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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.

Find Your Magic!

Last Thursday I brought some magic in the world. It was unplanned and completely accidental on my part, but I discovered a way to bring joy into the world in an unexpected manner.

The story begins when I went shopping for book and instead came out of the store with a large pair of beautiful purple faerie wings.

The wings are unlike ones I’ve seen before: Like butterfly wings, they have small silver dots outlining the membranes on the sheer dark purple fabric with purple gemstones tastefully spotting each wing. They may have fit me a little too perfectly: the woman at the till almost didn’t charge me for them because they suited my outfit so well!

When I came out of the store I was quick to realize that I was on my bike, and had no alternative but to wear them for the remainder of my errands on my way home. Shrugging my shoulders, I hopped on my bike and became a bicycle faerie zooming around Victoria!

It was to my utmost surprise how people responded. People would spot me, and after a look of surprise a big grin would spread across their face that was usually followed with a witty comment or a question. At a stop light a fellow biker asked, “Do your wings make you go faster?”; A car drove by down a main road and a man yelled “I LOVE YOU!”; A woman at a store I dropped my resume at smiled big; a woman at a coffee shop inhaled sharply and said “Angel.”.

And all of it created warm fuzzy sensations within my heart spreading to a large smile on my face.

I decided that I will wear these wings much more often now, whenever my activities and the weather permits it.

“You were bringing magic into the world.” Said a friend of mine with glee when I told her about my experience with the wings.

It followed a conversation that happened the very same day where I found myself saying something like this:“Magic is exactly what is needed in that world. That magic brings healing to a part inside of our self that can otherwise never be healed. Magic is a part of us, and it needs to be allowed to live inside our world more and more.”

I firmly believe that.

This is the kind of magic that I love. It doesn’t take a lot of time, and it doesn’t usually require much of anything because it is so simple. It is simply finding the right kind of magic for your heart.

Sometimes it is playing on the swings, or doodling in chalk. Perhaps it is blowing bubbles in your chocolate milk, throwing snowballs or making snow angels. Maybe its painting, or another act of creation. It could be skateboarding or skipping, getting dressed up in exactly what you want to wear because its beautiful or it could be attacking someone with a hug.

You’ve found the right magic for you when the heart opens with an expansive happiness and the grin on your face can’t be controlled.

When magic comes alive inside our world a part inside of us seems to open up and we can’t help but smile. That same part opens up when we allow ourselves to create or when we allow our inner child to come up for air for a brief moment. Each moment that we have of this magic heals a part of us. It opens up our minds to new possibilities, nurtures our inner child, draws out wonder and curiosity, and allows more intuition to come forth.

I know each one of us has access to it because it naturally resides in each of us. It is a magic that children naturally have that often seems to become hidden as they grow up.

This magic is so important because of the joy it gives us and manifests into our worlds. More ways of adults expressing and allowing this joy into their lives is needed everywhere.

It is through joy that we can manifest everything that we want. This joy helps us to see the world as a world of light even when it seems dark because we are able to see outside of ourselves. It helps us to get unstuck and out of ruts because in a single instant it can lift our mood from a dark depression to an at least “okay, maybe the world isn’t so bad.”.

The more we practice this magic in our lives in little ways the more it spontaneously happen on its own. I know people who have tapped into this without expressing it with such words and they are some of the happiest people that I know. Their lives have not been any easier than the rest of us and they have done their share of healing, part of which was using this magic.

These people might call it “following your bliss” or “experiencing the world with open-hearted joy”. Others might say its “working with your inner child”. Its up to you how you want to view it and express it.

I personally believe that there is magic in this world. It is in each one of us waiting to be accessed and it is one of, if not, the strongest force in nature. We get glimpses of it every now and then through our creativity, our intuition and other certain moments that bring smiles to our faces.

The first step to working with it is discovering how you can feel your magic. The  next step is to connect with it as often as you can.

Then the unexpected will begin to happen and you will start to see magic working in your life.