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Care for your crystals
By Hellan Bach of Herpuniverse.com/forum
How to care for your crystals, grounding,charging,cleansing and storing them properly. What is grounding??
When you cast spells, meditate, use aroma therapy,massage or crystal therapy, you can become ungrounded, this is a feeling of dislocation,lightheadedness, or floating. Your energies become disconnected from your environment.
Performing a grounding excersise helps to re connect you. A grounding excersise can be also be done before any healing exercise as it is all about balance and connection.Crystals can be used to achieve this sense of equilibrium , before performing any intense therapeutic exercise. Grounding is also used for anchoring yourself back to the physical after scrying.
The stones and crystals used in grounding are those with the associations of earth, yellow and orange stones, and those with a high proportion of iron such as haematite and magnetite. Good grounding stones include, jade, nephrite onyx and marble.
Grounding excersises can be performed indoors or outside, and rooting yourself is a good technique to start. To do this sit in a comfortable straight backed chair, in bare feet, with your legs together and knees bent. Place your hands in your lap with your crystal in them, and feet touching the floor, or place them on grounding cyrstals on the floor.
Crystal layouts are another good grounding exercise, choose six stones of the same type or even numbers of different types, make a space to sit cross legged and clear your mind for visualization, place the crystals in a hexogram,one in front,one behind and two to the left and right,making sure there is enough space to place your feet in between the two left and right stones.Visualise a golden hexogram around you and feel the energies being anchored as you do so. Charging crystals:
Why charge crystals??
We charge crystals to boost their powers and attune them to our own personal energies, as we use our crystals, the energies built up in them will disperse, so they need to be charged regularly to keep them working attheir optimum levels. This is especially important when we use them to attract positive and healing energies to us. Once your crystals have been charged to your own specific energies, it is best not to let others use them as they will work most effectively for you alone. When do we charge our crystals?? Crystals should be charged during the waxing moon, between the new and full moons, as this is when the natural energies are growing with the increasing moonlight. Prior to charging your crystal, you can attune it to your own energies by carrying it in your pocket. How to charge crystals.
Ok so you've had your crystal in your pocket, and its a waxing moon so how do you "charge it up"??? Well for this ritual you will need a few things, an inscense or joss stick which represents air, a red candle which represents fire,a small bowl or shell filled with water, a small bowl of soil and a bottle of appropriate essential oil ( frankinscense or sandalwood are good).
Place the oil in the middle of a table with the earth above(north) the inscense to the right (east) the candle below (south) and the water to the left (west).
Ok ready to begin........
Light the candle and then light the inscense stick from its flame. Charge with air by passing the crystal through the sticks smoke whilst saying " i charge you with the spirit of air" then blow the smoke over the stone. Charge with fire by passing the crystal over the flame of the candle (carefully !!!) whilst saying " i charge you with the power of fire" charge with water by sprinkling water over it whilst saying " i charge you with the power of water" charge the crystal with earth by putting it in the earth whilst saying " i charge you with the power of earth"
Next annoint your crystal with oil by gently rubbing a few drops all over it whilst saying " i charge you with the spirit of life, harmony and truth"
Now your crystal is ready to be stored away for its next use. Storage of crystals: Crystals should be wrapped individually in silk to protect them from scratches if kept in a box or pouch together. Away from heat as stones such as opal and pearl contain up to 10% water. Avoid keeping them in an air tight container as this can have a negative effect on their vibrational energy. Avoid chemicals such as hair spray and perfume if wearing crystal jewelry as this can damage them. Cleaning and cleansing crystals: To make sure your crystals work effectively it is important to clean them regularly. It is also important to get rid of any unwanted energies from the crystal. When you first buy a crystal it is important to clean them as who knows how long it has been gathering dust in the shop or how many people have touched it all adding their own energies?
There are many methods used to clean crystals, from simple mineral water, salt, burying them in earth, sound waves, or by using their associated element similar to charging. When to clean or cleanse?
If a crystal is carried or worn every day it should be cleaned every three months or so, if it is used less often and stored then annually is fine.
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