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Crystal Magick and the Journey Within: A Creative Exploration for Personal Alchemy (New Workshop)
August will host a new workshop experience to explore together. Yay!
My plate has been full, but what I’ve come to see is that everything has its divine timing. That said, I’ve been wanting to offer this workshop, and others, for quite some time, so with the recent multiple requests, I embraced the Universal nudge that the timing was now. The collective is ready, so I’m shifting my “plans” to embrace readiness too.
That being said, I’m super excited about this experiential workshop, which will be offered ongoing.
Here is some of what you can look forward to in this workshop:
One of my Crystal Altars
Crystal Magick and the Journey Within: A Creative Exploration for Personal Alchemy
9am – 5pm Sunday, August 24th in Costa Mesa (if this workshop interests you, please just ask and we can arrange a date to fit different schedules)
This workshop is for the creative, imaginative, and inspired free thinkers and integrative visionaries who want to experience the magickal world of the Crystal Kingdom and your Inner Realm for empowered living and activating greater potentials in simple and fun ways. This is done in a flowing way to allow each person’s unique voice to be heard and valued, which allows greater freedom to explore deeper.
People who are drawn to my workshops are not people wanting to learn structure, rules, and dogmatic approaches. But they are people who are wanting to delve into the discipline of “unlearning” in order to unleash their true gifts. They are ready to explore the nature of their own uniqueness through the different modalities and perspectives available, and come to create their own journey through the process of remembering and awakening what is within. My role is to gently guide this process and facilitate experiential activation, which takes place in subtle ways simply through the energetic exchange we share.
Things you will be exploring and learning to incorporate into your life include:
Crystals – understanding that Crystals choose you as much as you choose them, creating a relationship with your Crystal, Crystal meditation, understanding Crystal energy and their role in our lives, shifts Crystals go through, meeting Crystal Spirits, learn about some of the high vibrational Cosmic Crystals appearing, cleansing, charging and inspiring your Crystal for specific purposes, creating Crystal altars and grids, learn about some of the unique attributes of Crystals (timelinks, keys, portals, record keepers, veils, phantoms) and some of the metaphysical properties and common types of Quartz, other Crystal friends that are especially “now” relevant, and Crystal Skulls
Crystal Pendulums – an introduction and basic understanding of pendulums, knowing how to choose a pendulum and learn its language, understanding how to use your pendulum effectively, increase results and improvise when your pendulum isn’t with you, fun exercises to practice using your pendulum, learning ways to develop and trust your intuition
Crystal Elixirs – learn some basics about these, how to create them, and how these essences may mirror more of the frequencies we are starting to embody
Reiki and Crystals – ways to work with Crystals during sessions (in-person or by distance), attuning crystals, how to program Quartz to channel the energies of other Crystals, working with Crystals in dream time (even if you aren’t Reiki attuned, we will explore ways to charge and cleanse Crystals without Reiki, as well as tapping into energy in other ways)
Lapis Lazuli – how this stone compliments Reiki (and your natural healing abilities) and can be very powerful in your healing practice, its connection to the Healing Buddha/Medicine Buddha, how to use this stone to support your intuitive strength and clarity, and more
Chakras – a simple guide to your energy centers (the ones you may be aware of and more), where they are located, the energy potentials of each, ways to work with them, balance, some corresponding Crystals that can assist
Intuition & Telepathy – learning to trust and awaken the inner voice, holographic transference, purity of heart and mind aligned, and some exercises to practice
Another of my Crystal Altars
Reverence and use of crystals goes back to the dawning of civilization and have been used for centuries for their healing powers. Their connection with specific parts of the body and its organs come from traditional Western and Eastern Astrology. 5000+ year old ancient text formulas from India’s Ayurvedic records and traditional Chinese Medicine claim healing with the use of crystals that are now used in modern medical prescriptions. The Christian Bible refers to crystals over 200 times, crystalline structures have been found in the ruins of Babylonia and in the ancient Egyptian and Chinese tombs of rulers, and many of the early civilizations of the Earth (Mayan, Aztec, American Indian, African, Celtic) utilized quartz crystals in sacred ceremonies. These electromagnetic synthesizers that were once only a royal and priestly experience, are now a gift available to us all.
Energy Exchange:
If Registered by July 12th’s Full Moon: $275 (savings of $50)
After July 12th: $325
If you Register with a friend: $500 ($250 each – savings of $75)
***** Manual, Crystal & Crystal Pendulum Included with Registration (you will get to choose your own new friends during the workshop) *****
The next Crystal Magick and the Journey Within Workshop is scheduled for Saturday October 11th for anyone who can’t make the August Workshop. For that Workshop, the Pre-Registration date is September 9th’s (9/9) Full Moon. The same Energy Exchange tier above applies.
Contact me at tania@taniamarie.com with questions and to register
Introducing My Giant Quartz Crystal Skull – Raja Seraphina
My amazing Quartz Crystal Skull – Raja Seraphina
I couldn’t help myself but to snap a photo of my cherished Quartz Crystal Skull friend, Raja Seraphina, as I walked by her upon waking this morning. R.S., as I’ll lovingly call her, sits atop her silver and gold mirror mosaic table at the entry to my sanctuary domain office/art studio/meditative space. The way the morning sun, at just the right angle, was hitting her, was such a beautiful vision to behold.
The sun was peeking through my shutters and the tiny holes in my five silver-chromed dome holders that surround each tear drop bulb of my standing lamp in such a way as to cast a warm glow and project orb-like lights onto my wall tapestry in a random sequence not mirroring how they actually are. These light orb projections are an interesting coding remind me of the Mayan number system.
R.S. with light shining through her
Definitely felt so celestial and that Raja Seraphina was drawing my attention, of which I took note. 🙂
With her lovely illuminated sign today, I felt it was a good time to officially introduce her to the world with more detail about her energy. My guess is she will be expressing more in the days, months and year to come.
Raja Seraphina came into my life about 4 years ago in 2009 (will be 4 at the end of this month). I had been searching for and intending to find the perfect crystal skull, which took me a while to finally connect with. She is a giant Quartz Crystal Skull that is the same size as a human skull, but she definitely carries extraterrestrial origins.
After having spent two private sessions with the Crystal Skull, Max, and one private session with the Crystal Skull Sha Na Ra, when they came to a spiritual center I frequented in Reno while I was living in the Reno/Tahoe area, I knew that the crystal skull energy was one for me to be working with and tapping into more.
Upon a trip to bring home some crystal friends from the Quartzsite Rock, Gem and Mineral show in La Paz County, AZ and the Tucson Gem and Mineral Show with dear friend Amy, I had the good fortune of finding R.S. We had ventured to Quartzsite first, and while I found lovely pieces, no crystal skull friend spoke to me. We were actually there at the end of January and very, very start of February, not realizing that the Tucscon Gem Show would not be fully up and running yet. But we ventured there anyway and discovered many of the crystal merchants just setting up shop, so we were able to get first viewing and picking of what was coming out!
There are advantages to getting there at the start and at the end. The start offers you first look and opportunity at the selections and the end offers you the greatest bargains. However, Amy and I had a knack for always drawing in great connections, transactions, and divine timing, which resulted in great buys regardless. 🙂
I had searched the year before at the show and while I found many skulls that were lovely, I didn’t find “The One.” And the same happened at any store I went to in Sedona, or anywhere I would end up, and kept an eye out for one.
R.S.’s rainbow Third Eye
But it was just as we first entered the Tucson Gem Show that we stumbled upon a merchant who was just taking out his crystal skulls in the side and back area of his booth. He had a ton of other crystals and the skulls only made up a tiny fraction of his offerings. I immediately was drawn to R.S. and so was Amy (although she wasn’t looking for one herself, she was assisting in my search energetically). We both fell in love and she just felt so right. My pendulum agreed big time finally too!
She definitely was “The One.”
Bringing her home, along with several other large pieces I had gotten on this trip was quite the experience. I had them all in a rolling suitcase and upon my going through security at the airport, I was stopped. Apparently, my crystal skull showed up as something resembling a warning on security visuals and so they opened my back to find out what it was. Low and behold they discovered my Crystal Skull and then I had all of security around in awe and wondering if I was traveling with the Crystal Skulls from the new Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull movie that had “just” come out shortly before. LOL!
Needless to say, they were intrigued and let the little faery supportively rolling more than her weight in crystals, on her way.
And so it came to be that Raja Seraphina came home with me to Lake Tahoe. A little while after, I decided to see if she wanted to share her name. I knew she was more feminine in energy, but what I discovered was something very similar to what my dear Nestor (my departed twin soul bunny) held energetically.
Close up of R.S.’s rainbow Third Eye
I placed my third eye to hers (and by the way she has a lovely pastel rainbow at her third eye and in several areas around the back and sides of her crown) and waited to receive. What came to me very clearly was the name Raja Seraphina.
This was very interesting to me, as the two names carried very opposite, yet equally powerful energies – one male and one female – and the combination of the two meanings and energy definitely shared the gentle and integrative power of the Divine Male and Divine Female that “she” held:
Raja means king, prince, or chief in India or the East Indies.
Wikipedia shares: Raja (also spelled rajah, from Sanskrit राज rāja-) is an Indian term for a monarch, or princely ruler of the Kshatriya varna.
The Free Dictionary shares: Word History: Raja or Rajah is familiar to us from the Sanskrit r
j, “king,” and mahrj, “great king.” The Sanskrit root raj-,“to rule,” comes from the Indo-European root *reg-, “to move in a straight line, direct, rule.” The same Indo-European root appears in Italic (Latin) and Celtic. R
x means “king” in Latin, coming from *reg-s, whence our regal and, through French, royal. Two of the Gaulish kings familiar to us from Caesar, Dumnorix and Vercingetorix, incorporate the Celtic word r
x, “king,” in their names. (Rx also forms part of the name of that fictitious, indomitable Gaul Asterix.) Germanic at some time borrowed the Celtic word rx. It appears as reiks, “ruler,” in Gothic, as well as in older Germanic names ending in -ric, such as Alaric and Theodoric, the latter of whom has a name that is equivalent to German Dietrich,“people’s king.” A derivative of Celtic rx, *rg-yo-, meaning “rule, domain,” was also borrowed into Germanic, and is the source of German Reich, “rule, empire.”
As for Seraphina, this name carries a beautiful meaning as well. Seraphina, also Serafina, has a meaning of ardent and fiery, yet also carries a gentle grace. The highest-ranking in the hierarchy of angels, the six-winged seraphim, inspire this name. The feminine form of the Late Latin name Seraphinus, derived from the biblical word seraphim which was Hebrew in origin and meant “fiery ones”. The Latinate version Serafina is also Italian, Polish, and Portuguese.
The story of St. Serafina holds another element to this name’s energy – that of kindness, patience, and love in the face of pain, rejection and destitution. It’s a story of a young Italian girl who through her experiences reaches a state of holiness that imparts a lesson for us of achieving the same serenity and love in the midst of our sufferings.
Needless to say, I hope you enjoy meeting Raja Seraphina as I share her here. She is a beautifully powerful being that I am grateful to have as a friend and teacher.