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365 Days of Crystal Feng Shui for Your Home, by Sandra Kynes

(Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal.)

The laying on of crystals, or crystal therapy, is a powerful way to align and balance the energy of our bodies. Even simply wearing crystals can have an effect on us. Similarly, through the placement of crystals in our homes, we can attract prosperity, augment relationships, and initiate changes in our lives.

A number of years ago, I became interested in the Chinese practice of feng shui mainly because of its use of crystals. I had been following my intuition and placing crystals around my home for years, but the principles of feng shui provided a structure. It opened the door to a whole new way of approaching what I was doing. While a traditional feng shui practice can be complicated, even applying the basic concepts with crystals can bring results.

The most fundamental principle of feng shui—creating flow, harmony, and balance—is often illustrated with the yin/yang symbol. Although the white and black sections of the symbol are equal, they do not split the circle in half down the middle; instead, they flow into each other, creating balance and harmony.

Yin and yang can best be described as the harmonious dynamic of opposites. They are regarded as the binding forces that hold the universe together. However, because the forces of yin and yang are constantly changing, the universe is anything but static. As anyone who has done energy work on any level knows, it's an ongoing process. Using them throughout the year keeps both our homes and ourselves in balance. What's more, crystals are such powerful tools for energy work because they are formed by the dynamic forces for Mother Earth.

According to feng shui theory, negative energy is called sha, and it occurs where yin and yang are out of balance. Sha can occur in two extremes: fast moving (too yang) or stagnating and depleted (too yin). In the home, when energy is trapped in a corner of a room it stagnates and lacks life-giving vitality. Likewise, energy can be forced into a straight line, for example by a long hallway, where it can gain momentum and become uncomfortable or destructive. Chi is the positive, calm energy in between the two extremes of sha. To keep things in balance, positive energy needs to flow unimpeded through the home.

The art of feng shui is a balancing act between neutralizing negative energy and fostering positive energy. Creating energetic balance in our homes lays the foundation for tackling personal issues or cultivating a particular atmosphere. Just think about it: how can you plan a romantic evening if your home has an undercurrent of tension?

The Three A's of Working with Energy
Okay, now that we know energy needs to be in balance, where do we start? With the three As: awareness, adjustment, and activation. First, be aware and assess your surroundings. Take a few minutes to sit quietly in a room. If something doesn't feel right, look for a source of negative energy. Make an adjustment by placing a crystal or two where you feel it. Choose a crystal that will calm fast-moving energy or stimulate slow energy. If you're not sure, use a crystal that will balance energy.

It is often helpful to begin your assessment by looking outside your home. The artificial environments of towns and cities with busy roads can have a strong impact on the energy of our homes. Assess how energy flows toward your house or apartment building. If you live on a busy street, you may be bombarded with fast-moving energy that can drain positive energy from your home. If you live on a cul-de-sac, energy may be stagnating and creating a pool of negativity.

To deal with negative energy that is outside, place a crystal or two on a windowsill or near the wall in the direction of the problem. If you need to calm fast-moving or chaotic energy, place a piece of amethyst in the direct of the flow. This will both calm and balance the energy. Alternatively, use one piece each of white quartz and opal to do the job. To get energy moving, try clear quartz or peridot and obsidian. Table 1 below contains examples of crystals that can be used for this process. Some crystals have a two-fold function in either calming or stimulating and balancing energy.

Assess the Energy Inside Your Home
After looking outside, assess how energy enters and moves through your home. The front door is regarded as the main entry point for energy. Any blockage here will inhibit positive energy from entering and circulating freely to create a balanced environment. Blessings and abundance could get stuck on your doorstep instead of bringing them into your life. A crystal hung above the front door or placed near the door can help regulate the flow of energy.

Continue through your home. Look for areas where energy can get boxed in or where it may speed up. Place a crystal in the area where you want to change and balance the energy. Get creative; crystals can be placed just about anywhere.

As mentioned, after dispatching negativity and balancing energy you're ready to deal with personal issues or cultivate an aspect of your life. This also extends to the family. For example, the dining room and kitchen are places where families come together, not only for nourishment, but also for discussion and decision-making. Place several crystals, such as aventurine or charoite, around the room to foster a sense of family and community. Rhodochrosite, rose quartz, or tourmaline can be used in the dining room or kitchen to attract abundance to the family.

Sometimes we carry tension home with us from work and sometimes a conflict in the family can create unsettled energy. In addition, the energy of a room may just feel "off" without an apparent reason. Use calming crystals to change the quality of the energy. Blue lace agate, celestine, larimar, and selenite are particularly effective to restore harmony. Table 2 below provides an overview of crystals that can be used for specific purposes.

The time of year and weather can also effect the energy of our homes. During the excitement of the holiday season with an increase in family and friends visiting, we may need to tone down the energy to avoid an atmosphere of chaos. However, after the holidays, and especially in northern areas where it is cold and dark, we may want to ratchet-up the level of energy.

Before Using Crystals
While there are many ways to do a crystal cleansing, one of the easiest is to use your own energy. To do this, hold the crystal in both hands in front of your heart. Close your eyes and bring your awareness to the energy above your head. It may help to visualize it as a soft white, pink, or lavender glow. Feel it gently touch the crown of your head, and then move down activating your third-eye chakra, located between and slightly above the eyebrows. As this energy descends to the throat and chest, it activates the heart chakra.

From here, visualize the energy moving along your arms to your hands and into the stone. Visualize the light pulsing and glowing around the crystal. Now imagine it moving back up your arms, and then down your spine, legs, and into your feet. Become aware of the bottoms of your feet. Visualize the energy moving from your feet into the floor and eventually into the ground taking away old energy and any negativity with it. If you are not going to use the crystal immediately for energy work, wrap it in a cloth and put it away.

A cursory glance at Table 2 shows that crystals sometimes serve a number of functions. When you are ready to use a crystal for a specific function, use your energy to program it. Hold the crystal in front of your heart and think of your particular purpose for it. Visualize your energy moving from your heart, down your arms into the crystal to pattern it with your intention and willpower. Hold an image of this energy in your mind for a moment, and then place the crystal where its energy is needed.

After each use, cleanse the crystal to have it ready for the next purpose. Of course, if you're like me you probably enjoy having your crystals out where you can see and enjoy them. When you want to use a crystal that's on display for a specific purpose, go through the energy cleansing and programming, and then place it where it is needed.

The key to success with crystal therapy for the home is to start small. Don't try to take on the whole house at once. Start with any exterior source of negativity. After that, focus on the front door to make sure positive energy is coming in. Follow that by working individually with one room or one area within a room. Take your time to make adjustments and live with the results. Most importantly, let the crystals speak to you. Use your intuition to help you tap into the deeper power and wisdom of the mineral kingdom.

Article originally published in The Llewellyn Journal. Copyright Llewellyn Worldwide, 2018. All rights reserved.

In 1995, a magician asked for my photograph, and I gave it to him. He was very attractive. Since then, however, I have been having strange feelings and thinking about him a lot. I feel like some kind of bad magic was performed on me and I don't know how to get it out of me. I am very religious and have very strong beliefs. This is very scary for me. If you have any advice, I would appreciate it very much. I would like to find out if he did something magic by using my photograph. Thanks!

Brigit

Astrea:

In order to know for sure if the magician with your photograph is trying to harm you in some way, it would be necessary to have quite a bit more information. You're talking about 1995 - a long time ago. This is a long time to be thinking of someone. Whether that person means you harm or not, you feel fear, so it's time to create some protection.

First, surround yourself with an egg of White Light to repel any evil-doers or spirits who mean to do you harm. Start at the top of your head and wrap yourself in the light from head to toe, front to back, fingertip to fingertip. Spread your arms as wide as you can, and see the light go over and under you from hand to hand. It's almost like juggling to make the streams of Light you create from your center flow outward to encompass your entire body.

Carry and wear some items of protection with you. A St. Mary medal is particularly effective against Black Magic, as is a St. Jude Medal. There are inexpensive ones available at any Catholic bookstore, and you don't have to be a Catholic to use their power.

Silver jewelry is a good deterrent against any unpleasant forces that are trying to invade your Harmony. Gold jewelry is not used as often for protection because as a metal, gold is too soft.

Silver jewelry set with lapis lazuli, garnet or sapphire stones is most treasured for its protective powers. When trying to avoid evil vibrations, it is unwise to ear onyx, obsidian, or smoky topaz. Don't wear any marcasite jewelry either, and try to avoid all man-made and treated gemstones.

If possible, carry some rose quartz in a spherical shape at all times. Wear a carnelian ring on your left hand for clarity of mind so that you can be sure you're not imagining things. Wear turquoise or amethyst to repel evil, and plant an herb garden with plenty of sage and rosemary. If you don't live where you have a yard available, plant some in a pot and set the pot in your kitchen window.

While extreme, the old-fashioned remedy of hanging strings of garlic across windows and doorways is very effective. Instead of a whole string, a whole clove of garlic may be sewn into a small red bag to hang over the windows and doors. You can also lightly salt around your entire house and yard for added strength and further protection.

Since none of these suggestions will draw attention to you in any way, try what makes you feel comfortable. I hope you feel better soon!

*****

Susyn:

It is important to keep in mind that no one - not even a magician - can hold power or control over you unless you allow it. So every time you feel that he might be controlling or influencing you, you are actually encouraging the idea that he can.

Even if he is attempting to gain control over you via your photograph, you can easily rid yourself of him and his magic. I feel he may have attempted to influence your feelings for him via this picture, but instead of inspiring your heart, he attempted to get into your mind.

Having thoughts and feelings about someone doesn't always indicate that they have deliberately cast a spell on you, but your fear that he might have may really be keeping you stuck in this idea.

In any case, to clear this power you feel he has over you, you will first have to banish the fear that he can influence you in any way. To do this, I recommend a spell I developed called Freezing. This will stop the flow of any thoughts or emotions either of you might carry, and keep him from infiltrating your thoughts.

It won't harm him; it will simply stop the worry you keep entertaining. Because you don't mention ever seeing or having contact with him again directly, this should take care of the problem fairly quickly.

To perform this freezing ritual, you will need a piece of unlined brown paper, a sandwich size Zip-loc bag, and sea salt.

First, write the name of this magician on the piece of brown paper, and then a line or two asking that his negative energy, thoughts and influences be frozen from bothering you. Fold the paper in half, drop it into the sandwich bag, and sprinkle a pinch of sea salt into the bag.

Fill the bag halfway with water - just enough to make sure the paper is covered. Seal the bag and place it in your freezer. Within 24 hours, you should notice your thoughts about him easing.

Wait two days and if you haven't noticed a radical difference, or if the trouble subsides and then starts up again, repeat the ritual. You may have to repeat it a third time if his energy is strong, so wait two more days to see if your first two rituals worked before performing it again. Leave the bag or bags in the freezer indefinitely or until you move.

This should end any concerns you have over the magician and help you make a fresh start, free of worry. It will also restore your own personal power and energy so you won't find yourself in this position again in the future.

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.