Groupon!

Update July 1, 2010 - Well I heard back and here is what they said:


"Thanks for contacting Groupon!
Since we only feature one business a day, our schedule is carefully constructed to highlight a variety of business types, locations, sizes, and price-points. At this time, we don't see an opportunity to feature your business.
We have your information on file, and if it's OK with you, we'll be in touch if an opportunity arises in the future."

I think it was very nice of them to reply so quickly and I appreciate it a lot. It doesn't look like I will be having any special offers on there at this time but was worth a shot! 


Also for some reason comments are not showing up today - I have had this issue before with Blogger and usually the problem fixes in a day or two.
xox
Azz


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Posted June 30th, 2010
So I am going to try joining this site called Groupon.com
Looks interesting and people are really buzzing about it!
I may even decide to run a special for my own site on there as well.
I am curious if any of you have used this site, heard of it, have experiences you would like to share etc.
A friend of mine, Niloo told me about it (thanks Niloo) and I finally got around to checking it out.
I really have to say its taking the Internet by storm and is the next big thing in social marketing if not already the big thing lol.
I have send in an inquiry to see if they would allow little ol me to run a special on there myself so I am dying to hear back!
If anyone reading this has used them as a consumer or an advertiser send me an email at azzrian@cox.net or even post a comment here to share with everyone!
If you want to check groupon out please use my referrer link - LOL - I don't know what I get for referring anyone BUT may as well click here to check it out and if you do decide to join I can let you know what I got from it! 
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Azz

Smudge Sticks

 

What are they? Why would you use one? How are they made? Whats in them?

Well ... Smudge Sticks are bundled herbs. Usually sage, lavender, rosemary, thyme or any “woody” herb. The bundles can also be infused with essential oils and sometimes resins are used in them as well.


They are used for ritual work, cleansing of negative energy from the home, to invoke spirit and meditation. They can also be burned simply as an incense. Smudging is a ritual from Native American tradition. The idea behind smudging is that the smoke attaches itself to negative energy and carries it away, cleansing it at the same time so the negativity does not end up somewhere else.


Smudging can be used when you have felt ill, depressed, down, confused, unable to focus, have had unwanted guests, or just not yourself. I also use it with grounding meditations for balance and clarity.

You can purchase smudge sticks online or you can make your own! I prefer to make my own as not only do I grow my own herbs but I know then that all the energy within the smudge stick is pure and of positive energy.


To make a smudge stick gather the herbs you wish to use. Lay them out to dry. Once dried it will take some practice to get them laid out correctly to tie them into the bundle. You do not want too thin of a bundle as then it will burn too fast, although “woody” herbs do burn slower you will want a fairly thick bundle. Once you have them laid out properly tie them with a thin string, I have used kite string, thin twine, and sewing thread.


Once you have the bundle tied you light the tip and blow it out so that the stick will smolder and smoke but not continue to burn, just like a stick of incense.


To do a simple cleansing on your home to rid it of negative energy light the stick with a wooden match, wood matches are always preferred in ritual work over a lighter. Using as natural of materials as possible is key. Once lit walk about the parameter of the home paying close attention to corners, doors, windows, mirrored walls, and closets. Walk in as circular of a pattern as possible, fanning the smoke as you go. Before you begin this process it is best to have a clear intent for your work. Making a short prayer or statement as to why you are doing the smudging and what your intended purpose for it is will do.

Smudging can also be used in healing work by fanning the smoke over a person to pull out toxins and negative energies and replacing them with the healing abilities of the herbs. You can fan the smoke over the whole body, certain points of the body that need special attention or by fanning over each chakra point.


Smudge sticks can also be used to clean ritual tools such as crystals. Simply fan the smoke over the items and give thanks to both the item being smudged as well as the smudge stick for their help.


When putting your smudge stick out it is best to have a fireproof receptacle such as a shell, ceramic dish, etc. You can use sand, dirt or even the receptacle itself to tamp out the smudge stick. Just be sure it is extinguished before leaving it unwatched. Usually a smudge stick will go out on its own once you stop fanning it however it is always best to be safe making sure it is really out.


See below to order smudge sticks online or information about using smudge sticks and their history.


For another great article on smudging please see Ms. Yvonne's blog on the same topic here:


Why and How to Smudge






        

Waning Moon Rituals

When the moon is waning (getting smaller) we cast spells to diminish. Now is the time for putting old habits to rest, ending relationships that are unhealthy, stopping addictive behavior, and anything you wish to stop or put an end to. 

Over the next few nights I will be offering spell casting on diminishing spell work.


These are one night casting services not to be confused with my regular 10 night casting process.


Spells of this nature are for a boost, a leg up, help and assistance. They are not as powerful as a ten night casting session but they will help you gain an advantage and get you off to a good start. 


From there you have to use your own will power to see things through to completion. 


A one night casting will provide a window of opportunity, give you a boost of confidence, help you step back from someone who normally you would not have the guts to, or can cause others to take pause before creating conflict in your life.


Please feel free to email me about what you would like me to cast for and I can tell you if it is workable with the waning moon.
My email is azzrian@cox.net


Fee for one night casting is 20.00 per situation. 

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New Guided Meditation Uploaded!

Some of my clients were asking about grounding exercises so I have uploaded a new meditation for Grounding to my playlist! 
See above this post - there are two music players. The one on the bottom has my guided meditations on it. 
Hope it helps! 
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Azz

Your Magical Wand

It is funny and interesting how some things I learned when I was young were so easily forgotten on the conscious level yet are still tucked away in there inside of me on the subconscious level. My great great grandmother taught me well, even if over time I tend to forget what I had learned! 

Not too long ago a good friend of mine and fellow wiccan asked me if I had a wand. Sweetheart that she is was thinking of what kind of gift she could get me. Anyway I had said to her “My wand is just really basic, wood from a tree.” or something like that. 

So while I was going through my book of shadows the other day there it was in black and white - all about wands! As I read over it I was amazing to see that my basic little witches wand was exactly what it was supposed to be! Here I was thinking of some wands I had seen before in shops - all decorated with gems, made from glass or metals, very elaborate and impressive to say the least - also very expensive! While my wand may not have a lot of the fancy glistening things adorning it these wands have what my wand has is even more valuable! My own imprint on it and a gift from nature! 

So if you are a witch, studying to be one or just want to have a little magical influence around you consider the following when looking for your wand.

Your magical wand should be a gift from the earth. It should be wood and from a tree. Never should you cut a limb or take from the tree yourself. Find the tree you would like to be gifted your wand from, look beneath it for a fallen limb, even if it is large you can always cut it down to the right size. Sometimes you may have to stalk the tree for its gift to you but just be patient. The right gift will be given. Once you find the limb you want to make your wand from take it and give thanks to the tree. Good trees for witches wands are: Ash, Hazel, Rowan, Oak and Willow but any wood will do.

Then you can begin to create your own magical wand! 

You may need to cut the wand to the right length and the length it should be is really up to you! mine is about one foot long. You may then sand your wand using a course sandpaper then a finer one until your wand is perfectly smooth. 

Once your wand is the shape, size and feel you wish it to be you can cover it in a mix of essential oils or beeswax. 

You may also decorate your wand if you want. Some ways you can decorate it include but are not limited to: Glitter, gem stones, string, beads, bells, feathers, herbs, leather, crystals, carving, copper. 

Once your wand is complete be sure you consecrate it! To consecrate your wand you will want to light some incense. Myrrh, patchouli and sandalwood are good choices.

Light a white candle. Have a bowl of both water and salt with you. Cover the wand with salt. Place your hand over the bowl. Visualize a white light leaving the palm of your hand and passing through the bowl taking from you and your wand all negativity. Then say: I dedicate this wand to serve only positive influences with salt and smoke I consecrate this wand. Let it serve me well. So mote it be. 

Remove the salt from the wand by shaking it off and pass it through the incense smoke. 

Sprinkle it with the water and pass through the flame of your candle. Your wand is now consecrated. Bear in mind this is a very basic consecration but is more than adequate for the consecration of any magical item! 

Then enjoy your wand! 

I am humbled that with all I think I know on the conscious level I still have so much to learn and or remember. As a practicing witch one would think I should know that a wand gifted to me from our mother earth is the most precious wand I could possess. But, like anyone in this society I am stimulated by things that are fancy and shiny! I have to thank my great great grandmother once again for shaking me up and waking me up to what I was taught and what lies in my subconscious! Also a thanks to my friend - who started the butterfly effect to lead me to this renewed awareness! 

xox

Azz

A Very Special Offer!

Purchase an item from Mandi Leigh's Wiccan Boutique and receive a special bonus! 

(example of items in Mandi's shop shown in photo) 

Free Reading from Azzrian Visions

(see below for dates this offer is good!)

If you purchase an item from Mandi Leigh's Wiccan Boutique then you are entitled to a free 2 question email reading from Azzrian! 

To claim your free reading just email me at azzrian@cox.net - let me know you made a purchase from Mandi and be sure to include the name you purchased your item under. I will verify with Mandi that you are a customer and will contact you about your free reading! 

Note: Only ONE free reading per customer.

Also: 

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First 5 new Clients will receive a free handcrafted Gemstone gift from one of the following shops:

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Giveaway Starts on July 6th thru July 31st.
First item up for grabs is a Dragons Agate Silver Men's Ring.
This Ring setting is from the 1960's-1970's vintage stock. 
Transformed into a handsome everyday piece for you to enjoy.
Stone in the center is Dragons Vein Agate.
The band is a thick gauge metal, and is adjustable between sizes 8-11.
All rings are adjusted to fit using a ring mandrel. Please indicate which size is needed.
Metal content is rhodium plated brass.

A New Drawing Winner Has Been Announced!

A new winner was just posted! 
See the UPDATES! page to see who the winner is today! 
xox 
Azz

Rosemary and its Magical Uses

I grow rosemary every year, I can not do without it! Not only a wonderful herb for cooking and seasoning but a true Witches dream! 

Rosemary can be used in spells for love, protection, healing and to improve the mind. 

It can help you increase your memory function and is great to have the aroma of rosemary around you when studying or trying to learn something new! 

You can give someone a rosemary plant or a sachet to help them think of you.

You can burn rosemary in ritual work to help protect someone you love.

Great to use before travel as well! 

Putting a sachet of rosemary - especially when combined with lavender will guarantee you a restful nights sleep! 

If you make incense with Rosemary you can help increase your psychic abilities! 

Rosemary is good for cleansing and rinsing away negative energy.

Rosemary is also known to increase fertility.

My favorite use for Rosemary however is in spell work to release our inner child! 

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Full Moon Casting Tonight!

Hey everyone, I will be doing full moon spell work tonight if you have anything you would like to have done email me what it is you would like.

I am asking for 20.00 payments to cover materials and my time. 
I do not often offer full moon spells as normally my spell work is done over a 10 night period but I am full of casting energy right now and ready to do some work! 
Email me at azzrian@cox.net if you want some spell work done for you tonight! 

A Call to Action

Dear readers:

Recently a friend and co-worker of mine posted something on her facebook that caught my eye. 

I wanted to share this with all of you and if anyone can and would like to donate to help a person who is beyond special and amazing please read below:

John Pereira has had CP since birth, he is a twin with a feisty sense of humor. He is going to get his own stem cells taken from his bone marrow, and injected into the spinal fluid, apparently the cells "know" where to go to help heal the damaged parts of the brain. Johns family is looking to go the last week of August.

He will be going to the Xcell center in Germany this is there link if you want to check it out :)

http://www.xcell-center.com/treatments/overview.aspx. 

As many of you know I have a daughter who has Cerebral Palsy as well, although not as challenging of a condition as John's I understand and empathize with John and hope that those who can help, will consider it. 

John struggles each day with even the simplest of things, it is his hope that this treatment will help him to be able to communicate and get some use of his hands, so that he is able to type and speak. John can type and he can communicate but it is a struggle for him. 

This is not a person that wakes up in the morning saying 'why me" he wakes up saying " how can I help" he is wonderful person.

John is an Intuitive Medium who happens to need a wheelchair to get around. There are people who say a birth injury caused the disability Cerebral Palsy, John says it caused his ability to communicate with those that are on the higher side. Even though the CP effects John's speech he will always find an adaptation to get around this minor difficulty making sure that every word that he says is understood by others. When John is reading he will have someone with him that can understand him just in case you can't understand what he is saying.

John first noticed his ability when he was 3 years old. John wanted to sleep on the living room floor and every night for one year he used to see cars speeding by the living room in the kitchen as if the kitchen was a highway which was very scary. It wasn't until John was older that he learned that the cars were energy imprints. At the age of five when he would hear someone say the word "psychic" it was like that word meant something to him. John now knows that as a little boy when he heard someone say "psychic" he was remembering something from his life chart.

As John grew up over the years he had more and more experiences with the higher side. One of John's experiences happened at his brother-in-law's wake. As much pain as John and his family were in at that time, and without knowing how or why he had this information, John knew his brother-in-law's spirit was at the wake. Three weeks later John was staying in a hotel and as he was dozing off that night he saw his brother-in-law come around the corner, lean over the bed and start talking to John.

When John's grandmother crossed over to the higher side in 2007 he saw her at her funeral. After John saw his grandmother, he wanted to fine tune his ability. He didn't know where to start so he asked his guides to lead him down the path of development. His guides led him to his first mediumship class and from there John found a spirit communication circle. In the spirit communication circle he met people that helped him to learn more about spirit communication. And through those people John met more mediums that he took classes with to make his ability stronger. John went professional when he felt that he had the right knowledge to connect with the higher side. His clairvoyance is one of his stronger abilities and it allows him to see things around people enabling him to help them in the right way for them.

Thank you all for taking the time to read this post.

For more information about John and how you can donate please see the link below:

http://www.johnpereira.net/About_John_.html

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Course Offering

Hello - first off I want to mention I have added a new page where courses currently being offered will be posted. You can find that page by looking at the links below my blog banner and find the link titled Courses. Or you can simply click here: Courses


Currently I am offering a course with Ms LisaM you can find her blog here:
 Ms LisaM


This course was designed by Lisa and I am honored she has asked me to join her in the instruction process.


Here is more information on this course:

THE WISDOM OF A BROKEN HEART

Why is it that we always seem to learn the greatest lessons through pain and heartache? When has anyone learned or retained a lesson’s meaning during a happy time?

We do recognize those wonderful times in our lives with gratitude and appreciation, but those “happy” feelings are fleeting. How quickly we forget, huh? We don’t truly “remember” those times as much or as profoundly as we do the memories that are riddled with pain and angst. Why is that?

Well, let’s take a look at it. When we are happy we don’t seem to obsess about said happiness. We live in the moment, we allow it to envelope us like a warm blanket and we accept the moment with a welcoming embrace. However, when we are met with a challenge, pain, tears, or turmoil we tend to obsess over it, trying desperately to “get out of that moment” and fix it or quickly abandon those feelings. We don’t want to feel bad. We don’t like pain. We do everything we can to avoid it and evade it, and by doing so our focus becomes all about THAT moment. So, we retain it. We remember it fiercely and with great clarity. I bet each person reading this can tell me what color shirt they were wearing the first time their heart was broken, but they can’t tell me what color their shirt was the first time someone gave them a compliment, or the first time someone said a romantic “I love you”....

Please click here to read more that Lisa has posted and to learn about the course.

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Radiant Children

You may have heard of Indigo and Crystal children. 

Indigo children have been incarnating on Earth for around the last 100 or so years while Crystal children began to appear only since around the year 2000 or so.  

Indigos purpose is to take places as leaders in the world whereas Crystal children are highly attuned and powerful souls who worked more as a collective force for good on this earth.

Sometimes an Indigo will transform into a Crystal through a process of spiritual awakening and enlightenment. 

Unfortunately Indigos and Crystals arrived on this planet around a time where labels where being tossed around like beach balls at a rock concert. These labels were also largely created to explain the uncommon behaviors displayed by these very gifted children! We all know our society seeks to understand WHY people are the way they are and labels were created to explain the behaviors. Some of the labels assigned to these special children were ADHD and ADD. Often times these children were heavily medicated and lost their connection to their spiritual gifts. 

I urge all of you to research about Crystal and Indigo children further if you feel you are or know someone with these gifts! This topic has been covered well and there are multitudes of articles all over the web about them as well as a number of good books on the topic, however today I am writing about a new breed of children entering our world! This would be the next step on our evolutionary phase. 

Radiant Children:

 Most of these children are around 6 to 10 years of age and some may yet to be born.

What Radiant children have that the former crystal and indigo children do not is an acute awareness of how to utilize their gifts and rise about common misconceptions about who and what they are. Although still young in years these children will rise above their predecessors challenges of being labeled, forced to conform, and chastised for their unique gifts. They are more focused on how and when to use their gifts and who they can trust to exhibit them to or around. They are more cautious and much more curious about how to use their abilities. They are highly aware from a very young age just how different they are and they keep themselves a secret from their friends and at times even their family. They are highly intelligent and intuitive and will often times stop their parents in their tracks with their very accurate and astounding statements about the world, how it functions, people, their motivations etc. They make statements that no average child their age should know. They are inquisitive and seem to have a clear visions of what they want to be when they grow up beyond what an average child their age would normally consider. They do not want to be a super hero, but rather an alchemist. They do not want to be school teachers but rather they want to be researchers. They do not want to be an astronaut but rather they want to be an astrophysicist. 

These children are not geniuses or any more educated than other children. Most of these children have barely started Kindergarten. They are just on a much higher level of awareness. Perhaps they have picked more “big words” up from the Internet, television, etc and are more in-tune with what options are out there for them in the world but their comprehension of what these big words mean is far beyond their “years” in earth years.

They notice things other children do not, most of the time things adults do not. They will hear things and pick up on tones that we can not. They usually do not make grand statements about how they see, feel or hear things we do not asking if we see, hear or sense it to, rather, they just discuss it as if we should have also seen, felt or heard it. They are very matter of fact and do not seem to care if we are not at “their level” they are not as worried or fearful of their abilities. Generally they do not get on so well with other kids their age but they are not mischief makers or problem starters and they do not get picked on as much as they really just have little interest in children their own age. 

This can cause parents worry and concern. We all want out children to make friends and feel like they belong within our society but these children do not have a care in the world for the affairs of children. They are much more involved in the affairs of the adults in their lives. For this reason parents of these Radiant Children need to be aware of what they say, do, and how they act because even when the adults are not with full understanding of why they feel the things they feel, do the things they do or say the things they say - their children are! Actions always speak louder than words and the adults in the lives of these Radiant Children need to be on their toes or they may begin to feel their own children are calling them out when not using proper behaviors! 

Radiant Children are very forgiving and non-judgmental but still it can be an eye-opener when your own child seems to have a better understanding of you than you do yourself! 

Radiant Children see the bigger picture, look at the world from a cosmic one-ness and have a purity about them but not an innocence. They are well aware of the evils of this world and will conquer them one by one. They do not just say they want to but are making plans on when, where, how and why. They are in fact our world’s new “super-heros” and are coming into this world at light speed. 

They are the doers not just the thinkers, not just the feelers, not just the seers, but all of these things combined that will find a new path for our society, our world and our collective consciousness.

With all the talk about December 21st, 2012 (my daughter’s birthday by the way), these children are here among us now to assist us on a journey not toward doom and gloom but enlightenment and another way of existence! Yes they may “only” be children in our eyes, but these “children” are very old souls, direct descendants of our ancestors, once ascended to a higher plane of existence - recalled to this earth to guide us.

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