Amethyst Qu's Blog, page 4

Bloodstone, Raw and Uncut

I recently found this photograph of some uncut Bloodstone from India that I sold a few years back, and I thought Crystal Cash readers might get a kick out of it. This friendly, supportive material takes a good polish, and I trust it was turned into some beautiful items. ICYMI, my photographs of polished Bloodstone pieces can still be found online.

Know Your Prosperity Stones #13: Banded Hematite

One of my favorite stones for manifesting is an iron-rich stone banded in red and silver streaks of Hematite. This stone of many names is sometimes called Banded Hematite or Banded Jasper. If you've read my books, you already know the pure silvery Hematite has frequently been used by crystal workers to absorb and neutralize negative energy. In combination with the red, this banded version of Hematite seems custom-designed by nature to encourage the safe awakening of your ability to manifest g...

Know Your Prosperity Stones #12: The Mystery of Moldavite

This bottle-green gem is a controversial and yet potentially invaluable stone used to open your heart chakra. It can bring up some powerful emotions, and it's entirely up to you whether you feel comfortable using it. Genuine Moldavite is a natural glass that may have been formed when a meteor struck the earth roughly 14.3 to 14.5 million years ago, leaving behind a huge impact crater called Nördlinger Ries in modern-day western Bavaria, Germany.

Humans make glass from melting and fusing sand,...

Know Your Prosperity Stones # 11: Chevron Amethyst

Chevron Amethyst is an inexpensive, easily tumble-polished stone that is sometimes called Banded Amethyst for the pattern of white and purple chevron (V-shaped or shield-shaped) stripes. Over the years I've swapped or sold hundreds of pounds of it, although I've held back a small amount for my personal use.

The photograph shows a large, uncut Chevron Amethyst "tooth" as well as a number of polished stones we recently pulled out of the tumbler at Peachfront Press.

Amethyst isn't always the first...

A Mystery Agate in Peach and Purple

We've been diving deep over the last few months at Peachfront Press, and we'll soon have exciting news about the upcoming book, as well as supporting audio meditations. When you experiment with crystal magick, you can't take any shortcuts. There's a lot of working the stones to see what results you get-- a lot of tinkering and adjustments, a lot of trial and error.

Here's an interesting batch of peach and purple Agates from an unknown source that we recently pulled out of the tumbler. The pea...

Blue Lace Agate: The Calm in the Storm

Thought for the day: Sometimes we get so rushed doing the urgent that we don't get around to the important. It may not be an original thought, but it's a timely one. I mostly talk about prosperity stones, but everything is connected, and it's hard to feel prosperous when we feel hurried. Time is, after all, the greatest of all luxuries.

To support a calm environment and to gather scattered thoughts back under control, try placing the beautiful Blue Lace Agate on your desk or on your heart, thr...

SIngle Terminated vs. Double Terminated Quartz

Here are two super clear Arkansas Quartz all-natural, uncut crystals that I collected many years ago. If you're a beginner to crystals, you can see at a glance what the difference is between single-terminated and double-terminated crystals. The double-terminated crystal at the top of the photo grew a natural point on BOTH ends, instead of just on ONE end.

In Search of Brilliant Ideas for Sodalite Stone Tiles

What would you do with these Sodalite tiles? I'm open to ideas.

I'm also collecting a rather large number of earth-tone stone tiles. At one point, we made a stone mosaic birdbath, and the birds just love it. Indeed, the Cardinals use it every day, perhaps because we used a lot of red jasper and bloodstone in the mix, and they feel like the red color is calling to them. This birdbath has stood up well to the weather over the years so I don't need a new one yet.

Ideas?

Crown Chakra Stones: Touching Spirit

The stones of the rainbow chakra take us on a logical path from the material world of the earth and root chakra through the more emotional region of the heart and throat and upward toward the higher spirit. Working with the crown chakra isn't really about connecting with material riches, and many extremely spiritual people are-- let's be real here-- absolutely terrible with money. If a prosperity worker prefers to focus on the lower chakra stones in an effort to attract more wealth, I wouldn'...

Third Eye Chakra Stones: See the Truth

How much money would you have saved if you could see the future? We've all made stupid purchases. Most of us have made bad investments. Even rich people with a flock of advisers around them end up falling for the Enrons or the Bernie Madoffs out there. You can work all the prosperity magick and draw all the cash flow in the world, but if you've got a leaky bucket that lets the money flow right back out into the gutter again... you've got a problem.

We work with the third eye chakra-- that spot...