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Whether you're all in on your personal growth Journey or just starting out, let's flow together. Hello, everyone, Charlie whoo, dude. We are so excited to be back with our first repeat guests Maggie and she was actually our first guest ever. So she has expertise in so many different areas, so many different interests, our first episode. If you scroll back as is all about past life, regression. And today we're here to talk about crystals.
So Maggie, if you want to do a little introduction, we'd love to hear who you. Are what you do and how you got into the world of crystals. Yeah, I am a spiritual healer and I've recently, I think even since our last episode this has developed, but I now do classify myself as a psychic medium. I've had a lot of in the past life regression episode. I was talking about, I think I was probably talking about
anyways. Talking like getting Spirits coming through and talking with people as possible, loved ones. And it's just like, taking off more and more, and more. And I'm like, I need to embrace this. So, that's my new part of myself and title that I'm embracing, but I got into crystals, and that was kind of my Spiritual Awakening and itself. I just needed a job in college, and I kind of just made my way through the interview and started working at a crystal shop and it just kind of Really
snowballed from there. I feel like, especially with crystals. I just been told something and it just sticks in my brain. Like, it feels like an unlocking more than a actual learning. And so, I'm so excited to talk about crystals today because they were my first entrance into spirituality and I'm living abroad right now. So I miss all my crystals that I couldn't like packing my suitcase and thing with me and make my suitcase like way too, heavy. Heavy and fragile.
But I, yeah, I love crystals. I love talking about them. So I'm really excited to be here today. So, thank you for having me. Thanks for coming again. Yeah, we love hanging out and there's still more topics that, you know, about that we won't touch on today, but we want probably have you on again, so Meg, he's just going to be a resident Crystal expert as and, yeah, she's going to be on here all the time. Lady, a real lady. I just want to say I relate so much Much to you not being able
to bring your things abroad. It's like a good lesson in letting go of things, kind of, but also like, oh, I totally, I totally agree. It's like, it felt so good to purge. Almost everything I owned, but then there were things like my crystals that I kept, and I just like, think about them sitting back in Canada. And I think, well, I wish they were here. I wish crystals did you choose to bring?
I literally brought barely any. I brought some crystal jewelry and I brought some like small tumble Stones because they're easy to pack like I didn't want to risk breaking anything with you know you see how they throw, those suitcases around the airport like they might as well jump on top of them. Okay so I wasn't going to be putting my crystals through there. I have a lot of Crystal points and I was like, is this considered a weapon like can I
bring this? This on, I carry on the plane, I don't think so. I was too nervous about anything going wrong. So I brought a couple of things. I brought a Carnelian little tumblestone, I think and a black obsidian little tumblestone and then I have purchased something few little crystals while I'm here. And I love just having those a lot of Spears, a lot of things that aren't Crystal points because apparently, I'm just paranoid about that about bringing it through airport
security. So I I have certain crystals that I can't live. Without I think carnelians one of them. It gives you a lot of energy. I always want to bring a grounding her protection. Crystal I have lapis lazuli. That's one. That's one of my favorites, that's just bring out Crystal. Yeah, yeah, I love it so much. It's like your intuition bright. Like, just, I have a little bracelet of it.
I have labradorite which brings out your inner magic and Honey calcite, it helps balance, the scales of justice and call back your power, especially if you've been in situations where people have taken it from you. So I just think it's always a good one to have because you're always going to meet people
trying to take your power. Unfortunately, that's the way that the world is and some people are not the best people and they're trying to, you know, get ahead in Life or do whatever whatever they're doing and especially as a spiritual person. Person as and as an empath and as someone who has a lot of power within them. If you're listening to this, you're probably like you have a lot of power within you, and people are going to try and take it and profit off it and use it for their own.
So having something like honey, calcite where you can kind of keep the scales in balanced, I think, is a really, really great one to have and that's why you brought that up because I also feel that that's been a role in society that's been played for so long. Of people trying to take the power for themselves. That I think it's become almost subconscious for a lot of people too.
So there's a lot of that. There's definitely people who, you know, are very aware of the fact that that's what they're doing. And I also think that there's a lot of people who have just been taught to do that and don't even realize. So having something that can support you, And even be there for you, when you maybe you're not even conscious of something that's happening, is so important. Oh and it's true.
Like a lot of people will say, like a narcissist doesn't realize Jesus is like there's not a lot of self-proclaimed narcissists out there because like, they're so trapped in their own world. Like that's just their reality to them and like taking people's power and things for themselves
is just like a natural state. And that's just, you know, unfortunately, How some people are and maybe they'll have an Awakening and realized that one day, but sometimes it's subconscious and they don't even realize it. So it's nice to have for yourself, right? Like you said, just a little safety. Yes. Okay. I have a couple questions floating in my mind for people that are just getting into crystals. I guess, like it comes across your page.
There's all sorts of people talking about them. You see them in all of the get ready with me, aesthetic, real videos. These girls, with their Goals, is there a certain one or two or three that you recommend? Someone start out with because you walk into the crystal shop and there's hundreds like there's just buckets of different sizes and shapes and colors, and they have all these names that you might not understand. So, how would you guide someone through that experience of just
starting out. So there's a couple ways you can go about it. I mean, if you're an intuitive person is always best to like, lead with your intuition. Like, don't look at what they do. Like, my biggest. August kind of advice would definitely be when you go into your Crystal shop, don't read all the things like, oh, what does this one do? Oh, I need that. Because guess what? You're probably going to need every single one of them.
So you know we could all use all those different things in our lives and sometimes that's you choosing what you think you need rather than what you actually need right? Like you think you need a stone that's going to call in love but what you really need is more self-love? Right? So you want to just allow yourself to be intuitively guided, like what's the crystal you think, is the prettiest, what's the one that you keep going back to pick them up and like it, there's one that feels
really good. Take that one with you and it might not be the one you expected it to be. But that's okay, so there's always that. But if you're a little out of sync with your intuition, if you go into a crystal shopping, you just get overwhelmed and it's too much. There's a couple that I can say to go with. And then there's some That when I worked at the Crystal shop, I would get people to do. So, the first thing is amethyst is an amazing one.
It's like the general healer, it's very powerful, but it has a very soft vibration. So it's not, it doesn't give you like Whiplash, it's not like moldavite, which like Zoots You Off The Earth into space and then like that's your first Crystal and you're like what is going on, but this is a very soft vibration. It's very healing. Energetically physically, emotionally mentally, it's great to help with nightmares. It's a great stone for children.
Like, if you're going to put a stone in like a nursery or something, amethyst, is really a great way to go. So I would really, really recommend that I would also recommend this one's, maybe sometimes a little bit more expensive. It's great to have in like jewelry, but a rainbow moonstone is a really great beginner stone that. I think a lot of people don't get until later in their Crystal Journey. Me or it's not one that you see. A lot of people talking about as
a beginner Stone, all that much. And the reason I say that is because it's the stone of new beginnings. So if you're having a new beginning with your Crystal Adventure, what a better Stoney to, like, freshen things up with and start fresh with, and it also has the power of the Moon. And it has a very like, mothering quality.
I say to people who are working like fertility issues, that's a great one to use or a new That's a great one to have and it really will kind of like hold you as you start this journey as well, which is really nice. And then, if I had to do one more, that's a little different. I would say there's so many I could say I love a Carnelian. I think carnelians really great it. It's like the sacral chakra Crystal. It's your creativity. It's your passion. It's your fire.
It's your action. I love having just a little tumblestone of it and I that's the one you will. Most often find in my bro. I think it's always in there because it gives you that little boost of Vitality, boost of energy. She sews a whenever I'm moving, it's in my bra whenever I'm packing. It's there. Whenever I have to like, get a lot of stuff done. It's there. Whenever I have a really busy work day where I have to be writing a lot and be really creative.
Maybe I'm writing a lot of Instagram, captions. Maybe I'm doing any sort of Special Projects. Maybe I'm doing my emails, but where I have to be really creative and take things straight from my creativity. I use that one for that as well. I can say to people, like don't keep it in your bedroom because He's very like high vibration. If you do want it to help you, like, wake up in the morning either. Put it like right outside your bedroom so you can grab it. It's like a little crystal
version of coffee, you know? You can be like, whoa, whoa, whoa, or you can place it like in a very special place with a boundary in place in with the intention that this Crystal is only to like interfere with your energy when you like, touch it so that you can leave it there, and then you can pick it up in the morning and be like, okay, Let's get out of bed, you know, so those three, the one, I would warn against which is a little bit controversial because it's a very loved Stone, and it's
everywhere. And I swear, it's everybody's first Crystal, please. Please don't buy rose. Quartz is your first Crystal. Oh, it's really one of those Buzz words. And one of those things to Media has just kind of like rolled with like the idea of twin flames or the idea of soulmates or manifestation where people just use manifestation. Now to be like, Oh, I'm wishing for something right there. Like, oh man, people are like, oh, manifest it. But they don't actually know
what manifestation means. It's just become this corpse sort of like thing in our culture and thing in the media and it seemed with rose quartz. I swear, it's everywhere and everyone's like, oh, it's the stone of love and like, oh, you having a self-care day, use your rose quartz. Your rose quartz is going to break open your heart chakra, it does not have a soft vibration as nuts. As much as it looks like soft and feminine and beautiful and
pink. And loving it has a really harsh vibration because it is meant to like deeply heal. So if you're holding on to your rose quartz and you're like, why do I feel like garbage? It's, because you're sitting there with your rose quartz on your bedside table. And when you go to go to sleep, you're thinking about that. Thing you did in the seventh grade that was so embarrassing
that trigger stuff for you. And your rose quartz is like, hey let's think about all these things because it's time to heal your heart, it lasts your heart chakra open and you're sitting there like you up myself, this roast pork. Since like supposed to help with that. Why do I feel so awful? And it's because it's trying to get you to heal by like digging all that stuff up. So it's a great one to put beside your Journal but it's very misconstrued and I think it gets used in.
The wrong way because of that I was going to say, it sounds like a good one to have with you, if your doing Shadow worker, digging deeper, oh, definitely, it's great to keep with your Journal. If you're an empath, be careful with it. Because like, For me, I was all, I always had a bit of an aversion to it because I very, very intuitive with my emotions. Like, I can take people's emotions on very quickly and very easily.
And I've had to build, you know, my boundaries up with that and my safety is up with that but before I knew it was like I could just pick up on energy that I didn't even know where it was coming from. And so my first piece of rose quartz and like sitting there with it on my chest and I had like the most amazing day and then also, when I start having this a panic attack, What's going on?
And basically what it does is someone who's already empathic, it blasts, your her truck or open, so it blasts that open even more. And I get this text from my roommate who lives, two floors above me. And she's like, I'm having a panic attack and you she mind coming up here for a second. I'm like, this isn't even my
emotions. I'm just sitting here at the rose quartz and it's making my, you know, emotional or uh, so out there that I'm picking up emotions from people, two floors up. Like if you're really empathic person and your You're working and you're wearing and you're having rose quartz so close to you. You better be pairing it with something grounding or protect like something that's going to protect you because you're going to be picking up people's emotions like across the street.
And you don't even know whose whose they are and it makes it so that you get really distant from yourself. So it's a great Crystal for like, self-development and spiritual work and journaling. I just think it's often used in the wrong way, and it ends up giving People kind of hard time, you know. Yeah, I have a question with quartz then because there's all different types and I also see clear quartz being passed around and I feel like everybody kind
of has a clear quartz crystal. What does that help with and is, is that as intense as a rose quartz? Or how is that one best used? So clear. Quartz is also very intense just in the fact that it doesn't give a ton of energy off itself as much as it amplifies, everything around it. It. So I love putting clear Quartz in my kitchen because I think it like amplifies, The Taste and the flavors of my food.
So I love like keeping a little piece of clear quartz like, you know, in my cupboard or my friends or something. But it really just amplifies what's around it? So you can place it with your other crystals. It's going to amplify that but if you're once again, wearing it by itself on your person then if you're having a really shitty day, it's real it early just going to amplify that feeling, right? It.
So it's one to be careful with. But used in the right circumstance, it can be super helpful. It's great for Crystal grids, it's great for pairing with other crystals. It's just it's an it's an amplifier. So you just have to be careful that. You're amplifying what you want if you're putting it beside your rose quartz, right? Like the two, there are two very popular crystals that's going to be really lucky because moving through. Yeah, you know like that's gonna be really powerful so you're
talking a lot about placement. And carrying certain ones with you on your body, versus in your purse, versus placing it in your house. Are there certain ones that aren't meant to be kept on your person that are more meant to be in your space? Rather than carried with you and vice versa, are there certain ones that are more recommended
to carry on your body? I guess I've never read anything about it. So I'm curious for my own personal Crystal collection, what I should be doing with it because right now they're just kind of in a dish all together. I also don't know if they should be stored together or separate, so Have any knowledge to share on that? Yeah. Okay, Carl. He's wondering to category we're together now.
I have just like a collection. I built up over the years, just ove like little tumbled stones and other things that I've been drawn to and they're all based, not all of them but a lot of them are just in one jar all together and I'm could imagine how maybe that wouldn't be the most ideal way to handle the crystals. So yes, yeah, I find a lot of the time. If you have one thing where you have them all in there they're not really going to be effective. Acting you a great thing.
You want to be doing with crystals, is it? Like, it doesn't matter, if they're on your body or in your house, you just want to place them with intention so you can put like, four together, but your intention is that you want those for energies working together.
So like I was saying if you're wearing rose quartz and then a, grounding Crystal, like you might get a little bit from both but they also kind of nullify each other, you know, because they're blasting your heart chakra open which is not a grounding experience and then that other crystals being like and Graham, And so, as much as you know, that might be an experience you want, where it kind of like keeps you balanced. Sometimes they can like nullify each other.
Most crystals, you can keep together. It's just depending on what you want to be doing with them. Once again, it's down to intention. The only Crystal, I would say to keep on its own and not to keep other crystals is malachite. So if you don't know what that is, it's like this bright green, like squirrely crystal. And a lot of people will know it as like a traveler's Talisman and there's a lot of different things that it can be used for, but the big takeaway that I've always taken.
From it is that it is the empath Stone so malachite, actually, absorbs more energy than it gives, which is rare. Usually, with energetic beings, we give more energy than we take, right? We give off energy and our energy mixes with other people's, but it's not like we're like sucking the energy out of something, right? Whereas malachite takes and absorbs energy, so it's a great Crystal if you want to carry it with you, it's one of my favorite ones to use, if you're going out.
Into a large group of people or you're working with people because what it does is it absorbs energy, that's not your own. So if you're trying to take on anybody's energy, is going to absorb and round it. So now it gets when you have to cleanse a lot but also it is a crystal that's just so so powerful. So then if you have your malachite with all your other crystals and you're like, why aren't these crystals working? It's just because your Malachi's over there, just like by bending
the these all the energy. And right, and it's weakening the other crystals. Something great you can do with it is you can say okay tomorrow I have a really important meeting so I want to make sure I'm not taking on other people's emotions but I also want to feel really energized or really inspired so you're taking this other Crystal overnight placing it with your malachite so your mouth tight, absorbs that
energy. So that pause it, absorbs other energy from other people, the output is from that other Crystal as well, does that make sense? So so you're saying that Carnelian, for example, and so it's absorbing your excess energy that isn't yours. And it's outputting the Carnelian energy of, you know, fire that action into. Are you saying carry those together or you're saying overnight set them next to each other than just take the challenges to you?
Yes. The second one is the overnight, kind of like, place them as intention there. It's going to Vibe with the Carnelian all night and then you can take it with you. I like to cleanse my malachite. I've either after I use it or really the best thing to do is before you use it, but I'm sure we'll talk about cleansing eventually, but don't cleanse it with water because if you put it with water, it can, it can become toxic so we don't want
that. Yeah, that's really important to note to to quickly finish that other question, which is just whether you wear it or you put it in your space. All crystals can work either way really just. It depends on what you want to use it for, right? Like maybe you want to have a lot of Energy with you. So you hold Carnelian, maybe you want to put it in your office so that it gives the office, the vibe of like a really creative space, right? So it really doesn't matter,
person or environment. It just is like your opinion. I love using blue calcite, like I don't use it on my person very much. I put it in my environment because it creates an environment of like, calm relaxing, just like decompressing, which I don't want to be like, Decompressing my entire day, like that sounds
exhausting. So I don't necessarily personally want to carry that with myself whereas keeping it in my space where I relax is really important for me so that I can keep it in my living room or my bedroom and I can go there and just decompress but I don't want to be personally decompressing and then trying to re-energize myself over and over again throughout the day. So I use that one more as like
an intentional environment one. So it really just depends on What you're looking for, perfect, does this size of your
Crystal matter? Because you can go into these shops and there's huge ones that would take up the whole half of your bedroom or there's tumble stones or there's circles or the points I think you called it. So there's a lot of different shapes and does that matter I mean the shape will matter to an extent like obviously 0.1 is going to be more directional energy, whereas a sphere is going to give it off more out
all sides. And so, if you want to get really nuanced, it can, but I don't think it really matters all that much because energy is energy, right? And it's the same as like a small crystal and a large Crystal. Like maybe I just personally enjoy having larger crystals in my space. First of all seeing it is an energetic reminder that of what I'm picking up on but also I like to seeing the ones in my space because otherwise I will forget to cleanse them.
If I have like a tiny little tumblestone I'm sitting on my bookshelf, I'm never going to cleanse that and that Crystal is going to get tired real fast. It's not going to be impacting me anymore, so I do like keeping the larger ones in my space. Sometimes there is nothing to say about maybe it'll reach further, you know maybe it'll the energy, it'll reach further out like the idea of when you go into the woods. What? Refreshes you more like a little sapling or like an old oak tree, right?
It's probably that old oak tree but really, they're giving off the same energy so it's like you can use a tumble and like that's acceptable and anyone who likes shames you for only having fumbles is I think like a crystal snob like you pick what you want. But I think there is a say to like how far it reaches. So I think the tumble is enough to cover a room, you know, if you if you place it with intention but if you want like a really Strong energy.
If you want that for like that energy to be the dominant energy in the room, you want it to be a little bit bigger because then it can create more of a presence. Does that make sense? Yes, absolutely cool. Yeah, so just I mean, you can have a giant amethyst geode or an amethyst tumble, they're both going to do the same thing. It a lot of Crystal work. Just comes down to what your intention with it is. We're on your person. All you need is a tumble. If it's to affect you directly,
all you need is a tumble. If you're just doing a little crystal magic, all you need is a tumble like to get what you need to get done. Really. All you need is a tumblestone, but sometimes it's nice to have the bigger ones and they're gorgeous. Supple are beautiful. They are so beautiful. Yeah. Okay, Carly had a question about cleansing and I think you can shift topics now. So how do you take care of the crystals? Carly? What's your question?
Yeah. Basically Lee. I mean, I know there's a few ways. I've heard, depending on the crystal you don't want to do like selenite in water but because it will like melt and stuff, but I've heard running going under running water, or ideally a running stream, is really helpful or I've also heard placing it in a singing bowl and doing the this Singing make it safe is really helpful to and I've also heard like just even the and giving it the intention of cleaning can be
helpful but I don't know. I would love to see if what you say about those and if you have other ways to do it, too. Definitely and cleansing is so important because like the idea behind crystals is that everything natural on this Earth has energy right which is really backed up by science when When so much of that. So the idea that, you know, when you go out into nature, it changes your energy is because of, like how your energy is interacting with that of Nature
and of the outdoors, right? But it's the same with crystals, it's just for whatever reason people who don't want to believe get all up in arms about it. But it can actually give this sort of scientific reason for that because all of our technology gives off positive ions. Someone made, I think this is correct. I've read this plenty of times, but if I'm wrong, please message, rest, and we are nature.
So, we are generally more negative in are ionic makeup and so nature gives off negative ions which helps balance out our energy field and crystals are also nature. So that helps us kind of counteract and even out our energy field, Old from all of the technology that we are enveloped around every single day. Exactly. And you know how your energy matches up with these different things are going to cause a
different experience, right? Like maybe nature with going out in the forest is more emotionally grounding for you, right? Whereas, for somebody else, it might be more like physically. It like grounds them writing or it gets them out of their mind like everyone. Experience is different because we all have different energy patterns and so it's the same with these crystals. So there's Collective meanings. And that's what I'm giving to
you right now. But look up the collective meanings, see how that Crystal interacts typically with energy and then allow it to be nuanced for yourselves, right? So typically, when you look up a crystal, this is a little off topic from cleansing, but that's okay, but typically, when you look up a crystal, it gives you like 20,000 different things that it does and it Can feel really overwhelming, right?
So what I say to people is like look at all those, you can kind of generalize it start using the Crystal and then see which of those Happens for you it's like think of it like when you take an antibiotic or something and they give you like a million different side effects, you could have you're not going to have every single side effect like that is so rare. You're gonna have different ones that match up with who you are as an individual person, and it's the same with crystals.
You're not going to feel every single thing. Like with, I keep going back to Carnelian, but it's because I talked about it. Earlier with Carnelian is great for creativity. It's great for. Physical energy is great for Vision making and a million other things. Like that's what I have taken from it, but maybe you use it and you're like, oh, I don't find it gives me an energy boost, but it definitely gets the creative juices flowing, right?
So, you want to take all the different symptoms that crystals can give you and see what actually works for your own makeup. Yeah, you're like building your own relationship with the Crystal. I love that. Exactly. And so the way that our energy gets tired, crystal energy, Gee can get tired to like cleansing. Your crystal is like allowing your Crystal to have rest or have a self-care day, like it's just as important for that to happen as it is for you.
And so what you want to be doing is cleansing these crystals especially when you're relying heavily on them, right? If it's one that you wear on your body a lot, I always like to cleanse my crystal as soon as I get it home because I don't know who's been picking it up and touching it and whose energy has been vibing with, you know, and you don't know. Kind of how it's sitting and feeling. So I like to give the little refresh. So you want to do these things to freshen your energy and fresh
in the crystals energy. So what you can do is a water cleanse so you can put it in like you want it to be running water. You don't want to just mix it in a bowl of like still water, so you can put it like go into nature and like hold it in a stream. But you can also like hold it under the tap that also works. You can put it with with a singing bowl. You can also hold it up to the speaker on your phone. And this is because it's the music. It's the sound waves that are cleansing, right?
So if this is a song that like you really, really love this damn song, it's going to put that energy into the into the air. You can also cleanse your phone to cleanse your phone, cleanse your Crystal. That way you can say, do it. You could like play guitar something, right? You could put it on top of your piano and play your piano, like, you can do different things with music, which is really fun. You can do it.
Tension cleanse, where you sit with it and you like, give the intention and usually, you'll feel like kind of go like, like, you'll feel this lightness, come about it, but what you're doing there, that's one just to be careful of is you're taking on the energy, right? Like you're removing that energy, you're grounding that energy so you want to make sure that you're cleansing yourself and grounding yourself
afterwards. So if you have cleansing practices and you're really strong in those, that can be a great way to cleanse your crystals but if Going to like cleanse all your crystals like that and then like, go to the supermarket. Like that's going to feel really hectic and draining and it'll be a lot because that's what there's a lot of negative energy and toxic energy that are crystals take on for us, right? You can also cleanse them
through like a smoke cleanse. We don't call it smudging because that's a different practice all together. So I always just say it's smoked lens. Like spoke cleanse is a very open pack. This and you can use any sort of herbs that you want. You could use like Rosemary from your kitchen counter if you want it and you just get them to create some smoke and you hold the crystal over the smoke until once again, it feels light. And then you know, that it's been like lifted off of it.
You can put your crystals under the new moon so you can put them on your windowsill, for the new moon, the full moon charges, your crystals, it doesn't cleanse them. So if you have, if your, if your crystals are already struggling, then When the full moons just going to kind of amplify that it's like their courts, right? So put them out for the new moon for a cleanse when you put them out for a full moon, you want to cleanse them yourself beforehand.
So that you can play some fresh slate and they can charge from their natural energy, right? And there's just there's a bunch of ways. I know some people use salt, I don't love using salt because a lot of crystals don't do well with salt like exterior. It's a lot of them and some people use the Sun One once again it's the sun Fades a lot of crystals so I don't love to do that one. Unless I absolutely know that it's okay to do that one but
does lots of ways. I mean you can use any of the ways I just said or you can like do a quick Google search and there's so many ways. You can clear cleanse your crystals that will work for you. The important thing is just that you're doing it. I love this. I'm just absorbing the information.
It's a lot of information. I recently read somewhere I think in my crystal book, actually I finally bought a crystal book just so that I had something to flip through to read about the ones that I have because I don't quite have it memorized, especially when I went and intuitively picked a few of them where I barely even know the names of them and I
don't know why I chose them. But now I do reading the definitions, it made so much sense and I like that you gave that recommendation to just go in and - Lee pick them out because that's how I do it now. And it also just saves me a lot of time because I would stand in the crystal shop and be researching on Google what they do, what they do because I'm your one and nine, my line one and human design goes crazy in the crystal shop, and I want to know the details of everything
understand. Understand everything have all the answers, but no, I read in that book that a lot of times the colors aligned with the chakra system for anybody, that knows, Forgot to say this earlier and this was a. Another thing I was going to say about picking your first, your
first crystals. So it's funny cuz I was like oh my gosh I have to bring up the chakras and then you just say it perfectly can touch on it. Now that really helps me because in human design, we were learning, we learned about the chakra system and so I already had that knowledge a little bit in my head and then I was reading a little bit about ayurveda as well. So I was semi familiar and getting to know the colors of The of the chakras.
So that was really helpful to know that you can kind of match them up there. So if you want to give some details on that and maybe how you can use it to choose the right ones or where to place them and meditating. I I know I've seen pictures and videos of people lying down with the crystals placed on them in certain areas. I've never done that, so I'm not sure, I assume that's a chakra thing. Yeah, so you have I mean you have tons of chompers like chakras or just your energy
centers in your body, right? You have like tons of them but a lot of people, especially in the beginning and widespread most people work with the main seven chakras. That start at the base of your spine and go up to the top of your head, right? You have chakras in your hands, your chakras, and every energy point if your body, but typically we work with the, with the seven, major ones. And so, with crystals, you have it's like color therapy, right?
So most of them, the color that they are are going to align with your different chakras. It's Just that your chakras holds so much energy, right? When you think of your seven, major chakras and that basically makes up all the energy of who you are and all you're like Physical energy of your organs and how your body works. And then also like your emotional body and mental body, like, it makes up everything, right and makes up your human existence and your spiritual
connection. So each each crystal is going to match up with different chakras but they're going to do it in each like their own little nuanced way. So, the best way to tell what chakras working with is just a, look at the color, right? You have the black or deep red for your root chakra. All those are going to be protection stones, or grounding Stones. So like a black tourmaline or an onyx that's going to be
protection. And grounding whereas I find the red ones are oftentimes dealing with like other people more. So for example, there's a stone called greasy to Jasper. I love this Stone and it's a, you know, a root chakra Stone. But actually, what it does is it grounds other people's emotions
and it sends them back to them. So like, for example, say you have a roommate who is really, really negative all the time like they come home, they're just complaining complaining, it's like they walk in and the whole energy of the house just like goes down. If you place no, but I'm talking from personal experience or anything.
But if you place a tumblestone on like maybe the bookshelf in your living room and then all of a sudden, instead of the energy sitting in the room is being sent back to the person who produced it. It often creates a new sense of awareness of the energy. They're putting out into the world and how it's affecting other people and usually, it can
start a change of behavior. Or an apology or just the sort of new awareness because you're forcing that energy back to them, were normally, they could just exude it and then not have to worry about it because a lot of the time, like we were saying, earlier, people do this subconsciously, right? They don't mean to be bad people or, you know, not the best people, but it's just an energetic thing and they're not
aware of their energy. So that is protecting you and grounding you, but in a different way than, like, maybe some other crystals. Well, which Some ground. You like psychically or some ground you within yourself? Where is that one's like grounding energy and protecting you from other people's energy. So that's like the root chakra and then we have the sacral and that's like Carnelian. It's your energy center. It's your creativity. It's all of this. So you want to look for orange?
Bright orange, crystals for that. It's your sexuality. It's your sensuality. It's your passion. Then we have our Solar plexus which is like a bright bright yellow. That's going to be your self-confidence. That's going to be your body in the edge. That's going to be your happiness, your joy. It's like that bright Sunshine light, right? So we're looking for bright yellow Stones. So, honey calcite like I was saying before, that's your inner power, right? That's bringing your power back
to you. So that's going to sit right there in your solar plexus. And then we have the heart chakra and that's going to be like green or pink.
So rose quartz But also crystals like unit height, which is an amazing Crystal for or brief and healing of the heart in that way and connections with other people and Morganite, which is pink, which is to call in a soulmate Morganite, back to what we're talking about, Morganite is the crystal that people think rose quartz is just putting that out there. If you have rose quartz because you think is gonna like, bring you in a soul, mate, bring you in love.
It's going to produce more self-love like that nurturing energy. You're looking for Morgan a. That's actually the the crystal there, fun fact. But that's, yeah, healing of the heart. So, depending on the properties of the crystal, it can be, like I said healing grief, self-development Shadow work, it can be like malachite, which is an empathic Stone. So protecting your energy, right? But Mallett, it has those little black swirls in it.
So that's why you can see its heart chakra and root, that's why it can absorb the energy, right. You can kind of see how it starts to play into it. Then you have the throat chakra, which is like a bright vibrant blue. So something like aquamarine or aventurine can help you speak your truth. It can help you stand up for yourself. It can help you with public speaking or different things like that. It just really it helps you admit things to yourself, right? It's just that throat chakra.
Then you have a deep deep blue or like a dark Indigo so amethyst that purple right amethyst. Lapis lazuli labradorite anything with that. Like deep Indigo deep navy blue is going to be your third eye chakra and that's going to help with intuition is going to help
with trusting yourself. It's going to help you with any spiritual or psychic powers or anything like that and then you have your crown chakra and your crown chakra is just your connection to the Divine and usually that is like any kind of like white or clear crystal or any sort of rainbow crystal. So The Moonstone itself is a white crystal rainbow moonstones, even more because it's got all the colors of your aura coming out through the crown chakra, right?
And he sort of like Angel aura or Aqua Aura is like Aqua Aura is blue because it has the throat chakra but it also has that rainbow Sheen to it. So it's going to help last through your crown chakra there and just it depends on what energy system you want to work with, right?
If you know that you're wanting to help with yourself power, you're going to want to gravitate towards yellow crystals and you know, you have to do deep work with your heart and your emotions and all of that you're going to go towards those pink and green crystals, right? But a great way to start out if you're wanting to start your Crystal journey is to just start with like seven little tumble stones and don't look at what they do but just pick them based
on color one for each chakra. So pick one for your roots. Egg roll all the way up to the crown and then what you can do is you can start to intentionally work with each of These crystals when you're tapping into your energy and it's really going to help you learn and show you how your energy interacts with crystals and how you can start intentionally using them even if you have a lot of crystals
already. But you're not a big Crystal user go through and say, okay, let me pick seven out of the ones that I have. Like, I have all these crystals but I'm not doing anything with them. Pick those seven out of your collection that you already have and start working with them with your chakras with your energy centers. Just start to see How that
happens. Then when you feel really comfortable with your heart chakra, and you're like, okay, I really feel like this brought up a lot of feelings about grief.
Whenever I journaled with this, I was like, journaling on past greats that I thought that I had like, you know, moved on from or whatever once you get really clear on what that is, you can place that aside with intention know what it's for what to use it for and you can pick a new green or pink Crystal and start working with that one instead and kind of like fill in the lineup. Hopefully, that helps it. Make sense. Wow! That was, that was the nicest, thank you.
I just you, make it so easy to understand. It's very easy to get overwhelmed, getting a crystal book and walking into a crystal shop. And then, seeing some people that clearly are very into it and know what they're doing and know exactly what they're picking out. And then not even knowing what questions to ask is usually my issue. I people want to help me the shop people are like, hey can I help And something and I'm like, I don't know, I have no idea
what to ask or what to look for. So this has been so nice that you're making it so easy to grasp but oh Carly has a question. She can go have one question based on what you just said, basically I guess and I could see. Alexis maybe you also having this question because this is a very you question, very practical question but How would you suggest somebody to start working with crystals? Because I think that's a big one
too. Like when I know when I first started getting into crystals, if you will I just liked having them around me which is a perfectly good way to work with them. And then recently, I started meditating with them, I would kind of pick one that I felt drawn to that I had and just kind of connect with the energy and some of them I knew what they were kind of focused on so I would With the intention of that as well. Kind of just connect with it and feel the energy, passed the
energy through my body. But I know there's many other ways to work with them, maybe a little bit more simple and available to people. So, you mentioned, journaling. And oh, yeah, I mean, this idea of the chakra approach is really, really helpful, right? Even all you need is that basic understanding that, I just, like, put out, their works, like root is grounding and safety. And, and that sort of RG. And that can be a really great step being like, asking yourself
in the morning. If you have one of each right working with seven new Crystals at a time until you know what they do. What do I need right now? Do I need grounding? Do I need inspiration and energy? Do I need my power? Do I need to tap into my emotions in my heart? Do I need to speak up for myself? Do I need to tap into my inner knowing and my Intuition or do I need to surrender and Trust the universe and be open to that sort of energy if you need all of it.
Great, let's talk about All up in our pocket and go. Oh, but asking yourself what do I need today and then taking okay, I really need to tap into my heart. I want to do some deep healing and taking that one with you for the day or sitting down, and you're going to write in your journal and saying, oh, I'm going to grab my heart chakra one because when you Journal you want your heart to be open,
right? But if your Grant, if your journaling about your dreams and what actions you need to take, maybe it's also taking that one about moving forwards and taking action, right? And then, what you basically want to do is just realize what it does for you. So, when you sit down and your journaling, if you find that crap that, you know, sacral Crystal isn't really helping with the journaling. You know, that's not a crystal
that helps you with journaling. It's kind of like, the best way to do them is just bring them into situations that you think will help and then do the sort of like trial and error. Like oh, that didn't work. That's good to know. Okay, what does this work for and once you feel like you have a really good understanding of it, you can place that aside. Use it for those those times and experiences that, you know, it will help and move on to a new one.
I think with crystals we get very consumerist about it. Where we want all the crystals and we think the more crystals I have the more he'll die will be in the more magical. I will be and like, don't get me wrong, I have a stupid amount of crystals and like it's a wild but I think even if you already we have a lot but you don't find your working with them like slow and steady wins the race. Just hate a week, take a month with a crystal and figure out what it does for you and do that
trial and error. Because then you're going to be able to use that Crystal so much more effectively for your energy. And if you're trying to rush through and just get all the quick fixes with all the crystals, that's not going to work for you because you're not going to be using them with intention and actually using them in the situations that you need. And so it's so much Better. Even if you have 100 crystals and you're like, oh well I don't really use any of them, just
start today. Start and pick out one and if it takes you a year to figure out what that one does, It doesn't matter like yes, you have so many more and, and maybe you wish, you could figure them all out at once, but isn't it so much better to like, deeply know? At least one of your crystals helps with then like not really have an understanding of any of them while Auntie over quantity. Exactly. That's really great to. This is such an incredible way I think.
And I it's funny that we're having this conversation because I was working with crystals for quite a bit during the summer last year. And then I just kind of got away with it. But I've been thinking when you text me Alexis like we should have Maggie on again to talk about crystals because I have so many questions and stuff, I was like, oh my God, I was literally just thinking about how I want
to start working with them more. But I'm saying all of this, basically, because I started to realize how it's such an incredible way to start deepening your intuition and working with your intuition. Because when you give yourself the time and space to understand, How something affects you and works with you and your unique energy field. It's you're getting to know yourself better and your understanding your intuition and how it works better.
And I think that's one thing that a lot of people don't talk about actually kind of that subtle thing that happens regardless. And I think it's really beautiful II. Totally agree. It's like you're trusting yourself to know what's right for you and that's at the basis of all intuition is just Adding that inner trust, like, that's what intuition is, I always say that, like, if I had it my way intuition work is how people would find spirituality and be there, like introduction to
spirituality. I think a lot of the time it's like manifestation or some of these bigger buzz, word things, manifestation or crystals, but they're using these things to try and fix their life, right? You're trying to use manifestation to call in like your dreams and you think you can just sit back and wish for it, but so much more nuanced than that. And Same thing, you're getting a crystal because it says that it'll bring in love but then all you're doing is like sitting there.
Not understanding what it's prompting you to do and how its healing you, and how it's working with your energy. And so, these things are all great tools. But your intuition is like, your ultimate tool and it's like, you need to understand yourself and like, have trust in yourself before you can even properly use crystals, and even before you can like properly go towards your manifestations. So as much as all of these spiritual tools are amazing, And these healing modalities are amazing.
I think intuitions at the base of it all Amen. How has an hour gone by almost my God? That's incredible. We started a little bit late. I do have one more question that I don't know if it's will be worth, including in the episode or not. But is there a Nuance to receiving a crystal as a gift versus picking it out at yourself?
I know there's I've heard some things which we're not going to get onto tarot and Oracle today, but I've heard that Some things are better to be received from somebody like as a gift, like different deck things. I don't know anything about it, but you might know what I've been hearing, but is it that way? With crystals is a better to pick them out yourself or if you get one as a gift from a friend, like doesn't matter in my opinion, it doesn't.
And I'll explain why with both tarot and crystals. I think that, yes, of course, there's something to be said about intuitively, picking out your own deck and intuitively picking out your own. Crystal's. I think both ways that this is done, is kind of a way that some people try and gate keep spirituality in my attention with crystals. It said that you should pick out your own and you shouldn't be gifted crystals.
And I think that's because a lot of people who don't know anything about crystals will go in and get overwhelmed. And so by saying, oh, you need to pick out your own. It'll stop people from getting in using crystals because it's too overwhelming and that's a sense of gatekeeping rather than Saying. Oh yeah, someone can gift you a crystal and that can get you into it because that takes that overwhelm away, and it could be a much easier way into a
spiritual journey. You know, and I think the argument sounds very sound of well, you go and you pick your own Crystal and then it's like the one that meshed best with your energy, whereas if somebody else gets it for you, maybe that wouldn't have been the best one. But like we live in a world and a belief in the spiritual world of divine intervention and divine time. So do you really think the universe would get you this spiritual tool that wasn't meant
for you? I don't and we think there's like no right or wrong in this world really when you get down to it and I think getting gifted things like this can be such a beautiful mirror as you like what are you giving out into the world? What how do people view you?
I think I've noticed when I have gone into crystal shops even after I you know so I've slowly been Getting more and more into it over years, but even still sometimes, if I'm having a day where I'm very up in my head and I want to go pick out a crystal at a shop, or a market. I'm like, can notice.
I'm like, in my head and like, all I'm drawn to this but I should maybe be getting this because this is what I'm trying to accomplish or this is what I feel like is the theme of the world right now and so being gifted something like that it like takes your ego. Logic mind out of it and it's like, okay, I'm receiving this. Let's see what it does. Exactly. And then on the other hand with Taro, it said that you should never buy your own Tarot.
Deck Taro should be gifted and I think that's just a way to get keep the practice because who's gonna buy you tarot cards, you're like sister or G with no one around is into it except my sister except yeah, really sister. Did gift me an oracle deck and Carly. Yeah. Okay, this is a funny story. We can maybe cut this out, but I just think you'll appreciate this Maggie. She went to the bookstore to get herself. This particular one that she had
heard about. She really wanted and was being called to get it. And while she was there, she was called to get by like 5 in total different types of tarot cards. And she proceeds to gift them. I think to my mom to me Alexis and Alicia and then she was going to keep base. She let us all shoes and she was going to keep which One was left, even if it wasn't the one that she wanted, she ended up with exactly the deck that she went for the first in the
bookstore for the first place. That blew my mind, like she was like here pick out of these. Everyone picked everything but the one she wanted in the first place this is meant to be, is so crazy. She's so sweet.
They say you're not supposed to Buy your first deck after you get your first deck, you can do whatever you want but they say your first deck is supposed to be gifted and I just think that's the way to get keep the practice of being like no one's going to give you a Tarot deck because we're your first Tarot deck unless they read tarot, right? So it's a way to kind of like control it and make it more of a still like a special skill, but let's just go buy your own.
Like I don't think that hasn't books are made to be anything to do with it. Rules are meant to be broken. Exactly. Like, who cares? They say, oh, it's bad luck. I bought my father first deck and I have seemed to have great luck with it obviously. So is mine eye. And I'm excited to dive into the crystals. That I've bought two, because I've gotten all of them myself except for a couple of coaching programs. I was in, they sent out a little
gift things. And so I have received a couple of my crystals but they actually turned out to be repeats of ones that I already. So I have a couple doubles but emigrated love having dive edible crystals, the universe works in special ways sometimes when you have more than one of the same crystal like I've barely any crystals here and had to labradorites but I'm like I'm just meant to have. I'm just meant to have that energy is like you were just
saying about your your sister. It's like she was obviously meant to have that deck and have it. I have always been drawn to since I started moonstone. It's particularly rainbow moonstone, which I've also heard people say that that's actually labradorite, I think that's new. I don't think that's like maybe geology has discovered that. It's how whatever doesn't matter but it's like they're still different types. Like love exactly white. So if I read that, and I was like, okay.
But can I also store the same Stone technically once just heat it up. But they give different vibrations because they're created under different. They're all birth. Yeah. But I have always see at been drawn to that all of my rings which I'm not wearing them right now, but they're either moon, rainbow moonstone or labradorite. I just love those stones and I'm just been looking at this. I got this last year. It's like a labradorite little.
I just freaking love them. So, what are the properties of this labradorite? Is one of my favorites. Like I said, I have two of them. Something that I really think is beautiful is In. Inuit culture. It's believed that the labradorite stone is, the northern lights that have fallen to Earth, and then captured within the stone, which I think is really beautiful.
And because it's called labradorite because it was first found in Canada in Newfoundland and Labrador and so that's where the name comes from and so that's believed about that. But it's also just the stone to help uncover your inner magic. Like it brings your magic to the surface kind of like when You look at labradorite it looks like this plane Rock and then you move it and there's all this bright rainbow iridescent within it and it's that magic being brought to the surface.
So it helps to bring your own magic to the surface. It helps with psychic abilities and spiritual gifts, AKA your magic being brought to the surface and it also helps to if this is a really random one which like doesn't seem to go at the other stuff but it helps like its protective which is that Kind of root chakra that it has that those colors in, but its protective, especially it helps to protect your home
against thievery. So I always place it by my front door and it also helps when people walk in to kind of like what an emotional barrier up as guests come into your house so that they don't leave your energy, like their energy, kind of gets like left at the front door. Mmm, I love that. I have a little entryway shelf, like it's on the stairs going up, but I have right now, a few
I want. Just create a collection of crystals for people to kind of subconsciously, you know, enter the house and feel that right now. I haven't really paid much attention to which ones are there. I think there's a selenite, and then there's some clear quartz, I think, but that I want to get a little. I'm going to write for that. I always have Mind by my front door. It's an amazing Stone. I think anyone who is spiritual,
anyone who does spiritual work. So if you're working with crystals, you're doing spiritual work and therefore, labradorite Falls, right in, It's just a gorgeous Stone and it's like actually beautiful like looking at it. You're like that's the most beautiful Crystal I've ever seen. Yeah, it's incredible. I wanted to mention that my state South Dakota. The state stone is rose quartz and I've grown up, just finding it on the side of the road, going on Hikes.
It's everywhere. There's, there's rose quartz everywhere and it's not It's just I think misunderstood I just think it's funny that that's the state Stone and the heck? I don't know, I'm like, I don't know, I'm not going to read into it but it's just interesting to think about how. Yeah. It's just in the ground that I grew up on. Yeah, you were meant, you're always meant to be healing but I think all of my pressing questions have been answered. This was so informational, Carly.
Do you have? Other questions right now. Not right now, your personal? Yeah, not right. Now, we will later and then we'll be like Maggie, you have to come back, we have more questions, but I do want to give you a minute to talk about what you have going on. I know you have the goddess circles and you're always posting on your Instagram stories that you're doing, spontaneous pulls card pulls and yeah fun reading.
So I mean always give me a follow and check out my Stories because it just depends on my energy. I don't I used to do them every week and then I was like eight was so draining and then they started getting so popular that. I just got to calm down but you can always go check out. I do them maybe twice or once a month for these, little spontaneous card. Pose you can put them in.
I just allowed the universe to decide like, I close my eyes and then I just scroll and then I put my finger down and that's the one that I answer. So I never liked it. I don't Regards. It's not personal. It's just how I choose because I get a lot but I try and answer as many as I can as much as my energy can do. So I do free card. Paul's I have my own little spiritual podcast where we chat about a bunch of stuff over at the goddess. Journals.
The feel like today maybe like one of those and I do have um a group program which is the cosmic goddess Circle. It's a group ritual program where we meet every single. Eagle week and I create a to our virtual that we go through together with whatever's cosmically going on. So we do Newman, rituals and full moon and then just anything and everything. We've done Divine, masculine rituals, dark, feminine, rituals we've done. We just did one. That was a loose endings and
release ritual. We've done everything sparking Joy ritual, just a bunch of different stuff we meet and do that. That's going to be starting again for Enrollment in June. So that's coming up there. And yeah, I do readings and past life, regressions, and bunch of fun stuff. So, come chat with me. And my DMs are always open to just chat about spiritual stuff, I love it. So, thanks so much.
Yeah, of course. Yeah, like we said, Maggie has so many interests and she's an expert in a million things. So, whatever you need help with spiritually, DM her, and I'm I'm sure she will have some knowledge and wisdom to share with you depending on. When this is coming out, I'm starting starting at YouTube and starting by the time this should be out, it should be for the start of every season.
I'm doing a reading for each of the signs for the season ahead or when YouTube. So I've been filming them this week and I'm like, loving them. It's like 10 to 15 minutes for each sign. And I'm excited to tune in for my super cool. It'll just be my normal Instagram name and everything which is spring Moon, Oracle. You can find me on YouTube by me on Instagram. And yeah, perfect. I will tag everything in the show notes. As always, please go check out Maggie. This has been so fun.
Thank you so, so much for coming on. I love chatting about crystals. I think I don't do it enough and I'm so used to it. After working at the Crystal Store, for so long sometimes I miss it and then get in the vibe and I'm just like so much fun. Just all pores that which is, thank you guys so much. I had some yes, thank you for tuning in to another episode. We love everybody that is listening and go out and pick out a crystal experiment.
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