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The Sun will move into Capricorn and a new season begins on Thursday, casting a more grounded and security-conscious aura around us through the end of the year and into January. Capricorn is the sign of the protector, the responsible, and the hard-working, and though we may put work on the back burner for the last week or so of the year, this sign also allows us to stabilize and reconnect with those who are most important in our lives. The Moon travels through Pisces on Monday and Tuesday, casting a more spiritual tone to the start of our week. We’ll be more heart-centered and theological, taking whatever comes with a grain of salt and trying to focus on the hidden gifts of any challenges that arise. Then on Wednesday and Thursday we’ll have to get busy, as the Aries Moon reminds us that there are things to be done before the weekend starts. Our energy will double and we’ll breeze through any tasks in our way with ease! Friday and Saturday will be more grounded under the Taurus Moon, allowing us to regroup and get ready for Christmas Eve on Sunday. Sunday’s Gemini Moon will have us in a talkative mood, ready to socialize and reconnect with those closest to us over the holidays.

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.

I've been on a spiritual quest for some time - really all my life. I am often reading two spiritual books at a time. I've been to good and not so good psychics since my early twenties. I always look for signs and usually go with my gut. Lately I've had a strong desire to develop some type of psychic awareness. I keep trying to connect with my higher power, but not much is happening. Then I read about people who aren't even interested in psychic or spiritual matters having experiences with spirits, starting to spontaneously channel, hearing messages from Spirit, and it just blows my mind. How come these people naturally have psychic ability, while people like me who are really pursuing it just keep searching?

- Joyce

Dreamchaser:

Joyce, I'm not sure how to break this to you, but you are already doing "it." You wrote, "I always look for signs and usually go with my gut."

EVERYONE is born "psychic" - some choose to believe it and some don't. Most people have a skewed sense of what psychic ability is. Like you, most people think that something has to happen outside of their minds or souls for it to be a real experience. That isn't psychic ability, my friend. That's a haunting.

Every spiritual experience happens inside of us. I don't have spiritual beings descend from "heaven" into my house and tell me what I should say to clients. I don't have this band of spirits behind me whispering the right or wrong way to act in a personal situation in my life. Like you, I ask and then watch for signs. I turn off my logic and I listen to my gut. I allow my inner knowing to point me in the right direction.

When I first started giving readings, I was really afraid that I would not be able to connect with strangers like I could with friends. I was very hesitant and scared at first. Then one day I was reading for the wife of a powerful judge in a Southern town. She kept complaining about her marriage and how it was not working and I kept getting these images of a young, strong, handsome handyman around the place. I "just knew" that she was having an affair with the handyman. My logic was saying, "Do not say that! What if you are wrong? That is just not possible. This woman is the rich, high society wife of a powerful and influential man."

My gut, however just kept nagging at me. Finally I said, "Maybe your marriage would be better if you would accept some of the blame yourself." She said, "But I have no blame to accept." I said, "You are sleeping with your handyman." She was quiet for approximately 30 seconds and then she said, very quietly, "How did you know that?" Being psychic is a matter of trusting your gut no matter how crazy it sounds.

The psychic ability you are searching for is just your idea about what it should be. You think you aren't psychic because your experiences don't match those notions. Yet you have ALWAYS "just known" things. You keep expecting something to happen outside of yourself, but it won't. It is what it is.

Get a notepad and a pen, and then sit down and ask a question. Write down the question you asked and the first thing that pops into your head. Even if you hear "purple pig," write it down. When you start to get a headache, stop. Go back in three days and read what you wrote. You will be amazed.

I wish you conscious integration of all your experiences.

*****

Astrea:

In every field there are people who just "get it" quicker than others. It used to amaze me in ballet when someone would just seem to have a gift or talent for picking up steps while others were struggling to figure things out and make their bodies respond and perform. Sometimes the people who worked the hardest NEVER got what came so easily to someone else.

This is the way of the world. With psychic ability, sometimes it is easier for people who don't even really CARE if they have it or not! Messages are going to come to the people who are most RECEPTIVE, not the ones who read the most and study the longest. When it comes to inter-dimensional communication, sometimes it's easier for guides and spirits to work with an "empty" mind.

Many times when we dig deeper into someone's story of "spontaneous" phenomena or super-cool abilities, we find that there WAS a long background and history of psychic work and/or spiritual training. Sometimes what you read or hear are "just stories" augmented and exaggerated to make them sound more interesting. Don't be frustrated.

Finally, if it doesn't run in your family and hasn't been supported by the people around you, it's no wonder it's a bit hard for you to allow your natural abilities to really flow. You and I come from the same generation, and no doubt you also heard fundamentalists caution us that developing psychic "powers" was a quick ticket to Hell. During the sixties and early seventies, when New Age religions began to grow in popularity, it looked for a while like people would start to embrace interactions with Spirit as natural and good as opposed to demonic. Alas, we have regressed again, and now there isn't much respect or tolerance for ANY religion here in the United States aside from the conservative Christian doctrine.

In fact, accessing psychic ability takes tremendous concentration and total focus. If you're focusing on the things others can do and feeling discouraged, you're probably hindering your own progress and preventing yourself from being guided to your own best path to development. Frustration is one of the biggest blocks to creating breakthroughs and tapping fresh ideas and insights.

Fire signs have enough trouble concentrating on mental endeavors. Heck, just SITTING STILL is hard for you. Seek QUIET and CLARITY, and it will come to you. Quit ASKING for answers, and they'll start to manifest in quiet moments. De-clutter your living space AND your mind to make room for new insights and abilities. If you stop striving and just listen quietly, you'll be able to do what you want soon!

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.