A chain of events gives me a headache, lucky for me I have Lavender essential oil!

 

Lavender

What happens when this is distilled and becomes an oil?

Lavender Angustifoilia is the most common variety.

Mostly grown in France (I have been told that France exports more lavender than it produces - interesting)  but Jersey Lavender and other UK growers also produce essential oil. However, I am told by good authority that Norfolk Lavender which is such a place place to visit, sells more lavender than it produces.

Whilst it great to buy these direct from the growers, most lavender in the shops have beeen imported, sent to wholesalers then distributors and onto shops before they get to the customer.

All manner of changes can happen en route.

    

    Diluted with cheaper products/chemical fragrance enhancers.

   Standardised - making every bottle the same.

    Not stored correctly.

Once you get your oils, they must be stored like medicines: in a cool dark place. If you notice any change to the aroma, they have gone off and need disposal because they could do more harm than good.

I buy my oils direct form an importer, Kobashi. I am asked why are they so expensive? Isn't it usual for products to become more expensive as they move down the distribution line? Well not for essential oils (see above).

 

This one is High Altitude Lavender. Usually used for more spiritual purposes. In general "ordinary" lavender is used as a remedy for physical complaints

Several of my family and friends (all adults) are suffering from headaches, migraines etc. So I have advised them to buy some good (if that's the word) oils, if not from Kobashi, then Neals Yard Lavender is the next best option. 

5ml or 10 ml sized bottles should suffice.

Using 5ml (one teaspoon) of grapeseed or sunflower oil - unless you have Sweet Almond. 

Put into a small dish then add upto 3 drops of Lavender oil. (one frop if the sufferer is a child or very frail) 

Use this to massge the neck and upper back and shoulders.

Do this for three weeks then one week without the essential oil before resuming the treatment. However.  massage can continue durng this "week off".

This method worked for a client I had years ago who needed to treat her teenage daughter (14). It helped both of them.😉

If you are trying this at home, please consult a qualified Aromatherapist if there are any other conditions that would need to be considered eg Pregnancy.

This is a cold reading – well it is winter brrr! How did your 2025 year go. wil it be the same for 2026?

 

I wrote this a few years ago. Year on year it seems to stand the test of time.

It is a typical fortunetelling reading from people who cannot read the cards, tea leaves, crystal balls or anything else (even if they say they can).

 

But do please read ahead for your entertainment only ……

 How did your year go? Was I right?

Will I also be spot on (or near enough) for 2025 so do keep a note.

The answer for 2025 is yes, ten out of ten yet again. My responses below are in red.

 You’ve had some emotional ups and downs in your life. Maybe you are feeling empty or so full of things that seem to block your way ahead. Things will change for the better. Patience can help here. Remember that love is always with you.

 As always

Expect some cheering news from friends this year. A wedding, birth or new project can bring joy and accomplishment. An offer of help from you will be much appreciated.

Yes, a friend of mine got her dream job – DJ and presenter - wow

Financially, look after your cash flow and check your statements but don’t worry, any problem should sort itself out soon. Just make sure you are organized and thorough. Whilst you feel that luck is not always on your side, remember that there is always hope. If you don’t try, you cannot win.

Yes there was an unexpected outgoing – now fixed. Plus I won some cash and raffle prizes.

 I feel that your working life has been tryingrecently. You will need to make a choice soon. A blonde woman can advise you on how to proceed and can give you the backup you need when you want to change things.

I’m retired but I got a publisher for my book – she’s great (grey hair but presumably blonde in the past). Very helpful but what an awful lot of work to do!

 A neighbour or close relative, someone who can be somber in nature and who has helped you in the past will need the return of this favour over the coming months.

As always

Travel is interesting for you this year. You will experience some setbacks and it may be more expensive than you had realised but there will be much excitement and happiness forecast.

My holiday was wonderful. Other travel promoting my book was very pricey with hotels and a friend couldn’t come at short notice – quite a bit of faffing involved.

Good luck and a Happy New year

Poetry for all – That’s the Spirit

 As a pre-launch to my book Tarot and Oracle Craft – Psychic Questing for Real, my publisher, Stairwell Books, invited me to participate in their annual Poetry for all evening.

“For All” meaning poems written and performed by the disabled,  LGBTQ+ and those who are neurodivergent. Considering my sight loss and MS etc, it felt quite appropriate to be there.

To see the evening follow this link: BSL signers and poems projected on a screen included.

https://youtube.com/live/g2lCTotZQGE?feature=share

I don’t write poetry so I asked my good friend, Teny Amey if I could read one of his.

“Healers” 

Healers by Tony Amey

 

Why do our healers so often seem sick

And hobble along on a frame or a stick?

If each has the power of bringing good health

They’d surely then turn it back onto themselves

Or if that power must apply to some other

They could just form a circle for healing each other 

Every week at the service, we bow and we pray

For spiritual healing to all that we say

For the world and its creatures, for famine and war

For the names that we put in our book by the door

Same thing every time, same prayer so appealing

Same victims endure with no sign of their healing

  

Maybe we just need to try a new wave

That we dilute the power with so many to save

If we pick out the worst, most needing relief

And then focus all of our prayers and belief

On the one we elected, the cause of the week

Perhaps their prognosis won’t be quite so bleak 

 

It may not seem kind but you know it makes sense

To focus all power through a narrower lens

Overlooking the blisters and simple limb strains

For those in the agonies of life-changing pains

There’s just too much ill in the world of today

For spiritual healing to fix all that we pray

 

So let’s try it out and look for the proof

That cancer like magic can simply go Poof

Let us all pray for one deserving strong case

And focus all healing on just that one place

So then if that works we then have a clue

And can work down the list ‘til we end up with you

 

 During the interval I collected from donations for the MS Society. The interval was rather short for many readings! However I did do a reading as the event closed. I feel that that was the one that I had to do – it was very much needed.

 I wasn’t the only “star” – everyone was. The event itself was very well starred:

The heavens were with us. Look at Jupiter bang on the ascendant in mutual reception with the Moon in Pisces Spirit and poetry, the 9th house - that of broacasting and spirituality. Neptune is not far away  the mystical magic of words in this case. What a beautiful chart.

Guess What I did on Hallowene

 I wnet out on my broomstick... no a car to Brighton.

 I joined in the Fantasy and Horror Conevention and met my publisher, Rose Drew of Stairwell Books.

It's being published in March 2026.

The front cover could look something like this

I'm retired, it;s now over to you to find and experience the secrets of the universal energies. Good luck and really enjoy your creations.

The Pleiades are go and so much more

Heralding the magnificent Orion, the Pleiades can be seen in the eastern, (just north east) in the evening sky.

But, hey, better still – so I am glad I waited to post this –

Beneath it is the bright star Aldebaran, the eye of the Bull.

And when I saw this a few days ago, there was a third bright object below it. It was the comet Lemmon.

Now, a few days later the comet has moved northerly heading toward the plough. I even saw its tail.

You can see Saturn too

An easy way to spot these:

Face east after around 10pm  - East is where the Sun rises;

Straighten your arms in front to you, palms up;

Widen the distance of your hands and arms to 60 degrees (that is 11 and 1 on a clock face);

Raise your arms as if your face was at the centre of the clock;

Saturn is on your right hand, the Pleiades, on your left.

(all subject to the weather!).

 

Spirits grow old. Really?

 I was told at the local spiritual circle I go to that spirits can grow up in the afterlife. So I said what - 110 140? It's crazy! 🤣 

I suggested that “spirits” may appear in a clairvoyant  manner that can relate to the person for the reading or message.

Certainly makes more sense to me and the medium had to agree.

PS: When I'm dead and gone, I will make my essence felt without all those annoyng wrinkles!

When Enhancement is not Enchantment

 So, on the night of the lunar eclipse on the 7^th September 2025 at 7.25pm, I had a phone call: ”Come on, let’s go to the seafront to see the eclipse” (or the blood moon darkened by the penumbra and the thicker atmosphere through the horizon). The eclipse itself occurred below the horizon but we should have been able to see the Moon coming out of it.    

Of course there were clouds but we waited about half an hour and saw… well was it a bird? – ha no, a plane? – possibly or the Moon.

Yes there it was, not bloody but white and bright illuminating the surrounding clouds. This was  reminiscent of an awesome painting at my Grandparent’s home.

An exciting moment indeed. So memorable in many ways.

I also predicted that it would rise above my garden shed about 9.20  pm. I was right and with the fading clouds, it shone in all its beauty as it transited across the southeastern horizon. Awesome.

Later, I wanted to transfer the pictures to my computer. My phone suggested an enhancement. I went with it and got a “stock” shot of the Moon. No memories, no excitement nor spontaneity. I was relieved it didn’t delete the original.

This is an example of the now deleted impage - many thanks to NASA.