Amethyst affirmations are short sentences said with amethyst in your hand, each written for one of the things the stone is kept for: sobriety, from its old lore, and calm, sleep and intuition in crystal practice. “I keep a clear head tonight” is one.
Early Greek legends linked amethyst with Dionysus, the god of wine and pleasure, because its purple is the colour of wine. From the wine link grew the belief that wearing amethyst kept you from getting drunk.
Amethyst’s work, old and new
Amethyst has long been set in religious jewellery and in royal crown jewels, and it was once considered equal in value to ruby, emerald and sapphire. Bishops still wear it on their fingers, it sits in the coronation regalia of British royalty, and it is counted among the emblems of the twelve apostles.
In crystal practice amethyst is kept for calm, the kind you need in a loud week. Chakra charts put it at the crown of the head or at the third eye between the brows, sometimes at both, and on those charts the crown is the centre of awareness and the third eye the centre of inner sight. Crystal writers give it sleep and intuition as well.
The amethyst I keep is a geode, heavy enough not to be carried about, so its sentences are said where it sits. Its points darken toward the middle, and a calm sentence can be said looking into that darker heart. Give yours a place the afternoon sun does not reach, on a shelf away from the window, since some amethyst can fade in long, intense light. Any amethyst will suit these sentences, and a tumble fits the hand and can go in a pocket to wherever one is needed.
Writing the sentences
For sobriety the sentences are short, nearly plain statements of fact: “I know when I have had enough,” or “I choose what I drink, and choosing nothing is a choice too.” They are said before the evening starts, at the door or on the way, so the sentence is already yours when the first glass is offered. “My head is my own” works for more than drink, for the family dinner that runs hot or the argument you can feel coming. Some who have stopped drinking keep an amethyst as a companion to that choice. A sentence like these can be said with it each morning, before the day has offered anything. The stone keeps company with the help you have, the people and the meetings, and never stands in for them.
Where calm is the need, the sentence makes room: “There is time to think before I answer,” or “The noise is outside me, and I am not the noise.” With the stone closed in your hand, it can be said under your breath in a crowded room. At a desk, a small amethyst within reach of the keyboard lets the calm sentence be said between one message and the next, without getting up. For a calm that has to last a whole day, say it again each time you sit back down.
Before bed, in the hour of getting ready rather than with your head on the pillow, the sentences set the day down: “I have done enough for today,” or “Whatever is left can wait until morning.” Keep them gentle and a little slow. “My body knows how to rest” is an easier thing to say into a quiet room than any order to fall asleep. A small amethyst kept only for the bedroom holds the night’s sentences apart from the day’s, and the sleep sentence can be said once more as the stone is set down for the night.
Hold the stone in your palm before a choice and say “I know more than I can explain,” or “The answer is quieter than the noise around it.” If the choice is a written one, an offer or a form, put the stone on the paper while you say it. Then read the page again, slowly, before you sign anything. If the answer still will not come, set the stone down and decide tomorrow.
When a sentence feels too big to say yet, soften it rather than drop it. “I am learning to stay calm when plans change” can be said and meant on a morning when “I am calm” cannot. Say the softer one.
Counts, and the rest of the method, are in how to use crystal affirmations, and the French poem about how amethyst got its colour belongs to the birthstone for February.
A sentence does not have to be a statement at all. “What would a clear head do with this?”, asked with an amethyst in your hand before you answer the hard message, is as much an affirmation as any statement.
