charmvirgo
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I don't 'use' crystals, or have any rituals, but they are supposed to have a positive effect if just placed in your surroundings.
I bought a book called 'Love is in the Earth - A Kaleidoscope of Crystals' that has a lot of information in it. There are different ways on cleaning or preparing crstals/minerals to remove undesirable energies:
· Take the crystal to the sea, or spring, or lake, or river etc and let the water wash over it and rays of the sun energise it. You can use tap water.
· Smudge the crystal with incense.
· Place the crystal on a large crystal cluster or mineral for 24 hours.
· Concentrate on beaming white light from the third eye towards the crystal, or surrounding it with visualised white or golden light.
· Soak the crystals in flower petals for 24 hours.
· Soak the crystals in brown rice for 24 hours, you can then eat the energised brown rice.
To awaken crystals, gently sound Tibetan prayer bells nearby, or a meditative gong, to stimulate the resonance of the crystal.
Charge a crystal by placing it in sunlight or moonlight, this is more effective at the times of the summer/winter solstices or spring/autumn equinoxes.
Programming a crystal means concentrating on using it for a specific purpose. Hold the crystal in the left hand if right handed, or vice versa if left handed. Formulate a precise phrase, which must be repeated at least 20 times in succession, while being mentally open to guidance, prayer and assistance, and allowing receptivity to flow through the centre of consciousness to the inner being. As the phrase is repeated an energy field will build in the pattern representing the desired program, while maintaining this energy field, hold the crystal over the third eye or the heart chakra and feel a connection with it, then direct the energy field into the crystal.
Applications of crystals/minerals:
· To assist in meditation, by holding a crystal in the hand or placed on a table, or in the centre of a group of participants.
· Manifestation - to assist in directing the will towards fulfilling a specific plan, helping the universe to provide that which is necessary.
· For protection, against psychic attack, or to surround a specific area within a protective influence.
· For energising elixirs that may be consumed, made using mineral water or distilled water in a glass jar or bowl, which has a crystal or piece of mineral placed in it for 24 hours, standing in the light of the Sun or the Moon. No metal must contact the liquid.
· Place crystals in an aquarium to treat fish.
· Use elixirs in the water of your pets, or plants.
· Wear or carry a crystal or mineral to charge the aura. Different stones are supposed to be attuned to different chakras. They work better if they don’t have a hole made in them.
· Place minerals or crystals in the environment to dispel negativity.
· Place at the end of a dowsing rod or a pendulum for divining.
· Use the laying on of stones on the body to realign energies or for healing.
· Use a wand shaped crystal for directional focus and amplification of energy.
· Place a stone under your pillow to assist astral projection or intensifying the dream state.
Apparently it is not just the piece itself that is supposed to have certain properties, but the shape or formation and the inclusions, some are natural shapes and others man-made.
Cluster, wand, terminated, double terminated, bridge, ball, tumbled, egg, bowl, pyramid, cross, ankh, obelisk, tabulated, sheet or lens, barnacle, nodule, crystal in crytal, phantom, rainbow, tourmalinated, dendritic, rutilated, etc.
· With double terminated formations, energy can move in either direction.
· Clusters enhance group and family energy.
· Barnacle crystals have a central stone with many other small ones stuck to it, the central one represents old wisdom which the smaller ones are attracted to. The energy assists in community problems.
· Bridge crystals have a smaller crystal which penetrates and extends out of another. This aids in bridging between inner and outer worlds.
· Crystals in a cruciform/cross shape increases macrocosmic awareness and assists in the removal of unwanted other-worldly influences.
· Fractures within crystals produce prismatic rainbows that provide additional energy, the perfect white light dispersed into the full spectrum, suitable for use on all the chakras.
· Sheet crystal is flat and quite clear, for gazing used as a window to access information from the astral plane and akashic records.
· Twin formations of two crystals growing together, assist relationships and balance.
· Dendritic crystal has a moss like inclusion. It facilitates a closeness with nature and stimulates recall of past lives.
· Rutilated crystal has very fine hair like structures through it. Stimulates awareness of the connection between the physical life and the astral plane. For getting to the root of a problem.
· A phantom crystal has left a trace within itself of a previous growing layer. It may be white or coloured. This crystal has experienced numerous lifetimes of being and learning, or represents phases within the same lifetime. It is used for cleansing, redemption and to form a connection to past lives. It can assist one in meeting a personal spiritual guide.
The colour and density have different properties too. Clear stones allow light to pass through and amplify, channel and direct energy. While dense opaque stones absorb and attract different energy according to their colour.
· Clear quartz is said to harmonise, synchronise and align energies and thoughts, clear negativity and activate energy.
· Lapis is deep blue and assists in total awareness and accessing knowledge of unknown mysteries and planetary knowledge. For energising the throat chakra. Placed over the third eye it can help to develop insight into dreams.
· Amethyst is purple quartz. It is calming, for spiritual contentment and peace, clears the aura for meditation. It opens and activates the crown chakra.
· Malachite is a dense green stone with variations and patterns of colour. For clarifying emotion, drawing negative energy away, transforming situations, enhancing the immune system. Good for stimulating the heart chakra.
There is much, much, much more information in this book about all the types of stones, the formations of shapes, the properties, the colours, the uses, the chakras, etc…
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