Lucid Dreaming with black kyanite

Tonight, this friendly lady came into the store. Let's call her "Lucid Dreamer." Maybe "Lucid" for short.

So, Lucid comes up to the counter and opens with, "I'm not a weird person. In fact, I am a very practical person. BUT..." Now, let me just say how much we love stories that open like that. We are, in fact, a bunch of very weird people and so whatever comes after that phrase is almost always certainly to delight us. Tonight was no exception.

Lucid proceeded to tell us about a dream she had. A very vivid dream. In this dream, she reached up to scratch an itch on her nose, and felt something there. Not to be graphic, but she thought it was a bit of snot. But when she scratched her nose, she started to pull something down and out. It was long-ish, black, it looked like bark, but was glossy. That was the dream.

She had never been to TSW before- had looked us up, has some past experience with similar shops and was interested to see what we have to offer. She goes to the gym down the street, like many of our customers (Bless you, you healthy folks!) Tonight, as she walked past the store, she just felt drawn to come in...

...and she walked right up to the black kyanite and said, "This is it! This is what was in my dream!"

Then Lucid sat down and read in our crystal books about black kyanite and how it is all about lucid dreaming, and how it is connected to the pineal gland (AKA the third eye, right above the nose and between the eyebrows- exactly where she pulled it out from in the dream), and how it clears obstacles and connects us to past lives. She was stunned. She said recently she has been thinking a lot about lucid dreaming, past lives and karma.

Needless to say, she left very happy and a bit dazed by the magic of it all, and with a nice piece of black kyanite in her pocket. Wonder what will happen next? Good luck, Lucid Dreamer!

A lil' Money Mojo today...

So today, one of our very favorite customers, Cecily, came in to the store to buy a money candle. (Yes, I did get permission to use her real name.) You see, Cecily just fought- and won! Yay!- a battle with a cancerous tumor which put her out of work for a month. (Shout outs to Cecily for beating cancer up.) Now, as an up-and-coming hotshot Oakland attorney with her very own private practice, Cecily is self-employed. What happens when a self-employed person doesn't get to work for a month? You get the picture...

In she walked, headed straight to the altar room to do a little mojo there, then swooped up a Money Spell candle. She took a moment to dress it, carefully inscribing her money needs onto it at our candle-dressing bar, sprinkling it with altar oil, a little prosperity powder, some gold and green glitter, and what-have-you. Sashayed up to the register and took a moment to tell us of her fiscal woes and to reiterate to us, and the Universe, that she could really use some money, "now, right now, right away."

We wished her well and reminded her that it always works out, and just to focus on making it happen. As our friend Dragonfly says, "Hocus-pocus, use your focus!"

Two hours later, she bounced back into the store with a wad of cash, waving it under our noses with glee. My first comment was, "Put that away and don't let anyone see you! Girl, this is Oakland!" (I was just kidding...sort of. I'm all for protecting one's assets in any urban environment. So don't get on me about busting on Oakland- I got mad love for Oakland. Like the t-shirt says, "I hella heart Oakland.")

"Guess what?"
"What?"
"I left the store, walked down the street to my office, and there was a client standing in front of my door, waiting for me. I hadn't even lit the candle yet! And then, right after that, another client walked in and paid full cash up front to retain me for services! I was actually kind of freaking out at how quickly that worked. I mean, I've done this before and it worked, but wow- that REALLY worked REALLY fast!"

"Yep, that's why we call it magic."