Humans have used plants and their oils for healing for many thousands of years, and it's from this tradition that the use of aromatic plant compounds in medicine began.

Documented use of aromatic plants dates back to near 4500 B.C., though it was in the hands of the ancient Egyptians that the use of oils and plant aromatics were truly developed. Oils were used in the embalming process, in medicine and in purification rituals. In 1922, when King Tut's tomb was opened, 50 alabast ... Read More

This morning I ran across this post on the Keen forum from another Keen Advisor (MadameSunrise) and wanted to share it with everyone in the community because it made me really review how grateful or not grateful have I become!  I immediately went to my Gratitude Journal to make an entry. I hope it resonates with you as much as it did me.

This is one of the nicest e-mails I have seen
 and is so true:

I dreamt that I went to Heaven ... Read More

Have you ever been overly critical about yourself? Not liking what you see in the mirror, thinking about going on a diet, not liking your image, etc.  Do you entertain thoughts like "I don't like what I look like", "I hate who I am" for example.  These thoughts are all too common, and they imply that there are more than one identity involved.  There is the "you" who is looking and the "you" who you do not like.  To put it a better way there is "the  judging you" and t ... Read More

Recently while discussing numerology and the metaphysical  with friends a discussion came up regarding the Seven Principles of Life or the "Hermetic Laws".  I was surprised that many had not heard about these principles and how they were applied in life.

What are these "secrets" to Life,  to healing,  to mind-over-matter, or for that matter, to free energy?  What is the relationship between them, and how can they be interprete ... Read More

Reading the Aura

Many of my clients have asked me to define what their aura looks like and what it means.  I thought I would touch briefly on this subject and perhaps we can follow up later with more in depth study from those of you who read and study Auric fields.

To define what an aura is in brevity is to simply say it is an energy field that surrounds everyone.  It is of course many different energy fields and di ... Read More