I’d forgotten how ridiculously easy Dreamweaver is to work with for web developers.

It’s like if you sneeze, Dreamweaver hands you a tissue.

And, it made me absurdly happy to fix my purple plates site. If you have Internet Explorer 6, you can access the site from a link on the page.

I was singing in my head, because that is the only place it sounds good to anybody, “Wooo-oooo, you’re my best friend” and I was referring to Dreamweaver.

I wouldn’t make out with it and have its babies, because, Hello? It’s software.

I’m guessing not much that is soft makes the babies. Where was I?

The reason the site was wonky? One tiny piece of code, three characters long, on one page.

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Yep, those three. I was too sick over the weekend to tackle any kind of task requiring any smarts at all. I stayed up late last night, poring over code, and had the solution for IE6 this morning. All of the problems with the site had to do with file management.

Or, in my case, file mis-management.

I feel much better now.

Go buy some. They’re awesome. You are too, and you always smell nice.

Usually, it’s Ask witchypoo, but there were no questions in this letter I received, just an accounting of how the wondrous purple plates worked for her. Her would be Jenny of Hyphen Mama fame.

I loved my purple plates so much, I gave them all away too, and I suspect Jenny is doing the same thing. Here’s what she has to say:

Witchy,
I wanted to share a funny little ditty with you regarding the small circular purple plate I most recently bought for my dog.

I have a 7 year-old Chesapeake Bay Retriever/Black Lab mix who LOVES to play with his tennis ball. He could chase his tennis ball 24 hours a day and he’d be a happy boy. About 3 years ago (maybe more, maybe less… my memory fails me) he was jumping for a tennis ball and came down on one of his hind legs and partially tore his ACL. He limped for a few weeks and we took him to the vet, who x-rayed it and told us to see if it would heal on its own. Well, being the runner he is, he never stopped moving long enough to let it fully heal. He’s had a limp since that time. I’ve had him treated with acupuncture and chiropractic care. We can’t afford the $3000 for a knee replacement for him. He continued to limp. Especially after he’d been playing ball. I feed him joint supplements. He limped around almost all the time. Poor guy, had a really hard time getting up and down the stairs.

I put the small circular purple plate on his collar a few months ago. In just the past 2 weeks or so, I’ve noticed HE’S NOT LIMPING. He will limp a tiny bit, but continues to use that leg (where before he’d just lift it up and only use 3 legs). He walks on that leg. He jumps on it. He chases balls without a limp.

I don’t know what the heck it is…but I’m going with it.

Incidentally, I had a spare large circle and my dad was talking about his aches and pains this past weekend. I sent that one off to him and he’s now keeping it in his pocket. He SWEARS that after only a day or so he’s already feeling a difference. He admits it could be wishful thinking, but he doesn’t care.

I wear mine around my neck all the time and just wait for people to ask me about it, because I can’t wait to tell them about it!

Thanks witchy, for such a great little thingy.
Jenny
Hyphen Mama

p.s. Also, I hung one over Mack’s bed when he was around 17 months old, that’s when he first started sleeping through the night. But I had to remove the one from Wynnie’s bedroom, as she wasn’t able to sleep at all! Funny how it affects each differently.

I don’t understand why more of you aren’t snapping these plates up. They’re wicked good. And I barely break even on my costs. I just want everyone to have one.

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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