Editor's Corner: 08.08.08 is a portal of manifestation, expansion and power supported by structure and discipline. We need to be fully in our truth and our power without compromise. We must focus on that we wish to create in positive terms. The clearer one is, the higher one can soar to the heights of their true destiny. This is no longer a dress rehearsal -- It's Show Time!

We need to be extra aware of our thoughts as they are creating realities at light speed. Don't be surprised if negativity or fears, once thought gone, emerge as if out of nowhere. During this roller coaster ride, it might become impossible to function normally. Just go with the flow, spend time alone in nature (if possible), choose love over fear, use the Violet Flame to transmute all negative thoughts and they will dissolve almost as fast as they appeared. Fill your bodies with the Golden Light of the Christ Consciousness. This is an amazing time when we can clear many obstacles standing in our way to personal and planetary Ascension.

By the end of September, you'll notice a clear line of distinction before August 2008 and after 08.08.08. It is in your power to become a totally different person and manifest your dreams . . . exciting isn't it?

Travels: August 16-21 I'll be at The World Congress On Illumination in Lake Louise, Canada. I am bringing a small amount of products and available for private sessions during our free time. Please email me if you are attending and interested in either.

I will be presenting my products and available for private sessions in Kansas City, MO, September 19-22, at Dr. Todd's Life Extension Seminar. Please email me for more information.

I will be in Europe for the entire month of October, visiting 7 (yippee!) countries. Please email me if you live in France, Italy, Germany, Spain, Austria, Hungary, or Transylvania, and perhaps we can meet.

NEW! Now available are Saint Germain & Violet Flame Invocation Silk Bookmarks. These extra large bookmarks, imprinted with Saint Germain's image and the VF Invocation, make the perfect gift for a friend or yourself as do the new beautiful Violet Flame / Saint Germain Mandala Silk Scarves. Click on the item names to visit the website.
Wishing you Love and Violet Blessings! -- Troika St.G.

With all the changes old souls have been going through, it is now imperative to stand in our power. We’ve had a complete metamorphosis—changes that we all thought would end long ago have brought us to a more evolved state that needs to be supported immediately.

As a counselor, healer, and intuitive, I’ve seen much suffering lately due to the combination of these changes and the fact that many old souls are still living in their stories. By stories, I mean the relationships that don’t work, the lower self esteem and lower self confidence, and the lack of faith in their abilities at all levels. These stories are still strong—hiding out it the idea that others will change, that the other person or society is responsible for the problem and more. Sometimes, even the act of taking responsibility for a problem leads to self negation, self chastising, and more stress and worry.

Being responsible for one’s reality does not mean that all will change overnight, but there is a way to be responsible and fluid that will allow you to stand in power. By standing in power, I mean that you give up your stories, give up illusions as they expose themselves, and be willing to stand still and see the truth while holding your head up high!

Giving up your stories will include uncovering all the stories you tell about yourself and others. Stories about how he or she will change, about how you will change under some condition, or how one’s living condition will change. All the stories include fuzziness, a way of seeing that is old and no longer useful and delusions about how things work.

To give up your stories after uncovering them, you must stand in your power — being quiet, dissolving your story, being realistic, and taking the time to recognize how you are truly wonderful and that you are connected to Spirit at all times. Use whatever tools you already have and/or use black tourmaline to clear out negativity along with a Master Healing Crystal to reestablish the light. If you don’t have these, use a smoky quartz first or some other crystal with blue, black or reddish color followed by a clear quartz.

A few weeks ago I was thinking of a way that I could share the healing work that I do to more people. I thought of blogging.

I created a blog that will be updated most every week with a free healing session on various topics. You can visit it by clicking here.

It only takes a moment to change your thoughts and your vibration. Each time you do this you'll find it easier and easier. I invite you to take a minute today and begin stepping into your personal mastery.

Information from Nature:
It was in 1989 in Hawaii that a spider offered some valuable information. In the late afternoon, the skies had begun to clear after a heavy rain, and everything around was glistening and beautiful. Outside on the porch, a large spider had created an enormous web. The sun’s rays reflected off the silky strands and the energy of an intense life-force was radiating from the spider.

The spider then shared its message: it said that no matter how hard the wind blows, a spider’s web will stay intact. A spider’s web does not disintegrate, as the web has the capacity to move and stay fluid. A web keeps its form and moves with the wind. Scientists have discovered that the filament used to spin a spider’s web is much stronger than steel and far more resilient.

Then the spider offered even more detailed information. It revealed how spells, curses, grids, and ley lines work and how they attach to people through their nervous system. The spider then related that by balancing the nervous system we can change the electromagnetic energy in our body, diffusing curses and spells and releasing attachments to grids and ley lines. It also told that the human nervous system resembles a spider’s web in its design, but more importantly in its resilience and ability to heal itself. The message from spider reveals that we are all interconnected by a filament of consciousness.

The Power of the Spoken Word:
The power of the spoken word was unquestioned by most primitive people, especially if the person speaking the spell, hex or curse was well known to be versed in the art of magic. If the medicine man or woman used an unknown language, the belief in the power of the words was even greater. The practice of using a spell or making a curse with a forceful display of energy was well known in medieval times. A person under a curse or spell was believed to be powerless over his own will, to be living but moving and acting as if in a trance. Death was the ultimate of all curses.

Over the centuries, spells were created into established formulas. As they proved effective, they remained and were written down for future use. In Ancient Egypt not only were the spells well formulated, but the tone of voice was also prescribed along with the exacting recipe. Those versed in the art of the occult will concede that the power of a spell remains in force until such time as the energy of the spell is neutralized.

An important factor in the effectiveness of a spell is the maker’s belief in the formula. Forceful curses and hexes have been shown to cause a great deal of difficulty for the recipient. Voodoo, practiced primarily in the Caribbean involves hexing, cursing and projecting spells. The curse or spell is phrased in an established ritualistic format, delivered with strong emotion and exaggerated body motions and the witch doctor’s belief fuels the remainder for the effect desired.

Similar to a spell, a hex is a powerful negative thought expressed with a strong emotional outburst. The more energy used in the ritual of hexing, the more effective the hex will be upon the recipient. It is the subconscious mind that is convinced that something will happen. The fearful emotions generated in the subconscious mind do all the work of manifesting the negative curse, spell or hex.

A curse or spell could not affect someone unless there were people on Earth still using that energetic band to influence people. If we had a spell put on us 100 or 200 years ago and there was nobody giving energy to it, it would then have dissipated and would no longer be present in our energy fields. If you discover a spell or curse, then there probably is a group actively using that kind of energy. Whatever the main energy is–hate, pain, hurt, suffering–the group is using those vibrations to create a vortex that attracts that kind of energy into their circle.

Such groups commonly use a circle for attracting and amplifying energy. There are objects in their circles that attract and hold the desired vibrations. Examples would be a pentagram, a triangle, a snake, bones, or anything. The group shows up from time to time and performs ceremonies using this energy for whatever they choose. Circles are usually set up on the earth’s natural grid and ley lines, which amplify the circle’s energies. These groups know how grids work, and they know how to run and project energy.

Projected Demonic Energy
Witchcraft, sorcery, voodoo, shamanism, and magic are ancient crafts. In the last thirty years there has been an increased interest in these areas. Like everything else in our polarized world, these practices have a dark and a light side, a malevolent or benevolent aspect, an intention to hurt or an intention to heal.

Satanism, for example, uses the dark-side energies while other practices use the light, benevolent energies. Obviously there are a lot of polarities around these practices. Satanic, demonic, and dark-side witchcraft energies are the most focused and concentrated energies you will ever come across in your healing practice. I often work with individuals who may be affected by the intentional use of the dark-side practices.

It is very important for you to know that if you do not have any of the negative collective consciousnesses imprinted on you and do not believe in any of these practices, then the energy from these practices cannot hurt you.

Curses and spells can be placed during satanic or demonic rituals by voodoo practitioners, sorcerers, executioners, witches, or magicians all working with the dark-side. Negative projections can also be sent by someone who is powerful and projecting hate, jealousy, or a desire to possess your money, power, or body and spirit.

However, it is not only malevolent witches, warlocks, or bad people who create spells. At times spells might be placed by someone to protect themselves, if they felt that someone else was seeking to harm, punish, or kill them.

When a person became a powerful healer, others often became jealous and branded them as a witch or a disciple of the devil. In the times of the Black Plague, many of the people who had good hygiene or used herbs did not get sick. The town’s people became afraid of them and said they must be working with the devil.

If you discover a spell or curse that has been placed upon someone, this does not mean the person was bad. In most cases you will find the person was accused of being a spiritual healer, herbalist, or witch; and then tortured, burned to death, or otherwise murdered. At such times there was usually a crowd around watching. The town or village people were afraid, scared, enraged, and screaming. As the individual died, they were also very frightened or angry and could have screamed back at the crowd, “I’ll hurt you, I’ll get you for this.” These dynamics are energetically frozen and set a pattern on all of the people present, which attracts that kind of collective consciousness in the future.

This is the basic energy around spells and curses. Today, groups using the dark-side energetics look for these patterns around certain people or areas on the planet and tap in and use these fears, while empowering themselves.

Spells can be attached to a person during the time she is vulnerable, angry, or emotional. When someone’s field is open, it is possible to project an idea onto that person, while locking her in a spell of intentional energy. Witchcraft and black magic, spells, hexes, and curses cause fragmentation of the originator, because the curse requires living energy to remain active.

The projection of the essence of the sender continues through time. Also, in almost every case, when a spell or curse is discovered on an individual, it is soon also found that . . . click here to continue article. Back to T of C.

The following is taken from NASA’S email subscription.

NASA announced new discoveries of the planet Mercury’s magnetic field by NASA’S MESSENGER spacecraft. How fitting to name a spacecraft MESSENGER to Mercury. You see, astrologically Mercury is Gemini’s messenger.

It seems NASA has discovered what most already know about your Gemini friends; that is, Mercury’s magnetic field is alive. We know Gemini is magnetic, attracting via their sparkling wit. Mercury has a core at least twice as large as any other planet, creating an active magnetic field. Could we say your Gemini friends are more magnetic than people of other signs?

The cooling of Mercury’s giant core led to a remarkable contraction of the planet, or shrinking of the crust. This shrinking caused a lot of cliff-sized wrinkles. To apply that to Gemini people, the analogy would be Gemini’s many facets, or which person is out today? The cliffs describe their ups and downs. The accompanying photo is a visual of the many sides of Gemini and indicates Gemini’s are not two (or more) different people, only that there are a lot of different faces to them that are part of the whole. Your problem is figuring out which one you are facing. Since they are spinning, like the planet Mercury, you could be facing different “cliffs” at different times.

In the ultrathin atmosphere (called the exosphere) the molecules are so far apart they are more likely to collide with the surface of the planet than with each other. This material comes mainly from the surface of Mercury itself, knocked aloft by solar radiation, solar wind bombardment and meteoroid vaporization.

How can we relate that to Gemini? Let’s pretend the molecules are thoughts or people. If they are so far apart they do not reach each other, it could relate to scattered thinking – or -- they are able to keep people and thoughts separate from one another. Do you know any Gemini’s who are like that? If the material or thoughts are coming from themselves, they could experience the boomerang of their own thoughts and relationships returning after being knocked about. We know young Gemini’s are easily influenced by their friends, with their ideas knocked about by what others think and say or what Gemini thinks is expected of them. I like to describe your Gemini friends as butterflies who brighten everyone’s world and flit from flower to flower. They are also chameleons who can change color with their surroundings, or change to accommodate what they think others want of them to get their way, charmingly of course. Unbeknownst to even them is they have a big “core” of themselves hidden underneath the many faces of themselves and the scattering of ideas and people. This core keeps them in orbit. There is so much sparkle from the scattering of thoughts and people, it deflects attention from their core. If Gemini pays too much attention to their own sparkle, their core can be forgotten.

Look at the picture of Mercury (by clicking here). It has a varied landscape with many colors, revealing the colorful faces of Gemini. Are you facing the bright blue, gold, white or brown? You may be facing one color and “cliff” and others or family face a different color or cliff. When Gemini is described, there could be different descriptions depending upon which color and cliff is being focused upon by the observer.