I recently read an article in a health magazine about intermittent silence: a practice you can do in as little as 10 minutes per day to allow your mind to pause and rest. You close your mouth and your eyes, and simply listen to the sounds around you while silently watching your thoughts. This gives your brain a break from processing, thereby reducing the effects of overstimulation (including stress or feelings of overwhelm)…

This is the ultimate crystal gift guide! Find crystals suggestions for everything from abundance to babies rooms, house blessings to weddings, and more! Plus links to online conscious crystal shops and crystal classes to make your life even easier.

The concern is that all of this will push us collectively to a mental health breaking point - but it doesn’t have to, we can find healthy ways to respond that will help pull us, our families, and our communities through, better and stronger!

Here are some crystal healing practices + suggestions that can help you…

In Druid lore, the liminal point was sacred — a threshold between realms, time, space, and consciousness. In our modern age, we’re more familiar with trance, hypnosis, psychedelics, and meditative states when it comes to working with the liminal point, but the value and boon of threshold magic has never left human experience.

Scorpio is all about the dark places, the hidden and unseen, our innermost motivations and desires. It’s intensity, death, lust, magick, psychism, power, deep emotions, and manifestation.

I'm not a believer in what I call "cookie-cutter" crystal healing. In other words: one standard crystal layout meets all needs. Here’s a crystal layout I built for heartbreak and total transparency: I’m basing this particular practice client case study on myself.

While many people focus on the negatives when in Mercury retro, there are a lot of positive aspects, but in order to benefit from them you need to be able to stay grounded and go with the flow.

Even if it’s just taking five minutes to tune in to myself, center, and connect with my soul or the Universe, those five minutes can initiate a palpable energy shift that can help set up my whole day for the better.

Key question for this new moon solar eclipse: Are you ready to blaze a new trail or be a pioneer in some way in your life?

It’s mind-boggling to think that there’s a part of us inside that fights us on making positive changes in our lives.

If something’s going to make our lives better, happier, healthier, why can’t we just do it? What gets in the way?

The crystals I’m suggesting to wear or meditate with while attuning to the frequencies of this full moon, and in rituals for manifestation or healing, can also help you to tap into your inner magical child.

Here's how you can unblock your intuition and make it easier to follow…

As our consciousness drifts on the dream and astral plane, we can encounter, interact with, and be affected by energies and spirits far removed from our own on the physical plane.

This is one of the key principles in living a great big happy life!