This weekend has also been about the synchronicities of life. When I was originally asked to attend a private Beltane on Saturday, they had suggested that everyone bring a rock, precious stone or mineral for some common purpose. As you will read below, this invitation came after I received a members' invitation to RockFest at the Wienman Mineral Museum.
Penne, Connla and I tried to attend RockFest on Friday night; however, the vendors weren't open. Connla, Tony and I decided to go RockFest the next morning. That night I had some peculiar dreams. I clearly remember dreaming about selenite, the clustered rose type. I remember clearly holding a small selenite rose in my hand and studying it.
Saturday morning we woke and set off to the festival without incident. While walking through the vendors, I happened upon a small box with a selenite rose in it. I picked it up and immediately remembered the dream I had. I bought the stone without hesitation.
Penne, Connla and I tried to attend RockFest on Friday night; however, the vendors weren't open. Connla, Tony and I decided to go RockFest the next morning. That night I had some peculiar dreams. I clearly remember dreaming about selenite, the clustered rose type. I remember clearly holding a small selenite rose in my hand and studying it.
Saturday morning we woke and set off to the festival without incident. While walking through the vendors, I happened upon a small box with a selenite rose in it. I picked it up and immediately remembered the dream I had. I bought the stone without hesitation.
Later on, I was looking with Tony at something when Connla broke through our discussion to say, "Check your ticket! Check your ticket!" Then he began to repeat over and over the number that had just been called in the raffle. The raffle was free. Tickets had been given to us upon entry into the festival. I had put them in my pocket without looking at them and promptly forgotten about them. Connla was tugging on me as I drew them out only to discover the number he was repeating was the number of one of our tickets! We had won!
We went to the booth to claim our prize and drew the number five prize. Inside the bag was a sterling silver agate bracelet by Edward G. Harker, geologist and goldsmith (Unfortunately Mr. Harker does not have an email OR website, his work is excellent!). Connla quickly claimed the luck as his doing and the bracelet as his Mother's Day gift to me. I told him that it was great that he and Tony could get me a Mother's Day gift without spending a dime. Connla firmly replied, "No, this is MY gift. Tony is out of luck!"
I have been wearing my gift from Connla ever since.
We went to a lovely Beltane celebration with a private group. It was surreal. I discovered that during my very serious illness last year, Tony had contacted this group asking them to place a candle on the altar for me at one of their celebrations. Tony was in tears as he thanked the group and offered me up as proof of their ability to heal. I was really taken a back at this revelation.
Finally, this late afternoon I was able to look up what the magical properties of agate and selenite are. I was also able to consider some of the numerological significances of the events around the actual winning. The number I won with was 39800051. Numerology gives the ticket a number of 8, because 3+9+8+0+0+0+5+1 = 26 = 2+6 = 8. The prize I won was the number 5 prize. I won a bracelet laid out in a nine stone chain. When I used Love is in the Earth by Melody, to calculate the number of the stones I got, 8+9+5+9+1+9+9+9+8 = 67 = 6+7 = 13. Sometimes 13 is further reduced to 1+3 = 4.
Continuing with Love is in the Earth I used the companion book Love is in the Earth: Mineralogical Pictorial to identify the subsets of agate I had.
I studied what Melody had to say about these stones and looked into The Crystal Bible. I found the meaning of the different agates interesting and informative. The numerology is very revealing also.
I hope everyone else had a great weekend too!
