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Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Get the Most out of the

Today we are talking about getting the most out of the eclipse season with crystals! During an eclipse, the sun, the moon and the earth are in perfect alignment. Now we don't usually get an eclipse every time we have a full moon or new moon. During eclipse season, when we get the three celestial bodies, the sun, moon and earth, in perfect alignment their various types of cosmic energies become aligned or stacked. When that happens, they magnify and amplify each other.

In physics, we call this the principle of superposition. That's when similar energies easily come into alignment and when they do that, they amplify each other.

A lot of people are sensitive to these types of energetic shifts and can feel them easily. Especially if you're an empath, Reiki healer, or you do energy work of any kind. So let me ask you...are you feeling it ramping up? If not, you may start to as we get a little bit closer!

Now, eclipses usually happen in pairs, but this time it's not going to happen that way. We had our first eclipse pair of 2018 last eclipse season (January - February). Now we're headed into our final season for 2018, so after this eclipse season we're done with eclipses for 2018. Eclipses usually occur, like I said, as a solar and a lunar, so the energies are balanced, right? The time in between is a little funky but the energies get balanced by the two eclipses.

Well this time is a trio! It's actually going to be a sandwiching trio. The lunar eclipse is in the middle and then we have a solar eclipse on either end, so the energy may get a bit wacky. Also, they're going to be two weeks apart. You’ll barely have time to integrate the energies and recalibrate before the next one hits us. However, we have tools and support within the crystals and other modalities that can help us get us through this type of situation. It's about riding the energy, not letting the energy wave ride you and topple you all over the place.

The First Eclipse

The first eclipse will be July 13th and it's a partial solar eclipse. None of these eclipses are going to be like our August eclipse from last Summer where it was an amazing event and most of North America was able to go on a road trip if they wanted to see it. However, the energies are still heightened, and it doesn't matter if you're not in a place where you can visually see the eclipse. Just like every full moon or new moon, no matter where you are on the planet we’re all affected by the energies.

It's about working with the energy of the new moon. This is a time for planting seeds for upcoming plans, setting new intentions, enhanced and amplified intuition. It's a very yin, feminine, intuitive, right-brained kind of energy. Just like any new moon is. We don't actually see the moon during a new moon at all though right? This is about the solar, but it's a new moon event.

Because of that, my favorite crystals to work with during this time are Labradorite, which is closely related to Moonstone. It has that similar blue flash and that iridescent quality. Labradorite is all about tapping into magic, but it's also quite protective. If you're feeling like you need some protective vibrational frequencies during this new moon event, then try working with Labradorite!

The other crystal that I like working with during this time is Indigo Gabbro. It's also known as Mystic Merlinite, but what happens is while Indigo Gabbro can be purchased relatively affordably, when you call it Mystic Merlinite, for some reason the price goes up. So, look for Indigo Gabbro, it's gorgeous. It's relatively new in terms of when it was discovered. Currently it’s only found (as far as we know), on the island of Madagascar. It's this black stone with a large gray mottling, and if you take it out in the sun you'll actually see some iridescence in the gray mottling.

The Second Eclipse

Let's talk about the July 27th lunar eclipse. This is the one that's sandwiched between the two solar eclipses. It is a total lunar eclipse. Which happens when our Earth moves in between the sun and the moon, blocking the reflection of the sun's rays.

We're going to have this total lunar eclipse on July 27th, but if you're in North America we're not going to see it because it's happening in the middle of our daylight hours, but the moon is going to pass directly through the Earth's shadow, so it's going to be obscured. It's not going to go away completely. It'll have kind of a reddish tint to it from the shadow. That happens when some of the sunlight comes around and hits it and it looks really, really cool if you're in a place on the planet where you're going to be able to see it.

The energies of a lunar eclipse are the same as a really powerful full moon. It's a very high amplitude kind of energy. However, specifically for this total lunar eclipse I'm going to advise you to look at the plans you make and think about them, but don't take any action. Don't make any changes. No new anything. Try to just evaluate any necessary changes for the next cycle because you want to keep in mind, we're going to be smack dab in the middle of Mercury retrograde during this total lunar eclipse and this crazy eclipse season.

Lunar eclipses in general are good energy that bring about change. Don't you go initiating any of your own changes or own big plans or big contracts because this is a time when it’s important to let things happen as they will. Be grateful for whatever lessons you learned during the last lunar cycle or for whatever intentions and seeds you planted that did come to fruition.

Eclipse Season Crystals

Moonstone

The first crystal, you may have guessed, is Moonstone. It can be any kind of Moonstone, peach, rainbow, it doesn't have to be a white Moonstone. Any of them are great for working with lunar energy in any moon phase, actually. Moonstone promotes goddess energy, divination, feminine energy, and that makes sense because the moon is known for goddess feminine energy, right? It also has a connection to water. It's a great stone to work with for allowing you to more efficiently tap into your intuition.

Opal

Another crystal that I like to work with at this time is Opal. This particular crystal has such a pretty iridescence. Opal really helps to align us with lunar energy and watery energy, it's about purification.

It actually contains molecules of water within it. If you live in a very dry climate or you've stored it for a very, very long time, it can end up drying out. If you notice your Opal has lost its iridescence, you’ll want to put it in a plastic bag with a cotton ball and a few drop of water. Wrap it up in that cotton, close up the bag, and it will rehydrate itself!

Selenite

 

The next crystal that I like for total lunar eclipse energy is Selenite. It embodies goddess energy and it's a crystal that allows us to more easily communicate with our higher selves.

The Third Eclipse

Now let's talk about the last eclipse in the season, and that’s the one happening on August 11th which is also during that Mercury retrograde period. It's another partial solar eclipse. The last eclipse is taking place two weeks after the total lunar eclipse. With the moon having moved halfway around its orbit, (and again it's a new moon again) we'll be right back where we started. The other partial solar eclipse taking place, will be the total opposite of that FIRST partial solar eclipse. It’s also important to note this one will be extreme northern latitude.

In terms of cosmic energy it’s going to be similar to the July 13th eclipse, except that you're now in Mercury retrograde. Which means you’ll need to be a bit more careful. Be mindful of not starting anything new, just reviewing, reviewing, and extra reviewing.

Working With Crystals 

Summer Solstice Manifestation Ritual with Crystals

I'm so happy that you're here to join me for our Summer Solstice Manifestation Ritual with Crystals!

Those of you that are on my newsletter list, you got a list of supplies to bring and things that will make this a better and more luscious experience for you. If you don't have those supplies, that's okay. I'm going to walk you through the whole thing, and we're going to have fun anyway. :)

Ritual Supplies

Here are some supplies you want to have on hand:

Paper and pencil, or your favorite device to type some notes on, I like paper and pencil, I'm old school.
Your crystal of choice, and I'll go over the different crystals below.  There's no wrong, or right here, there's just certain ones that I prefer, because they have a really good vibrational frequency to amplify the work that we do during a Summer Solstice Manifestation Ritual.
Citrus essential oil is great to have on hand.  The two that I show in the video are Citrus Bliss by doTERRA and Lemon essential oil. Whatever brand you choose to use, make sure it's high quality organic, or therapeutic grade.
If you have a candle nearby, go ahead and light a candle, I'll do the rest.  You don't have to do this ritual now, you can just jot down notes if you want to and use it to prepare yourself to do this ritual later on again, or you can do it on the summer solstice itself.

This year the summer solstice is on Thursday, June 21. It moves from day to day, because it is based on when the sun reaches its northernmost point from the equator.   Those of you in the southern hemisphere, you're doing a solstice as well, but it's going to be the Winter Solstice. In the northern hemisphere, it's going to be at 6:07 AM, but you don't have to be up at 6:07 AM your time to experience the energies of the Summer Solstice.

It's strongest on the 21st, but the energies, the cosmic energies actually work for three days. The day before, the day of, and the day after, so any of those three days are ideal. This is a good time to prep and get your manifestation ducks in a row if you will ;) We can do this ritual together now, or as I said, just jot down the notes, and you can do it when it's convenient for you.

The natural rhythms of the earth and auspicious days, the Summer Solstice, in our cosmic cycle are beautiful times to plant seeds, to cultivate, or deepen and renew any manifestation you've already begun.

Perhaps you started planting the seeds at Spring Equinox, many of us do that because that's a time that is representative of planting seeds...a time when eggs are laid.  It's a time of manifestation, it's a time of fertility, of growth, of new beginnings. Then when the Summer Solstice rolls around, as it's coming up on us now in the northern hemisphere (again, southern hemisphere, you're experiencing Winter Solstice, so if you're here from the southern hemisphere, just pack this information away for you for six months from now).

What is the Summer Solstice?

During the Summer Solstice, we usher in a time to develop and grow those intentions, those metaphorical seeds that we planted at Spring Equinox. The reason we have this is due to the earth tilt on its axis. We're slightly tilted 23 1/2° on our axis, so at certain times of the year we are tilted towards the sun, and as we orbit the sun, sometimes the hemisphere that you're on is either tilted away or towards the sun.

The Summer Solstice is the day where we get the longest amount, the most amount of sunlight during the whole year, so it's the longest day and the shortest night.

The sun is also higher in the sky throughout the day, if you'll notice your shadow is shorter, and its rays are striking earth at a more direct angle, rather than coming in at a lower angle, the sun is more direct.

That causes more efficient warming, and hence we get our summertime and it's hotter.  Summer is a time of development, growth, and lush abundance. We're beginning to be able to reap those rewards. The first harvest begins, and I'm speaking not just from a farmers point of view, I'm speaking from a metaphorical point of view.

From those metaphorical seeds that you planted in the Spring, it's a time of harvesting those manifestations you set in place, and it's a time of manifestation energy.

Summer Solstice Crystals

So let's go over those crystals that I love using for Summer Solstice. Remember, there's no right or wrong, perhaps you have different ones?  If you want to put them in the comments below, I'd love to hear about it.

I'm very intentional in choosing my crystals and stones. I have most of mine in a crystal grid right now, but I brought out some other ones.

I've intentionally chosen specific stones, because of their specific light frequency, and their specific energetic vibrational frequency. These are the crystals that help align us with the correct energies for the solstice time, for all the things that I just discussed. This will make us a vibrational match to the cosmic energies that are manifesting right now, thereby allowing our manifestations to materialize with less resistance if any at all!

Pyrite:  whether it's natural cubed, it doesn't matter if it's got the cube or not, it's nice if it does, that's the sacred geometry expressing itself very easily, but if it's just a pyrite solar disk, or if it's a mass that's fine.
Sunstone:  tumbled sunstone works great.
Citrine:   I'm leaning towards only working with 100% natural citrine. I have found that most of the tumbled citrine out there, in fact, all of it really, is baked amethyst. I'm not vibing with the tumbled citrine any longer, our cosmic energies have changed quite dramatically. I talked about this last week, and I'm feeling like the natural Congo citrine is the one to work with if you're going to be working with citrine. I almost feel like the baked amethyst now, because things have changed, is, I hate to put it this way, is a waste of time. All my Congo citrine's in a grid right now.
Amber or Copal:  very powerful for the energies we're working with.
Tigers eye:  a great one for this time of year.
Bumblebee Jasper:  in the video, you'll see I'm wearing my Bumblebee Jasper ring.
Sulfur:  I got mine from Sicily, from Mount Etna region. Sulfur's often found near volcanic areas, it's also found in Durango, Mexico.

Once a year, right around this time I do my Summer Solstice Meditation e-kit, where I go over specific herbs and essential oils, and that's all included in my Summer Solstice Glitter bundle. There is a meditation in there, a video meditation, MP3, a whole ritual, plus a bunch of other goodies, all bundled up along with the Summer Solstice Glitter bundle.

This kit allows you to take your crystal practice to the next level. Grab all my digitally kits, and my info products, a lot of them have been retired. I don't sell them anywhere on my site, all in this one bundle for one crazy low price and it's worth over $500, packed with the most powerful crystal and manifestation tools that I've come up with. It's only $97, that includes my popular Attract Abundance and Prosperity Crystal e-kit, which all by itself is $97. Again,  It's not available on my website, the only way to get access to this, is to be getting my newsletter, which you'll start getting immediately. You can join my newsletter list by clicking this link.

Summer Solstice Ritual

As we jump into the ritual, the first thing we want to do is create sacred space.  Relax, take a few deep inhales and exhales. On your next inhale, take the deepest inhale you've taken all day. Then one more nice deep inhale.
If you've got that citrus essential oil, you want to either do a nice sniff or be diffusing it right now. Alternatively, you can light a candle, or you can take this whole ritual outdoors. That is a really great way to get yourself immediately into sacred space.  You can do other things to energetically clear the space you're going to be using. Sound acoustics are highly effective for creating sacred space. Like a crystal singing bowl.
Next step is to set your intentions for this ritual with a list. That's what the pen and paper are for. Since this is a time of reaping the rewards, getting things in alignment for that first harvest, for the first harvest that's coming up now (that's what happens right after summer solstice). It's a time of development, a time of really lush abundance and growth.  It's good to focus on your intentions in those areas. This will allow things to materialize with more ease.   Is it time to grow your savings account? Is it a time to grow your business? Maybe increase the number of friends you have, or maybe it's a time to grow and develop your education, or something you're studying right now, or learning to do some self-development?

I find it best to not focus on too many things. One thing, or at the most three things at a time.  Write your one, two, or three manifestation intentions down on that piece of paper so you can refer to it.

4.  Alongside your manifestation intention, be sure you include a timeline.  You want it to come into fruition by the next lunar cycle, by the next new moon, or maybe in the next three months, or six months, or maybe a year, but be clear and precise and specific.

At the same time, you want to keep it about you.  I always like to give just a gentle reminder that we're not working on anybody else, we're not manipulating other people's personal will.  That's something that I never recommend.  It's just about you.

5.  Choose the crystal you're going to work with and we're going to get focused on that.  I'm going to work with my large natural citrine from Brazil (because all of my congo citrines are in a crystal grid).  First, hold the special crystal, or maybe it's more than one crystal that you're going to work with today.

You're going to be using that crystal in this ritual, and if you're able to, if it's too large like the citrine I'm holding in the video, you can just hold your hands upon it, or you can hold the crystal, if it's small enough, maybe it's a tumbled sunstone, in your receiving hand, your left hand.  Then you're just going to gently focus on the natural rhythm of your breath. Allow yourself to just breathe more deeply, allowing yourself to entrain with the vibrational frequency of that crystal, and focusing on the natural rhythm of your breath.

Allowing yourself to begin to breathe more deeply now, filling your lungs all the way to the bottom, taking the deepest breath you can take. Squeeze all the air out of your lungs on your exhale. Squeeze it down to the last bit of air out. Notice how your body responds to that. Do it a few more times. As the crystal entrains your electromagnetic field and aligns your energy with its own energy.

Now glancing over at your list, you're going to visualize each item you placed on that list with great clarity.

Think of every detail, how things would look when that manifests, what you'll be wearing, sounds you might hear, scents you might notice, every detail. Most importantly, focus on your feelings, your emotion, that's the energy there. Your feelings and your senses. Feel the joy, the sense of accomplishment, the pride, the peace.

Focus on what that might feel like when that intention comes to fruition. Do the same for your next two intentions, if you have more than one. As this energy from the crystal helps to align your manifestations. Now put your verbal energy into this, and declare it to the universe as done. While still holding your crystal, and loud with energy, you're going to say ... And so it is!

Now just stay in place with your crystal in place and in the video I add acoustic vibration from my crystal bowl to seal the deal. Sound acoustics, very powerful. Deep inhale, exhale, and you can place your crystal down, and the ritual is complete.

Pretty powerful stuff, right?  How do you feel?  Please share in the comments below and tell me what crystal (or crystals) you connected with during the manifestation ritual. 

Thank you all who've joined me!  Have a wonderful Summer Solstice.

Crystal Blessings,

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10 Must-Have Crystals

 

Today I'm going to share my top 10 must-have crystals.

Whether you're a beginner or you're intermediate or advanced, just check in and see if you have these in your collection.  Maybe you are missing one or two?  It's not the end-all-be-all for everyone, this is my opinion, so I'd love to hear what your top 10 must-have crystals are; please share in the comments below this post.

10 Must-Have Crystals

These might not necessarily be the easiest crystals to get because I don't always feel like the easiest crystals to get are going to be the most effective for what we're trying to achieve in our must-have crystal collection. Maybe it's time to evolve your collection or upgrade your collection a little bit. Most of them are relatively easy to find, but a slight departure from the usual beginners list.

By the way, I want to say these crystals that I'm going over, I'm not talking about little-tumbled stones. Tumbled stones are wonderful (and I show you vesuvianite in the video). Great to have, but when I'm talking about 10 must-have crystals, I'm talking about something a little bit chunkier, a little bit more size to them because yes, when it comes to the energy force around a crystal, the energy around it is based on size, the mass in the crystal, all these factors. We're going with a larger size. Not super large though we are staying practical here.

I'm not talking about huge, mongo crystals because what are you going to do with it? They're great to have in your environment, yes, but sometimes we need them for practical purposes, so something a little larger than the norm, but not mongo.  If at all possible, in its natural state, but sometimes it's not possible.

1.  Clear Quartz Crystal:   In my vid I show you a clear quartz, natural point. It's got really good clarity. It's almost water clear. Clear quartz is your general, all around great crystal to have on hand. It's a clarifier. It's an amplifier, as well. It can make any other crystal work that you're doing even more effective by amplifying the energy. It can also help you gain clarity like if you need to meditate on something, you need clarity around a certain subject. Clear quartz is a great one to have.  You can do just about anything with clear quartz.

If I was going to have only one crystal on this list, it would be clear quartz.  Not milky quartz. You want to try to get it as clear as you possibly can. It's okay to have some veils in it. The clear quartz crystal I show you in my video is just about as clear as they come. It's from Arkansas, I believe, and what's cool is it's starting to self-heal on the bottom. It broke off at some point obviously, but it's not very sharp. It's kind of rounded and a lot of these have grown into points. You can see that hexagonal structure all along its faces, really cool.

2.  Rose Quartz:  It's a light pink. You usually don't see them in points like the one in the video. That one was cut and polished, cut on the bottom so it could stand. It's rough all around the shaft, but the top is cut and polished into a point. The reason I went for the cut polished one is that I needed it in a crystal grid and I wanted a center antenna to send out, transmit the energies of my crystal grid, so I went for a point. Usually, my rose quartz is natural and I just use this during this because it's larger and you can see it better, I have a big, mongo-sized rose quartz by my front door.

Rose quartz is your crystal of love and compassion. It can become your close buddy crystal that you make a really close bond with (like I have). I have one by my bedside. I talk about it all the time. It's my buddy quartz. It's my best buddy. I use it for a lot of different things, any kind of love, and we know there are different kinds of love in the English language. We should probably have different vocabulary words for the different kinds of love, but there's friendship love. There's family love. There's personal relationship love. There's self-love. There's compassion for the world and for all the beings that live on the planet. Kindness and compassion is also the energy that rose quartz invites in. All of these different types of love obviously are very, very important, so rose quartz is one that you definitely want to have in your top 10 collections, in my opinion.

3.  Flourite:   Fluorite comes in many different colors, purple, clear, green, every color in the rainbow just about. Yellow is not as common, but it does come in yellow. Rainbow Flourite usually grows in masses or in the octahedron.  It grows naturally as an octahedron expressing its sacred geometry.  It's part of the cubic crystal system, so octahedrons are inherent in the cubic crystal system.

Why do I like fluorite? Well, fluorite is great for decision making, for clarifying decisions when you're just not sure which path to take. Fluorite is the one to work with on that.

It's also good for anything to do with thinking, the mind, meta, studying. That's another good type of energy that fluorite invites in. If you need to focus on something, concentrate on something, make a decision, fluorite is your go-to for that and any color fluorite ill do. It doesn't matter what color fluorite you choose for that.

4.  Green Jade:  Green jade I really like for healing, also bringing about good fortune. I have a nice big green jade Hotei (I found out).  Everyone calls it Buddha, but I was told no, that's Hotei, so if I'm incorrect, it's a good luck symbol. The fact that it's carved in green jade exponentiates that energy even more, so looking for good fortune and good vitality, health, good health, healing, boosting health, boosting the immune system; green jade, you want to have that on hand.

5.  Amethyst:  While I've got several, I love my amethyst heart my husband got for me one year in Tucson. It's an Uruguayan amethyst. I really like the energy of the Uruguayan amethyst. It's got this really deep, deep, dark, purple, vibrant color. The energy is so much more effective from these deeply colored Uruguayan amethysts. The heart is carved from a geode and polished on the back.

Why did I choose amethyst?  Amethyst is spiritually enhancing while also being spiritually protective. If you want to be spiritually protective or psychically protected for various reasons (that's a different topic for a different day :)) or you just want to go into a healing session or a meditation session and just be spiritually protected while you're doing that, then work with amethyst.

Amethyst also enhances the third eye, which helps you connect to your spiritual self, better connect to your own higher self, and have that stronger connection to your spiritual side; it enhances and invites that energy in. I like that it invites that energy in of being more spiritual, while also being very protective at the same time. It's got the added benefit of also being very calming, so great to work with while meditating.

Amethyst helps you to focus more on your meditations if you have that monkey mind while meditating (I think we all do sometimes  ... who doesn't?  Except some of us who are very, very zen).

When I meditate with amethyst, the amethyst actually helps me to focus more on one thing while I'm meditating, whether I'm contemplating something specific or I just want to focus on my breath or sometimes I hold the amethyst and I just consider inhale, focus on the breath going in through the nostril, inhale, inhale, inhale, and then exhale, exhale, exhale. My brain just stays right there, doesn't think about all the other to-dos and things that you got to do and oh, so and so is coming over. I've got to clean the house and wash the dishes and blah. All that stuff that happens during meditation, it just kind of floats away and allows your brain to accept the benefits of not thinking of all those things.  Amethyst entrains with your energy so that you become calmer and become more of that frequency. You become a vibrational match to that frequency. That happens with any of the crystals that we're working with. That's the whole point in working with the crystals.

6.  Black Tourmaline: The next one on my list is black tourmaline.   These are not in order of importance or anything like that (except the first one, clear quartz, if I could only have one crystal, it would be that one, but the rest are not in any kind of specific order). In the video, I show you an especially nice, good quality piece of black tourmaline. It doesn't need to be that kind of quality which is very difficult to find anymore. A lot of the black tourmaline mines have been closed. The specific mine that came out of in China has closed, so they no longer have it in the same quality. You would have to purchase from estate sales and it can be really pricey.  The regular kind that you're seeing out there these days is more spindly now. They're more splintery and friable, meaning they're more brittle, but they work just as effectively.

Black Tourmaline has lots of physics properties as a crystal goes. It's pyroelectric. It's piezoelectric, which means that it can polarize electricity and energy within it. I dove deep into that over on this blog post.  It's one of the reasons why I find it to be so effective.

It's very good for transmuting energy, so if energy has a specific charge to it and it has a negative feel to it, black tourmaline is your go-to transmuter. It's excellent for bringing that energy back to neutral.  For that reason, it's always in front of me between me and my laptop. I'm transmuting that electromagnetic radiation coming off of the laptop. I've tested other crystals and things and when I tested black tourmaline and I showed this in a YouTube video, I get good results. It's not the best thing. It's not going to completely mitigate that energy, but it's one thing I can do to help mitigate it.

I don't like using silicates on my desk for that purpose. I hear people say, "Oh, put a piece of fluorite, put a piece of selenite, put a piece of citrine in front of your laptop." That's a silicate and silicates amplify that energy. We use silicon chips in our electronics to make them work better, so I don't want to amplify that energy. Anyway, let me get off my soapbox ;) I go into that in my course, but we're not talking about that right now, we're talking about why black tourmaline is on my list.

I also like it for transmuting negative energy that people might bring into a space. When I used to work in a classroom, which I left in 2012 ... I used to be a science teacher for those of you that don't know. I was a science department head. Some people would come into the room and they were just a sheer joy and some people would come into the room and they'd suck the energy out of the space. Talk about energy vampires. There weren't too many of those thankfully, but the black tourmaline was wonderful. I had them conspicuously placed throughout my space. Heck, I could get away with putting any rock in my room that I wanted to. I taught geology as part of my curriculum, so I could put anything I wanted and no one would question a thing. Black tourmaline was wonderful for that.

You can also make mojo kits and you can make room sprays with black tourmaline and all kinds of great stuff, so it's on my top 10 list.

7.  Smokey Quartz:  I love the coffee hue to smokey quartz. Check out the one in my video, it's not irradiated. It doesn't have that black-gray hue that irradiated smoky quartz has. It's from Namibia in Africa and it's just a gorgeous specimen.

Smokey quartz is wonderful for detoxing, so detoxing of any sort. Maybe you did get affected by an energy vampire and you got home from wherever you were and you just feel it and you're like "oh, my god...what just happened to me? I got energetically beat up".  Smokey quartz is your one to work with for those times because it's going to detox you, detox that energy.  It's also a good one to put in water gem elixirs for bringing that detoxifying energy to your water.

8.  Blue Calcite:  Next one is blue calcite. If you just want a soft, gentle energy, blue calcite is wonderful to work with. If you want to bring peace and calm to a space, blue calcite. It's a light blue. You can see the blue right there. It's a very gentle energy and you if want to bring a spa-like atmosphere to a space go for a larger piece of blue calcite.

Blue calcite is relatively inexpensive, but it's not one that you often find. If you go to your local crystal shop, you might need to request that they special order some blue calcite. If you go to a gem show, you might not necessarily find it because it's not a top seller. People really don't seek it out, but I think people are really missing out on a great energy.

Blue calcite is also wonderful for balancing anything in the body, balancing hormones, balancing energy in general. It's also a great throat chakra stone for balancing the throat chakra. You want to bring that peace, calming energy.

Also, if you're looking to create a connection during your meditations to the angels, blue calcite is your stone for that. I tried to pick stones that are good for several different things or for really important things that come up frequently in most of our lives. Like I said, this is not the end-all-be-all list for every single one of us. Again, you can tell me in the comments if you think I've missed or you have others you would include on this list.

9.  Hematite:  You'll often see polished hematite. And sometimes you can see the natural red of the hematite coming through, but when you polish it, it looks like a dark gray mirror. We learned how to determine if your hematite is natural in my Crystal Savvy class, those of you that took that class. You need to be careful out there, guys. There's a lot of fake hematite floating around, a lot of it. Make sure you're purchasing from someone who's very knowledgeable, who has a great reputation, and even though some of them out there that have good online reputations are selling fakes we've discovered in my Crystal Savvy class, unfortunately, so get good recommendations. That's all I'm saying.

Make sure that they are knowledgeable. Ask the seller how do you know it's real hematite? See if they know how to test. If they know how to test, chances are they have tested or they're going to know because you asked them and they're going to find out if their hematite is real or not. Ask the questions. Put their feet to the fire and make them tell you how they are finding out if these crystals are real or not. I'm just saying that for this hematite because so much of the hematite out there is fake. If it's magnetic, it's fake.

Hematite is good for grounding and a lot of us right now, especially if we're dealing with a lot of stress and anxiety, need the grounding, so we really need to focus on getting ourselves grounded, grounded to Mama Earth. Hematite is great for that.

Hematite is partly made of iron. That's where the red in the hematite comes from. Iron is closely related to Mama Earth. We even have an iron-nickel core at the center, we think. Scientists speculate it's probably in the shape of a dodecahedron and if you want to throw some sacred geometry into it and it makes that connection to the core of our planet. That's why it's so helpful at grounding us. It's also great for balancing the root chakra at the base of our spine, so that's the chakra you want to focus on when you're looking to get grounded. Hematite is great for that grounding.

10.  Congo Citrine:  The last one on my list of top 10 is natural Congo citrine. Not any old citrine, natural Congo citrine.

Most of the citrine, (like I just said about the hematite) out on the market is fake. It's baked. It's baked amethyst. I used to say oh, don't worry about it. It's fine, but in the times that we're in now and how our energy has changed and is changing on the planet, things have stepped up. We're getting more cosmic energy to our planet than we have in any of our lifetimes.  We know now the energy has stepped up.

We have UVC now. You know about that, UVC rays? We've always known about A and B, but now we have UVC rays. If you go out with a UV meter like I have and you go out and check the UV radiation we're getting now, it's higher than ever before. The reason for this is the corona around the Sun has shrunk because of the area we're flying through in the Milky Way Galaxy. I know I'm going off tangent here, but I feel like I need to say this, so therefore, we are not getting as much protection from our Sun in our solar system. A lot more cosmic particles are getting past the Sun and hitting our planet, so a lot of things are happening.

The Sun is in a solar minimum right now. A lot of things are happening. A lot more energy is coming up to us, so, therefore, all that is to say I feel like we need to step up some of the crystals that we're using, so therefore, no more fake citrine for me. When I'm going to work with citrine, it's going to be the natural. I like the Congo energy because it has more of that citrine-specific vibrational frequency.

You'll notice the color is a little bit more on the orange-yellow side than the citrine you find in Brazil, which is very yellow. It has more energy to it in the way that it was baked in Mama Earth. The Congo citrines are sometimes called cathedral libraries or they might be called abundance crystals because they have all these little babies along the base growing parallel to the parent crystal in the center. They are not easy to find.  That's why I said this list is a little bit more on the advanced side. These are not easy to find.

You definitely aren't going to find them in tumbled stones. If someone's telling you that they have natural Congo citrine tumbled stones, just whoop, turn and walk the other way because if you had real natural Congo citrine, which is quite expensive, why would you tumble it? You wouldn't. These, even in a very beat up state, all beat up and messed up and they've been tossed down the mountain, people will still sell them in their natural state because they are worth a lot.

Supply and demand are how economics works. The supply is very low. The area in the Congo where we used to get these from they've closed it off. The demand is very high. Therefore, the price is high. You're not going to take it and tumble it. I've seen people selling tumbled Congo citrine. I'm going to say it...Bullshit. Please get your antennas up about that.

Natural Congo citrine, if you don't have one in your collection, I suggest start looking for one. Just have it on your radar. You don't need to get one today. When you go to gem shows when you're shopping online ask the sellers. Ask around, see who has one.

The reason why we want citrine in our collection is it's wonderful for bringing in positive, good vibe energy, so if you're feeling depression or seasonal affective disorder from too much winter.  Citrine is great for giving you that sunny disposition, so if you're missing some of that, you need some amplification of that energy, citrine is wonderful for that. Citrine is also known as the merchant stone because it's wonderful for bringing in that prosperity energy. If you need to do better in business if you're looking to do a crystal grid to increase your revenue or your paycheck or you're looking for a new job or you're looking to sell a house, anything to do with prosperity, citrine.

Tell me in the comments, I would love to hear from you did I miss any? Do you have these? Are there any that I should've swapped out, any that you're missing?

Crystal Blessings,

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Today we're going to talk about crystal for anxiety and stress. This is something I get asked about a lot and when I did a poll on my Facebook page just the other day, this was the topic that seemed to win out. I have done several other older blog posts on this, but I've got some updated info and some cool stuff we're going to do.

Oftentimes, worry and stress about the future is what can lead to anxiety, but some of us  have an anxiety disorder. Maybe we don't even know what we're worrying or stressing about, it's just this anxiety takes hold of us.  I feel like it's a side effect of living in today's society. How w we lead our lives today is not the best ... it's the latest, but it's not the greatest, right?

I believe that ancient humans had it down, or evern today in the cultures that live without a lot of the technology.  We're immersed in the technology.  We're immersed in so much fakeness from what  we put on our bodies to how we wash, to what we drink, to what we eat, to what we listen to, to the media, to what influences us. In every aspect, we're bombarded by it and I feel like this is what leads to a lot of panic and anxiety disorders.

So for some, it's sort of unexplainable and for some, it's worrying or stressing about the future that leads to anxiety.

I heard it said that ... thinking on the past leads to depression, and thinking and stressing about the future leads to anxiety.

If  you can reel in your thoughts, that can be beneficial right there!  But let's also task about some crystals that can help.

I've got five crystals I'd like to talk to you about that are wonderful for inviting in the vibrations we want to get us past this anxiety.

If you have any of these crystals nearby, go grab them and bring them as you hear me discuss them and bring them here because you may want to use one later.

Five Crystals to Combat Anxiety and Stress

1.  Rose Quartz:   So rose quartz is the love crystal, right? It's all about love, compassion, kindness. Love is the opposite of fear and that's what anxiety is all about, at its root it's fear. This stone invites in and embodies the love vibration. It's excellent for calming, kindness, love and compassion.

If you've had any fear revolving around any sort of PTSD, chaos, fights, emotional drama, confrontations, this stone is really going to help calm everything down and comfort your heart Chakra. It also invites in loads of self love, which is great for dispelling fear. Plus this is a water safe stone.

2.   Blue Lace Agate:  This stone is well known for centering and calming your vibrational frequencies. It works really, really well for reprogramming your thoughts and your reactions, for calming your electromagnetic field. It's a throat Chakra stone, so it allows us to express ourselves in a calm, gentle way, with a positive outlook. This is just what you're needing when you're overtaken by fear and anxiety because you might not be thinking rationally. You might be lashing out, or saying things in a wrong way, and we want to get them back to the correct way. So again, throat Chakra stone, really great for that.

You can just tell by looking at it, it's gentle energy, right? Allows you to speak your mind clearly, but calmly and very eloquently, stating what needs to be said, but not in a way that's going to exasperate the situation and clearly get you out of those fear inducing confrontations, situations. So, wonderful for keeping close by when you're dealing with any kind of anxiety. Again, this one is water safe.

3.  Black tourmaline:   This guy is known for its ability to transmute and cleanse energy, it's a well known stone for that. This is a nice chunky, weighty piece of black tourmaline, also, very high grade. It's hard to find them in chucky weighty high grade pieces anymore, they might be a little rougher in appearance.

If you're perceiving energy or a situation to be negative, this stone is wonderful for transmuting it and bringing it to neutral. This is your go to stone for that. Wonderful for purifying energy. So another good one to have nearby. I wouldn't say that this one's water safe because there is some elemental contents in there that ... Don't get all up in arms about it, but I err on the side of caution always when it comes to that. So I'm going to skip water safe on that. Not water safe, we'll just say.

4.  Chrysocolla:  I  have a sphere of chrysocolla that looks like the planet earth, its just a gorgeous stone. Chrysocolla has a very feminine, soothing vibration, just as you would expect Mother Gaia, the planet to have. It really calms your heart Chakra. If your heart Chakra is beating out of fear, or with a panic, or anxiety, chrysocolla is a great one to have for that.

It's also going to give you more confidence when you're just paralyzed with fear, and maybe you know you need to communicate with others, and you're having fear around the confrontation, or saying the right thing, or saying it in the way that maintains your boundaries and  get the point across.

How many times have you thought about what you're going to say ... (this happens to me all the time) and then you say it, and because of fear you don't say it in the way that it needs to be said?  Then you walk away knowing that the other person didn't hear you and you didn't articulate what you really needed to say ... then you're just gripped with fear. You don't want to go back and have that confrontation again, and you're crossing your fingers that they understood what you needed them to understand but wonder was there a complete miscommunication and no one understood anything?  And then they just keep doing the same thing, right? Chrysocolla is the one that's going to get you out of that situation. When you simply need some security in the social situations, confrontations, or social situations of any kind, it's a great one to either wear as jewelry, or keeping your pocket.

Or what if public speaking is a big one? Some people are really terrified of public speaking. Not all of us. Obviously, I can't be. I mean, I get a little nervous about it, but I don't mind. I love public speaking. But I know that's one of the biggest fears out there, and chrysocolla is one that I recommend having in your pocket, or a mojo kit, or in your bra, wherever you like to have it when you're doing any kind of public speaking.

5.  Nirvana Quatz:   Nirvana Quartz comes from Tibet. It's a beautiful quartz, large, chunky, very milky. It's not clear at all. It's got lots of etching on it and a coating of hematite. So it's slightly pink, pinkish-white, barely pink. Nirvana Quartz is wonderful for helping you to overcome fear and allowing you to trust, to invite in trust.

It's also allowing you to love yourself fully, all the flaws included because Nirvana Quartz visually is covered in flaws. So it helps you to learn to accept and love yourself with all the "flaws", and I'm putting that into quotes because you are perfect in all your ways. The way that you are is 100% perfect. There are no flaws. It's so that we're not all carbon copies of each other in every way. I'm talking energetically, personality wise, and as well as physical. So Nirvana Quartz is wonderful for that. If you have any issues with lvoing yourself fully get yourself a Nirvana Quartz.

Nirvana Quartz is a water safe one too, so if you want to say that. I did see somebody asked about cchrysocolla. I did not mention it's water safe.  d I don't consider it to be water safe because of its possible copper content and because crysicola is a stone. Actually, it's considered a crystal, it's a mixture of other minerals. There's other things in there too that's to  be debated by the geologists. I'll leave that to them. So I'm not listing it as water safe.

Anxiety Busting Meditation

Next we're going to do an anxiety busting meditation here together. And just meditation can be effective, really, really effective for relieving anxiety, but it can be even more effective when you incorporate one of the crystals that I mentioned above. So if you have one of those crystalsgo ahead and grab it.

And meditation can be brief ...tiIt doesn't have to be an hour long, it can be effective in as little as 10 minutes. So if you're gripped by anxiety on daily basis, I would highly recommend doing a crystal meditation for 10 minutes daily.

There are guided audio meditations with calming ocean waves. The ones that I really like are the ones with the binaural beats. The Theta wave binaural beats will actually entrain or influence your brain and soothe your nervous system.

There's a great one called Relieve Anxiety by Brain Sync that I really like. Brain Sync is, brainsync.com. I think you can also find it on YouTube too.

What's great about the Theta waves is that Theta waves are all about relieving anxiety. It's the child-like brain. It's where deep learning can take place. It's also a brainwave state you go into when you're in deep sleep, and it allows you to absorb and retain massive amounts of information that gets stored in your longterm memory. So it's most like the brainwave state that you can be in to be most like a quartz crystal. Because these are he same things that quartz crystals can do;  store massive amounts of information in a data bank. That's something that quartz crystals are able to do and  Theta wave makes our brains more like a quartz crystal.

Again, meditating can help you to temporarily relax, but it gives you longterm effects too. They accumulate when you do it on a daily basis. And like I said, just 10 minutes is great, but it's greatly amplified when you use a crystal. And more importantly, it works on a deeper level by physically altering your actual brain function and brain wave activity. So getting your brain more into Theta more.

If we just leave thingsalone and do nothing, your brain is  always going to be in Beta when you're awake. And that's great for doing things, but it can be taxing and stressful on our brains and it's good to bring it  into Theta when you're able to. Meditation can actually reprogram your brain to be less anxious over the longterm.

Let's Meditate:  So clear your space, close your door.

Try to go to a quiet, sacred space or visualie a sacred space.  . Try to control whatever you can as far as noise goes, and hold one of your crystals, whichever crystal it may be, if you have one. If you don't have access to a crystal, that's okay. You can still do this with us, okay?

So we're going to take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. We're actually going to take this time to be present and go deep within and relax the mind. Feeling anything you're holding onto, release it, any sensations, any tightness in your muscles, any tension. Check in with your emotions. What are you feeling right now? Just notice and observe and then leave it there. And visualize the interior of the crystal you're holding, the orderliness of it as it influences and reduces the chaos in your brain. And now bring your attention to your breath, not doing anything special with it, just notice it. And gently breathe in to invite space in your body and breathe out to release any tension with awareness.

Now bring your attention to your belly as it rises and falls with each breath, and bring the breath there to your belly so that instead of expanding our lungs, we breathe with the belly of a baby. Plump the belly out as you inhale, and release it as you exhale. Expanding the belly on an inhale and falling on the exhale. We're mindful of the breath coming in and going out. Just breathing naturally, normally, but aware of the rise and the fall of your baby belly, mindfully breathing. This belly breathing actually calms us. You can do this whenever you're feeling stressed, angry, anxious, anxiety, fearful in any way.

Now bring your focus and awareness back into your crystal again and notice the energy vibration as that crystal's frequency entrains and influences your own. Remember the orderliness within that crystal it's reducing the chaos in your brain. And even during this meditation, we might be experiencing a fearful thought, or some anxious thought, or worry, or fear, and we can just observe it and let it go. Say, "Thank you for showing up. You're not needed here right now." Don't worry about it because you can pick it up later if you want to.

No matter what might be popping into your brain, you can give yourself permission now to be peaceful.

And you can silently say to yourself,

"I allow myself to experience complete calm and peacefulness with my crystal in this moment."

Then just come back to your breath again, gentle inhale and exhale, feeling your belly expanding on the inhalation, releasing on the exhalation. Just gently breathing in and out. In your next exhale you can even audibly sigh and sense the energy gently washing over you.

With your eyes still closed, give gratitude to your crystal, feel it in your hand, and you can gently wiggle your fingers and toes. And when you feel ready, you can come back to us. Tell us in the comments below if you u noticed, anything you observed, how you're feeling right now. How did you do?

Anti-Anxiety Crystal Bath

Just to give you  some other actionable things you can do  with any of those crystals that I mentioned before that were water safe,

you can put them in a bath and take an anti-anxiety bath. Perhaps you can ... redo the meditation Facebook page so you can replay the meditation we did.
when you take an anti-anxiety bath, you can put one or more of the water safe crystals in the bath plus a few drops of lavender essential oil, and it will greatly help you in relieving anxiety

Anti- Anxiety Crystal Grid

Something else you can do is you can do an anti-anxiety crystal grid with the crystals that we talked about. I have another blog post over here on How to Make a Crystal Grid.  For this purpose here today, here's an affirmation you can use for the grid, or just an affirmation you can use tocalm your mind as you hold one of the crystals.

"I  charge this grid with healthy thoughts and mental calmness, manifesting assurance, peace, ease, and happiness for myself now."

I hope you've enjoyed these tips on Crystals for Anxiety and Stress.  Let me know in the comments below if you tried this meditation or if  you work with any of these stones for stress relief.

Crystal Blessings,

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Today we're going to talk about crystal for anxiety and stress. This is something I get asked about a lot and when I did a poll on my Facebook page just the other day, this was the topic that seemed to win out. I have done several other older blog posts on this, but I've got some updated info and some cool stuff we're going to do.

Oftentimes, worry and stress about the future is what can lead to anxiety, but some of us  have an anxiety disorder. Maybe we don't even know what we're worrying or stressing about, it's just this anxiety takes hold of us.  I feel like it's a side effect of living in today's society. How w we lead our lives today is not the best ... it's the latest, but it's not the greatest, right?

I believe that ancient humans had it down, or evern today in the cultures that live without a lot of the technology.  We're immersed in the technology.  We're immersed in so much fakeness from what  we put on our bodies to how we wash, to what we drink, to what we eat, to what we listen to, to the media, to what influences us. In every aspect, we're bombarded by it and I feel like this is what leads to a lot of panic and anxiety disorders.

So for some, it's sort of unexplainable and for some, it's worrying or stressing about the future that leads to anxiety.

I heard it said that ... thinking on the past leads to depression, and thinking and stressing about the future leads to anxiety.

If  you can reel in your thoughts, that can be beneficial right there!  But let's also task about some crystals that can help.

I've got five crystals I'd like to talk to you about that are wonderful for inviting in the vibrations we want to get us past this anxiety.

If you have any of these crystals nearby, go grab them and bring them as you hear me discuss them and bring them here because you may want to use one later.

Five Crystals to Combat Anxiety and Stress

1.  Rose Quartz:   So rose quartz is the love crystal, right? It's all about love, compassion, kindness. Love is the opposite of fear and that's what anxiety is all about, at its root it's fear. This stone invites in and embodies the love vibration. It's excellent for calming, kindness, love and compassion.

If you've had any fear revolving around any sort of PTSD, chaos, fights, emotional drama, confrontations, this stone is really going to help calm everything down and comfort your heart Chakra. It also invites in loads of self love, which is great for dispelling fear. Plus this is a water safe stone.

2.   Blue Lace Agate:  This stone is well known for centering and calming your vibrational frequencies. It works really, really well for reprogramming your thoughts and your reactions, for calming your electromagnetic field. It's a throat Chakra stone, so it allows us to express ourselves in a calm, gentle way, with a positive outlook. This is just what you're needing when you're overtaken by fear and anxiety because you might not be thinking rationally. You might be lashing out, or saying things in a wrong way, and we want to get them back to the correct way. So again, throat Chakra stone, really great for that.

You can just tell by looking at it, it's gentle energy, right? Allows you to speak your mind clearly, but calmly and very eloquently, stating what needs to be said, but not in a way that's going to exasperate the situation and clearly get you out of those fear inducing confrontations, situations. So, wonderful for keeping close by when you're dealing with any kind of anxiety. Again, this one is water safe.

3.  Black tourmaline:   This guy is known for its ability to transmute and cleanse energy, it's a well known stone for that. This is a nice chunky, weighty piece of black tourmaline, also, very high grade. It's hard to find them in chucky weighty high grade pieces anymore, they might be a little rougher in appearance.

If you're perceiving energy or a situation to be negative, this stone is wonderful for transmuting it and bringing it to neutral. This is your go to stone for that. Wonderful for purifying energy. So another good one to have nearby. I wouldn't say that this one's water safe because there is some elemental contents in there that ... Don't get all up in arms about it, but I err on the side of caution always when it comes to that. So I'm going to skip water safe on that. Not water safe, we'll just say.

4.  Chrysocolla:  I  have a sphere of chrysocolla that looks like the planet earth, its just a gorgeous stone. Chrysocolla has a very feminine, soothing vibration, just as you would expect Mother Gaia, the planet to have. It really calms your heart Chakra. If your heart Chakra is beating out of fear, or with a panic, or anxiety, chrysocolla is a great one to have for that.

It's also going to give you more confidence when you're just paralyzed with fear, and maybe you know you need to communicate with others, and you're having fear around the confrontation, or saying the right thing, or saying it in the way that maintains your boundaries and  get the point across.

How many times have you thought about what you're going to say ... (this happens to me all the time) and then you say it, and because of fear you don't say it in the way that it needs to be said?  Then you walk away knowing that the other person didn't hear you and you didn't articulate what you really needed to say ... then you're just gripped with fear. You don't want to go back and have that confrontation again, and you're crossing your fingers that they understood what you needed them to understand but wonder was there a complete miscommunication and no one understood anything?  And then they just keep doing the same thing, right? Chrysocolla is the one that's going to get you out of that situation. When you simply need some security in the social situations, confrontations, or social situations of any kind, it's a great one to either wear as jewelry, or keeping your pocket.

Or what if public speaking is a big one? Some people are really terrified of public speaking. Not all of us. Obviously, I can't be. I mean, I get a little nervous about it, but I don't mind. I love public speaking. But I know that's one of the biggest fears out there, and chrysocolla is one that I recommend having in your pocket, or a mojo kit, or in your bra, wherever you like to have it when you're doing any kind of public speaking.

5.  Nirvana Quatz:   Nirvana Quartz comes from Tibet. It's a beautiful quartz, large, chunky, very milky. It's not clear at all. It's got lots of etching on it and a coating of hematite. So it's slightly pink, pinkish-white, barely pink. Nirvana Quartz is wonderful for helping you to overcome fear and allowing you to trust, to invite in trust.

It's also allowing you to love yourself fully, all the flaws included because Nirvana Quartz visually is covered in flaws. So it helps you to learn to accept and love yourself with all the "flaws", and I'm putting that into quotes because you are perfect in all your ways. The way that you are is 100% perfect. There are no flaws. It's so that we're not all carbon copies of each other in every way. I'm talking energetically, personality wise, and as well as physical. So Nirvana Quartz is wonderful for that. If you have any issues with lvoing yourself fully get yourself a Nirvana Quartz.

Nirvana Quartz is a water safe one too, so if you want to say that. I did see somebody asked about cchrysocolla. I did not mention it's water safe.  d I don't consider it to be water safe because of its possible copper content and because crysicola is a stone. Actually, it's considered a crystal, it's a mixture of other minerals. There's other things in there too that's to  be debated by the geologists. I'll leave that to them. So I'm not listing it as water safe.

Anxiety Busting Meditation

Next we're going to do an anxiety busting meditation here together. And just meditation can be effective, really, really effective for relieving anxiety, but it can be even more effective when you incorporate one of the crystals that I mentioned above. So if you have one of those crystalsgo ahead and grab it.

And meditation can be brief ...tiIt doesn't have to be an hour long, it can be effective in as little as 10 minutes. So if you're gripped by anxiety on daily basis, I would highly recommend doing a crystal meditation for 10 minutes daily.

There are guided audio meditations with calming ocean waves. The ones that I really like are the ones with the binaural beats. The Theta wave binaural beats will actually entrain or influence your brain and soothe your nervous system.

There's a great one called Relieve Anxiety by Brain Sync that I really like. Brain Sync is, brainsync.com. I think you can also find it on YouTube too.

What's great about the Theta waves is that Theta waves are all about relieving anxiety. It's the child-like brain. It's where deep learning can take place. It's also a brainwave state you go into when you're in deep sleep, and it allows you to absorb and retain massive amounts of information that gets stored in your longterm memory. So it's most like the brainwave state that you can be in to be most like a quartz crystal. Because these are he same things that quartz crystals can do;  store massive amounts of information in a data bank. That's something that quartz crystals are able to do and  Theta wave makes our brains more like a quartz crystal.

Again, meditating can help you to temporarily relax, but it gives you longterm effects too. They accumulate when you do it on a daily basis. And like I said, just 10 minutes is great, but it's greatly amplified when you use a crystal. And more importantly, it works on a deeper level by physically altering your actual brain function and brain wave activity. So getting your brain more into Theta more.

If we just leave thingsalone and do nothing, your brain is  always going to be in Beta when you're awake. And that's great for doing things, but it can be taxing and stressful on our brains and it's good to bring it  into Theta when you're able to. Meditation can actually reprogram your brain to be less anxious over the longterm.

Let's Meditate:  So clear your space, close your door.

Try to go to a quiet, sacred space or visualie a sacred space.  . Try to control whatever you can as far as noise goes, and hold one of your crystals, whichever crystal it may be, if you have one. If you don't have access to a crystal, that's okay. You can still do this with us, okay?

So we're going to take a few deep breaths and close your eyes. We're actually going to take this time to be present and go deep within and relax the mind. Feeling anything you're holding onto, release it, any sensations, any tightness in your muscles, any tension. Check in with your emotions. What are you feeling right now? Just notice and observe and then leave it there. And visualize the interior of the crystal you're holding, the orderliness of it as it influences and reduces the chaos in your brain. And now bring your attention to your breath, not doing anything special with it, just notice it. And gently breathe in to invite space in your body and breathe out to release any tension with awareness.

Now bring your attention to your belly as it rises and falls with each breath, and bring the breath there to your belly so that instead of expanding our lungs, we breathe with the belly of a baby. Plump the belly out as you inhale, and release it as you exhale. Expanding the belly on an inhale and falling on the exhale. We're mindful of the breath coming in and going out. Just breathing naturally, normally, but aware of the rise and the fall of your baby belly, mindfully breathing. This belly breathing actually calms us. You can do this whenever you're feeling stressed, angry, anxious, anxiety, fearful in any way.

Now bring your focus and awareness back into your crystal again and notice the energy vibration as that crystal's frequency entrains and influences your own. Remember the orderliness within that crystal it's reducing the chaos in your brain. And even during this meditation, we might be experiencing a fearful thought, or some anxious thought, or worry, or fear, and we can just observe it and let it go. Say, "Thank you for showing up. You're not needed here right now." Don't worry about it because you can pick it up later if you want to.

No matter what might be popping into your brain, you can give yourself permission now to be peaceful.

And you can silently say to yourself,

"I allow myself to experience complete calm and peacefulness with my crystal in this moment."

Then just come back to your breath again, gentle inhale and exhale, feeling your belly expanding on the inhalation, releasing on the exhalation. Just gently breathing in and out. In your next exhale you can even audibly sigh and sense the energy gently washing over you.

With your eyes still closed, give gratitude to your crystal, feel it in your hand, and you can gently wiggle your fingers and toes. And when you feel ready, you can come back to us. Tell us in the comments below if you u noticed, anything you observed, how you're feeling right now. How did you do?

Anti-Anxiety Crystal Bath

Just to give you  some other actionable things you can do  with any of those crystals that I mentioned before that were water safe,

you can put them in a bath and take an anti-anxiety bath. Perhaps you can ... redo the meditation Facebook page so you can replay the meditation we did.
when you take an anti-anxiety bath, you can put one or more of the water safe crystals in the bath plus a few drops of lavender essential oil, and it will greatly help you in relieving anxiety

Anti- Anxiety Crystal Grid

Something else you can do is you can do an anti-anxiety crystal grid with the crystals that we talked about. I have another blog post over here on How to Make a Crystal Grid.  For this purpose here today, here's an affirmation you can use for the grid, or just an affirmation you can use tocalm your mind as you hold one of the crystals.

"I  charge this grid with healthy thoughts and mental calmness, manifesting assurance, peace, ease, and happiness for myself now."

I hope you've enjoyed these tips on Crystals for Anxiety and Stress.  Let me know in the comments below if you tried this meditation or if  you work with any of these stones for stress relief.

Crystal Blessings,

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