New Home, Unpacking Crystals

It is with great joy I unpack all of my crystals after two months of not having a home or a plan to receive a home. They can finally breathe, and so can I, as we both unroll and let ourselves expand into our own space. A deep relaxation occurs.

I have a mixture of feelings right now. The Tuscon Gem Show is happening  and I am not going. I have chosen to stay home  this year for various reasons. I have mixed feelings about it but I know in the long term I have made the right decision for my business and my personal life, as much as I would love to go there.

So I unwrap these crystalline friends, one by one, my personal and business collection each receiving their own shelves. As each one is unwrapped my mind is taken to the stories that each one remembers and tells with a whisper. Some remind me of the people who gifted me the minerals – names oft forgotten but not their energy, nor their words as they passed the gift to me.

It amazes me how blessed I am, and how each of us is to receive these minerals and have them choose to work with us. I am so honoured and humbled in this work that I do. They pulsate their love and call me back to them, back to the shifting.

5 Crystals to Ignite Your Creativity | Crystals Teach Art | Crystals and Creativity |

It seems to me crystals are teachers of art.

It may seem like a strange insinuation to be made, however, I do believe it is true.

It was a realization that came to me when I met with one of my crystal brothers in San Francisco a couple of weeks ago. Even though he lives 26 hours away from me, when driving, when he pulled out his artwork it was very similar to what I’ve been learning and exploring. He shared with me poetry and we shared the stories the crystals had told us.

Even though we live 950 miles apart from each other, we are being taught similar, if not the same, things via the crystals we love and work with.

It amazed me. Astounded me, really.

We spent a few hours together expounded our knowledge and comparing notes, creating a portal, reading crystals, receiving new downloads, and it was amazing. But when he pulled out his artwork to show me, and it matched my art perfectly, I knew: crystals teach us art. 

Upon reflection, every single crystal person I know has some form of art they do. From wire wrapping to painting to singing to dance its there. Working with the crystals expands your creativity. They help move the kundalini up. They help unblock your creativity. They will give you downloads of the most amazing kind, opening up your inner vision to see worlds unseen that must be shared.

You might say crystals act as a muse to the creative being. 

And that, my dear, is you!

Think about it. Humans are naturally creative beings. It doesn’t matter if it is in the form of what our society calls “art” or if it is in a more natural form such as creating gardens/tonics/herbal mixtures, creating perfumes, creating engines, etc. All of these, including math, require some form of creativity to make things happen.

We, as human beings, operate in world of energy. We are constantly giving out energy and receiving energy. The energy we give out is a creative energy. This energy builds our lives as we know it, whether we want to admit it or not. Our life is a creative act. The energy we receive is our abundance, our resources, our manifestations.

For those of us seeking more creativity, start with your current ideas,  and do them. As you do them, more ideas will come to you. Creativity is like a muscle. If I wanted to create a coffee machine I would go learn about the components typically required and the multiple ways we can create a machine to make coffee.

Then the only thing limiting me is my own mind. Asking questions like, “How else can this machine make coffee? Can I make it smaller? Can I make it faster? Can I make it fancier? Can I make it float? Can I make it dance when its done?” All of these things stimulate the creative muscle.

These kinds of questions can be used anywhere anytime. Creativity is about asking questions. It doesn’t have to be the right questions, because you find the right questions by asking questions. You know you’ve asked the right question when you feel a hit of inspiration. And when you follow that inspiration you find yourself standing in a room of inspirations. Then its a matter of following one to completion, and if it doesn’t get you where you want to go, go back to that room and follow another. Repeat and continue.

There is no end to creativity or the ideas you have. In my dream world we would have free access to all the things needed to create the things we can only dream of. Mind you, the visions I hold of the places I want to create are rather expensive in our world.

For those of you who would like specific crystals to help stimulate creativity in your own life, here’s a list of five!

1) Picasso Stone – Yes, there is a stone named after Picasso. Pretty cool, eh? I have a piece in my personal collection somewhere around here. It is a type of marble, being gray with black or brown brush stroke markings it has a marble look to it. It aids in dissolving creative blockages, understanding your souls choices in this lifetime (aka destiny and fate), and aids in transformation. It is an ideal stone for meditation. Here’s a really cool link for more info about Picasso Stone. I have yet to find a supplier for this mineral, but am on the hunt. 🙂

2) Tangerine Quartz – I wear Tangerine Quartz almost every day since June of 2013. In that time I have become a paid artist. Mind you, I don’t sell a lot of art, but I went from not considering myself an artist to realizing I’m an artist to selling my first piece of art and receiving multiple commissions since I began wearing the Tangerine Quartz earrings I was gifted before my travels.

Tangerine quartz stimulates the sacral chakra, which is connected to the throat chakra, areas both responsible for creativity. It feels to me that the sacral chakra is where your creativity becomes stimulated. That’s where it gets stirred up, where your muse lies, and is found. In the throat chakra is your expression of your muse and ideas and how you go about expressing those things. The muse is related to sexual energy, which is another things tangerine quartz works with… I have just sold out of these babies, but if you are interested, email me. Some tangerine quartz is made in a lab (like the earrings I mentioned) however there is also natural tangerine quartz available (the kind I sell, though I’m looking for a supplier for the earrings I wear).

3) Vanadinite – This is an almost mandatory stone for creative types. It is a stone of creativity but the stronger energies within it are accomplishment, grounding, and perserverance. This stone aligns the bottom three chakras, but it will help you actually finish the projects you have set out to do! This is definitely on my wish list right now because when you work with the above two stones, you’ll find yourself overwhelmed with ideas. Vanadinite will help you organize your creativity into doable tasks and help you finish them past the point of inspiration. Woohoo!

4) Pyrite – Listen to this quote from Book of Stones: ” Pyrite stimulates creativity in art, mathematics, sculpture, architecture, science and many other disciplines. It feeds the qualities of ambition, commitment, and persistence…. It increases mental clarity and focus, making it an ideal stone for students.” Amazing! And did you know that pyrite naturally grows in cubes? Epic! It is great for what our society would term “linear” or “logical” creative pursuits as above, and is connected to the third chakra, so helping you step into your own empowerment while getting your work done. It also helps you with manifestation!

I personally have more than a few pieces of pyrite, aka fools gold, in my collection. It is one I am drawn to for the order it can create in my world. I am currently sold out of this mineral.

5) Ulexite – Anyone who has come to a gem show of mine knows about Ulexite. It is amazing, and though it looks like Selenite it is a totally different crystal with a different chemical composition. I argue about this a lot with a lot of different people including vendors. I was tempted today to make a correction with a store in Nelson selling “vogel crystals” when in reality it is a brazilian cut vogel like quartz specimen, but I choose to walk away. You’d be proud of me fellow crystal lovers! I also did not apply to work at that store and omitted it from my list of places that sell crystals. Anyways, I digress! Ulexite!

If you take a piece of Ulexite and you place it over words, the words will be projected to the top of the mineral. It is very cool. It aids not only in creativity but also imagination. In alignment with these two things are intuition, clairvoyance and mental agility. This is a mineral I’ve been working with for years, and one that I highly recommend. Currently I’m sold out.

There ya go! Enjoy these crystals! They are amazing!

My dinner is getting cold so I’ll add pictures later!

Love ya!
Serafina
The Crystal Matchmaker

P.S. I’m currently on the search for business investors and mentors to mentor under inside the crystal business. If you have anyone to recommend, please send me an email.

Double Dates | Matches Made Over Crystals

One of the first things many people think when I introduce myself as the Crystal Matchmaker is that I somehow match partners up with each other via the use of crystals in some strange mythical probably highly esoteric way.

It’s simply not true though.

I wish I had a crystal ball to gaze into (preferably rose quartz or kunzite) that could tell me that sort of thing. That’d be a really fun and fulfilling job! Could you imagine!? I would use it in my own love life, of course, and maybe possibly solve the problem of finding love for people.

But I digress!

The Crystal Matchmaker truly became a Crystal Matchmaker without the magic crystal ball the other night.

An old acquaintance of mine contacted me about coming to view the crystal collection before I leave town. I said sure, and we set up a time. She came by with her partner and we talked crystals for a bit with tea in hand.

There was a knock on the door and another acquaintance had arrived to pick up some items. I thought perhaps to invite him in but wasn’t sure. Suddenly the other man was at the door hugging this man, and it turns out all three of them were old friends!

In he came for some tea, and we continued to talk crystals, but by the end of the night it had been decided: These old friends would be reconnecting with a double date. By the time they reached the door they were already setting dates!

It was definitely amazing. I didn’t realize the Crystal Matchmaker had come true until I told a friend what happened and she said, “See, you are connecting people through the crystals!”

It was simply good timing I think!

Lemurian Quartz

Lemurian Quartz pieces have been coming by my house as of late. Beautiful, powerful pieces that now sit on my altar. One of which is to become a priestess piece as soon as I pick up the headpiece for it.

Tonight I went to a gathering about crystals. There was a beautiful Lemurian Quartz sitting on the table, and we were asked to connect to a crystal. I took this large Lemurian Quartz, and felt deeply into it.

This is what I learned:

This quartz was placed by the Galactic Federation to be found at the appropriate time, as most Lemurians are. This particular Lemurian worked with harmony, especially with bringing the harmony to the lower three chakras. It worked with helping an individual ground, and with helping individuals find their life purpose. It gave three exercises one can do with it:

1) Point the Lemurian Quartz downwards and place on either the root or sacral chakras. The energy will flow down your legs into the Earth, and create a feedback loop, coming up the legs will be minerals and a grounded connection to the Earth as it harmonizes the chakra it is placed on.

2) Place on the heart chakra with the point up. This will allow the crystal to “suck” the energy up from the three bottom chakras to create harmony and flow through the heart to the throat where that energy will be used to balance and harmonize creativity and expression in the throat. It pushes the energy through the crown chakra and into the aura, again, with the intention of harmonization of the energy and auric field.

3) For life direction use: create the various options you are contemplating much how you would create a dowsing chart. In this case I found it easier to segment different parts of the room to represent various paths. Then point the crystal to each path while paying attention to how the crystal feels. For me, the crystal would heat up when point to a direction I was to follow.

I imagine some of these techniques, especially exercise three, could be used for various points to achieve similar results. I am quite curious about number three with another mineral because I never got to complete that exercise when I was reading the crystal – time was up!

Let me know what your results are!

~ The Crystal Matchmaker

Leaps of Faith and Crystals

I’ve been so busy this month launching this new website (and building it!) and finding new opportunities. I feel like I’m on the fast track suddenly to something. It feels like all of a sudden everything is lining up to perfection. I hope that it is.

This business and most of my life seems to have been built on leaps of faith. Sometimes they’ve worked out really well for me and other times they have not. When they haven’t worked out they’ve sometimes have been the harshest lessons that still have profound effects on me, and that I still have healing to do around.

I have learned a lot, and I’m continuing to learn a lot. One thing that comes to me again and again is that I must let myself be seen. I must let myself be shown. I must let my gifts be known. I have kept them (mostly) to myself but I have been honing and cultivating them.

It was in my yoga teacher training I recently completed that my teacher told me I must follow the crystals. The crystals have guided me on a path I was never expecting to walk but that I love almost more than anything else. I can’t imagine a better job for me.

I am so excited for the Crystal Matchmaker. I am so excited to be sharing my passions with you. I am so excited that this is part of my journey to create the bigger visions I see and hope to bring to the world.

One day I’ll tell you of the visions I have.

Until then, please enjoy this website. Please enjoy learning about these wonderful crystals.

And I invite you to join me on this wonderful journey. (You can do this easily by subscribing to the newsletter on the right or liking the facebook page)

I look forward to meeting you. <3

The Crystal Matchmaker

Crystal Personalities |Green Calcite | Green Garnet

FlouriteJokeIt is sometimes mind-boggling when a person learns that minerals have a voice. It is fascinating when they learn that those voices can be dramatic and a dead give away of the crystal’s personality and how they are working on the planet at this time.

In my experience all of the crystals are little tiny beings with their own particular missions on the planet. For example all of rose quartz may have the same basic feel of soft loving energy and the same basic mission of helping us love ourselves and others and of bringing forgiveness to our lives, but each individual piece is so much more than that.

Some of them will like to be on the window sill. Some will want to sleep with you. Some will want to travel around with out and others will want to be jewellery. Still some will want to go to another person or back to the Earth, and some beyond that will want to be grouped with other crystals to help facilitate a certain function.

Some are really loud and obnoxious. Like a piece of black onyx set in a wand I met a couple of weekends ago. As soon as we met he was yelling from across the room (he was on the altar), “I need to be cleaned in rice. Not water. Rice.” I mentally acknowledged him, and he was quiet for a bit, before he started up again, saying the same thing over and over like a mantra: “Clean me with rice, not water. I need to be cleaned with rice, not water. Clean me…”. I felt I had to approach the Keeper of this crystal and let him know of the message being beamed out so loudly from the black onyx.

One of the most memorable moments of reading crystal came when I met a big chunk of green calcite. The chunk was probably a little bigger than a baseball. He been brought with a party goer at my house and immediately when I came into the room I was given him go great. Well, he was the great cuddler! All he wanted to do and talk about was how he loved to cuddle and help humanity release all their great stresses, and the little ones too. He wanted to be pet, and held, and cuddled.

Another memorable moment came when I was getting to know how different crystals worked with different people and the kind of information they focused on. I had a friend hold onto the green garnet, and then I took it to read. We were both surprised when his words came out looooooooooongggggggggg…….. deeeeeeeeeepppppppp……… aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddddddddd………. eeeeeeeeevvvvvvveeeeeeeeerrrrrrrrrrrr………….. soooooooooooooooooo……………. slooooooooooooooooowwwwwwwllllllyyyyyyyyyyy……..

I haven’t read him for others since then because it took us a good five minutes to get his message.

As you can see they all have their own style  and way of communicating. Some will make you laugh like the Aqua Aura Quartz I have who speaks fast and high and is all about joy in the world. Others will make you roll your eyes like a quartz piece I have who is always very direct, to the point and correct (I swear he would say I told you so if given the chance!).

What are some of your most ah-ha or funny moments connecting to your crystals?

Your Crystal Has a Voice! Can You Hear It?

anadaraAll crystals and minerals have a voice.

Each one of them has a personality.

And they all have opinions.

Each of your minerals is unique, conscious, and working hard.

Every mineral has a mission just like each of us has a mission.

Sometimes, they come to play with us for a time before they head on out the door.

Other times, their mission aligns with ours they are a power crystal and with us for life.

Some of them have a lot to say.

And some of them nothing.

Nothing doesn’t mean they aren’t doing anything.

Those who say nothing share with us by sharing energy with us, the energetic imprints of their wisdom into our aura.

This is my job. I listen to the minerals and tell their Guardians or Keepers what they are saying when they are unable to hear them. Sometimes I meet minerals who have a lot to say and just need someone to listen to ensure they accomplish their mission. And sometimes I walk around and a mineral is like “hey, you, I need this!”. Other times they have nothing to say at all because they are happily playing and working away.

They are here to serve, just like the trees serve, the plants and animals are serving, and we are here to serve in some capacity.

You Can Hear Your Crystals

It’s easy to hear your crystals. It gets easier and easier as you practice the meditation below.

Pick a mineral or crystal you want to connect to. Get comfy somewhere you won’t be disturbed for about ten minutes. Take your mineral in the palm of one of your hands and place your other hand over the mineral. If this is uncomfortable for you ensure the mineral is in one of the palms of your hands with the fingers closed over it. The mineral is connected to your heart chakra when it is in this position.

Set your intention to connect with your mineral.

Next take a few minutes to breathe deeply, connecting to the mineral in your hand(s). Just witness as you breathe deeply with your focus on the mineral in your hand.

After a few minutes begin to go through the five sense mentally. Ask yourself, “What do I feel?”

Take a moment here to note what it is you feel.

Then ask, “What do I see?” and take a moment to note what you see.

Continue through the rest of the senses: What do I hear? What do I smell? What do I taste? What do I know?

When you are complete, ask the mineral if there are any other messages for you.

After you receive them, thank the mineral and come out of the meditation.

This meditation is one that I have done for years and one of the major reasons I connect so well to the mineral kingdom. With practice it gets easier and more vibrant.

Enjoy! <3