This last weekend Maile had her yearly sale that I was fortunate to attend with my mom and beloved, Larry. An experience to be had by all, seriously!
Sarah always knows when she see’s a stone that calls a “name” of someone and every year I’ve shown, she hands me a piece that does have my name on it! This year she said that pendant she saw was already taken so she did not want me to get excited… shared with her my intentions for the year, and that the first stone that popped into mind in that morning meditation was a Peruvian Blue Opal or a Sleeping Beauty Turquoise.
Next thing, that person handed it off to Sarah, and a Silicated Blue Opal pendant was around my neck! Holy Goddess – the feeling was deep, intense, WIDE opening of the heart chakra, at maximum expansion into the throat chakra – it felt like I grew the biggest angel wings ever – with the image of Arch Angel Michael and his sword of truth shooting from the heavens through my spinal column and into the the earth. Then when it drained the breath out of me, my next inhalation took the wings, opening them, so wide “there was enough LOVE for everyone” !
WOW WOW WOW – Zow – Zing – Zang – ZOOOM!
Mom and Larry witnessed this, as I watched their eyes & heart pop open – they both agreed immediately that this pendant was a “must have”!
(Its cute to see my mom resonate with stones after all these years she thinks Ive been wacky to “feel stuff” with them. She had her first experience today, it was awesome to be a witness in the reflection of her freedom.)
Still was not sure, so I wore it the entire time we were there gathering up all the other goodies. Slowly, when the serious, “Maile Stoners” arrived, they all saw this Blue Opal as a prize piece and wanted it if I did not. I always find such humor in how we are drawn to the certain energy of the stones, whatever our personal way to measure value is. Its all different because we are all different.
It was time to make the decision so when Maile had a chance, she came and shared what showed up in her meditation with the blue opal. In short, she said “she was swimming with dolphins, playing and then they took her deep into the water, deep down where the beauty is… and then they let her go and she told the dolphins that if they let her go, she wont be able to breathe. and they told her, yes you can, if you’re true with yourself and believe you can, you will be fine….”
of course that resonated with me on so many levels of my life and really what I want to do with my life in service. Larry felt the same way and so, he gifted it to me.
Its awesome how much attention has come from wearing it. Since that Opal went around my neck hours ago, people are attracted to it, coming from all directions to share random facts about it.
Met a “rock guy” who’s not into metaphysical reasons but he told me that not too many people can wear a an opal like this, its strong, bold and forces connection. Then he ask me how long I’ve been doing work with the stones. Told him that it was a newer thing in my life- people started giving me stones and rocks when I was sick and at some point I started to believe in them more than the doctors… and now this a food for me and I use them as tools, resources for services. he laughed at me and said, “Where were you born, grow up?” I told him, “Thousand Oaks, CA”.
He laughed harder and said, “so, you’re telling me you were born & raised in the conejo valley/ Santa Monica Mountain range, the enriched soil of quartz crystal/ calcite/ fossil beds… And you just started to play with rocks in your 30’s? Bull shit! When did you really start playing with rocks?”
And can you say FLASHBACK (or rebate)!!!! Holy shit – he was so right!!! And… this was the missing piece I’ve been looking for in my childhood, that in minutes of wearing this opal in public brought peace and healing to – WOW!
For the last couple years, I’ve been asking myself what I did as a young child, what did I play with, what did I do…etc…Remembered what I “didn’t do”, but there seemed to be blanks in my story that I was having a hard time recalling. (and I admit to having an epic memory!)
Here I am, NOW, remembering the HOURs, DAYs, NIGHTs, MONTHs, digging in the dirt at my childhood home as my parents “broke ground” on the building. When we moved in, it was landscaped and a 1/4 acre garden with another 1/4 of fruit trees on the hillside surrounding the house. My dad would always complain how the house was built on rock and it was hard to penetrate the earth and the hill turned into what I called “chalk-rock”.
Well, what came to full clarity, NOW, is that childhood house, was built on a crystal bed! My missing piece was solved – this is what I did as a kid outside when others were playing with dolls/trucks, I played with my crystals that I found in the dirt, my treasures! I made art, they sang to me, we danced and told me stories, we shared rainbows & magic together- they were my friends when I really did not have any. My dreams were their dreams… it was that easy and I totally remember that NOW!
This was a huge growth spurt for me and luckily was able to chat about this memory with my dad last night. He laughed and tripped out on all of it, “Yes”, he said, “not only did you play with crystal-rocks all day, you put them all over the yard in different spots, like a grid/shapes that you’d see in my math books. And I also remember that you LOVED your ‘chamies’. That’s what you’d call your little plastic purse of Lucky Charm cereal that you had to carry around with you everywhere, along with your crystals. You’d say they were magically delicious!”
Another mind-blowing moment – another missing piece of the puzzle just solved by having this very conversation- WOW!
Here I am telling people for the last 10 years that playing with rocks is “new to me” when I’ve been unknowingly lying to them and myself. LOL
Life’s super easy, funny and full of grace if you just go a little deeper into the watery unknown and TRUST in yourself!
Thank you Maile for sharing your healing gifts of the soul with the world – YOU ROCK! 😉
