In this season of gift giving and receiving, think of gemstones and crystals as gifts from the Earth. Work to receive their vibrational medicine with gratitude and grace. It's easy to work with crystals, and you don't need to surround your crystal work with fluffy ceremonial practices unless it really helps you to centre yourself and make your mind receptive to the healing energies. Wether or not you use any ceremonial practices from sunshine, moonlight, salt or 7-step cleansing process, do remember to always approach a crystal with respect. If you approach a crystal as if it were an ordinary rock, you are setting blocks up in your mind preventing you to feel any energy shift. The rock will remain a piece of jewelry or a table ornament for you. Open your mind and approach crystals with respect, and you will feel their subtle energies vibrating through your body. You may even discover that ordinary gravel rock can have healing properties too... (Every wonder why children collect them?)
I like to hold a crystal in the palm of my open hand, close my eyes, and take a deep breath to centre myself. I ask the crystal if it wants to work with me and, if I'm working with someone else, if it wants to extend its healing properties to that person (or animal, plant, place). I usually feel a tingling in my palm and a "knowing" in my energy field to prompt me to go ahead with healing work. If I feel a sharp pain or uneasiness, I thank the crystal for its answer and put it back.
Crystals with a vibrational resonance to the Sacral Chakra are the carnelian, yellow/golden topaz, orange calcite, fire opal, moonstone and aquamarine.
Choose a clear carnelian of a deep orange colour. Some carnelian are heat-treated which makes them cloudy, and this process changes its vibrational quality. (I would not choose those for healing work.) Carnelian helps energetically balance lower back problems and assists the kidneys. It is said to be a protective stone - you could place some on your vision board to help protect and manifest your passions, creations or art -- even your children, as they are creations manifested from your spiritual as well as physical womb.
I enjoy wearing yellow topaz. I have a brilliantly cut golden yellow topaz that shimmers in the sun. Energetically, yellow topaz lends a golden glow to your aura. It assists in balancing energies on elevated spiritual levels through all chakras. I wear mine when I feel I need a spiritual boost, when I'm in a crowd for a boost to my immune system, and when I teach to boost that quiet assurance that people can't quite define...
Orange calcite is somewhat denser and its energies vibrate more with the physical level. It works at clearing physical energy imbalances that manifest in such symptoms as irritable bowel syndrome (IBS) and endometriosis. Work with orange calcite to move unwanted social and emotional conditioning out of your system through your Sacral Chakra.
The last three crystals discussed here -- fire opal, moonstone and aquamarine -- have more affinity with the "water" element of the Sacral Chakra. Physically, the water element deals with the bladder and kidneys, and spiritually it deals with the emotions.
Fire opal can intensify our inner fire and stimulate our creativity - but work wisely: if you are not centred and clear prior to working with fire opal, you may intensify anger, social distress or sexual control.
Moonstone works beautifully with the element of the Divine Feminine. It could be poetically referred to as a reflection of the moon on water - a reflection of the sacred feminine energies on the emotions. Due to its association with the moon, this crystal helps balance cyclical issues of all kinds. Work with moonstone at night to ease insomnia and sleep peacefully in the arms of the Divine Mother, or to enhance lucid dreaming and increase psychic abilities. Remember to set your intention before working with moonstone (and any crystal!) as you want to align yourself with the properties of the crystal you are seeking. In the case of the moonstone, bless it and ask for a peaceful, rejuvenating night's sleep if you want to ease insomnia. Simply placing it under your pillow may activate your dream state and you'll wake up tired in the morning from the night's psychic wanderings!
Aquamarine is such a beautiful crystal, whether it has been polished and cut or not. Its colour can be that of a quiet pond, frozen water, or tropical water - which is why is can resonate very well with the emotional aspects of the Sacral Chakra. Aquamarine is said to give strength in adversity. Because its blue is also associated to the Throat Chakra, it can help you speak your truth however emotional it may be.
Enjoy these gifts from Mother Earth, and treat them with respect. They ask for nothing more but to vibrate their healing energies through you and anchor more peace and harmony to this world through your balanced vibrations.
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