Healing Winds Reiki: Exploring Reiki, Crystals, and Beyond

If you've ever gone to a holistic or metaphysical fair, chances are you've seen booths featuring oracle and tarot card readers. Both types of card decks are increasing in popularity as more and more people gravitate towards new ways to connect with spirituality, source, and their life purpose. The readers you see at those fairs are often skilled in interpreting cards, but anyone can use them and gain insight.

First off, how do they work? There are an overwhelming number of layouts you can use, and an equally high number of readers and experts who will tell you that you must shuffle the cards a certain way, draw them a certain way, and interpret them a certain way, or you are doing it WRONG. Well, I'm here to say, anyone who tells you there is only ONE way to use cards is wrong. On their most basic level, cards are communication tools. Whether you're using them to connect to the Divine, your higher self, or that angsty ghost lurking in your basement--they provide a vocabulary of set meanings through written words on the cards and in the guidebooks, as well as visually through the illustrations on the cards. How you get to the card is entirely up to you.

With the way things are these days--folks working multiple jobs, trying to make ends meet, and the general stresses of the world around us--it can be difficult to relax. If you’re even slightly empathic, being around other people right now can difficult if they are radiating stress and negativity. It’s so easy to pick up on their anxieties and worries. Even if you are not an empath, just turning on the news can be enough to keep you stressed the rest of the day. Feel free to try any one of these–any of them that resonate with you–as that is...

Welcome to the Healing Winds Reiki blog! My hope is to use this space to answer questions and share information about Reiki, crystals, and my own personal metaphysical experiences in the hopes that it will be of help to others. I learned traditional Usui Reiki in 2016 and became a Reiki Master that same year. At that time I was dealing with mysterious inflammations of my cartilage which doctors thought were recurring cellulitis infections. The pain was unbearable, and no matter what antibiotics I was on, nothing seemed to help. The flare-ups would eventually go away on their own, but...