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The Power of Crystals – Coloring Book

I’m late to sharing this but hey, better late than never.

I was sent an awesome coloring book recently called The Power of Crystals – A Coloring Book of Healing Minerals, A to Z. The photos above feature the cover and a sample page.

I am a perfectionist so I have yet to color any of the pages but I have to say – I really appreciate the mineral drawings as they are very detailed. Even without coloring them, you can clearly see the dimensional aspects of each mineral that was illustrated. The descriptions also provide physical and metaphysical properties of the mineral group.

Here is a list of minerals that are included in the coloring book:
Agate, Amazonite, Amethyst
Beryl
Calcite, Celestite, Copper
Diamond
Emerald
Fluorite
Galena
Garnet
Herkimer Diamond
Jade
Kunzite
Lapis Lazuli
Malachite
Olivine
Pyrite
Quartz
Rhodochrosite
Ruby
Selenite, Silver, Sulfur
Topaz, Tourmaline
Vanadinite
Zircon

Overall a fun and therapeutic activity for the mineral lover in your life.

Have a look at Diamond Dan Publications’ store

Musings

So this page is slightly different from the blog…this is where I will put my random thoughts related to the crystals and stones we have available for purchase here at Metaphysical Vibes. More personal and a lot shorter. It’s easier to share my thoughts in this format.

Definition of ‘musing’: 1 (adjective) absorbed in thought; meditative. 2 (noun) contemplation; reflection.

8/08/22

Oh wow, it’s been about a year since I wrote in this section! I’ve had a few issues with the website – mostly brute force attacks to the point where my web server couldn’t handle it so I’ve had to take it down a couple of times and figure things out. Anyhow, since then I’m just waiting to sell whatever I have left and will probably remove this site eventually. It was fun while it lasted.

Protect your personal information when making online purchases. Make sure you have a strong password so you don’t get hacked. Also, don’t click on questionable links.


8/15/21

After 2 weeks, the site is back up but the images need fixing. Please visit my Etsy shop in the meantime or keep checking back.


Wed 6/9/21

Random thought but meaningful so I had to share it on here: the most powerful crystals and stones are the ones that usually go unnoticed.


Sun 5/16/21

According to astrologers, we will be experiencing Jupiter in Pisces for the next 26 weeks. Luckily for me, I’m a Sagittarius and my husband is a Pisces so we’re both going to be feeling it in one form or another, at least I think so.

This large Labradorite pebble has been my companion lately, reminding of my own magic. It definitely has Jupiter-Neptunian vibes. It is available for purchase here.


Tue 4/6/21

Success! It’s been a crazy couple of days for me – as I was attempting (and failing miserably) to migrate this website to another host. You probably saw that the site was down for a day and a half; well I’m happy to say that it’s back and everything is intact!👏🏽😊👏🏽


Sun 1/31/21

Just wanted to highlight some of the creative people who’ve bought crystals & stones from Metaphysical Vibes:

Minda Whiteley is an artist from Los Angeles who specializes in creating experimental healing sounds.
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FancyBaby is a singer, songwriter and spiritual babe from Los Angeles. Her first Rap/Hip Hop/R&B album, FancyLand is out now.
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Tue 12/01/20

I really like this guy, he’s really chill and his sparkles are all natural: Chalcedony Black Amethyst. I’m also aware that minerals don’t have a gender but for some reason this one feels like a male to me.

Just like the word ‘soothing’, I also say ‘unique’ and ‘one of a kind’ a lot. Can’t help it, the crystals in my shop ARE unique and one of a kind. I think everyone who has a crystal shop will probably say that, because it’s true. I wish there were better words to describe them.


Fri 11/20/20

I really like this Botswana Agate stone. I wasn’t even trying to have a crystal shop yet in 2017, but I found myself buying a handful of these from a vendor in Joshua Tree. Their colors are on the cool spectrum and have a flow-y, trippy vibe to them. I know I say the word ‘soothing’ a lot but there’s no other appropriate word to describe a stone sometimes.


Thu 11/19/20

I brought this really cool Phantom Chlorite Quartz crystal to work with me today. I was reading Katrina Raphaell’s book “Crystal Enlightenment” and I just happened to flip to the Phantom Crystals section (pages 75-77). Here’s a mind-blowing excerpt:

“Phantom Crystals are a culmination of knowledge that was gained by the crystal in its own unique evolutionary cycles. It is possible to use these precious tools in meditation to learn to travel deep within the records of your own soul.”

Wow wow wow. She says some really deep stuff and it’s been resonating with me a lot more as of late.


Wed 11/18/20

If you ask me right now what my favorite crystal or stone from the shop is, it would be this beautiful Girasol Opalized Quartz stone. It is so soothing to hold and dreamy to look at. Whenever I hold it, I feel like “Wow, am I dreaming? Am I dreaming up this reality that I’m in right now?”

At my work, I currently have a polished Tiger Iron stone that keeps me company, sitting on my desk.


Last night, the site was down for who knows how long. I wasn’t able to access the hosting control panel on GoDaddy either…so upset and frustrated! But not enough to call them. Thankfully, I woke up and checked to see that the site was back up.

I’m waiting for my hosting to expire so I can finally move it.

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Crystal Witch Shopping Memes

When you’re a witch shopping for your friends and family, no matter what they asked for:

you get a crystal!

you get a jar of herbs!

you get a feather!

you get an oracle deck!

you get an aura spray!

you get another crystal!

 

Image description: photo of Oprah in a red suit. She’s holding a microphone looking pumped up in front of her audience.


 

The world right now:

Crystal Sellers:

Anyone wanna buy some crystals?

 

Image description: one half of the photo is a city on fire, the other half is of Will Ferrell hollering.


 

Oldie but goodie😉

My face walking around the crystal shop

Image description: 2 different photos of Agate stones that almost seem to have eyes and a mouth, expressing wonder and amusement; which is basically the ultimate facial expression of anyone that has ever walked into a crystal shop for the first time.


Believe it or not, people are still buying crystals during Covid-19. People are still buying things in general because they’re home a lot more. Anyways, I hope everybody’s hanging in there. Enjoy these memes.

If you’re the creator of any of these memes, please leave a comment so I can credit you. Thanks!

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7 Healing Crystals & Stones for Your Chakras

Chakras – you’ve probably heard or read about them a lot these days. Look at the hashtag for ‘chakra’ or ‘chakras’ on Instagram and you’ll see over 2 million posts related to it.

But really though – what IS a chakra, and why is it important?

Chakras are basically energy centers of the energetic or subtle body. Though we can’t see them, they are often depicted as wheels or discs that are constantly spinning, each one a color of the rainbow. Together they form our human energetic field, sometimes called the rainbow body but more commonly known as the aura.

Although these are abstract concepts, we are actually experiencing the chakras at work daily through our thoughts, feelings and how we perceive life. Each chakra is also connected to organs in our physical body. 

For example, the color red represents our first chakra often called the root or base chakra – located at the end of our spine – the tailbone. This chakra represents our connectedness to our physical body and the earth as well as feeling centered, grounded and at home. When this chakra is imbalanced, we can expect to feel the opposite: feeling spaced out or not present, not connected to our body; not feeling safe.

How can healing stones help with our chakras?

The purpose of learning about our chakras is to bring awareness to our own actions and behaviors. We want to achieve balance and harmony in our energetic body because if we don’t, it eventually affects the physical body.

We can work with healing stones – stones that correlate to our chakras – to help bring us back into balance.

You can visit a crystal healer to assist you with this or you can do it yourself by placing stones along your body to effect healing.

Here is an example of healing stones you can work with to help balance the 7 chakras of your body:

1st Chakra – Red – Red Jasper, Smoky Quartz
Place in between your crotch area or right in between your upper thighs.

2nd Chakra – Orange – Carnelian, Garnet
Place on your abdomen area below the belly button.

3rd Chakra – Yellow – Citrine, Pyrite, Tiger’s Eye
Place on your stomach area above the belly button.

4th Chakra – Green (or Pink) – Green Aventurine, Rose Quartz
Place on your heart.

5th Chakra – Blue – Blue Lace Agate, Sodalite, Lapis Lazuli
Place on your throat.

6th Chakra – Violet – Amethyst, Fluorite
Place on your forehead or third eye center.

7th Chakra – White – Quartz, Selenite
Place above your head.

Conclusion:

This is just a basic rundown of the 7 Chakra system and the healing crystals & stones you can use to heal, balance and align your energetic body.

Click here if you’d like to purchase our 7 Stone Chakra Set with Green Aventurine

Click here if you’d like to purchase our 7 Stone Chakra Set with Rose Quartz

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Grounding with Crystals & Stones

Grounding – you probably hear that word a lot if you’re into metaphysical or spiritual topics.

But what IS grounding and why is it important?

We hear the word ‘ground’ often – everyday actually but don’t think much of it, as a matter of fact I think we take it for granted.

We live on the ground, the ground which is the earth. Our feet are on it and we’re standing on it everyday. But again, we don’t think much of it.

Grounding is important because when we don’t ground, our energy can be all over the place and it’s more likely that things can go wrong throughout your day. We might even find ourselves in a situation that we didn’t see coming because we didn’t ground ourselves.

So what is grounding then?

Grounding is the intentional act of connecting to your body, the ground and to the earth.

You might be thinking to yourself as you read this ‘but I’m already on the ground, I’m already here.’

Are you really here though, or is your spirit wandering while someone is talking to you? You can be physically ‘here’ but still wander. Every single one of us is definitely guilty of daydreaming, thinking about yesterday, worrying about the future or just overthinking in general. We all get distracted one way or another.

So, how do we ground?

We ground by visualizing that we are connected to the earth through a grounding cord. Your grounding cord can be anything.

One of the ways to achieve this is by visualizing roots coming out of your feet and going deep into the ground just like a tree, or you can imagine an electric bolt of lightning piercing through you and running straight into the ground, straight into the core of the earth.

Most people use the tree as a perfect metaphor for grounding: a tree has its roots planted firmly into the earth. It is not easily shaken or will fall down if it’s a windy day, nor will it just slip away when it’s raining hard.

This is what we want to achieve when we are grounding ourselves – we want to be firmly ‘planted’ to the ground and not be swayed when we’re faced with stressful people or situations. You want to be calm and centered.

Do this everyday – before you leave your home, before you start driving or whenever you just feel ‘spacey’. You can ground wherever you are, even when you’re just standing somewhere.

Some popular crystals and stones that can help with grounding:

Agates – calm and stabilizing

Black Tourmaline – protects and purifies

Hematite – great for those who are extra spaced out

Obsidian – protects and releases

Jaspers – nurturing and creative Earth energy

Jet – protects

Smokey Quartz – transmutes negative energy

Even Quartz crystals when programmed, can be used for grounding; crystals and stones that are of a darker color – black, brown, gray, red.

You can place them near you whether at home or at work, you can also place them in your car.

The above photo is a Smokey Himalayan Quartz cluster and it’s available for purchase here.

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Everything Takes Time to Grow and Evolve

Everything takes time to grow and evolve…

especially us humans.

As I think about how to grow my crystal shop online through writing content, sharing it on social channels, SEO, etc., I started pondering how long it took for crystals to grow into the beautiful crystalline beings they are now.

In comparison, crystal growth takes A LOT longer than human consciousness. It ONLY took our Earth 4 BILLION+ years to be where she is now and I’m pretty sure she’s not done.

So why is it so hard to just be patient with ourselves?

Why is it so hard to just ‘be’ where we are right now?

Because humans have this innate desire to create and be something; I believe we are descendants of a higher intelligence that coded this into our existence. There’s even a few scientific articles that states we have alien DNA in our bodies. Is it a possibility that these aliens are actually us?👽

But I digress.

I ask these questions because I am the same exact way. Sometimes I am impatient and a bit hard on myself, I want to see results right now.

Ever since I was kid I couldn’t ‘wait’ to be a grownup. I couldn’t wait to get my driver’s license, drive and go places. When I was 15 years old, I couldn’t ‘wait’ to be 18 so I could finally be independent and away from my parents.

My issues sound really mundane, but a lot of us actually think this way.

Just like Luke Skywalker in Star Wars – I was always looking ahead to the future.

And so now looking back at my childhood as an adult, everything seems like a blur. I wasn’t very present, I always wanted to escape somehow.

I guess what I’m trying to say here is 🐢SLOW DOWN🐢 and enjoy the growth process itself.

At times the growth process will fluctuate between fun and exciting to annoying and uncomfortable, but try to ‘be with’ whatever it is you are experiencing right now.

I wish I had done this, but even as I write this I know that people will learn things when the time is right for them to do so.

Living in the age of the internet doesn’t help – we want convenience and instant EVERYTHING.

The more reason to practice patience, self love and gratitude for where you are now.

In some ways, I am glad to have been chosen as a crystal custodian as the crystals will always teach us something. Perhaps that is why they chose me, so I can learn to slow down and enjoy the now, for this exact moment will never be repeated again.

Growth, evolution and healing takes time. Be patient, be kind and most of all loving towards yourself – people will come and go in your life but in the end – you are the only person you have to live with for the rest of your life.

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Crystals & Stones By Name

Here’s a full list of Crystals and Stones we have available by name:

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7 Stone Chakra Sets

Agate

Amazonite

Amethyst

Ammonite Fossil

Angel Aura

Apophyllite

Aqua Aura

Black Moonstone

Black Tourmaline

Blue Calcite

Calcite

Carnelian

Celestite

Chakra – Seven Stone Sets

Chalcedony Amethyst

Citrine

Dichroic Titanium Kyanite

Fuchsite Kyanite

Girasol Opalized Quartz

Golden Healer Quartz

Himalayan Quartz

Hematite

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Jasper

Labradorite

Lemurian Quartz

Lodolite Quartz

Moonstone

Obsidian

Ocean Jasper Druzy

Opalized Ammonite Fossil

Phantom Chlorite Quartz

Quartz with Inclusions

Red Rutilated Smokey Quartz with Hematite

Royal Purple Aura

Rutilated “Angel Hair” Quartz

Rose Quartz

Smokey Himalayan Quartz Cluster

Smokey Quartz

Sunset Aura

Super Seven

Tiger’s Eye

Titanium Rainbow Aura Quartz

Titanium Smoky Quartz

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