Rocks, Stones, Gemstones--Metaphysical Purposes

[foxyshaman]

Amethyst was the first stone I was ever attracted to. And I still quite like it. It could be that the stone was helping you clear your energies creating insteresting dreams.

Ebon did it continue after the first night? Or did you remove the stone?

I have half a geode of amethyst that weighs approx. 45 lbs resting between my bedroom and the rest of the house. I have a healing room in my house and see a varying number of patients every week. I find that it helps to keep the energy of healing (and not so healing energy) out of my bedroom. I sleep and feel much better with it there. I noticed a huge difference right away.

I also cleanse my stones under full and new moons. I love the feel of them after I take them back into my healing room. They look all sparkly and twinkly and ready to work!! Or sit around and look pretty while absorbing negative energies/entities.

I can't use my quartz very much, clear or white, the vibrations make me vibrate right outta my head. Sometimes I like going into crystal shops just to feel the top of my head come off. And other times I can't walk through the doors. These are stores that generally have very large quartz crystals. You know those chunks, they generally are more than my monthly salary .

Thanks for listening.

[Ebon]

Originally Posted by foxyshaman

Amethyst was the first stone I was ever attracted to. And I still quite like it. It could be that the stone was helping you clear your energies creating insteresting dreams.

Ebon did it continue after the first night? Or did you remove the stone?

I have half a geode of amethyst that weighs approx. 45 lbs resting between my bedroom and the rest of the house. I have a healing room in my house and see a varying number of patients every week. I find that it helps to keep the energy of healing (and not so healing energy) out of my bedroom. I sleep and feel much better with it there. I noticed a huge difference right away.

I also cleanse my stones under full and new moons. I love the feel of them after I take them back into my healing room. They look all sparkly and twinkly and ready to work!! Or sit around and look pretty while absorbing negative energies/entities.

I can't use my quartz very much, clear or white, the vibrations make me vibrate right outta my head. Sometimes I like going into crystal shops just to feel the top of my head come off. And other times I can't walk through the doors. These are stores that generally have very large quartz crystals. You know those chunks, they generally are more than my monthly salary .

Thanks for listening.

Wow that is awesome work you do there. I can (but can't) wait to get to that level.

No I removed it because it freaked me out. I didn't understand that it could actually be clearing blockages I was a lot younger and less wiser than I am now.

I recently went out of town and my friends had one sitting over my head where I was sleeping. I didn't notice it until I woke up after I had the weird dreams again but they were not as weird as the ones I had about my mom.

I'm attracted to hematite.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Ebon

I'm attracted to hematite.

Interesting..is this new?

[Ebon]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

Interesting..is this new?

No it's been around for ages.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hematite

Hematite, also spelled as haematite, is the mineral form of iron(III) oxide (Fe2O3), one of several iron oxides. Hematite crystallizes in the rhombohedral system, and it has the same crystal structure as ilmenite and corundum. Hematite and ilmenite form a complete solid solution at temperatures above 950 °C.

Hematite is a mineral, colored black to steel or silver-gray, brown to reddish brown, or red. It is mined as the main ore of iron. Varieties include kidney ore, martite (pseudomorphs after magnetite), iron rose and specularite (specular hematite). While the forms of hematite vary, they all have a rust-red streak. Hematite is harder than pure iron, but much more brittle. Maghemite is a hematite- and magnetite-related oxide mineral.

Huge deposits of hematite are found in banded iron formations. Grey hematite is typically found in places where there has been standing water or mineral hot springs, such as those in Yellowstone National Park in the United States. The mineral can precipitate out of water and collect in layers at the bottom of a lake, spring, or other standing water. Hematite can also occur without water, however, usually as the result of volcanic activity.

Clay-sized hematite crystals can also occur as a secondary mineral formed by weathering processes in soil, and along with other iron oxides or oxyhydroxides such as goethite, is responsible for the red color of many tropical, ancient, or otherwise highly weathered soils.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by foxyshaman

Amethyst was the first stone I was ever attracted to. And I still quite like it. It could be that the stone was helping you clear your energies creating insteresting dreams.

Ebon did it continue after the first night? Or did you remove the stone?

I have half a geode of amethyst that weighs approx. 45 lbs resting between my bedroom and the rest of the house. I have a healing room in my house and see a varying number of patients every week. I find that it helps to keep the energy of healing (and not so healing energy) out of my bedroom. I sleep and feel much better with it there. I noticed a huge difference right away.

I also cleanse my stones under full and new moons. I love the feel of them after I take them back into my healing room. They look all sparkly and twinkly and ready to work!! Or sit around and look pretty while absorbing negative energies/entities.

I can't use my quartz very much, clear or white, the vibrations make me vibrate right outta my head. Sometimes I like going into crystal shops just to feel the top of my head come off. And other times I can't walk through the doors. These are stores that generally have very large quartz crystals. You know those chunks, they generally are more than my monthly salary .

Thanks for listening.

The first stone i was attracked to is quartz...in fact i own more of this than anything else. One of the most relaxing things for me is to just run my hands through a big bowl of it. I've got Tibetans, enhydros, phantoms and Arkansas just to name a few. But my favourite piece by far is a big chunk that was given to me earlier this year by a friend from his yard. He just tossed it to me one day. i love this piece - it has an amazing energy...

i love crystal shops too and can/have spent hours in them not te mention a lot of $$$. There's a place up in Asheville called Points of Light and one of these days i'm going to pay them a visit. But i'll need a chaperone for my wallet...LOL

[Miss Scarlett]

Ebon, i meant your attraction...

[Ebon]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

Ebon, i meant your attraction...

oh lmao!!!!

No I have always been attracted to it.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Ebon

oh lmao!!!!

No I have always been attracted to it.

LOL...i love it too and always wear a ring and bracelet made from it.

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

The first stone i was attracked to is quartz...in fact i own more of this than anything else. One of the most relaxing things for me is to just run my hands through a big bowl of it. I've got Tibetans, enhydros, phantoms and Arkansas just to name a few. But my favourite piece by far is a big chunk that was given to me earlier this year by a friend from his yard. He just tossed it to me one day. i love this piece - it has an amazing energy...

i love crystal shops too and can/have spent hours in them not te mention a lot of $$$. There's a place up in Asheville called Points of Light and one of these days i'm going to pay them a visit. But i'll need a chaperone for my wallet...LOL

Miss Scarlett you can have all the quartz you like!! You won't offend me at all. I have two beautiful hunks of quartz from the Berkshires. I was at a Twilight Covening Retreat. I was in that area for a workshop at the Omega Institute. Have either of you been there? And then since I was so close I went to the Retreat. The woods were BEAUTIFUL. It was there I picked up my pieces. I use them quite often when I am building medicine wheels or just building a circle for "whatever". Those don't seem to affect me. But yeah "clearer" quartz... it makes my arm tingle from my fingers to my elbow. The clearer the more the zing.

Ebon, I really like Hematite. I also am very attracted to Apache Tears and Moqui Balls (or shaman stones) those are, to me, exceptionally grounding. It is interesting that amethyst has that affect on you. You may be much more sensitive than you give yourself credit for. (??)

I can't buy any more crystals. This may sound a bit out there, so bear with me...but my stones are adamant no more come in. In their "eye" (not quite sure how to put that out there without seeming even more flakey) I don't use them enough, so why would I bring more in.

So, other than looking pretty, what do you use your stones for? If I may ask that is.

One of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE STONES is chrysocolla. I love it. I love the look, the feel and it is beautiful set in silver. I wish I knew how much I loved it when I was in Peru. I would have brought much more home. It is sooooooo expensive here.

[Ebon]

Originally Posted by foxyshaman

Miss Scarlett you can have all the quartz you like!! You won't offend me at all. I have two beautiful hunks of quartz from the Berkshires. I was at a Twilight Covening Retreat. I was in that area for a workshop at the Omega Institute. Have either of you been there? And then since I was so close I went to the Retreat. The woods were BEAUTIFUL. It was there I picked up my pieces. I use them quite often when I am building medicine wheels or just building a circle for "whatever". Those don't seem to affect me. But yeah "clearer" quartz... it makes my arm tingle from my fingers to my elbow. The clearer the more the zing.

Ebon, I really like Hematite. I also am very attracted to Apache Tears and Moqui Balls (or shaman stones) those are, to me, exceptionally grounding. It is interesting that amethyst has that affect on you. You may be much more sensitive than you give yourself credit for. (??)

I can't buy any more crystals. This may sound a bit out there, so bear with me...but my stones are adamant no more come in. In their "eye" (not quite sure how to put that out there without seeming even more flakey) I don't use them enough, so why would I bring more in.

Totally got it!

So, other than looking pretty, what do you use your stones for? If I may ask that is.

One of my ABSOLUTE FAVORITE STONES is chrysocolla. I love it. I love the look, the feel and it is beautiful set in silver. I wish I knew how much I loved it when I was in Peru. I would have brought much more home. It is sooooooo expensive here.

Well I used my hematite for grounding and balancing. I usually transfer any negative energy into them then clean it. I don't usually use them to look pretty although I know some people use them for both or just to look pretty. I had an awesome hematite ring. I don't have any crystals or minerals at the moment but I do try to meditate as often as possible to keep my grounded.

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Ebon

Well I used my hematite for grounding and balancing. I usually transfer any negative energy into them then clean it. I don't usually use them to look pretty although I know some people use them for both or just to look pretty. I had an awesome hematite ring. I don't have any crystals or minerals at the moment but I do try to meditate as often as possible to keep my grounded.

I think meditation is very important to keep grounded. I have a daily practice that takes literally five minutes. I use my rattle and 'blend' with my authentic self... some say god self... some say higher self... I have no definition for what I blend with... except to say that it helps me stay in my body, present and focused. My grounding exercise before my patients come can vary from silent prayer; to dance to playing my drum or just sitting silently brushing my thoughts away like dust off an antique (me being the antique that is )

Ebon I love the quotes from Malcolm X and Einstein in your signature. These are two of my favorite Einstein quotes:

Our task must be to free ourselves by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty.

&

I have no special talent. I am only passionately curious. (That is my motto!!)

[Miss Scarlett]

i love chrysocolla and moqui balls too and have several pieces...

Some of my other inventory:

spheres: fluorite, amethyst, rainbow obsidian, sodalite, serpentine, clear quartz, selenite, unakite, rose quartz, bloodstone, jet

obelisks: amethyst, citrine, clear and phantom quartz

wands: labradorite, amethyst, rose quartz, yellow jasper, tiger eye, selenite

loose pieces: lepidolite, amethyst, jet, jaspers, unakite, kyanite (blue, green, black, moldavite, tektite, lava, obsifian, sodalite, bloodstone, citrine, turquoise, lapis, smoky quartz (cathedral), blue lace agate, calcite (honey, blue, green, orange, red, white, clear), malachite, meteorites, snow quartz, rose quartz, carnelian, aventurine (green, blue, red), tiger eye (gold, red blue), tourmaline (black, watermelon, pink, blue, yellow), garnet (red, clear, green)

my most recent acquisitions; apache tears (i tend to give these away), a huge hunk of azurite, herkimers and several fluorite octahedrons

i moved recently and am dedicating the second bedroom in my apartment to my crystals and i'm going to use a long white marble for the larger altar. i'm hoping to acquire a large amethyst geode when i have several hundred extra dollars that is...LOL

[foxyshaman]

Originally Posted by Miss Scarlett

i love chrysocolla and moqui balls too and have several pieces...

Some of my other inventory:

spheres: fluorite, amethyst, rainbow obsidian, sodalite, serpentine, clear quartz, selenite, unakite, rose quartz, bloodstone, jet

obelisks: amethyst, citrine, clear and phantom quartz

wands: labradorite, amethyst, rose quartz, yellow jasper, tiger eye, selenite

loose pieces: lepidolite, amethyst, jet, jaspers, unakite, kyanite (blue, green, black, moldavite, tektite, lava, obsifian, sodalite, bloodstone, citrine, turquoise, lapis, smoky quartz (cathedral), blue lace agate, calcite (honey, blue, green, orange, red, white, clear), malachite, meteorites, snow quartz, rose quartz, carnelian, aventurine (green, blue, red), tiger eye (gold, red blue), tourmaline (black, watermelon, pink, blue, yellow), garnet (red, clear, green)

my most recent acquisitions; apache tears (i tend to give these away), a huge hunk of azurite, herkimers and several fluorite octahedrons

i moved recently and am dedicating the second bedroom in my apartment to my crystals and i'm going to use a long white marble for the larger altar. i'm hoping to acquire a large amethyst geode when i have several hundred extra dollars that is...LOL

Wow you have an amazing collection of stones. Absolutely amazing. Flourite took me a while to get used to. I could sense it as soon as someone walked into circle with it on them, or if they came to my healing room with it on them. I couldn't touch it for a few years. I find it, and give it away. Except for these two beautiful pieces that are sssssooooo ddddeeeeeeppppp purple they are incredible. But, I learnt that you cannot leave flourite in moon water indefinately because it does affect the clarity of the stone.

I am sure they appreciate that you dedicate a room, lovingly, to them. I think that is quite lovely.

[Ebon]

So I've decided to create a positive vortex of energy in our house by linking crystals together using clear quartz and amethyst. Any other suggestions for this. Something that would vibe well with two people.

[Nat]

Originally Posted by Ebon

So I've decided to create a positive vortex of energy in our house by linking crystals together using clear quartz and amethyst. Any other suggestions for this. Something that would vibe well with two people.

I so wish y'all were here at the bash.

I enjoy rose quartz for sure. I haven't intentionally made this sort of vortex but as I've aquired more and more little stones and roots and herbs and candles and oils and plants etc etc it does seem to affect the energy. I might need reminding after the weekend but I have lots of ideas.

For now though I just thought I'd mention there's a gem show in Austin next weekend so if y'all wanna find some good stuff at reasonable prices, (prices vary booth to booth - magpie gems was very reasonably priced and as staffed by a very cute mohawked baby-butch who I'm sure would love to see y'all's cute selves at her booth. Also she was honest (she was at the Temple show last week) when I asked her about whether certain stones might have been dyed.

Anyway here's the info on the show and I'll try to remember to come back on here once back in Texas.

Austin Gem and Mineral Show "Gem Capers" ~ Austin, Texas
Oct 21-23, Fri 9am-5pm, Sat 10am-6pm, Sun 10am-5pm.
Palmer Events Center
900 Barton Springs Road
Austin, TX 78704

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by Ebon

So I've decided to create a positive vortex of energy in our house by linking crystals together using clear quartz and amethyst. Any other suggestions for this. Something that would vibe well with two people.

Ebon, be sure you not only cleanse the crystals but yourself and the space where you are creating this grid.

For harmony in your home you could use a heart shaped grid alternating rose quartz and amethyst or you use a figure 8 shaped grid of rose quartz and clear quartz points with a large piece of rose quart (heart shape is good but not required) at the intersection.

Whenever i set up a grid i meditate on its purpose and set the stones as i feel led. Don't forget to honor the stones and charge your grid when finished.

[Miss Scarlett]

Originally Posted by foxyshaman

So, other than looking pretty, what do you use your stones for? If I may ask that is.

i just noticed i had not answered this question...

i use mine for healing, protection, divination, scrying and magic (though i don't really care for the term). Some are teachers and others are just good friends...