Free Festival of Light 

at the Winter Gardens in Weston-super-Mare

Somerset BS23 1AJ 

 

 FREE ADMISSION        10am - 6pm

   Mediums      Healers      Associated Trade Stands
 Aura Camera     Readers      Therapists      Crystal Stalls   
 Products     Demonstrations     Talks     Mini-Workshops

All stands taken but please contact if you would like a place on the reserve list.

http://www.festivaloflight.biz        lizdiamond51@talktalk.net  

 or Telephone    01934 624939    Text  07799 140 227    

      

Volunteer Required  

for one of the presentations on 17th September at the  

Festival of Light

New Iridology Workshop  

 Saturday 12th November 12noon - 5pm  The Winter Gardens W-s-M

I am now a semi-retired professional but extensively trained Naturopathic Iridologist. I have decided to offer this workshop in response to those who regularly request a private consultation with me.

This is a special workshop that will serve as a private consultation as none of your details will be revealed to anyone else unless individual participants choose to do so. Each person will receive a tick sheet with their own constitution indicated plus extra printed sheets containing details of their unique special signs.

This Naturopathic Iridology Workshop includes recommendations on nutrition, simple safe naturopathic methods, psychological and spiritual aspects with tried and tested strategies. I work on every level so if you would like to help yourself I can assist you. I am a doctor of Metaphysical Sciences and a powerful Metaphysical Healer. Most people will benefit dramatically after a rejuvenating afternoon taking part in this workshop.

Each participant will receive:-

A short personal Iridology Reading from myself

Four eBooks on Nutritional Medicine and Iridology

Printed material on your particular constitution and special eye signs

A photograph taken by myself of your eyes.

By the end of the workshop you will have a mass of knowledge on how to optimise your personal health and well being. 

I can also point you in the right direction if you would like to study iridology with a view to using the amazing art of iridology in your future career.

Arrive from 12noon - starting at 1pm promptly, through to 5 pm.

Photographs and Examinations will take place from 12noon to 1pm and in the break.

Photographs and eBooks will be emailed immediately after the Workshop.

After much consideration I have decided to keep the cost of this workshop at a very low level so financial matters are not a major deterrent. Therefore the full amount is payable as each place is booked. I will be unable to hold places without payment, but will reserve a place so that a cheque can be put in the post by 1^st class mail or an online booking made. If for whatever reason an individual is unable to attend I am happy to transfer their place to anyone else the individual would like to nominate at any stage.  

Numbers limited @ �35 each.

Book online using Paypal. You can book even if you do not have a Paypal account, just a credit or debit card

at http://www.drelizabethanndiamond.com    

20 places maximum 10 remain. 

Healing Visualisation & Regression CD's

The New Regression CD is now available. I have a handful of the Healing Visualisation CDs with a free copy of the original Regression CD that will be available at the September 17th Festival of Light. The New Healing Visualisation CD is a 36 minute focus on the body and it's main systems, lungs, heart, arteries, veins, lymphatics, skeleton, nervous system, digestive and eliminative sytems, ending in a very healing & peaceful space. The new Regression CD is now  more than 46 minutes long. I will have these in Weston-super-Mare and Glastonbury or you can purchase online. http://www.drelizabethanndiamond.com 

Mystic & Earth Spirit Fayre Glastonbury 

Saturday 24th and Sunday 25th September 2011 

The Spider - Wikipedia

The spider has featured in mythological fables and cultures throughout the world since ancient times and in modern mythology. In Ancient Egypt, the spider was associated with the goddess Neith in her aspect as spinner and weaver of destiny, this link continuing later through the Babylonian Ishtar and Greek Athena. The spider has been featured in literature for many centuries. In the Vedic philosophy of India, the spider is depicted as hiding the ultimate reality with the veils of illusion. Arachne a half-spider half-human in Dante's Inferno.

The most notable ancient legend that explains the origin of the spider is the story of the weaving competition between the Greek goddess Athena and the sometimes princess Arachne. This fable was added much later to the Greek mythos when Ovid wrote the poem Metamorphoses between AD 2-8. Arachne was the daughter of a famous Tyrian purple dyer in Hypaipa of Lydia. Due to her father's skill with cloth dying, Arachne was adept in the art of weaving. Eventually, she began to consider herself a greater weaver than the goddess Athena herself and challenged the goddess to a weaving contest to prove her skill. Athena wove the scene of her victory over Poseidon that had inspired her patronage of Athens, while Arachne wove a tapestry featuring twenty-one episodes of infidelity amongst the Gods of Olympus, which angered Athena. The goddess conceded that Arachne's weaving was flawless but she was infuriated by the mortal's pride. In a final moment of anger, Athena destroyed Arachne's tapestry and loom with her shuttle and cursed Arachne to live with extreme guilt. Out of sadness, Arachne hanged herself soon after. Taking pity on her, Athena brought her back to life as a spider (using juice of aconite) after the princess killed herself. Athena made sure that the spider retained Arachne's weaving abilities. The Greek Arachne means "spider" (αράχνη).  

In African folklore, the spider is personified as Anansi, the trickster god and character from later in African mythology. Alternate names include Kwaku Ananse in West Africa and anglicized as Aunt Nancy (or Sister Nancy), a variant specifically found in some of the islands of the West Indies, South America and the United States. And in other cultures, such as the Native American Lakota people's culture, the spider is present as the deity Iktomi, which is occasionally depicted in its form. In Native American mythology, the spider is again seen in the legend about the birth of the constellation Ursa Major. The constellation was seen as seven men transformed into stars and climbing to paradise by unrolling a spider's web. The Navajo has the creation myth of Spider Grandmother. In the story, Spider Grandmother created all things through the shimmering threads that came out of her belly. The Moche people of ancient Peru worshipped nature. They placed emphasis on animals and often depicted spiders in their art.

  Next Full Moon - Monday 12th September 09:28

I start my silver work course on this day.   

The Blackberry - A Modern Herbal - Mrs M Grieve  

The Blackberry, or Bramble, growing in every English hedge-row, is too well known to need description. Its blossoms, as well as its fruits, both green and ripe, may be seen on the bush: at the same time, a somewhat unusual feature, not often met with in other plants.

---History---The name of the bush is derived from brambel, or brymbyl, signifying prickly. We read of it as far back as the days of Jonathan, when he upbraided the men of Shechem for their ingratitude to his father's house, relating to them the parable of the trees choosing a king, the humble bramble being finally elected, after the olive, fig-tree and vine had refused the dignity. The ancient Greeks knew Blackberries well, and considered them a remedy for gout.

Opinions differ as to whether there is one true Blackberry with many aberrant forms; or many distinct types. Professor Babington divides the British Rubi into forty-one species, or more.

It would appear that in Cornwall the bramble-cure is only employed for boils, the sufferer being either dragged or made to crawl beneath the rooted shoot. We have heard of cows that were said to be 'mousecrope,' or to have been walked over by a shrew-mouse (an ancient way of accounting for paralysis), being dragged through the bramble-loop, in which case, if the creature could wait the time of finding a loop large enough, and suffer the dragging process at the end, we should say the case would not be so hopeless as that of our friend's fat pig, who, when she was ailing, 'had a mind to kill her to make sure on her!' (LINDLEY S Treasury of Botany.)

The Blackberry is known in some parts of the country as 'Scaldhead,' either from producing the eruption known as scaldhead in children who eat the fruit to excess - the over-ripe fruit being indigestible - or from the curative effects of the leaves and berries in this malady of the scalp, or from the remedial effects of the leaves, when applied externally to scalds. The leaves are said to be still in use in England as a remedy for burns and scalds; formerly their operation was helped by a spoken charm. Creeping under a Bramble-bush was itself a charm against rheumatism, boils, blackheads, etc. Blackberries were in olden days supposed to give protection against all 'evil runes,' if gathered at the right time of the moon. The whole plant had once a considerable popular reputation both as a medicine and as a charm for various disorders. The flowers and fruit were from very ancient times used to remedy venomous bites; the young shoots, eaten as a salad, were thought - though Gerard cautiously suggests the addition of a little alum - to fasten loose teeth. Gerard and other herbalists regard the bramble as a valuable astringent, whether eaten or applied: its leaves 'heal the eies that hang out,' and are a most useful application for piles, its fruit stops looseness of the bowels and is good for stone, and for soreness in mouth and throat.  

---Medicinal Action and Uses---The bark of the root and the leaves contain much tannin, and have long been esteemed as a capital astringent and tonic, proving a valuable remedy for dysentery and diarrhoea, etc. The root is the more astringent.

The fruit contains malic and citric acids, pectin and albumen. If desiccated in a moderately hot oven and then reduced to a powder, it is a reliable remedy for dysentery.

Labradorite

On this last Bank Holiday Monday whilst facilitating the crystal workshop I was given an amazing insight into this stone, so decided to look up further information and came across this which certainly gives me an understanding.  

The Magician's or Shaman's stone, or the dark side of the moon. This crystal is for transformation of the self. It humbles the ego and reveals the hidden areas of negativity that we all engage in; power dramas and subtle power games that we play in relationships of any kind. It brings to light areas which have been hidden, allowing for more to be understood. Freezes your actions in Meditation; that is slows anger, ego projection and allows the user to see what is present, as is.  

 
Anti- Ego Consciousness, Anti-Arrogance, Anti Illusion, Installs humility, anti-haste.

Encourages stability in the self, grounding and centring, places the consciousness closer to the true self expression. Good for people nearing the end of the Saturn or plutonian return. Reveals hidden talents and abilities held within the shadow self for use now. Encourages knowledge and wisdom of the self; purely, and therefore is a means to growth of the personality. Why is it called the dark side of the moon? Because it reveals that which is present but can not be seen by the light of the conscious mind without reflection.  

 
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 Friendship sent to me by a friend

'Be kinder than necessary because everyone you meet is fighting some kind of battle.' 
  
A sharp tongue can cut your own throat.

If you want your dreams to come true, you mustn't oversleep.

Of all the things you wear, your expression is the most important.

The best vitamin for making friends...... B1.

The happiness of your life depends on the quality of your thoughts.

The heaviest thing you can carry is a grudge..

One thing you can give and still keep...is your word.   

You lie the loudest when you lie to yourself.

If you lack the courage to start, you have already finished.  

One thing you can't recycle is wasted time.

Ideas won't work unless ' You' do.

The 10 commandments are not a multiple choice.

The pursuit of happiness is the chase of a lifetime!  

It is never too late to become what you might have been.

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love
the people who treat you right. Forget about the
ones who don't. Believe everything happens for a reason.
If you get a second chance, grab it with both hands. If
it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life
would be easy, they just promised it would be
worth it.    

   
Friends are like balloons;
once you let them go, you might not get them
back. Sometimes we get so busy with our own
lives and problems that we may not even notice
that we've let them fly away. Sometimes we are so
caught up in who's right and who's wrong that we
forget what's right and wrong.. Sometimes we just
don't realize what real friendship means until it
is too late. I don't want to let that happen so
I'm going to tie you to my heart so I never lose you.