Crystals have the power to influence many different aspects of your life. Find the right crystal for your chosen career path and you will see how opportunities begin to arise for you. You can also use crystals to harness your skills of divination. Certain crystals aid specific abilities, and the traditional crystal ball can be used in a number of ways, including for meditation, energy cleansing, and distant healing.
Some of the major underlying problems clients come to me with are associated with their careers. Whether these are related to issues at work, the wish to change jobs, or a desire for a total change of career path, the stress created can cause severe physical, emotional, mental, or spiritual symptoms. These often include insomnia, lethargy, and digestive disorders, but as stress goes to the weakest part of the body, which is different for everyone, almost any symptoms may occur.
Career decisions are assisted by titanium quartz, while citrine and mookaite can help you find a new job once you’ve decided which career path to take. Tourmaline makes starting a new career or job easier.
Crystals for Careers
The following occupations can benefit from these crystals:
Angel aura quartz
: Tiger’s eye
: Apatite, carnelian (plus kyanite for the voice)
: Celestite, citrine, Picasso marble, rose quartz
Blue tiger’s eye
: Amethyst, ruby (also, opal supports business partnerships and relationships, and tourmaline helps with business start-ups)
: Angel aura quartz
Smoky quartz
: Smoky quartz
: Jade
: Green moss agate (promotes a good harvest)
: Green moss agate
: Apatite, tourmaline
: Apatite
Jade
: Carnelian (for live performances), celestite and rose quartz (for studio work), rhodonite with rhodochrosite (for creativity)
Turquoise
: Tiger’s eye
: Rubellite (pink tourmaline)
: Apatite
Rubellite (pink tourmaline)
: Tiger’s eye
: Citrine
: Apatite, kyanite : Almandine garnet, angelite, hematite
: Apatite, citrine (plus calcite is helpful for art and science teaching)
: Apatite, citrine, rose quartz, turquoise
Polished citrine
Crystals enhance all psychic gifts and abilities. They are natural energy boosters that can help you focus the inner part of your mind, the area known as the third eye. They link to your chakras, with each chakra promoting particular talents, and they heighten your awareness. Some crystals are integral tools relating to specific psychic skills, such as quartz crystal balls and obsidian scrying mirrors.
Psychic skills can be boosted by agates, moldavite, sphene, and angelite
Crystals for Psychic Skills
The following crystals will enhance these psychic skills:
: Sphene enhances your understanding of the stars and planets and how they affect both you and others.
: Titanium quartz helps you to see and interpret the aura.
: Angelite, citrine, garnet, lapis lazuli, opal, and tourmaline all boost the aura.
Tree agate
: Agate and calcite open the communication channels to spirit guides; angelite promotes contact with angels.
: Moldavite increases the ability to sense and feel energies.
: Apophyllite, charoite, and fire agate promote the art of seeing clearly into the past, present, and future.
Moldavite
: Blue quartz, agate, golden calcite, opal, prehnite, quartz, obsidian, and schalenblende can all enhance divination.
Fire agate
: Eudialyte (a variety of pink garnet) boosts ESP by opening the heart; spirit quartz does so by linking friends and relations.
: Obsidian, charoite, crocoite, opal, moonstone, rhodolite (a variety of pink garnet), sapphire, and tiger’s eye all improve “knowing,” even if you don’t quite realize where the information is coming from.
: Garnet, labradorite, schalenblende, and tanzanite enhance the power of magic and spells.
: Schalenblende improves communication with the spirit world.
Opal and prehnite can bring prophetic insight.
: Agate, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, smokey quartz, tiger’s eye, topaz, tourmaline, and turquoise are all protective crystals. Most will protect you from everyday accidents, too.
Aqua aura
: Apatite, aqua aura, azurite, cavansite, amethyst, hawk’s eye, Herkimer diamond, kyanite, lapis, lazuli, opal, petalite, tanzanite, tourmaline, and turquoise improve your innate psychic skills.
Pink Banded I Agate
: Record keeper ruby crystal and rutile make it easier to see into distant places.
: Apophyllite, obsidian, black opal, and quartz are beneficial. Quartz crystal balls and black obsidian polished into mirrors, spheres, and eggs are excellent for looking into the future.
: Blue quartz enhances the ability to interpret tarot cards.
Chalcedony
: Angelite, blue quartz, and chalcedony boost thought transference.
Crown: Amethyst
Brow: Lapis lazuli
Throat: Blue lace agate
Heart: Malachite
Solar plexus: Citrine
Sacral: Carnelian
Base: Red jasper
Crystal Divination
As you can see from the list on pages 146–7, there are many crystals that help to boost psychic awareness and skills. However, you can also work with all crystals directly to divine the past, present, and future. We have already looked at crystal properties relating to health and healing, emotions, the mind, and lifestyle, and these are a good place to begin.
Perhaps the simplest starting point with crystal divination is to employ your crystal chakra set. Let the client choose the crystals they are attracted to (see Practical Exercise below) and you will discover instantly the areas in their body and life that could benefit from healing or change.
At first you may only notice a feeling from the crystal and be unable to interpret anything else, but the more you practice this, the easier it will become and the more you will sense. For information about the relevant chakra and its effects on health, body, mind, emotions, and lifestyle, see Chapter 4.
Once you get used to working like this, begin adding more crystals one by one. Eventually you will “know” what the crystal is telling you as soon as your client picks it up.
Practical Exercise: Crystal Communication
To ask the client’s chosen crystal for more information, first still your mind by focusing your eyes on a quartz crystal, and then, holding the chakra crystal (one at a time if there is more than one), ask it for any other information about your client. Be patient and you will notice a reaction, possibly in one of the following ways:
You may find a thought comes into your mind.
You may see images in your mind or patterns on the crystal.
You may hear the answer in your head as if the crystal were speaking to you.
Beautiful quartz crystal balls have many functions, including self-, group-, and earth-healing, scrying, meditation, space clearing, and “energy dumping.” The use of crystal balls date back seven millennia. Two thousand years ago, the ancient Greeks used them to cauterize wounds. Because a crystal ball focuses light and acts like a magnifying glass, the Greeks used them to heat the wound and kill bacteria in a painful but life-saving process. So don’t leave one on your windowsill in the sun, or the same energy may set fire to your house!
A quartz crystal sphere (above) creates a very different energy pattern from that of a crystal point (below)
The first thing to note about crystal balls is that they are round. This may sound obvious but it is because the person who carved it had the intent to make the crystal round, and the love for that crystal making them want it to be as beautiful as possible, that the energy feels wonderful and comes out in all directions. This is fundamentally different to the crystal point, in which energy is focused and directional.
Scrying
This involves working with a crystal ball to see images and to promote thoughts and feelings. Sitting quietly, focus yourself and look into the crystal ball. It helps if you concentrate on one point until you get used to the reflections and refractions of light. Allow images, thoughts, and feelings to come to you. Stay with these (they may change or the same image may come and go) and notice any emotions. As your mind processes them, allow words to come from them. It can take some time or several attempts before you start seeing images, but keep trying because everyone can see them. That’s the easy part—it’s interpreting them that can be quite tricky.
Meditation
Crystals enhance every stage of the meditation process, and a crystal ball in particular will provide a point of focus and bring clarity of mind. Sitting quietly, relax and center yourself. Look at the surface of the ball and, holding your focus, slowly allow yourself to be drawn inside. Keep your center of attention on the crystal. If your mind wanders, just accept that it has and focus again on the crystal. When any images, thoughts, or feelings arise, allow them to pass and return your mind to the crystal. Continue this for at least 10–15 minutes—the longer you can do it, the better.
Space Clearing
Windows allow light in and energy to escape from a room even when they’re closed and even when you do nothing consciously to enhance this process. If a room such as a therapy room in a clinic, health spa, or sports center doesn’t have windows, energies get stuck, especially if there are several healers working in it. The room isn’t cleansed of these energies, and as a result clients may feel tired and drained after they’ve had a treatment. To remedy this, place a crystal ball conveniently in the room with the specific thought that it will act as your window, bringing in light and collecting unhelpful energies. You will need to cleanse the crystal ball regularly, because it is absorbing and holding these energies instead of letting them out into the universe as a window would.
Black opal
Obsidian
Strawberry quartz
Apophyllite, black opal, obsidian, and quartz are beneficial for scrying. Quartz crystal balls and black obsidian polished into mirrors, spheres, and eggs are excellent for looking into the future.
Energy Dumping
Some people find it difficult to “close the office door behind them.” They take home all the worries of the day, leading to long-term stress. To remedy this, try sitting quietly and slowing your mind down by simply looking at the crystal ball. Focus your mind on one issue, event, or person that you are concerned about. “Watch” this thought float from your mind out through your brow chakra and into the crystal ball, disappearing inside it. Now focus your mind on your next concern and repeat the process. Continue until your mind is clear and still. Be sure to cleanse the crystal ball when you’ve finished.
Distant Healing
Because crystal spheres by their nature send energy in all directions, you can work with them for distant healing. The technique is very similar to the one for distant healing with a quartz master crystal (see page 142). Sit quietly holding your crystal ball or resting it on a stand, and focus your mind on any person, animal, or place in the world that might benefit from healing. Imagine a point of powerful white crystalline light emanating from the center of the crystal and filling it. Allow this to build in intensity and, when you are ready, see or imagine it flowing to whomever your mind suggests. Don’t be concerned if your mind jumps from one person to another—just allow the crystalline light to flow to them.
Earth Healing
This is a similar process to distant healing but with the crystal ball acting as a representation of the earth. Despite its current manifestation as “climate change,” the idea of man-made damage to the planet is not new. Many ancient people around the world, such as the Aboriginal people of Australia, have a tradition of sending healing to the planet.
A smokey quartz crystal ball.
To work with the crystal ball for earth healing, cradle it and still your mind by focusing on it. Let love flow from your heart and feel the warmth from your hands, or imagine light flowing into the earth represented by the sphere. Continue as long as you wish. With a larger sphere you can have a group of friends sit around it, and all imagine light flowing from them to the crystal ball. This can also act as a strong bonding exercise.
Crystals in the Garden
Plants love crystals! Take some crystals that you no longer need, or crystals that are overworked, faded, or broken, and place them in the garden by your plants. The earth and rain will cleanse them and you’ll soon see the benefits as your plants flourish. In addition, most crystal stores have a supply of small, inexpensive quartz crystals that are perfect for the garden and houseplants alike. Green moss agate also promotes healthy growth in plants.
You can create wonderful garden focal points such as rockeries and water features incorporating crystals. Use your imagination to plan out the space carefully, considering the size of your garden, the feature you are going to create, and your budget. If you can’t find the crystals you need, ask in your local crystal shop or search the internet, because many people have a lot more stock than they can display.
As you work more and more with crystals, you’ll discover that some become friends. And, like people, one crystal may be with you throughout life while another may pass through your life, touching you only fleetingly. You will begin to realize that they help with all sorts of everyday things that are too simple even to think about, such as finding parking places, reminding you to contact someone, and selecting dishes from a restaurant menu. Crystals become part of your life and their influence extends to those around you through their very presence and natural healing energies.
Moonstone
blue quartz
and garnet
Crystal Skulls
Reputed to have been employed in shamanic ceremonies, crystal skulls are surrounded by mystery. Legends link them to ancient civilizations and even the fabled Atlantis. The most famous crystal skull, the Mitchell-Hedges skull, was said to have been discovered in 1924 and was claimed to be of pre-Columbian Mesoamerican origin. However, several scientific tests have shown that this, along with all the others so far discovered, dates from the mid-nineteenth century or later.
Nevertheless, their powers continue to astound. Many people have reported deep healing and insight gained from simply being in their presence. Even contemporary crystal skulls, carved commonly in Brazil and China today, possess a magic that transfixes many who come into their presence. I’ve seen it in my own shop—when someone holds a nearly life-size crystal skull, something indescribable happens. Whatever the truth of their history, the mystery and power felt by many people in their presence is indisputable.
