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What’s in this newsletter: – This month we take a look at some of the different aspects of life and how we respond to it. We also have the inspirational quote for the month, Card Reading – from the Gaia Oracle.

Hello and welcome to another WhollyMetaphysical Newsletter. In the last newsletter I wrote about how life can send challenges and disappointment into our lives, how it can cause us to take stock of ourselves and to re-examine our values. Because of our experiences, I also challenged you to evaluate your own position.

Our personal experience and pain left us with the same choices that all of us have to make, we can either act positively or re-act negatively. We can take stock and come out clearer and stronger—the better for the experience, or we can come out a little more bitter and smashed up.  These experiences of life, I am sure are meant to reveal us to ourselves and bring out and strengthen the parts of our character that best represent who we are and what we are about.

This also caused me to remember and search out an article sent to me sometime ago in an email. I thought it was fantastic, so I saved it and now having rediscovered it I believe I am meant to share it with you, – I love it for its simplicity in revealing the choices we can make in dealing with the adversities of life. I now share it with you . . .

For all those born in the month of August, your Birthstone is Peridot.

Peridot is a gem variety from the Olivine mineral group, – the bottle green color is usually called Peridot – the yellowish green colour is usually called Chrysolite – the olive green is usually called Olivine. In common usage all names are applied across the group.

Peridot is mentioned in many ancient texts as Chrysolite, and was believed to keep away evil spirits. Considered sacred by early Christians, today Catholic Bishops still wear a ring of Peridot and Amethyst as a symbol of purity and morality.

Peridot was believed to be a stone of springtime by ancients who considered it a gift from Mother Nature, it was also known as a stone of lightness and beauty.