Category Archives: Gemstones and Minerals

It’s My Birthday! It’s My Birthday!

And I dance around and around and around because I’m excited to enter into my twenty-fourth year of living on this planet! I did a little research to find out what this next year will hold for me and this is what I found!

Astrologically

Every twelve years Jupiter returns (ages 12, 24, 34, 48, etc.). When Jupiter returns it is usually a lucky and positive year for Jupiter means abundance (YES!) and opportunity flows into your life. The more positive you are the more you are able to see and take the opportunities that flow your ways. It is a time of expansion. It encourages us to take risks and be bold, knowing that we will be taken care of (do I need more risk taking?) and gives us confidence that we many not have. It is important to not let the ego get over-inflated and to not over extend ourselves when Jupiter returns.

I really liked this article about Jupiter Returns.

Birthstones

Whaaaaat!? Tanzanite Shoes!!!??? Worth 2 million dollars!

I always was aware that Turquoise is a birthstone for the great truth seeking Sagittarious, but Blue Topaz? I did some more research and Wikipedia informed me of the following:

In the 15th – 20th century my birthstone was: Heliotrope and Ruby
In the US in 1912 it was: Turquoise and Lapis Lazuli
In the US today it is: Turquoise, Zircon and Tanzanite (I will tell you that I have a love affair with all three of these stones, especially Tanzanite right now!)
In Britain today it is: Tanzanite and Turquoise (YAY!)
In Hindu culture it is: Topaz (perhaps that’s why I’m drawn to it)
In the tropics: Topaz Topaz is sometimes defined as blue topaz.

I’ve never heard of Zircon or Tanzanite or Topaz being a birthstone of mine. I am quite happy they are!

I’ve yet to work with blue topaz.

Turquoise is a stone of good luck and fortune, one that matches the free-spirited sagittarious inside of me.

Lapis Lazuli I fell in love with a few years ago when I saw a ball of it. When I held the ball that looked like the Earth with its oceans and clouds I was projected out of my body and circled it, knowing I could land anywhere I wanted to on the Earth and check it out etherically. I’ve wanted to work with a lapis lazuli globe ever since – that was at a gem show I went to! This summer I travelled with a piece in my drinking water. I love Lapis.

You can read a channel about Lapis Lazuli here.

Zircon I worked with early this year in conjunction with Morganite. It really helped me to open up to the changes required to open my heart to Divine Unconditional Love. Zircon helps us go through major shifts in life, grounding us as these shifts occur and a more expansive truth becomes our truth.

Tanzanite is well, tanzanite! I fell in love with this crystal this year at its beauty and grace. It unites the mind and heart and helps to develop the psychic senses. It is a protective stone that allows one to open up fully to the psychic and meditative realms. It uses the violet flame and heals the throat and heart chakras while speeding the process of spiritual growth.

Blue Topaz heals depression, increases self-worth and helps to keep one aligned to their truth. It aids in healing the eyesight (a goal of mine at some point!). It is often used to draw in abundance and wealth. It releases fears and anger, and all sorts of related things while bringing clarity on our souls path and what we have to do and how to do it, why we wanted to do certain things and why they weren’t fulfilled.

Sounds like a powerful stone to make an elixir with, eh?

Numerology

For me the next year of my life is a 9. Well, starting in two weeks, in 2014. This year is about death, rebirth and transformation. From what I gathered from reading several websites on the matter (the first one I read was rather negative) this year can be a challenge or it can be a really good year depending if I’m willing to allow my focus to shift from myself to service of others, and if I’m willing to release those things that aren’t serving me. It’s time to step into the joy of life and allow myself to be taken away by creativity, enjoying music and community. It’s time to realize my dreams and complete the projects that I’ve been working on, and also time to reflect, learn from the past, and share those lessons. It is time to reap the harvest of your journey thus far before entering into a new cycle.

And my birthday number from one of my favourite go-to numerology websites!

Sounds like a powerful year. I’m already feeling that it will be a year to remember, with a lot falling into place. It feels like it is a transformative time in my life as the last few pieces of self-empowerment fall into place and become clear.

I feel like I’m going to enter into a space of working on things that I love and resonate with to create a source of income and I’m really going to learn how to manifest my own wealth and abundance on multiple levels.

It will be a potent year for me, especially doing the Kundalini Yoga Teacher Training at YogaWest combined with the personal work that I already do.

I’m excited! Yay birthdays!

5 Ways to Cleanse Your Crystals

So you have a shiny new friend and you are wondering what to do with it. Well, one of the first things that I used to recommend to all people is to cleanse the new crystal or gemstone that you have so its clean and shiny when you play with it.

Used to?

Through my continuous work with the mineral kingdom I’ve discovered that no crystal or gemstone or mineral needs to be cleansed or cleared. All of the minerals are little pockets of unconditional love, and nothing negative can live in unconditional love just as no virus can live in an alkaline environment. What this means is that each crystal contains the vibration of unconditional love and is always transmuting any energy lower than that which it encounters. Consistently. It never stops.

However when the mineral gets an overload of energy to transmute they do tend to break. So if you are doing a lot of work with a particular crystal (wearing it each day, using it daily, etc.) I recommend you take the time to cleanse it so your crystal stays in one piece! They tend to do their best work when they are feeling shiny, clean and loved, just like us. Remember, the mineral that your holding contains a consciousness that is very different from ours. The mineral still enjoys being treated like the sacred being it is, just as we do.

This means that when we take the time to cleanse or clear our mineral we are doing a service to that mineral and helping it do its job more effectively and faster. We are showing the love and gratitude we have for the mineral giving its service here. The way minerals have described being left out under the moonlight is like a human going for a day at the spa. They feel loved, pampered, joyful, and ready to be of service again with a renewed zest.

And that leads us to the first and most common way to clear minerals: By the light of the full moon.

The light of the full moon contains a particular energy that has been harnesssed for centuries by all sorts of mystics, alchemists, witches, yogis, and pretty much anyone who is in tune with natural cycles. The moon’s energy controls most of life on the planet, from the tides, to the cycles of each woman on the planet. The full moon is known as the time to release all that binds us and all that no longer serves us. Crystals are commonly left outside on the night of the full moon in a ritual type way so that the light can clear them. Minerals can also be left on a window’s ledge if you don’t trust the raccoons and crows. 🙂

By moonlight is the way to give your minerals the VIP treatment.

The second common way to clear minerals is with cold water.

This is the process of washing the mineral under running cold water. Water has a cleansing effect and with the intention to release any energies that are not serving from the crystal most people find this to be an effective way of clearing a crystal. This method can be a bit dangerous if you don’t know about the crystal you are washing as there are minerals that will dissolve in water. You do not want to put selenite nor halite in water. For a full list of highly soluble minerals click here. For common somewhat soluble minerals click here.

This method is a good quick method that I’ve commonly used between crystal healing sessions.

Another common way to clear minerals is energetically.

This is one of my personal favourite ways because it is easy, simple, and doesn’t require anything so it is ideal while travelling. For this one you hold the mineral in your hand and close your eyes. Imagine white light cleaning and clearing the crystal, travelling from Source into the middle of the mineral expanding outward. Continue to imagine this until you feel or know that the mineral is clean. For me I will see wolves running from the crystal. When there are no more wolves I know the mineral is clean. What happens for you may be different and is just as true.

This method may take some practice but comes in handy when travelling or when there is a lack of time to cleanse the minerals. The exercise can be expanded to include several minerals at once.

There is a method of leaving your minerals in the sun. This is a good way to clear minerals but there are some minerals that will actually loose their colour or shine with this method including amethyst, rose quartz, flourite, aquamarine, kunzite, smokey quartz, hiddenite, and spudumene. If you’ve done this already you may be able to bring out the colour again by rubbing a small amount of mineral oil into the mineral.

The fifth way I will mention here to cleanse your minerals is to smudge them.

This is an easy way of taking whatever your preferred smudge method is, and smudging the minerals you want clean. As per most methods it is up to you and your intuitive feelings to know when your minerals are clean. This is a subtle feeling or knowing, or just simply guessing when your first learning to listen and trust your intuition, that will tell you the mineral is clean.

You can’t “over-clean” a mineral, nor can you “not clean it enough”. This is an additional step you can take to help the mineral be of more service to you. Even a little help is better than nothing.

These methods are the ones that I feel are easiest and most effective ways of clearing crystals. There are many more ways that you can cleanse your minerals that are much more ritual based including the use of herbs, burying the crystals, and using other minerals to cleanse minerals that you could research.

Keep in mind that there are three minerals that it is said never need to be cleansed. They are kyanite, citrine and selenite. These minerals can be placed touching other minerals and will clear them overnight.

Bonus Methods: Rice and Sea Salt.

Placing the minerals in a bowl with rice or sea salt will clear minerals but in a different way than the ways mentioned above. Rice has a neutralizing effect. The mineral will feel more “in-balance” and often cleaner after sitting in rice (preferably submerged) for a few hours. With sea salt the crystals definitely feel clear after a few hours. The sea salt absorbs quickly any negative energy and rebalances, while often charging the mineral as well. I do not recommend eating the rice or salt afterwards as I’ve noticed that the rice often will change colour.

Happy Clearing!

How to Tell if Your Amber is Real

A client recently asked me: “How can you tell if Amber is real? There’s a lot of fake stuff on the market these days!”

image by Krzysztof Szkurlatowski; 12frames.eu

I did some research and here ‘s what I came up with:

First, I’d like to discuss a bit about what Amber is so we know what we are looking for:

Amber is one of the lightest “stones” on the planet. It’s not even really a stone: it is fossilized tree resin. Amber is similar to a substance called copal, which is commonly used in smudge ceremonies, and as my research dictates, is being used as a fake amber on the market. Copal is much younger than amber is, and will turn into amber when all of the volatile terpenes have been released.

Amber is not made of sap, but of tree resin which is a syrup-like fluid that flows beneath the tree’s bark protecting the tree when it’s damaged. Sap provides nutrients for the tree and flows inside the main part of the tree, not just beneath the bark.

Amber is also one of the softer minerals so if you use a penny to make a scratch on the material it should leave one. Pennies rate at 3.0 on the MOHs scale while Amber is a 2.0

So when we are testing for real amber we are looking for a soft mineral with a light weight. Most ambers are red-yellow-orange and may contain parts of plants/insects inside the resin but they are rarely perfect looking, like many fake amber inclusions. Note that the price rises rapidly for pieces of real amber with plant or insect inclusions, easily well over $1,000 depending on the type and quality of the inclusion.

Now we are ready to talk about how to tell if its real.

Five ways to tell if your amber is real:

1) Safest and least common way: Wash the piece with soap and water, and after giving it a good rinse taste it. Amber has almost no taste to it, and may leave at most a light sensation on the tongue. Other plastics and copal will have a strong flavour!

2) Using nail polish remover: Amber will not be harmed with a small amount of nail polish remover, but plastics and copal will have a tacky surface after being gently rubbed with it. Sometimes the colour of the piece will disappear and you know its definitely not amber!

3) Salt Water: Boil 1 part salt with 2 parts water to create salt water. Make sure the salt is completely dissolved. Put the piece inside the water. Amber will float. Copal and plastics will sink.

4) Hot Needle: Heat a needle over a candle or match until its red and then poke the piece with the needle. Amber will emit a pinemtree-like scent.

5) Friction: Rub the piece of amber with a soft white cloth gently but quickly to create friction. Real amber may emit a resinous scent and will get charged with static electricity with which you can pick up small pieces of paper. Copal will become warm and sticky.

Now that you are empowered Amber shoppers and you know what to look for and how to test for real amber enjoy! Happy shopping!

Bloodstone – Truth-Teller

We welcome you

To the reign of truth

As time beats by

Bloodstone sits still

More than all ages

Old wisdom hidden

On-lookers disbelief

As they are caught distraught

In falsities, lies, illusions

Some accept this wisdom

To grow and vibrate cleaner

But others resist and attack

Truth-teller does not judge

He simply comes to let

All illusions to fly away

So all we will see

Is our Truth and Light.

Bloodstone is a powerful stone, a crystal ally if you wish. He helps to unveil an illusions you may have, or others in the vicinity of his energy. Because of this he is good to have on you when engaging in conversations you “need answers” from.

This stone is a deep green with red dots. It was said at one time that bloodstone was created during the war of the Gods and from their spilled blood formed this crystal.

This is an excellent crystal to learn and use in times when discernment is needed for any situation. He does not like to be fooled and will bring insight and wisdom to any situation you sit and about while holding him.

Bloodstone works with the heart and root connecting them with the third eye via intuition. When Bloodstone gives insight it is very heart centred and will serve the highest good of all involved, not ego.

Meditating with bloodstone daily will begin the process of integrating or dismantling the ego if you intend it to. It is highly recommended you allow the space and time you need for this process – daily meditations might not be the best for each person as dismantling the ego can bring up a lot at times.

Bloodstone loves to sit close to people in general, so it is best to keep him in a space that has more people around, say in a dish on a coffee table in the living room. He likes to adventure and explore other places so do not be surprised if he transitions to other temporary homes.

Do you have a gemstone or mineral inside your collection that you love and are curious about it? Do you wonder how best to work with it? Or what its purpose is for you? I do gemstone readings in person and by distance! Click here to find out more.

Serafina Christine is a creative free spirited cyclist and mystic who has committed to learning how to best Follow Her Bliss. She is the creator of Willows Lavender, where she specializes in readings and gemstone therapy, including gemstone elixirs.

Sugilite – The Dreamkeeper

This is a wonderful, beautifully coloured purple gemstone that is silica based. This crystal is more often used by those who are metaphysically inclined, though it makes a beautiful piece of jewellery as well.

Resonating most wit the third eye chakra this is a gemstone that will open up your senses and allow dreams to become vivid if you have them or start them if you don’t.

As with all personal work for best results you want to combine techniques for best results. Use sugilite to kick start your dreaming, and record your dreams daily. Keep the sugilite beneath your head when you sleep. He can also be used to enhance astral projection for some. This crystal will allow certain messages to be received, heard, and kept by the dreamer.

When set in silver this crystal is amplified in its work.

Speaking to the Deva, she tells us that she has often brought visions forth and that there are many times she’s been ignored. The she stops working with the person.

Sugilite is able to draw the crown energy into the third eye removing the blockages or imbalances that may be there. When meditated with it moves stagnant energy in the etheric body where it is near placed. This crystal loves the sunlight, but be careful to him too much sun – he may loose some of his shine. An ideal meditation with sugilite would be to place a piece on the third eye with selenite and rose quartz in each hand. Tigers eye at the fee and lie down outside, on grass. This creates a grounded connection of love. Allow yourself to fall asleep if it comes.

This beautiful crystal is definitely fun to work with so enjoy experimenting!

Rhodonite – Love Actualization, Love in Action

Oh! The beauty of this crystal!

The deep pink of the heart

The crevices of black desire

The love that flows so simply

Ability to love made manifest

This is the stone for you

It is the stone for all

For who wouldn’t like to serve

By living their souls truth, talents?

One of our favourite crystals to work with!

Rhodonite is an amazing crystal to work with. As you carry it with you it begins to unveil to you what your loves to do. These are the things we do that we have no idea how valued they are. They are the things we’ve never done but love instantly once we do them. They are the things that bring us so much joy there is no where else we would rather be.

This stone can do something special: It can not only help you recognize all of the above and help reveal your passions, but it can also help you connect together in a meaningful and valuable way multiple passions. It shows you a coherent and workable way that you can live doing all that you love and still be generous.

Rhodonite strives to be generous and altruistic By living and using your talents you become such a gift for the world. And it reminds you that unexpected and unconditional generosity is the greatest gift you can give. By unconditional we don’t mean that you give and give and give, for you must give only as much as you can without creating an imbalance and true lack in your life. by unconditional we refer to the simple act of forgotten or lost of giving without any expectations or strange ideas. A gift from the heart. This can inspire and spark so much in the receiver!

This is the stone that teaches you and shows you how your love, your passions, and your bright spark of life can be such a blessing and a catalyst that inspires those around you to become their bright sparks too.

The world is ready for all of humanity to live by their souls. So lets help each other discover and live their souls. Lets help each other create world where that is possible. Let us create a heart-centred world.

Let rhodonite help you first, and your light. Your heart will lead the way to this New World of Hope. Just always remember the Butterfly Effect – the smallest actions have a larger effect that you cannot even imagine. You have no true idea of the scope of change your actions create in the world around you. So when it seems like you are not enough hold on to Rhodonite and Rhodocroscite together. Let their love fill you with self-love and understanding.

Lazulite – The Prince of Stones

Lazulite is an amazing and beautiful blue stone without the glamour of Lapis Lazuli. It has more of a matte look to it. This little known and desired stone by the general populace is truly powerful.

We call this stone the Prince of Stones because it relates so well to how it works. Masculine in feeling it is a tad rebellious This stone has a mind of its own in a positive way. If you are unclear in anything – boundaries, ideas, thoughts, beliefs, like any rebellious teenager he will test those so that you can become clear, as clear as ice on all of these.

It is with a feeling of royalty one carries this stone. Lazulite helps all people step more into their personal power. Part of stepping into personal power is being very clear on what you want and what you don’t want, and then being able to express that in a very clear way. The Prince of Stones does this beautifully in its work with the throat chakra. By helping heaven and earth come together for you in your world he grounds your voice with precision and consciousness. He tests and stretches your boundaries and all that you stand for, helping you to release and see the dis-service you do for yourself by keeping anything false around or in your life.

Lazulite has the ability to help release all the false shells giving rise to the true self – that is essentially what the metaphor of Lazurus’s death and coming back to life is about. His false selves have died and his true self comes forth.

Lazulite is a stone that has not been overly sought after for much of humanity’s time on Earth. Its value is not seen by all even though it is a strong stone. It can be slow working, but as sensitivities increase it will ‘work faster’. Its a calm, grounding, and often chaotic at first. All lazulite wants to do is help you love your true self. Often working with it will draw more stones to be used in conjunction with lazulite.

This stone has many friends and will often help the user make new and needed friends. it is a stone that easily creates connections with others on all levels and helps bring understanding to social norms and how to interact with others.

Lazulite is a special stone of love, connections, grounding, clarity, the True Self, the throat chakra. It reminds us of how truly beautiful we are. The Prince of Stones can be tough, yet so soft, just like the Prince many women dream of.

Sunstone – The Lovers Heart (Solstice Stone)

This stone is one of masculine light. It shows and helps develop the strength and ability to let ones light shine brightly without worrying about others. This stone feels almost harsh when placed beside it’s oft thought of counterpart moonstone. And indeed they are partners in a lot of ways; however, it is not recommended that these stones are worked with together until one is fairly aware and knowledgeable in the masculine and feminine energies. Then we say to experience a full balance meditate with sunstone in the left hand and moonstone in the right hand. A powerful meditation.

This is a stone of inner strength and balance. As the feminine likes a flow this stone likes to help the masculine stay strong. For the user this stone will allow creativity, ideas, and ingenuity flow without losing direction, focus or interval guidance.

We call this stone the lovers’ heart because it represents it so perfectly in how this stone helps humanity in general. A lover’s heart is soft, forgiving, and full of excitement and acceptance. It fills us with a sense of peace, openness and adventure. A lover’s heart is also very strong, very bright, and knows what it wants. It may experience fears, but courage comes almost too easily to the lovers’ heart as does forgiveness it seems in many cases. All of these attributes sunstone helps to surface because those in love have always done great things. Those in love have bright fires that come alive. With or without a lover these states of being can come forth and sunstone will always help with that.

Sunstone also helps one know the timing of when to end begin something. This stone doesn’t like to hang out past the expiry date, nor does it like to begin too early. It likes, and will help all who work with him, to work in time with all the energies that surround you with a confident grace of inner knowing.

Keywords: Sunstone, masculine, moonstone, meditation, lover’s hearts, heart, energy, endings, beginnings, leadership, condfidence.

Chakra: Solar Plexus

Astrological Sign: Leo

This is a wonderful stone that brings out your light. With its red-yellow phosphorescent color it resembles labordorite and moonstone, but instead of looking inside, it promotes you to shine your light – bring what’s inside of you into the world.

This is a stone commonly associated with leadership as this stone values freedom, empowerment, and individuality. Sunstone harmonizes the world, and helps create a sense of worthiness, increasing self-esteem and self-confidence along the way. It offers protection and draws wealth while bringing optimism in all aspects to the user.

Sunstone helps one to become emotionally capable to take care of oneself instead of depending on others, and will help one to learn to nurture both others and oneself. It empowers the user by removing co-dependency and the tendency to procrastinate.

It is believed to powerfully bring abundance, good fortune, prosperity and protection to the user. Sunstone is believed to reinvigorate one’s health and strength. It’s commonly used now a-days to alleviate depression, seasonal affective disorder, anxiety and stress. Sunstone energizes and empowers one’s spirit, and brightens the soul.

Sunstone is often used in grids to help relieve aches, pain, cartilage problems, rheumatism, cramps, fevers, and other similar conditions.

Sunstone is an excellent stone to use to banish fears, nightmares, phobias, inhibitions and feelings of unworthiness. It has also been used to remove any unwanted or lingering energies.

Sunstone is associated with the Sun God Helios in Ancient Greece, and used to be placed on drinking vessels in order to prevent poisoning. It is the stone of Ra, the Egyptian God of the Sun.

Sunstone has been used in the past by the Vikings to actually navigate by the position of the sun. True sunstone refracts light, which makes it possible to locate the sun in fog, cloudy days and storms. Sunstone has also been said to glow when contact is made with Spirit Guides, commonly being placed in the center of the medicine wheel by Native American Medicine Men.

This particular stone has been oft used in solstice celebrations and gatherings. I feel, this is not fact, simply what I feel from my channelling and research that if you celebrate Solstice it would be highly beneficial for you to place a piece of sunstone on your alter, and at some point take time to connect with the stone by sitting with it in meditation on the Solstice. All pieces of true sunstone (not aventurine or golden sunstone but true sunstone) contain within them a connection to the part of human consciousness that has been celebrating Solstice’s past, present and future. Meditation during the Solstice will automatically draw forth all of this knowledge, and it will be shared when used in ritual, bringing to the meditator exactly what they need to receive from the reserves of old wisdom.

Try meditating with Sunstone and let me know what happens. 🙂

Key Sources

http://www.controverscial.com/Sunstone.htm

http://www.crystalvaults.com/pages/crystal_encyclopedia/sunstone.php

Moldavite – The Green Healer

This stone is amazing and powerful and a must get for all who work deeply or intensely on themselves and others. This meteorite piece was sent very particularly and in a very planned way to help all beings on the planet. It would be of no surprise if all of humanity ended up working with a piece at some point or another.

This stone is especially meant for those on what the majority of humans would call ‘the healing journey’. On our terms it is the journey of rediscovering the self. This stone works not only with the energies that are most present in the moment but also with the future and the past. The muli-dimensional qualities of this stone allow it to gently, powerfully and intensely dig into the subconscious of the person its bonded to and help release whatever comes up.

This stone doesn’t play games.

Moldavite is a serious stone intended to get deep and dirty fast. The stone will bond with any human it chooses in two weeks to a months time. During that time expect to carry it close, have intriguing dreams and not want to part with it. It loves to work in the dream world.

One piece of lore before we go: Different shapes of the stone will cause it to be used for others in particular ways. Your piece of moldavite can be placed on or used on another person after its bonded to you and will only bond with that person when your work with it is done. Moldavite is happy to be used in healing sessions with others, and if it is shaped in a wing or the bottom of a broom, it can be used to “sweep” energy; if its curved it can be used to “scoop” energy. Sometimes you will sense its mischievous spunky faye energy too.

Keywords: Healer, heart, moldavite, bond, healing, meteorite, the healing journey, rediscovery.

Chakra: Heart, Crown, All

Astrological Sign: None

Moldavite is the only extraterrestrial gemstone believed to have arrived only once 15 million years ago in a meteorite shower. It is found mainly in the Moldau Valley in the Czech Republic, where there is said to be 275 tons of Moldavite on the planet, but the commercial mining of this gemstone, a variety of tektite, will be stopped within the next ten years because there will be no more left on the planet.

This stone seems to have always been a very precious stone for humanity. They’ve been worn as amulets for good fortune and fertility. They’ve been gifts for nobility, including Queen Elizabeth II and Pope John Paul II. There are legends that state the Holy Grail was made of moldavite, which was believed to have fallen from the sky out of the crown of Lucifer during the war between God and Satan.

Moldavite is considered a powerful growth crystal centered in the heart space. It is a stone commonly used for spiritual awakening, transformation, and entering into the cosmic consciousness. When working with moldavite it creates a protective energy field around you, and helps you to detach from anything unhealthy.

This stone works deeply in the dream and vision states of consciousness. Placing it on your third eye will create vivid dreams.

Moldavite can be used to illuminate the cause or source of a physical dis-ease or imbalance and then support the user through the healing process. This stone is known for its ability to rejuvenate the physical body by slowing down the ageing process, helping memory retention, and protecting against mental degeneration.

This stone tends to trigger memories and awakenings in people when they touch the ones they feel called to work with. It is usually intense, and will provide the wearer with memories of their past lives, most often of the Stars they’ve come from. It is said that moldavite calls all the Children of the Stars to work together and accelerate their growth.

It will help release anything that is holding the person back in any way, and can inspire creativity and passion. It allows the heart and the mind to come into union, and will bring up to the surface all that the user most needs to recognize, honour, integrate and release.

It is recommended when working with this stone to meditate with it daily, and wear it to have its maximum effect, however, also use other stones such as black tourmaline, smoky quartz, hematite, and copper to keep you grounded. To complete the process that moldavite allows and assists in unfolding it is of supreme important that users and wearers of this stone stay grounded.

Important: Do not cleanse in salt water. The salt deteriorates moldavite.

Key Sources:

http://www.crystalvaults.com/pages/crystal_encyclopedia/moldavite.php

http://divinecrystals.com.au/page.html?chapter=5&id=24

Calcite – Lover of the Two Hearts

Optical Calcite

Calcite is a beautiful and lovely stone that has always worked with both of the human hearts. What we mean by this is that each one of you has a soul heart and a human heart. The human heart we speak of is both your physical and emotional heart for these two are so entwined with each other it is difficult to make a change in one and not the other. The soul heart we speak of consists of all the inner knowing, the intuition, the inner feelings of a purpose and mission, the drive to fulfil that purpose. That all comes from the souls heart and it is the souls heart that sees the big picture while the human heart that can get tied down, boxed in if you will.

Calcite loves both of these hearts seeing them as two sides of the same coin. He helps influence people’s thinking to a more neutral and open way reducing judgements on value or good or bad. He helps people to see the even rhythm of the world, the big picture, the steady beat that always pulses no matter what happens around us and that it is in our connection to this earth’s heartbeat that keeps us steady, grounded, centered.

Calcite brings together the human and souls hearts and helps them align with each other so there is no separation between their desires, wants and needs. This causes a great increase in awareness once the alignment happens. Before that calcite will help release all the things not serving the hears in a slow grounded way. To instil this process into your energetic being calcite must be worn for two weeks daily as much as possible, or the elixir drunk/used daily for one month.

Calcite is a wonderful stone for helping your being come into one.

Keywords: Calcite, heart, the big picture, grounding, heartbeat, Earth, alignment, soul, purpose, mission, love.

Chakra: Clear calcite resonates with all the chakras, while all the coloured pieces resonate with the matching coloured chakra.

There are several varieties of calcite based on color including two clear varieties – one clear calcite and the other is optical calcite. Optical calcite is an interesting variety that is commonly used in magic tricks, and it is said that it creates a dual image when looking at something through the stone because it releases two rays of light. (cool eh?)

Calcite and Aragonite can sometimes be confused for each other since they can look very similar. They actually have different chemical structures though.

Metaphysical

Clear and white calcite are the most common varieties and are found all over the world. Calcite is said to provide clarity and help one to know when another is hiding something.

Calcite expands, increases, amplifies energy which makes it an excellent stone for doing any type of healing work, while reducing fear and stress. It is an excellent stone for clearing any stored energies in the body or energy system that no longer serve a helpful purpose and can clear all levels.

This stone will increase learning, creativity and imagination as well as prosperity. It helps increase intuition, and wisdom.

Calcite is a grounded and centered stone and imparts these qualities to the user or wearer.

While it is a strong healing stone it is gentle, and is said to be “The Stone of the Mind” as it tends to help release old patterns and belief system, and help during mental changes or life transitions.

Physical

Calcite is noted for helping to increase physical strength, back pain, detoxifying, emotional and mental conditions.

It can purify the energies of spaces as well as bodies, and to promote a peaceful atmosphere wherever it sits.

Important: Calcite does dissolve in water; I recommend another way to clear the stone. It is a soft stone that can easily chip or break.

Random

Experiments with Calcite have been done to use the stone for a cloak of invisibility!