Spiritual

We write about crystals every day and won't tell you they cure anything. Here's the line we hold between real meaning and false medical claims.

Spiritual wealth is the felt sense of enough, kept with a gratitude stone each evening. Which crystals signify material wealth and success.

Pink opal stands for gentleness toward yourself and emotional recovery. How people keep it, give it, and the old luck behind its name.

Blue stones stand for calm, truth and clear speech in crystal practice, and lapis carries the story of a blue that could outvalue gold.

In crystal practice a stone's meaning starts with its colour, then grows from how it formed and what it comes to mean to its keeper.

In crystal practice some stones are for money coming in, led by citrine, and others for keeping it: jade, hematite and black tourmaline.

A Roman household's Lar and a Mexican ofrenda show what a household altar needs. How to set up a crystal altar with all four, and how to keep it.

An intention stays in a stone until it is cleared, practitioners hold. How to choose the stone, word the sentence, set it and come back to it.

Choose a stone for what you bring to the sitting, then hold it, gaze into it or lie with seven along the body. How to meditate with crystals.

Abalone carries sacred meaning for Native peoples of California. In crystal practice the shell does gentle work that burns nothing.

An Egyptian spell asks for a knot of red jasper at the throat. What red stones mean in crystal practice, and how to make a red-stone ritual.

Legend tied amethyst to wine and to staying sober. Affirmations for sobriety, calm, sleep and intuition, and how to say them with the stone.

Say the sentence out loud with the stone in hand. Which stone suits which sentence, where to keep it, counts, timing, and why no clearing step.

Write the outcome as already done, set it with a stone at the new moon, act on it, and let it go with thanks at the full moon.