Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
W
e hit the road for our first buying trip foray to the International New Age Trade Show in Denver. Rows and rows of gorgeous, fascinating stuff and booths overflowing with books … but yes, a few disappointments as well. (‘Whaddya mean there are no food booths here?!?’) BUT we survived and bought so much wonderful stuff we had to rent a U-haul to bring it home … and NOW we really were a store. We had stuff to sell!
Category: Blog
Author: Cat Kelly
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Author: Cat Kelly
My first experience working with the energy of crystals was being dragged with a friend to a class at Pathways in St. Louis. Don’t get me wrong – I’ve always liked rocks. They’re pretty, decorative, interesting. But the idea that they had healing or energetic powers seemed a L-I-T-T-L-E wacko to me. Just sayin’.
Thankfully, the woman leading the class, (an amazing teacher and powerful soul — the late Deborah Bourbon, founder and owner of Pathways), ignored my oozing skepticism. Instead, she thrust a clear quartz point into my palm and told me we would begin with a meditation to ‘charge the stone’ to be our guide in working with the rest of the stones. (Um, sure. ‘Cause stones, like, talk too, I guess. Whatever.) It was a nice meditation, but of course I felt nothing from the quartz crystal clasped in my sweaty palm. Confirmation this was all nonsense, just as I’d known all along. I mean, really!?!