Crystal for the month of June – Moonstone

Here in the northern hemisphere, June 21^st is the Summer Solstice and for this reason Moonstone has been chosen to be the crystal for the month for June.

The ancient word Solstice comes from the Latin term ‘sun stood still’ as at this time of year the sun sets and rises at the same time and what looks like the exact same place. Summer solstice can also be known as ‘midsummer’.

This special date is celebrated yearly to mark when the sun is at its most northern point in relation to the equator and shines from its farthest place from the earth.

The pineal gland which controls some of the body’s internal systems can be upset by the changes, the sun is going through, at this time of year and for this reason Moonstone will be a great help.

When the pineal gland is affected in any way it becomes increasingly sensitive to the differing light levels and the body can experience dips in energy and imbalances to both the  hormones and emotions.

Moonstone is known as the ‘stone of new beginnings’ and provides the body with a sustaining force whilst promoting new growth. It works to fully utilise the body’s natural cycles and balance and counter balance phases of energy depletion as they occur. Moonstone stimulates the properties of rejuvenation and can alleviate many degenerative conditions.

Carrying a piece of Moonstone will allow it to alleviate any emotional instability and stress you may be experiencing.

All crystal collections should include Moonstone as it is so versatile, should you find that you require a piece then they are available at a reasonable price from the Centre.

If you would like to enjoy the benefits of a personal one to one crystal healing then please contact Peta Gelder on 07736929614 or email healthful.healing@yahoo.co.uk

All of Peta’s healings come highly recommended, as they are beneficial, uplifting, rejuvenating and de-stressing

Spread your wings with Metamorphic Technique – workshop coming up

One of my favourite things is Metamorphic Technique. Receiving it, sharing it, practising it and teaching it.

So what is it and why do I love it? Well it simply involves a very light touch on the feet, hands and the head while you simply relax back or choose to talk, listen to music or whatever feels right for you. Choosing what feels right for you is at its very essence because it is an approach which honours the life force within each and every one of us as having the greatest wisdom about our own unfolding life.

A caterpillar instinctively responds to an inner impulse to create a cocoon and emerge as a beautiful butterfly at the right time. It knows that is what it was born to be. So our own life energy has an inner knowing too – if we choose to listen and respond. Yet we live in a world where we can deafen our ears to those inner promptings, try to use our clever logic to figure everything out, compare ourselves to others, push against the river and dull ourselves to our own magnificence.

To me having Metamorphic Technique is like an exquisite surrender to trusting that there is a deeper force within me that knows best where my true path lies and can lead me to those actions, those experiences, those situations which take me there. This may sound passive but it is not. I become more creative, more authentic, more happy in my own skin, in a nutshell more me. And most importantly it is easy. No long pathologising or analysing, no efforting to understand and control. Just the openness to step into the river of my life and let the water move me rather than to swim frantically against the current.

In my own case, Metamorphic sessions made me more decisive, prompted me to return to my native Yorkshire after 33 years away, moved my work in more fulfilling directions, opened my heart to love and helped me more courageous and trusting. Not bad for just lying back and having your feet, hands and head gently stroked.

Metamorphic Technique is so gentle it can be used on the youngest baby right through to the frailest person with everybody in between and also on animals who generally love it. The only pre-requisite is that person is open to receiving it. Women who received sessions of MT during pregnancy have reported easier childbirths, many people have reported feeling more directed and creative, and it is a wonderful technique to share in a family.  Parents of children with learning difficulties have reported their child becoming happier and more confident… the list goes on because each person is an individual and opens up in their own personal way.

If you want to learn more then go to my Metamorphic page on my website or the Metamorphic Association’s website or better still come along to my Metamorphic Technique workshop on Sat 30 June/Sun 1st July 1at the Happiness Centre in Ilkley. Click here for more details or call me on 07939118136 and spread your wings. This workshop is very practical and enjoyable and you’ll have the opportunity to give and receive sessions of Metamorphic Technique and go off and share it with the world.

There’s Got to be some meaning in this ‘coincidence’

Last night I wrote a blog about the meaning of a Grand Trine in your birth chart, and I said that Grand Trines point to some wonderful finished talent, but that you have to work hard to develop them otherwise they become a ruined crop even criminal, and that multiple Grand Trines in the birth chart are particularly dangerous. And I looked at having a Grand Trine in Earth signs, and how that has a danger of living in an unreal fantasy world of your own creation (see:http://wp.me/p179Ad-9t).
Fifteen minutes later, by some strange coincidence, I watched the BBC film on the horrific life of the Poet, Lord Byron – and was amazed to discover this morning that he has – yes: multiple Grand Trines in Air Signs (and also a T-square which I also blogged about last night)!!! I was left horrified at his life: father died when he was three, nurse abused him when he was nine, his life a horrifying run of multiple sexual relationships and scandals including incest with his sister, the only child he loved dying in infancy, his very decent wife defiled, so that in the end the only thing he felt he could trust in his life was his faithful dog to whom he erected a monument in Newstead Abbey his ancestral seat. And he died on 19th April 1824 aged 36, in a pointless grand gesture leading a ragtag of Greek Mercenaries in the horrifyingly brutal war the Greeks were waging to throw off the oppression of their Turkish oppressors. I felt the main value of sitting through so nightmare a film was salutary: to live one’s life not like that, to treat people well not as unreal figures drifting through the untamed torrents of one’s psychodramas. I wondered what might have been his best potential and his best spiritual pinnacle had he lived long enough to be healed, and had there been a decent spiritual path to achieve healing of such a destiny in England in those times. Below is his birth chart: 22.1.1788, 14.00, London (Source: Astrodatabank, which is a good source).

You can clearly see the multiple Grand Trines in Air which alerted me to a strange ‘coincidence’ running.

And here is his Vedic birth chart: Just one point, note that his Jupiter is now being transited by retrograde Venus which is one of the many planets being caught up in the four eclipses of 2012, including the upcoming Lunar Eclipse of 4th June 2012, where, again, the Greek state is in meltdown!!!!

Michael Conneely is the Astrologer at the Ilkley Happiness Centre. Contact me for astrology readings: birth chart, prediction and relationship, and to enrol on my courses at www.starwheel.co.uk, email Michael@starwheel.co.uk and phone: 07799296821.

Ladybirds for Kyle arrive at The Happiness Centre from the beach

 

A collection of the 200 love bugs on sale at the Happiness Centre

WE are very excited to announce The Happiness Centre has just taken delivery of 200 “love bugs” which will go on sale to raise money for a children’s hospice.

The brightly painted pebbles come in a variety of sizes, from tiny portable mementos, to large garden-dwellers or paperweights.

The pebbles have been painted in memory of 16-year old Kyle Rees from Bournemouth. Kyle’s story hit the national headlines in February after being fatally injured in a freak accident at school when he was hit with a cricket ball. Kyle’s mum, Tanya, is a close friend of Kimm’s daughter India, who has asked us to help in raising money in memory of her son.

Tanya collects the pebbles from the local beaches and hand paints each one into a lady bird. She has put many of the stones in her garden and calls them Kyle’s “rasta bugs”. She says that she can feel Kyle with her while she paints them and knows that he would be proud of how much money she has raised to help other young children. She said that she is overwhelmed by the response of people to the ladybirds and has already sold several hundred of them.

It is well-known that Kimm spends a lot of time on the beaches of Dorset collecting shells and heart-shaped stones from the beach, which many of you have been in receipt of. While Kimm has had many requests for more heart-stones, she has decided to bring back the love bugs instead. The pebbles are symbols of love and remembrance, and their brightness and colour is reflective of Kyle’s personality. Tanya hopes that the love bugs will bring a smile to people’s faces, just as Kyle did. She wants everyone to know about her “wonderful son” and wants to share the love that she will always have for him as well as reminding us all of how precious life is and how quickly it can be taken from us.

Tanya is donating all the money raised from the sale of the love bugs to Julia’s House, which is a hospice dedicated to caring for around 100 children (and their families) with life-limiting conditions.

Profits and funds raised by the Happiness Centre are spread throughout the world via Kimm’s Helping Hand Fund. Recipients include the on-going support and education of deprived children in Peru to sponsoring orphans in Nepal through the MySmallHelp charity to tennis lessons for a young local boy with cerebral palsy to the purchasing of a horse called Denzel for a disabled riding-group.

Tanya’s son Kyle

The love bugs are on sale from the Happiness Centre from £1 and Kimm is also asking for people to take more to sell to friends and family to help raise more funds and support Tanya who is using this project to help her through the tragedy of losing her son.

For more information about The Ilkley Happiness Centre, please e-mail: info@ilkleyhappinesscentre.com or visit our website http://www.ilkleyhappinesscentre.com or our Facebook page.

For more information about Julia’s House, visit http://www.juliashouse.org

NEW Earth Spirituality Event

This beautiful, inspiring and empowering event will be held on the Land Sunday 22nd July 2012 midday til evening.
It is the first of an ongoing series to honour the seasons and the land – a series of Sunday Events to celebrate the Eight Great Festivals and hold Sacred Sweat Lodge Ceremonies. Always, there will also be healings, massages and readings available on the site, many at taster prices.
The Eight Great Festivals are the festivals of ancient Northern Europe, sacred events to honour our connection to the Earth and the stars and our ancestors.
Sacred Sweat Lodge is offered following Apprenticeship in the Insipid Native American Indian Tradition and we honour our heritage. Sweat Lodge is the most powerful personal and spiritual transformation.
The Ilkley Happiness Centre’s Earth Spirituality program is being offered by Paula Malone, who also offers Shamanic Healing and counselling, and is a specialist worker and advisor for individuals and families with mental health issues. Paula will be offering a range of readings and healings at taster prices at the Earth Spirituality Events.
The group includes Magda Nel Wenek who spent ten years living close to the Earth in a forest in Poland and whose paintings and spiritual clothes designs are breathtakingly beautiful and who offers spiritual dance and drumming and sensitive dance sessions at the Ilkley Happiness Centre, Magda’s husband Martin who plays didgeridoo, Maggie Pashley who will also be offering a range of healings such as EFT, emotion code, reiki, metamorphic technique, reflexology and mini-massage.
To book: contact Michael Email: michael@starwheel.co.uk   Tel: 07799296821.

The Eclipse of June 4th 2012

The Eclipse of June 4^th 2012

Here is the Vedic astrology chart for the second eclipse of 2012, the Lunar Eclipse of 4th June 2012, 11.11hrs.

(The Western astrology chart of the June 4^th Eclipse is below.)

The Full Moon is in sidereal (Vedic) Scorpio for this eclipse. This full Moon cycle actually started, as is always the case, in the sign opposite: the New Moon in Taurus.

So we now have upcoming Full Moon eclipsed in Taurus – Scorpio. The Moon is debilitated in sidereal Scorpio , because Scorpio is the resistant sign of aggressive Mars-ruled restless conflicted driven clutching energies covering deep held and maybe intractable even denied phobias and fears: the depths of the fixed water element.
Basically Scorpio tries to protect himself emotionally rather than heal and recognise the held painful fears, so Scorpio therefore becomes negative and vindictive: a torturer.
Scorpio is opposite Taurus. Scorpio fears and knows that the solid structures can die.
This eclipse will be hard if you have planets in sidereal Taurus (where the eclipse Sun is) or planets or Ascendant in sidereal Scorpio (where the eclipse Moon is).
Eclipses are about undamming stuck or held energies. They are of course definitely associated with earthquakes and tidal waves at the Earth level.
N.B. They affect individuals depending on where the individual has planets in his natal chart and indeed which planet the eclipse falls on: if its Jupiter or Venus, the eclipse can have favourable effects. If it’s a good house of someone’s natal chart that the eclipse falls in, then the effects can be positive liberation and undamming: the eclipse in someone’s 11^th house. If it’s the 8^th House the eclipse falls in in your chart, this can be terrible y destructive. If your ascendant is eclipsed, this is traditionally said to mean harsh impact. Scorpio fears the worst and attacks accordingly!!!!

The Moon’s nature is changeability so this tears at Scorpio’s fixity.

It is right that our  Moon nature experiences feelings, because that is one of the way we experience our environment and learn to evaluate it, our emotions are very much needed if we are to live, feel and grow.

But the call is to ‘manage’ our emotions. This does NOT mean deny our emotions, it means we have to learn to be able to control them.

I feel my upbringing meant that I could not know what I actually felt for years, then I began to become able to get in touch with them – but now the challenge is to be able to appropriately control them as well.

Of course we are also called to know what lies in the depths of our consciousness, beneath the surface currents, waves and tidal waves of feelings, because this subconscious material is so often surfacing so as to manifest as feelings, the real origin and nature of which are often not recognised or not understood, od denied or projected on to others.
The unconscious does need to become conscious and then healed so that we can be in charge of our destiny.

Meditation and ritual can of course stabilise the emotions. Shamanic Journeying can raise material from the depth, but if we simply suffer the uprising emotions without recognising their source, we can rage or become depressed or ‘project’ onto others.

Scorpio individuals (e.g. Moon, Sun or Ascendant in sidereal Scorpio) are of course famed for turning relationships in to a hell realm, but remember: although the lower Scorpio is the sign of the scorpion, the sign of the higher Scorpio is the eagle. We are called to become the eagle and leave behind the stinging Scorpio. The eagle soars above the murky and seething ground level phenomena. The true divine nature of the Scorpio Moon is actually devotion and focus. Scorpio at its highest penetrates illusions of human society, relationships and economy so as to bring out what is more truly real.

Note that the Eclipse of June 4^th is the second of the four eclipses of 2012, all of which massively activate the sidereal sign of Taurus (Fixed Earth) , which is the sign of the body, materialism and value. Here are the eclipse dates:

Eclipses 2012.

(Times are approx and geographically vary; charts for these appear below)

Solar Eclipse    20.5.12   at   23.47 hrs   at  6 Taurus (western 0 deg Gemini)

Lunar Eclipse    4.6.12     at 11.11 hrs 21 Scorpio (western 14 Sag)

Solar Eclipse    13.11.12 at 22.8 hrs at 28 Libra (western 21 Scorpio)

Lunar Eclipse  28.11.12 at 14.46 at 12 Taurus (western 6 Gemini)

A huge concentration of planets has just formed in the sidereal sign of Taurus. It started around the first of the eclipses on May 20^th. I know one woman who has her Sun at the end of sidereal Taurus (a western Gemini Sun) who had a stroke on the afternoon of the eclipse. I know a couple of people whose mothers went through tough mental or physical episodes when the eclipse hit those person’s natal Moons.

The upcoming, second, June 4^th eclipse occurs after the usual difficult eight day a month period when the Moon transits over three malefic planets in a row: Mars, Saturn and Rahu (North Node), an eight day occurrence that happens once every lunar month for much of this year. The present upcoming 8-day period that precedes the June 4^th eclipse starts 30.5.12. This eight day period can, of course, cause great mental irritation, restriction and torsion for those people who have relevant planets in the range of sidereal signs: Leo, Virgo, Libra and Scorpio. Other people won’t be so problematically affected.

The Moon is in Libra before the eclipse, so lots of relationship issue will rise. Try to work through them positively and gently!!! There will be a big energy here, because of course, Libra is ruled by Venus, which also rules Taurus where the eclipse is, AND VENUS IS RETROGRADE until the end of June, in the sign of Taurus, so this retrogradation will be powerful (Venus retrograde in own sign) and RETROGRADE VENUS MAKES US CRITICAL OF OUR RELATIONSHIPS.

So we need to be very careful about the way we manage our feelings at the time of this lunar eclipse and the preceding eight day period. Because its’ a full Moon, a Lunar Eclipse  its effects will be felt pretty well instantaneously, as opposed to the often slower acting consequences of the first (New Moon) Solar Eclipse on May 20^th. Rahu, the north Node, conjuncts the Moon at a Full Moon, and remember Rahu’s nature is obsessive torsion, full of hidden or unreal fears and mass events. The problem is that Rahu and Scorpio BOTH have a quality of imagined fears: so beware imagined fears!!!

THE ISSUE OF VALUE WILL ARISE FOR INDIVIDUALS AND FOR NATIONS, BECAUSE THERE ARE FIVE PLANETS AT ONE END OF THE ECLIPSE IN SIDEREAL TAURUS. But – Ketu (South Node) is in Taurus dissolving things: dissolving them for a spiritual purpose, and then at the other end of the eclipse is the furies of Rahu and Moon eclipsing in Taurus. The issue of value will arise. At the personal level: Do we undervalue ourselves? At the National level: Is wealth divided wrongly in our nation. Is the wealth of our nation real or illusory paper money or based on unreal property values? Spiritually: Are we pursuing illusory things that have no real value to us? Are we being greedy?

Lastly we need to note that the lunar sign or Nakshatra that the eclipsed Moon falls in is Jyestha. Jyestha is a very sharp energy. It’s ruled by Indra and is about conquering and leadership. It’s angry and controlling but can hold a family or organisation together.

Contact Michael for astrology readings: birth chart, prediction and relationship, and to enrol on Michael’s courses at www.starwheel.co.uk, email Michael@starwheel.co.uk or  phone: 07799296821.

Here is the western astrology chart of the 4^th June 2012 eclipse:

The Vedic Astrology of Love and Relationships

The Vedic Astrology of love and relationships is sure and declarative. It is a great blessing and help to have this information.
Vedic Love Astrology compares the Moon Sign the man’s Moon falls in in his natal chart with the Moon sign the woman’s Moon falls in in her natal chart. It uses an ancient, magical and powerful 27-sign Lunar Zodiac to make this comparison.
In this YouTube video, Ilkley Happiness Centre Astrologer, Michael Conneely, presents the fifteen basic factors which are assessed to give this clear statement.
It is far superior to the western astrology of relationships which tends to be long lists of aspects between planets where no one can see the wood for the trees.
See this four-part Video:
Part 1: Introduction   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K1YYmO2mGeo
Part 2: The Relationship Assessment Points:   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5gMCPnVTlo
Part 3: Case Study   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mqJAJpga8qA
Part 4: Case Study contd.   http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uJGNVA49wlQ

Here’s a summary of the Factors used:

The Vedic Astrology Relationship Assessment Criteria:

 1. RESPECT  Strii Diirgha                                                          Yes/No

 2. EXCESS  Nadi Kuta                                                                8

 3. CONSTRUCTIVISM Bha Kuta                                             7

 4. TEMPERAMENT  Gana Kuta                                              6

 5. FRIENDLINESS  Graha Mitram Kuta                       6

 6. INSTINCTIVE COMPATIBILITY  Yoni Kuta                   4

 7. COMFORT  Tara Kuta                                                 3

 8. INNATE GIVING  Vasya Kuta                                              2

 9. MUTATION  Varna Kuta                                                       1

 10. TOTAL WAVELENGTH  ASHTA KUTA                        36

 BENEFICIAL SUPPLEMENTS

 11. INNATE SENSE OF PURPOSE  Mahendra           Yes/No

 12. MAGNETIC ATTRACTION  Vasya                                   Yes/No

 DOWNFALLS:

 13. OBSTACLES  Vedha Dosha                                                Yes/No

 14. MISFORTUNES  Rajju Dosha                                             Yes/No

 15. ASSERTIVE PRESSURE  Kuja Dosha                             Assess

Contact Michael for astrology readings: birth chart, prediction and relationship, and to enrol on Michael’s courses at www.starwheel.co.uk, email Michael@starwheel.co.uk  or  phone: 07799296821.