Hello everybody and welcome to another episode of the Awaken Together podcast. I'm Kat.
I'm Jen. And today we're really excited to chat with you all about crystals. We're going
to talk about just different healing powers of crystals, different ways that you can use
them in your everyday life, as well as some of our stories using crystals in our lives.
So before we dive in, I wanted to just share a little intro from the book Crystals,
The Modern Guide to Crystal Healing, because I think it does a really good job of just expressing,
like, I think crystals can be something that people think they have to know a lot about when
really it can be intuitive. And we're all made of stardust, one of my favorite fun facts. So yeah,
just remember that. But the quote goes like this, crystals can fill your life with magic.
They're uniquely radiant and sparkling brand of magic. Born from the ancient rumblings and
rattlings of our beautiful earth, literally seeded by stardust from the dawn of time.
Crystals and minerals are magic filled tools that are fantastically easy to add into your
daily life. You don't need special knowledge or training to begin experiencing the power of
crystals. And you certainly don't need to spend loads of money on expensive specimens. All you
need to get started is a sense of wonder and open-minded curiosity towards the intricate,
gorgeous and powerful creations that are minerals and crystals.
Oh, beautiful. Yeah, I feel like so many, there was such a wave of kind of making fun of the
crystal girlies out here, you know, utilizing crystals. I think there can be so many kind
of stereotyping that it's just the most woohoo thing and that it's so out there. And like,
how can you think that this thing is doing anything? But there is really, really cool
science behind crystals. Just the way that they're even formed is so amazing and the
fact that there's such a different array of what they can look like and just the areas
that they're actually formed across the world. Like there's, it's its own brilliance. But
I also love the piezoelectric effect. It was discovered. And you can actually sense the
vibration and energy that is coming off of crystals and the force that is there. And
that is really how they utilize quartz watches because that pressure is kind of played on.
So it ends up creating its own energy to run the watches. And I mean, for someone who would
have been pretty skeptical of this concept early on, I now have had endless stories that
have kind of validated just relationship to crystals. And I feel like it's been such a
cool journey because there's been crystals that have been so prevalent at certain time
periods of my life. I also think it's hilarious that when a crystal's kind of served out its
purpose, it tends to either like go missing for me or like, yeah, another one will just
get so loud and just be so prevalent, like I'll be gifted it like a bunch of different
times. And I'm like, okay, like this is the new one for my life. The other one kind of
served its purpose. I think a few of my stories that have kind of been like, whoa, that would
have happened early on maybe you've shared a few of these on the podcast before. But
I remember going into my first like crystal store with the actual intent of like, I'm
coming here and I want to leave with a crystal and just kind of trying to read through all
the descriptions and like be really technical about it. And then I felt my whole entire
arm just like buzzing and tingling and I was like, what? I turn around there's this one
crystal on the shelf just like right behind me and I was like, okay, hello. And then it
was one that didn't have a label on it. So when I checked out, I was like, what is this?
And it was an apophili and I searched it afterwards like the meaning of apophili and
it was like, this is one of the crystals that can call you from across the room. And I was
like, okay, that's funny. And that crystal has been it was it was so cute. I used it
for so much to have just in the corner of my house and I could feel its energy like
very, very clear. I also did energy work on my little sister one day and I had that crystal
kind of as in the sister off to the side. And it fell and broke and like half of it
ended up going to my sister. I was like, okay, well, it's split into two and it was like
such a clean split like you couldn't even tell it had broke and I was like, take this
other half. And then later we go to a crystal store and there were tarot cards up front
and it said, you know, pull a little crystal card see which crystal is calling out to you
and she got apophili that day the same crystal. So I thought that was like, such a cute full
circle moment. And the other story I really want to share that was like mind blowing was
in the middle of all the protests really happening across the entire country for Black Lives
Matter in 2020, I was feeling like extremely heavy and I really wanted to carve out some
time just to tune into the collective, send some, you know, positive energy and I just
knew like a lot was happening and that there were really major shifts and I just wanted
to be a little container to assist with that. And I put on my Howlite Mala beads and I had
them around my neck and they are really good for absorbing negative energy. And I've done
tons of meditations with those beads, but the second I like did my tune into the collective,
these beads burned my entire chest, I had a full necklace of burn of beads, I had to like
pull it off of me. I was like, okay, yeah, maybe not the smartest idea to like put crystals
on your physical body and then tune into something so intense and potent. So in retrospect, made
sense. In the moment, I was like shook, but like worked that well. But it just goes to
show like, you can have so many personal experiences with using these crystals. And that's just
a few of my cats, you have any fun crystal stories? Oh man, such a crazy experience, huh?
Wow. Yeah, that's yeah.
Wilds. Like crystal should come with a little warning sometimes.
Danny was Danny was very shook by that. My husband was like, wait, what? Like, yeah,
wilds, like can't ignore that.
Burn mark. Yeah. Yeah, I've had some crazy experiences with like, at a sound bath. There
was basically like a whole blanket full of crystals. And we were told to pick a couple
that we resonated most with just intuitively. And I think that's kind of an interesting
thing too to mention of like, sometimes we feel like we need to go down the rabbit holes
and research everything before choosing which crystal speak to us. But like you mentioned
generally or like, just see which ones call out to you. And that might be the one that
when you look it up after is holds the message and the powers of what you're meant to dive
into at that time. So essentially, that's what we did. I picked three, I believe. And
I know for me that my third eye, my throat, my heart, and oftentimes my crown are the
ones that just are most accessible to me and often the loudest and often the ones that
get closed the easiest. So I took these certain crystals I'm spacing on which ones it were
it, which ones I used at the time now, but I placed one on my third eye or on red on
my neck and my throat, and then one on my heart. And during the sound healing, I experienced
some crazy visuals and just like sensations in my throat and my heart with the different
sounds because crystals can act like a magnet in so many different ways and kind of pull
the energy into those spaces. So we use them a lot in energy healing too. So that was kind
of wild for me just to like literally physically feel the vibrations in my heart, throat,
neck, like third eye, just so powerfully like the reverberation just felt like it was taking
it deeper and deeper into my body into my soul.
Yeah, when you lay them on your body, that's a huge way I actually utilize to get to know
the crystals is do a lot of either hovering one hand over one and just spending time at
letting that be my meditation and letting it kind of guide me on an energetic journey,
but also exploring like laying different ones on your body and just that's a really
strong way to tune in and feel like these aren't just like pretty rocks. These are there's
like really, really cool energy that can be surrounding a crystal when you connect with
it like really against the body. I feel like that's a huge way to start to like feel what
it's doing like, at least for Claircintiaan strong for sure.
Yeah, yeah. So another way I use crystals in my everyday life is in meditation. So just
holding onto one and just you know, going into my meditative state while staying connected
to the crystal and the sensations and just noticing what comes my way during meditation,
what messages the crystal can help bring through for me to digest further and be present with.
And we are both energy workers, energy healers. We always make little altars at our retreats
but have a bunch of crystals too. But it's been wild to work with people, you know, in
the Reiki healing space. It's taken time to kind of figure out how to utilize this, but
crystals can really help be energy as sisters while you're doing energy work. So if I have
a client and every time that I'm like starting to, you know, tune into their aura lower in
their body and I just keep feeling energy want to vortex up instead of having to continue
to go all the way back up to the top of the crown of their head and like pull it back
down. I can use crystals like get a lot of rooting crystals put it underneath the feet
and actually be able to pull energy down more. And I've definitely had different clients
that I've seen for Reiki where I need to have more crystals on myself just to ground more
because the energy has been so potent. I've also I've had some clients where it's really
hard to keep energy on one side of the body. It's just a really strong imbalance and it's
wanting to all shift to the left. So sometimes it's using crystals at different points of
the body to help me guide energy over and maintain it. Well, I'm kind of finding where
that like misalignment of energy is or that whole or like why it's not wanting to channel
there or holding space for the emotion to come through that's going to help kind of
break some of that. I think crystals can be such a cool tool to experiment with in that
way too. And I've seen it be so helpful for me as an energy worker to.
So true. Yeah. One of my favorite ways to work with crystals is like out in public as
well. So one really common way that a lot of witchy people do is put a crystal like in
your bra. So right close to your heart for protection in a pocket and a purse just like
having it with you at all times and some really common ones used for protection are obsidian.
So this is black like it is it literally acts as a magnet to pull away negative energy and
it absorbs it. So it's really important to cleanse those to kind of help release that
negativity and just let it go. Another one is selenite. So selenite quartz really absorbent
and helps with purification. So that's when you can like put your bra something I love
to do it shows. I feel like I've probably mentioned this before in the pod is just holding crystals
in my hands as like my fidgets fidgets crystal fidgets. Yes. It feels so good. You know it's
like sensation and you can decide like if you like a more textured crystal to hold on
to and kind of like move your finger pads around the ridges and the points. Some people
also prefer like a really smooth one. So over the years I've gotten Kyle my husband a couple
different tigers I like thumb print smooth crystals. And I remember when I got him his
first one we were living in Boston at the time and he was definitely going through some
bouts of intense anxiety and it was his his worry stone. So he had his pocket and I remember
him telling me that one he'd be at work or just like out and about and he'd start to
get a little anxious or nervous. He would like thumb his worry stone and it was yeah,
tigers eye which is one that's so good for calming anxiety. Yeah, and it's beautiful
and it looks a little bit more masculine too. So I think it was a little bit easier to get
him bought into that one at first. Now I don't think he cares. But he also was like, yeah,
it felt really nice and would really help. And I just imagine it like taking the worry
out of my body out of my hands and into it and it also would make me think of you. And
so that would help with anxiety too. So sweet. And they have such a good weight to them,
you know, it's a sensory experience in itself. Not only is there something really cool to
look at if you just need that grounding point, but it's also like the weight, the texture,
it's guiding you into the present through your senses and even just looking at it from
that way if the energy thought behind it just seems very overwhelming to grasp. I think
that's another really cool way is just how much it can activate like the senses so strongly.
Yeah, just talking about carrying them around. I love that there's, yeah, you can get necklaces,
bracelets, rings with crystals like so excessively. I also think it's hilarious because the timing
of when bracelets break for me that are crystals is always so funny. Like I will get a bracelet
that you know will guide me through a little period of life and then it'll break. And I'm
just like I always see the timing behind it and I think it's hilarious. Another story
I wanted to share. My little niece, I don't know if you guys have seen a cello night before.
It literally is just like kind of this like white, cool looking tower. It has like layers
to it. And my little niece was like, is this a unicorn horn? And I said, absolutely it
is. And we will forever call it that. Also, my, yeah, her mom sent me a picture of her
sleeping with two crystals on her regular eyes and then one on her third eye and she
was fast asleep and she goes, did you teach her to do this? And I was like, I wish I could
claim that but no, this is higher wisdom. I will now be trying to sleep with crystals
on my eyes. Thank you. So wisdom from a five year old.
Why sage? Why sage? I love it.
So good. Yeah. And thinking about like going back to that point I mentioned with like having
crystals at shows. Sometimes, you know, at shows, like we love gifting things. It's
very much about the collective energy and caring for your neighbor, caring for your
friends. So sometimes I'll look to my friends that I am with and say, do you want to hold
my crystal? And yeah, pass it on. Sometimes you're like, no, it's okay. Sometimes they're
like, yes, I'd be honored. And so one little like thing to note is that crystals can also
be very absorbent of other people's energies. So that's like a good note to self is when
you either like have friends or others just in your safe space where all your crystals
are or like you're sharing it and you're passing along. It might be a good time after
that just go ahead and give your crystals a good little cleanse. Yeah.
So talking about cleansing, like there is definitely way more technical things you can
look up. I think, yeah, you can kind of see all spectrums of like how tos on it. How I
personally kind of utilize this is I think about either I have a lot of them up on the
altar. So I do pretty regular cleansing of my altar space anyway, and I just use incense
and smoke and ask for cleansing of that space. Just like I normally would in all of the episodes
we've talked about different ways to cleanse. I also think just giving the crystals like
an actual like potent energy meditation, like I'll sit with some of them sometimes and think
of like I'm giving them energy back to so it's like just putting my attention on that
space asking for the intention to be sad just to kind of purify that energy. And it's just
a chance to hang out instead of just, yeah, aimlessly using them with like no intention,
which you know, can always happen. We can be very busy and not think of it that way.
And then yeah, putting them outside is a huge thing people do, especially under kind of more
positive moons that are happening. You can let them just like bathe in moonlight. Some
are definitely more sensitive to water. So you always want to like look that up and make
sure that it's a crystal that's not gonna like go down from being outside if there's
like dew on it. But I think the only thing with the astrology, there's a lot of back
and forth of people being like, this is a bad moon to manifest is a good mood to manifest.
And I think the only thing I tried to think of is if we are in like a really potent astrology
of like eclipse energy, like think of my how light beads burning me, you might not want
to harness like the most intense energy. So that's another intuitive check in asking yourself
like, has the energy around this moon been pretty positive? Like, can I feel a lot of
positive shifts happening in my life because of this moon? And maybe if it's feeling really
positive, then when that new moon or full moon is happening, putting the crystals outside
to kind of collect some of that energy can be a nice time to reset it. Beginning of seasons
can be good. If you're listening to this like in time with us, we're about to enter into
airy season. And yeah, I think it's the start of the zodiac year. Anytime there's like
a new fresh start, I think that can also be like a good gauge for when to kind of reset
space.
Mm hmm. Such good tips. Yeah. And you mentioned moonlight. That's a really great way to charge
crystals. Sunlight is also a really great way to help like purify them. Just think about
like sun and heat and how that really helps transmute like old negative energy and make
space for the new good stuff. So yeah, you might even spend like, if there's a good time
in life where you either look up the astrology of that time or like you're feeling really
good, like your crystals are going to take up your energy too. So you could even like
give them a day outside in the sun. So at night, you know, maybe give them a little,
a little wash if you, you know, and dry to make sure that they don't, you know, it doesn't
negatively affect them. A little smoke, like you can give them a whole spa day. Charge
them in the moonlight. My altars also like right in the moonlight. So I intentionally
like place my altar right by a window and know that like at night the moon can hit it
just so so it's just constantly being absorbed by the moonlight.
I made a joke to Kat that as apartment livers have to go to our home, our home owner friends
house to get those crystals charged. My apartment zero moonlight.
Yeah, exactly. Like bring your crystals over to the house. You can have a spa night together
for your crystals.
The entire yard.
I've got all your friends crystals.
So magical. I love it. And thinking about like places on earth that are so ripe with
crystal magic. I'm just coming back from Sedona and it's I know it's one of Jen's favorite
places. Oh my God. And there's crystal stores like every it's like every half mile. This
is crystals and crystals and crystals.
Yeah, so many. Yeah, it is a beautiful, freaking paradise, spiritual place for people like us.
And so one thing that I want to share about there that I remember learning that was so
freaking amazing and magical is that essentially Sedona it is made up of like thousands of
war texas.
So what's a war tex? It's an it's a center that is influenced by Sedona and particularly
certain minerals that have formed that when these minerals come together that electrical
energy is just so potent that it creates these healing spaces.
So when you go there, if you are like tapping in, if you're aware, you'll notice that there's
like a certain kind of energy. It's like a little hum. And there's said to be seven main
war texes there.
And basically the war texes are made up of iron. So that's what makes up the red rocks.
When you go Sedona is actually a dried up ocean. There used to be an ocean there, which
is so freaking cool. Many, many moons ago. And when you're there, you can kind of tap
into the energy in that specific geographical location that you're in. And it said that
there's certain war texes that there's like an upward lifting energy. There's certain
that there's like a downward to earth energy and then there's some that like it's a spiraling
kind of side to side.
And so my friend Heather and I, we were there together and we were trying to intuitively
tap into see which vortex was giving off which energy and it was so fun. So fun. And it's
just so cool to think that like at the surface, you know, crystals before you crack them open,
they look like rocks, you know, they just look like any old rock. Like I'm looking at
a citrine right now that I have here. And on the outside, it looks like, you know, when
you're hiking, just like a little mountain face and how to know on the outside things
can look so mediocre and maybe a little boring. And then on the inside, there can be this
whole magical sparkling crystal there.
I love it.
Like that's kind of a synonym for life.
So real and are 50% of my crystals that I own from Sedona. Yes.
Yes.
Absolutely.
Did I buy some more when I was there?
Yes.
And it's so kind. It's going to wrap this up. We were going to give just a few little
technicalities and really take this for what it is. I think you can use like the zodiac
signs. You can use the different chakras to kind of figure out like which crystals are
good for you. I believe in the intuitive way of doing it above all, but I do think it's
been really beautiful to know that I'm struggling to access my heart and then to go lean into
the crystals that can elevate that area. And for the chakras, firstly, just knowing the
different color of each point, the crown, the third eye, the throat, the heart, the
solar plexus, the sacral, the root, just knowing the colors of each of those, you can
match it to the stone.
So it's very simple to actually figure out which one's going to help with which thing
just by knowing like which center you're kind of having trouble. If you know you need more
grounding, look to that root and figure out what crystals then are red and black, the
colors that kind of correlate. And then Kat's going to give us a few other little fun ones.
Totally yes. And this is kind of like Crystal Magic 101 today. If you want to really learn
about each crystal and their magic, there's so many amazing books and like articles online.
There's so many resources out there for you. So we hope that this episode kind of like
helps inspire that and prompts you to do more research on your own. And as always, hit us
up online. If you have any questions or want to nerd out or share any stories, we always
love to hear about it.
So to share a couple specific crystals that can help really catalyze certain areas of
your life, starting with focus and productivity. For like honing in on this in your life, a
couple crystals that you might look into working with are Agate, Citrine, Desert Rose, just
one of my favorites, Pyrite, Rainbow Fluorite, and Selenite.
Unicorn horn. Unicorn horn, exactly.
Then for communication, if you're in a time of life where you need to like speak your
truth, you're feeling really motivated to ask for what you need. Some crystals that
you might look towards working with are Amazonite, Apophylite, Celestite, Chrystocola, I don't
know how to say that one, Kyanite, and Rose Quartz.
And for luck, there's a whole other slew that might be supportive for you. Amethyst,
one of my favorites, beautiful purple, Citrine, Emerald, Jade, Pyrite, Ritalated Quartz, and
Sulphur. And then finally, if you're looking for more creativity and inspiration in your
life, a couple crystals that you might look into are, again, Amethyst, Amatrine, Aragonite,
Clear Quartz, Labradorite, another one of my favorites, Pyrite, Smoky Quartz, and Spirit
Quartz. And there's so many different things that you can do when, you know, we've talked
about a couple of them when working with crystals in your everyday life. There's certain things
that you can do for travel protection, say you're afraid of flying. There's Emerald and
Moonstone can help calm fears of flying, which I know is so real for so many people. It's
just really good to like give them a good cleanse after that, all like the technology
can kind of mess with crystals. And then for sleep, I love putting Amethyst, like either
under my pillow or right next to my head, it can help with good dreams and giving more
inspiration. And you can even use crystals like in the bath, if you look up which ones
ahead of time, drinking water that has been infused with crystals in like 12 hours of
sunlight can also be a really beautiful way to like bring that crystal magic infused in
water molecules into your body, unlike a whole other permeable way.
Nice. I keep black tourmaline in my car. And I always like when I've been somewhere that
has taken up a lot of my energy, I'll just sit in the car for a second, hold that black
tourmaline. And then that one's really easy too, because I can just put it up on the dash
and let it just like have a little recharge. So that's like one of my regular ones I interact
with always. And I also keep an Amethyst like right by the head of the bed just to help
with dreams, space, third eye. And then yeah, I think all of the protection ones are really,
really great just for going through the day and then just looking at your own needs because
Rose quartz has had such a prevalent thing at different time periods of my life. I had
so much voice blocking. So all of those communication ones mentioned, so helpful just to have for
a certain period of my life. So yeah, just intuitively take some note on what you are
wanting to kind of harness and focus on and then let crystals kind of be a little guidance
sister for you. We'd love to hear.
Let them be the guide.
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