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People inspire
or they drain you,
pick them wisely.
Hans F Hansen
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Greetings!
The 1st of May today, from this point on I seem to be hacking back the growth in my garden just so that we can use the pats. I'm not complaining though, the garden is under control right now. However I have a feeling that this year all the trees and shrubs will be very lush because of the rain last year.
I have been reviewing and transforming the way I work and I've now completed the major changes to my home and work spaces so I will be able to get on now without anything to hinder me.
The next Festival of Light is just 8 weeks away, see details below. I have made the decision to run the Festival of Light just once a year from 2014 the date will be 20th September but it will be a big one.
I will be doing two smaller workshop based events on Saturdays 17th May and 9th November 2014 so let me know if you are interested in particular subjects.
I will be attending some craft fairs with my hand crafted jewellery and I have included some of the dates below. I so love working in precious metals, crystals and fused glass, so I am making more time to do this.
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Today the 1st of May
May Day is related to the Celtic festival of Beltane and the Germanic festival of Walpurgis Night. May Day falls exactly half a year from November 1, another cross-quarter day which is also associated with various northern European pagan and the year in the Northern Hemisphere, and it has traditionally been an occasion for popular and often raucous celebrations.
As Europe became Christianised, the pagan holidays lost their religious character and either changed into popular secular celebrations, as with May Day, or were merged with or replaced by new Christian holidays as with Christmas, Easter, Pentecost and All Saint's Day. In the 20th and continuing into the 21st century, many neopagans began reconstructing the old traditions and celebrating May Day as a pagan religious festival again.
Courtesy of Wikipedia
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Sterling Silver Offers
I've been sorting out some Sterling Silver items and I have these lovely hearts and dolphins. The hearts are 23mm long not including bails and the dolphins are 20mm not including bails.
They are 925 stamped. Either would make lovely pendants or large ear rings. Most have a royal blue stone and a few have beautiful quartz spheres. I did not make them myself but can do them for only £5 each plus postage. I can make them into ear rings with sterling silver ear wires for £10 a pair or add a sterling silver 1mm snake or other type of chain for £9 together. Thus I am charging £4 each for the chains. I can do snake chain in 18" 20" 22" & 24". I have other types of chain in 16" 24" & 30", please check if you are interested.
Quartz is always very difficult to photograph but all are a beautiful clear quartz unless blue of course. Just a few quartz items are available now. Check out the website for further photographs of the hearts www.lizdiamondsjewellery.com
I will add Paypal details to the website shortly.
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Free Festival of Light Saturdays 29th June & 21st September
The Ballroom & Ashcombe Suite
The Winter Gardens Royal Parade
Weston-super-Mare Somerset BS23 1AJ
FREE ADMISSION 10am - 5pm
Separate Suite for the Workshops Talks & Presentations £1 each
Mediums Healers Associated Trade Stands
Aura Camera Readers Therapists Crystal Stalls
Products Demonstrations Talks Mini-Workshops
http://www.festivaloflight.biz lizdiamond51@yahoo.com
Text 07799 140 227 
All readers space has been taken for 2013,
one or two trade and therapists spaces available
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Mystic & Earth Spirit Fayre
Tor Leisure Centre Glastonbury
Saturday 6th & Sunday 7th July
Sat 24th Sun 25th & Mon 26th August
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I will be at Tor Leisure Centre, the new venue for the Mystic and Earth Spirit Fayre on the above dates. I will have my new stock of Pendants, Sterling Silver, Copper, Fused Glass, Totem Animal,, Colour, Tibetan Silver & Gemstone Healing Jewellery. FREE Entry to the Fayre.
Checkout this website for further details http://www.glastonburyfayres.co.uk
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Phases of the Moon
Next Full Moon - Saturday 25th May 04:26
Dark of the Moon - Thursday 9th May
New Moon - Friday 10th May 00:29
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Fasting
Improves heart health and may even reverse diabetes
Fasting-where little or no food is eaten a few days a week-can be as beneficial as exercise or surgery if you have heart disease. It improves blood pressure while releasing a protein that naturally protects the heart, and recent research suggests it may even reverse type 2 diabetes.
All the benefits of fasting have been evaluated by scientists at Aston University, and they have come away with a long list that is topped by improvements to heart health, reversal of diabetes and reduction in inflammation.
Intermittent fasting-where food is not eaten on alternate days or several days a week-is also a very effective way at losing weight, says lead researcher James Brown.
The diet is just as effective as exercise and bariatric surgery, which is usually performed on obese patients, and it improves the functioning of the pancreas, and could even reverse type 2 diabetes, they say.
When you fast, the body raises levels of adiponectin, a protein that helps protect the heart.
(Source: British Journal of Diabetes and Vascular Disease, 2013; 13: 68-72).
Taken from What the Doctors Don't Tell You (WDDTY)29 April 2013
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Note: This is of great interest to me as I have been fasting for full days all my adult life. I do at least two full days a weeks and have never felt better. I take no medications, I was diagnosed with hereditary Diabetes Mellitus Type 11 five years ago.
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The CUCKOO
Cuckoo appears in many Lithuanian fairy tales, songs and legends. People noticed it's strange voice and tried to explain this phenomena. The most often it was seen as a complaint and a groan. In one fairy tale a woman loses her three sons in war and finally becomes a cuckoo affected by a deep sorrow. She goes to different countries in the world to look for the tombs of her sons. That's why a cuckoo stands for symbol of a woman who lost someone she loved or who suffers from some misery. There are many sayings related to this bird: "You can only understand the song of a cuckoo if you suffer from pain", "Not that one sings with the voice of a cuckoo whose tooth hurts but that one whose hart is in pain". This symbol could be compared with Vedic understanding that a cuckoo is a soul before and after the incarnation. Body represents a strange nest in which the soul settles.
In Baltic pagan tradition people often reincarnate into birds or trees after their death. Only souls of good people could transform into cuckoos. They are seen as mediators between the worlds of the living and the dead. Cuckoo is a bird of Laima, the Goddess of fertility, life and birth. She was one of the first Goddesses worshiped by Lithuanians in Stone Age. In the beginning she was the most powerful deity of Heavens and Earth. The primordial Goddess was pictured as a cuckoo and her assistant Laime (Happiness) or Dalia (Fate) - as a water bird - duck or swan. After Laima became a female personification, she kept certain traits of the bird cuckoo. This bird became the main protector of human life, the announcer of important events (birth, marriage and death), the predictor of cyclic time of the year. It's functions begin in Spring, when a cuckoo announces the end of chaos and the establishment of a new order. The fifth month of the year has the name of a cuckoo in Lithuania .
Cuckoo decides about human existence and death, she decides how long one would live. The habitat of Goddess Laima and cuckoo is linden tree. Cuckoo is mentioned in Lithuanian wedding songs as well.
It can be often met in the forest: it warns about someone's ruse, protects the orphans, tells the truth about something. It's speckled color is also mentioned quite often.
However, there exists another image of a cuckoo as well. It lays eggs in the nests of other birds and do not breed it's children, other birds avoid cuckoos. Even today whores are called cuckoos because of this fact. The devil was also compared to a cuckoo: there is a saying "Not a devil, nor a cuckoo". It is said that cuckoos can tell how long a man will live.
In Greek mythology Cuckoo is one of Hera's (the goddess of women and marriage) birds. Her equivalent in Roman mythology was Juno. Zeus transformed himself into a cuckoo and seemed to be frozen. Hera felt sorry for this bird and wanted to make it warm putting it to her breast. Then Zeus turned in his normal shape, raped Hera and insisted to marry him to cover her shame.
Almost all European nations attributed a role of sibyl to this bird. For example, when one hears a cuckoo for the first time in spring he should count how many times it will sing - that will be the number of years he is going to live. Another example tells that a man should have money in his pocket when he hears a cuckoo for the first time in spring, otherwise he will stay poor that year.
Courtesy of http://symbols.ehibou.com/cuckoo/
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Botanical: Convolvulus sepium
A Modern Herbal, first published in 1931, by Mrs. M. Grieve
Synonyms
Hedge Convolvulus. Old Man's Night Cap. Hooded Bindweed. Bearbind.
Habitat The Greater Bindweed, or Hedge Convolvulus (C. sepium), is a hedge plant found abundantly throughout England and Scotland, but only of local occurrence in Scotland. Like the Field Convolvulus, it is, in spite of the beauty of its flowers, regarded as a pest by both the farmer and the gardener, its roots being long and penetrating in a dense mass that exhausts the soil, and its twining stems extending in masses over all other plants near, and strangling them to a still greater degree than its smaller relative
The leaves of this Bindweed are arrow-shaped and large, somewhat thin and delicate in texture. They are arranged singly on alternate sides of the stem, as is the case with all species of Convolvulus and from their axils spring the flower-stalks, which are square and in every case bear only one large blossom, conspicuous for its snowy whiteness. The flowers are among the largest which this country produces. The calyx is entirely hidden by the two large bracts that enclose it, and which completely hide the flower while in bud, a feature that has gained it also the name of 'Hooded Bindweed,' and has led some botanists to place it in a different genus, Calystegia, the name being derived from two Greek words signifying 'beautiful covering.' The specific name, sepium, is derived from the Latin sepes, a hedge, andrefers to its place of growth.
The flowers are in bloom from July to September, and like all the other species expand during sunshine and remain closed during dull weather. They do not, however, like those of the Field Convolvulus, close during a shower.
Anne Pratt (Flowers and their Associations) notices the fact that while some twining plants follow the apparent course of the sun and turn round the supporting stem from left to right, others, like the large White Bindweed or Convolvulus, twine contrary to the sun, from right to left, and never otherwise; even if the gardener turn it in another direction, the plant, if unable to disengage itself and assume its natural bias, will eventually perish.
| Note: Although this can be quite beautiful it does choke other plants. However I have found it very satis fying to put it out with all it's white roots coming away quite easily.
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Veg Fest UK Bristol
I will be visiting VegfestUK Bristol which is held in The Amphitheatre and Waterfront Square 24th - 26th May details on http://bristol.vegfest.co.uk
The Bristol Organic Food festival seems to have stopped so I went to Vegfest last year and loved it. Lots of wonderful food and music.
I am not a vegan or vegetarian but I do appreciate good food and it was a very enjoyable day out.
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The Cobra
"Once there was a snake, a cobra that was meditating in a forest. This cobra was meditating on loving-kindness and he was really practising hard, saying: "May all beings be well, may all beings be happy, may all beings be peaceful." He was having a beautiful metta meditation and he had such a nice gentle smile on his face.
Then an old woman came along carrying a bundle of firewood. This old woman couldn't see very well, she didn't recognise the cobra and she thought he was an old rope. She used the cobra to tie the bundle of firewood, and as the cobra was practising metta meditation he just allowed the woman to do that. "May you be well, may you be happy, may you be peaceful", the cobra thought. When the woman had taken the bundle back to her home the cobra escaped after many difficulties. He was in a lot of pain, bearing many bruises and wounds.
So then the cobra went straight to his meditation teacher and said: "I want an interview." The teacher asked: "What is the problem?" "What is the problem!" the cobra replied. "I was practising your meditation of loving-kindness and see what has happened to me!" In response the teacher said very calmly, "You were not practising loving-kindness, you were practising idiotic compassion. You should have shown her that you were a cobra, you should have hissed!" Sometimes we also have to show people that we are cobras. There are times where you have to assert yourself, otherwise people can start exploiting you. They can take advantage of your so-called loving-kindness. But you have to know when to hiss." ~Friends of Godwin
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White Howlite
Note: Howlite is often dyed, especially turquoise but you can normally tell by the dark veins that it contains.
I am very fond of white howlite and I find it a very attractive stone which has a beautiful 'feel' to it. I own this little white howlite mouse which lives on my mantelpiece in my office/glass fusing studio. I have some rather nice white howlite pendants for sale on my jewellery stand.
Howlite is a super-calming stone and many people use it to relieve stress of all kinds. It makes an excellent antidote to insomnia due to an overactive mind.
Focusing on a piece of howlite can assist in journeying outside the body and gaining insight from past lives. Placed on the third eye, it opens memories of previous times and lifetimes.
Howlite teaches patience Place a howlite stone in your pocket to absorb your own anger - or another's anger that is directed toward you. It helps to overcome critical or selfish behaviour.
Relieves insomnia Balances calcium levels Strengthens teeth and bones
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If you are not doing what you love,
you are wasting your time.
Billy Joel
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Daddy Long Legs
Note: I was curious about Daddy Long Legs so decided to find out a little more, some say they are spiders but that isn't quite so. The following is courtesy of the BBC website www.bbc.co.u.k
Daddy Long Legs or crane flies, there is no escaping them, lolloping around and battering into every window, wall, light and person that gets in their way.
They are a late autumnal species that peak at this time of year. The larvae - known as leatherjackets - feed through autumn, winter and spring on decaying plant material and plant roots just below the soil surface. These then turn to pupae and new adult flies hatch in September.
The lifespan of an adult is only about two weeks and their purpose is to mate and to die within a few days. There is debate over whether they even eat during their short lives or survive on food reserves stored in their bodies.
More and more will keep hatching if the weather stays mild into the next month. But apart from being a nuisance and frightening people - they were voted the world's second scariest creature after spiders in a recent poll - what's the point of daddy longlegs?
They are an important source of food for creatures that eat insects, including birds and spiders, says ecology professor Guy Poppy, from the University of Southampton.
The larvae also eat decaying plant material and help to recycle nutrients back into the soil.
But one man's meat is another man's poison. As they feast on plant roots, this proves to be a nightmare for many gardeners - particularly when they gorge on grass roots, leaving bare patches.
"Some people think they are useful and others think they are a pain in the neck. They're definitely not very popular at golf courses," says Professor Poppy.
"It's hard to predict what would happen if all daddy longlegs were eradicated but I don't know of any bird and spider that eats them exclusively. However, as an ecologist I think all life forms have an important role to play in the ecosystem."
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Diary 2013
This is where I will be selling my Jewellery and Amulets let me know if you would like further venue details
Sunday 26th May Cadbury Garden Centre
Saturday 8th June - Private Booking
Saturday 22nd June Wedmore Village Hall
Sunday 23rd June Tiverton
Saturday 29th June Festival of Light - Weston-super-Mare
5 - 7th July - Glastonbury Fayres
23 -25th August - Glastonbury Fayres
Saturday 21st September - Festival of Light - Weston-super-Mare
Saturday 5th October - Craft Fayre Worle Community Hall
Sat & Sun 12 - 13 October Kevin Murphy Craft Fayre Winter Gardens W-s-M
Sat & Sun 9 - 10 November Kevin Murphy Craft Fayre Winter Gardens W-s-M
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Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
by William Shakespeare - Sonnet 18
Shall I compare thee to a summer's day?
Thou art more lovely and more temperate.
Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May,
And summer's lease hath all too short a date.
Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines,
And often is his gold complexion dimmed;
And every fair from fair sometime declines,
By chance, or nature's changing course, untrimmed;
But thy eternal summer shall not fade,
Nor lose possession of that fair thou ow'st,
Nor shall death brag thou wand'rest in his shade,
When in eternal lines to Time thou grow'st.
So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see,
So long lives this, and this gives life to thee
Note: I have always been very fond of poetry and I love to listen to others reciting it, but with these very old favourites I can also feel the rhythm as I read the words myself.
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Healing Visualisation & Regression CDs
The 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 systems, 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
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My Amazon Kindle Books
The following eBooks that I have put together are all available on Amazon Kindle. Most are either $1.23 or 77p. The one with the asterisk is $3.07 and £1.92 The UK price is governed by the dollar exchange rate so can fluctuate a little. I made the decision to price them very reasonably so they were accessible to all, preferring to sell lots for a little rather than at a premium rate. You don't need a Kindle as you can download to your PC and Amazon gives you the software immediately to do this. I was offering all these as eCourses and those who have bought them can still return your coursework to gain your Continued Professional Development (CPD) Point certificates. If any of you still wish to do any eCourses just contact me and we can arrange this.
Now on sale in America India United Kingdom Germany Spain France Italy Canada Brazil Japan
Amazon Kindle UK
19 Amazon Kindle eBooks
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Aura Reading
Bach Flower Remedies
Biorhythms
Crystal Healing & Colour Therapy
Diabetes Mellitus Type 11
Dowsing - Rods & Pendulums & Sacred Geometry
Dr Schuessler's Bio-chemic tissue salts
Herbs - Growing & Using
Moon Gardening &
Living in Harmony with the Moon Phases
Natural Remedies, Foods, Herbs & Spices
Naturopathic Iridology
NLP for beginners
Numerology
Nutritional Medicine A-Z of Dis-ease & Illness
*Person Centred Counselling
Regression
The Easy Guide to Nutritional Medicine
The Enneagram
What are you 'Weighting' for?
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Many Blessings
Dr Elizabeth Ann Diamond
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