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Fall 2009, Vol. 52
Tree of Life Reiki Center
To all our friends, and fellow Reiki Practitioner’s from around the world International and Domestic welcome to our fall edition of Tree of Life Reiki Newsletter.
Fall has finally arrived! Well not entirely, for those of us living in the desert southwest are still experiencing temperatures above 100 degrees. Mornings and late evenings are beginning to cool down somewhat so surely fall can’t be to far away? Across the rest of the continental US, fall is descending, bringing all of the changing colors to the trees and foliage. Snow has already fallen in some locations. This summer saw many records broken in the desert southwest for extreme heat, and the number of days having 100 plus degree temperatures,
so we are most anxiously awaiting more moderate fall.
Reiki and Other Healing Modalities Questions & Answers: Please e-mail us any questions you might have regarding our classes, or perhaps you have specific questions about Reiki. We will do our best to answer them in upcoming newsletters.
Question: These questions have been asked many times, so I thought perhaps this would be a good opportunity to provide everyone with additional information on the subject of Grounding and Negative Energy.
Answer #1: Grounding
Anytime you feel spacey or disoriented it is a good idea to ground and center yourself. The first step in many spiritual practices is to learn to ground, that is to connect yourself energetically to the core of the Earth even when you wish to astral travel or meditate you will find that beginning from being grounded will help you with inner focus.
Whatever your beliefs are this simple practice can make a huge difference in your life. There are many techniques for grounding and it is wise to look for those that work best for you.
The essence of most methods is to relax and visualize yourself sending an energy cord or light beam into the earth from your root chakra (at the tailbone) and allowing it to reach the earth core. Thus allowing you to get energy from the Earth and return excess energy down the cord. The energy you send down the cord that is not your own is cleansed and used by the earth. Your own energy is cleansed and returned to you. There are spirit beings that thrive on clearing negative energy. A classic form of grounding is to imagine roots growing into the Earth from your feet and spinal column or central energy channel. Some traditions strongly prefer that you ground from the spinal center and not from the feet. I follow the tradition of asking the Earth for permission and thanking her for her healing energy.
Answer #2: Negative Energy
I sometimes have a hard time trying to get rid of some negative energy especially after treating clients. Every time you have an emotional contact with anyone, you create an attachment point to him or her. A cord of energy or chakra cord. Ask to heal the areas where the cords were attached and create a shield around each chakra to prevent further attachments. You can also if possible take a sea salt bath to remove negative energy. Rinse yourself down with the warm water and watch the water go down the drain, taking your negative energy with it.
There are no hard and fast rules.
New Training Courses:
Many new courses have been added to our Tree Of Life Reiki web site this past quarter. Money River Reiki, Money Reiki for a new Reality, Success Flush Reiki just to name a few, A very important new class you might want to take a closer look at is titled: Starburst New Beginnings by Founder Linda Colibert
Star Burst New Beginnings Reiki connects you to the energies of a StarBurst and is the creative energies of new beginnings. Life is born of the burst of energy that happens when a star goes nova and bursts spraying out particles into the atmosphere. These energies create matter and are the result of changes, death of the old, and rebirth of the new. Star Burst New Beginnings Reiki works with these energies to help you bring about changes for the better, creativity, and New Beginnings. Read more about this course and other new offerings on our web site at: http://www.treeoflifereiki.com
Our Incredible Moon:
October Moon is A Waxing Crescent Moon, currently 7% of the full Moon.
October's Harvest Moon
Every few years, the full moon closest to the equinox that earns the name of the Harvest Moon falls in October instead of September. This is one of those years. The moon reaches full stage at 2:10 a.m. EDT on October 4, 2009. On the West Coast of the United States, the full moon occurs just before midnight on October 3. For observers in North America who watch the moonrise at sunset, the moon will look fullest on the 3rd.
On October 7, two hours after sunset, the moon will rise near the Pleiades star cluster. On October 26, the bright point of light by the moon is Jupiter, which shines at magnitude -2.6. Halloween, October 31, will not host the full moon, but it will be 95%-lit because the next full moon is only two days later. The time of sunset on Halloween depends on location. For example, Chicago will see the sun set at 5:45 p.m. while down in Houston the sun will set an hour later, at 6:35 p.m.
Halloween Night:
October 31st (Halloween) is a favorite time celebrated by many in the United States. On that night children (and many adults) dress up in their favorite costumes and masks. Some choosing to dress as Witches, Ghosts, Devils, etc, etc. some in scary dress while others dress in funny attire, or to look like famous celebrity or even political figures. Once dressed they attend local Halloween parties or many children go door to door in their respective neighborhoods “Trick or Treating” each child must carry a bag or something capable of holding candy and treats that are passed out to them at each home they choose to visit. Most neighbors participating in the one night festivity will leave their porch lights a glow to welcome the young “Trick or Treaters.” This is a tradition that I remember taking part in myself as a child, and now as an adult continue in that tradition by passing out treats to children who ring or knock at our door. The one night event usually begins soon after sunset and ends within a few hours 3-4 at most. We do try to keep an adequate supply of treats on hand to support the children’s fun. Sometimes depending on the number of children going door to door, we have run out of candy treats, so we simply let them know by turning off our porch or outside lights and then they pass us on by. I have included a short poem here of those childhood memories.
Halloween Memories
By Bob Eagleton
Halloween nights, I remember them well,
And the scary stories we all would tell.
Of ghosts and goblins, and vampire bats,
Witches riding brooms with big black cats.
Masquerade parties with games and fun,
With plenty of good treats for everyone.
I’m all grown up now, that’s all in my past,
But those Halloween memories forever will last
A Closing Thought:
Abraham Quote:
You are magnificent beings, in the perfect place at the perfect time, unfolding perfectly, never getting it done, and never getting it wrong. Be more playful about all of it. "Today, no matter where I'm going, no matter what I am doing, and no matter who I'm doing it with -- it is my dominant intent to look for that which I'm wanting to see. I'm wanting to find thoughts and words and actions that feel good while I'm finding them. For in doing so, I am, in the moment, practicing the art of allowing all that I've been telling the Universe I'm wanting, for all of the days of my existence.
--- Abraham
courtesy of: http://www.abraham-hicks.com/
Love, Light, Joy & Blessings,
Wanda….
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Astronomers crack longstanding lunar mystery
Ancient rock's magnetic field shows that moon once had a dynamo in its core
David Chandler, MIT News Office
January 15, 2009
The collection of rocks that the Apollo astronauts brought back from the moon carried with it a riddle that has puzzled scientists since the early 1970s: What produced the magnetization found in many of those rocks?
The longstanding puzzle has now been solved by researchers at MIT, who carried out the most detailed analysis ever of the oldest pristine rock from the Apollo collection. Magnetic traces recorded in the rock provide strong evidence that 4.2 billion years ago the moon had a liquid core with a dynamo, like Earth's core today, that produced a strong magnetic field.
The particular moon rock that produced the new evidence was long known to be a very special one. It is the oldest of all the moon rocks that have not been subjected to major shocks from later impacts -- something that tends to erase all evidence of earlier magnetic fields. In fact, it's older than any known rocks from Mars or even from the Earth itself.
"Many people think that it's the most interesting lunar rock," said Ben Weiss, the Victor P. Starr Assistant Professor of Planetary Sciences in MIT's Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences and senior author of a paper on the new finding being published in Science on Jan. 16. The rock was collected during the last lunar landing mission, Apollo 17, by Harrison "Jack" Schmidt, the only geologist ever to walk on the moon.
"It is one of the oldest and most pristine samples known," said graduate student Ian Garrick-Bethell, who was the lead author of the Science paper. "If that wasn't enough, it is also perhaps the most beautiful lunar rock, displaying a mixture of bright green and milky white crystals."
The team studied faint magnetic traces in a small sample of the rock in great detail. Using a commercial rock magnetometer that was specially fitted with an automated robotic system to take many readings "allowed us to make an order of magnitude more measurements than previous studies of lunar samples," Garrick-Bethell said. "This permitted us to study the magnetization of the rock in much greater detail than previously possible."
And those data enabled them to rule out the other possible sources of the magnetic traces, such as magnetic fields briefly generated by huge impacts on the moon. Those magnetic fields are very short lived, ranging from just seconds for small impacts up to one day for the most massive strikes. But the evidence written in the lunar rock showed it must have remained in a magnetic environment for a long period of time -- millions of years -- and thus the field had to have come from a long-lasting magnetic dynamo.
That's not a new idea, but it has been "one of the most controversial issues in lunar science," Weiss said. Until the Apollo missions, many prominent scientists were convinced that the moon was born cold and stayed cold, never melting enough to form a liquid core. Apollo proved that there had been massive flows of lava on the moon's surface, but the idea that it has, or ever had, a molten core remained controversial. "People have been vociferously debating this for 30 years," Weiss said.
The magnetic field necessary to have magnetized this rock would have been about one-fiftieth as strong as Earth's is today, Weiss said. "This is consistent with dynamo theory," and also fits in with the prevailing theory that the moon was born when a Mars-sized body crashed into the Earth and blasted much of its crust into space, where it clumped together to form the moon.
The new finding underscores how much we still don't know about our nearest neighbor in space, which will soon be visited by humans once again under current NASA plans. "While humans have visited the moon six times, we have really only scratched the surface when it comes to our understanding of this world," said Garick-Bethell.
The research, which also included MIT undergraduate student Jennifer Buz and David L. Shuster of the Berkeley Geochronology Center, was funded by the NASA Lunar Advanced Science and Exploration Research Program, as well as the Charles E. Reed Faculty Initiatives Fund, the Victor P. Starr Career Development Professorship, and the Ann and Gordon Getty Foundation.
A version of this article appeared in MIT Tech Talk on February 4, 2009 (download PDF).
Vacation was ok. Went to a resort in West Virginia, just myself and Husband. For our anniversary mostly.Anniversary number 27! We stopped at Antique malls and shops along the way. Had fun doing that. It was cooler up in the mountains of West Virginia. One night we caught the full moon and went to a pond to lay back and watch it rise and light the sky up, and see a million stars shining brightly. It was a bit chilly that night. But it was awesome.We stayed at this resort for 4 days and 3 nights free of charge if we took their little tour. It was worth it to stay free!The place was nice, but I wouldn't want to live there! With gas prices this year, we couldn't afford to do much of anything. We used 1 tank there and 1/2 tank back. At filling my van up for $85 dollars a pop, that was expensive enough! We bought some antiques, but not a lot. We both were out of work for the whole week in July, and we traveled all over western North Carolina to some Antique malls we had been wanting to go to.
This a picture of the sun setting from our room at the resort through the woods.Nice.
Here's some of the full moon pictures. My camera didn't quite capture the best of
it!
I guess you need a faster lens to capture the fullness and brightness of it.My camera made it look tiny, and it was so huge!
Here's one of the moon in the sky and its reflection on the pond surface. It's pretty cool. Looks like two moons!
The other one is a close up I tried to do.
One morning in late July we got up on a Saturday morning and spied a deer in the back yard. Not unusual as we live in woods and woods surround us, and we live near the Yadkin River.Here's a couple pictures of it:
It wasn't afraid of our dog, and the dog was just sitting and watching it!
One Sunday in early August we went to Cracker Barrel to eat after church, and this strange car was in the parking lot! It had a license tag, so it was driven there! Check it out:
Pretty Cool hUH? People were in the parking lot and taking pictures of it left and right! So low to the ground! Low Rider!
Below here is a picture I took today, August 27th, on Lasater Rd, in Clemmons NC at the water wheel. The wheel wasn't turning because of the huge volume of water, it was awesome! The lake was overflowing the dam and the little bridge I was standing on was shaking as the water roared under it! I took a video too. Hope to get it posted soon! We about drowned today! Some areas got 12 plus inches of rain. We have about 7" in our rain gauge! Areas are under flood warnings and watches. We had tornadoes in the area also. My radio at work kept going off with the warnings and such this morning. It was raining very hard.
It's taking forever for the video to upload. I will post it tomorrow! For now I need to sign off! Will catch up some more tomorrow!
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