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beanbagbuddies4life · 7 months

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Tiptoe the Rat

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Born June 26, 2007

Creeping quietly along the wall Little foot prints fast and small Tiptoeing through the house with ease Searching for a piece of cheese!

This seller got lots of cute pictures of Tiptoe playing...

#beanie babies #plush #beanie baby #wishlist #ebay listing #june birthday #mouse #$10 range #rat

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kinkandkreep · 10 months

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It's my birfday y'all!!!!! 🥳🥳🥳

I honestly can't remember if I celebrated my birthday here last year, but I'ma say probably not. 🙃 Last year around my birthday was a very weird time for me and I suppose I've subconsciously repressed the memory. 🙃🙃

Anyway, I'm glad I get to celebrate here this year! I got an idea for a special celebratory drabble I wanna write, inspired by an ask I received, so look forward to that.

Also I start my new job orientation today. 🙃 I'm a lil' apprehensive about it but I know I'll be fine. Y'all send me good vibes!

And lastly, but not least, WHERE MY BIRTHDAY TWINS AT???!?!? 🥳🤪💅🏾👸🏾🤴🏾

I know it gotta be at least a few a y'all. Let me know either through asks or in the comments below so we can celebrate togetha! 😁

Ok, das all from me. Ari out! ✌🏾

#june 22nd #june birthday #it's my birthday #it's my birthday today #birthday #birthday twins

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imaginedreamwrite · 10 months

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June 17th marks a new milestone for me!

Goodbye twenties, hello thirties!

#its my birthday tomorrow #Gemini Squad #Gemini crew #June birthday #goodbye twenties #hello thirties

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sixminutestoriesblog · 10 months

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moonstone

Let's wrap up the end of June with more stories about one of its birthstones. Alexandrite is actually a ''new' gemstone. It wasn't discovered, or at least classified, until 1830 in an emerald mine in the Ural Mountains. Since it was discovered in Russia and on his birthday, no less, the stone was named for Prince Alexander II. At first everyone thought it was simply an emerald but Alexandrite has the unique ability to change colors depending on the light its under and the stone tipped everyone off it was something entirely new when it went from the green they expected to red.

Which is all fascinating to me - but it does mean the stone hasn't been around long enough to really got much traction when it comes to folklore or legends around it.

For that, we'll look to June's third birthstone, the moonstone.

Before I get started though I feel as if I should point out none of my books on folklore include gemstones. This means I get just about all my information when it comes to superstitions about them from digging around on the internet or little bits of things I remember hearing in the past, like pearls being tears. Usually this is okay. I try to cross-check all my stories, only using ones that show up in two or preferably three different places and trying to avoid 'modern' sites that seem to be more about vibes than historical superstitions. I'm not here to tell you how to cleanse your house, I'm here to pass along old stories associated with items or moments our grandparents and their grandparents might have told each other. Point being, I ran across a couple different sites that listed off moonstone superstitions almost word for word of each other, which makes me suspect they all got the stories from one of the websites and just passed it around between them. It's not a good way to fact check whether they're real old superstitions or just a story one website made up and the others assumed it was factual and ran with it. The entire paragraph above me is basically just me saying 'Take all of this with a grain of salt'. I will try to keep everything true to its historic roots, leaving out things I find suspect, but I will also make misjudgements. In the end, these are all just stories and should be treated as such.

So - moonstones.

To the surprise of no one, moonstones are associated with the moon. Their milky luminescence and the way the light reflected through them seems to wax and wane as the stone is moved around are what give the stone its name to begin with. Any society comparing one to the other would automatically give the stone many of the properties they gave the moon. Hindu and Roman stories claim that moonstones are formed of moonbeams themselves, the rays solidified into something touchable. The Greeks and the Romans associated the stone with their goddess of the moon. In India, it wasn't permitted to lay the stones out for display in shops for sale unless they were cushioned in yellow cloth, a sacred color for a sacred stone. It's even been associated with Monday, suggesting if you were born on that day you shouldn't need to be a June child to enjoy the stone as your own since Monday is named after the moon.

Like the moon, the moonstone is good for lovers and prophecy. A moonstone in the mouth during a full moon will give you a hint of your future or perhaps just a future love. In fact, in India, the moonstone is considered a traditional wedding gift. Lovers who both wear moonstone rings will find their love deepened and increased and exchanging moonstones after a quarrel is supposed to help ease over the difficulty and restore the relationship. Since the gem seems to carry its own light inside of it, it was considered good luck both for a marriage and for all other aspects of life as well. Association with the moon also meant it was associated with fertility. It is supposed to help people retain their youth.

You know what else is associated with the moon? Sleeping. Put a moonstone under your pillow before you go to bed to enhance your dreams and let you sleep tranquilly. Not interested in sleeping? The moonstone is also supposed to protect travelers, especially ones that travel at night. The same protection extends to anyone traveling over water. Intriguingly, wearing a moonstone ring is also supposed to be a charm when playing cards, tipping the game in the gambler's favor and making the people playing against him more likely to follow the card shark's lead.

Do you want a full harvest and have money to burn? Bury a moonstone in the middle of your garden on the night of a full moon for an abundant harvest or hang it from a fruit tree for the same if you trust your neighbors.

The moonstone has enjoyed popularity all through history and in modern times, both the Art Nouveau movement and the 'flower child' hippy culture of 1960s America have seen a revival of interest in the stone. In 1970 the moonstone was named Florida's official state gemstone in honor of the moon landing that launched out of Cape Canaveral - even though the stone is not native to the state.

So what about that? When birthstones were handed out, June babies didn't do too badly at all, did they?