necklace

The meaning of Moonstone"

Stone of Emotional Balance

Feldspar

Usually milky with a blueish or yellowish tint. Translucent with white pink yellow soft sheen.

Moonstone help to soothe and balance the emotions. They assist in the mastery of your emotions by bringing them under your will instead of repressing or expressing them. Moonstone represents the Great Mother goddess. Her strength lies in her gentleness and her ability to express, process and neutralize her feelings.

A stone of wishes, intuition and balance. Brings all to their gentler feminine side. Brings you all that is needed.

"Want" and "Need" do not come from the same place. Moonstone can help you absorb what is needed in life rather than what is merely wanted.

Moonstone can unblock feelings of nurturing, gentle care and unselfish humanitarian service in both men and w omen who are afraid to acknowledge or experience consciously how they feel on a personal and internal level.

This is a great stone for doctors, nurses, ad other health care workers who sometimes feel they must repress much of what they feel in order to function more effectively, at the expense of gentleness that comes with empathy and compassion.

It will bring emotions and feeling under ones control without becoming hardened to the human suffering they see on a daily basis.

In the Eastern cultures, moonstone was favoured for love. It was believed that wearing or carrying a moonstone would bring a new love into your life. It was also believed that holding a piece of moonstone over the heart after a quarrel and exchanging stones with each other would bring you back together.

Attributed to nature, water and fertilization. Wear during planting, weeding and watering.

Moonstone is also considered a protective stone while travelling, especially by night, or water.

been seen

"As I move from the desk in the reading room on campus, to my table at home, to my armchair, I think to myself how similar finding a spot to write the last bits of a paper is to a dog sniffing around and picking a spot to take a poop.

In the end there is shit and a sense of relief."

Taken from the lovely and talented thegreattidepool.com

I know this feeling. And I'm getting better at finding my ideal spots. Coffee shops. I am surprised at myself. It seems to obvious and since I don't drink coffee and like my own tea better and don't want to pay three times the real price for a mug of hot flavoured water, I've never really frequented them. But here I am, sitting at a wooden table that is the exact right height and the glorious sun is at just the right angle and amount and the music and background noise is just enough as well, not distracting. I've got selfmade gingerbread and peppermint tea. I've got studying to do but first I'm going to watch the 1992 match race between Lure and Devil His Due. And then, just for thrills and the spine tingle, the 1972 Belmont. Secretariat 31 lengths ahead.

I was at the closing night of a production of James and the Giant Peach on Saturday as well as the afterparty in the dressing room. I was introduced to a friend's grandmother, short and feisty and with thick white short hair. Strong voice and spunk. I was wondering whether her accent was Austrian and then heard that her name was Charlotte and thought of my german grandmother who held me when I was an infant and never after and who also was called Charlotte and how for years I wanted that to be my name. And now I found out that she is Austrian and that during the party she had told someone that I looked cute and looked Austrian.

Okay. Study time. The sun's disappearing. Cold draft from the door. I hear swiss being spoken.

food

Oh wow, this is a really sweet old wall map. What are those, delineations of island groups in the Pacific? Mmmm. I have a thing for old maps you know.
"I know."
How?
"Because I do too."


I want to eat everything. My hormones are doing strange things and at 11pm yesterday all I could think of was perfectly done spaghetti with a little bit of olive oil and some ground pepper and fresh grated parmesan overtop.
And now I want dahl and sushi and chocolate covered anything, stirfry and grilled sandwhiches and and and.