Crystal Healing from Nature Part 3

Agate - Emotions/

Formed from microscopic crystals of quartz laid down in bands, this is a very stable crystal. Agates are grounding stones, bringing about an emotional, physical, and intellectual balance. They aid in entering and stabilising physical energy, Agate has the power to harmonise yin and yang, the positive and negative forces that hold the Universe in place.

A soothing and calming stone, Agate works slowly but brings great strength. Its multiples layers can bring hidden information to light. Psychologically, Agate gently facilitates acceptance of one’s self. This builds self-confidence. It aids self-analysis and perception of hidden circumstances, bringing to your attention any dis-ease that is interfering with your well-being. Agates enhance mental function as they improve concentration, perception, and analytical abilities, leading to practical solutions. Agate’s love for truthfulness encourages speaking one’s own truth.

Agates with clear crystals can stimulate memories. Emotionally this crystal overcomes negativity and bitterness of the heart. It heals inner anger, fostering love and the courage to start again. It is useful for any kind of emotional trauma. It creates a sense of safety and security by dissolving internal tension. Spiritually, Agate raises consciousness and links into collective consciousness and awareness of the oneness of life. It encourages quiet contemplation and assimilation of life experiences, leading to spiritual growth and inner stability.

HEALING Agate stabilises the aura, eliminating and transforming negative energies. Its cleansing effect is powerful at the physical and emotional levels. Placed on the heart, it will heal the emotional dis-ease that prevents acceptance of love.

POSITION Placed on the abdomen or taken as an elixir, Agate stimulates the digestive process and relieves gastritis. It heals the eyes, stomach, and uterus; it cleanses the lymphatic system and the pancreas. It strengthens blood vessels and heals skin disorders. Green agate specifically enhances mental and emotional flexibility and improves decision-making. It is useful in resolving disputes.

Epidote - Authentic Identity

Epidote increases spiritual attunement and removes ingrained resistance to spiritual awakening. Not everyone responds well to this stone, however, as it can have the opposite effect – increasing negativity and bringing to the surface feelings and thought patterns that requires considerable effort to transform. Psychologically, Epidote enhances perception.

Offering you the courage to enjoy life to the full and the ability to manifest dreams, it strengthens your sense of identity and personal power. This is the perfect stone for those who fall easily into victimhood or martyrdom, dispelling self-criticism and helping you to look objectively at your strengths and weakness and at those of other people. Teaching how to set realistic goals, it moves you away from unattainable expectations and the inevitable disappointments that rise when you plan from your emotions.

Clearing negative emotional states such as stress, self-pity and anxiety, Epidote purifies the emotional body, releasing grief and old emotional trauma. It keeps you centred no matter the situation you find yourself in. Its detoxification effect may create a powerful release of negative energies from the subtle bodies and physical body, sometimes experienced as a once-and-for-all catharsis, or abreaction (best undertaken with a qualified crystal therapist), which clears the emotional blueprint and cellular memory.

Physically useful in convalescence, Epidote supports the body’s healing processes and ensures that you look after yourself in the best way possible. It may well surface the underlying core causes of obesity and so facilitate weight loss, but you may need the assistance of a qualified therapist or healer to work through the issues.

HEALING Helpful for emotional trauma, stamina, the nervous and immune systems, cellular memory and dehydration. It supports the brain, thyroid, liver, gallbladder and adrenal glands. As a gem essence it is said to soften the skin.

POSITION Hold, grid or place as appropriate

Rose Quartz - Self Worth

Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love and infinite peace. It is the most important crystal for the heart and heart chakra, teaching the true essence of love. It purifies and opens the heart at all levels, and brings deep inner feelings and self-love. It is calming, reassuring and excellent for use in trauma or crisis.

If you want to attract love, look no further than romantic Rose Quartz. Placed by your bed or in the relationship corner of your home, it is so effective in drawing love and relationships towards you that it often need Amethyst to calm things down. In existing relationships, it will restore trust and harmony, and encourage unconditional love.

Rose Quartz gently draws off negative energy and replaces it with loving vibes. It strengthens empathy and sensitivity and aids the acceptance of necessary change. It is an excellent stone for mid-life crisis. Holding Rose Quartz enhances positive affirmations. The stone can then remind you of your intention. This beautiful stone promotes receptivity to beauty of all kinds.

Emotionally, Rose Quartz is the finest healer. Releasing unexpressed emotions and heartache and transmuting emotional conditioning that no longer serves, it soothes internalized pain and heals deprivation. If you have never received love, Rose Quartz opens your heart so that you become receptive. If you have loved and lost, it comforts your grief. Rose Quartz teaches you to how to love yourself, vital if you have thought yourself unlovable. You cannot accept love from other nor love them unless you love yourself. This stone encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance, and involves self-trust and self-worth.

Healing - Rose Quartz strengthens the physical heart and circulatory system and releases impurities from body fluids. Places on the thymus, Rose Quartz aids chest and lung problems. It heals the kidneys and adrenals alleviates vertigo. Rose Quartz is said to increase fertility. The stone or elixir soothes burns and blistering and smooth’s the complexion. It is helpful in Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, and senile dementia.

Position - Wear, Especially over the heart. Place on the heart, thymus, or in relationship corner of room. 

Okenite - Karma & Spirituality

Okenite has a soft and furry energy and is one of the stones of the New Age. People usually want to stroke it but this mats the fibres together or breaks them. Okenite links to the higher self and supports the conscious manifestation of its energies on the earth plane.

Okenite clears obstacles from your path and promotes the stamina to finish your life tasks. This crystal helps you to come to terms with being in incarnation and brings your attention to the reasons for your current experiences. It pinpoints karmic debts and opportunities that help you to grow. Assisting in understanding how the karmic past has produced the present, and how the present will create the future, Okenite facilitates deep karmic healing on all levels. Okenite can be used to prepare for channelling.

It purifies the chakras and the physical and subtle bodies, uniting their energies. This crystal has a dual action. A stone of truth, it instils truthfulness in yourself and others, and protects from the harshness that can arise when others speak their truth. It helps you to accept with love the verbal jibes of other people, showing whether there is any truth there to be accepted. Psychologically, Okenite brings deep self-forgiveness. It promotes completion of karmic cycles, going back into past lives to forgive yourself for your mistakes and easing karmic guilt.

This is a stone of karmic grace. It teaches that everything is part of the cycle of learning the soul’s lessons, and growing fro/@m that knowledge, that nothing has to be endured forever. When you have done all you can, you can step out of a situation without incurring further karmic debt. Mentally, Okenite facilitates in changing your mental set. It r\eleases old patterns and brings in new, more appropriate beliefs. It is helpful for anyone suffering prudishness, especially where this is linked to past-life vows of chastity.

Healing: Okenite encourages the flow of blood and milk, a boon for nursing mothers, and stimulates the circulation in the upper body. It lowers fevers and relieves nervous disorders. As an elixir, it treats skin eruptions.

Position: As Appropriate

Malachite - Power & Transformation

Malachite is a powerful stone but one that needs to be handled with caution. It is toxic and should only be used in its polished form. Avoiding breathing its dust. Malachite amplifies both positive and negative energies. It grounds spiritual energies onto the planet. It is believed by some people that Malachite is still evolving and will be one of the most important healing stones of the new millennium.  

Malachite is already an important protection stone. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants easily, picking them up from the atmosphere and from the body. It should be cleansed before and after use by placing it on a quartz cluster in the sun (do not use salt which will damage the surface).Malachite soaks up plutonium pollution, and guards against radiation of all kinds. It should be placed in the home of anyone who lives near a nuclear or natural radiation source. It also clears electromagnetic pollution and heals earth energies.

It has a strong affinity with nature. This stone clear and activates the chakras and attunes to spiritual guidance. Place on the third eye, it activates visualisation and psychic vision. On the heart, it brings balance and harmony. It opens the heart to unconditional love. Malachite can be used for scrying or to access other worlds, inner or outer. Journeying through its convulsed patterns releases the mind and stimulates pictures. It can assist in receiving insights from subconscious or messages from the future.

Psychologically, Malachite is a stone of TRANSFORMATION. Life is lived more intensely under the influence of this adventurous stone, which encourages risk-taking and change. It mercilessly shows what is blocking your spiritual growth. Malachite draws out deep feelings and psychosomatic causes, breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns, and teaches how to take responsibility for one’s actions, thoughts and feelings.

It release inhibitions and encourages expressing feeling. This stone develops empathy with other people, showing how it would feel to be in their place. It alleviates shyness, and supports friendships. Malachite is useful for psycho-sexual problems, especially when these have been caused by traumatic past-live sexual experiences. It assists the re-birthing process. Mentally, Malachite goes to the cored of a problem, enhancing intuition and insight. It helps alleviate mental disturbances, including psychiatric illness, and combats dyslexia.

It strengthens the ability to absorb and process information, makes you more observant, and helps in understanding difficult concepts. Placed on the solar plexus, Malachite facilitates deep emotional healing. It releases negative experiences and old traumas, bringing surpassed feelings to the surface and restoring the ability to breathe deeply. At this point, it balances the heart and naval chakras, revealing insights. At an emotional level, it may make moods more intense but quick to change. Malachite can be used for inner exploration. It stimulates dreams and brings memories vividly to life. However, Malachite may need to be supported in the healing and transformation process by other stones.

 HEALING - Malachite is an extremely versatile healing stone. It is particularly useful for cramps, including menstrual cramps, and facilitates childbirth – it has been called the midwife stone. It resonates with the female sexual organs and treats any sexual dis-ease. This stone lowers blood pressure, treats asthma, arthritis, epilepsy, fractures, swollen joints, growths, travel sickness, vertigo, tutors, the optic nerve, pancreas, spleen, and the parathyroid. It aligns DNA and cellular structure, and enhances the immune system. Malachite stimulates the liver to release toxins, reducing acidification of tissues. It treats diabetes when worn around the waist.

POSITION - Wear on the left hand or place on the third eye. Position as appropriate for healing. Place on solar plexus to absorb negative emotions. Use polished malachite and indirect method for elixir preparation. Apply externally. Note: Malachite may cause slight heart palpitations, in which case remove immediately and replace with Rose Quartz or Rhodonite.

COMBINATION STONE Malachite with Chrysocolla may manifest as a clear, gem crystal with a very high healing vibration. This combination symbolises wholeness and peace. Placed on an area of imbalance, it gently restores equilibrium,. If one stone is places on the third eye and another on the solar plexus, mind, body, and emotions are balanced.

Celestite - Expansion & Change 

Celestite has a high vibration and is a teacher for the New Age. It is imbued with divine energies. It takes you into the infinite peace of the spiritual and contacts the angelic realms. It jump-starts spiritual development and urges you toward enlightenment. It is a useful stone for stimulating clairvoyant communication, dream recall, and journeys out of the body.  

This beautiful crystal promotes purity of the heart and attracts good fortune. It heals the aura and reveals truth. It is a stone that brings balance and alignment. The deep peace it holds assists in conflict resolution and in maintaining a harmonious atmosphere in times of stress. Celestite can improve dysfunctional relationships by opening up space for peaceful negotiation. Celestite is a creative stone, especially useful for the arts.  

Psychologically, Celestite imparts gentle strength and enormous inner peace despite urging toward greater openness to new experiences. It is a teacher of trust in the infinite wisdom of the Divine. With its calming effect, Celestite can cool fiery emotions.

Mentally, Celestite calms and sharpens the mind, dispersing worries and promoting mental clarity and fluent communication. It aids the analysis of complex ideas. This stone synthesises intellect with instinct and promotes mental balance. Placed on the third eye, Celestite opens a connection to the universal energies. It brings a vision of peaceful coexistence with the whole of creation and holds the possibility of total harmony.

HEALING Celestite is an excellent healing stone, dissolving pain and bringing in love. It treats disorders of the eyes and ears, eliminates toxins, and brings cellular order. Its soothing influence relaxes muscle tension and calms mental torment. As with all blue crystals, Celestite is an effective opener and healer of the throat chakra and associated physical conditions.

POSITION Place as appropriate or use for meditation and scrying. A large piece of Celestite placed within a room heightens the vibrations in that room. Do not place in direct sunlight as colour will fade.