One of my readers had a great idea that involves telling of their experience here, and me responding to it. I like reader involvement a lot, so the inaugural “Ask witchypoo” is born.

Jenny sent me this letter, and I am just going to paste that puppy right now.

Here goes, it’s very long, but I’m afraid if I don’t give details you’ll be left thinking “Why did she even bother?”

I gave Wynnie (age 4) an angel purple plate on a little silk cord for Christmas. I’ve been wearing my large disk on a silk cord, too. Last week Wynnie and I both had strep throat, so I toted both of us over to my Voodoo doctor extraordinaire (she’s really a Chiropractor, acupuncturist, NET, Body Talk, Muscle Testing kind of Eastern Medicine practitioner). I know she can’t do muscle testing when somebody has a cell phone on, so I told her before we got started that I had this “energy disk” on and asked if I should remove it. She said yes. I’m not sure if you’re familiar with muscle testing, so I’ll just toss this little ditty in (and don’t ask me how it works… I don’t question, I just know that it works): Hold up your arm, she pushes on it, you push back. She asks your body a series of questions then gives possible “answers”, when she hits on the one that your body responds to all the muscle in the world cannot hold your arm up.

SO… she asks if she can test me while I hold the disk: I hold up my arm and she smiles–obviously she gets something from it, then she goes through her series of questions and says “You test well for it. Keep using it.” Then she holds it up to Wynnie’s heart and starts to test her (using my arm because Wynnie doesn’t get the concept yet). All the sudden Wynnie’s eyes get all glazed over and she stares over Dr Voodoo’s shoulder. Dr Voodoo pulled the disk away from her heart chakra… count to 2… Wynnie’s eyes refocus and she begins to partake in the conversation again.

Dr Voodoo thought it was so interesting, that she did it 3 more times: purple disk over Wynnie’s heart, Wynnie’s eyes glaze over, stares off into space. Pull purple disk away, count to 2, eyes focus, she comes back to earth.

So Dr Voodoo told me to keep the use of the purple disk to short periods of time, it’s possible she’s getting “too much” from it.

I tried to reproduce it when I got home, to show my husband and it didn’t work. I have no idea what the deal was, but it was interesting.

Then I remembered that previously Wynnie would wear the angel and I’d think I’d probably have to pry it off her to take a bath and go to bed. But after about an hour she’d tell me to take it off because it was “poking” her. Even though it wasn’t on a tight cord at all, and not inside her clothing and wasn’t really poking in any way.

Wondered what (if any) thoughts you may have.

P.S. My mom loves her large disk and keeps it in her pocket, too. But I’m not sure there would be a huge noticeable difference from the disk at such a short time since Christmas.

Witchypoo sez:

Jenny , thank you for taking the time to write this out so completely. I should first explain that she bought these from my purple plates site which I set up when I ran out of plates to give to people. They were that good, I wanted to share them.

I’m so glad that you also honoured your child’s own wisdom. These plates are very powerful, and can even be used with a child’s photograph to affect positive changes, especially in behaviour. So don’t worry that an hour day is enough for her. Instead, congratulate yourself that you recognize she doesn’t need a steady dose of that purple goodness.

I am familiar with muscle testing, having experienced it. Chriss Angel does a variation of this when he “reads minds”. The premise is that we already know everything there is to know, we just don’t know it yet. Heh. Clear as mud. But the body knows, and those who are practiced can get the proper answers from muscle testing.

The heart chakra is a major key to the human energy field. I use primarily the heart chakra in my healing practice. That your daughter went into trance when the practitioner, yourself, the purple plate, and Wynnie all were connected makes me believe that she (Wynnie) is a healer of considerable natural talent. The symbiosis of all the elements together would explain why you couldn’t reproduce it without Dr Voodoo. (cute name, btw) All elements were needed to produce the effect. I believe that she was in direct contact with her healing guides (and, perhaps, Dr. Voodoo’s) at that time.

My own experience of the purple plate may be similar to your mother’s. I wore the plate over my right kidney for six months to reduce the pain I felt in that area, and eventually, there was no more pain at all there.

I have heard of teachers using a large plate under a chair cushion, a version of the naughty chair. I believe this was called the take five chair. The idea was to calm the child, and restore harmony.

When I had many plates (before I gave all but one away) I used to place one under water which I used to water my plants. It worked wonderfully!

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