Caring for and Looking After Your Crystals
Crystals are beautiful and powerful tools that require proper care to maintain their energy and effectiveness. Here are some simple yet effective ways to take care of your crystals.
Cleansing Your Crystals
It's important to cleanse your crystals at least monthly or whenever you want to set a new intention or create a new crystal grid. Here are some methods:
Smudging: Use Palo Santo, sage, incense, or an eagle's feather to cleanse your crystals.
Water Cleansing: Place hard crystals (avoid soft stones) in a plain glass bowl filled with filtered water. Avoid using salt water as it can damage delicate stones.
Running Water: Place your crystals under running water in a stream or river for about 20 minutes.
Breath Cleansing: Vigorously blow on your crystals with the intention to clear all negative energy.
Sunlight: Expose your crystals to the morning sun for about 2 hours. Avoid the harsh noon sun.
Earth Cleansing: For a deeper cleanse, bury your crystals in the earth for a few days.
Sound Cleansing: Use a crystal glass and a teaspoon to create high-frequency sounds around your crystals.
Moonlight: My favourite method is to place all crystals under the full moon for three days. This deeply cleanses and re-energizes them.
Special Considerations
Soft Stones: Selenite, Opal, and Hematite do not like water. Use sound or moonlight for cleansing.
Self-Cleansing Stones: Calcite, Selenite, and Kyanite do not need cleansing. You can use Selenite to cleanse other crystals by placing them near it with the intention to cleanse.
Order of Function
Clean
Energize: Quartz is excellent for charging other crystals.
Reset: Set your intention.
Storage Tips
Once cleaned, if you’re not using your crystals, wrap them in a red cloth to rest. Avoid storing them in plastic; opt for natural materials.
Activating and Connecting with Your Crystals
To form a deeper bond with your crystals, try the following:
Hold and Meditate: Sit with your crystal in hand and ask why it came to you. Trust the feelings or insights you receive.
Admire: Feel its beauty and power. Crystals respond to love and gratitude.
Gaze: Look at your crystal for 5-10 minutes, but be cautious with black crystals as they can reveal shadow aspects.
Heart Connection: Hold your crystal to your heart for 14-28 days.
Activate: Use your heart and third eye to set your intention.
Chant: Hold the crystal at your heart and chant your intention, then do the same at your third eye.
Center Crystal: For pointed crystals, hold the pointed end at your third eye and send your intention into it. Then place the flat end at your third eye to project your intention into the universe. Place this crystal at the centre of your grid and stay open to the synchronicities that follow.
Crystal Grid Work
Creating a crystal grid can be simple or complex. I prefer intuitive grids, working with crystal guardians and higher self.
Grid Setup: A crystal grid acts as a container, drawing in the energy aligned with your intention.
Central Crystal: Use a pointed clear quartz to radiate pure light energy.
Grounding Crystals: Place black crystals around your grid to ground the energy into physical form.
Example Grid for Love and Harmony
Central and Surrounding Crystals: Use Rose Quartz.
Grounding Crystals: Place black crystals around the grid.
Combining Crystals with Ceremonial Cacao
Ceremonial cacao can enhance your crystal grid work. Place your cacao at the center of your grid, ideally in a small dark jar. You can place a crystal on top or set the cacao on a cluster crystal. Leave it there until your next cacao ceremony, preferably until the new or full moon.
Crystals and cacao synergize beautifully, raising your vibration and enhancing your awareness. Near every cacao tree, you can find jade, a precious crystal in Mesoamerican and Mayan cultures, symbolizing life, nature, abundance, and fertility.
Questions?
If you have any questions or need further guidance, feel free to get in touch.
Happy Ceremonial Cacao manifesting – love and light,
Steph
