Rambling in Wonderland

God I love a thunderstorm.

No, let me correct that - I love the build up to a thunderstorm; the roiling black clouds that build up on the horizon, the increasing pressure in the air, the heady scent of ozone and the wind as it starts gusting through my yard making the roses toss their heads; shaking off random petals and the trees to turn their leaves inside out as if they were opening up invisible umbrellas.

It's times like this when I find myself heading out of doors ...

Last night marks night four since I started working with this crystal (see last post). And it truly is the strangest thing - I'm not sleeping.

No, check that. My body is sleeping, but my mind remains aware of everything that is happening. Every transition between wakefulness and dreams, each and every dream is a lucid dream in that I know I'm dreaming and can control what direction the dreams take. In between REM cycles I can feel my body as it relaxes and shifts and I can even ...

I used to wear my Scalar Pendant all the time, enjoying the boost it gave to my energy, the added layer to my protection, the way it filtered incoming energy into manageable amounts, but for reasons I won't go into here, I have been without the pendant for a month.

Interestingly enough, having gotten used to wearing it all the time I think that I had become, if you will, dependant on it, letting it do things for me that I was perfectly capable of doing for myself, and thus limiting ...