October 2022 - Awareness

Welcome to October. Historically the time of many festivals including my most favorite Holiday – Halloween.  In the old tradition Halloween was called Samhain – (pronounced saah-ween) a Gaelic festival marking the end of the harvest season and beginning of winter.   In the old traditions, it was a time to honor the harvest and to celebrate ancestors and those who have passed from this life.  Halloween, like many holidays, marks the passage of time.

In more current times Halloween is the holiday where children (and others) don masks and costumes and go trick or treating.   I have tried to figure out over the years why I love Halloween so much. I think because even as a child, I knew this holiday speaks to a sense of fantasy, community and generosity.  On what other holiday do we seem to trust so deeply – knocking on doors and being greeted with a smile and a treat?  On what other day of the year are we encouraged to pretend to be someone else and engage our imagination for just a few hours?    From memories of the early days of my childhood in the 1960 and 70’s going door to door with my father and sister to trick or treat, to later going with gangs of friends, or college parties filled with crazy costumes, to adulthood when my husband and I so loved decorating our house and yard and we became the ones answering the door and giving out the treats, this Holiday has always made me happy and has a deep spiritual meaning for me as well.

October is a time for clearing away the old unnecessary things or habits that no longer serve us.  It is a time of transition and contemplation.  It is a time when we honor those who have died and the gifts they brought us when they were here on earth.  For our ancestors, it was a serious time of setting intention that winter will come and go with the least negative effects.

Our bodies can be challenged around this time of year as it tries to assimilate all the changes in frequency hitting our planet. It will take some discipline and a great deal of compassion and patience and you can begin by looking at how you support your physical body as well as your emotional and spiritual bodies and what you can do to increase that support. Rose Healing is here to help with this.

Some other ideas for how you can honor this Autumn:  Take a meditative walk in nature observing the beauty of the colored leaves. Experience the cycle of death and rebirth as nature shows it to us.   Visit a cemetery where some of your ancestors lie in their final resting place.  Maybe carve a pumpkin, bake an apple pie or don a costume and embrace the energy of October.  Since it is also a time of letting go, consider going through your closets and giving away that which you no longer need or use.  This exercise of clearing away things from our household also encourages a “clearing away” on other levels.

October invites us to consider letting go and clearing what no longer serves us.  Explore this awareness in your daily life.  Think about what works, what doesn’t.  Be creative, try something new.

Upcoming Events at Rose Healing Center in October

Shamanic Journey with the Drum 10/2/22 at 10 AM and

Sound Healing with the Crystal Harp 10/30/22 at 10 AM.

The Full Moon is on 10/9/22 called the “Hunter’s Moon”

On 10/9/22 - the moon will drift over the horizon around sunset, making it may appear larger and more orange—how perfect for the fall season! The Harvest Moon and the Hunter’s Moon are unique in that they are not directly related to folklore, nor necessarily restricted to a single month. Instead, they are tied to an astronomical event: the fall Equinox. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Hunters Moon because it signaled the time to go hunting in preparation for the cold winter ahead. Animals are beginning to fatten up ahead of winter, and since the farmers had recently cleaned out their fields under the Harvest Moon, hunters could easily see the deer and other animals that had come out to root through the remaining scraps (as well as the foxes and wolves that had come out to prey on them).

October brings us #10 energy.

In numerology number ten is associated with the tarot card The Wheel of Fortune. This card signifies change, growth, and new beginnings. When the number 10 appears, it brings with it an understanding of unity and the need for independence.

 Our Crystal for October is Rutilated Quartz

 Rutilated Quartz is an example of how miracles occur in nature. Science doesn't fully understand how rutilated quartz is formed since the softer metal colored hairs grew into the harder surrounding quartz crystal. So you can understand why this crystal was associated with angels and protective spirits in ancient lore all around the world.

Metaphysical Properties:
Rutilated Quartz is an effective purifier and integrator of energy. It encourages letting go, helps you to clear your mind, teaches you how to sharpen your focus, and strengthens your light body so that you gain more profound insights.

Rutilated Quartz connects you to your soul-plan and helps you to understand the effects of previous actions and ingrained patterns. It helps you to distinguish between karma as `payback for previous actions' and your soul intention. 

September 2022 - Focus

Photo by Liz Oken

Every September the energy invites us to remember that “Return to School or Back to Work” feeling.   It is a time to turn away from summer’s lazy days and move towards tasks that need to be done before the arrival of winter and the holidays. This shift is grounded in Earth’s cycles, plus our own memory from childhood and our genetic memories from our ancestors who worked diligently to gather food before winter. The summer is ending and we our attention towards Autumn and its gifts.  

September is a time we are invited to focus and invite new knowledge into our experience.   For those of us in the USA, Labor Day is the unofficial end of summer and this energetic turning point, but the more traditional and astronomical pivot is Autumn Equinox. It falls this year on September 22.

Sound Bath at Kinosaito - Friday 9/23/22 at 6 PM - GET YOUR TICKETS NOW!

I am so excited to have been invited back again to offer my Crystal Harp Sound Healing Experience live in person at Kinosaito Arts Center. Kinosaito is located in the newly renovated former St. Patrick’s Catholic School in Verplanck NY and is my alma mater! Please join me Friday 9/23/22 at this most unique space which allows plenty of room for those who wish to lie down or sit up for this transformative evening of sound healing with the Crystal Harp and Koshi Chimes. This event sold out in July - so RESERVE YOUR SPOT TODAY.   

Upcoming Event at Rose Healing - Shamanic Journey with the Drum 10/2/22 @ 10 AM

Rosemary will lead you on a journey of discovery. Studies have shown that drumming changes brain wave activity, inducing a state of calm and focused awareness. We will be focusing on what you want to bring into your life or manifest in your life. In advance of the session participants are encouraged to think about or write down 2 or intentions.

LIVING IN THE LIGHT 4 DAY VIRTUAL EVENT Sept 17th & 18th and Oct 15th & 16th

I am very excited to be a Workshop Leader in an virtual intensive 4 day “Living in the Light” program led by Cheryl Banfield of Love Light Illuminations Center. Living In The Light is a vibrational training for all aspects of your being: Mind, Body, Spirit, Soul, Oneness. It is more unlearning than learning: It is for expanding self and universal awareness.

The morning sessions will consist of guided multidimensional sensory meditation. You will receive: transmissions of light, light code activations, and high resonant downloads with crystalline light frequencies. The afternoon sessions will continue your transformational shifting through powerful workshops held by 4 light facilitators, all trained LoveLight Practitioners: Catherine Anesi, Rosemary Boyle Lasher, Mandy Mathiesen and Emily Medri.

The workshops will provide interactive experiences and learning self-healing techniques for full integration of all 5 aspects of self: mind, body, spirit, soul and oneness. Living In The Light will bring you into energetic alignment by shifting your frequency. This allows the opportunity to reach newer understanding, access divine consciousness, step into cosmic flow and receive divine light, which you will then transmit out into the world.

More information is available. Learn more 

Our September Blog continues…..

This year perhaps more than any September since I started this blog back in 2015 really invites us to deeply experience the divine through intention and focus.  It is through quiet, through DIS-connection from technology, through nature and awareness that we can go deeper into communion.   During the past 2.5 years of the pandemic we have all been so focused on screens – our phones, our computers, our TV’s and of course what felt like the never-ending Zooms. 

As we move into this next phase of our experience think about how you can invite focus into your day and consider if you can do with minimal or no technology.  Those under the age of 30 might find this particularly challenging.  We have trained our brains and our nervous systems to respond to a near constant level of “alerts”.  It is ironic that is what we call them on our phone’s “alerts”.     What would a ½ a day or even a whole day look like without out something beeping for our attention?

“There is something so special in the early drifting of the leaves from the trees-as if we are all to be allowed a chance to peel, to refresh, to start again.”

— Ruth Ahmed, author When Ali Met Honour

 Once you have set aside some time – maybe start with 30 minutes or 1 hour - Make the most of your time by becoming more aware of and working with nature’s influence. Autumn energy promotes three areas of focus harvest, release, and celebration. That means:

• Recommitting to hard work that will result in a harvest.

• Releasing what you no longer need, like a tree dropping leaves.

• Connecting with community to celebrate both kinds of work. In most cultures, fall connection is already marked by a string of traditional feasts and year-end holidays.

In autumn, many plants drop leaves, fruit, or seeds that will eventually help prompt new life in spring. How can capture the energy of this kind of “fall”.   Consider how you might release, harvest, or connect through the next few months.  

The Full moon 9/10/22; the Fall Equinox 9/23/2; & the Energy of the #9 for September

The Full Moon is on 9/10/22

The Moon will be located on the opposite side of the Earth as the Sun and its face will be will be fully illuminated. This full moon was known by early Native American tribes as the Corn Moon because the corn is harvested around this time of year. This moon is also known as the Harvest Moon. The Harvest Moon is the full moon that occurs closest to the September equinox each year. 

Fall Equinox is on 9/23/22

The Sun will shine directly on the equator and there will be nearly equal amounts of day and night throughout the world. This is also the first day of fall (autumnal equinox) in the Northern Hemisphere and the first day of spring (vernal equinox) in the Southern Hemisphere.   Spiritually, the Equinox starts the time of shedding what is at the end of a cycle, so seeds can germinate deep within and burst forth again in the spring. Ancient wisdom tells us that the solstices and equinoxes hold spiritual messages that are important for the human journey - reminders that there is a flow to life - a time and a season.   As you align yourself with the energy of the natural world, you can reflect on what you have harvested this past year. You can find in this equinox the call to balance, and you can give yourself permission to take the time you need as the season moves forward to replenish your energy.

September brings us #9 energy.

The number Nine is the last of the single-digit numbers in our base-ten counting system, and represents the end of the cycle. Ancient mathematical philosophers called it the “finishing post,” and the ancient Greeks called it “the Horizon.” It represents the uppermost limit of what can be discovered, and expressed inside of our human experience. Through effort, comes experience

Numerologists understand that the number 9 holds an exceptionally wise, spiritual energy. It contains every other number that has come before it. So symbolically, the number 9 is the container for all worldly experiences. The number 9 is also regarded as widely tolerant, loving and compassionate, though the love that it offers tends to be expressed as universal, rather than romantic – the number nine has a widely humanitarian edge. 

Our Crystal for September is   Ametrine

Ametrine is a rare, bicolor variety of quartz that has zones of amethyst (purple) in contact with citrine (yellow) within a single crystal. The name comes from a combination of AMEthyst and ciTRINE. It is almost exclusively found in a single Bolivian mine.  This is my personal Ametrine sphere that is placed on a holder of 3 dancing goddesses. As a stone of both balance and connection, ametrine is believed to relieve tension, bring serenity and stimulate creativity, as well as balance mental stability and self-confidence.

August 2022 - Authentic Success

Free Upcoming Event - Sunday August 7th at 11:00 AM at the Market on the River Under the Big Tree

Join me Sunday 8/7 at 11:11 AM for a Free Event where we will learn about our Light Centers in Meditation and I will be playing the Koshi Chimes at the Let It Shine, Inc. Market on the River @ Cortlandt Riverfront Park 45 Rivervew Avenue in Verplanck, NY.

What does success mean to you?

Authentic success is accepting your limitations while making peace with your past and identifying or enhancing your passion.  This allows your future to unfold according to a divine plan.  If you have no idea what your passion is start by getting quiet, going within and really being honest with yourself about what excites your spirit.    This is an opportunity to discover and call forth your gifts.  Remember the Divine is your co-creator – ask for help.  Quiet your mind and LISTEN for the answers. Start writing down ideas.   It can be grand or it can be very small.  Offering your gifts to the world can be a belief that just for today you will make a difference in one other person’s life.   If you can do that for just one person each day through a smile, a kind word, a shared laugh or a helping hand.  Each day do another thing.  Maybe you make a difference in two persons lives tomorrow!   

Authentic success is feeling good about who you are; appreciating where you've been; celebrating your achievements and honoring the distance you've already come.  Authentic success is reaching a point where being is as just as important as doing.  It is the steady pursuit of a dream and realizing that no matter how much time it takes for that dream to come true in the physical world, no day is ever wasted. Each day you can take one small step towards that dream.

Ultimately authentic success is not about accumulating but letting go.  This one was a hard one for me when I was younger. I was not believing that there is always enough. Realistically all you have is all you ever truly need.   Authentic success is knowing how simply abundant your life is exactly as it is today.  It is a deep invitation to be so grateful for the many blessings bestowed upon you and yours.

We can all go down the path of lack, of fear, of scarcity. With the daily onslaught of either the news of the price increases or the actual experience of putting food on the table, gas in your car, and having a roof over your head. When I go into those modes I like to constantly remind myself of how very fortunate I am.  Being in gratitude can help you shift every day.  Whenever you feel lack or scarcity begin a list of all the things you are grateful for. This is a powerful energy shifter.

LIVING IN THE LIGHT 4 DAY VIRTUAL EVENT Sept 17th & 18th and Oct 15th & 16th

I am very excited to be a Workshop Leader in an virtual intensive 4 day “Living in the Light” program led by Cheryl Banfield of Love Light Illuminations Center. Living In The Light is a vibrational training for all aspects of your being: Mind, Body, Spirit, Soul, Oneness. It is more unlearning than learning: It is for expanding self and universal awareness.

The morning sessions will consist of guided multidimensional sensory meditation. You will receive: transmissions of light, light code activations, and high resonant downloads with crystalline light frequencies.

The afternoon sessions will continue your transformational shifting through powerful workshops held by 4 light facilitators, all trained LoveLight Practitioners: Catherine Anesi, Rosemary Boyle Lasher, Mandy Mathiesen and Emily Medri. The workshops will provide interactive experiences and learning self-healing techniques for full integration of all 5 aspects of self: mind, body, spirit, soul and oneness. Living In The Light will bring you into energetic alignment by shifting your frequency. This allows the opportunity to reach newer understanding, access divine consciousness, step into cosmic flow and receive divine light, which you will then transmit out into the world.

More information is available. Learn more 

“Life is largely a process of adaptation to the circumstances in which we exist”

— Thomas Hanna in the book "Somatics"

August brings us the number 8 in Numerology

 8   is the number of powers, material and financial gain, achievement, reward, status, and satisfaction. The 8 Year vibration will provide the means – the personal power – with which to change the status quo and accomplish a significant goal that will alter the direction and quality of your journey. I closely follow Christine Delorey and love her work around numerology. Check her out at creativenumerology.com.   

THE MOON is full on August 11th – this month it is known as the Sturgeon Full Moon.  It is also the final super moon of 2022.  August’s full Moon will appear on the night of Thursday, August 11, reaching peak illumination at 9:36 P.M. Eastern Time. On either of these nights, look toward the southeast after sunset to catch a glimpse of the Sturgeon Moon.  .https://www.almanac.com/content/full-moon-august 

The Crystal for August is Lapis Lazuli 

The name Lapis Lazuli means ‘blue stone,’ and it is sometimes referred to simply as Lapis.

The name comes from the Latin word ‘lapis’ meaning ‘stone’ and the Persian meaning ‘blue.’ The rich blue color of lapis lazuli brings to mind a heavenly sky, deep and expansive with flecks of gold that mimic shooting stars. The combination of gold and intense blue makes this gemstone a rare and exciting crystal specimen, to this day a favorite of many crystal collectors around the world.

In Ancient Egypt, it was used in cosmetics for thousands of years. It was even said that Michelangelo used lapis lazuli in powder form for blue pigments to color the frescoes in his Sistine Chapel. Lapis lazuli is considered one of the most precious and sought-after gems in history.  The deep, royal ultramarine blue of this particular gemstone has entranced the human eye for thousands of years. To many cultures, it represents power, abundance, mystical wisdom, and the afterlife and has a magical, mysterious charm.   It has been around for centuries, and its popularity still has not diminished. Today it is mined in the USA, Chile, Italy, and Afghanistan.

Love, Light and Blessings to you all. Rose Healing Center is here to help you manifest what you wish to bring in to your life whether it be peace, health, creativity or something else. We offer a variety of services (either virtually or in person) including energy healing, intuitive guidance, sound healing and body work.

July 2022 Spiritual Independence

Of course, my theme is driven by our July 4th holiday which honors a deeply meaningful date in history where our fore-fathers declared their political sovereignty from the oppression and governance of a limiting rule to become a nation that is self-governed, self-directed and self-responsible.

July is the month that is filled with the energy of summer and festivals, barbeques, family, friends, and outdoor activities. It is a beautiful time of the year where the speed of life seems to slow down just a bit. Really consider yourself in this equation of summer. It always goes so fast.  Try to find time for self-reflection and self-care as well as rest and relaxation this month.  So often our society mistakes much needed leisure time for laziness but nothing could be further from the truth.  We need rest, relaxation and fun!  Cherish this month.  

Crystal Harp Sound Bath at Kinosaito Art Center 7/1/22

I am so excited to have been invited to offer my Crystal Harp Sound Healing Experience live in person at Kinosaito Arts Center. Kinosaito is located in the newly renovated former St. Patrick’s Catholic School in Verplanck NY and is my alma mater! Please join me July 1st at 6 PM at this most unique space which allows plenty of room for those who wish to lie down or sit up for this transformative evening of sound healing with the Crystal Harp and Koshi Chimes. Get Tickets

What does it mean to be personally independent?

A true feeling of independence starts with an energy, a force that fuels and permeates the human spirit.    A sense of independence is also recognizing that freedom is a state of mind.  But it also means having awareness of connection, gratitude, cognizance, self-reliance, and safety.

• A Sense of Connection – fostering healthy relationships

• A Sense of Gratitude – nurturing an attitude of gratitude for all that you have

• A Sense of Awareness – being awake to the moment

• A Sense of Self-Reliance – knowing you can do it

• A Sense of Dominion – owning your personal space

• A Sense of Home – no matter where you are at any time, “home” is within

Personal independence is non-negotiable; a commodity that no one can ever take from you, because it has nothing to do with external stuff. Your personal sovereignty is where you reign. 

A few years ago, I came across an article online by Simone Wright that hit a nerve with me.  A portion of it is quoted below and I share a link to the full article after that.

“We do not gain true spiritual power by claiming independence from an external governing body (i.e. government, religion, education, parents, tribe, family). Nor do we gain strength by insisting or demanding that these entities give it to us – it cannot be given – for we already possess it. But in order for it to begin to work for us we must understand we possess it, then, acknowledge and claim it for ourselves.

Mind and how it is directed has the ability to determine how energy takes shape in the physical world. The external, created world we see, feel and experience as our reality, is a created thing.  It reflects our collective consciousness.” read the full article

Crystal of the Month – Drusy Spirit Quartz (aka Cactus Quartz)

Below is an image taken by Adam Slinsky of my incredibly gorgeous Drusy Spirit Torch. Yes, it is in the shape of a giant torch!  It is purple with hints of reddish iron oxides.

This crystal can appear like sparkling snow.  The Spirit Quartz is a gemstone of harmony, alignment, and nurturing spiritual growth. Also known as the cactus quartz or porcupine quartz, this gem takes its creative names from its intriguing appearance.  My Spirit Quartz is made up of a combination of Amethyst, Citrine, and Smoky Quartz with many other smaller crystals adorning its surface. For those looking to illuminate their spiritual path, the Spirit Quartz can be your perfect guide. 

Love, Light and Blessings to you all. Rose Healing Center is here to help you manifest what you wish to bring in to your life whether it be peace, health, creativity or something else. We offer a variety of services (either virtually or in person) including energy healing, intuitive guidance, sound healing and body work.