It has become almost main stream to talk about the metaphysical properties of crystals and gemstones.  You can go to one website and read that blue opal is good for sleep and then visit another that tells you it will leave you bursting at the seams with energy!  So what are we to think?

                                                           Celestite

It helps to understand where the information regarding metaphysical properties is coming from.  As a buyer, why would you just believe what people are writing in their advertising?  It's an aggressive marketplace out there, and even in the spiritual-new age marketplace (actually a lot there surprisingly) some unethical sellers make things up in the name of marketing!  Yes, I'm so sorry to tell you if you didn't know.  I was sad when I understood this too. 

In any case, I'm pointing this out because the metaphysical properties of stones are a completely subjective thing that no one can prove or disprove.  So it's very important that whoever is listing them is getting them from a somewhat reasonable source.

                                                                Herkimer Diamond

The majority of authentic information (not just marketing) is channeled, meaning it is gained when people go into a meditative state and are spoken to or through by intelligence from different planes.  It's not unlike what Sylvia Browne does when she can connect to a loved one who has crossed over to the Astral Plane.

There are a few major sources out there that are considered hallmarks of this kind of work.

The first major source that I know of is the "Michael Gemstone Dictionary" which came out in the 70's by JP Van Hulle.  It is channeled material from the entity Michael, an energy I know very well, by the way.  (I first came across Michael books when I was 16 years old and have seen Michael channeled many times). This book was the most popular resource for a long time.  It was compiled by bringing a massive number of stones to the channel JP Van Hulle to examine while she was channeling Michael.

                                                                   Tanzanite Crystal

"Love is in the Earth" by Melody (commonly called the Melody Book) is what people have used since the mid 90's.  She is a beautiful, spiritual woman who has spent her whole life living and working with crystals.  The information she gets is both channeled and what she senses and experiences energetically from the stones.  Her book is extremely detailed with a large amount of information provided for each stone.  I really admire her work.

Another major resource that has recently entered the scene is called "The Book of Stones" by Robert Simmons.   The book has beautiful illustrations but a small selection of stones.   This is such a new resource that it is hard to know how tried and true it will turn out to be.  The properties in some cases seem to match the other resources that I trust, giving validity to the work.

So those are the major metaphysical  property sources that people tend to use, but there are many smaller sources and many websites and lots of people doing their own channeling and energy work now too.  Sometimes the properties seem to contradict each other.  I have often wondered why that is, and have even asked Michael (and if you are interested in trying to visualize it, Michael is a mid-Causal Plane entity composed of 1050 of what we think of as souls...think of it as a really evolved panel!).  The answer I got is that the energy / frequency that crystals and stones carry and the way they interact with us is a very complicated thing.  Generalizations can be made for out utility, but the truth is that the way they affect us is changing all the time.  This is why I adored malachite, pearl and agate when I was little and now am drawn to celestite, larimar and angel aura quartz.  As we evolve, or needs evolve and how stones affect us and resonate with us also evolves.  So someone trying to get a reading on a stone will get information regarding how that stone is vibrating with them at that moment in time.  I thought it was a good answer.  It explains the large body of information and some of the discrepancies out there.

                                                                 Rhodochrosite Crystal

Then what stones should we pick?  I think it is best to use the metaphysical properties from trusted sources as a general guide...if you are looking to attract prosperity and abundance then citrine will always be a great choice.  But also, you will naturally fall in love with stones that will inherently meet that need for you, especially if you are open.  It may not even say it on the little card I give you with your pendant, but behind the scenes you can bet if you really love that crystal, then it is doing something for you that it was meant to!

Now for a very important question.  Is any of this real and how do we evaluate that?  Well, lucky for us, I have a background in science and I have been asking myself those questions on and off ever since I got into crystals. 

There is some concrete scientific data that illustrates that there is indeed something different going on energetically between crystals and living things.  There have been very well done studies with solid statistically significant results demonstrating that plants grow much fuller and taller in the presence of a simple quartz crystal compared to their non-quartz control plants.  The "aura", energy field, colors or whatever you want to call it that you can see surrounding a person in Kirlian photography grows drastically when they hold a crystal.  And crystals are used all the time in electronics because they actually deliver a tiny electric pulse whey placed under pressure.  Actually they do many amazing things in the electronics world that I'm not qualified to explain.

So from a true science perspective, there is clearly something going on with crystals.  Now, can they truly help attract your soul mate like it says on the little card I give you with rhodochrosite (I didn't make that up...it's from the Melody Book)? 

I have to be honest and say that I have gone through periods in my life when I believed that the crystals carried their own inherent vibration or energy that I could start to resonate with that would tend to affect things in my life.  To say that in more simple terms, the crystal's vibe was contagious and would affect things.

Then there were other times when I thought it was the power of my own mind using the crystal as a symbol or focal point, to change things.  In other words, if I had a concrete symbol now of attracting my soul mate, and one that was good at carrying and holding energy, then that became the catalyst for me to manifest that with my own will.

I went in circles trying to figure this out for awhile....do crystals affect us or do we affect crystals.  I finally put it to rest.  It doesn't matter.  Probably both are happening at the same time and the end result is the same.

But I did want to clarify this.  Many people think they can buy a rock or crystal and its metaphysical properties will magically fix their life.  That would be nice, but unfortunately it doesn't quite work that way.  You are a big part of the equation.  The stronger and more in tune with the universe you are, the stronger the application of the stone and its properties will be!

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