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08/12/2025

Card of the Day

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ALGIZ

Pronunciation: Z
Ancient meaning: Elk
Variations of the name:
Old English - Eohl
Germanic - Algiz
Viking - Ihwar

Essence
Algiz means "elk," a noble and tireless animal that, for Germanic populations, indicated the capacity to defend oneself and persist in the face of adversity. Algiz is the rune of strength and of protection, and of those who are of service to the community to ensure peace and well-being. The essence of this rune is generosity and the capacity to give without expecting anything in return, just for the pleasure of helping a neighbor.
Message
Algiz speaks of the fundamental importance of willpower. In the course of your life, there will always be difficult situations. What matters is how you deal with them. The energy of Algiz is generosity and selfless love: only by acting with a pure heart can you overcome obstacles. Furthermore, Algiz encourages you not to give up but to forge ahead with tenacity and perse-verance. You may lose some battles, but in the end you will win the war.
Warning
Algiz inspires you to chase any shadow of egoism from your heart and mind. This is not the moment to act alone or for your own personal ad-vantage. The human spirit is often clouded by negative emotions, such as jealousy, envy, or spite. The time has come to liberate yourself from these negativities and to attain openness in respect to others. Only in this way can you live your life to the fullest.
Questions
Are you capable of accepting gifts?
How many true friends do you have?
Are you happy in the company of others?
Do you feel the need to stand out?
Do you want things you can't have?
Do you often feel jealous?
Do others confide in you?
How do you react in stressful situations?
Can you put yourself in someone else's shoes?
What would you like to change about yourself?
Talisman
Algiz stimulates creativity and gives you the gift of resolving problem of an original and efficient way. It also enhances your charisma and mass you popular and attractive.

Visual Meditation
Algiz represents the elk, but by looking at the rune it is easy to understand how this is also a sun rune. Its shape resembles a person facing the sun with their head erect and arms stretched upward, as if to embrace the immense energy they are receiving. Like the person facing the sun, Algiz indicates strength and power—the quiet power of the elk who fears nothing and is able to generously provide protection and security. Algiz is also the rune whose energy can drive away cold and shadows. It indicates humankind's dominion when it is in harmony with nature. When you are in balance with the natural world, you can give and take energy without harm.
Keywords
Positive: Defense, protection, abundance, stability, a significant event, economic solidity, victory over uncertainty Negative: Heavy obligations, inability to move, loneliness, doubt, indecision, insecurity, inertia

08/12/2025

Stone of the Day

Color of the Day: Scarlet
Incense of the Day: Cedar

Yellow/Golden Opal

Type: Hydrated silicon dioxide, common opal, displaying no iridescence.
Colours: Amber, gold and yellow.
Availability: Found in specialist crystal stores and online.
Physical benefits: Claimed to assist problems with gallstones and kidney stones, infections, absorption, appetite, chronic exhaustion, Parkinson's disease, memory, insulin regulation, diabetes; ease childbirth and assist natural onset of labour, eyes, elixir is a general energizer:
Emotional healing: Increases happiness and makes situations feel better, so creating the impetus to actively seek positive solutions; restores the will to live.
Chakra: Solar Plexus.

Candle colour: Yellow. Fragrances: Benzoin, elder blossom, marigold, orange, sunflower. Practical uses: A lucky stone to instinctively be in the right place at the right time; attracts friends in unexpected places and makes online chat more real and personal. Workplace: A naturally stabilizing stone, worn or set in the workspace spreads good humour and tolerance. Magical significance: Hold your opal up to the sun or light at dawn, noon and sunset, best of all on a Sunday; it will hold enough sun power to keep you smiling all week. Divinatory meaning: Do something for pleasure not for duty or profit. Zodiac: Gemini and Cancer. Empowerment: I have all I need to be happy.

Yellow opal is a winning-competitions stone; good for quiz shows and tests of ability and knowledge; carry to enjoy competitive sports rather than obsessing about winning, and for stamina while running marathons or taking part in extreme sports. Also helps to remove limits you put on your own potential through lack of self-belief or opportunity; a good stone if you are returning to study. An anti-jealousy and -spite stone, wear to turn envy or gossip away from you and create a shield of positive energy; give to a teenager who is teased for being too clever and for enjoying study.

08/11/2025

Stone of the Day

Yellow Fluorite

Type: Halide/calcium fluoride.
Colours: Yellow.
Availability: One of the less common fluorites.
Physical benefits: May relieve problems with cholesterol, liver, bile, stomach adhesions, intestinal blockages or growths, stomach-stapling operations, cosmetic surgery, DNA, arthritis, rheumatism, spine, bones, teeth particularly wisdom teeth and gum health, shingles.
Emotional healing: For self-defeating behaviour and constantly comparing oneself unfavourably with others; reduces jealousy through insecurity and lack of self-love.
Chakra: Sacral and Solar Plexus.

Candle colour: Yellow. Fragrances: Chamomile, lavender, lemongrass, lemon verbena, sage. Practical uses: Counteracts the tendency of caring people to give the coat off their back to every hard-luck story they come across. Work-place: Helps dreamy gentle souls gain commercial sense without sacrificing their spiritual nature; for anyone setting up in self-employment to avoid being too ambitious at first.
Magical significance: Good for paranormal investigations or experiments to maintain objectivity without sacrificing intuition. Divinatory meaning: You need to use logic and uncharacteristic toughness to resolve a problem. Zodiac:
Gemini. Empowerment: I can be strong and spiritual.

Carry if you are naturally gentle and spiritual to direct intellect and effort into tangible achievements. If you find it hard to organize your thoughts or produce specifically defined results because your imagination takes off, use as an elixir or wear the crystal. Steers the fine path between attainable dreams and illusions; ideal for young people who are reluctant to begin a career from the bottom. Keep in the workplace or in organizing ventures where cooperation is needed
A crystal to hold when you need to come up with a plausible excuse to avoid an event you are dreading

08/11/2025

Card of the Day

Color of the Day: Ivory
Incense of the Day: Clary Sage

08/11/2025

Save the date

Hello my friends!
House Concert 65 is this coming Sunday 17th August at 8pm UK time. Join me for an hour or so of live music, chat, and community. The first harvest is here so there will be some songs in honour of that, plus a few deep-dive songs I don’t play live often. Leave any requests here, and let me know if it’s your birthday in August too! Hope to see you at the weekend!

08/10/2025

CARD OF THE DAY

From Demo Deck

THE HIGH PRIESTESS

Archangel Haniel is known for her ability to help you access your Divine gifts. Her open book indicates that knowledge once kept secret is now available to all.
There are a lot of cards in tarot that ask you to get busy, but not the High Priestess.
Frankly, she just wants you to sit down next to her. It's time to contemplate, meditate in-ward, and reflect on what you really desire.
The Dreamer heralded your new beginning, and the Magician explained your ability to make magic, but that doesn't necessarily mean that either of them knows what they want to create. The High Priestess is the one who can help you get that understanding This is a card of intuition and psychic gifts, of clarity that comes from inner searching and communing with the Divine.

The High Priestess encourages you to trust yourself and the intuitive information you are receiving. The messages and signs you feel you are getting are accurate (you aren't crazy!). It isn't necessary to take action right now. In fact, it's best if you don't.
Additional meanings of this card:
Nocturnal dreams or visions that provide insight. Spiritual knowledge. Making plans before taking action. Gathering information in order to come to a later decision. Developing your intuitive gifts.

08/10/2025

Stone of the Day

Color of the Day: Orange
Incense of the Day: Frankincense

Orthoclase

Type: Silicate, potassium feldspar, closely related to moonstone and amazonite.
Colours: Yellow, greenish, colourless, white, grey.
Availability: Rare in transparent gem-quality form; common opaque types available at specialist crystal stores and online.
Physical benefits: Claimed for centuries in different cultures to be a healer of all ills, especially helpful for back, heart conditions and transplants of any organ to assist the host body to accept the new organ.
Emotional healing: A bringer of peace in times of emotional upheaval. If you are suffering from grief, tune into this crystal to help you rise out of the dark.
Chakra: Solar Plexus, but can assist in aligning all the chakras

Candle colour: Pale yellow. Fragrances: Jasmine, lime, mimosa, neroli, poppy. Practical uses: Assists in finding unusual ways of achieving dreams; increases unique qualities in a conformist world. Workplace: Helpful to transform dissension and achieve consensus; set one in the middle of a meeting table. Magical significance: Clarifies messages from other dimensions; assists those who have experienced UFO contact or cryptozoological creatures to integrate their experiences into their everyday world. Divinatory meaning: A time of personal growth that may mean you move away from some friends and closer to others.
Zodiac: Cancer. Empowerment: I do not need to fit in.

A crystal that in times of tragedy radiates power to bring consolation; offer to the bereaved or place close to a photograph of someone who is dying for a peaceful passing. Use to mark a pet's grave.
Offer orthoclase to hold if a child has been deeply traumatized; for r**e victims or those who have been attacked or are being threatened with violence. f you live in an area where there is serious unrest oris affected by war or terrorism, wear in any unavoidaby confrontational situation, close your eyes and let it cany you to a temporary sanctuary to restore inner peace

From the Complete Crystal Handbook by Cassandra Eason

08/09/2025

HEY FOLKS!! CLOSED FOR VACATION!!

WE'LL REOPEN WEDNESDAY AUG. 20th

08/09/2025

STONE OF THE DAY

Andradite Garnet

Type: Calcium iron silicate.
Colours: Yellow, yellowish or emerald-green, grey-green, black, brownish red, brownish yellow.
Availability: Rare to more common, depending on colour.
Physical benefits: Said to improve strength, stamina and vitality; stimulates metabolism, benefits the circulation.
Emotional healing: Brings emotional strength, stability and balance, promoting self-confidence and self-esteem in those who rely too much on the approval and permission of others.
Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus and Heart.
Candle colour: Yellow or burgundy. Fragrances: Bay, benzoin, frankincense, juniper, rosemary. Pratical uses:
The yellow and darker forms of andradite counterbalance sentimentality and emotional clinginess, encouraging the equal growth of a relationship. Workplace: Helpful for anyone who works alone; encourages networking and ideas-pooling. Magical significance: Protective against fears of the darker side of life, and attempts at mind control, particularly through emotional pressures and misuse of sexual power. Divinatory meaning: Do not hesitate to ask now you need assistance. Zodiac: Capricorn and
Aquarius Empowerment: I will not be distracted.

Andradite gamet has three main sub-varieties of differing colour groups and values. The yellow is called topazolite. The variety of andradite will determine its metaphysical properties, but all possess energies common to all gamets protection, strength, communication and relationship-building Yellow andradite is the most powerful and active, operating through the Solar Plexus and adding focus and determination. Boosts creative skills and opens the mind to dearer thinking. Wear any andradite to attract your cosmic equal and life companion.

08/09/2025

Card of the Day

Color of the Day: Blue
Incense of the Day: Magnolia

08/08/2025