New Moon

Bells and Chimes Vibrate Deep

Bells are ethereal. 

They vibrate deep in your body and enter your soul. 

Sound affects us on many levels, triggering mental, energy and emotional responses. 

Because of this bells have been used for centuries as a way of signaling, time keeping and warning.

Bells have held sacred significance for many cultures. 

The Japanese use bells for ceremonies, bringing good luck and even communicating with a ancestors. 

Bells were believed to ward off the mischievous fairies, some say that bells rung in the house bring prosperity.

Sound creates an energetic change, there is something about the simple ringing of a bell that changes the energy of a space.

Sound is a way to shift the energy of a space. 

A bell or wind chime can be used as a space clearing tool to remove negative energy and welcome in new, positive energy. 

When a bell or wind chime creates sound vibrations, they move through the spaces and objects to shift the energy.

Bells can guard doors in your home and business.

In Ancient Rome, people hung tiny bells and wind chimes called tintinnabulum on the gates of their homes and temples. 

It was thought to offer protection by clearing out negative energy.

The use of bells is found in many religions besides Pagan practices, including Buddhism, Hinduism, Japanese Shinto, and many sects of Christianity. 

The clear, healing tone of a bell can have a few different effects. 

The bell's vibrations can change the vibrations and clear out unwanted negative energies.

The sound of bells and chimes make space for positive, desired energetic influences, and/or simply clear stagnant energy in any space throughout one’s surroundings.

Sound affects energy on a physical level—because sound is energy—and so the bell is both a physical and a symbolic tool in many practices.

Because of the vibrations of bells and chimes, they are an extremely effective form of spiritual cleansing and protection. 

Bells can ward off negativity and unwanted visitors, this is the origin of the funeral toll. 

The vibrations from the bells will break up the negative and stagnant energy left hanging in the air. 

They move and jolt to life the stagnant and worn-out.

Simply chiming them in a rhythmic fashion will move the energy and lift the spirits. 

Try ringing a bell a few times in a room that feels heavy or when the energy will renew the energy in the area.

The Witches Broom

Socrates - Think for Yourself

 

In 399 BC the philosopher Socrates stood before a jury of his fellow Athenians accused of "refusing to recognize the gods recognized by the state" and of "corrupting the youth." 

If found guilty; his penalty could be death. 

The charges against Socrates were:

"Socrates is an evil-doer, and a curious person, who searches into things under the earth and in heaven, and he makes the worse appear the better cause; and he teaches the aforesaid doctrines to others." 

Formal charges:

"Socrates in guilty of corrupting the young and of not believing in the gods in whom the city believes, but in other new divinities." 

After hearing the arguments of both Socrates and his accusers, the jury was asked to vote on his guilt. 

He was found guilty.

The jurors were next asked to determine Socrates' penalty. 

His accusers argued for the death penalty. 

Socrates was given the opportunity to suggest his own punishment and could probably have avoided death by recommending exile.

The jury decided death for Socrates.

The philosopher was taken to the near-by jail where his sentence would be carried out. 

Athenian law prescribed death by drinking a cup of poison hemlock. 

Socrates would be his own executioner.

Socrates willingly drank the poison after being sentenced to death for his speeches and for his belief in humanistic and democratic principles. 

When he was ordered to publicly deny his ideas or die, he chose death. 

However, as a respected gentleman, the court gave him the right to pick the manner in which he wished to have his death sentence carried out. 

Hemlock tea was his first choice.