Crystal Spells for the Home and Garden
Introduction
It’s probably no surprise that I have stones in every room of my house and in the yard. Giant geodes rest on bookcases in my living room; candle holders made of alabaster and quartz sit on tables and shelves; clusters (seen and unseen) are tucked in various places in the bedroom, bathroom, and kitchen. I also have a couple of those decorative fountains, the ones that promote the relaxing sound of water dripping over rocks—of course, I added some of my own stones and crystal points. If I look out my patio door, I can see a large chunk of quartz glittering on a plant stand; a small shimmering geode is half-buried in the soil of a planter box. Other tiny points are hidden in the vegetable garden and in containers. Just like each room of the house, nearly every flower bed in my yard has some type of stone to adorn it. Some have a magical purpose, others are for decoration.
The spells in this chapter are for the placement of stones in specific rooms of the house or in the yard, intended to enhance the energy. The stone or stones should be set in place with specific intent and visualization. This makes them more than merely decorative—they have purpose, even if you’re the only one who knows it.
The Home: Room by Room
Clusters are always a good choice for the home, as they promote a sense of community and harmony among groups—perfect for family units. Any clear quartz cluster is appropriate for all home and garden use. That being said, there are certain qualities we can promote in each specific room. Let’s explore the house and make some magic!
Kitchen and Dining Room
Have you ever noticed that people at parties tend to gather in the kitchen, even if there’s another spacious room? The kitchen is the “hearth” space, the center of the home in many ways, even if families don’t gather together for regular meals every day. Here are some good stone choices for kitchen crystal magic:
Find a place to put your stone or stones—it’s up to you if you want them to be seen or not. You can stash them in a cabinet, if you’d like. Incorporate them into a table centerpiece, or simply place them on a shelf or window ledge. A pretty rock on a windowsill looks nice, especially accompanied with herbs or flowers. Additionally, if you have potted plants you can add stones to them—see the section on gardens in this chapter.
Select your stone or combination of stones, or a crystal cluster. Cleanse and charge or dedicate as desired. Here’s a chant to use as you place your stone(s), visualizing your specific goal(s):
With the placement of this/these stone(s)
nurture now our hearth and home.
Energize with festive mood
where we nourish with good food.
Keep us open, hearts and minds,
let love guide us; words be kind.
Bathroom
Bathrooms are a room of escape for some people—a private place for relaxing with a nice hot bath or shower, sometimes a place for pampering, a facial, manicure, or other aspects of a beauty regimen. These rooms can be elegant spa-like retreats, complete with candles and even plants, or tiny rooms that are purely functional with no decorative touches of any kind. Sometimes we’re there just for a quick visit or taking care of personal hygiene, but the bathroom should not be overlooked as a place for magic. Even if you don’t think you spend a lot of time in this room, it’s a very personal (and necessary) place. A sense of tranquility should be found there; that may be difficult if you’re sharing one bathroom with several people. If that’s the case, this room can use all the tranquility it can get! Plus, it’s often a place we end up in when we aren’t feeling well physically, so some nurturing and healing properties are good qualities to encourage.
If you want to keep things simple, a quartz cluster works well. You could also simply place a stone on a shelf, or on the edge of the sink or tub. You can even keep one in the shower. Here are some other good choices:
Place stones as desired and use this chant:
Calm, serene, this room shall be
a peaceful place for what we need.
Refresh, renew, and keep us well,
stress and strain this stone dispel.
Also, don’t overlook the use of bath salts. Remember: salt is a mineral! Making your own bath salts charged with magical energy can be a powerful spell. You can also charge bath salts you have purchased.
Here’s a recipe for a small batch of general bath salts: Start with 2 cups of sea salt, and add several drops of your favorite essential oil. Add dried herbs or flowers if you like. Mix well and store in a jar with a tight lid. Charge your salt for whatever magical intent you need. Toss a handful of the salt beneath warm running water and visualize your intent; combine your bath with crystal or candle magic—or both.
Bedroom
Another room of retreat, the bedroom should be the epitome of relaxation—a place for rest, sleep, dreaming, sometimes healing, and, of course, love. It is a room that should be quiet and serene, the place we close our day and begin anew.
Good Stone Choices for the Bedroom Are:
Use the stone or stones of your choice, visualize your intent, and chant:
Calm and gentle energy,
A loving, peaceful place to be:
On this room I now bestow
Soothing magic from these stones/this stone.
State your purpose.
Office or Study
Whether our workspace is at home or at an outside location (or a combination of both), we need to focus but we also want the ability to be calm under stress. Here are some good stones for a variety of work environments or the home study area:
Visualize your specific need and chant:
May it now be known,
The purpose of this stone/these stones,
I place with pure intent,
to let it represent/them represent
the qualities I seek—
I will it as I speak:
State your purpose.
Den/Family Room/Living Room
For these social places in the home where people gather for fun and entertainment, clusters of clear quartz are especially useful. If you place them in a visible location, they also make good conversation pieces. This room is an excellent place to display stone candle-holders, if you have them. Of course, you can also select a specific stone for a particular need you may have. Visualize your desired outcome and chant:
Family and friends,
a place to entertain,
a place for joy and peace—
Let this stone maintain.
Balancing Your Home: The Center and the Four Corners
The purpose of this spell is to identify the “center” of your home and the four corners, in order to bring balance. If you have a floor plan of your dwelling, that would be ideal; if not, sketch one yourself. Using a compass, find north and label each direction on your sketched diagram or floor plan.
If you have a multi-level home, decide which floor “feels” like the center of the dwelling. If you have a basement and two floors, perhaps use the main floor. Some people may prefer to use the basement. Or, there may be an area on the upper level that seems “right” for the center. The choice is yours.
To keep the energy in your home stable, you can place a large quartz cluster at or near the center (in this case, size does matter—clusters have more energy than a single point). If this area is a room, you may be able to simply use a decorative method for your stone(s). If this space is a closet, you can tuck a stone or stones on a shelf or in a box. Try to get as close to the center as you can. Next, try to place similar stones at each of the four directions. Again, do your best to work with the space that is available. For the corners, you may use single points. Aim the point toward the center of your home.
The idea of “Center and Four Corners” is intended to bring balance and harmony to your home’s energy. After you place the stones, visualize a line of energy connecting each stone, like a web or network of cables, a connection between all of them, like beams of light or energy. Start from the center, move out to each corner and back again, and link the corners to each other.
Note: the four corners for balance don’t necessarily have to be the perfect four directions. Your house may be a perfect square, but not correspond exactly with north, south, east, and west. That’s fine—use the four corners for balance to link with the center stone. After all the stones are in place, chant:
Crystal cluster mark this center,
Permit no ill intent to enter.
Quarter crystals marking four,
Guard each room, window, and door.
Energy ceiling to floor,
Every space, closet and drawer.
Link with center, four makes five,
Balanced now, all here will thrive.
Variations:
Outside the Home: Protection and Boundaries
Unfortunately, we usually can’t choose our neighbors. In any instance when you’re concerned about property boundaries (for privacy or other reasons) a fence is the logical choice, if possible. If you have a fence, you can enforce it with crystal magic. If having a fence is not an option, bury stones in the ground to serve as a metaphysical boundary. The strategic planting of trees and shrubs is also useful for creating a border. Plants that climb trellises are excellent choices and can work in an apartment as well. Use potted plants on balconies and rooftops, or try window boxes. You can even put a trellis inside a planter box and grow a vine on it, creating a flowering wall. Add stones to the planter boxes. As you place your stones, use the appropriate chant for your need.
To Protect Property Lines
For this spell you will need three or four anchor stones to place outside. You can put one at each corner of your property or just scatter them, one in the front yard or on the porch, the others on the side or in the back.
Set the anchor stones in plain view as ornaments or conceal them beneath bushes or in flower beds. You can also use existing items in the landscape to help anchor your ward if you’d like, especially large trees, fences, or other landmarks. Use this ward for protection and to keep out unwanted energy and trespassers. Visualize these stones as anchors for a protective net or screen with the stones holding it in place. Make a clockwise path around your home and with the placement of each stone, say:
Keep all negativity at bay,
Keep all danger far away
Each stone set in place—
A ward protects this space.
When you have set all the stones, complete the spell by visualizing energy linking the stones together; this forms a bond that keeps out unwanted energy and entities.
Ward for Boundaries:
Here’s a simpler version: place any type of stones along your property lines, and visualize the stones creating an invisible boundary.
Here I mark a border line, this boundary can’t be crossed
by anyone who means me harm—if so, they pay the cost.
For Peace and Privacy:
Similar to the Ward for Boundaries, use this spell to increase privacy. Place stones either along property lines or in gardens, containers, et cetera.
Within these bounds my privacy, protected and preserved;
Let no disturbance enter here, my peacefulness deserved.
To Protect Entryways
You can even attach quartz points to wreaths on your door or hang them in windows. Combine them for a quick protection spell. Visualize your need and use this chant:
Crystal in my window,
Crystal at my door,
Crystal guard this dwelling—
Safe for evermore.
General Home Protection:
Here’s an additional spell you can use for protection. Visualize, place the stones, and chant:
With intent I place this stone/these stones,
May it/they safely guard my home.
Keep the balance and the peace,
All disruptions now will cease.
Stone Spells for the Garden
I must give a certain amount of credit to my mother and grandmother for my love of stones. I grew up appreciating the rock gardens they each constructed in their yards—rings of stone around roses and glass gazing balls on pedestals, stone walls shimmering with bits of crystal, and rocks worn by water into interesting shapes. I remember searching creek beds with them for these water-worn stones (Grandma always said that a stone with a hole worn through would bring good luck). Now, a flower garden doesn’t seem complete to me without some kind of decorative stone.
You can completely hide the stones if you’d like, but leaving them out adds a decorative element to the garden. Or you can bury them partially, in rock garden style. The key to creating a natural-looking rock garden is to bury the stones in the soil so only part of them peek above the surface, giving the appearance that the stones have always been part of the landscape. This can be done for a small container up to the largest backyard boulders you can imagine. Then, simply plant around the stones. Use ground covers, grasses, annuals and perennials, herbs, trees and shrubs, or even vegetables. You can weave a spell into any type of rock garden. No matter how big or small your space, you can create an enchanting rock garden.
Most nurseries sell garden stones, many types and sizes, but I usually prefer to find my own. Choose the method that works best for you. A simple Internet search will generate hundreds of photos to inspire your project. Rock gardening can be simple and small or a very expensive entire yard make-over. You can transform an existing garden space, or simply add stones to flowers beds and vegetable gardens. Raised beds, containers, hanging baskets, window and fence boxes, whether they contain herbs, vegetables, flowers, or foliage plants are all appropriate places for crystal magic.
You can add stones to other outdoor features such as water gardens, fountains, fire rings—anything you can think of. I have a large fountain on my patio that has a place on top for stones, much like the indoor relaxation fountain, the intent being that the water running over them adds to the pleasant sound. Some tumbled stones were included when the fountain was purchased but, of course, I added some of my own into the assortment—beautifully banded agate that looks even lovelier when wet, and granite. This is a great way to use crystal magic outside, and also include the Water element (see Fountain Spell at the end of this chapter).
Here are some spells for specific types of gardens. Since there are endless types of garden combinations, choose your stones from the list and find an appropriate chant for your need or simply place a stone near the plant for a harmonious relationship.
Complementary Combinations for the Garden
These are mainly based on planetary correspondences.
Vegetable Gardens:
Bury a stone in your garden, in one corner, or every corner. As you place each stone, visualize your need and chant:
Nourish us with healthy food
This I ask for highest good.
Herb Gardens:
Use this chant as you place each stone:
Herbs for magic, herbs for spice,
with this stone, my goal precise.
Grow and flourish, leaf and flower,
Cultivate your special power.
Orchards and Fruit/Berry Vines:
Visualize a bountiful harvest and chant:
Fruit for sharing, fruit to eat,
with this stone, the yield be sweet.
Seeds/Seedlings:
Visualize the seedlings growing as you chant:
Take root, grow strong,
new plants, live long.
Other Plants:
Grow and bloom, flourish bright,
with this stone, banish blight.
Keep disease and pests away,
healthy plants in vast array.
Fairy Gardens:
It has been my experience that the Fae enjoy having pretty, sparkling stones in the garden. It doesn’t have to be only clear quartz; you can incorporate any rocks you find that have a lovely appearance. Holey stones and geodes are nice choices as well. After placing the stones, visualize and chant:
Welcome, Fae, to this place
filled with peace; bring your grace.
Garden Protection Spell
In addition to whatever methods you use to keep pests out of the garden, a little magic can’t hurt. I try to keep a harmonious yard a habitat for wildlife, but sometimes even the friendly squirrels and rabbit chew on some plants. Provide food for them, and water. This may help deter them. Sprinkling crushed red pepper around your plants may deter them, or consider providing some special plants as food just for wildlife.
For this spell, place a clear quartz point in each corner of the garden. Chant as you place each stone:
Creatures though I welcome thee,
Kindly let my garden be.
Please don’t harm my plants or home
I ask this while I place this stone.
To avoid losing small crystals in the garden or in large flower beds, place them next to a large rock so you can locate them—sometimes small stones become buried after a strong rain. Another option is to use specimens you don’t mind parting with. Often you can purchase low-quality pieces from rock shops or jewelry suppliers.
Fountain Spell
Because I’m so fond of fountains, both indoors and out, I like to use them in spells to incorporate all the elements. Near a fountain of running water and stones, light a candle. In this way, you’re utilizing Earth, Air, Fire, and Water. Some fountains are even made with built-in candle-holders. Select stones based on your need and charge them. Light the candle, visualize, and chant while holding the stone(s):
Earth and Water, Air and Fire
Grant the wish that I desire.
For good of all and harm to none,
As I will it shall be done.
State your goal; place the stone(s) in the fountain.