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Happy Birthday to Us - 2016!!!

August 22, 2016

Every year since I've began this blog on August 22nd 2010 I write a Happy Birthday Blog post.  

Because the blog and I happen to share the same birthday this has always felt right.

For me, birthdays are meaningful occasions. They are a time to take stock, a time to think about where we are in life and where we have come from.  

It makes sense to include the blog in this because, in many ways, the blog marks the true beginning of my spiritual journey. Not because I wasn't interested in spiritual things before but because there was nothing to keep me on track, pre-blog, nothing to keep me from drifting away and forgetting who I was and what I wanted to do.

So every birthday I think about how far I've come and then I think about what comes next.  And it's occurred to me that what's next this year isn't really a new thing, just a better approach to the old things.

I'm especially interested, at this turn of the solar wheel, with hands on creativity and healing - though writing is still very much part of the mix.

The best example of this is my renewed commitment to my online shop.  This is people centered because two of my boys are interested in participating - and even if they aren't as committed as I am, I can still do art and talk to people at the same time.  It is people friendly because I can take my items to my tarot reading events and possibly do other events and interact with even more people.  

I'm planning to make soaps, candles and clearing items and have been learning about aromatherapy and healing in hopes of adding that into the mix, I'd also like to do more jewelry and get back to sculpting.

And here is the big thing - I think that I can finally ignore my inner critic long enough to be productive! 

Doing that with my writing is a little harder but I did post some of my work the week of the Wilkes Writer's Conference - which was a very big step for me.  And I'm going to be posting a few excerpts here as well.
 
I'm zeroing in on what I want to write about which is another very important step because the critical me tends to shoot down ideas before they have a chance to mature - or even crawl.

And I owe a lot of this to the blog which really means that I owe it to the people who read it. Because without you it would have only been a matter of time until I forgot that there is more to life than what floats on the surface.

Thank you, for being there <3

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The Frequency of Color

August 8, 2016

I like science and don't spend nearly enough time thinking about it. It surprises me that so much of it is metaphysical in the popular sense of the word. Here are a few very basic facts on the frequency of color:

  1. Frequency refers to the number of times light passes a given point which can be thought of as vibration. Colors with long wavelengths have a low frequency. Colors with short wavelengths have a higher frequency.
  2. Red has the longest wavelength and lowest frequency of any color in the visible human spectrum. It has a low vibration or frequency and less energy than other light. Red represents earth and courage and the life-force. It is associated with the root chakra.
  3. Redder than red refers to a red whose wavelength is too long for us to see. Infrared light exists beyond the color we perceive as red.
  4. Violet has the shortest wavelength which translates into a very high frequency. This color contains the shortest waves we can see. It also contains the most energy. Ultra-violet is a very high vibration violet not visible to the naked eye.
  5. Color exists which has a higher frequency than violet. It is invisible to humans and known as bluer than blue. It interests me that blue corresponds to wisdom, spirituality and communication. Blue is significant to me personally, as is red so that made the outside the human spectrum stuff interesting to me. For more on my personal dream experience with color symbolism please see the following entry: The Spirit Dream
  6. There are many other wavelengths in the electromagnetic spectrum that which aren't visible to humans. The chart above illustrates this fact as well as all others mentioned.
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Chart created by Carl Fredrick. Creative Commons License.
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My name is Barbara Graver. I started the Mystic Review in August of 2010 to blog about dreams, spirituality, the paranormal and more. In addition to blogging here, I write genre fiction, host the Autistic POV podcast, and blog on Substack. To stay updated on all my media, please sign up for my Writing On The Spectrum newsletter. To get Mystic Review posts only, please sign up to receive blog posts via email below!
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