Clearing Your Minerals and Gemstones
By Rebecca Brents Platinum Quality Author
It is important to purge negative energies and recharge positive
ones in your stone and mineral allies if you use these tools in
your visualization and inner work. Clearing your stones periodically
dispels negativity that has built up either in a stone's history
or through past work it has done for you. It also recharges your
tool, the way you recharge a depleted battery ... and refreshes
its power the way you do your body with a good night's rest. (In
a way it's only courtesy to clear and restore a mineral ally ...
the way you would any tool you've used, and it's certainly how you
would expect to treat a friend!)
A clearing ritual resets and refreshes the stone's energy so that
it may connect again with its powers and purpose, and the ritual
itself refocuses your intent to make use of the stone and its assets,
reaffirms your connection to it, and synchronizes the vibration
of your respect and purpose with that of the stone you are using.
Probably the most important part of this ritual is simply your
intention. You have several options -- methods and suggestions considered
traditional in gemstone work, but since your mind, spirit, and aims
are the most essential part of your own spiritual life and work,
it is important that you do what feels comfortable and right.
There are no hard and fast requirements. If one method of clearing
stones works for you, use it. If you like a combination of several
things, feel free to incorporate them all. Change around the exercises
if something feels good or proper to you at one time and something
else another. Trust your instincts, above all. And if you feel moved
to make up your own rituals, that's perfectly fine, too.
* Use the smoke from a sage smudge-stick to clear and clean the
energies of your stones. Sage smudges can be found in many metaphysical
shops and health food stores and are a standard tool for clearing
out unwanted energies from items, spaces, rooms, houses, etc.
* Brush the stone in a counter-clockwise circle with your hands
or roll the stone counter-clockwise in your hands while you declare
that all negative energies are being removed from the stone and
that its positive energies are being strengthened and realigned
once more. Blow gently on the stone after completing this exercise
to make sure the harmful or negative energies are indeed scattered
and removed from the aura of the stone itself.
* Water, of course, is an excellent cleanser. If possible, use rain
water, melted snow, or water from a natural lake or free-flowing
stream. Ocean water is marvelous, too, and some people, even when
using fresh water like to put sea salt in the water as they wash
and cleanse their stones. Yes, you can use tap water, but let it
sit for a few days to discharge some of its impurities and additives.
* Some people like to use water that has been set out under either
the New Moon or the Full Moon to gain a particular charge. Water
charged under the New Moon is especially potent for initiating projects
or energies associated with the sign that the New Moon is in. Water
charged under the Full Moon is good for working with relationships,
choices, or bringing things to manifestation. Again, the energies
of the Full Moon polarity need to be considered in making the decision
to use this particular ritual.
* You can warm a stone gently over the heat of a candle flame (NOT
in the flame itself, but just enough to warm the stone itself.)
or place it to warm by the fire on a hearth.
* You might bury the stone in the earth again for a while, as a
way of grounding its energies or returning it "home" again
to the environment where it has existed for thousands of years before
it came to be your helper and where it will probably return again
someday when you are gone.
A stone that has been used in serious or traumatic healing work
may need special care to recharge its energies, just as you would
allow a living organism to recuperate and rest after strenuous or
difficult labor. For extreme cases, you might consider freezing
the stone ... or putting it out in snow ... in order to slow its
molecular action, just as you would allow a sick or exhausted person
or animal to sleep in order to heal.
When you feel it has regained its willingness to serve you, recharge
it again gently with some of the above suggestions. It may take
several efforts before you feel your stone has reached a state of
full power and utility again. Let your intuition be your guide in
making this decision.
(c) 2007 by Rebecca Brents. All Rights Reserved.
Rebecca Brents writes on a wide variety of spiritual and new age
subjects, including astrology, tarot, feng shui, alternative health,
metaphysics, and self-improvement. She publishes the extensive online
new age Ezine, The Enchanted Sprite on her website: Enchanted Spirit,
and offers numerous online new age lectures and new age classes
in these various fields. She also provides astrology readings, tarot
readings, and personal consultations through The Enchanted Spirit
Metaphysical Source Shop. Stop by and subscribe to her free new
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