The 13th day of August is
one of those dates that sticks in my head. ’Twas on the 13th
of August 1977 that I spent my first and only (apart from having babies)
night in a hospital, after deeply cutting the bottom of my left foot open whilst
paddling in a river as a child. That may be irrelevant to this
recount, or not, as when I cut my foot it had felt as if I had merely
slid it over a smooth pebble. It wasn't until I climbed out onto the
river bank and saw blood gushing that I realised otherwise, but it
just strikes me that, more than once, significant things have
happened in my life on the 13th of August since then. Well it
was on the 13th of August 2014 at exactly 20:20 o'clock
when my angels gifted me something that most, I'm sure, may have considered worthless... but to me personally is a priceless and very
spiritually powerful object that has such a highly energetic vibrational frequency that it is positively palpable, and the
circumstances of its presentation were such that the second I set
eyes on it I knew it was a very special treasure indeed. I will
explain now what it is and how it came into my possession.
So, as I've previously mentioned, it
was the 13th of August 2014, at about 8 pm and I was
taking my usual evening walk with our beautiful dog, Elfie. There was a sudden rain shower but fortunately we were right by our
favourite little tree cave when it started so we had a peaceful few
minutes sheltering under the thick canopy, keeping nice and dry while
rain pitter-pattered on the dense leaves above us. It was wonderful under
there, trees and greenery smell so fresh in the rain and I was
feeling quite high, just being there breathing it all in while
Elfie snuffled about in the undergrowth. I snapped a couple of
selfies on my phone to kill time and because I was wearing my first gift of the day, a pretty plaited silver headband that my lovely friend Lorna had given me
earlier, so I thought I'd try and get a good shot of it to
show her.
(They weren't good shots, sorry Lorna! I probably should have tried brushing my hair at some point that day!)
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| Elfie and me... |
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| sheltering in the tree cave. |
After a few minutes the rain eased off, so feeling in good spirits I set off with my girl across the one remaining field to go home.
As we walked across the field there was
a lovely stormy glow from the sinking summer sun reflecting off the dark clouds on the opposite side of the sky and a
huge rainbow suddenly appeared, pouring out from a break in the clouds onto the trees below. I am always really excited by rainbows... I'm
forever pointing at them and getting told off... I see them as a huge
sign of affirmation and promise of good things. Many a time a rainbow
has appeared at really appropriate times to me. I grabbed my phone
and took a couple of snaps... and as I did so I noticed the time on
my phone was exactly 20:20... as well as my excitement about the
promise of rainbows, I also have a thing about repeated numbers, as I
have read in the past that in numerology double numbers are
considered to be a sign from your angels and spirits that all is well
and you're on the right path... these days I like to think of them as approving nods from Mum and Dad... it really cheers me up. Also,
when I got home and looked up the numerology of 20/20, I read, “The
repeating Angel Number 20 is a message from your angels that things
are happening behind the scenes that will be of great benefit to you
in the near future. Even though you may not be experiencing these
opportunities just yet, believe that they are on their way to you
right now. Have faith and trust in the Divine.” ...which, as it
happens, turned out to be completely true, but that's a whole 'nother
blog!
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| The amazing 20:20 rainbow, photographed by my not so amazing phone! |
So anyway, I had just snapped a
couple of 20:20 rainbow photos and as I bent my head down over my
phone to see how they'd come out, my eye caught something glinting
between my feet in the smooth wet soil of the path I was walking on.
I was compelled, I believe by all the coincidental spiritual
phenomena that was occurring at that very moment and had got me
buzzing, to bend down and dig the object out of the dirt. It was
quite firmly buried and I used a nearby twig to pry it out of the well
trodden path... and discovered that it was a rather muddy, dark
stone. I was very close to the brook so I walked over and washed the
mud off in the water and found that I was holding an incredibly
smooth, almost heart shaped, jet black river pebble! You have no idea
how excited I was! I held it in my palm and could sense the powerful
vibrations coming from it, and I just knew that I had been gifted a
very wonderful spiritual object that I will always treasure.
My Beautiful Ajna Stone
When I got home I rubbed coconut oil
into the stone which gave it a richness like matte onyx, and I
instinctively lay down on my bed and placed it over my third eye chakra...
it just felt so right there. And now I regularly lie down and place
it there to meditate or de-stress, or just when I wake in the morning
for a moment of reconnection and gratitude, it is wonderful. It always feels so cold
at first, but gradually absorbs my warmth, as I absorb its magic in
exchange... if I have a headache and do this it is SO soothing and
eases my headache like a charm. I have named it my Ajna Stone
(pronounced "arg-nya") Ajna is the third eye chakra and is also a play on my babies
names.... and I consider it an extremely special healing gift and
talisman from my angels that I am very lucky to have and will always
treasure.
