Here's How to Love Yourself More - Right Now

Self-love is an incredibly important part of our overall well-being, and it's something we would all benefit from practicing more of. Here are some ways to boost your self love practice today!

Using Crystals to Support your Goal or Intention Setting

Crystals can be powerful tools for setting and achieving our goals. Here's one way to use them along with intention setting, to begin to create positive change in your life.

Creating Your 2023 with Crystals - Part 2

  Welcome to our crystals for the New Year, Part 2! I hope your 2023 is moving along! Here is Part 2 of our New Year crystal recommendations - and this time, we're featuring crystals for getting ...

Happy New Year!

Welcome to 2023! I decided to reboot and revamp an older blog post for you this year - because it has so much great crystal info! I'm splitting it into two parts - so here's part 1! It's a new yea...

Crystals for Capricorn Season

Crystals to Support You During Capricorn Season As we enter the season of Capricorn, it's a perfect time to focus on the grounding and stabilizing energy of crystals. Capricorn, symbolized by the ...

Crystals: A Quick Overview

If you are really new to the world of crystals, this post is for you! When you're just getting started, it can be overwhelming to read about all of the different types of crystals, how to use them...

Turquoise Properties

Turquoise is a December birthstone and a great stone for those born under the Sagittarius zodiac sign. Its calming energy supports the throat chakra and helps with speaking your truth, being confid...

Our Crystal Picks for December

Try out these crystals this December to activate winter magic These crystals are perfect for December: their calming, clearing properties are perfect to support you through the hustle and bustle of...

Selenite Properties

This blog is about selenite generally and applies to selenite, satin spar, and gypsum. All of these have similar properties – even though they are not exactly the same – and are generally discussed...

Thanksgiving Thoughts - Gratitude in Motion

What if I told you that there's actually nothing wrong with indulging in some good food, rest, family, and shopping this weekend?

4 High Vibration Crystals for Your Collection

Raise Your Vibration This week in our live sale, we featured a number of crystals that are known as "high vibrational" stones - but what does that even mean? And why would you want them - or, why ...

Sunstone Properties

Sunstone is warming, energetic, and radiant - just like the sun. It is said to help boost confidence, increase vitality, and support independence and agency. Sunstone is also said to be a stone of ...

Tapping Into Halloween Magic All Year

In the season of witches, ghosts, potions, spells, and otherworldly monsters, everything seems more possible. The mysterious and strange is the norm, not the outlier. The impossible feels close. Ma...

Opal Properties

Ethiopian opals are said to activate the root chakra and the sacral chakra. Having them around is said be good for helping to ground you, give you a feeling of safety, and help you express the trut...

7 Crystal Mistakes You're Probably Making - And How to Fix Them

There's so much info out there...as well as some questionable advice. Here are 7 crystal mistakes you're probably making - and how to fix them. 

Celestite Properties

Celestite encourages deep relaxation, inner peace, and connection with higher realms. It also enhances spiritual communication, intuition, and divine guidance.

Is it Blue Calcite or Celestite?

How to Tell Blue Calcite and Celestite Apart  ...once and for all.  If you saw my recent post about Common Crystal Mix-Ups, you saw that I hate when there's confusion between blue calcite and cel...

Confused About These Common Crystals? Don't Be!

Common Crystal Mix-Ups There are SO MANY crystals out there - and "new finds" being uncovered all of the time. It can be hard to pick up on some of the subtleties between crystals, and the names...

Black Tourmaline Properties

Black tourmaline is said to purify energy, clear negativity and stagnation, and create energetic boundaries.

Carnelian Properties

Carnelian promotes positivity, genuine friendships, true love, and passionate experiences. It is also a stone of confidence and motivation.

Crystals for the 8-8 Lion's Gate Portal

What is the Lion's Gate Portal?  The Lion's Gate Portal refers to a specific set of astrologic occurrences that happen each year, between approximately July 28 and August 13. August 8, or 8-8, is ...

The Magic of Ohio Flint

I wanted to share this letter I received from a customer, about a piece of Ohio flint he purchased. He was newer to crystals, but found himself drawn to some of the flint I had listed for sale. Her...

Flint Properties

Flint is believed to possess grounding and protective qualities, as well as the ability to dispel negativity, enhance intuition, aid in manifestation, and facilitate spiritual connection.

Crystals for Summer

It's the hottest time of the year for the Northern Hemisphere - and with that, comes all of the fun, magic, and outdoor activities of the summer months.  Whether you like to relax by the pool, ind...

Kunzite Properties

Kunizite is a stone that is said to help connect the head with the heart, encourages loving thoughts, and helps express emotions.

12 Reasons We Love Tumbled Stones

  How do you use tumbled stones? Tumbled stones are the jack-of-all-trades crystals: they are versatile, often affordable, and have tons of uses.  They might get overlooked at times, since they ar...

Smoky Quartz Properties

Smoky quartz is a grounding and protective stone known for its ability to transmute negative energies. It promotes relaxation, emotional stability, and spiritual growth.

Moonstone Properties

Moonstone is an ethereal and calming stone, associated with feminine energy and intuition. Enhances emotional balance, inner harmony, and intuition. Promotes new beginnings and spiritual growth.

Does Crystal Size Matter?

Does crystal size matter? Are bigger crystals better? Do I always have to buy the biggest crystal I can afford? Do small crystals even work? Get the answers to these questions and more, in this blo...

Crystals for Tax Time

Which crystals are good for tax time? It's Tax Day in the U.S.! For some of us, filing our taxes is a relief - being finished on time feels great. However, it can also be a stressful time: lots of...