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Let’s Talk Crystal Grids

By Amazon, Paganism, ThinkingNo Comments

Let’s talk crystal grids. Recently, they have become all the range. But they’re an old, if not an ancient concept. Judy Hall (2009) was writing about these before they were widely popular, in her book The Crystal Bible Volume 2.

A Crystal Grid.

Gridding is the art of placing stones to create an energetic net to protect and energise the space.

The Crystal Bible Volume 2 by Judy Hall (2009).

I love Judy Hall. But she was thinking specifically about a physical space. Crystals can also be arranged in a pattern to amplify intention. One of the most common ways to do this is geometrically and that’s exactly what a crystal grid allows.

My crystal grid (above) has at its centre Aqua Aura Quartz associated with abundance. Surrounding it is a cirtrine point (in this case associated with money), two pieces of adventurine (also money), a carnelian (success), an amethyst (associated with the spiritual plane) and a quartz (good for any purpose). The intention of this crystal grid is to bring in sales of my latest book Ways The Human Body Can Go Wrong. I’ve also asked some of my ancestors for help with this.

To learn more about the Magical Properties of Crystals see my page. I’ll let you know how it goes.

Best Wishes,

Antony

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Monday 15 April 2024

I HATE How Commercial WordPress Is Becoming & Bye, Bye, Jetpack

By Technology, The Web, ThinkingNo Comments

I HATE how commercial WordPress is becoming! What went wrong? It started out as a community-based blogging platform. Now everything is about business and money and it stinks!

A good example of this is Jetpack. Jetpack is a plugin that recorded statical data about visitors and views. It used to be free and did these lovely annual reports.

Now the services provided by Jetpack, including their Stats has in the latest update become a paid model. Not just a paid model, but a subscription service – like money is no object. Sure it’s fine if you have a business and are making money.

But for a small author and blogger like me, let’s be clear: This website costs me more than it has ever earned me. But I keep it running, at a personal cost to me for my enjoyment. It’s a leisure activity.

So today, it was Bye, Bye Jetpack. I’ve removed and deleted the plugin. I encourage other bloggers to do the same. Let’s not give in to their financial demands and instead opt with our fingers and delete plugins and themes demanding money with their Dashboard banners.

It’s not just Jetpack. EVERY theme and plugin now expects you to pay, usually a subscription service, for regular updates.

Honestly if there were an alternative community-based platform, similar to WordPress’ past, that focused on development to improve user experience, rather than making developers rich, I’d switch. But there isn’t right now, meaning that at least for now I’m stuck with WordPress.

Blog – Yes blog, writing for pleasure, not to make money, soon,

Antony

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Thursday 11 April 2024

Some Facts You May Not Know About Dolly Parton

By Music & RadioNo Comments
Image From and Copyright © DollyParton.com, 2024.

Dolly Parton is an icon, mega star and all round lovely person. I don’t listen to country music often, but when I do it’s always Dolly. I have even seen the musical 9 to 5, see Musicals for more details.

Here’s some facts about Dolly you might not know.

  1. Growing up Dolly was extremely poor. Yet despite recognising this Dolly recalls her childhood as a happy one.
  2. In addition to singing, Dolly has made appearances on TV shows, in films and has even written books.
  3. She states that she thinks like a man when it comes to business opportunities, negotiations and decisions.
  4. Dolly became affectionately known as The Book Lady, providing free books to children to help them learn to read and write.
  5. Dolly is a multi millionaire, but would be a billionaire, if she didn’t do her charity work and put so much money into it.
  6. Dolly has never had children. She once described her and her husband as being one another’s children.
  7. I know we shouldn’t really talk about a lady’s age, but Dolly is 78 years old. She doesn’t look it, is still working and giving to charities. Well done Dolly.

Write soon,

Antony

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Wednesday 10 April 2024
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