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There’s never a day goes by that I don’t think about God, but more than thinking, I experience the presence of God in my waking moments. This gives me a feeling of contentment and satisfaction that’s beyond anything I might ever convey.

I’ve come to know the peace of spirit in my life and because of this knowing, all my concerns, problems accomplishments, and accumulations, diminish in importance.

We have all been conditioned in our lives and influenced by our parents with our values and standards. It is important to find our inner peace by:

• Having a mind that is open to everything and attached to nothing. When we can watch a drop of rain fall on the window pain and run down the glass and not think of anything else, your mind is still.

• Finding an opportunity to observe a tiny green sprout emerging from a seed. When you do, allow yourself to feel the awe of what you’re seeing. A famous poet named Rumi observed: “Sell your cleverness and purchase bewilderment.” The scene of an emerging sprout represents the beginning of life.

Astrological Signs of Gemini, Aries, Libra and Leo

Citrine is a variety of quartz, the colour being in the range from yellow to golden brown to burnt amber.

It is one of the two minerals on the planet, which does not hold and accumulate negative energy, but dissipates and transmutes it, working-out problems on both the physical and subtle levels. Therefore, it never needs clearing or cleansing.

This mineral is useful for balancing the yin-yang energy and for aligning the chakras with the ethereal plane.

It activates opens and energises the navel, solar plexus and crown chakras, directing, via personal power, creativity, and intelligent decisiveness, the energy necessary to enhance the physical body. It stimulates both mental focus and endurance, releases joy and brings spiritual powers into the everyday world. Citrine was supposedly a powerful transmitter of solar healing energy in Atlantis.

Until the sixteenth century, citrine was an umbrella term for all sparkling yellow stones, including stones such as topaz. Called the sun stone, citrine is said to hold pure sunlight and never to absorb any negativity. As a stone of Mercury, the Roman messenger god, it holds the clear sunlight of early morning, not the heat of noon. Regarded as the merchant’s stone, citrine has been famed for improving communications, increasing selling power (owing to the influence of Mercury) and for attracting money or business. A citrine was placed in the cash register or put with the accountants; now it is put near the computer.

Divinatory Significance

Heralding joy in every aspect of your life, citrine says it is time to communicate your ideas and needs clearly, especially at work. Try new activities and visit new places. Make time for any creative talents you have, as they may prove lucrative.

Healing Properties

Citrine is excellent for the liver, spleen, gall bladder and digestive system. It reduces toxicity in the body, relieves back pain and eases skin problems and allergies. It is an effective remedy for depressive illnesses or phobias; it will help you to think clearly and put your problems in perspective.

Children

Citrine helps children and teenagers to feel loved and it is good for blending together the tangled relationships that can arise in stepfamilies. It also helps open channels of communication with teenagers.

Animals

Citrine helps pets, particularly rescued animals, settle into a new environment or temporary accommodation.

Protective Functions

The positive energy of citrine drives away darkness and night fears and protects against negative people.

Psychic Association

Citrine is excellent for prosperity rituals. Charge a citrine with energies of abundance by burning a yellow candle next to it at dawn. Keep the energised crystal in your purse to attract money to you.

Citrine will make you more intuitive and help distinguish between free-floating anxiety and your inner voice that advises you as to the right action. It is very good for automatic writing (where you ask a question and allow your hand to write freely). It draws wisdom from the collective memory bank via your own psychic powers.

Use citrine in creative visualisation to help bring a desired object or goal from your thoughts into the everyday world. Hold the citrine in your power hand (the one you use to write with) while picturing in your mind the desired result coming nearer. Carry the charged citrine with you as a reminder as you put your plans into action.

Environmental Work

A crystal of hope, citrine can be placed on an image of children in need or of an area of intense poverty or famine. Leave the citrine on the picture from dawn until noon, then wrap the crystal and picture in yellow or white silk and leave it covered until the next dawn. Repeat this process for three consecutive days. As you set the crystal on the photograph, name the positive energies you wish to send to the place. You may wish to use citrine to bless any material gifts you send to such places.

Special Properties

Citrine does not absorb negativity but transforms it into positive energies. Therefore it is a crystal that can keep on energising and protecting for a long time. This makes citrine useful if you are under a lot of pressure or are away from home and feel vulnerable.

Recharging its Energies

Leaving citrine in sunlight from dawn until noon will fill it with extra radiance, especially on the summer solstice. However, do not expose citrine to intense sunlight too frequently as it may start to crack.

There is some evidence that man’s sensitivity and response to colour has evolved over the ages. Recent linguistic studies have shown that man’s development has a close parallel with the way in which colour was perceived. In the earliest languages, linguistic studies suggest that there was little distinction between different colours, something was either “light” or it was “dark”. The world was, in effect, colourless.

The first colour for which a separate word was devised was “red”. The colour of blood appears to have had sacred meaning: in very early prehistoric burials, the bones were disinterred, smeared with red ocher and then reinterred. It was perhaps, a gesture intended to return life to the deceased. Today, in some Eastern European languages, the word “red” is associated with life and beauty.

The next colours for which separate words appear were “green” and “yellow”.

Yet still, our colour language is far from complete, even today. There are several languages being spoken at this moment that have no word for “brown”.

And, we have also lost certain colour words: the Saxons word wann, for example, once described the gloss on a raven’s wings, or the shimmer of moonlight on water.

Because mankind’s development is so closely intertwined with colour and colour perception, it is possible to plot that development through language colour, following the steps of the spectrum:

Cave man - Reproduction and physical survival - red
Development of agriculture - complex tool making - orange
Domestication of animals - yellow
Birth of civilisation in Egypt - the first cities/the first religious and moral thought - green
Growth of Greek philosophy - blue
Reliance on law and civil order - indigo
Sophistication and imperial grandeur - the Pax Romana - purple
Renaissance - the green of creativity
The Puritans - grey morality
Industrial Revolution - release from the shades of colour
Space age/Aquarian age- the blue spirit of truth

Human lifetimes can be monitored in phases of development using the seven spectrum colours of the rainbow as a growth chart. The chart below outlines each phase of development and the colour that best represents that particular stage of life.

Birth to 10 years - Red Physical expansion
10 to 15 years - Orange Movement, dancing, athletics
15 to 20 years - Yellow Mental ability, education, study
20 to 40 years - Green Relationships, love, children
40 to 60 years - Blue Transition from activity to contemplation
60 to 70 years - Indigo Perception- gathers together to make whole
70 plus - Purple Visionary - no limitations

The therapeutic use of colour, in its purely modern sense, can be traced as far back as Hippocrates, who lived in the fourth century BCE. Referred to as the Father of Medicine, he used ointments and different coloured plasters on wounds. Aristotle recommended the use of coloured crystals, salves, minerals
and dyes as remedies around 300 BCE, and Aurelius Cornelius Celsus, the legendary physician of the first-century Rome, used colour extensively. But in the West, the coming of Christianity demanded that many of the ancient wisdom’s were exorcised and their practices deemed “pagan”.

Few real advances occurred in colour therapy until Renaissance, when the superstitions of the Middle Ages began to bow before newly discovered “science”, which was finally able to move beyond Aristotle. During this period, there was a great revival in the use of colour - both decoratively and therapeutically - and in the ways in which people saw and described it. The oldest terms were simply indications of whether a colour was light or dark, or of its blackness or greyness. The new references were to colours, shades and tints - the blueness of the sky, the greenness of the forest, the wine darkness of a flesh wound. At the same time, hugh tapestries and murals were devised by sprinkling crushed minerals of different colours onto glue. The greatest physician of the Renaissance, Paracelsus (1493 - 1541) used colour as a means of mental and physical healing and was regarded as the most effective healer of his time.

The meanings commonly associated with various colours have evolved with time and experience. Many cultures have attached sacred meanings to colour. Even at this moment the history of colour theory and therapy continues to unfold.

People have always been fascinated by the workings of the subconscious mind, therefore, by the significance and interpretation of dreams. Hamid Ibn Qader is a respected master of dream interpretation, said:

“Virtually everyone is inwardly aware that there are deep connections between a human being’s activities in his subconscious state and whatever he sees in this subconscious world. We can also say that certain impersonal forces over which we do not appear to have any sort of control are the ones that go to create a dream. These forces set to work once our conscious state is deactivated (we sleep) to a certain extent, but not lapsing into a total or an absolute state of deactivation or deep sleep where the state of mind enters a temporary period of total blankness. The absolute state of deactivation renders the mental faculty fully blank during the subconscious state and hence prevents the formation of an image, whereas a semi-deactivated state is ale to create the conditions that go to form a dream.”

Dreams

Another acknowledged expert (Hakim Burhan Beig) explained his interpretation of the importance of dreams to our lives as:

“Time and again over the centuries, it has been proved that a clearly recalled dream essentially signals messages either encouraging or otherwise and even signs of guidance on which we can accordingly alter our activities to utilise fully the possibilities seemingly awaiting us. In case we forget or misinterpret, it is definitely the dreamer and no other person who finally infers as to whether the dream bears with it, if at all, any message or sign worthy of prophetic significance”

Hossein Kalamic (1857-1950) compiled dream interpretation with extensive research and consultations for more than four decades.

He said, “one of the most frequently asked questions is whether we have any control over our dreams. From research, it seems that it may certainly be possible to influence them to some degree. However, before attempting such a thing, a person must be able, through strenuous concentration and meditation, to clear their mind completely of negative emotion such as revenge or anger and achieve a totally relaxed mental state before going to sleep. In many such cases, at least a faint message directly or indirectly manifests itself in dreams. There are dreams that are caused by an external, physical influence, such as pain or overeating. These dreams are said to be “organic” and have no prophetic significance. The profoundness of the impression that the dreams can have upon an individual – whether it is an extremely delightful and satisfying event or one filled with indications of anguish or misery –essentially leaves that dream permanently” etched on the mind.

He has thousands of dream interpretation so I can only list a few:

Doves:

• A dove in a dream is a symbol of your honest and moral way of life, and if its flying, it means you will do well on your own.
• A pair of doves – A happy married life indicated
• A flock of doves – You offer support and help for those less fortunate than you
• A dead dove – This is a warning that; you should cherish your spiritual learnings. If you are very close to the dove it signifies that; you will attain inner peace and calm.

Dreams and Cups

Depending on the circumstances, this dream can have a number of meanings.

A beautiful cup – If the cup is full, the dream denotes that you are in the prime of your life and will enjoy both a peaceful and a happy existence for some time. If the cup is empty, it signifies that you are too concerned with material things and either have emotional worries or need to pay more attention toothe things that really matter.

A broken cup – Your friends are likely to desert you when you most need them. Try to avoid depending too much on other people.

Breaking a cup – You can let your temper get the better of you and would be wise to practise some restraint. You may also experience some financial loss.

Being offered a cup containing a hot drink – This is a wonderful dream signifying good news, which will change your life for the better.

The fact that different sources give different interpretation of dreams is something that interests those who believe in dream interpretation but that also allows the sceptics to criticise. However the subject for interpretation is not a perfect science.

These interpretations was compiled by Hossein Kalanu and are based on experiences accumulated through consultations, arguments and discussions of traditional beliefs, coupled with an understanding of modern social conditions. However, readers must bring their own logic, reason, arguments and understanding to the application of the text to their own lives.

It is clear that each of us is an individual and we have our own unique memories, thoughts and feelings. In dream interpretation, our conscious experience is bound to have an effect both on our subconscious itself, and also in the interpretation of what we have experienced.