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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 once had the experience of seeing an old man appear on my television screen while I was watching a program. As soon as I saw him, I knew he was not an actor in the scene, but I didn't know who he was and have never seen him since. My husband also saw him. He was a washed out image seated in an armchair. I had taped the program, but when I played the tape back, he wasn't there! What do you think this was? If it was a spirit trying to make contact, why has he not done so again? Thank you!

Ann

Dreamchaser:

You and your husband had quite an interesting experience!

There is a veil between this physical, earthly world and the Otherside, and every once in a while, that veil is thin enough for us to catch a glimpse of the other world, or of someone living in that dimension. This is what happened with you and your husband - that's why you couldn't see the man again when you replayed the tape.

Sometimes you'll catch a glimpse of something moving out of the corner of your eye, or feel like there is something or someone else in the room with you. When you look up, however, there is nothing there. If the veil were thin enough, you would see all kinds of activity happening around you.

The world is something like a tree. When you cut a tree down, there are rings representing each year that it was alive. The size, shape, and color of those rings all signify something. In fact, scientists can tell all kinds of things about what happened in a certain year by looking at that ring.

There are layers similar to this on the world, though most of the time, we can't see the layers with our physical eyes. Just think of how many layers must be attached to the place where you are living!

First and foremost, there is the land itself. What has happened on that land over the course of time? Who has lived there? What happened to the people who lived on the land? What kinds of buildings were erected on that land in the past? What happened to those buildings?

Every single being who graced that land left an energy imprint, and those energy imprints are embedded onto the layers. There can also be energies and so-called ghosts just passing through that aren't attached to that particular place. (Not every spiritual being is locked into one place or one area; in fact, most beings can travel freely.)

What you saw on that film was another layer. It's possible the spirit man you saw was on the set the day that program was filmed, or perhaps he just decided to pop into that chair during the time you were watching the movie. Either way it doesn't really matter, for the result was the same: you saw him!

The reason for seeing him is the important thing. I feel you needed to see that there is more to reality than what our eyes can see. You needed to know beyond a shadow of a doubt that some kind of other world exists. You already knew this, of course, but you didn't have any real proof of it until you saw this man.

You are going to start seeing more and more of other worlds now. Don't be afraid of anything you experience, for nothing otherworldly can hurt you.

I wish you pleasant interactions.

******

Astrea:

One of my dear friends works for the telephone company in Oklahoma. She is very sensitive to spirit energy, so she usually picks up on any spirits that happen to be around.

For the past ten years, she's been working with what she calls her night people. These folks are telephone operators who worked the graveyard shift before they departed this world, who haven't moved on. Since no one she worked with has died since she's been there, these spirits are attached to this PLACE, not to HER.

This workplace used to have a lot of employees, but now that new technology has taken over, what was once done by thirty people is being done by her and just one other coworker. She says that from time to time these spirits change, but for the most part, she's been working with the same crew now for about fifteen years.

It's a quiet job, and they weren't accustomed to talking to one another much, so these spirits just show up, sit, think that they're doing their jobs, go out for meals, smoke, etc. She says sometimes the smoke smells so strong it makes her cough!

The other living person who works with her can't see these night people, but she does agree that there is a certain presence or energy there. My friend has lived with apparitions all her life, and though at first she was pretty scared, they feel like friends to her now. In fact, they keep her company. They don't talk to her, but they sometimes respond with a wave or a nod.

Your old man was enjoying his stories on TV when he showed up on the television you were watching. Often when we don't know the person who is appearing to us, their spirit will appear doing something they commonly liked to do. The man you saw was an avid TV watcher, and towards the end of his life, he spent most of his days in that armchair.

Spirits carry electric impulses. The biggest complaint I hear about ghostly spirits is that they mess with the lights, the TV or (heaven forbid!) the Tivo. (I used to dance in a studio where one of the dead dancers regularly knocked out all the fluorescent lighting.)

When people die, they don't always make a fast transition to a new life. Some people can go on for years thinking they're still here. This is especially true of lonely people who didn't have much human interaction when they were alive, for not much will seem to change for those who linger near this plane when they cross over.

This man's appearance at that moment was just one of those random visits the dead make as they're passing through. The reason he never resurfaced is probably because he moved on in his journey to another dimension.

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.