As an empath, sometimes I would find myself so drained and in such a bad mood when I came home, just from brushing into other people and their problems. I decided I needed a barrier with a little boost
What You’ll Need: 🔑 A piece of jewelry you wish to enchant 🔑 Carnelian to protect and stabilize, to encourage awareness of your own energy 🔑 Hematite to banish and absorb negativity 🔑 Obsidian to ground and protect, to shield against negativity 🔑 Amethyst to bring strength, stability, and peace 🔑 Ruby in Zoisite to maintain your individuality 🔑 Bay for protection and to ward off negativity 🔑 Cinnamon for protection and strengthening of psychic power 🔑 Lavender for soothing 🔑 A dish to hold your herbs and jewelry (if you want to put your crystals in as well, make sure it’s big enough) 🔑 A white candle
🌙 Gather your items together in front of you so you can easily access them 🌙 Place your herbs into your bowl, stating the reason you’re using each one and thanking them for helping you. Focus on what you want each herb to do as you place it into the dish. Arrange your crystals around/inside your dish, asking each one of them to help you and thanking them for offering their energy 🌙 Place the piece of jewelry into the dish with the herbs, and then light the candle. Allow the candle to help draw energy into the dish. Concentrate on the item of jewelry, and envision it beginning to glow 🌙 Repeat the following (tweak it if you want)
Hi
[name of the item of jewelry], please help protect me whilst I wander among Earth’s people. I ask that you absorb and emulate the energies of these stones and herbs. Allow me to feel only that which I feel, allow me to take on only that which I consciously wish. Protect me from overload, protect me from the negativity of others. They can feel their own emotions, without my help. I do not need to take on other’s struggles
🌙 Let the candle burn for as long as you wish, and leave the jewelry in the dish overnight in the moonlight. Whenever you put it on, picture that glow expanding to cover your whole self in a protective bubble. You don’t need to hold that image permanently, but know that the protection is there
If you celebrate Yule and deal with the dreaded Seasonal Depression Monster showing up uninvited this time of year, take a moment to consider your own emotional cycles as the seasons change.
Just as the days grow shorter and the nights seem darker, your mood falls and every little thing can feel impossible. But when we celebrate the longest night of the year, we also welcome the gradual return of the sun. You’ll be back, too. Even if your depression never fades entirely, it will lessen. You’ll regain your momentum and bloom with the spring flowers, just like you do every year. Sure, it’s hard to notice the little improvements. But hey, it’s also hard to notice when the sun rises a single minute earlier each day. That doesn’t mean it’s not happening.
So dedicate part of the day to yourself this Yule. You deserve it.
1. Love is hard and heartbreak is even harder but time and good music can heal everything.
2. You cannot save everyone no matter how hard you try, some people will always be storms that we cannot weather.
3. Self love is not selfish, you are the only one who has been here through it all. Pick yourself up and dust yourself off, you are a survivor young one but if you want to keep surviving you need to learn to love yourself.
4. Emotions will hurt, they will bubble up inside you like vomit and have you cursing the ability to feel and smoking until you cannot feel anymore. But feel them, live them, do not bury them down inside to be forgotten until later. Your baggage is heavy enough already, you do not need to add any more weight.
