Hello Everyone;
            Everyone here at The Jade Fox wishes you a happy holiday!  This holiday season has been wonderful. It has brought to mind a very special Christmas that I experienced years ago. I’d like to share it with you. Growing up we were taught the true meaning of Christmas. Unlike many family’s we didn’t go crazy with gifts, we didn’t worry about the type of gift or how much it cost.  The most important thing for us was to share time together. These past few years I have been missing my Dad who crossed over in 1999. Wishing he was here physically got me reminiscing about that wonderful Christmas. The year was 1976.  It was my first Christmas that I didn’t live home with mom and dad.  It had been quite a year for me.  My Mom had been in the hospital for about 11 months and finally got home in May that year. She had gotten into a horrible car accident, she barely lived and the damage to her body was such that she was in body traction for months. Both legs were broken in several places, both hip joints pushed right thru her pelvis. You can imagine what she went through; the Doctors never thought that she would walk again. She was determined that she would and she did. While she was in the hospital I became chief cook and bottle washer home. My Dad worked nights and I took care of my brother and sister. I really was still a kid myself and I ended pregnant for lack of brains mainly. I know it never would have happened if Mom had been home, but it did so I tried to make the best of it. 1976 was a tough year for us all. I had baby Dan a week after Mom came home from the hospital.  Our close family was in shambles as Mom was the glue and when she was in the hospital for so long we all fell apart.  She came home from the hospital in a wheel chair barely able to walk with a walker. By the end of the summer she had taught herself to walk again. She snuck out of the house one morning and got in the car and drove for the first time since the accident, went to the garage and had them put her dimmer switch for the lights on the dash board because she could feel it on the floor as she had no feeling in her left leg.  In the mean time I stayed with them with the baby and Mom taught me how to be a Mom. As she slowly started to get better, I decided it was time to get out on my own and I moved to Utica to my very first apartment in the fall of 1976. It was a third floor walk up, the previous tenants had painted all the walls black so I got it for a hugely reduced rent and agreed to repaint the whole apartment. I was excited and had grand expectations. I got a job at night working in a hamburger joint downtown. It was pretty scary for a country girl. I had to walk to work at 10pm every night in the dark. I had to leave the baby with my cousin at night while I went to work and then it just wasn’t enough money to live on. So I went down to the county and swallowed my pride and tried to get some help with medical and food. Well because I wasn’t 21 they wanted me to sue my parents for support. My Mom and Dad didn’t have enough as it was, and they were in no position to be sued for support. I would not agree to that so they would not help me. I left there feeling pretty down and scared about the future. I was down about Christmas. I had no money to get Christmas food or a tree, let alone presents. I felt like the whole world was just giving me the cold shoulder for getting pregnant and having a baby so young. But most of all I was just plain scared…. What was I going to do? I was trying so hard to be independent and take care of my child. I decided to follow Moms example and make the best of it. I set about making puppets out of colored felt that I had and before you know it I had puppets made for my brother and sister. I thought they were pretty cute and felt better all ready. I was thinking that spaghetti would be a pretty cool Christmas dinner. I invited my family, as family is what makes Christmas.  I was starting to get stuff ready and Mom and Dad got there early. The Miracle was that Mom walked all the way up those three flights of stairs…. Imagine that! I opened the door and there was everyone and in Dads hand was a Christmas tree. They brought decorations for the tree and food. I can’t even begin to tell you how I felt. It was the most blessed and wonderful Christmas I ever had and it restored my faith in all things good… I have never forgotten their faces as they presented me with my Tree and how they loved the simple things I had made for them. I made Dad a special board for his pin collection with the felt and he used it the rest of his life. Mom got a set of pretty shell pictures on felt.  We were a family and we were together and as I started my own family, I realized that I still had my family’s love and support in the ways that really count. It’s been 30 years since that Christmas and I always remained friends with my parents and we had a lot of fun just being together. There is an empty spot at the table now with Dad gone but he is in our hearts and never far from our thoughts and even after 30 years I still remember him grinning at the door with a Christmas tree in his hand. Mom making it up three flights of stairs with a bag of groceries! That is what Christmas is all about……It’s the LOVE!!!!!           

I have always been blessed with a loving family and friends and no matter what else ever happens I can handle it, so anyone who thinks that there Christmas will be a shamble because of money or other hard ships just remember what it is all about and just do the holidays with love, don’t worry about the material stuff. Merry Christmas and Happy Yule to all of you and May you all be blessed this holiday and touched by the one thing that counts the most….LOVE!   

EVENTS FOR DECEMBER

December 9^th Holiday Party featuring   (Saturday 11:00am – 5:00pm)
Penny Blask of the Crystal Wrap. Penny will be wrapping crystals for anyone who brings in a special crystal.
She will also be bringing her collection of wonderful jewelry that can be purchased for gifts.
There will be a lecture about Feng Shui at 1pm.  
Psychic’s; Christal Rae – Jann Miller – Jewels. Jewels will also be bringing her Dream Catchers.
Dungeon Tattoo’s - Artist Jen will be there. They will be giving a door prize of a gift certificate
Jane Lombardo will be here with the Aura Camera, Aura pictures are also great gifts.
Also Lots of holiday special buys. We have lots of new pewter fairy’s, jewel boxes, and, dragons, all pewter. Custom Fairy sculptures by Kathy Jenson designs. 

December 13^th Beginner’s Crystal Class    (6:00 – 9:00 pm By Jann Miller $35.00)
Please call to register at least one day in advance.
Learn how to choose crystals, cleanse them, charge them and use them in your everyday life. Why do you choose a particular crystal? What do the colors mean? How do they work? A fun class for those who know nothing, or a little about crystals and want to learn more. You will be surprised at all they can do for you. A workbook is included.
Be prepared to learn and have fun.

December 16^th  Divine Guidance (7:00pm – 9:00pm Saturday evening) Free Lecture by Judy Thierry
How to distinguish how you receive guidance. Learn the difference between true guidance and false guidance. Learn how angels and guides give guidance.  This lecture is for all the folks that missed this month’s circle of light because of the weather… Come and share this exciting new information. We will be doing a short meditation as well.

December 19^th Movie Night  (Tuesday evening. Movie starts at 6:30 sharp)
This months Movie will be “Dogma” A religious spoof that caused considerable controversy. Discussion to follow. There will be a $3.00 donation you may also bring snacks and or drinks. Coffee, Tea, and Soda are available at the store.

Coming in January – Full details in January Newsletter

January 3^rd   Circle of Light topic to be announced. 6:00 - 9:00 pm Wednesday evening
January 4^th Karen Diamond  Lecture 7pm-9pm  Lecture “The Mayan Calendar and our Astrology Now till 2012”
January 18^th Karen Diamond Jan Lecture 7:00 – 9:00 pm 
“Astrology of the USA and our future”

January 22^nd Walking the Wiccan Way 7:00 – 9:00 pm  Monday evening.
“Beginning class in a new monthly series of classes Taught by Janine Giordano “Topaz Moon” and Lady Phaezare.”
 First class: Introduction to the spiritual path of wicca.

January 15^th Movie Night  Monday evening Starting at 6:30 pm.
Crop Circles- exciting new information about what crop circles are and how they are really effecting our oceans and water, through sound waves. Anyone who has read the books on water and how it changes when we say different words etc. you will be amazed by this Movie on crop circles….

January 27^th  Beginners Tarot “Learning Tarot the intuitive way”
6:00 – 9:00 pm by Judy Thierry
Workbook included. Bring any deck of Tarot cards or use one of ours. No experience necessary. Come and  learn how easy and fun learning Tarot can be. Learn how it actually helps you become more psychic. ^$60.⁰⁰ register in advance.

 More events will be listed as soon as they are confirmed. Keep an eye on the events Calendar.