The Crystal of the Day for Saturday 7 December 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Saturday 7 December  2013 is Serpentine which corresponds with Saturn, Saturday’s planet.  Serpentine gets its name from the word ‘serpent’ because it resembles the skin of a snake. It is sometimes called New Jade and occurs in a variety of colours including red, green, brown-red, brown-yellow and white. It has been used since ancient times to guard against disease and sorcery.

Serpentine makes an exceptional meditation stone. It helps you to find inner peace. Serpentine was carried in ancient Assyria to request the gods and goddesses to provide double blessings. Nursing women used it to regulate their milk supply.

Some of the uses of serpentine include: Protection against poisonous creatures such as snakes, insects, etc., balances mood swings, and encourages the ability to solve conflicts by peaceful means.

Healing properties:  Serpentine can be placed directly on the skin. It is an aid to kidney and stomach complaints, relaxes cramps and menstrual pain and helps women who are unable to reach orgasm due to tension.

Colour:  Green
Planet:  Saturn
Birthstone:  January (ancient)
Energies: Protection,  Healing

The Crystal of the Day for Tuesday 3 December 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Tuesday 3 December 2013 is Blue Sponge Coral in correspondence with Mars, today’s planet.

Coral has been called the ‘garden of the sea’. Red is considered the most sought after colour but coral also can be found in blue,pink, white, yellow and black.
It was believed to prevent ill fortune and offer protection from skin disease when worn as a necklace. Dreams about coral are believed to foretell recovery from a long illness. Ancients believed that Mars was composed of red coral.

Coral is a good aid for meditation or visualisation. It symbolises life and blood force energy. Dark red coral is used for heating and stimulating the bloodstream. Pink shades restore harmony to the heart. It is used as an aid to depression, lethargy or deficient nutrition.

Zodiac: Aries, Taurus, Libra (ancient)
Planet:  Mars
Birthstone:  Jan, Apr, Oct, Nov (Ancient)
Chakra:  Root, Heart
Energies:  Power, healing, meditation, protections

The Crystal of the Day for Wednesday 27 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Wednesday  27 November  2013  (to correspond with the planetary day of Mercury) is Tiger Eye (pictured is the Golden Brown, there are also Blue Falcon and Red).  Tiger Eye lets you see everything. Use it for insight and you can be a very lucky person. When used in jewelry the tiger eye may bring good luck and protection from the evil eye to the wearer. It also known to bring clear thinking and insight. A personal symbol carved in Tiger eye is excellent for the spiritually advanced to use in meditation.  Tiger’s Eye is sacred to Egyptian cat goddess, Bastet (Bast).

In healing, Tiger’s-eye or Cat’s-Eye is a stone for the mind, not the body. Tiger Eye is used to focus the mind. It will cause the mind to have feeling of oneness and feel more direct in all thoughts. It makes one aware of one’s own needs related to the needs of others.

Zodiac:  Pisces, Gemini, Capricorn (Ancient)
Planet:  Mercury
Birthstone:  November (Ancient)
Energies:  Luck, Protection, Healing, Psychic

The Crystal of the Day for Wednesday 20 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Wednesday 20 November 2013 is Tremolite. This stone has a powerful vibration that helps you to activate the third eye chakra, crown chakra, soul star chakra, and the higher transpersonal chakras and will help you to take the next step needed to move to a new state of being spiritually.

Sleeping with this stone under the pillow after your meditation, brings deep peace and absolute serenity. The dreams that come under this stones influence are quite detailed and seem to have deep meaning and it is worth keeping a dream journal to record them. Writing in a journal may enable you to use the information for your spiritual growth.

This stone’s unique resonance will help you to let go of the things that have been creating anxiety and stress in your life. They supply helpful ways to relieve stress, if you have had stress or anxiety for some time. Although it may be hard to release the need to feel stressed, once you let it go, you may find peace, harmony and clarity and a total freedom from negative feelings.

Tremolite has a balanced energy that is known for its ability to alleviate depression and worry and to help you to let go those things that have been holding you back from your highest good. The deep harmony it creates is combined with a lessening of the fear that today’s world seems to create. The connection with spirit may also help the progression of your spiritual journey.

This stone is known to create in many people the blooming of a mystical experience in which you just seems to know things that you had not known before. It is said that this comes via your connection to your higher self, yet it seems like you have a direct connection to spirit and access to the realms of knowledge contained there.

The Crystal of the Day for Tuesday 19 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Tuesday 19 November 2013 is Lepidocrocite. Lepidocrocite is a stone that often occurs in quartz, and is well known as one of the constituents of Super Seven, or “Melody’s Stone”.

Lepidocrocite’s vibration works strongly within the thymus or higher heart chakra to encourage you to open your heart to Divine love. It has a soothing vibration that helps calm ADHD and hyperactivity, and its vibration may be helpful if you are working on healing the inner child. It surrounds you in a bubble of high-vibration golden light that is a barrier against negativity and has metaphysical properties that may align you with Divine will, as it aids you to release fear.

Lepidocrocite’s energy helps you to make contact with angels and spirit guides when you use it in meditation. Its colour is reddish brown to a darker red, and this may vary, as it depends on what type of quartz it is included in. When this mineral is found within Amethyst Crystals its colour is commonly more purplish-red. It has a strong vibration that makes it a valuable ally to use. Stones from Brazil may be called Kokoshanite, and it is sometimes sold as Red Fire Quartz.

This stone has a powerful energy that brings all aspects of your etheric body into alignment. It will aid you with developing your intuition and instinct and with opening up your telepathic abilities. It is a beautiful heart chakra and thymus chakra stone, and when found within quartz has the additional property of a powerful amplifying effect of its vibration. Although it works primarily within these two chakras, Lepidocrocite stimulates and aligns all of the chakras and deepens your intuition.

It kindles love and harmony within the etheric body and has a strong healing action within the emotional body. It allows you to be able to contact the Divine mind directly and this may aid you to bring spiritual insights into your day to day life as well as aid you to deal with emotional problems.

Its vibration is known to aid you to recognise your strengths and to watch the things that happen in your life without needing to judge the issues. It is an excellent stone for emotional healing and may heal romantic relationships through its loving energy. This strong psychic protection stone deepens intuition and will also assist you to heal any holes in the aura caused by drug or alcohol abuse.

Lepidocrocite is said to heal the heart and lungs and will aid in oxygenating the cells. It is known to have an active influence to heal the liver and the reproductive area and helps prevent hormonal shifts. It is said to help to dissolve tumours and to encourage cellular regeneration.The action of this stone is powerful to help you to work through feelings of grief, or if you are suffering from depression.

Lepidocrocite in Quartz is a strong meditation stone as it will benefit you by enhancing your ability to make contact with members of the angelic kingdom or your guides. If you have not previously made contact with your guides this stone will aid you to find your spirit guide, and start connecting with angels. Combine the beautiful Pink Petalite with it, as this combined vibration is powerful to aid you to contact your guardian angels and other spirit guides.

Chakra: Heart, all chakras
Energies: Angelic connections, telepathy, healing, intuition
Planet: Venus

The Crystal of the Day for Monday 18 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Monday 18 November 2013 is Kundalini Quartz. Kundalini awakening entails the kundalini energy moving up the spine from base to crown and is associated with the idea of ‘enlightenment’. It has been written about in literature for a long time. The process revolves around the concept that you have a kundalini serpent, that is said to reside at the base of your spine and is wrapped three and a half times around the sacrum, until it is roused.

When this serpent rises up and makes its way to the crown, you are said to be enlightened. Be aware that many people have health issues from the awakening of their kundalini, so make sure that you educate yourself well before purposely performing any process to make this happen. Individuals vary, and although kundalini awakening may often happen spontaneously, it may take years of doing certain spiritual practises. Some of these are very special, in-depth practises, and by using specific crystals at the same time, it is possible to aid the process to awaken the kundalini serpent.

If you desire to use crystals to do this, some of the best stones to use are Aurora Quartz or Serpentine Stone. Using these crystals as part of the process is very useful, as they are known to alleviate some of the possible discomfort that it is possible to feel.

Using either Serpentine Stone or Aurora Quartz allows you to clear the chakras as the movement occurs. If you feel you want to participate in these practises please ensure that you take advice from extremely knowledgeable experts, as some people have been known to have bad side effects from doing this.

Chakras: Crown Chakra
Element: Earth Element

The Crystal of the Day Sunday 17 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day Sunday 17 November 2013 is Apache Tears. The Legend of the Apache Tear is this: One day a party of Apache Indians were ambushed by an enemy tribe. The Apaches fought bravely but were greatly outnumbered and driven to the top of a high bluff. Their arrows gone and unable to fight and unwilling to be taken captive, they leapt from the cliffs to their death. Their women were understandably grief-stricken and wept over the bodies. Their teardrops froze when they hit the ground to become the lovely stones we know today as Apache Tears. It is said that whomever owns one of these stones will never cry again, for the Apache women shed enough tears already.

Apache Tears are said to especially relieve grief and sadness as well as assisting in giving and accepting forgiveness. They can help release negative emotions, and they also can balance one’s emotional state. They are good luck stones, said to bring good luck to anyone who has one. They are excellent meditation tools, especially for clarifying issues and gaining insight. Apache Tears are a gently grounding stone. In the physical realm, Apache Tears are reputed to alleviate muscle spasms and eliminate toxins from the body.

Apache Tears are a type of black Obsidian, but they have a more friendly vibration than some of the other types of Obsidian. Perhaps it is their strange out-of-shape appearance that makes you comfortable with them.

These are very useful stones for anyone to use, but if you are a healer, or if you are doing any spiritual development work, there are strong advantages to using these stones. Their energy works within the base chakra where it will move excess energy down into the earth chakra for grounding with Mother Gaia.

The energy of the Apache Tears will strengthen the blood and the immune system and they will help the body to assimilate Vitamin C and D. They assist with the reduction of toxins in the body by aiding their removal. They may calm muscle spasms and enhance vitality and strength within the body.

Their energy within the sacral chakra helps to aid the removal of disharmonious energies in relationships.

Within the heart chakra their energy will assist the emotional body to heal… from old issues of an emotional nature. They may bring through joy as they encourage you to feel more positive about life. Because they do absorb so much negativity, they will need to be regularly cleansed using one of the methods for cleansing crystals.

Colour: Black
Zodiac: Scorpio
Energies: Luck, healing, grounding, protection
Chakras: Base chakra, Heart chakra

The Crystal of the Day for Friday 15 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Friday 15 November 2013 is Faery/Fairy Frost Crystal (aka Devic Crystal). Configuration: Wisps, veils and internal fractures that look like frost inside a crystal. They are divination crystals, and personal talismans. They are used in meditation to connect to the spiritual world. They are able to serve as receivers and transmitters to the higher planes of the spirit world.

Faery/Fairy Frost crystals have been found to be an excellent meditation crystal if it is large enough.

Metaphysical Properties Lore: Touched by Faeries, that’s the feeling these crystals have. This touch brings energies of communication, with nature, nature spirits, and spirits of the elements, for learning from these beings. Faery/Fairy Frost Crystals can also help us be closer to nature and to care for Mother Earth and the natural world around us. These crystals can promote universal love and open hearts.

The Crystal of the Day for Thursday 14 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day for Thursday 14 November 2013 is Lodolite. Lodolite is a type of included quartz crystal with inclusions of many possible colours and types, often having the look of gardens, landscapes, or underwater scenes. Thus, lodolite is often called garden quartz, landscape quartz, or scenic quartz. It’s often used in meditation practises. Another metaphysical use of lodolite is to bring energies to effect manifestation of one’s desires. Lodolite is also said to enhance communication with beings on the spiritual plane and heighten one’s spiritual energies. It is used mystically to increase ESP and bring knowledge from your past lives. Lodolite is said to bring loving energies and energies of gentle strength. Mystically and in crystal healing, lodolite is purported to be an excellent healing stone bringing strong healing energies and energetic shifting so that healing will occur. Lodolite is associated primarily with the crown chakra.

Lodolite AKA Inclusion Quartz is helpful for enhancing ones sensitivity to energy. This quartz has a fantastic healing vibration and has the qualities of clear quartz plus the additional vibrations of their inclusions. this makes Lodolite a very valuable tool for Reiki healing sessions. Lodolite is Clear Quartz with inclusions of many different elements mainly Hematite, Chlorite, Feldspar, and Epidote. Lodolite is helpful when used in meditation practises as it assists one with getting into the meditative state.

Clear Quartz is used for almost every metaphysical purpose, including healing, chakra opening, communication with guides, past-life recall, polarity balancing, enhancement of meditation and dreaming, attracting and sending love. Clear quartz is such an indiscriminate amplifier of whatever energies surround or enter it. This causes issues as it can collect and unusually large amount of psychic debris. This makes it necessary for one to periodically cleanse the crystal. Quartz is capable of dispersing white light into the seven spectral colors. Quartz helps each of us find our own inner light that connects us with the One Light. Magnifiers of psychic and healing energies. Used to help focus and amplify one’s thoughts or intentions.

Hematite is used to harmonise the mind, body, and spirit. This stone helps to boost self esteem and is useful for timid or shy people. It enhances psychic awareness. Used to cleanse the kidneys.

Epidote is useful for opening yourself and others up to spiritual growth, particularly if confused emotions or other such lack of clarity is getting in the way.

Clear quartz is used to stimulate the proteins responsible for hair and fingernail growth. Clear Quartz is a natural barrier for different types of harmful radiation. Hematite cleans the kidneys

Energies: Psychic power, clairvoyance, intuition
Element: Water Element
Chakras: Crown Chakra

The Crystal of the Day Sunday 3 November 2013

The Crystal of the Day Sunday 3 November 2013 is Prehnite. Prehnite is a very protective stone and can protect one on all levels. It strengthens the life force and generally increases and stimulates energy, while at the same time bringing powerful calming energies. Prehnite is a stone of unconditional love. It is said to connect to the archangel Raphael. Prehnite enhances inner knowledge, showing the path forward to spiritual growth through attunement to divine energy.

Prehnite connects the will and the heart. In so doing one’s actions attain the highest good. Thus, prehnite is said to ease worries and restlessness of all kinds. It aids spirit communication through meditation or visualisation, out-of-body travel, and is a powerful dream stone. Prehnite is also known as a stone of prophesy which stimulates inner-knowing. Wear prehnite to strengthen your intuition and recognise truths. Used as a stone of vision, it works well during meditation to access higher levels of awareness, stimulating the third eye chakra.

Prehnite can assist in finding the root cause of an illness. Healers use it for the kidneys and bladder, thymus gland, shoulders, chest and lungs. Physically, prehnite is helpful in the healing of gout, anemia, and kidney problems.

Colour: Yellow-Green
Energies: Love, Intuition, Power, Healing, Protection
Chakras: Third Eye, Solar Plexus, Heart