Category Archives: Gemstones and Minerals

How To Activate Your Minerals

I’m in business mode when I call up a potential supplier for one of my most loved and cherished minerals, the rose pink Andara I’ve been working with intensely since last October. I know that the supplier will have to have something special before I can trust that they are supplying me with a true Andara.

There’s a lot of controversy surrounding these minerals. They look like glass and can be easily replicated. It’s tough to tell glass apart from glass, and to tell you the truth, I’m not really sure how you can unless you are in a lab or using your intuition.

I get on the phone with the potential supplier, Skye, and within five minutes of the conversation I know that I’ve found my supplier. I know that she “get’s it’. She “get’s it” beyond myself. I can sense within her a deep respect for the minerals and the processes they undertake us. She tells me a story, a story I can’t recall now, but I do remember one line, a line that I bookmarked in my brain because it was so profound: The minerals work with you when you activate them through intention.

You would think that this is pretty obvious of a statement. The thing is that I never simplified it so succinctly. The way that she told it to me hit me like a missile. Suddenly I saw all the minerals I had worked with and gifted away over the years, the minerals that have shaped me beyond what I will ever know and I understand.

I remember telling a friend about a mineral I had carried with me since I was seventeen. It is a large white mineral with black specks. I had it for years before it was identified as Merlinite, a mineral that stimulates deep intuition and psychic knowing. For all those years that I carried Merlinite with me, even across the country, even when I didn’t know what it was, it always had a spot to be. It was always holding space on an altar, bookshelf, window sill.

The time came for me to gift it away, six years later, and I said to a friend, “I don’t know if it did very much…”

My friend jumped in surprise, and with a playful grin he replied, “The psychic doesn’t think that the Magic of Merlinite didn’t do anything while she developed and honed her intuition the last several years?”

I had to laugh out loud. Of course Merlinite had been a part of my process as I trained and honed my intuition!

That’s how simple it is for the minerals to work with you. I never thought twice about putting Merlinite out – though I wondered what he was and occasionally asked around. I didn’t have any expectations of what he would do, I just knew that he would benefit me.

I simply welcomed him into my crystalline family and honoured his work with me.

It all begins with intention. And it will all end with intention.

Your minerals activate when you intend to activate them. As soon as you say “Welcome to my life.” As soon as you open yourself up, with or without words, to their delicate yet sturdy crystalline structure, you are activating them to work magic in your life. They begin in the subtle realms working into the physical realm in a process of perfect timing.

What else can you expect from slivers of unconditional love?

P.S.

The Andara’s arrive this week! Yay! I will post pictures. 🙂

The Truth About the Tucson Gem Show | A Journal Post

~ Sunburnt and High on Life ~

This past February I went to the Tucson Gem Show for the first time ever in my life.

And it was great.

It was beyond great. It was one of the best things I’ve done thus far in my life.

I learned a lot, connected with many in new and interesting ways, I began my journey as a buyer and seller of minerals. I felt my soul melt and come back alive again. I felt at home and understood in a way that I feel rarely understood where I am not.

And its not that I am not surrounded by amazing people. I am. All the time.

This was something different. For a week and a half I was on a high. I was doing all the things that I love and none of the things I dread doing in the sunny desert of Arizona. The weather lifted my moods much in the same way cloudy Vancouver can lower them. I found myself going fast with people I love whom I felt so at home with.

Landing in Vancouver afterwards was a shock to my system. I was exhausted, sun tanned and quite happily sick. Mission accomplished. Sitting on the skytrain to the current housesit I felt a blast of energy go through my body. I didn’t know what it was, and I still don’t know what it was, but when it hit me I couldn’t stop crying.

Homesickness struck me. Not for my Blood Family or where I grew up. I wasn’t craving the Islands, or the friends I have there, in Winnipeg, or in other areas of Canada. I was craving the family I felt I had left in the States, at the Gem Show. I was craving the sense of home I had this previous summer in San Francisco, the first city I have fallen in love with and written love letters to and all the people in that area I felt so at home with.

I realized with a force where my home is – an intention I had set almost one year ago.

Then I couldn’t stop crying for a good nine days.

It was as if each session of tears let something fall away. For those nine days my body was racked with emotional turmoil of mainly fear. The fear showed up in different ways with many different stories and versions of the fears that came up for me. I witnessed myself and creating stress as I dealt with finding a new place to live, receiving the minerals from the States, and money.

My emotions on a daily basis would swing within hours from regret to anger to low self-esteem to grief to straight up fear. Stories went on in my head as I contracted from the world, and decided to do what I needed to do and nothing more than that until my emotions stopped spinning me around in whatever transition or transformation this was.

As I came out of the experience I began to feel my cheery self coming a live again and able to be more fully present. I have slowly, day by day, felt much more able to handle the world and physicality again. I feel like I can be okay with the unknown – and there are so many unknowns and probabilities. I feel like I can be okay with the waxing and waning of life again. I feel like I can stand strong on my feet again.

Words haunt me from the mouths of others as I exit this process, whatever that was: You are beautiful. You are a Goddess. You are intimidating. You are powerful.

I practice now to feel my power, feel my aura, feel my impact on others. The better I can feel it the more awareness and consciousness I can bring to my interactions with others. I’ve only glimpsed my power twice in my life, stories for another day, and now I want to humbly know it so I can use it better to serve each person I encounter in my life.

My own words haunt me, the words I said to perhaps one or two good friends of mine: “I feel like when I come back from Tucson my whole life is going to be at a different frequency. Everything is going to shift and change.”

And it is. Fast. I witness the changes within myself, a gentle smile on my face in the most mundane moments of life, and feel so blessed to be where I am doing what I am.

There are many factors to the changes I see in me and one of them is the Kundalini Yoga course I’ve been doing since October. It has truly been transformational. I am honored and humble at the power of this technology, this world, the power of being a soul in a human being, and with just… everything in this moment and the last few days. I find myself spending more and more moments in that space – shifting, twirling, moving between human and soul and the many faces of each. <3

How to Balance Your Chakras

Many people are curious about the best ways to balance their chakra system. It’s a good idea to balance your chakras because when they are operating properly and in balance your life is in alignment with the Universal Flow and everything seems a lot more graceful.

There are a lot of factors that go into whether a chakra is open and functioning properly. It can be blocked from operating in a balanced way due to traumas, or a build up of negative thought forms. It can be over active from too much focus there, or its swung from being too under functioning to being overly functioning.

To guarantee that your chakras are in balance it would be recommended that you do one of the following exercises everyday. For some people this works and they love it. Other people like to change it up a bit (like me!).

Personally, I tend to focus on filling my life with various exercises based on the chakras that I want to work on or the quality that I desire to have in my life. For instance, I do a lot of yoga that focuses on the solar plexus and the heart. My meditation practices tend to be based on the sacral and third eye chakras right now. But it shifts depending what I’m working on.

The Crystal Method

The crystal method is a really simple laying on of stones healing practice that most people find hugely effective. First you gather seven minerals together. You can usually find chakra sets for sale for around $25 including taxes at your local metaphysical stores, or even online maybe. You can also pick out your own stones for your chakra set, which is my preferred method.

Typical choices might include for each chakra the following. You only need one mineral per chakra!

Root Chakra: Black tourmaline, hematite, obsidian, smokey quartz, tiger’s eyes, jasper, garnet and ruby.

Sacral Chakra: Bloodstone, carnelian, red garnet, red jasper, ruby, orange calcite, fire opal.

Solar Plexus Chakra: Aragonite, citrine, golden calcite, malachite, rhodochrosite, ritulated quartz, pyrite, tiger’s eye, unakite, imperial topaz.

Heart Chakra: Aventurine, emerald, green calcite, green tourmaline, lepidolite, malachite, pink calcite, thodocrosite, Rhodonite, rose quartz, malachite, kunzite.

Throat Chakra: Angelite, aqua aura, blue lace agate, blue topaz, celestite, chrysocolia, larimar, turquoise, sodalite, aquamarine.

Third Eye Chakra: Amethyst, azurite, charolite, hawk’s eye, kyanite, lapiz lazuli, sodalite, moss agate, sugilite, sapphire.

Crown Chakra: Clear calcite, clear quartz, danburite, herkimer diamond, selenite, amethyst, diamond.

Once you have your minerals and have charged them by either keeping them in a bag with citrine (my favorite solar plexus mineral when doing a chakra balance) or running them under cool running water find a comfortable spot to lie down.

Place the applicable minerals on the chakra and visualize a gold/white light from Source entering the crown chakra, and going through the mineral on the crown chakra. See the gold/white light flowing through the third eye and its mineral and so on, until you get to the root chakra. When you are at the root chakra visualize the energy flowing down your legs through your feet connecting to the Earth. The energy goes deep, deep down into the ground, connecting you firmly.

Then see the Earth’s energy rise up, following the flow of energy all the way back into your body, up through the chakras, connecting through the crown chakra to Source.

You’ve now created a powerful flow of energy that is circulating Source Energy with Earth Energy, providing sustenance from the two most important energy sources we have as humans on the planet. We are feeding both our soul and our human body with this flow of energy.

Allow yourself to relax, focusing on your breath and the feeling of the minerals if you feel anything. Allow the minerals to guide your consciousness. In about twenty minutes you will have more balanced chakras than before you began!

In my experience it takes several sessions to have fully balanced chakras. Also the sessions may last longer than twenty minutes, however, the minerals will tell you when your session is done. You will know – sometimes it feels like you’ve been dropped back into your body, or you are suddenly wide awake, etc.

The Meditation Method

This is the method I use on myself more frequently than with the minerals. I just find this method to be faster for me, and it typically is faster for people who are doing this meditation as upkeep to already fairly in balance chakras. I tend to use this method in combination with specific exercises for chakras I have challenges in.

This method is really good at developing your clairvoyance (ability of clear sight) and clairsentience (clear feeling) too!

Find a comfortable place to sit or lie down. Take a few deep breaths, and then systematically go through your body using your breath to relax tensed muscles as best you can. Start at either your toes or the crown of your head working your way up or down your body respectively.

When you are complete, take a moment to visualize your chakras as best you can. Now see white/gold energy coming through your crown chakra, balancing and clearing it as it travels to down to the third eye. At the third eye, wash that chakra with this white/gold light before continuing down to the next chakra and continue the process all the way down to the root chakra.

At the root chakra see the energy move down into the Earth, deep down, connecting and grounding you to the Earth. Once you feel firm in the Earth see energy move up from the planet, washing and clearing each chakra all the way back up out of the crown chakra connecting to Source.

Do this a few times. You may notice that you feel the energy not moving as much in certain spots, or that you see a black spot. Those are blockages/traumas/imbalances. During the meditation you can ask about them to find out more information. You can also focus a lot of energy on them which sometimes will clear it away. Other times you will need to do outside work to dissolve the blockage or rectify the imbalance.

This meditation will take only about ten to fifteen minutes at most. I maybe spend five minutes a day on it however, I’ve done this meditation for over five years. Feel free to adapt it and change it to what suits your mind and method of intuition. 🙂

How To Check Chakra’s With a Pendulum

This was one of the first things I learned on my path as a healer. I use other methods now, having developed my skills as a healer and intuitive for years. I still find this to be one of the best tools to gift new healers with because it helps you to learn what the frequency is of each chakra and how to tune into it. It teaches you what it feels/looks like when a chakra is in balance or not, while also teaching you pendulum work.

That’s a lot of pluses!

You will need a pendulum for today’s posts. I learned this technique by using a washer that was tied to a string around 30 cm, or a foot long. I now use a quartz pendulum. I’ve also used in the past wood tied to string, headphones, and necklaces.

Pendulums work by accessing the information inside your Auric field. They respond to what your energy is promoting in your field. When you ask a question your energy responds and the pendulum is giving you a visual sign of what that answer is.

That’s why most things can be used for this work. I’ve only had problems with dowsing using a pendulum when I ask questions I’m biased about. If you are not biased either way about a question then your answer will have a high chance of accuracy.

Some people will find it’s easier to use certain materials over others, and that’s fine. Experiment and find out what works for you.

Here’s what I do when I check someones chakras with a pendulum.

First I verify what qualifies as a yes or no with the pendulum.

This picture shows how the string runs, and that the pendulum is hanging from the thumb and index finger. Tilt your hand, knuckles facing the sky parallel to the ground.

The extent of my dowsing skills is yes or no questions and numbers so I stick with this method when I use a pendulum. I place the end of the string that doesn’t have the pendulum on it at the edge of my hand that will be holding it up. I run the string along my palm, closing my fingers over it, pinching the string between the tips of my thumb and index fingers from which the pendulum will hang.

This is the most potent way that you can hold a pendulum giving it the best access to your heart’s answers to the questions you ask. There is a heart chakra in the palm of each hand.

I hold the pendulum about three inches above the face-up palm of my other hand.

“Show me yes.” I ask. I wait until it swings either left to right or back to front. Sometimes it will circle.

“Show me no.” I ask next and wait for that answer. The answers get stronger with practice and allowance.

Then I ask two or three test questions like “Is my name this? Am I wearing this?” to test the validity of the first two questions. When I secure with what represents yes and no I begin the process on the chakras.

The person whose chakras I’m checking will be lying down on their back, relaxing or meditating. They don’t have to do anything except lie still.

I will usually begin with the root chakra and work my way up. I place the pendulum a few inches above each chakra asking the following questions in succession:

“Is this chakra in balance?” If yes, I move to the next chakra. If no, I continue questioning:

“Is this chakra over functioning?” or “Is this chakra under functioning?”. The answer to these questions give me a really good idea as to what the person lying down is experiencing in their life based on the chakra system. A great reference book for this is Wheels of Life: A User’s Guide to the Chakra System by Anodea Judith.

I’ve also asked further questions about chakras such as: Will this healing method bring this chakra into balance? Is this chakra open? Is this chakra blocked (by ______)?

To check your chakras you use the same method but don’t place the pendulum over your body.

You can simply continue to hold the pendulum in the same way as you check the yes and no. You will ask the same questions with a slight difference:

“Is my root chakra in balance?” If yes, move to the next chakra. If no, ask if the root chakra is over functioning or under functioning.

This is a super easy method of checking your chakras or another persons. It can provide invaluable information, especially if you ask the right questions. It will also develop and hone your intuition.

Good luck! Happy dowsing!

A fun test that I sometimes do online to check my chakras is here.

Five Amazing Heart Chakra Crystals

V-day is tomorrow and this is the month of love in our Western Culture. While there is a lot of people complaining about the monetization and corporate greed, at least on my Facebook and in my friend groups, I’m actually grateful that this day has become so big.

In our Western Society we need a reminder to love sometimes. We need reminders to open our hearts bigger. We need the reminder that it is okay to love, fully, without hesitation. We need that push sometimes to really do what our heart desires, to really make known what we want.

While I don’t agree with having to spend lots of money or buying into the consumer holiday aspect of this month of love, I do appreciate those reminders. I do appreciate the mass celebration of love that happens like no other time in our culture.

Personally I feel that everyday is a day of love. Everyday is a day to learn to love better both ourselves and others. There’s a quote that I used to have on my wall, I’m pretty sure it was by Rumi, however I wasn’t able to find the full quote for you. It talks about how each moment we live we have a choice: Love or Fear. It’s up to use from which energy we respond to each moment.

That’s what I feel the mineral kingdom is constantly doing: constantly reminding us to act from love. Constantly reconnecting us to the Divine Unconditional Love within us. Constantly reminding us to open our hearts, receive our Divine Birthright of Abundance, Love and Joy.

That being said, here are my Top Five Heart Chakra Crystals!

1. Rose Quartz

This is the go-to mineral for the heart chakra because of its work with self love. I’ve spoken about it in this previous post, so I’m going to keep the words about this mineral short. Rose quartz opens up our hearts to self-love and helps us learn its okay to take care of ourselves. If we are single this Valentine’s Day why not cuddle up with your rose quartz and ask, What actions can I take today that would be from Self-Love?

It may suggest a bath with some essential oils, or going out for a delectable meal. Perhaps it will be to take yourself out on a date, or maybe it will be to allow yourself to turn off your phone for the night so you can really just be with yourself. Who knows?

2. Moonstone

Oh lovers, lovers, lovers! This is the mineral for you on this day of love! Moonstone has many legends about it being used to attract lovers and to incite the act of making love. Known as the “lovers stone”, it has been known to reconcile lovers, and to also cause lovers to fall in love. It is the mineral of intuition, femininity, and the moon. It draws forth intuitive flashes and positive emotional feelings rather than working with the logics of the mind. Read more here.

Find the Ring Here.

hiddenite

3. Hiddenite or Green Spodumene

This crystal is one of my favorites to work with on the heart chakra center! It opens the heart softly and gently to heal our relationships with others from the heart. It brings feelings of joy, gratitude, and peace uplifting your moods. It allows you to move on from situations that have hurt your heart, and for forgiveness to occur.

It is especially amazing for break-ups. There is folklore that states if two lovers break up, and one lover gifts both of them a piece of hiddenite the pieces will work together to heal the wounds between each other, allowing forgiveness to occur. It doesn’t mean necessarily that they will get back together, but it does give them the opportunity to be friends or at least able to be in the same room with each other!

It is also used in fights to calm the space and to allow people to interact more from the heart center. I’ve had visions working with my piece of being in fights with family but holding the piece in my hand, allowing the vibrations to waft over all beings present to bring the fight more heart centered and expressive than ego-centered.

4. Ruby

Ruby is considered by many to be one of the most powerful minerals in the world. When I tune into it I get sense of power with a very old ancient energy with it. The energy doesn’t feel irrelevant to today’s world, but feels like we need to use it in new ways. It feels like this mineral was once used by many royals and conquerers for its energies of bringing wealth and sexuality to their lives.

In today’s world, I feel it is asking us to now use it to anchor into our bodies and selves the abundance consciousness of the planet. It asking us to use and amass wealth and prosperity in heart centered ways. It brings with it a whirlwind of healing our sexuality as well.

On top of all the metaphysical stuff, it also heals the heart and the liver physically. It is known to cleanse and clear the blood, and aid in circulation. If you want to gift yourself or someone you know with a love mineral, I would say this is it.

P.S. I feel that ruby will become more well known and used on our planet in the coming years due to its ability to work with the Ruby Ray/Ruby Red Ray. Ruby projects and connects to a very particular frequency that reconnects us to our inherent wealth and nobility.

5. Pink Andara

Okay, okay, I have fallen in love with Andaras. And mine is pink. I’ve gone through a period of a few weeks meditating with my piece on my heart chakra, and wow. I’m amazed at how much it moves and shifts my armour around my heart center. I could literally feel it grabbing the armour and dissolving it, leaving my heart center much more open.

This is a mineral that will connect you directly to your heart center dissolving all blockages to allow Divine Unconditional Love to flow right through you easily and gracefully. It will connect you Quan Yin, the Female Buddha, who is also known as the Goddess of Compassion. Your life unfolds with more ease and grace as this process occurs, bringing more opportunities and flow.

Using all of these minerals as your intuition guides you will help you with several things: You will learn to fall in love wit yourself, you will learn to let love flow and that love is the true power is this World, that all things benefit and grow from Unconditional Love but love from the ego destroys. It will become obvious to you what your heart is guiding you to do, and it will lower the amour around your heart which allows you to be more authentically you.

These stones will teach you how to truly love.

And also balance.

You will learn that the greatest act of self-love is to take care of yourself first.

How To Make Everyday GemStone Elixirs

It’s super, super easy. Anyone can do it. Let me tell you how! With pictures!

There are two types of elixirs that I make. The first elixir is the one that I make in my every day life for drinking, which this article will be focused on. Most of the time my water is infused with some type of mineral when I’m not travelling (and whenever possible when travelling). The second are the type that I make for Willow’s Lavender.

The every day elixirs that I drink are made for quick consumption and are less time consuming to make. They usually have just one or two minerals in them due to fast turnover. I don’t keep extra’s of any of the elixir around because if I want rose quartz water instead of amethyst water I’ll simply make it that day, whereas the elixirs in the store a combination of gemstones to maximize the potency of the mineral kingdom for a specific usage created in ceremony. The process is detailed here.

Before we start lets talk about why on Mother Earth would you want to infuse your water with gemstones? I’ll give you three reasons:

1. Every time you drink water you could be sipping magickal crystal frequencies that heal your body effortlessly, with no thought on your part!

2. It’s a simple, easy, effective way to help attain or maintain the level of consciousness you desire.

3. You bless your water, and when you bless your water you change what the water holds. This means that the unwanted chemicals that don’t serve your body are filtered out, and you are drinking “clean” water.

Let’s get you started on making your own everyday gemstone elixirs!

Step One: The first thing to do is research. Ask yourself, what do you want the elixir to do? What qualities do you want to draw into your life? What do you want to become more of? What do you want to release/heal?

Then check out the crystals and minerals that will help you with that.

I usually use a combination of resources when I do my research. They are good ol’google, The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach and Love Is in the Earth: A Kaleidoscope of Crystals. Sometimes I’ll use the Liquid Crystal Oracle cards too. After a while you’ll get to know the minerals better and will begin to trust when you intuitively pick out the crystals. Often I’ll just ask my minerals “Who would serve me best in my water?” and go from there.

At this point in the journey its important to double check two things: Does the mineral you’ve chosen dissolve in water? Is the mineral you’ve chosen poisonous?

This is the list that I use.

If you find that your crystals is either water dissoluble or poisonous you can still use it, don’t worry, there’s just a couple extra steps involved because you have to use the double jar method instead of just one jar. The double jar method requires a small jar with a lid that easily fits inside the large jar you are using.

I’m a bit picky so I use glass only when making gemstone elixirs. I never touch the water with metals (caps excluded – I haven’t been able to find glass lids yet) or plastics (the worst!). The water will absorb materials from whatever you put it in and glass tends to be the cleanest so I use glass as much as possible.

You may want to make sure you are in a quiet space to better focus until you are well practised. This part of the process takes a maximum of ten minutes.

You are ready to begin when you’ve assembled the following:

One mason jar (or two if you are doing the double jar method as detailed above)
Your chosen mineral(s)
Water (preferably distilled, however, I often use tap/filtered water – do the best with what you have.)

Step Two: Fill the large jar with water and bless it.

If you are doing the double jar method make sure there is enough room for the small jar to fit without overflowing the large jar.

After the water is inside the jar take a moment to pray over it and to it. Thank it for the wonderful blessings it gives our bodies, thank it for healing our bodies, thank it for flushing toxins out of our body. Thank it for the love it gives us, for the nourishment it provides it. Tell it how wonderful it is and how grateful you are to drink it.

Imagine you are sending love to the water. I will typically stand with my feet firmly planted on the ground, head bowed, both my palms on either side of the jar. I spend a few minutes just pouring out love and gratitude for the water. Then I ask it to bless my body and all who drink this water. I ask for it to accept the mineral I’m about to put in for healing, love and light. I will often visualize matching scenes or symbols as I pray over the water like the Violet Flame or Cho Ko Rei.

This changes the entire structure of the water.

Step Three: Activate & program your mineral.

Then take the mineral, or one mineral at a time if you are using more than one, and place it in the palm of your hands. Either roll it between your palms or simply hold it if its fragile. And begin to program your mineral.

1. Connect to the mineral.
2. Ask the mineral to work with your intention, bringing the qualities you want to the water, infusing the water with with its Divine Unconditional love and healing.
3. Thank the mineral.

Step Four: Place the mineral(s) in the water in the large jar.

If you are using the double jar method place the mineral(s) inside the small jar with the lid on tightly and put the small jar in the big jar.

Step Five: Pray over the water again (optional).

At this point I place both my hands on either side and do a quick prayer asking that the water be infused with properities of this mineral, and state my intention. I say thank you, and relax.

Step Six: You have gemstone infused water!

Enjoy it! Make a refill any time you want!

Experiment too! I’ve had some crazy experiences with certain minerals, but sometimes that’s the best way to learn. I will say that its definitely a lot of fun with the mineral kingdom.

P.S.

If you decide to make an elixir with moldavite, unless you are the 10% of the population that feels grounded with moldavite, please, please, please use a more grounding stone, too, like amethyst and black obsidian. A pure moldavite elixir should pop up with a “Do not drive after drinking or operate heavy machinery or use sharp objects.”

Five Crystal Must-Haves (For Beginners)

Many people ask me what kind of crystal they should get for their crystal collection when they are first starting out. It always surprises me and I’m never sure what to say because where I operate from now is that each mineral is so individualized to give a generic list seems almost impossible.

The more I thought about it though, the more that I realized that I do have minerals in my collection that I view as a must-have in order for a personal crystal collection to be complete. Many of them are just so versatile that to be without would be foolish, in my opinion!

Here’s the list for those of you new to the crystal realms!

1. Citrine ~ works with the solar plexus

This is one of the minerals I probably use the most. Its one of the few minerals that all humans agree doesn’t need cleansing or clearing ever, and it will cleanse/clear your other minerals. It has a focus on abundance, clarity and harnessing your inner power as it works with the solar plexus. It cleanses and purifies the spaces that its in as well. I’ve kept a small piece of citrine in my wallet for years to help clear the energy in my life around finances.

I have a piece on my alter that I regularly use to clear my crystals. The particular piece I use was gifted to me to be used in clearing of spaces ceremony, and it has attended every single house clearing I have done since. It is invaluable to me, travelling in bags with other minerals clearing them as we move to our next destination. In meditations it has brought healing and clearing to my solar plexus.

This mineral isn’t the fastest working mineral. Effects can be amplified with herkimer or quartz, or by placing it in a grid. Otherwise this mineral works slow and steady. Its persistent and determined with a steady pace, and will raise your frequency to be the same.

I recently decided I was going to work more with citrine on an abundance level. In the Liquid Oracle Crystal book (that comes with the cards) there is an exercise I’ve just prepared for: Take one orange candle and place it above the citrine card (in a candle holder). In between place a piece of paper with what you desire written on it. Burn the candle and meditate on what you want for 7 minutes each day for 21 days. What you want will either have manifested or you will know why not.

I’ll let you know how it goes when I try it!

2. Amethyst ~ works with the third eye

A multi-dimensional purple stone that clears spaces. Amethyst is one of the great transmutation stones and has been found in several different variations over the last fifty years or so. Any of the variations from auralite to super seven are great and powerful. Amethyst is a great mineral to have around because of its transmutation properties: it clears spaces, and helps keep everything at a rather high frequency.

It also works with the third eye, the intuitive center. Meditation with a piece of amethyst at your third eye will activate and open the chakra, if it isn’t already. Meditating simply holding the mineral in your hands and visualizing your energy filtering through the amethyst is an effective meditation of changing, healing, shifting your auric field. If your third eye is overactive meditating with amethyst will bring it into balance.

I have clusters, tumbled, and raw pieces of amethyst and its variations that litter my room and crystal collection. They are invaluable to me, and I usually rotate between the different ones which travel with me.

3. Rose Quartz ~ works with the heart

This one is a must have, especially for our Western Culture. This is a mineral that helps us to learn to love ourselves. When meditating with this mineral one can feel the pure love it emanates. It heals us by allowing us to receive love from ourselves and from others. It softly and gently leads us to a place where we can take care of ourselves first, and understanding that it’s okay to be selfish sometimes if that means you are taking care of yourself.

I worked with a big rose quartz ball for two years that was gifted to me. This past summer I gifted it to a wonderful woman. Rosie and I slept together almost every night during the period we were working with each other. I began a practice of asking myself when making decisions: Is this an act of self-love?

I learned to be okay releasing that which wasn’t serving me, which was challenging at times due to my own neurosis. I learned to recognize and be okay with the neurosis that I carry, seeing that it isn’t me. And the neurosis when expressed by others aren’t them either. It became easier to see the soul of others and myself. It became easier to not identify with my feelings.

And during that two years I really got to know myself well. And accept most of me.

Rose quartz is such a gentle, loving presence that subtly works on your energetic fields you will hardly feel it. If you do it will feel like you’ve fallen into a soft love cloud.

4. Selenite ~ works with the aura & all chakras

This is a soft white mineral who’s energy is equally as soft. It is a self clearing mineral as well, and I’ve worked with it in various forms, but mostly wands. This is an epic aura cleanser, and balancer of the energies in your chakras. It is the mineral to grab for healing work if you are unsure which one to use because its so versatile.

I’ve used this mineral to extract and reduce pain, to clear the aura, to clear the chakras, in dream work, to open up my intuition and to faciliate communication with my guides. I keep a selenite wand beside my bed always to clear the dream space to allow me to have good dreams, similar to a dream catcher.

5. A grounding mineral ~ works with the root/sacral depending on mineral

I couldn’t decide what to make the fifth mineral. There are so many amazing ones, so I tried to imagine that I had a back of these four minerals, what would make it feel complete? A mineral for grounding! But which one? That depends on the person’s frequencies!

This last mineral I would say would need to be one of the following: Hematite, Black Obsidian, Black Tourmaline or Carnelian. All of these minerals can be used for grounding from a different frequency and a different way. It’s up to you to use the one that is most effective for you.

Some minerals I find too heavy for me and get headaches, slow and a lack of clarity. Other minerals don’t seem to affect me, while some minerals are just perfect for me, like carnelian.

So if I were to give you or sell you a bag of minerals as a starter set to the mineral kingdom that’s what I would put in the bag, with whichever grounding crystal you would prefer. This gives you ample minerals to explore and get you used to their energies and the way they work without overwhelming you. The minerals are powerful and versatile but gentle, so its a beautiful introduction to the mineral kingdom in my opinion.

The 4 Most Intriguing Crystals of Summer 2013 Part 2

Welcome back! Are you as curious as I am excited to share these next two crystals with you? Be prepared to be amazed!

3. A.R.C.rystal or ARC Vogel Crystal

What a beauty. This crystal is perfectly cut to a knife sharp point. It’s tiny, orange, and there seems to be no defect whatsover. This crystal was gifted to me during my travels on a RV named Grace, that literally ran on grace. The man who owned and drove the RV is a Soul Brother of mine. My friend and I caught a ride with him and at some point on the trip he gifted myself and my friend each one of these beauts.

He told us that they were very, very special crystals, and that he felt we would use them well. I had never seen anything like them, as I held it up to the sun looking at the dust-filled hole. The dust is made of approximately 26 different minerals crushed up into fine dust. The dust then fills the hole, capped with gold, so that the vogel amplifies the mineral mixture.

The vogel is cut to vibrate at the same frequency as water which causes a resonant reaction to your body. This reaction allows the crystal and your body to exchange information effortlessly. Vogels are known to be able to transfer geometric patterns to the body in a process called piezoelectric resonance. The transfer of geometric patterns with a Vogel cut crystal allows for the DNA to be altered in our bodies.

On top of all of this, one of the crystal keepers that I met over the summer and I got to talking about this crystal. I wanted more information on it and I was wondering if he had any. He knew exactly what I was talking about when I mentioned it to him because he had a friend who worked at actually creating these minerals – cutting them and the composition of the mineral dust. There are only two machines in the world that can cut a mineral to the exact dimensions that it must be to even be considered a vogel.

There are also a wide variety of technologies that he mentioned that are being created using vogels. Marcel Vogel is the genius behind this potent crystal, and also the most knowledgeable on it. There is a series of videos on YouTube that he made.

Another vogel entered my life earlier that summer but I hadn’t thought the two were similar until the end of summer. That vogel was one kept by a powerful priestess. It was unlike anything I had ever read before in my life: the power that emanated from it, the consciousness from which it spoke, the information it contained for her to unlock. These vogels are something else.

ARC Vogel Crystals

4. Yeh Ming Ju or Yeh Ming Zhu

While I was travelling around I kept running into the same people who were travelling a similar circuit. Throughout the summer, until the last festival I attended I kept hearing about a mysterious crystal called the Yeh Ming Ju (pronounced Yeh Men Jay). I had been hearing about this mysterious crystal all summer, and on top of it all, it apparently glows!

And let me tell you – that last festival was filled with glowing crystals from the rainbow moonstone blue opal on my forehead (long story) to the man who used magic to make crystals glow from the inside out to the yeh ming ju’s.

Finally I approached the man selling them, demanded it really, to see the yeh ming ju, since he was always so busy with the many people that were in and out of the tea house he sold crystals at.

Silently, before all of us, he took out a large wooden box filled with various yeh ming ju of all sizes, shapes and colours. “They come in three colours,” said he. “Blue, green or purple.”

He selected one, and walked over to the lamp lighting the tent. He stood for about thirty seconds with the yeh min ju held up to the light. Then he flicked off the light and the tent fell to darkness as completely as it was dark outside. A chorus of Ooooo’s and Aahhh’s sounded by all in the tent as the mysterious mineral was glowing in his hands.

He turned back on the light and wordlessly passed the mineral to me. Wide-eyed I took it and placed in in my hands. I had to focus hard – normal conversations had returned – I knew it might be a long while before I was able to work with the mineral one on one over an extended period. I closed my eyes and tuned in.

I was walking down a path, the mineral guiding me down a dark tunnel. We went through a doorway with two massive wood doors, and I was welcomed by the Beings that work through this mineral. They didn’t introduce themselves; they just simply asked if I was ready to accept the mineral.

Part of me wanted to say yes but I said no. They asked the question and I could see vines growing around me desiring to bind me with this particular yeh ming ju. I declined the offer, and walked away. The words of another crystal keeper replayed in my head: yeh ming ju’s bond with their keeper just like moldavite does. They are life long companions.

I opened my eyes and my whole body came back alive as I looked at the man who had let me hold the mineral. “How much are they?”

“One hundred and fifty dollars.”

I looked down at the pea sized yeh ming ju with sadness in my heart. It would not be coming home with me today. I gave it back to the crystal keeper and thanked him before bounding out of the tent back into the night.

It was an amazing experience that has left me intrigued beyond belief. I am so excited to share this mineral with others, even though I have yet to work with a piece deeply.

The yeh ming jeh comes from China where legends abound about it. It is a very rare mineral and there are three varieties. Ancient Yeh Ming Jeh which were owned by the royal families of China. There are the counterfeits often sold in the Chinese markets. And there are Modern Yeh Ming Jeh, which was the one that I experienced.

The Modern Yeh Ming Jeh are lab created making them much more available to people worldwide. They contain the same rare earth elements as the Ancient Yeh Ming Jeh and are alchemized in a specific way to recreate the mineral.

Different colours do different things, but there doesn’t seem to be a lot written about them yet. I can’t wait to work with them further!

Yeh Ming Zhu Blog
Yeh Ming Zhu Supplier/Writer
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The 4 Most Intriguing Crystals of Summer 2013 Part 1

This past summer I went on a journey, a pilgrimage if you will. It wasn’t planned on my part. I simply dreamt that it was time for me to go travel, and when I woke up the Universe had already constructed a plan to get me travelling and out the door. I was gifted the chance to meet many magical crystal beings and fewer but equally as magical crystal keepers throughout my travels.

I’d like to share with the four most intriguing minerals I came across this summer, a few of which I have the privilege and joy of working with, in no particular order.

The Andara I’ve been working with. It has an angels wing on the other side. 🙂

Woah! Can I just say, wow! The first pieces of Anadara I encountered in the Crystal Room in Mt. Shasta. If your unfamiliar with the Crystal Room it is actually an eight room crystal store tucked around the corner from the main drag of the town of Mt. Shasta. I cried the first time I went in because of the overwhelming love inside the store, which tells me the crystals are well loved and taken care of.

I wandered all the way to the last room in the shop and on the floor were sitting two huge chunks of aqua-blue Andara. I had never seen anything like it before. They were just like glass, but different. I touched one and tuned into it, someone playing a crystal bowl in the background.

Instantly I was transported underwater to Atlantis. It opened up its doors and I saw all sorts of mystical fish and sealife including mermaids. Entering cave up to dry land we stopped. I began to witness a scene. I could feel myself being pulled in very deep and I didn’t have time to sit at the moment so I pulled myself out of it. I queried the shop workers, but they didn’t know too much about it except for the name of the crystal.

I was fascinated since that day. I saw various pieces, and noted that the prices were rising over the summer to $183 for a fairly small chunk at one of the mineral stores in Shasta I was frequently – way over priced, over double what it is at cost.

I also came across arguments: are they real? What are they? How do you tell real ones from glass?

If you can’t feel the difference it would be a challenge I would guess. I was in Ashland, Oregon going for a massage when I came across a woman who was selling them for her friend. She hadn’t sold very many of them. For the same sized chunk as mentioned above, it was only $40. It was all I had in my wallet but I knew one was coming home with me.

Mine is rose pink, and I’d love to work with the aqua blue. I was also able to work with large smokey andaras over the summer. I channelled that they each align colour-wise with the chakra system, expanding, balancing and anchoring in higher levels of consciousness. They work fast and are potent for the people working with them. They are gifted to us at this time to help us raise consciousness to the true level of where we are supposed to be.

Research states that they come from only one place in the world, found on Nellie’s Land. They are composed of prima matra and are not volcanic glass even though they look like glass. They are currently gaining notoriety in the metaphysical world as fast consciousness expanders, powerful healing tools, and gateways to other realms.

I’ve just begun working with mine in deep meditation, and wow. It’s amazing. I would love to work with more of different colours. Each Andara is connected to an Ascended Master aligned to the colour of the Sacred Flames.

You can find more info about Andaras at this links:

Nellie’s Website
Blog about Andaras
Channel about Andaras
Sciencey View

The Azeztulite I’ve been working with. The white wand from Mt. Shasta and two pieces from a client.

2. Azeztulite

I collected a few pieces over the summer: white, rose and gold. The rose and gold were chosen by a client of mine who knew I was looking for this mineral due to its properties as an ascension mineral. It, too, came to the planet at this time to help with the consciousness and to help us grow faster. It is also a questionable mineral, many people wondering how to tell the difference between quartz and azeztulite.

I was in Shasta when I had a dream that told me to go to Soul Connections, a crystal store in Shasta. I woke up and told my friend that we have to go to Soul Connections today. We walked in and I was guided to go to the azeztulite section which I had been watching all summer long for a piece that called to me and I could afford. Sitting on the top of the pile was my piece, the most beautiful piece of azeztulite I had seen them carry all summer (as shown in the picture). My friend bought the crystal for me that was out of my price range, thankfully, and I’ve enjoyed it every since.

The minerals contain a soft frequency that unfold into transcendence and uplift. It elevates one to the joy and happiness that are our birthrights, allowing us to release all that doesn’t serve. Each one works on a ray with a specific being, similar to the Andaras. If you are familiar with the Sacred Flames you can match both the Andaras and Azeztulites to the various flames I feel. Azeztulite work in a more well round way instead of having a laser-like focus. They are just generally more soft and feel like a loving grandmother to me.

In meditations they have proven to be potent. They connect to higher realms with a softness and overflowing love that just holds a person in a place of peace and joy, allowing the world around them to go by. It’s not a passive allowance, but a surrender to the flow, a lack of attachment. Its time to just be.

If you have the opportunity to work with these guys, do it. I’m still exploring their gifts. The white one came to me to be used on others, combining amazingly well with the ametrine wand I often use. Together, used on the hands, they bring others to other dimensions and provide an experience of synaesthesia. If you can sit with a piece of ametrine and a piece of azeztulite I highly recommend it.

If you want to read more about this mineral look it up in The Book of Stones: Who They Are & What They Teach. They have quite an extensive section on it, the best place to read about it actually.

Apparently I have a lot to say about these minerals! Stayed tuned for Part Two next week! You will not be disappointed!

Raising Funds for Tuscon Gem Show Adventure!!

Hey there,

I’m pretty excited to be telling you that I’m going to be at the Tuscon Gem Show this year! I’m raising funds through an Indiegogo Campaign, and would love it if you could donate and/or share the campaign with your friends and family!

You can find out all about it at the Indiegogo website. Thanks for your support! YAY!

The Crystal Matchmaker

Rare Ascension Minerals & Crystal Readings