
According to crystal healers and New Age believers, crystal and gem healing is an art and practice, done on a metaphysical level, that is being rediscovered because of the power of the earth's energies that have been absorbed by these sacred objects that, in turn, inherit vital healing powers used to heal many types of ailments. They believe that crystals have physical, spiritual, spirit, crystal energy, tranquility, spiritual awareness, zodiac, powers that can be used for Eastern Medicine treatment of everything from pain, stress, depression, therapy and feeling in the Mind, Spirit and Body.
Mental Healing: Onyx has served as a worry stone and material for rosary beads for centuries. Crystal healers believe that it has the ability to soothe fears and worries, to control to overwhelming emotions. They say it can help a person maintain a positive outlook while awaiting the result of a source of anxiety. They also recommend it for improving concentration and devotion, calming sexual tension and ending marital disputes.
Physical Healing: New Agers use Onyx for treating glaucoma, epilepsy, hearing problems, heart trouble, ulcers and cell damage. They also recommend it for athletes, who should wear it on a necklace that reaches the Solar Plexus to increase vigor, strength and stamina. It also works on the structural and epidermal systems including bones and teeth, bone marrow and aching feet, and soft-tissues fingernails, skin and hair.
Symbols: There are many associations in Astrological symbols and symbolism of Astrology, Ayurvedic, Hindu Astrology, Lucky Charms that are associated with gemstone or crystals, crystal healing, spiritualism, new Age, gems, minerals, mining, spirits vibrations and Chakra, as well as mystical numerology and psychic supernatural investigations. It is rare in Cherokee, Medium but is elegant and found often in crucifixes.
Birthstone
February
Shaman Birthstone
Scorpio
Astrological Birthstone
Capricorn or Leo
Planetary Astrology
Mars or Saturn
Elemental Symbolism
Fire elemental
Numerology
6
Roman Astrology
July
Marriage
The 7th year anniversary
Time of Day
Onyx symbolizes the midnight hour.
Names
Onyx is beneficial for men named Oliver.
Dreams: Some Gemstones, gems, crystals and minerals have been believed to be a sleep aide, to have an effect on dreams, sleeping, dreaming, insomnia, sleeplessness, nightmares, foretelling, rest, resting, psychic development, consciousness and mental energy. Others have been said to work in the unconscious mind and the spiritual plane and seem to bring mental, ESP, emotional, physical, sleep transition, soothing to the spirit and can sometimes stop sleep disorders such as Sleep Apnea, snoring, tossing and turning, stress relief, energy, disturbed sleep or sleep walking.
Onyx is one of the few stones to which many sleeping and dreaming myths refer. Spiritualists believe that when worn by people with exceptional Extra Sensory Perception (ESP), their dreams will be frightful but if the wearer is able to keep himself or herself from becoming too frightened, the dreams will reveal secrets of the future. These nightmares can lead to a deep melancholy in weak individuals. One myth says that reaming of Onyx heralds happiness in marriage.
Mythology: The ancient mythology beliefs, crystal mythology, and references to crystals, minerals, metals, semi-precious stones and rocks in Greek, Roman, Native American, and Egyptian Mythology are many. There are also Mineral Legends, mining folklore, heroes in mining, myths about jewelry, stories of buried treasure, Vedic Myths, and more.
There is an ancient Greek myth behind the origin of the word Onyx or onux, the Greek word for fingernail. The legend says that Eros (Cupid) clipped the goddess Venus’ fingernails while she was sleeping and scattered them on the beaches of the Earth. Seeing what had transpired, the fates turned the fingernails to stone. These stones became the chalcedony stones that the Greeks called Onyx. Centuries later, the Romans applied the term to black and dark brown chalcedony.
Spirituality: For those who follow the Wicca, New Age or believe in the Spirit World, Crystals, Minerals, Rocks, Semi-Precious Stones and metals can have powers for Astral Travel, Aura Cleansing, Channeling, Cosmic Awareness, Crystal Healing, ESP, Meditation, Psychic Communication, Psychic Energy and Transcendental Meditation. They also believe a crystal can have crystal magic that gives it the ability to connect to spirits, spirit guides, spiritual energy and help with channeling spirits and increase cosmic awareness.
With its powers effective in all Chakras, Onyx is a very spiritual stone. Its primary function for spiritualists is as a grounding stone that strengthens the connection of the person with the earth during meditation and astral travel to provide guidance. They also say that it can make powerful memorial jewelry that can heal the spirit during mourning. It is in tune with the Earth’s energies, balances Yin and Yang, but does not respond well to energy programming.
Protection-The spiritualists believe it can protect against venomous snake and insect bites, divine the future through dreams and offer general protection in times of conflict. It is a defensive magick stone.
Hebrew- Onyx was one of the twelve stones in the Hebrew High Priest Aaron’s breastplate. It is associated with the Gad Tribe of Israel and the guardian angel Gabriel. Onyx is also the Hebrew stone for July.
Vibration-#7 vibration
Onyx is found worldwide in large and small deposits. Important locales include Mexico in the state of Oaxaca. Other deposits exist in Brazil, Madagascar, India, Algeria and Pakistan.
SYMPTOMS OF LOVE
Love is a universal migraine,
A bright stain on the vision
Blotting out reason.
Symptoms of true love
Are leaness, jealousy,
Laggard dawns;
Are omens and nightmares-
Listening for a knock,
Waiting for a sign:
For a touch of her fingers
In a darkened room,
For a searching look.
Take courage, lover!
Could you endure such grief
At any hand but hers?
-Robert Graves (1895-1985)
We have all head of the Mayan Calendar coming to an end in 2012. That the earth will align with the rest of the solar system, something that only occurs around every 5,000 years. Now Hollywood is cashing in on the big idea. And cashing in BIG. But just ask NASA, a blue ribbon organization who has been studying our sky with the most advanced technology on our blue planet and they will project otherwise.
My favorite celebrity Stylist, April Steiner, says sequins are all the rave for Holiday 2009. Looking around I see H&M 's new Jimmy Choo line with oversized sequin tanks and celebrities on the red carpet like Lindsey Lohan and Jennifer Lopez all wearing sequins this season. Does sequin ever really go out of style? if you are a vintage lover, try your local vintage stores, great ones in Los Angeles are Wasteland and Crossroads (off Melrose Ave). I found the most amazing black all sequin tank top a few years ago and it has worked every winter with jeans and heels. Another great way to find amazing sequin finds is your mother's or grandmother's closet. Look for an oversized sequin blouse or a fitted jacket, belts, gloves with sequin at the wrists. The possibilities are endless!

From fashion saint to guido godess. Style enthusiasts can't get enough talk about Lady GaGa. One minute shes in a Kermit the frog get-up in a german televison studio, then next she's wrapped in leotards on Miami Beach for her V magazine shoot. The New York native formerly known as Stefani Joanna Angelina Germanotta flaunts the cover of this month's Flare Magazine spouting :
“I went through periods where I was very sexy, then I became a hippie girl with ripped jeans and then went into a leopard tights and leotards phase… which I’m still in,” she laughs quietly. “Fashion saved my life,” she later admits. “When I was young, I was laughed at in school because I dressed dramatically.”
Being a girl who can relate to dramatic dresssing, I'm impressed by the 23-year old's sense of couture meets pop artist and I love that she is waiting to start her own line right away...
“At some point, I will,” she says. “Right now, I’m more concerned with using my fame to promote young designers such as Gary Card, an artist who designed a piece I used on stage.”
Go Gaga!
BreakThrough Trailer from Michal Abney on Vimeo.
BreakThrough: Film Project Proposal
By Michal Abney
BreakThrough: Ordinary People Having ExtraOrdinary Conversations
Director: Michal Abney
Camera: Mike Chesworth
Sound: Mike Chesworth
Editor: ReInvented Media
Producers: Becky Schoenig
Writers: Michal Abney
Maria Benning
1. Working Hypothesis
Dictionary.com defines breakthrough as: any significant or sudden advance, development, achievement, or increase…that removes a barrier to progress. Our film by the same name, BreakThrough, will weave through a tapestry of interview subjects who have created opportunities for many others to remove barriers to personal happiness and peace.
Dr. Wayne Dyer has said: “When you change the way you are looking at something, the something that you are looking at changes.” Each of the individuals interviewed in our film has helped others to question their seeming reality, to realize that all is not as it appears, to understand that there is a way out of pain and suffering, and to break through stuck patterns of behavior and thinking by sharing processes and insights which affect true and lasting change.
Director Michal Abney serves as the interviewer, leading ordinary people through a set of extraordinary conversations. Deeply impacted by his own personal journey of pain and limitation into healing, and recognizing that he was assisted by a number of mentors and teachers along the way, he and the film’s team offer concrete glimpses into the stories of teachers who have successfully helped others break through to the other side.
Each mentor being interviewed shares commonalities they see in the individuals they work with, and what happens to their lives after they apply the processes and take the actions that are recommended. For example, many people have experienced the frustration of leaving a bad relationship only to find that they have recreated strikingly similar dynamics in the next one. Insights are given into how to do things differently in a healthier, more aware manner, so that what is lacking in an individual is healed. Now, instead of attracting partners based on what is missing and seeking fulfillment in another (which can only result in pain), the possibility is created for a joining of equal partners who realize that they are complete, in and of themselves.
Borrowing from (among others) eastern philosophies about karma (life lessons) and dharma (life’s purpose), BreakThrough is about freedom from pain. Illustrated beautifully by Mariane Parisi, one of the film’s interview subjects, the conversation between her and the director reveals ways in which a person can safely and fully release from pain so that is it never recreated.
Encompassed within the ten hours of footage already in the can, Michal Abney allows himself to be led through a number of different processes and reveals, on camera, how easily it is to be freed from past limitations through the gentle guidance of a trusted teacher.
love is the most powerful and still the most unknown energy of the world
Chardin.
Find a Queen without a King, they say she plays guitar and cry's and sings...

There is that nothing one says that is Unique. It's the package that is Unique.
chinese proverb
You know how it feels to put on a piece of super soft cotton and angora and have that feeling good vibe. The JAMES PERSE WOMEN Black RIBBED COWL NECK TOP Blouse insights that feeling. Having had purchased this top in an earlier version, I am amazed at how I pull this out every winter and find new ways to incorporate it into my personal style. Have fun and share the love.
4 days ago...on Oct 27... at 1:26pm:
"Angel Alley" (with Revelry by Kings of Leon on)
The city streets call you
Lights stay up all night
Girl forget to be
Boy your lost in the light
As haze in darkness
turns to thick smoke
do you hear the whisper
Of your fears that joke
It's been long time comin'
Your real dreams last
the hum of guitars strummin'
Sounds of lover's past
The debt of rhapsody
do we all die in vain
Leaves capture me
I call my peeps
I can't hear a sound
Of the hummingbirds singing
They usually hum so loud
I wake up from my dream
It's a quater past five
It's the dawn of the century
We've already survived
Cars block the way
Trees line the way
Smoke drifts away
Buy your here to stay
Callin' out to ya girl
I'm gonna be lazy
cause I'm so glad your home
Jimmy Choo and the Elton John AIDS Foundation have launched the Project PEP collection to support the Simelela Rape Centre.
Help raise awareness for this worthy cause by entering our photo competition. Upload a photo based on the theme 'You, Your Shoes and 72'. You could win exclusive prizes and have your work exhibited at the Project PEP launch event at Selfridges London at the end of October.
Getting ready for winter requires comfy pieces that withstand the chill factor. This
JAMES PERSE WOMEN Olympic HOODED A-LINE FLEECE DRESS is my favorite winter dress for the week. Hooded, comfortable, and A-line! Wear this dress with your favorite fishnet tights and knee high boots and be warm in style!

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you anywhere.
Albert Einstein
The idealists and visionaries, foolish enough to throw caution to the winds and express their ardor and faith in some supreme deed, have advanced mankind and have enriched the world.
-Emma Goldman, social activist (1869-1940)