OK, so you have been bitten by the crystal bug and your collection has started to grow. They’re pretty and attractive, you know how to cleanse them and you think you feel something from them, but what next?

(If you’re not sure how to cleanse your crystals here’s a helpful post) https://mojolistic.net/2018/01/08/cleansing-your-crystals/

Well, the first thing is, you don’t have to do ANYTHING with them. If you just enjoy them for how they look and feel, that’s fine.

If you want to get a bit more out of your crystals here are just a few simple ways you can get more assistance from your amethyst or more zap from your zoisite.

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• 1. Carry or wear them: This is the most  beneficial way of getting the crystal energy you need at any given moment. Whether nestled in your jeans pocket, in a corner of your purse, snugly in your bra or wearing them as jewellery,  having the crystals close to your body and in your personal space is just fabulous. It keeps the vibration of the crystal aligned to you and your aura (energy field) and you to it. Just use your intuition to choose one or more crystals for the day and away you go. It’s easy to do – handle or look at your stones and you will be drawn to one or more. You can also use a pendulum to choose which, how many and for how long you need them, but simply picking your gem from a bowl will do just fine.

• 2. Meditate with crystals: No, don’t panic if you don’t or feel you can’t meditate. Meditating with crystals is so easy to do. And even if you get distracted, you will still have the benefit from being with the crystal. The simplest way is to spend a few minutes just sitting quietly with your crystal, gazing at it, turning it over in your hands and just going with the flow. Here are some more tips for a really lovely crystal meditation. https://mojolistic.net/2017/01/11/meditating-with-crystals/

• 3. Place around the home or workspace: To me there is nothing nicer than being able to see and sense crystals as I work, relax or rest. I love going into a home where crystals are around, there is always a nice feel. Certain crystals such as Rose Quartz or Amethyst keep a loving, happy and healing vibe around the home. Others such as black tourmaline or shungite, can protect us from negative energies and even the energy waves from electronic devices.

• 4. Give them away: (Shock! Horror!) No, I’m not advocating giving away all your lovely collection! But crystals do make a lovely gift and if you concentrate on the recipient when choosing and let the crystals hook up with your intuition you can get just the thing they need or want (even if they didn’t know). I do give away lots from my personal collection too, so if you find yourself looking at a lovely green malachite and thinking of your friend Susan, then perhaps Susan needs a little random act of crystal kindness. (Don’t forget to give her a few cleansing tips too if she is new to crystals.)

So there you have it, 4 easy ways to get the most from your crystals. Do let me know what you think, and which crystals you love to have around you.

And if you’d like to buy a crystal as a gift, here’s my shop for some ideas. https://mojolistic.net/shop/

Much love,

Mojo

This is a clear rhombohedra shaped crystal that can look like a sparkling ice cube. Sometimes there is a golden or yellow tint.

Looking through it, we see two images and this for me is one of its most useful energies. It helps us to see the truth clearly, especially our own truth and crucially, when people are being duplicitous.

This sparkly clean crystal helps remove energy blockages and activate sluggish or dormant chakras. Working with it for a few days at a time is the best way to do this. Keep it near you during the day and when you can, place it near each chakra in turn just for a few seconds.

Optical Calcite is also known as Iceland Spar. It is known  to awaken spiritual connection and amplifies all spiritual work as well as the power of ritual and other crystals.It keeps our connections pure, both spiritual and earthly. Elementally, it contains the energies of wind, fire and ice. In dream-work and using the clairs,(clair-sentience, clair-audience, clairvoyance) it can make our experience and visualisations more vivid.

It stimulates the metabolism and supports weight loss especially where it is caused by comfort eating and where we might not be being true to ourselves. That is, it helps us to see the truth of why we are eating/drinking/taking something, so that we can begin to heal.

With it’s simple clarity and cutting through waffle, it eases the learning of difficult subjects.

It is said that due to its prismatic effect, the Vikings used it for navigation. You may feel a Viking connection in some pieces. As with other calcites, it is good for bones and teeth.

I’m often asked for crystals to help with studying and with taking exams. I think that there are several things to look at here, including focus, and memory. But also including the communication skills to express the learnings and show true understanding. Emotions need to be supported too. Here are a few suggestions.

Hematite

This silvery stone is a deep red inside and resonates with the root chakra. It brings focus, concentration, determination and a feeling of being more grounded and in control.

Fluorite

This green translucent stone is known for bringing clarity. It cuts through confusion and helps to keep information ordered.

Amethyst

This purple stone enhances the memory and intellect. It is a master healer and comforting at all times.

Blue Lace agate

Pale blue, with white banding, this lovely stone brings emotional balance and calm and enables clear communication when listening, speaking or writing.

Sodalite

Vibrant blue stone with white markings is great for communicating our ideas and knowledge. It also helps with legal and process matters such as filling in forms correctly.

Citrine

This yellow translucent stone boosts our energy and mood and brings luck and positivity.

Green Aventurine

Gorgeous green stone which balances head with heart. It also attracts good fortune and abundance.

Tiger’s Eye

Lovely warm brown stone with shining golden stripes. It is grounding and protective and brings courage and confidence. Meanwhile the golden flashes attract good things, luck and abundance.

Clear quartz

This clear stone brings additional clarity and also amplifies the effects of the other crystals.

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Whether we want to attract love into our lives, or heal tricky relationships (romantic, family or friends), self love and self worth have a huge impact. We have to heal our heart first and give ourselves the unconditional love that tells the Universe we ARE worthy. Here are my crystal tools that work on all aspects of relationships – with ourselves and then with others. Can you use these to attract romance? Yes you absolutely can. And improving our own self-acceptance also attracts more abundance, more fun and better health. It’s a win-win situation.

Rose Quartz 

Unconditional love and self-acceptance              

The delightful pale pink rose quartz is the stone of unconditional love and more importantly, unconditional self love and self – acceptance.

It brings self-esteem and a feeling of being nourished and supported.  When we understand we are worthy of love, we attract love. It soothes a broken heart and brings a feeling of nurture and support.  I recommend rough chunks. With their uneven shapes they help to scatter the loving energies around the home. In an existing relationship, use two and their soft loving energies placed either side of the bed,  gradually repair any niggles from the day (or the years). If you are looking for love, their vibes will magnify your intentions and you can let go and allow the universe to work its magic for you.

If you are looking for love I also recommend a Rose Quartz Heart for Romance

Rose quartz of course is the chief stone of romance and attraction and the heart shape amplifies this intention. Keep it with you at all times. If you can’t get hold of a heart, use a tumbled or smooth stone.

Green Aventurine

Balance and Attraction

Green aventurine balances head with heart, masculine and feminine, yin and yang. It is also a key crystal for manifesting and attracting our desires and goals. Whatever your relationship goals it will support you.

Unakite

What belongs together, comes together

This green and pink stone is a perfect blend of epidote, red jasper and pink feldspar. The crystalline structure of the blend is so tightly melded that it sits well with its reputation of “what belongs together, comes together”. It attracts or creates a union that is seamless and meant to be and encourages an easy and equal connection. It is a stone for attracting a soul mate and for strengthening the bonds in healthy relationships, both romantic and others.

Chrysocolla

Communication and capacity for love

This beautiful blue-green stone is helpful during times of change and transition, because it helps to calm your emotions so that you can be you and be real. It helps us move on, only where necessary, and be ready for new beginnings.  In new relationships, it keeps communication clear and honest, removing those early doubts and giving a loving, gentle clarity. Chrysocolla also helps increase our capacity to love and shifts our barriers and blocks to loving and being loved. It heals the heart and enhances our capacity to love and be loved.

Rhodonite

Forgiveness and healing

This deep pink stone with black inclusions is the ultimate stone of forgiveness and healing and has deep and long lasting effects. It empowers us to reach our full potential, thereby attracting the love we deserve. In this way it is as useful in attracting new love as revitalising relationships for good.

Any or all of these crystals will help you to boost the relationship you have with the most important love in your life – you. And thereby all the love and relationships around you.

Need more help?

Together with Kate Spencer, I’ve devised a crystal kit which contains all of these stones (2 of the rose quartz raw chunks) and Kate has added an amazing Heal Your Wounded Soul Masterclass & Meditation Bundle.  The master class and meditation are digital products and an email will be forwarded to you in order for you to gain access to these bonus items.

Click here to find out more!

Moonstone – peachy, creamy-semi-translucent

Moonstone works with the moon and helps to stabilise female hormones. Two are suggested so that you can choose to use them together or separately. You can have one on the left and one on the right side. Perhaps in your jeans pockets or maybe one either side of the bed or desk. If you only want one with you, leave one under your pillow and take one in your handbag or bra.

Lepidolite – purple or lilac/white with sparkles

This is my go-to stone for depression and anxiety so if low mood or mood swings accompany your symptoms keep it with you at all times, especially during sleep. It’s not an instant fix, but fairly quickly brings you back up and holds you steady.

Howlite – white with grey marbling

Grab a howlite if you feel sudden stress, anxiety or panic, or keep it with you and simply hold when you need instant calm.

Amethyst – purple translucent

Absolutely keep an amethyst under your pillow to help sleep patterns, and keep one with you at all times to help sharpen your memory and concentration.

Chrysocolla – blue-green

This is said to help restless legs and I have personally found that to be true. Works best when around you all the time, day and night. It also helps emotionally with the idea of menopause helping us to embrace and forgive. And, it helps clear communication.

 

Hematite – silver/pewter

Hematite is supremely grounding and brings a more steady feeling. It is fabulous for regulating temperature and circulation. Cooling for night sweats and daytime hot flushes, hold it or place on the wrist at the pulse point.

Citrine – yellow translucent

So cheery, this certainly aids cheerfulness but also keeps up the energy levels and counteracts fatigue. It is another tool in your armoury against hot flashes and works well with hematite during the day.

Yellow Jasper – mustard yellow, opaque

All jaspers help with digestive issues, yellow jasper also helps us to detox both from toxins, and emotional issues relating to other people. It helps us feel comfortable in social situations and is another boost to confidence and concentration. Its slow steady vibration helps emotionally too.

Orange Calcite – pale to bright orange

This is a smooth and comforting stone. Energising and balancing, known for balancing hormones and for boosting physical strength and stamina. All calcites are good for bones and joints. It’s good to hold and should be touched often.

If you’d like a kit of all the above crystals including 2 moonstone and 2 amethyst, here’s a link.

Magic Menopause Crystal Kit

Contact me anytime if you need further support: Maureen@mojolistic.net

As the darker days arrive, so my mood alters and I need to incorporate strategies to keep my mood elevated. This is important not only for my emotional state but also my energy levels and general health.

I’ve tried many crystals , they are a great energy tool to keep the vibe high on cold or grey days. Here are my top five:

Sunstone

This lovely peachy orange stone, with warm golden sparkles, resonates with and activates the sacral chakra. It brings the enlivening energies of the sun into gloomy winter days so is especially useful to support seasonal affective disorder or any winter slump. It relieves feelings of stress and is especially useful in meditation. Sunstone awakens the body’s own spiritual healing tools. It is all about light; absorbing light, giving out light and making us feel warm and light.

Citrine

The lovely translucent yellow stone of joy and good fortune. With its zippy energies who doesn’t feel a little sunnier holding or looking at citrine? It has a cleansing energy, especially useful in winter when we have our doors and windows closed. Handled every day, it brings us energy and vitality.

Orange Calcite

A bright, paler orange with a gentle feel, Orange Calcite can energize and cleanse the Root and Sacral Chakras and to an extent the solar plexus. It brings positive energy and courage.
Orange Calcite’s zingy energy helps release past traumas and allows optimism and joy to come in. All emotional issues will benefit from Orange Calcite’s infusion of joyful vibrations into the lower chakras.

All Calcite is super for cleansing. It can purify and clean out stored negative energy from your body, room or any physical space. Clearing out old energy patterns can increase personal motivation and drive. Calcite is also a great choice for distance healing work, because it amplifies the energy being sent.

Carnelian

This deep orange, semi-translucent stone brings courage and motivation in all aspects of life and aids physical endurance. It supports the immune system on a physical and emotional level. Carnelian aids cheerfulness and channels the warm and more fiery energies of the sun. It helps you stand in your own power and improves self-confidence. Carnelian clears blockages and is excellent for restoring vitality and for stimulating passion and creativity. This stone helps you trust yourself and your intuition. It sharpens concentration and brings emotional courage. It also helps with teamwork and family harmony.

Yellow Jasper  

This mustard yellow stone has been used by healers and shamans throughout the ages. It has a slow, steady and protective vibration. It brings with it positive energy and optimism.  It can also deflect jealousy and gossip. Yellow jasper eases worry and embarrassment in social situations. It is ideal for those of us who can feel “stuck” and “foggy” in the winter, because it is a stone of intellect and focus. It helps to gather scattered thoughts. For a winter boost, it also gives us the determination to complete tasks or stick to goals and healthy habits.

Simple Ways you can Use These Crystals

These  stones can be used together or in any combination and home or in your pocket, bag or at work.

Charge on a sunny window sill or outside in the sun whenever you can and then draw in the energies when you need them.

Place in a circle around the outside of your glass of water or juice for a few minutes, to infuse it with high and sunny vibrations. Even one stone can be used for this.

Check in with your sun crystals every day and choose the stones you need, or take all, whatever feels right.

Spend 10 minutes or more a day holding your sun crystal or crystals (or five minutes morning and evening) and absorb the bright sunny energies through sight and touch. For a quick fix, place on the solar plexus or heart for a few minutes.

And the Top Choice?

My top choice for SAD, or even a couple of days feeling the Winter Blues, is Sunstone. It works quickly to restore my mood when grey clouds appear. The golden sparkles seem to absorb the sun’s energies and release them whenever needed.

Note

I do not have medical or psychiatric/psychological training. Please consult a medical professional for any physical or mental illness. Crystal lore is for entertainment purposes only.

Finally

You can purchase these five stones already made into a kit with printed instructions here:

This is a great tip if you feel a bit off-kilter, sluggish or not quite yourself. It can be a quick pick-me-up emotionally too. However, it’s a great and easy way to practise regular self care at any time.

My favourite crystals for this exercise are: Carnelian, Amethyst or Unakite. But there are many others you can choose.

Make yourself comfortable in a place where you will not be disturbed. You can sit with your feet flat on the floor, or lie down. If sitting hold the crystal(s) in your hands. If lying down place the carnelian at the sacral chakra (about 2 inches or 5 cm below your belly button) or the unakite or amethyst at the heart. Take a deep breath in and exhale gently. As you exhale, feel yourself releasing any feelings or emotions that are not for your highest good. Continue to breathe slowly and deliberately in and out. Intend to release any unwanted energy each time you exhale, until all negative energy or feelings have been released. Take another deep breath in and feel the energy of the crystal begin to enter your physical body. Feel the uplifting healing energy of the crystal as it also strengthens your immune system. Continue to breathe in and out, while the allowing the warm light from the crystal to expand outward, until it fills your entire physical body. You may begin to feel floaty and warm, continue this breathing with your crystal, feeling the light energy begin to expand outside your body, until it has filled your entire aura with loving and healing energy. When you feel ready you can slowly open your eyes, wriggle about, shake your limbs about and drink a glass of water to ground yourself. Don’t worry if you fall asleep (as long as it is safe to do so), just have a glass of water when you wake up.

NOTE: I am not medically trained and this crystal exercise can only boost your immune system by working on your sense of wellbeing.

These are a concretion, laid down millions of years ago in sedimentary silt. They are said to come in pairs, one female and one male stone. The females are said to be more of a smooth sphere or oval shape and the males are rougher with sometimes protrusions. They have a powerful yet not intrusive energy and help to balance your female-male, yin-yang energies. However, some are androgynous and will work singly, incorporating the properties of each. They are mainly formed from pyrite, iron magnetite or marcasite with sometimes palladian and other minerals formed around a fossilised core.

They have strong grounding properties and are highly protective. They are sometimes called Shaman Stones, but not to be confused with moqui balls which are a different mineral composition and also sometimes called Shaman stones!

 

Where Do They Come From?

Kansas pop rocks are found in one area of Kansas only as far as we know. Near a pyramid shaped mountain which is now known as Boji mountain. The family which has trademarked the name Boji has a pet crow of the same name. When their daughter found the rocks, she thought they were the eggs of the crow. The owners of the trademark issue certificates of authenticity confirming each set was found as a pair in that location.  They are also sold as pop rocks in singles and in pairs, but would often be paired up by the seller. I feel that, like some other “paired” stones, they will pair themselves naturally if you buy them in bulk.

 

Key Metaphysical Properties

• Balancing and aligning yin-yang, the auric field and chakra column
• Physically energising without being over-stimulating
• Fill the aura with positive energy
• Elevate your level of intuition, so that you can protect yourself.
• Removal of blockages
• Increased cognition and clarity of the mind – improve memory
• Assist the body’s natural regeneration.
• Grounding – especially useful for star seeds and astral travellers

 

How To Use Them

 

• Hold one in each hand during meditation.
• It is said that we should hold the female stone in the left hand and the male in the right.
• I believe we should use our intuition and see which feels best in which hand.
• Place one in each pocket when channelling healing or spiritual messages
• Place on or around the body where guided during healing practice.

 

• Place around your healing room to guard yourself and your client.
• To balance the male/female energies, and grounding place the smaller female stone at the crown chakra, and the other stone below the feet at the earth chakra. Lie down and relax for at least 10 minutes. If you can’t decide which is male and which is female, see which feels better at the head and which at the feet. The stones themselves will guide you.
• Cleanse the energies in your usual way, but take care, they can disintegrate if left outside for long periods.
• Can also disintegrate after shifting a lot of energy for you
• Self-charging.
• It is said that storing in pairs can neutralise the energy, I feel you need to keep them a couple of metres apart.
• Sometimes, a pair will naturally roll towards or away from each other and you may feel a magnetic pull.