the Crystal Knowledge thread

[Black Dragon]

Learned some new things today. Started working with pyrite today, a piece from my old childhood collection. It came up in conversation a couple times lately. And when certain things come up in conversation with certain individuals, especially more than once, I find pursuing them further to be fruitful. Realized I didn't have a piece on my main shelves to work with, so found a nice little cluster in my childhood stash. Hasn't seen sun in a while.

In fact, I haven't really been good about doing anything in particular to charge my crystals. I felt the bright sun today and the pyrite in my hand, when I looked at it outside and felt drawn to let it charge along with a group of other very solar energy oriented type crystals.

The pyrite is charging now along with a six sided golden serpentine tower point, a golden chrysoberyl obelisk, a large neon-yellow sulfur included quartz crystal, my orange banded jade 50mm sphere, 30mm black obsidian sphere, a beautiful amber piece with insect inclusions, an my piece of Libyan desert glass. They take on a new vibrancy and intensity of color in strong natural sunlight.

Some crystals I hear charge better by other methods and its useful sometimes to use moonlight. Some crystals will fade or become otherwise damaged by direct sunlight, so no sun charging for them. What came to me is there is still a way to specifically get solar energy in them and charge more stones on shelves without having to charge them all outside. The tower and obelisk shapes of very solar oriented stones will absorb extra and broadcast it to my other crystals.

When I came in thinking on this and passed the washing machine, the remaining time on the cycle it was on said 1:11.

[Black Dragon]

Certainly room for more. Have a double terminated clear quartz, double terminated white beryl, chunk of pyroxmangite, and a honey garnet crystal out there. That should bring in a lot of solar energy to stones that are very attuned to it. Got the quartz amplifier, obsidian grounder, and everything in between including higher chakra strength in the LDG and Chrysoberyl.

[Ymarsakar]

Black dragon is class changing to crystal dragon, with a rogue s use any magic item skill.

[Black Dragon]

Note: Normally crystals would not need more than a few minutes time to charge in the sun. Mine needed the extra boost this one time to energize things. Some stones, even ones that don't fade, can become more brittle with too much sun and heat. Mine were fine this time, the real ones anyway. Found out the amber was "young amber", not completely the real thing and it was damaged. Oh well.

One solar stone as underrated as pyrite and just as powerful, but different and less well known, is Sulphur quartz. This is an intense stone for solar energy and cleansing, and much more. Alchemically, Sulphur is one of the three major elements alongside salt and mercury. Pure Sulphur crystals are beautiful, collectible, and powerful in their own right, but there are some things that make them annoying to work with. Their softness, brittleness, fragility, smell and unhealthy residue they leave on hands. Not good if you want something to rub or carry in your pocket. Lightly hold while meditating and then wash your hands with pure Sulphur is about it. Sulphur in quartz gives the durability of quartz with no smell and residue, plus the powers of quartz and Sulphur together.