NEW CRYSTAL BUNDLE NOW IN THE SHOP - CRYSTALS FOR SURGERY SUPPORT

Many of you know that I have not been answering messages and even had to cancel a couple of classes. After being unwell for some time, I was admitted to hospital for emergency surgery. Dear Mary and Linda did a most wonderful job of keeping everything going smoothly and the atmosphere here is calm and lovely - assisted by the glorious healing green of the trees, bushes and ferns and beauty of the flowers all around.

A few weeks ago, a lovely customer and friend asked for crystals to help someone who was very poorly in hospital. I made a crystal bundle and created a healing grid. Then when I needed to be in hospital and was gathering crystals and crystal essences, it occurred to me that an addition to our crystal bundles - a Crystal Bundle to Support Surgery - might be useful!

My main personal crystal is Ezekiel - an amazingly beautiful Smoky Quartz who has been with me for over 20 years. He lives on the altar in my bedroom, unless he wishes to go on an adventure and then he gives me very clear (and quite bossy!) instructions. During my recovery he was in my bed with me all the time, apart from frequent baths and recharging out in the sun.

Smoky Quartz is an important crystal in this bundle. We probably call on Smoky Quartz more than any other crystal in healing. It has so many properties that help us. In this instance, it can help with release of physical pain, infection, bruising, shock, toxicity from drugs, emotion, limiting thoughts and much more. It is also gently grounding post anaesthesia and to cope with the busyness of a hospital stay.

Amethyst is also good for pain and it calms and settles the mind, protecting us from fear and overthinking.

Bloodstone is my first choice to support healing of the physical body, the blood, all organs of the body. It is cleansing, detoxifying, supportive.

Emerald is also great for healing the physical body where there is infection and it helps to bring in Universal Life force. It is positive, uplifting, heart opening and reconnects us with the abundance of Nature and all of Life.

Citrine is wonderful for tissue healing and brings optimism, confidence and joy.

I'd use Smoky Quartz and Amethyst first, then bring in Bloodstone, Emerald and Citrine after a day or so.

We're also adding a small Hematite as a gift from us to you. I wouldn't use this immediately after surgery because gentleness is good at this point. If, however, after a few days you are still feeling very spun off balance, out of alignment or very ungrounded, Hematite can be great for addressing the inevitable shock to your system.

We hope you don’t need this crystal bundle! But if you do, heal well.

BLUE CALCITE - GENTLE HELPER

BLUE CALCITE - GENTLE HELPER

Yesterday I was photographing beautiful Blue Calcite in the sunshine in the garden. Uploading them today made me think that I could write a little about this wonderful, gentle helper.

Here at Sue Weaver Crystals and Cornwall School of Crystal Healing we do not subscribe to the idea that ‘this crystal does this’ for everyone in any situation. The way that we work is always specific to each person because they are much more than a set of presenting symptoms - everyone is different – totally unique.

However, when we do not have the luxury of working individually with a client, and all that we have to go on is a generalisation, there are some conditions and situations where one crystal will present itself as a good option that is worth trying.

BELTAINE & THE BLESSINGS OF MAY

In our ancient past, the link between our lives and the natural world was much more obvious than it is today. Beltaine was the time when the herds were moved from close to the homestead to summer pastures. Community rites and rituals grew to protect animals, crops and people, to bring fertility, abundance and good harvests.

May is my absolute favourite time of year. In the past, Marcus has planned Sacred Journeys in May. While I understand that he cannot control the Cosmos, I’ve made it clear that I do not ever intend to leave Cornwall in May!

Imbolc is a time of awakening, of the first stirrings of life, of renewal

Imbolc is a time of awakening, of the first stirrings of life, of renewal

Lunar Imbolc, white candle, white, flowers, white crystals

Imbolc, also now known as Candlemas, has come to be associated with the Gregorian calendar dates of 1st/2nd February, but at Heaven & Earth Community we prefer to work with natural cycles rather than relatively recent calendar dates and so choose to honour Imbolc with the second New Moon after Winter Solstice - the same date as Chinese New Year.

Each year, we cease courses and close the shop at Winter Solstice and reopen at Imbolc, allowing ourselves to align our own rhythms with those of Earth, Sun and Moon - retreating to rest and dream in winter - gathering energy for longer days.

LUNAR IMBOLC FAR FROM HOME

As we wake up this morning far from Bridie's land, the clock on this laptop tells me that at home it is already afternoon.

For someone who seldom leaves home, the changing of times has not been easy on my body. It's yet another reminder of how rooted we are in our own land.

Ever since I started to align myself consciously with the turning of the wheels of Earth, Moon and Sun about 35 years ago, my life changed. The more I feel and know myself to be part of the land and cosmic cycles - not affected by them, but an intrinsic part of the Whole - and organise my life to flow with the energy, the more beautiful it becomes.

MAIDEN BRACELETS

Beautiful, unique Maiden Bracelets for girls on the cusp of womanhood

Following the success of my Menopause Bracelets, quite a few women have asked if I make bracelets for girls who are approaching womanhood and beginning to experience the effects of female hormones.

I thought this was a very good idea, and so with the beautiful weather enabling me to work outside in the garden, I decided to make a start.

polychrome jasper, ocean jasper & other questions

The other day I posted a collage of some rather lovely Polychrome Jasper hearts and someone asked me:

“How can you tell this Jasper from the Ocean Jasper? Sometimes it's hard to know what we're getting out there (not speaking about you!!). Thanks.”

I love questions! They make me think, and when I answer them lots of people usually say that they had had the same, or similar, questions.

I thought about how to answer this question and realised that there was actually more than one question and there wasn't a simple answer - so here are some of my thoughts on the question of it being hard to know what we're getting out there. Later I’ll address the question of how do you tell the difference.

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

INTERNATIONAL WOMEN'S DAY

I’ve been thinking about International Women’s Day next week. We’re inviting women and girls to join us in a short online ceremony and I’ve been making a few bracelets with some of the crystals that are in our Goddess Bundle.

Moonstone

Moonstone is a pearly white feldspar that helps us to align with, and flow with, all the cycles of life. It has a strong affinity with the emotions, and is calming and soothing.

It is excellent for women at all stages of life, balancing hormonal upsets, helping with ‘PMS’, painful menstruation, infertility and the challenges of pregnancy, easing birth, for post birth support and for menopause. Moonstone reminds women of their divinity – that all are goddesses.

A BIT ABOUT SOME BLUE CRYSTALS

As we approach Valentine’s Day, I thought we’d show you some of the lovely hearts we have in stock. The first that popped up to be photographed were all blue and I was pretty sure I’d written about blue crystals earlier. If I did, I can’t find it now, so here goes . . .

In this photograph you can see four different blue crystal hearts - Sodalite, Dumortierite, Angelite and Lapis Lazuli.

WHY DOES FLUORITE COME IN DIFFERENT COLOURS?

I’ve been asked the above question quite a lot recently. It may be because we’ve had some particularly lovely Fluorites lately.

I thought I’d take a moment to explain a bit about colour in crystals.

Some crystals are always the same colour, e.g. Malachite is always green; Azurite is always blue; Peridot is always green; Cinnabar is always reddish. These minerals are called ideochromatic and the colour causing elements which are essential to their chemical structure. Copper is responsible for the green colour in Malachite - Malachite is composed of copper, carbon, oxygen and hydrogen Cu2(CO3)(OH)2. Iron is responsible for the green colour in Peridot - Peridot is composed of magnesium, iron, silicon and oxygen (Mg, Fe)2SiO4.

WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES

WE WERE MADE FOR THESE TIMES

Last night I created a crystal grid to support a group of people who are making a pilgrimage along the Michael/Mary line. It’s been an interesting process, and I thought those of you who love crystals and crystal grids might be interested to hear about it.

Many such journeys have been ‘on hold’ for quite some time now, including those we thought we had planned! It brings to mind “Mann Tracht, Un Gott Lacht” - an old Yiddish adage meaning, “Man Plans, and God Laughs.”

This group of people have come from USA with our dear friend Aluna Joy and Marcus went to meet them in London last Sunday. From London they travelled to Bury St Edmunds then visited many sites along the energy lines. They are currently staying in Glastonbury and we’re expecting them here in Cornwall tomorrow.

MENOPAUSE SUPPORT

Last weekend we were at the Healing Light Festival and I was asked so many times about crystals to bring support during menopause. It’s clearly a huge issue! I’ve worked with lots of women over the years and found that good crystal healing treatments can be really helpful. However, not everyone can access regular treatments over a period of time and so this led me to think about creating Menopause Support Bracelets for self help.

The way that I work is always specific to every client. It’s very unlikely that two women with the same symptoms will need the same treatment – because they are much more than a set of presenting symptoms - every woman is different – totally unique.

Winter White & Clear Crystals

Winter White & Clear Crystals

Last week I wrote about clear/colourless Quartz and how I liked to work with it in the period between Winter Solstice and the first stirrings of new life. I said I’d share my thoughts on some more clear/white stones, so here goes!

Moon/Girasol Quartz

‘White’ Quartz varies from being totally clear to milky to opaque white. I wrote about clear/colourless Quartz last week. Milky Quartz is much less intense that Clear Quartz. It has the same properties but in a much softer way.

In early crystal writings, the very clear was considered to be masculine and the more milky was feminine, and it was often recommended that you find a pair - one for each hand. Maybe try that and see what you find.

A special kind of milky Quartz is Girasol or Moon Quartz. It comes from Madagascar and has a truly beautiful and quite magical opalescence. Moon Quartz is both gentle and powerful, with a subtle, quiet strength. It is very feminine and connects with Moon energy and cycles of creativity. It aids intuition and deep knowing and is a great dreaming stone.

Quartz

Quartz

‘I COME INTO ALIGNMENT WITH MY TRUE AND DIVINE PURPOSE’

As we begin to emerge from the rest and retreat time of deep winter, there’s a time of opening up the dreaming that we’ve been holding through the dark times. It’s a time when we examine our values; a time of planning and looking forward to what we wish to manifest. It isn’t yet time to act, but it is time to open up our mind - to examine known possibilities and expand into new ones.

I find the clear/colourless/white crystals to be especially helpful at this time, and today I’m writing about Quartz.

New Year and New Moon

Each year, when I open the door to the crystal barn after the winter rest, I walk into a space with an amazing sense of peace. The windows are still covered and the barn has been in complete darkness since our Winter Ceremony; the remains of the altar stand untouched; all is quiet and very still.

At Samhain, my intention is always to begin the process of withdrawal – moving from the outer to the inner world. There is a sense of becoming more inward – of connecting more to the Earth element – but it can be hard to fully realise this in a world that becomes ever more focussed on being busy and I find that my actions usually lag behind my intention.

Little by little as the days become even shorter and the nights even longer, nature withdraws, the trees lose their leaves and my chickens stop laying. As our Solstice Ceremony approaches, my need for hibernation becomes quite desperate until it is utter bliss to sit with like-minded souls in quiet stillness and complete Darkness until we witness the tiny spark that begins the return of the Light.

New Moon, Solar Eclipse and prayers for wisdom, peace and kindness on Mother Earth

Today the Horse Drum spoke to me. Told me off is more accurate!

(If you’re uncomfortable with the thought of being spoken to by a drum, maybe don’t read this blogpost 🙂.
If you want to read more about the Horse Drum, please scroll down to earlier blogposts.)

Over the past week, as we approached the New Moon/Solar Eclipse that’s due tomorrow, I’ve had many thoughts of creating a crystal grid. Here in Cornwall we are very aware of the gathering of ‘world leaders’ for the G7 meeting that is supposed to address ‘tackling climate change and preserving the planet's biodiversity’ and the New Moon/Solar Eclipse creates a powerful opportunity for releasing old ways and choosing a new way forward.

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It's almost Spring Equinox. It's green time.

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It's almost Spring Equinox. It's green time.

As we move towards Spring Equinox, I feel the green energy coming in.

For me the calendar year begins with white and space - leafless trees, white skies, frost on the grass, snow (sometimes!) and snowdrops - and the very first stirrings of life as Bridie awakes from her slumbers. It then moves to yellow as the energy of hope and promise grows and the banks are adorned with the joy of daffodils. I wrote about this is my last blogpost, and I’m delighted to say that my home is still filled with daffodils wherever I look.

The Lilac buds outside my door are now full and bursting. The Oak tips are shimmering, the pussy Willows are opening, the birds are busy and very loud at dawn. I hear the Woodpecker when I first get out of bed. As I write this, the sun is shining and washing is drying in the breeze. We’ve had lots of days like this, but then some mornings it’s so cold and dark that it feels like we’re still in winter.

The Equinoxes are a balance point - equal day and night; equal dark and light; the point where the inner world of the winter is almost gone and the outer world of the summer calls. As with all transitions, the Equinoxes can feel chaotic and stressful, and I’ve certainly heard of many, many people feeling exhausted, overwhelmed, unsettled. There’s a feeling of something happening - something coming in - but we’re not quite clear what that is or how it will manifest.

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It's Springtime. It's yellow time. It's Citrine time.

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It's Springtime. It's yellow time. It's Citrine time.

I woke up this morning with joy rising in my heart. It wasn’t until quite some time later when I went out to feed the chickens that I saw what an absolutely beautiful day it was, but I’d definitely felt the uplift of spring as soon as I awoke.
This time of year is Citrine time for me. It’s yellow time. I tend not to choose yellow for much of the year but when I find myself choosing yellow roses and tulips instead of my usual white and pink I know the energy is shifting.

We have a new (to us) crystal - Trolleite

We have a new (to us) crystal - Trolleite

Trolleite is a rare stone. Originally found only in Sweden, more recent discoveries have been made in Australia, Rwanda, Brazil and the USA.

I first came across it last year, but it was so very expensive that I didn’t buy any. I was offered some beautiful pieces a couple of weeks ago – still quite expensive, but less so, and very beautiful so I decided to buy a few pieces.

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