Blog — purple

Amethyst And The Meaning Of Purple Violet is the name of the shortest lightwave visible to our eyes, while purple refers to the color made by mixing blue and red.  For purposes of this blog, I will use violet and purple interchangeably as their essence and vibrations are so similar. Imagine discovering a cave where the walls are covered with sparkling amethyst crystals.  From the tiniest crystals that resemble purple sugar to huge seven-sided crystals as large as an average person, humans have had a love affair with amethyst.  Across the world, amethyst has long been worn by royalty, reserved for those who occupy...

Where Science and Spirit Meet I have always loved rainbows.  The movie, Pollyanna, staring Haley Mills, featured a scene of a bedridden woman whose bedroom was filled with rainbows thanks to the crystals taken off her chandelier and strung across the windows.  Each day at the same time, the whole room was filled with rainbows, and the bedridden woman eventually found her way back to a happier, healthier place.  It turned out she was so emotionally upset that she'd become unable to function, but being bathed in the pure light from prisms gave her a clarity about living her life...

Light waves and Chakras Some years ago, I herniated a disc in my lower back.  I was given a prescription medication for pain, but the side effects were so severe I could not take it.  I ended up trying acupuncture, which made me feel  uncommunicative and very withdrawn (not my normal state).  While I didn't find the acupuncture especially helpful for my back- sorry, but I'm being honest here, my acupuncturist added something to my treatment that was most extraordinary.  In fact, it affected so greatly that I still remember it many years later in vivid detail. Bathed in Color...

New to our collection of gemstones is spiny oyster shell.  This shell, which is a cousin to a scallop, has long been prized, not for it's taste, but for it's colorful shell.  As is the case for all things that come from our oceans, it is getting more rare to find.  Not only that, but it is covered with thorns or spines that stick out all over the shell and harvesting is a tricky business.  Spondylus, which the scientific name for spiny oyster, means "thorns on the back" and is an apt name for this exquisite product of Mother Nature....