Crystal Meanings Chart: 40 Stones, What They're For, and Which Ones Water Ruins
Every crystal chart on the internet gives you a colour and a feeling. Almost none of them tell you whether the stone survives being rinsed under a tap....
The Crystal Wand: How to Choose and Use One
The wand has the worst public-relations problem of any ritual tool. Two generations of film have turned it into a thing that shoots light, which makes the real...
Which Crystals Should Not Be Kept Together
Almost every page answering this question talks about clashing energies, and almost none of them mention the one thing that will actually ruin your stones in a drawer....
Vogel Crystals: What They Are, Who Cut Them
Quick answer A Vogel crystal is a quartz point cut to a fixed geometry: doubly terminated, faceted, aligned to the crystal’s c-axis, with one end ground to a...
Crystals for Love: Which Stones to Use, and Which Ones Are Glass
There are maybe eight crystals genuinely associated with love work, and about thirty being sold for it. Some of the prettiest — cherry quartz, most "strawberry quartz", a...
Crown Chakra: Sahasrara Explained
The six-chakra text does not count the crown among the six. Its lotus there is whiter than the full moon, not violet. What a thousand petals actually counts,...
Third Eye Chakra: Ajna Explained
Two petals, OM and Hakini are in the 1577 source. The indigo is not. What Ajna actually means, why discernment beats vision, the pineal claims that do not...
Solar Plexus Chakra: Manipura Explained
Manipura against the 1577 Sanskrit source: what is genuinely old, why the colour yellow is not, the two directions a blockage is said to run, and the abdominal...