The Four Seasons Tree

This is my newest piece and I think it turned out quite well.
Each stone represents a season as well as having their own healing qualities.

Winter is a pretty Moonstone. I've covered this stone extensively in a previous post but moonstone carries lunar energy and help us of a sensitive nature to balance emotional upsets and is said, when worn as a amulet or pendant to bring good emotions to the wearer. It also eases stress and anxiousness.

Spring is a beautiful mix of Aguamarine and Blue lace agate which is actually a powder soft lavender color. I chose these colors to represent this season because they remind me of those wonderful spring flowers!
Aquamarine improves one’s overall sense of well-being. Some suggest that aquamarine is used to treat people for whom procrastination is an affliction. It is believed that one who wears aquamarine has a better ability to think clearly and make quick decisions. It also increases one’s access to courage.

I chose a lovely Aventurine to represent summer with all of it's green and alive splendor.
Aventurine has the ability to ground an individual emotionally, allowing for thought that is free of fear, troubled emotions, indecisiveness, and anxiety. This clarity of mind and self confidence that result from wearing this powerful stone energize, inspire, motivate and enhances your ability to relate to others on an emotional level.

For Autumn I chose a stunning, genuine Baltic Amber.
Amber is a powerful healer. At a physical level, it fills the body with vitality and has the power to draw disease out of the body. By absorbing pain and negative energy, the gemstone allows the body to rebalance and heal itself. It alleviates stress.

Baltic amber is warm to touch. This gem possesses electrostatic properties, and continues to be utilized for healing purposes. The unusually great power this gem is embedded in its ability to produce negative ions that affects man by easing pain, activating the healing process, and providing protection from harmful radiation.

Many blessings to you all!
~Cassandra

The "Broken Heart" Healing Power of Peridot

***This tree has been sold. Please contact me for a custom order!***

The color of this peridot is true newness.
It reminds me of new blades of grass and the awakening of the Mother in spring.

Perdiot is the birthstone of August but also has very important healing properties.

It fosters emotional balance, and helps us heal from past emotional wounds.
It clears the path way to the heart and heals damaged egos.
Anger , jealousy, bitterness, and irritation are poison for your soul and are usually a result from wounded hearts ( and sometimes, a wounded EGO).
It helps us move past the hurt, and understand our relationships. It adds intelligence to your romantic situations, giving you a bit of common sense in affairs of the heart, and protecting you from unnecessary heartache.
The effect of a wounded heart can last for years, even a lifetime, without presenting itself as the obvious.
A true broken heart is like a fragile piece of china broken into pieces.
You can always glue the pieces back together but there are always those tiny pieces (slivers really) that either you can never find or just never quite fit again.
Those missing pieces can present themselves in your every day life. They are present (or not present) in relationships, everyday life and even on your very own self esteem.
Pieces of *you* are missing.
Peridot can help heal those wounds, fill in those missing pieces and take away the bitterness that ensues.


This piece is currently for sale in my Etsy shop, along with more pictures and details:
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=38805225


Many blessings to you,
~Cassandra
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Finding the Truth in What's Left of Nature

"Humankind has not woven the web of life.
We are but one thread within it.
Whatever we do to the web, we do to ourselves.
All things are bound together.
All things connect."
~Chief Seattle, 1854

The Web still exists to remind us if we take the time to notice.

These pictures were taken by me last summer in the Joyce Kilmer Memorial Forest in North Carolina.
It is a 3,000 acre virgin forest...one of the very few left in the U.S. Many of the trees here are well over 400 years old and tower over 100 feet high and over 20 feet in circumference.
It was a uncharted hunting ground for the Cherokee people and the energy this area produces is ancient and very sacred.
We ride a lot in good weather and just wander most of the time with no plans or intention of being anywhere.
That day we found this forest.
There is a long paved drive going into the heart of these trees, leading to the typical touristy picnic tables and camp sites. Riding in that day, having no clue where we were going, my breath was literally taken away. The feeling; ancient, wise, powerful but, truthfully, simply indescribable.

Take the time to look around you...remember that you *are* still a part of it all. There is beauty, wonder and power in everything. From a natural, untouched forest spring, a tree that's been allowed to grow taller than your eyes can see to even the tiniest little things, perhaps there only just to make you smile.

Get away from the picnic tables, camp sites and viewing decks.
Wander...after all, "Not all those who wander are lost."

Many Blessings to you,
~Cassandra