In
the East and in the West, in the past and in the present, by one
person and another, stones have been attributed with specific
meanings and powers.
I sense that, as far as these attributions go, they are accurate.
But I also believe that Mother Earth, in her generosity and bestowal
of beauty, does not limit what the stones mean and can offer.
In fact, I believe that the stones are imbued with gentle, loving
powers that are beyond our abilities to conceptualize. Whereas
our definitions of the stones’ powers have been fairly literal
and exact, I believe that Mother Earth’s "definitions"
are more situational and relational – based on what we need.
Said another way, I sense that the definitions given to the stones
are like the tip of an iceberg that we can see above water. They
are accurate. Yet they are far from being the complete and whole
picture. Consider that, in the stories I wrote, I was working
primarily with the 5-10% of an iceberg that we see.
As
you develop your relationship with your stones, you have opportunity
to discover some of the 90-95% that is below water.
PROGRAMMING
I have initially programmed each StoneCircle in
the following ways:
To permanently, totally, and only be for benefit, for goodness,
for light and life.
To temporarily hold an intention aligned with the theme and story
I’ve given them.
To allow you to cleanse them.
To support you as you connect with them on the many levels of
support they carry.
To allow you to change the story, theme, and intention program
when and as you wish.
HEALING AND CURE
There is a difference between healing and cure. StoneCircles have
deep healing powers at myriad levels. Cure is often linked to
solving a circumstance we have defined as a problem, to "should
knots," to feelings of needing personal control, and judgments
about personal success and failure.
Healing is beyond words. But to offer a few, perhaps healing is
opening to the truth about ourselves -- no matter how beautiful
it is, opening to our natural state as spiritual beings, opening
to our divine place in the order of things, deepening our capacity
to love and be loved, to give and receive, and to serve and be
served.
And, perhaps in concert with strong intention, perhaps through
Mystery, perhaps through the power of how intention and Mystery
work together, cures and solutions may also be in the best interest
of the soul. Perhaps. Perhaps not.
