Hey crystal workers! While the moon is still finishing up it's time in Gemini as I'm writing this, it enters Cancer tomorrow morning around 9:30, and we're looking at a new moon in this sensitive sign on the fourth of July, making this an excellent day to pull out your moon journals and write down your intentions for this Cancer lunation. Adjustments and progress in regards to the home and family circle particularly resonate with this lunation, but any New Moon is a great time to re-evaluate your life and decide what you want to manifest.
Today, I want to do another blog post in regards to a question I received not from a reader of this blog, but from a friend. Before I proceed, I want to remind you to take advantage of this offer and please feel free to ask me your questions - the best way to do this is through the twitter account I just set up and have been updating daily (and am even starting to figure out how to use - hehe.) You can follow me on twitter under the name @crystalwitch 6 and send me your crystal-related questions!
But, returning to today's topic. While I won't bother quoting her directly, she basically asked me how to know when a crystal needs cleansing. My response to her, as usual, was lengthy - the short answer being that there are several ways.
First of all, it is always a good idea to cleanse a crystal using your chosen method upon first purchasing it - most shopkeepers will remind you to do so when you purchase your crystals, especially if they can tell you're a newbie, and this is solid advise to follow. I don't believe that crystals can be tainted by harmful energy or hurt you; even if they have come into contact with a nasty person over the course of their journey to you, you don't have to worry about being stuck with a crystal that will make you physically sick or harm you on any level. I have actually gotten this question before. A friend of mine got sick after purchasing a crystal, and wondered if it may be because they hadn't cleansed it. The answer to this question is not long or complicated - it's a firm NO. Your crystal will not make you come down with a cold because you didn't cleanse it - I promise. But even though the consequences are not dire if you forget to give your crystal a needed cleanse after purchasing, I do believe that, as absorbers and storehouses of energy, crystals can hang onto energy and become saturated with it, and this can make it harder for them to function and do their jobs. So while your new onyx won't send you to the doctor, it probably won't be making its powers of protection known, either. In order to achieve optimum results from working with crystals, cleansing is necessary, especially when you first add them to your collection; they have probably been through a lot before reaching you. This is especially true with crystals that have a strong tendency to absorb energy, such as fluorite, which is like an energy vacuum, and Jet, which bonds particularly well with its owner. All black crystals typically tend to absorb energy rather efficiently and will therefore need frequent cleansing.
So now that you have purchased a crystal and know to give it it's initial welcome-home cleanse, how do you know from here when your crystal needs to be cleansed again? The first answer to this is obviously simple intuition, but of course, some people are more sensitive to crystal energy than others. Even if you aren't particularly sensitive to crystal energy, sometimes, if you bond enough with a crystal, you can get a sense of when it might be feeling a little tired or sluggish. However, if this answer totally makes you panic because you don't think you will ever be able to sense crystal energy, fear not - there are physical indicators. Sometimes, crystals will actually start to feel heavier or look cloudier. Obviously, another way you can tell is if you simply feel that the crystal doesn't really seem to be functioning properly. If your amethyst pendant isn't making you feel as good as it normally does, place that babe under the full moon. If the rose quartz in your love corner doesn't seem to be bringing 'em in through the windows, hit it with some sage smoke. My main way of knowing when my crystals need to be cleansed is when I notice they don't really seem to working as effectively as usual.
Before I wrap up this blog post, I did want to leave you with one more note on cleansing. A lot of people that I talk to attach excessive importance to cleansing - if they forget to leave their collection out on the night of a full moon, they think they've failed and ruined their crystals; if they forgot to cleanse it upon purchasing it, they think it will make them sick. Cleansing is not nearly as important as people would like to think. Crystals are gifts from Mama Earth with their own personalities and their own inherent energy signatures. That being said, it's hard to give an exact timeline of how often you should cleanse your crystals, because there really is no clear answer, and if there was, it would depend on a lot of factors, such as how often they are used. But the one thing I can tell you about how often you should cleanse your crystals is that is isn't as often as you think - certainly not monthly and under every full moon of the year. If it gives you joy and makes you feel good, keep doing it, but it really isn't something to beat yourself up about if you skip a month. Plus, as your crystal collection grows and you acquire bigger specimens, this method of cleansing in particular starts to become cumbersome and irrelevant. Not only do you not need to cleanse your crystals as often as you think, but it also doesn't have to be as much work as you think - a few rings of your altar bell over the stone or a few passes through the smoke of some incense, and your crystal is cleansed.
For more information on cleansing, I have a blog post that goes into detail regarding the different methods and their pros and cons that you might want to look at. I hope you found my answer to this question helpful. Thanks for stopping and don't forget to follow me on twitter (@crystalwitch6) and try me with your own questions. Love and light ~
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