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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.

My name is Patty and I have daily visions or deja vu. Everything always plays out just as I have envisioned it. Some visions are what I call mild. For example, they can be as simple as my daughter walking in the room and asking me a particular question, which played out in my mind before she entered the room. Other times, the visions are more complex. I have seen minor accidents like a glass falling off the shelf and breaking, car accidents, someone falling off a ladder, and most recently, my disabled mother falling down a flight of stairs. (Thankfully, she only suffered a sprained ankle and a few cuts and bruises.) I also see images that are more difficult to understand. I often see mental glimpses or snap shots that seem to be random and meaningless. I'm wondering why I see those snapshots and how I can control the visions I have and discern what they're trying to tell me. Do you have any suggestions?

Patty

Susyn:

Your visions are wonderful gifts, but I can see why they might cause you concern. When we experience this sort of phenomenon and are not sure of its meaning or how to control it, it's easy to feel overwhelmed.

Up until this point, you have not envisioned anything truly frightening. However, as your gift grows, you may start to see things you would rather not know about. When you do, you may be at a loss as to whether to share these with other people out of a desire to either warn them or try to change the course of destiny.

Many psychics and empaths started out in just the way you describe: They realized that they were able to see into the future, and they sought training to learn how to direct and control this gift so they could put it to good use.

Of course, the ability to see into the future carries a heavy responsibility, so you will want to find a way to use this gift for the highest purposes. You might consider adopting a spiritual practice like studying tarot or astrology so you can get more information about the random visions you see. These methods can be valuable tools for learning to direct and control spontaneous visions so they are not constantly streaming in.

Another way to put some boundaries around your gift is to start recording these visions when they appear as well as the actual outcomes so you can determine the accuracy of these events. By getting a sense of how often they occur, what times of day they are most active, and how soon after you have the visions the events come to pass, you will begin to learn more about your gift.

It sounds like most of the time, these visions immediately precede the events they predict, which keeps you from sharing them with others. For example, if you had seen the vision of your mother falling down the stairs earlier, you might have been able to warn her to be careful.

One very effective practice that may help is called corralling. It is a method wherein you determine a set time of day when you will entertain these visions. You may want to establish an early morning or late evening meditation time when you specifically ask for visions to come to you. After your session, write them down so you can see which ones come to pass. In this way, you aren't blocking the visions but you are gaining control over when and how they manifest.

It is important to remain open to this gift, but equally important that you don't let it take over your life or cause you concern. With practice, you'll discover how to invite visions in at your convenience, and know when to share them and when to keep them to yourself.

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Mata:

The first thing you need is greater understanding of what's going on. Imagine that, as you move through life, you're watching each moment unfold much like you would watch a movie. At any given moment, most people are locked on a mental screen that is either playing what is happening right now, what happened in the past, or what might happen in the future.

Those of us who have expanded psychic awareness have mental screens that are more like 360-degree Imax movies than traditional theaters, so we have access to far more information than most people do. Though we may be focused in the moment, in our peripheral vision, we may get a glimpse of what is about to happen even if it's not something important. Events that are close to the present moment such as your daughter coming into the room will grab our attention; they are in our peripheral psychic vision simply because they're about to occur.

Events that are important or dramatic can grab our attention even if they're playing far above or behind us because it's natural to turn toward noises, images, and other input of a startling or intense nature. Thus you may be focused on something totally unrelated when, in your peripheral awareness, your subconscious mind picks up on a scene of your mother falling down the stairs. This grabs your attention because your mother is important to you, though other dramatic information such as accidents and other big events will similarly break through into your awareness.

When we develop our psychic abilities, we learn how to shift our focus from what is happening in physical reality in this moment to any part of the holographic cosmic spectrum. We do this by altering our state of consciousness and learning where to look for the information we desire as well as whom to ask for help with such endeavors.

To gain control of these visions, you must learn three things: how to stay grounded in physical reality/the present moment, how to purposefully look for and filter the information you receive, and how to ask Spirit for more information (such as what you are supposed to do with the psychic visions that come to you.)

Your spirit guides can help you filter out any visions you are not meant to act upon in some way; they can also help you align with only positive, meaningful psychic experiences. Since my space is limited here, I encourage you to start researching psychic development and how to work with your spirit guides in general. There are tons of great books in print and articles on the web on these subjects; you might even pray to receive a vision on where you should begin!

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.