I was working with a stunning stone called Aragonite recently creating one of a kind necklaces. As I worked with it the word, “heartsplosion”, kept going through my head like a steady beat. I know it's not a word, but heart explosion felt too clunky of a phrase to capture the eloquence of what I felt in my heart while working with this gorgeous Aragonite.
It surprised me that I felt so much in this part of my body. Aragonite is known to be a very grounding and stabilizing root chakra stone, so I was confused at first.
Then it hit me…when the root chakra is healthy (or moving toward a state of health)…when you feel safe and secure and grounded in the here and now, your heart is able to open up. To have a "heartsplosion" so to speak.
Sometimes choosing fear is choosing love. It's not the well behaved, good feeling, high vibe, align with all the abundance you’ve ever dreamed of kinda love I’m talking about. That love is a myth. A myth created by a terrified mind that decided that in order to be okay all the bad had to be buried as deep and far away as possible.
What if Daedalus hadn’t told Icarus to be careful to not fly too close to the sun? What if he hadn’t planted a seed of fear in his son’s mind? Maybe his wings wouldn’t have melted and he’d have kept soaring as high as he dreamed to fly for as long as he liked.
How many of us hold back in our lives because of fears that others have passed on to us. Fears that were intended to keep us safe, but are ultimately unfounded and unnecessary and only act to clip our wings.
People tell me that they feel the “good vibes” that I put into my jewelry. I hear this all the time. I feel grateful to connect with people through my art, but to be honest, this used to completely perplex me...
The greatest joy I feel with with my work comes from connection. That moment when something that has come from my heart meets the heart of another person and becomes part of the story of their journey back to themselves and their innate wisdom is pretty awesome...
This New Moon in Taurus to Full Flower Moon Collection is all about moving from a fear based way of thinking and living to a love based way. I have been drawn for over a decade to the guidance and the firm, but loving hand of A Course in Miracles. One of the main messages of the Course can be summed up by an excerpt from the main text, which says "Your task is not to seek for Love but merely to seek and find all of the barriers within yourself that you have built against it." My purpose and intention with this collection is to bring attention to this mindset and the deeply ingrained foundation of fear, not just in my life, but in all of humanity....
