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Selenite – Healing Crystals

Cleanse, purify, and recharge your space, self, and items.

Benefits: 

Selenite is one of the best healing crystals in the crystal kingdom. It releases a high amount of negative ions, which are a natural, powerful energy cleanser.

It is known that exposure to negative ions increases serotonin production, resulting in alleviation of stress, depression and a boost in energy.

Metaphysical Qualities: 

Selenite has one of the highest vibrations in the crystal kingdom. It is self-clearing and self-charging. Selenite is said to clear energy blocks and cleanse negativity, and is one of only 4 crystals that does not hold onto negativity. It is used to raise vibration, connect with the divine, aid in protection, assist with mental clarity, and to clear and charge; jewelry, stones, crystals, healing tools, spaces and you. Selenite may be used as an aid in meditation, healing, gridding and protection.

Put it into Practice:

Selenite is a gypsum crystal that is often referred to as liquid light. Selenite is a light carrier, so you can place your selenite somewhere where it will get some sunlight.

• Selenite crystals can be cleansed and recharged by leaving them in direct sunlight or under the moonlight.
• Selenite is a protective stone that will help keep negative energies away.
• Selenite is great at clearing the energy in a space.
• Having trouble sleeping? Place some selenite in your bedroom for a more restful sleep.
• Selenite’s healing energies can reduce pain, soreness, or blockages in your body by placing it on the affected body part for 30 minutes.
• Put selenite in each corner of your house or a room to create a safe, uplifting space.
• Selenite can help you stabilize your emotions and feel calm.
• Selenite can assist in feeling a sense of tranquility and mental clarity.
• You can wave a selenite want up and down your entire body, breathing calmly, while visualizing its bright light restoring your vitality.
• Meditating with selenite can help you enhance your practices.

Sage + Palo Santo

An ancient practice; set an intention and light the bundle to cleanse away any negative energy

Benefits:

Saging or ‘smudging’ is an age-old practice that dates back to ancient cultures. It is the essential practice of cleansing/purifying your energy or aura with bundles of sacred plants, such as sage or palo santo. Beyond simple belief, there is science backing this phenomenon as we now know that we have subtle fields of energy around us that can be affected by various things.
Smudging with sage or palo santo also produces negative ions; negative ions neutralize our energy fields and naturally improve our health, well-being and the quality of the air!

Metaphysical Qualities:

When it comes to its metaphysical properties, burning sage has long been used to connect to the spiritual realm and enhance intuition. For healers in traditional cultures, burning sage is used to aid in healing or shamanic sessions; it cleanses the air and energy all at once.
Use to reset your own energetic field before or after events, outings or even if you’re feeling off.

Sage is known for its cleansing and purifying properties. This is through a process known as transmuting (definition: to change or alter in form, appearance, or nature and especially to a higher form), often used in alchemy and science.

Palo Santo is used in rituals to cleanse and ward off negative energies (Palo Santo is related to frankincense, myrrh, and copal trees, three other powerful energy cleansers and protectors). The wood is also used to communicate with the divine, heal on the physical and spiritual levels, and improve concentration and mental focus during meditation.

Put it into Practice:

Saging can be done anytime you feel moved to use it. 

Use it to cleanse and purify your energy, your space, center your busy brain or anxious thoughts. Great for maintaining your peace throughout the holiday season and clearing your energy after shopping or being in crowded spaces.

Tarot and Oracle Decks 

Connect with yourself and your space. These decks are tools for self-reflection and to divinate wisdom and guidance.

Benefits: 

When you are in a spot in life that requires a little reflection and inquiry into your situation, how you got there or where you should go next, these divination tools are an excellent way to get a little guidance. There can be controversy about the legitimacy and intention of these tools and whether or not they are a little ‘woo-woo’ – however, we believe that if you are able to pull a little messaging and guidance out of your session then the mission is accomplished. These tools are a fun and beautiful way to stay grounded and get a little free counsel. 

Fact: Some of the first recorded uses of tarot are from 1370!

Difference between Tarot and Oracle: 

Tarot is a structured deck that is made up of 78 cards. The first 22 cards are called the MAJOR Arcana, these hold very strong messaging and readings can be done with only major arcana if you wish. The next 56 cards are the supposed predecessors of our traditional deck of cards made up of 4 suits; swords, coins, wands, and cups. Each suit signifies a different element/theme that you can relate your message to. 

Oracle is an unstructured deck that has no limit. They are often comprised of affirmations, insights and mantras that can bring clarity to your state of being or situation. They are a bit easier to read but less specific in their answers, leaving you room for self-reflection and growth. 

Put it into Practice:

Here are some tips that we like to bring into our own practices that may help you tune in. 

Clear your deck

• • You can do this many ways; set your deck on a Selenite Plate to clear its energy, set your intentions and cleanse with your hands, or a very common method is knocking – release stuck energy between readings by knocking three times on the deck and envision the energy being released 

Connect to your deck

• • • Set your intention with your deck in your hands, allow your questions to filter in, and ask for guidance on your matter.

Pulling your spread

• • • • You can pick a one-card spread or a multi-card spread. These are easy to look up, but for starters you can pick one card at a time and see how they relate to your situation. 

Most decks come with a guidebook, if yours doesn’t we like to use biddytarot.com for insight. 

The important part is knowing that there is no wrong insight for you to pull and there is no negativity, just suggestions and your own intentions.

Books

Both to read and to decorate, these books are handpicked for their beauty as well as their wisdom.

Benefits: 

We always suggest adding a good coffee table book to your displays, but what if these books brought wisdom and peace? This collection of books is curated with the intent that you can display them beautifully, but are also just a reach away when you are needing a little guidance and grace. Bring your mind back to center with a good read, plus – by reading daily you are stimulating your brain and maintaining its connectivity, as well as comprehension and vocabulary. This builds communication skills and keeps your brain in a creative state, all while letting you escape into the world that the book provides even just for a momento