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Crystal Cleansing
Crystals can be a powerful addition to any crystal magic, but like any tool, it’s necessary to crystal purification of any unwanted energies when you first take ownership. Generally stones are acquired from a retail store of one form or another, and have seen a lot of handling as other people communicate with the stones trying to decide if it’s for them. Even if the stone was taken from a natural source such as a river, or lake, or just picked up off the ground, the energies of the place it was found will permeate the stone.
Purification of a stone can be very simple, though there can be some extra steps taken if there are qualities of the stone you wantg to keep from where it was acquired. Other than that, the steps can be fairly simple.
Some people feel that a simple visualization of energy cleansing the stone is sufficient, or washing it in blessed water. In my opinion this may be g, good for maintenance or a cursory cleansing, but given the nature of the tool in question, I don’t believe this is sufficient.
Crystals, being minerals, take a long time to form in nature, and this is part of what gives them their ability to retain energy for a long time, and to hold to it even under other influences. As such it takes a certain amount of effort, and a little time and care to properly cleanse a stone of the energies it’s already infused with. After all, these qualities, the ability to retain and resonate power, are part of what we want them for!
Crystal Magic – Crystal Purification
To properly prepare for cleansing or purification a crystal will take a little time to do it properly. Steps can be skipped if there is an urgent need to prepare a crystal, but generally, in these cases, another form of magic will do until you have properly prepared your ritual tools. Magic is an art best not short-handed, the unintended side-effects can be inconvenient at best, decidedly unpleasant at worst.
That being said, a basic crystal cleansing can be accomplished with ritually purified black sand (easily accomplished by leaving it exposed to the energy of the full moon), blessed water (a little more involved, reference that article), and a little bit of time. Take a bowl, any simple glass or ceramic bowl will work, though a silver bowl is ideal if you own such a thing.
You will wait until the very last night of the last quarter of the moon. And, then place the crystal in the bowl, on the black sand, partially buried. If it’s a stone that has a terminus (a point), place its base down, and it up. If it double terminates, place one point down into the sand, leaving the other upright. Placing it outside is best. But placing it in a window where it can be exposed to the fading light of the moon will work as well.
Crystal Magic – Crystal Purification
Take the blessed water, and pour it over the stone. Visualize the energies in the stone washing away into the sand. Then, see it being grounded out through the bowl into the ground. You will then leave the stone until the third night of the new moon.
Cover it with a black cloth just before sunrise, and uncover it uncover sunset. Allow the fading light of the sun as well as the vanishing moon to diminish. Then, banish the existing energies in the stone. On that night, remove the stone from the bowl with a black cloth. Wrap it up, and store it until you’re ready to use it.
The black sand can generally be reused, merely allowing it to finish drying out. Then, place it back in an opaque container until you’re ready to use it again. It may take a little time. But this process will ensure that your crystal is completely purified and ready to use for whatever purpose you may desire to turn it to.
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