Daily Inspirations

Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere.

- Martin Luther King

If you want peace, you must work for justice.

- Pope Paul VI

It is essential that justice be done, and it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

- Oscar Aria

True peace is not merely the absence of tension, it is the presence of Justice.

- Martin Luther King

There may be times when we are powerless to prevent injustice, but there must never be a time when we fail to protest.

- Elie Wiesel

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The Daily Affirmation

I am ever unfolding to an expanded awareness of my divine consciousness. I continue moving forward to meet the greater sense of oneness that lay before me.

The Daily Card

Affirmation

I am the mediator between by Spirit-self and my world. I bring the within outward, recognising that my presentation and the world's response are just. I am at peace wtih all outcomes..

Exercise

Keep a journal this week of the guiding voice that speaks while you are out in the world in action. Jot down what the voice tells you to do, and what you actually do..

Meditation

Go for a ride in the gypsy wagon with the prince. Let him tell you how he reveals the Great Mystery to the world while only passing through. From where comes the trust that he will always be taken care of? What is his power to attract? His ability to let go? Who is this elusive stranger in yourself?

Visualiziation

Realize yhourself as a Peacemaker. Go now, in the eye of your mind, and speak clearly where the speaking is needed. Touch where you have previously been afraid to touch. Stand up where before you have sat back in silence. Let love come through where anger lived. Feel the physical changes.

The Daily Link

The Daily Crystal

Agate

Color: Agate comes in most colors. Agates range from transparent to opaque in a variety of beautiful colors. It presents various tints in the same specimen. The stones can be artificially stained to produce combinations of color more vivid than those found in the natural state.
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Description: Agate is a semipellucid crystallized quartz, consisting of banded or with branching inclusions chalcedony. Physical properties of agate are in general those of quartz.
Agate has irregular, sometimes circular bands of color and often replaces fossil wood. Many fossils are agatized material where the original organic substance has been replaced by agate while retaining the original structure. Agates are identical in chemical structure to jasper, flint, chert, bloodstone, and tigerseye, and are often found in association with opal.
The colorful, banded rocks are used as a semiprecious gemstone and for making mortars and pestles. One will often see these in beads, agate pendants and necklaces.

The name's origin: Agate derives its name from the Greek "Agate??" - happy.
According to another theory the word Agate comes from the Greek name of a stone found in the Achates River in Sicily, now known as the Drillo River, which still remains a major source of this stone.

Birthstone: Agate is the birthstone of Taurus (Bull): April 20 - May 20.

Wedding anniversary: Agate is the anniversary gemstone for the 12th year of marriage. Moss Agate is the anniversary gemstone for the 14th year of marriage.

Varieties: There are several types of agate. Varieties include Blue, Blue Lace, Crazy Lace, Green, Indian, Moss, Tree and Wood. The Moss agate or mocha stone contains visible impurities in the form that resemble moss.

Care and treatment: Agate will chip and crack rather easily though it has a hardness rating of 7. As with all gems, protect agate from scratches and sharp blows. Avoid sudden temperature changes and household chemicals.

From the stone history: Agate was discovered with the Stone Age man in France 20,000-16,000 BC. The Egyptians used it prior to 3000 BC. Agate was highly valued by ancient civilizations. Said by the ancients to render the wearer invisible.
The agate-working industry grew up centuries ago in the Idar-Oberstein district of Germany, where agates were abundant.
Cameos are cut from stones, such as onyx or agate, where different colors occur in layers. The background material is cut away, leaving the cameo design in relief.
Agate is one of the gemstones, that used in commesso , also called florentine mosaic. Commesso is a technique of fashioning pictures with thin, cut-to-shape pieces of brightly colored, semiprecious stones, developed in Florence in the late 16th century.

Healing ability: Agate is cooling stone, it reduces fever, quenches thirst, beneficial in stomach area. It quiets the pulse and heart throbs and insures good health and a long and prosperous life.
Botswana Agate: Use with high-pressure oxygen therapy.
Fire Agate: Master healer with color therapy, enhances all essences. It grounds and balances, binds sexual & heart chakra, burns energy.
Moss Agate: Emotional priorities, mental priorities; circulatory, pancreas & pulses, blood sugar balance, agriculture.

Mystical power: Agate guards against danger. Wearers become temperate, continent and cautious. It helps one view themselves with more clarity and see the world through a broader viewpoint. Wearing Agate is believed to cure insomnia and to insure pleasant dreams.

Deposits: Important sources of agate are Russia (Ural mountains), Brazil, Eygpt, Germany, India, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Uruguay and the USA (Oregon, Washington, Idaho, and Montana ).

The Daily Astrological Overview

The Moon enters proud Leo at 1:09 pm EDT, reflecting our need to be admired and appreciated. Our tendency now is to show our feelings, just as a flower displays its beauty for all to see. But we may find it challenging to know what is enough and what's too much, for Mars is forming an irritating aspect with electric Uranus. We may act impulsively without thinking through the consequences. It's difficult to find a comfortable middle ground and it may not solve the problem anyway.

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