Important safety tip

GlitterGoddess introduced me to witches fingers. I managed to acquire one and -- well? Just so you know, don't pick up a witches' finger with a diamond ring on your hand. Not unless you want to make a tour of Universe in 0 to .1 seconds.

Good thing I was better grounded than I realized or might not have made it back!

Yeah.

As much as I tell myself that I will not give in to fibro, that's easier said then done. Fighting anything takes energy, and when you have none, it's a little difficult to resist anything attempting to drag you down. Add brain fog to that, and it's a 2-3 punch. Pain I can deal with. Stiffness is a piece of cake. Those things are nothing. No, it's the total lack of energy and cognitive impairment that is the worst. The funny things is, before my diagnosis, I would've thought nothing of it; I would've dismissed it all as lack of sleep. While the diagnosis has allowed me to escape paranoia over the onset of early senility, there is also a danger of it becoming a crutch. This I will not allow, or at least, I don't intend to allow. That being said, it's a little hard to get up the motivation when you have not one jot of ambition or energy. Fibromyalgia sucks you dry.

And yet, there are moments where it all doesn't matter.

Yesterday morning, when I raised my blinds, a caught a hummingbird kissing the blossoms of a Russian sage plant. The roses we transplanted last year and I was afraid we might have killed, were in full bloom. The snapdragons are enjoying their placement in the ground, and the blackberries appear to be heading for a bumper crop. Everything is alive out there. From crow to fox, turkey to hummingbird, eagle to deer to roses of burgundy velvet, life is thriving. That afternoon, thunderheads came rolling in, and the cool rain and the crack of thunder reminded me how magnificent Nature really is. The never ending cycles of birth, life, death and rebirth, the sheer tenacity of life and the instinct for survival -- in spite of all the terrible news of setbacks and bloodshed, that never changes. Life is good.

One ring to bind them in love

The Universe has provided me with an unexpected bounty. No, I didn't win the lottery; I wasn't really serious about that anyway. What it has done is come out from left field and threw an major amplifier in the form of a ring into my lap. No, I'm not getting married. I can't go into a lot of detail but suffice it say, I never for one moment expected this to happen. It involves a jewelry store going out of business, a major sale and holy rainbow unicorns, Batman, what a gobsmacking deal!

Why me?

Because obviously the Universe felt that I needed it. To explain this, I feel I must go back into time a bit and describe something that's been going on for close to a year now.

Sometime last Spring, I believe. I started to see a towering crystal full of light in my mind's eye, and when I say towering, I mean exactly that: a crystal the size of a six story tall building. Now, I had some clue as to where this crystal came from due to some past life work I did years ago that resulted in a lot of visions and a hell of a lot of confusion as well as emotional release. I knew this stone. Intimately. In spite of this, I tried not to think about it over much as it was upsetting. To see it whole again and glowing with light was quite a shock. The sight of it followed me throughout the day and into the night. Finally, I acknowledged that the vision was trying to tell me something and accepted the message it was giving me; using that light was also extremely comforting in times of stress. Soon, the image change. I was no longer standing on the outside of the stone, looking at it but inside it, surrounded by its light.

I realized that this light was not just meant for me, that somehow, I had to figure out a way to release it into the Earth, but beyond anchoring it into the planet, I had no idea what to do with it. I prayed hard about this, but as far as I know, I got no answer or at least one that I recognized as an answer the moment I got it. It was far more gradual then that.

I no longer see the crystal or the light, but I feel it deep inside my core. I can touch it whenever I want to.

Come this past March, I started hearing crickets whenever I went to sleep. Crickets are not around at this time of year, or at least they are not singing like they do in August. Obviously, Cricket was trying to tell me something. What? I have no idea at the moment, but I thought I'd throw that out there.

Then came the magnolia petal in the flowering plant, telling me to gather rose quartz and put it in the garden. I've had some success with that but believe it or not, it's very difficult to find plain, ordinary chunk rose quartz of a suitable size that has not been cut and polished. However, the magnolia tree is very happy about its stone and the rose quartz is happier then a pig in mud on a hot day to be outside.

After that, I had to cope with the idea of this toxic individual from my past moving into my horse's barn and destroying the peace that I found there. So far, I've been handling it well but that incident made me break out the two big laser wands I have in order to do a little aura cleansing; they are very good at that.

And now this ring -- good, holy God! I think the Universe is telling me it wants me to further my investigation of gemstones. Furthermore, it has another task in hand. After I got the ring, I had a vision of holding up one of the big laser wants in my left hand, the ring on my left ring finger. Then it switched, the same image only with the right hand. I finally realized what that meant: the ring and the laser wand are to enable me to pull in energy, transform it and send it out. The rose quartz in the garden pointed out that the Earth needs love; to counteract the negativity and fear that rules our lives with the light of pure love.

The ring is not a luxury but a tool. Obviously, the Universe feels I can do this task. I hope I do not disappoint it.