Plastic

Continuing on from our beach cleaning endeavours last week, I had the gift of going to the V&A Dundee's amazing exhibition  'Plastic. Remaking The World’ late last year. Covering the history, uses and repurposing of this amazingly versatile yet environmentally destructive material the exhibition was both sobering yet hopeful - a bit like our 'Bag The Bruck’ experience! This event has now finished but continues on in a book form of the same name. This is relatively expensive but packed full of historical information, imagery, and hope for the future in terms of up to date solutions and latest thinking around resolving the environmental health challenges plastic now poses to all life forms across the globe, alongside its diversity of use.

Hopefully this exhibition will be shown elsewhere soon.

V&A Dundee Exhibition

Part of one of the many exhibits

The book

Tonight’s Peace Meditation

Tonight's Thursday Peace Meditation, 30/03/23, through 8pm BST,  returns to the focus:

'To send peace, strength and heart connection to the lands and people of all affected by war, conflict, environmental or natural disaster.'  

For this meditation we will use the beautiful crystal configuration shown below, comprised of a Pure Grace Heart, four rose aura and four angel aura. 

Please feel free to join us, from where ever you are based across the globe. 

To connect in, simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time, let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation, and also connects those who join in, to a deeper sense of personal peace and wellbeing. 

Thank you for your connection and helping so many in continued need at this time.

Pure Grace Heart, Rose and Angel Aura

Bag the Bruck

We had our first 'Bag The Bruck’ session a couple of days ago at Borwick Beach, our regular spot here on the West mainland of Orkney. It's a beautiful wild stoney beach ever changing with the light and tides and it was lovely to see so many fulmars back on the cliffs.

I’m generally quite hopeful and optimistic about the future of our planet, in spite of all the challenges we face but this particular beach clean up felt to be a bit of a reality check. Far more plastic and fishing debris than we’ve ever come across before and in the end we did what we could but plan to go back for a more serious focused effort soon. One of the hardest things was finding hundreds of tiny balls of polystyrene all mixed up in the seaweed and in amongst the stones and virtually impossible to clean up with out hours of patient work.

Every small step makes a difference though so like growing numbers of others we will keep beach cleaning, working at finding more ways to reduce the use of plastic in our every day lives, and remain hopeful for a brighter future for all.

Beautiful Borwick beach

Some of the plastic debris collected

Plastic and fishing debris

Healing Meditation for Ecological Grief and Eco-Anxiety

Tonight, Tuesday 28th March, through 8pm BST, we return to our monthly global meditation to heal collective patterns of grief.

With so much habitat destruction and loss, coupled with the effects of climate change, ecological grief and eco-anxiety are becoming increasingly widespread across the globe, especially in our younger generations. We hold this in our hearts with tonight’s specific focus:

'To send strength, healing and angelic support to all those grieving loss across our beautiful Earth Mother .’

This meditation will use a Pure Grace Heart, four turquoise and four angel aura as shown below. 

Please feel welcome to join in, from where ever you are based. Simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time, let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer. Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation and also helps to ease any energies of grief and suffering felt at a personal level.

Crystal matrix to heal grief patterns

Aqua Aura Planting

Last week I received this beautiful and timely crystal planting record: 

‘Hi Louise, today 21 March 2023 at 2pm I planted an Aqua Aura at Avebury stone circle and it's the Vernal Equinox and New Moon.’

This planting adds to the ever growing network of aqua aura plantings across the globe to enhance spiritual connection through unconditional love in action, a much needed energy for all at this continued time of great challenge and upheaval for so many. 

Further details of these specially programmed beautiful crystals and how anyone can contribute to this and our other aura planting work are available on both crystalearthworks.net under 'Crystal Planting Projects' in the work section of the menu, and in the pages section of this blog.

A heartfelt thank you goes to the regular planter who sent in this record and who wishes to remain anonymous at this time, eternally grateful as always for your continued support of Crystal Earthworks and its planetary healing work.

Aqua aura for planting

Thursday Peace Meditation

Tonight’s Peace Meditation, Thursday 23/03/23, through 8pm GMT, will once again use the beautiful heart shaped chunk of rose quartz shown below, with the focus:

'To send peace, healing and the unity of heart connection to the Earth and her inhabitants.

Please feel welcome to join us from wherever you are based across the globe. 
Simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time. Let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystal as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought, or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation, and also connects those who join in, to a deeper sense of personal peace and wellbeing, so needed with the many challenges we and our beautiful planet collectively face as we move through the first few months of 2023. 

With gratitude to all who help to empower these meditations.

Heart shaped chunk of rose quartz

World Water Day 2023

Water is key to the life of all here on planet Earth.

Today we celebrate World Water Day and the launch fifteen years ago of a body of crystal planting work named 'Waters Of Pure Grace'. 

This ongoing project embodies the use of four specially programmed crystal planting configurations and individual crystals to help heal the waters of our energy challenged planet. These crystals and crystal sets, offer a unique opportunity for anyone across the globe to plant crystals to heal areas of pollution, stagnation and trauma in connection to water. Details of these configurations are outlined and illustrated in the pages section of this blog and we hope to have these available for sale once more later this year. 

'May the waters of the Earth flow once more in purity,

 returning peace, harmony and grace to all.’

Orkney seas a few days ago

Meditation For The New Moon and Spring Equinox

Our meditation, tonight, 21/03/23, coincides with the New Moon and follows on from the Spring Equinox yesterday and the beauty of new beginnings and opportunities both of these energetic times bring. With this and our emphasis on nurturance throughout 2023, we return to the use of the beautiful garnierite (green moonstone) heart shown below, programmed once again:

‘To bring greater harmony, balance and nurturance to the Earth and her inhabitants.’

At a personal level this beautiful crystal, sometimes known as ‘The stone of the Goddess’ helps to settle emotional hurt and heal the heart, as well as connecting deeper into divine feminine empowerment. On a planetary level it enables us to tune into, and co-create, all that is required for a sustainable future for all, to garnish our lives with all attuned to heart led flow.

As always, please feel welcome to join us from where ever you are based across the globe, with every connection empowering the healing effect of the meditation both at a personal and planetary level.

To connect in simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time, let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystal as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Looking forward to connecting with you tonight.

Garnierite heart

Crystal Vibrancy

Staying on the theme of cleansing crystals this week, I noticed the other day that my amethyst bed for cleansing my personal pendants and softer crystals was looking a bit lack lustre, even after being cleansed itself in water. When I placed it alongside the smaller amethyst bed I use when I’m travelling, which is much newer, I realised just how tired looking it was, as shown in the image below.

Even when crystals are being regularly cleansed they can reach the point where they need prolonged resting, or have simply done their job, and it's time to return them to the Earth. Sometimes you just intuitively know which of these is the case, or if you are not sure it is best to place them outside. This can be in a secluded spot in the garden, if you have one, or on an external window sill or balcony, as long as there is no danger of them falling off onto anyone from a height.

After a few weeks being rested and exposed to the elements its remarkable how some crystals can regain their energy and vibrancy. However if this doesn’t happen return them to the earth with gratitude for the healing they have brought you and with joy, knowing that they have fulfilled their purpose here on Earth. Sometimes they just disappear themselves, a sure sign they have completed their work!

Crystals can be returned to the earth by planting them into the soil or under rocks, somewhere that feels appropriate, placing them in a river or stream, or throwing them, with respect, into the sea. I am going to place this particular amethyst bed in our garden for a while, but feel this beautiful crystal may well have done its job in which case it will be placed into the sea, my preferred option here in Orkney.

Older, much used amethyst bed to left,
newer more vibrant to the right

Older amethyst bed placed to rest in safe space
 outside, already looking a little more sparkly

Tonight’s Peace Meditation

Tonight's Thursday Peace Meditation, 16/03/23, through 8pm GMT,  has the focus:

'To send peace, strength and heart connection to the lands and people of all affected by war, conflict, environmental or natural disaster.'  

This meditation returns to the beautiful crystal configuration shown below, comprised of a Pure Grace Heart, four rose aura and four angel aura. 

Please feel free to join us, from where ever you are based across the globe. 

To connect in, simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time, let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation, and also connects those who join in, to a deeper sense of personal peace and wellbeing. 

Thank you for your connection and helping so many in continued need at this time.

Pure Grace Heart, Rose and Angel Aura

Healing Meditation in Connection to EMFS

There will be two Crystal Earth Meditations this week, tonight Tuesday 14/03/23 and Thursday 16/03/23, both through 8pm GMT.   

Tonight we return to our monthly focus:

'To bring greater harmony and balance to the Earth's energy field.'

This meditation is in response to the high levels of manmade negative electromagnetic radiation swamping our planet at this time.

We now have a new combination of crystals for this focus, with four pyrite and four additional angel aura being added to the former configuration of a Pure Grace Heart, four copper tumble stones and four angel aura.

This set of crystals, shown below, serve to help release and rebalance the high levels of EMF negativity across the globe as well as facilitate greater acknowledgement of this invisible, growing threat to the health and wellbeing of all.

To join in with any of our meditations, simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time. Let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation as well as bringing healing at a personal level.

Full details of Thursday night's Peace Meditation will be posted later in the week.

New meditation configuration in connection 
with EMF's

 

Crystal Cleansing Update

As promised last week, I have now put up a permanent page covering crystal cleansing in the pages section of this blog for future reference. This covers three ways to simply and easily cleanse crystals and the frequency this is best implemented for their different uses. Please feel free to get in touch at info@crystalearthworks.net if you have any further questions. Happy cleansing!

Crystals cleansing in water

Crystal pendant cleansing on an amethyst bed

Celestite cluster cleansing on a salt platter

Thursday meditation For Peace and Healing

Tonight’s Peace Meditation, Thursday 9/03/23, through 8pm GMT, will once again use the beautiful heart shaped chunk of rose quartz shown below, with the focus:

'To send peace, healing and the unity of heart connection to the Earth and her inhabitants.

Please feel welcome to join us from wherever you are based across the globe. 
Simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time. Let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystal as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought, or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation, and also connects those who join in, to a deeper sense of personal peace and wellbeing, so needed with the many challenges we and our beautiful planet collectively face as we move through the first few months of 2023. 

With gratitude to all who help to empower these meditations.

Heart shaped chunk of rose quartz

International Women’s Day

Today we celebrate International Women's Day 2023, and the launch on this day, in 2008, of the beautiful Pure Grace Heart crystals. 

These specially programmed selenite hearts, which bring the beauty of purity, flow and gentle nurturance through connection to the Divine Feminine, have been central to much of our work over the last fifteen years. 

These stunning crystals can be worn, carried, used in meditation and for crystal healing configurations to the body in a therapy setting. They also form the basis of much ongoing crystal planting work to help heal and strengthen our beautiful Earth Mother.

To mark this special day, tonight, 8/03/23, through 8pm GMT, a single Pure Grace Heart will be opened as a meditation focus.

Please feel welcome to connect in from where ever you are based in the usual way.

Pure Grace Heart

Earth Nurturing Meditation

There will be two  planetary healing meditations this week, tonight Tuesday 7/03/23, and Thursday 9/03/23, both through 8pm GMT. Tonight we return to our focus:

'To nurture, strengthen and realign the Earth and all her life forms in accordance with the greatest good of all.'

This meditation uses the beautiful configuration of crystals shown below, comprised of a Pure Grace Heart, 2 moonstone, 2 pietersite, 2 labradorite and 2 mookaite.

Tonight's meditation feels particularly key, as the crystal configuration being used includes moonstone and coincides with the beauty and power of the full moon as well as other key astrological changes as Saturn moves from Aquarius into Pisces.

Please feel welcome to join us from wherever you are based across the globe. Simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time. Let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation and also empowers the sets of these crystals now planted to the Earth in key energetic sites across the UK in Orkney, Cornwall, Strathclyde and Somerset.

Details of Thursday's Peace Meditation will be posted later in the week.

Crystal configuration to nurture, strengthen 
and realign the Earth

Cleansing Crystals

The image below came up on my feed today, a good reminder of the importance of cleansing crystals, especially with the full moon just around the corner. Regular cleansing of crystals, in use, is vital, as part of the way they work and bring healing is effectively to act like sponges absorbing any negative energy around them. Once they are saturated, if this energy is not cleansed and removed, it will begin to drip back out into the environment to which they are placed, or into the energy field of the person carrying them, just like a sponge saturated with water. This leaking negative energy can then actually serve to magnify the very challenges they are being used to heal.

There are many ways to cleanse crystals but one of the simplest and most effective, for most, is to soak them in clean cold water overnight in a glass container, and this cleansing is further enhanced by the energy of the full moon. 

Crystals worn or carried personally are best cleansed every few days or even daily if working very hard. Those placed in the home or used in a vehicle can generally be cleansed weekly, except those being used with mobile phones, where daily cleansing is required, such are the levels of negative energy they are absorbing. Crystals planted out in the environment or used as part of a healing cairn require no further action as they will be cleansed by the elements, rain, wind, snow, sun and moonlight.

Crystals new to you are best cleansed for a minimum of 12 hours before use as they will have connected with many different energies on their journey to you. The crystals shown in the photograph are ones that had just arrived a few months back in the post from the wholesaler for various Crystal Earthworks planting projects. They were placed straight into water to cleanse as shown.

If you have soft crystals such as selenite or some forms of celestite, or silver or gold mounted crystal pendants or other jewellery, these are best cleansed on an amethyst, or salt bed, as prolonged contact with water can soften the former and tarnish the latter. I’ll put up a permanent page on this blog, later this week detailing the main cleansing methods for future reference. In the meantime the full moon tomorrow is the perfect time to put your unmounted harder crystals in to soak!

New crystals soaking in water
 to cleanse before use

Tonight’s Peace Meditation

Tonight’s peace meditation, 2/03/23, through 8pm GMT, uses a Pure Grace Heart, four rose aura and four angel aura. Placed in the beautiful configuration shown below, the crystals will be programmed:

'To send peace, healing and strength of heart to the Earth and all her inhabitants.’

This week we particularly focus on all those affected by war, conflict, environmental or natural disaster and other recent events leading to sustained injury and loss of life.

Please feel welcome to join us, from wherever you are based across the globe. 

To connect in, simply sit in peace, in a quiet place, through the allotted time, let go of all your own worries and concerns, and then use the words and image of the crystals as a positive focus in meditation, positive thought or prayer.

Each and every connection empowers the healing effect of the meditation, and also connects those who join in, to a deeper sense of personal peace and wellbeing. 

Thank you for your connection and helping so many in great need at this time.

Pure Grace Heart, Rose and Angel Aura