Canvasite.

[Seb]

Hey All. Does anyone know the metaphysical/esoterical meaning or properties of Canvasite? One Love. Seb.

[Hibiscus Moon]

Do you mean cavansite? Blue & white crystals? If so, I know it works with the brow chakra, is a feel good stone and helps with psychic abilities. It also helps empaths from picking up negative energies from others.

[Seb]

Hey Hibiscus. I've seen it called cavansite and canvasite. Mine looks like a kind of granite with these brilliant turquoise-y bits on it. It's almost like electric turquoise and has a kind of fibre effect to it. I think they vary in the amount of white to them. Thank you so much for letting me know a little about them. I don't know how to work with crystals as I don't meditate or do vision quests (unless I'm not trying, weirdly.) Meditation wasn't/isn't a natural draw for me consciously and so I've stopped trying even tho' so many do it. I love all my crystals tho' and did once hear a high pitched hum from my Lemurian when I passed it thru a flame once about 3 years ago, but it hasn't done it since. Today I'm wearing my meteorite. Anyhoo, it's 11.11.11 today and apparently the opening of the Rose Stargate/Grail Codes. I wish you a most delightful day. One Love. Seb.

[Wamduskasapa]

Cavansite is a stone that aids in many psychic areas. It can stimulate intuition greatly, it also heightens psychic awareness, stimulates the Third Eye, and enhances channeling abilities. It is especially helpful in psychic healing and protecting the healer during psychic healing sessions. Emotionally, Cavansite helps get rid of negative thoughts and beliefs, and inspires new ideas. It helps you to see which part of your life needs attention. It also helps one relax.
Physically Cavansite is helpful for sore throats, general healing, and diseases which it helps eliminate and keep from returning.
Cavansite is related primarily to the Throat and Third Eye Chakras.

[Seb]

Hey Wamduskasapa (where does that name hail from?) Thank you for the info. Hopefully one day I'll actually be able to interact with my crystals, but until then I'll just have to admire them! One Love. Seb.

[Wamduskasapa]

Forgive me people this is going to be a bit long: If you wish to skip the full story go to the last paragraph

I have ancestors on my father's side that were Oceti Sakowin Sisseton Isanti {Hoh-cshay-tea Shahck-oh-wheeng Hee-shang-tee} (Dakota Sioux). Please, the words "Sioux", "Dakota", "Lakota" and "Nakota" are NOT words that are used in polite company. These are words that the Church and the French Trappers used to describe a Proud Nation, A Nation that Loved their way of life, their Land and their People. These were words that were a deliberate insult to these proud people who were considered to be savages by the Church, because they were Nomads, and refused to settle down in just one place.

The name Sioux is not The First Nation's name for a once proud people. But the name that was given by the French Trappers. Please people we are not the Sioux for this is a hateful term meaning "Little Snakes" which is the abbreviation of the two Algonquian words Nadouessioux, signifying "he who crawls in mud and speaks it" and Hadowessioux signifying "she whose children are less than the mud she crawls in". These people called them the Hadowessioux. This was later shortened to Sioux by the English Missionaries. The correct name is Oceti Sakowin {Hoh-cshay-tee Shahck-oh-wheeng} (The Seven Council Fires). Each fire was symbolic of an oyate {Hoh-yah-tay}(people or nation). The seven nations that comprise the Sioux are: Mdewakanton (mahd-Day-wah-kang-Toang), Wahpeton (whah-pay-Toang), Wahpekute (whah-pay-Coo-tay), Sisseton (Shee-say-Toang), the Yankton (yahng-Toang), Yanktonai (yahnk-Toang-hahee), and the Teton (tay Toang).

The Sioux Language has a linguistic 3-way division that was arbitrarily assigned by the Missionaries. These are identified as Lakota, Dakota, and Nakota. Based upon the three distinct dialects of a single language. Thus we have the Missionaries dividing the Sioux into 3 Nations instead of seven, the Lakota (Teton), Dakota (Mdewakanton, Wahpetowan (Wahpeton), Wahpekute, Sissetowan (Sisseton), Nakota (the Ihantowan (Yankton), Ihanktowana (Yanktonai). This classification was based in large part on each group's particular pronunciation of the antonym Dakhóta-Lakhóta-Nakhóta, meaning the Yankton-Yanktonai. The Yankton, Santee, and Teton groups all spoke mutually intelligible varieties of the Sioux Language and idioms. It would be the same as combining people from New Orleans, Boston & Kansas City. It may be the same language but it just doesn't sound like it...

My name is Black Snake or Crazy Snake and no Black Snake is not Oceti Sakowin Sisseton Isanti (Dakota Sioux) nor is it Native American, it is good old American. I was not born a Native American, But because we could prove who my ancestors were, an adoption by the applicable Council Fire was approved. My name as it was given to me by the Council of Elders after my Native American Adoption and Naming Ceremony is Gnaskinyan Wamduskasapa:

Gnaskinyan {Dgnah-shkeeng-yahng} = crazy - to be wild - frantic
Wamduskasapa {Whahm-doos-kah-sah-pah} = the Black Snake

[Seb]

Well, that was facinating. Thank you so much. I had the privilege of being invited to two pow-wows when I lived in LA for just over 3 years (I've been back in the UK for 6 years.) I became friends with a woman (from Buffalo who lived in LA) who is part Cherokee and is very much still in allignment with her ancestors. They were amazing, especially to someone born and brought up in the south west of England, the land of crop circles and ancient magic!! Anyhoo, thanks again Mr Wamduskasapa. Is there a shorter version of your name that one could use? One Love. Seb

[Wamduskasapa]

If you want ~ call me Crazy Snake there were Cree, Creek, Cherokee and Oceti Sakowin by that name and I would be proud to hold it.

[Seb]

Thank you Crazy Snake. Personally I've always liked snakes and where would this planet be without mud!? The idea of a snake crawling thru the mud being equated with something lowly and foul is a tad preposterous to me. I see it as anything that can crawl happily thru the mud is obviously a creature at one with this Earth. Gotta love that. S

Wamduskasapa said:

If you want ~ call me Crazy Snake there were Cree, Creek, Cherokee and Oceti Sakowin by that name and I would be proud to hold it.