At my grandparent's home, there was a coal mine closet. From a tiny window, I was told as a toddler, a coal truck would come and dump the coal into the basement's closet window. As children, we were afraid of the closet because after Grandpa passed, no one ever opened the door. It was him who had the job of moving the coal from the closet to the furnace, and the mystery of the closet to children whose reference point for coal was being on Santa's skip stayed eternal. As I researched Father's Day, I learned its inception was birthed from a miner's daughter named Sonora Smart Dodd to honor miners and fathers who transitioned as a result of the largest coal mining accident in history. I find it interesting these bridges to sources of energy and heat are related to fathers and the masculine, as too, the Sun and Solar Plexus chakra. Then I think about Dads and fossils, and here we are again, the bridge to an energy source.

  

For Father's Day, there are always family members at the store searching for the perfect fossil for their dad. When I asked our Fossil Specialist, Diane Parma, which fossils resonate with fathering energies, she was led to mention three favorites. One with creative fossil attributes, the other with more practical properties and one in the middle: Orthoceras, Trilobite and Coral.. For example, if your father wants to counsel you, is he going to take you on a parachuting adventure while he jokingly offers some life metaphors, or is he more likely to advise you from across a long Executive oak table glaring over the rim of his glasses? ...or somewhere in between?