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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.

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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

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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!

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.

MoonlightAnd 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.

sageThe 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!