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14 Crystals for Clearing, Protecting, and Transmuting, by Michelle Welch

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The Magic of Connection introduces a variety of crystals, which are excellent tools to help us clear, protect, and transmute energy through these cords of connection to provide healing—instead of cutting the cords. Crystals work well with us because, unlike us, they have a fixed rate at which they vibrate, while we have entropy or chaos. The crystals are steady, so we entrain to their energy.

It is important to remember that what might serve as a protective crystal to one person might cause someone else to feel shaky and unsteady. You see, people are different and, as such, respond to crystals in different ways. However, generally speaking, most crystals have a universal consciousness that seems to carry the same properties for most people. But it is a good idea to be confident it is a crystal you really connect with as opposed to what others tell you. You can test this by holding the crystal in your non-dominant hand. Become mindful of how your energy responds to the energy of the crystal. Are you calm, excited, revitalized? Do you feel heat, electricity, or any other physical sensation?

With that said, here are some crystals that help us clear, protect, and transmute energy. (All are referred to as crystals here, although some are not technically crystals.) Use this list as a starting point. Then see if the crystals resonate with you.

1. Selenite: The Sage Crystal
   You can use selenite in lieu of sage as it clears energy and other stones. Use it just like you would a smudge stick. This use of selenite helps clear you and your space of any stagnant or unwanted energy. You might become very relaxed or even sleepy after working with it. Interestingly, it also helps with achy joints because it is clearing away unwanted energy.
2. Black Kyanite: The Chakra Balancer Crystal
   Black kyanite is the go-to crystal (along with selenite) for clearing and sweeping away all negative energy as a broom sweeps away dirt. You can then use it over each of your chakras to balance them quickly. It also helps you ward off psychic vampires that drain you of your energy.
3. Black Tourmaline: The Transmutation Crystal
   Black tourmaline absorbs, deflects, and transmutes negativity. It is ideal for placing at your front door, in your car, at your office, and on your body. In The Magic of Connection, I explain that no matter how many protective measures you take, we all absorb energy; therefore, at some point, you should learn to transmute the energy yourself. The book walks you through the transmutation process with many exercises and tools to help. Until you become a proficient human black tourmaline, these crystals are greatly needed.
4. Lepidolite: The Anxiety-Buster Crystal
   Lepidolite will help you calm any stress or anxiety you are experiencing. Sometimes we all allow outside influences to enter into our auric field or our energetic space so much that we begin to experience anxiety. The lithium contained in lepidolite will help you reshape any anxiety into a more calming and soothing energy. Dealing with any anxiety will allow you to progress from protecting against negative energy to transmuting energy. This takes you from defensive mode to empowerment.
5. Goldstones: The Alchemy Crystals
   Goldstones are called human-made crystals, although they are actually glass mixed with another substance (such as copper). The lore is that Italian monks accidentally tipped copper into a container of glass and made red goldstone. For this reason, all goldstones are stones of alchemy. The glass was accidentally or magically transformed into a beautiful crystal. Choose which goldstone to work with based on the situation you are attempting to rectify. You can use any of them for situations where you feel an accident has occurred, and you want to transmute the perceived unfortunate event into a positive one.
   • Red Goldstone: The Motivational Crystal
     Red goldstone is formed with glass and copper. It is helpful when you lack the motivation to do much of anything, much less transmute energy. It will help you begin to feel a connection with others. As you start to interact with others, you will become livelier. On a more challenging note, red goldstone is an excellent crystal to use when dealing with transmuting energy involving an intimate relationship. You can place it on your sacral chakra to work with this type of situation.
   • Blue Goldstone: The Multi-Dimensional Crystal
     Blue goldstone is formed with glass and cobalt and represents strength and beauty like a star-filled night. Blue goldstone is useful when you are in an untenable situation where you need to send healing through a cord of connection and maintain your boundaries. This may be in an abusive situation where clearly the parties involved do not need to reconcile, but there can still be healing. The blue goldstone will allow you to witness the healing rather than a participant in this reality.
   • Green Goldstone: The Forgiveness from a Distance Crystal
     Green goldstone is formed with glass and tarnish-resistant chromium. This goldstone is ideal for situations where you have trouble breaking away because you find it difficult to see your true worth. However, once a light is shone onto your heart chakra, you may feel unnecessary shame because you stayed in an abusive or undesirable situation. The green goldstone will help you forgive yourself and forgive the person who harmed you. However, this forgiveness will take place from a distance. In other words, while there is no cord cutting because we are all one, there is forgiveness, yet it is done from a physical distance.
   • Purple Goldstone: The Higher Consciousness Crystal
     Purple Goldstone is formed with glass and manganese. It is rarer and associated with your higher self. This rarity makes it perfect to use when you are ready to transmute energy because transmutation is also rarely used. You have to be in your higher selves or superconscious to transmute energy.
6. Black Obsidian: The Shadow Side Crystal
   There are many times a cord relationship will bring up those areas in your life you might want to keep hidden from yourself or others—your shadow side. Black obsidian arrowheads were often used to symbolize cord cutting; but you don't want to cut; you want to heal. You can still use black obsidian, but it is vital to use it sparingly in the event that a lot of emotions bubble to the surface like a volcano. You might consider beginning your work with golden sheen obsidian.
7. Apache Tear: The Grief Relief Crystal
   When the Native Americans were driven from their lands, it is said their tears turned into these obsidian nodules known as Apache tears. These are the ideal crystals to use for times when you are going through grief, whether it be from the loss of a job, loss of a lover, or loss of a loved one. You remain corded to each of those situations or people. Apache Tear is ideal to use once you are ready to begin healing the cord. The grief may remain, but you will be able to find hope with the Apache Tear.

Purple Crystals: The Violet Flame Crystals
The ascended master St. Germain helps you transmute energy with his violet flame. The following purple crystals represent the energy of the violet flame.

11. Amethyst: The Transmutation by Fire
    This purple quartz gets its color from iron. What many people don't know is that most citrine is actually heated amethyst. This is genuinely transmutation by fire. The Greeks named amethyst for the word "undrunk," and believed it kept you sober even if you drank alcohol. This has gained amethyst the reputation of being a stone for helping break addictions, which is a type of cording and is also a type of transmutation by fire. Use amethyst to remind yourself that you are an alchemist and can change the form of energy. Even better, you can do it under pressure—transmutation by fire!
12. Ametrine: The Higher Power Crystal
    Ametrine is the natural combination of amethyst and citrine. Watch out because there are a lot of fake ametrines out there. But the natural ones combine the qualities of these two powerful quartz crystals bringing about a beautiful connection between the solar plexus and the crown chakras. Ametrine is the ideal crystal to foster courage when you feel you are not worthy or good enough. It helps you know that you are here for a purpose and that healing of your self-worth can take place. Additionally, you can find joy and a state of bliss with this type of transmutation.
13. Amegreen: The Higher Love Crystal
    Amegreen is the natural combination of purple amethyst and prasiolite (green amethyst). Both are quartz and bring clarity to the cord situation that you are attempting to transmute. These two beautiful forms of quartz connect the crown and heart chakras. Amegreen is perfect to use when you want clarity regarding how to heal and transmute a situation involving matters of the heart. It also will help you show more compassion to Mother Earth, to whom you are also corded.
14. Citrine: The Cheer & Clear Crystal
    Citrine has often undergone a transformation in that it may have been heat treated by humans. It is a quartz, so it clarifies and amplifies. It is the perfect crystal to remind you that if you practice transmutation, it will eventually bring positivity and cheer into your life even when there are difficult situations or people to transmute.

There are many different ways to work with crystals to bring about transmutation. The Magic of Connection takes you through many exercises to work with various crystals. While holding the crystal, you visualize the energy needed to heal the cord and transmute the energy. Although there are many other tools to assist in transmutation, crystals are a beautiful and tangible way to represent your journey to healing and empowerment.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2021. All rights reserved.

I was blessed to experience the dying process of my fiance. We were soul mates and dated for 10 years. He waited until his mom, best friend and I had left his side at hospice before he made his transition. A few days later, I began to notice flickering lights, light bulbs sparking, the TV going out, the TV and computer monitor dimming, the radio coming on by itself and playing Need You Now by Lady Antebellum. I was told by the wife of his friend to expect this. I am a Christian, so it was a life-changing experience for me to see how God prepares his children to come back home. My fiance was not religious but he was a believer. The most unforgettable part of his process was when he acknowledged his grandmother's presence in the hospital room. She had been deceased for five years and really loved my fiance. Here's my question: since his passing, I have experienced a spiritual awakening within myself. I sometimes get physical sensations I had not experienced before such as tingles and chills. I also wake up at three a.m. every night and can't go back to sleep until five. I know that the grieving process can affect all aspects of our lives, but would like to hear what you think is going on with me. How do I sharpen my spiritual skills without violating my religion? By the way, my fiance was gifted with the ability to see things before they happened; he just couldn't put a time stamp on them. He also said there were benevolent spiritual presences in his home. He would hear voices and they would turn on things. Is it possible that some of his abilities rubbed off on me?

K.

Susyn:

The experiences you describe are common to those of us who have lost a loved one. When a person crosses over, they have many different ways of letting us know they are safe, sound and thinking about us, many of which you have mentioned here.

Some of the first signs that a loved one's spirit may send include flickering lights, computers dimming, interrupted radio signals or a specific song playing on the radio, as you mentioned. Because spirits need a lot of energy to make their presence known, they will often draw this power from a nearby electrical source.

Losing a loved one can often evoke a spiritual awakening, much as you described. Our awareness is heightened and our sense of the world transformed. As you say, this is a wonderful gift that your fiance gave you in the wake of his passing. You can also attribute the chills and tingles you get at certain times to him letting you know he is near.

Your sleeplessness is definitely part of the grieving process, but it also may happen because your fiance tends to come to you during those particular hours. Most spirits will appear in the middle of the night when the world is quiet and we are free from outside distractions. If you give yourself permission to hold conversations with him during these times, you will soon be able to hear his responses as well.

Many people mistakenly believe that their spiritual experiences are in conflict with their religious beliefs. You don't mention your particular denomination, but I assume it is based on the Bible. If so, there is nothing in these experiences that is at odds with your beliefs. The Bible is filled with stories of visits from spirits and angels and the idea that our souls carry on after we die. If you place your trust in what is written in the Bible, these experiences will actually make your religious beliefs stronger instead of troubling your conscience.

There are many ways to sharpen your spiritual skills and abilities. Spending more time in prayer and meditation is a wonderful way to expand your spirit and discover more. Because we all have a personal relationship with the God of our understanding, we can enlarge it in the same way we build our human relationships: by devoting time to it and cultivating bonds of trust and love.

You can also count on being guided to explore other aspects of spiritual living, for once the door to your awareness has been opened, it will naturally start to grow bigger. You may want to join a spiritual group so you can discuss your concerns and share your experiences, for people who have had similar journeys can support you and validate what you're going through.

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Mata:

What you describe is perhaps the most common way people are led to a conscious spiritual path: they have an extraordinary spiritual experience that totally blows their minds and leads them to start questioning everything they've always assumed to be true about the nature of life, death and reality.

Even when the loss of a loved one is not accompanied by amazing phenomena, it tends to cause a person to question things they've never deeply questioned before, especially if this is the first significant loss they've had to face. As your mind and heart reach out for comfort and for answers, the Universe and the spirit world will respond with all sorts of signs, messages, synchronicities and wondrous experiences.

When we start asking deep questions, we are naturally led to greater understanding. Over the years, I have heard from many people who have gone to a book store in search of a book that will address some deep spiritual question they've been pondering, only to have the perfect book fall right off the shelf in front of them as if trying to get their attention.

The same sort of thing happens in all sorts of ways. For example, if we ask if it is really true that we continue after death and we pray for knowledge of this with every fiber of our being, we may begin to have experiences with spirits or stumble upon books, stories, ideas and research that address this very subject. This happens naturally because we are engaging the Universe in conversation.

Just longing for spiritual experiences and thinking about spiritual subjects can and will lead to an awakening. Even if you're just aware of missing your fiance and want to be able to connect with him, it could be that you're experiencing this awakening so that you will be able to fulfill this desire. Your fiance may even be behind a lot of these experiences, working from his side to help you rise in vibration, knowledge and wisdom so that the two of you can connect even though you're now worlds apart.

Your own awakening side, one thing is clear: your fiance is trying very hard to reach out to you from Spirit, most likely to let you know that he is all right and there for you still, and to encourage you to keep on believing. It sounds like he was far more open to direct, personal spiritual experience than you are because he hadn't been taught to be fearful. Perhaps in blessing you with direct psychic experiences of someone you love and trust, he is trying to counter your religious concerns and tell you that there is nothing wrong about opening up to new realms of spiritual experience and developing a personal relationship with the Divine.

Astrea:

Many times in life we hear, "You will always have what you NEED, but not necessarily what you WANT." Your spirit must have needed to experience the feeling of leaving your human body, and the suggestion in the next chapter of Sylvia Brown's book was all it took to get you there.

Even though you hadn't read it yet, your SOUL recognized the title of that chapter as something it had been seeking, and your soul, knowing that you had that reference to read after your experience, got with it and out you went!

While I don't usually recommend her books, Sylvia Brown has a wide reaching and powerful effect on lots of people. A Gemini like you would be able to relate easily to her writing and put it to good use. Synchronicity - you gotta love it!

I like your description of "getting caught." That's exactly what it feels like, isn't it? One minute you're free and hovering above the room, and the next minute, ZAP! back down into your corporeal form you go!

As a little kid, I loved that "feeling of return." With practice, most of the time we can control that event, but sometimes, when our physical ears hear a distracting noise or something else occurs to knock us back into reality, back we go. With practice you will be able to control your return better.

I find it interesting that you were visiting your mother-in-law and not someone in your own genetic family. Evidently, you and your husband got married for reasons that are even deeper than love. His family's interest in "psychic stuff" will nurture your children in such matters and help them to grow into their own abilities.

You'll never have to be concerned that when your daughter visits them, she'll be discouraged from exploring her own psychic life and power. My parents encouraged me to develop my psychic senses in a time when it wasn't nice to even discuss such things in public. Heck, it's STILL not considered a great topic at the dinner table in some families!

Your kids will get to talk about it ALL and ask questions and read and study. This is going to give them such an edge in life! Talk with your husband about how you want to present this to your kiddos, so that you are united in your approach and ready to tell them their experiences are all natural and okay.

A word or two of warning: Geminis often have difficulty staying grounded in REAL LIFE. Don't get so strung out on your ASTRAL life that you neglect what you're doing here on Earth.

You are at the beginning of a long journey to learn where your power really lies. Try to be patient with this process and take your time.