for hummingbirds and other long-tongued pollinators. Lance-leaf coreopsis produces a plethora of bright yellow, daisy-like flowers. Gardeners who promptly dead head spent blossoms prolong the bloom period through July. Meanwhile large stands of pink-hued prairie smoke create a hazy effect resembling smoke hovering close to the ground.
May’s full Moon bears the name of regionally significant flowers and blooms in other regions. In the Southeast, the Creek and Choctaw referred to this as the “Mulberry Moon.” In the Pacific Northwest, May’s full Moon is known by the Kalapuya as “Camas Blooming Time.” Camas blue flowers cover meadows throughout Oregon, eastern Washington and northern Idaho. Camas has been a key food source in Northwest Native diets for centuries. When the blooms fade and set seed in June and July, native peoples would harvest the nutrient rich roots. Source: Farmer’s Almanac
Our Crystal for May is Green Amethyst
This stone helps those who are stressed out all the time and want to let go of their past traumas. It also lessens sadness and anxiety. Although it is thought that wearing Green Amethyst Jewelry has soothing effects on the wearer, natural green amethyst actually strengthens your physical, mental, and spiritual health.
Green amethyst strengthens peace and calm, and brings generosity, growth, health, happiness, harmony, stability, and fertility. Green is the color of Nature and as such it helps relieving tensions and irritation. It can encourage self respect and well being.
Wishing you all a wonderful May.