Ask me any questions, I don't mind them.
I only change the crystals around if I want a change, if that makes sense. It's energetic feng shui, I guess. Crystals are a powerful focusing tool for the energy you wish to manifest. Rearranging them is a signal to the universe that you want something to change. just like your altar. As above, so below. The microcosm influences the macrocosm.
My partner is very good at using crystals on his altar in combination with meditation to achieve his goals. He really gets results whether it's employment, money or whatever. Sometimes he meditates or path works with crystals on him over specific chakras. It's odd because he works with Anubis who I think is a weird deity to work with but it certainly works for him.
In the room that I sleep I have large pieces of rose quartz and amethyst (love and healing). If I have pains I might pop them on that specific area for a bit. I also have a large piece of kyanite which is an amazing crystal to own. It does not accumulate negative energy at all.
Where I work and think (my desk) I have a large quartz point. I also have one on my altar. These are focus points.
On a table by the door I have a large apache tear to repel negativity.
The balls tend to migrate round the house. I find right before sleep is the best time to scry so they often end up in my bedroom. The amethyst is a busy little crystal with many facets, came from a pair of old witches, probably has a resident entity within it and is also very good at picking up entities and excellent for detailed images. I'd really recommend scrying/evocation with amethyst if you're a bit of a chicken because it seems to dampen down negativity. They come through in a way that's not threatening at all. It might be touching the stone that does it. The yellow calcite has a very obvious higher frequency being in it which is sometimes just nice to hold, or it can show you colours, it's very calming and pretty. I use it for angelic magic. I have a small quartz ball that has not revealed it's purpose to me yet.
I have a seperate altar purely for divination. I have a 50cm (large) clear crystal ball which is inhabited from time to time with whatever is around. I see attachments from other people I've seen recently in it sometimes. I use it purely for spirit communication and divination. It has the final word on these things. Each ball has its own properties and qualities.
Rather than cleansing, I charge them under the full moon. The large ball looks incredible in the full moon, and casts a large shadow of light behind it that looks so.....magical
Rather than cleansing the crystal itself I rub it down with some rue or burn the rue. I'm happy to work with the energies contained in the stone... Rather when I scry I burn rue initially to free the general area from negative influences. I've found that in the past if I've used sage it just removes pretty much everything, so if you have spirits wanting to communicate they are kicked out prematurely. I might sage the week before a full moon, which is the best time for scrying, followed by, you guessed it, the dark moon. A full moon cycle becomes a rhythm, depending on how connected I feel for that month. I don't charge the crystals every full moon, usually just when I'm about to use them, which is usually when other signs have told me that a message is coming, or I get a feeling in my bones
. Some months are more magical than others. During astrological mischief, I often sit things out.
I like to accumulate a bit of my own energy (as positive or negative as it may be) in the crystals, because they are for my use at the current time... My partner has his own and neither of us touch the others crystals or altars. The same goes for tarot cards. I like to keep each deck with my own energy in them. I'm using them for links to my own higher self and also to understand why I'm reading for a particular person at a particular time. It's like cleansing your house all the time... At the end of the day you live there, and you can't banish yourself so there will always be strange energetic signatures in things and thats ok. I'm happy to roll with a small degree of chaos .. But that's probably my personality. Others practice differently.
The little crystals I keep in my box are a different story. I do cleanse these much more regularly, in salt water, and charge them more frequently. This is because I purely want the energy of the stone with no influences for placement on my altar to generate a particular energy or outcome, magical work, or I carry them at certain times.
The crystals I wear don't need cleansing because I swim in the ocean so regularly. Highly recommended. Natural bodies of water and forests, sunrise/sunset/moonrise are what charges human spirits.
I hope this answers some of your questions ! I feel like I've waffled a bit but hope its useful. Would be interested to hear about other peoples practices?
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