My experiences with crystal healing

[Black Dragon]

I've always been attracted to minerals since I was a small child. I'm a big time rock nerd, so I feel I should share my own experiences and passion on this thread. I have a somewhat large rock collection of common and fancy mineral specimens from my childhood that wasn't added to for years until I started metaphysical seeking, and in the last few years I've expanded it a ton. I have most of it displayed on shelves in my room, and it's quite extensive. I've got at least one of most minerals you'd be able to name, and then some. All varieties, from raw natural formations to polished and tumbled specimens, raw slabs, you name it.

I would not consider myself adept at crystal healing, just as I wouldn't really consider myself an adept yet in a metaphysical sense, although as a wanderer those proclivities are very powerful, but in need of purifying and development still(nobody's perfect, right?). I enjoy their beauty and their presence, and sometimes I have them with me and feel their energy and meditate with them, but I don't do anything fancy with them like any kind of ritual or deliberate healing practice. I can feel their vibration tangibly when held in hand.

Recently(over a month or two ago now) I damaged/chipped a quite rare naturally formed double terminated Afghanite specimen, and I still feel really hurt and bummed out by it, more than is healthy for sure. I'm kinda beating myself up over it, and maybe it was meant to teach me something, but it still hurts and makes me feel an unworthy caretaker of such things. It helps a bit to talk about it, but still feels like crap.

In the last few years I've also done a lot of research on crystals in a metaphysical sense, which is something I didn't consider at all when collecting as a child, though probably part of why I was drawn to them. Ask me about any mineral, and I probably have multiple varieties of it, from the well-known stuff to some more obscure. If you know what a naturally double terminated crystal is, I'm especially drawn to this type of formation if any given stone comes in it. I've got a lot of different varieties of double terminated quartz and corundum(ruby/sapphire), and many others. I like them because they are complete and unbroken, and not simply snapped off of matrix/host rock but dug up complete in themselves with a strong bi-directional energy flow.

As a kid in the 90's, I bough them at fairs, special shops, or by mail in "rock of the month" type clubs, but now I've got some major eBay and Etsy kung fu for finding great and unique specimens at budget prices. I've also got a few for sale on my Etsy shop.

Now for some stuff I've got and some of my personal favorites . I'll start with quartz, because that's the quintessential stone according to most metaphysical practitioners, and because it comes in so many varieties and colors with so many inclusions of different minerals it's just insane. Double terminated quartz is the most sought after, so if I can get a given variety in this form, I go for it. I've got diamond clear Arkansas quartz, Tibetan/Himalayan with black carbon inclusions, red hematite, blue dumortierite, red sparkles Lepidocrocite/"harlequin quartz", pink/mauve included lithium quartz, and a couple other varieties, all in naturally double-terminated form. Hematite varieties of quartz give you all the bang and versatility of quartz plus strong grounding energies.

I have all three well known tektites/impact glass; black tektite, moldavite, and Libyan desert glass. Out of the three, I'm most drawn to the clear-golden hues of LDG and the gentle but steadfast bolstering of benevolent willpower. Moldavite is nice, and some people swear by it as the most powerful crystal(there is no "most powerful", they all serve a purpose and it's about what works for you). I find it a little brusque and overpowering for my current vibration(it doesn't f*** around or sugar coat anything), but still enjoy my small specimen.

As far as actual meteors, I don't have pallasite, as it's quite expensive, and the better deals tend to be "rusters", or lower quality specimens with a tendency to rust over time. I do have a Campo Del Cielo meteorite fragment, which are very affordable for a real meteor. I personally refer to this stone as "Dragon's Blood" or the "Iron Phoenix". It's said to help overcome any obstacle, tragedy, or past events, which is very fitting, since it originated from the "main asteroid belt" before coming to Earth. This is literally a piece of Maldek.

I've got several varieties and colors of garnet, all fully-formed and terminated raw specimens. Corundum(ruby/sapphire) is surprisingly cheap in raw, collector's grade specimens, even very nice and large double-terminated ones. My most remarkable one is a large(30+ mm, 100 gram) sapphire of a muted/opaque blue color, that is completely uncut and unpolished and has a perfect natural six-sided hexagonal barrel shape with flat terminations on both ends, and a "star" trapiche formation on the top termination, which is uncommon and gives it a whirlpool or vortex like quality. It is alluvial, meaning comes from a deposit that was in water at one point, which depending on how long, polishes a stone smooth and reduces its natural facets/edges, but this one is only slightly smoothed with sharp lines still visible. It has a very deep energy that feels like it draws in and filters anything negative and streams light back out.

Perhaps my favorite type of all is Zircon(not cubic zirconium, natural zircon). In my opinion, it's the most underrated crystal out there. It's also one of my birth stones. It comes in roughly bi-pyramidal shapes, and is hard to find a nice, large natural one. I've got a handful of Zircons, all natural and fully terminated, with a particularly big and glossy one from Australia, from a deposit that makes it a whopping 730,000,000 years old(there was nothing but jellyfish things, and no ET's I know of that had set up shop here yet). The oldest tiny fully formed zircons are the oldest crystals in the world, specimens being found from 4 billion years ago, slightly after the planet formed. Zircon is probably the densest/heaviest mineral I know of, being I think 1.5 or 2x the weight of a diamond the same size.

Zircon is a stone that works with all chakras, even the "transpersonal" ones. It is both a grounding stone and a crown chakra stone of immense spiritual heights, and good for everything in between. Some sources list it as a heart chakra stone, and yes, it is definitely this too, drawing the powers from the bottom up and top down into the center at the same time and reciprocating. It is the ultimate binding of heaven and earth, and can ground a wanderer without feeling heavy or constraining. It is a stone of integrity and virtue, and the wise use of immense power, containing within it trace amounts of uranium, thorium, and other such materials, but in a form that is safe to handle(probably more so than a cellphone). This is a real heavy hitter yet has a really approachable energy for most people.

So yeah, I'm a really big nerd when it comes to this subject. Feel free to share more of your experiences and insights, or ask me anything about any stone and I'll answer to the best of my knowledge.