Sometimes I think my spirit animal should be The Magpie. Crow isn't unappropriate... at least they are related.
I have all the attention span of a caffenated Gemini, and all the organization of a drunken Peisces. So, bear with me, and watch as I go charging after those giants... I mean windmills. But won't they be so much prettier with holes in them?? Joust!
Er... where was I? Right. Pretty Shiny things.
So in case you haven't been reading the board, I do stones, and crystals, various kinds of divination and energy work, and I have more stones than any one person should have. I'm also a competent herbalist, though more magickal than healing, but I can hack that, too. I used to be better, but I don't have my source anymore.
Moving sometimes sucks.So... here's what I'm going to write about. I was noticing some requests about healing and energy work and stones, So I thought, Why not be more organized about my personal studies? After all, I have enough samples and so on to last... an infirmary with 1000 patients for two days without recharging or clearing. Provided everyone needs mostly different kinds of stones. Well, ok, I exagerate slightly. At some point I'll post a picture of all my stones (or at least all the ones I can find all in one place... so you get the idea.
Well, as it happens, I'm sick this week and possibly for the next month. I've got a mother of a sinus infection, that has me low in energy... except my mind is buzzing and very very active. Which is why you all get to suffer.
Oddly, it's only my physical energy reserves that are low... I even have plenty to throw around on the astral plane... I'm just pretty sloppy with it. Whether that's a lack of practice (I've been having a hard time adjusting to the new energies of this area) or side effects of being sick, I'm not sure.So I thought, what the hay? I'll see what my chakras are doing these days. So I went to my stone collection and saw who was feeling chipper today. This is basically accomplished by me waving my hand over the pile of stones, and seeing who felt "buzzy" or felt like working. Then, I gathered those stones near my meditation chair, held them one by one and put my receptive hand above and slowly lowered it until I either felt something, or touched the stone. The ones where I touched the stone before I felt anything went back to the pile. The most common sensation in this process would be something like say, what I call "energy compression". Which is when: A. energy tingles in my hand above the stone, and gets stronger as I lower my hand B. I feel an aura around the stone expand and get stronger as I lower my hand, or shrink as I raise it; and C if the stone itself feels tingly as I get near it. This would be mostly sensed in the palm of the hand that holds the stone, where the surface feels like an mild electric current is flowing just at the surface of the stone, or even humming deep in side of it. sometimes it feels like it has a directional current, others it just... buzzes for lack of a better term. Further, it is often accompanied by heat earlier than one would detect it if it were just hands alone. One gets this sense by practice.
This way, I selected a white kunzite, weighing in at about 15 grams, a long quartz point, a fat stubby quartz point with carbon deposits, a point carved from red jasper, about three inches by 3/4 inch in diameter, with six facets; a small carved citrine point,about an inch long and 5/16 of an inch wide; an angelite,about three inches long and two inches wide; a pale pink calcite sample, about half the size of the angelite;and an infinitite, about the same size as the angelite only flatter. Later, I got rid of one of the quartz peices and the infinitite due to later testing.
Since I was focused on healing, and really wanted to work on myself, I decided to try what I call "Chakra Poking". I believe Ruth White calls it Chakra Testing or something like that.
The test goes like this: You poke each of the chakras at a central point, by slowly moving the point in towards the center of the chakra field, until you feel something or touch skin. If you feel something before you touch skin, you slow down and see what you can observe.
In my test, I decided to do the sixth chakra twice.. the front (center of the forehead) and the back, since they have polar energies and often one can get very different results from the back of the chakra.
Some people even say (Ruth White being one of them) that it's actually a completely different chakra... or that the sixth is so complex that it has various and sundry parts. Like the third eye, and a few others. Suffice to say, the front (i.e. the "third eye" (I call it 6.5) is tapped into what is called the higher world among some core shamans, and the aft part of the chakra (i.e. the more mundane workhorse, I call it 6) is more connected with the lower world, and ones sense of wonder and the sensing of various other more earthy dimentions, including the fair folk and nature spirits. So the front is also more about directing energy, and the back is more about sensing.
The back, btw, is more say, where the skull meets the top-most neck bone. That to your "eye in the back of your head", which is central to the back of the skull, a flat part that is slightly lower than the third eye is on the front. For some reason (maybe it's just me) my 6th chakra takes up a lot of room on my head.
My 5th chakra mostly focuses towards the front of the neck, and is lower down. It stops right around the top notch of my clavicle. It's biggest presence on the back of my kneck is a fleshy knob that sits on the midpoint of my throat... sort of like that flap of skin on the back of a cat's kneck, only much, much smaller. One gets a sense of where chakras are on the body by doing meditations on specific colors and chakras. There are some great excersises in "Working with Your Chakras" by Ruth White. I strongly recomend the book, which is original enough for experienced energy users to learn things, but basic enough for novices.Once you've done some of those excersizes, you get a very good sense of where those energy centers are in your body.
So I did energy poking with all those stones. Funny, the infinitite (which is supposed to be a great Universal Healer) didn't respond *at* *all* to any of my chakras. I couldn't feel any reaction until the surface of the stone touched my skin, and even then it was just that slightly cold, boring poke of an inert object.
Ditto for the fatter carbon quartz, which surprised me. This piece and I have history, and it's always been a good one. I'm just guessing she needed to rest more before playing but was ok with saying "hi".
I even combined her with some of the others, to see if she was feeling like a team player, but no joy. One of her gifts is melding energies I have from various stones into one whole.
So it was down to Mr. Pointy (my 5 inch long, one inch wide clear quartz) point), the citrine, and the rest. He's relatively new, and surprisingly responsive for a new stone. Almost eager, you could say.
My findings were very interesting. For one thing they surprised me. Stones I felt would resonate with certain chakras didn't respond to them at all... and the others... just did strange things. For the most part, poking the second and first chakras with some stones was almost enough to make me feel suddenly ill (in ways I didn't *think* I was ill.In my stomach? with a sinus infection??)... even nausiated. For example, the Kunzite, which I felt *for sure* would resonate nicely with the crown chakra... didn't do squat with it. I was also expecting some kind of secondary resonance with the heart chakra, but it just vibrated a little, and only inside the stone, not inside the chakra proper. Later, I will provide the chart of my results, plus an explanation for my notations. If I don't, they won't make sense outside my own head... and you don't have to be a mind reader to read this blog!
You'd also expect the quartz to resonate loudly with the upper chakras, but it only effected the lower ones. My fifth shakra barely reponded to anything, which made me wonder. How can I be so verbally active, and yet have no stone related activity with the fifth? Or is it that they only vibrate when they need work? I would think that an under-responsive chakra would be closed down or repressed or something, not... well... in control of a skill I'm using a lot of, suddenly. Only the angelite and the pink calcite reacted to them at all, or caused any reaction with the throat at all, and they were pretty faint.
However, nearly everything tripped off the second and first chakras. I think I'm going to be going off to do some serious grounding and centering and a heavy cleanse of those two, considering that these stones set them off like no-one's business.
ON the last note, only working with the pink calcite seemed to have any direct physical effect. After going through each chakra systematically, then bringing it back to the forehead, I got massive pressure in the head, and I sneezed, clearing pretty much my entire effected sinus area in one foul swoop. (Ick!) Whether this was coincidence or actual energy works effect, I'll have to do further testing. Granted, it was before my sinus meds could have possibly kicked in, and it was the only time I was really clear this whole day. And no pain! Horray! This is almost un-heard of for this kind of sneeze.
Next time, I'll give you my results, and probably do some more analysis of these tests, as well as have more data to mine.
Shows off the opal pattern, too.
