Crystals for Women's Work
CRYSTALS
If we take the animist’s perspective — that inanimate objects, creatures, and places all contain their own innate spiritual essence, or aliveness — we recognize that crystals have much to offer us.
But while gemstones each have their individual powers and properties to assist us on the spiritual journey, they’re still just tools in our spiritual tool belt.
Crystals won’t manifest things for us, they don’t heal us or do the work for us. Rather, we work together. Our own wholehearted intention must be truthful in order for crystals to lend support. We must put in the work as well.
Crystals merely enhance the intentions and manifestations we are already weaving into being.
We can harness the power of stones by wearing them as jewelry, meditating with them on our bare skin, keeping them in our pockets or purses, taking a bath with them to soak in their energies, or placing them under our pillow for assistance in the spiritual world of the dream realm — because what happens in our physical lives always happens in the spiritual world first.
Be sure to charge your crystals regularly — they collect old, stagnant energies like spiritual sponges. Clearing out these ‘stuck’ energies keeps them clean and working efficiently for us.
Charging also helps keep healing properties potent, as crystals have limited energy reserves. Stones in the Earth never lose their potency, because they are constantly drawing force from the Earth. Once removed from the soil, a crystal must be charged. Like a battery, crystals operate best on a full charge.
HOW TO CHARGE CRYSTALS
Solar Charge — leave them out in the sun for a maximum of 7 hours, bring them in before the sun sets. Solar eclipses are a potent time to charge crystals
Lunar Charge — place crystals outside in direct moonlight for a maximum of 7 hours. Take them back inside before sunrise. Many wise women have different preferences about what moon phase to charge crystals in; feel into it. Research what power each moon phase offers, and choose the one that corresponds the the stone you’re using and the intention you’ve set. One potent time is the New Moon, as the energy offers a clean slate for new beginnings, projects, and the planting of our manifestation seeds. Lunar eclipses are a potent time to charge crystals.
Air charge — use a sage smudge stick or copal resin and disperse smoke and air with a feather or fan over crystals
Earth Charge — bury them in soil and let the earth charge them
Water Charge — place your crystals ideally in a bowl of seawater or a natural tide pool. If you do not have access to ocean water, add some sea salt to purified water and let them soak.
Fire Charge — destructive energy of fire burns away old energies on crystals, run the crystal quickly through a candle flame
Turquoise
Promotes easeful childbirth
Establishes peace in families
Increases intuition and creativity
Promotes problem-solving skills, especially when emotions are high
Dissolves hostility and argumentative energy
To win the heart of a man, a woman should sew a piece of Turquoise into an item of his clothing
Chrysocolla
Empowers women with Goddess energy
Eases labour pains in childbirth
Enhances communication
Eases pre-menstrual and menopausal symptoms
Heals traumatic fractures surrounding incest or sexual abuse
Helps resolve repetitive negative thoughts
Moonstone
Empowers the divine feminine
Regulates menstrual cycles
Enhances fertility
Prepares womb for conception
Relieves fear and stress during childbirth
Promotes uncomplicated childbirth
Supports easefulness in breastfeeding
Amber
Dispels delusional thoughts, assumptions, stories
Supports tranquility in tumultuous emotional circumstances
Eases pain for teething babies
Offers women the ancient energy of Earth Wisdom
Combats depression and hopelessness by reminding us that life is a gift
Promotes fertility
Garnet
Increases love, especially in intimate relationships
Revives intimate connection and passion in relationships gone stale
Promotes a happy family environment
Protects wearer from negative energy and deflects that energy back to its origin
Garnet placed on the third eye while in meditation will deliver important information being sought
Bloodstone
Placed on a mother, it eases pain of childbirth and prevents hemorrhaging
Enhances strength and stamina in birth
Deepens intuitive connection
Relieves menstrual and menopausal discomfort
Realigns and cleanses the chakras
Enhances divination, spellwork, manifestation, psychic abilities
Amethyst
Clears mental fog during menstruation
Promotes fertility
Protects existing pregnancies from miscarriage
Enhances psychic dreams when placed under the pillow
Dissipates feelings of anger and frustration
Supports sobriety in those suffering from substance addiction
Lapis Lazuli
Awakens divine feminine power
Helps reduce physical discomfort during pregnancy
Nurtures spiritual rebirth
Eases insomnia
Wear a piece of Lapis Lazuli around or near the waist area to protect an unborn child throughout a pregnancy
Malachite
Emotionally cleanses to relieve past traumas
Enhances physical beauty
Heals physical conditions that affect female organs
Regulates emotions surrounding your intimate partner, your relationship with them, and the future of that relationship
Known as The Midwives Stone, it helps stimulate contractions, ease labour pains, and protect mother and baby during birth
Jasper
Enhances the nurturing spirit
Brings blessings to those who want to become mothers
Eases suffering in those who have suffered abuse and trauma
Anchors us to the present moment
(Red) Jasper improves libido, prolongs sexual excitement
Rose Quartz
Assists in matters of the heart
Enhances self-love
Facilitates womb healing
Stimulates breast healing
Initiates trust between partners
Initiates unconditional love, especially for new moms bonding with their babies
Amazonite
Balances masculine and feminine energy
Promotes self love and self esteem
Initiates courage, boldness, truth
Improves artistic ability and creativity
Reduces domestic and home issues
Eases menstrual cramping
Facilitates easeful childbirth
smoky quartz
Nurtures the acceptance that sex is normal, healthy and enjoyable
Cleanses sexual centres so energy can move freely
Assists us in releasing the past so that we can fully embrace the present moment
Initiates a state of groundedness by anchoring us to the energy of Mother Earth
Amplifies guidance from the spirit world
Ruby
Reinitiates passion and liveliness when you have lost your spark for life
Overcomes darkness and fights fears
Helps stimulate the appetite of those battling anorexia
Reinvigorates passion in the bedroom
Improves relationship issues
Assists those seeking an intimate relationship
Onyx
Combats fatigue and lethargy
Assists women in transition periods (puberty and menopause)
Initiates emotional balance
Increases self-control
Speeds physical recovery after medical surgery (including C-sections for women)
Dissolves societal expectation and self-doubt
Aventurine
Supports women who are rising in the crumbling patriarchy
Gives a strong voice to leaders
Balances masculine and feminine energies
Enhances dreams
Intensifies visions during meditations or journeys
Promotes creativity
Sapphire
Assists women looking to uncover the truth about a cheating partner
Improves marital struggles
Promotes compassion
Protects against envy from another
Treats uterine ailments
To win the charms of a man, a woman should place a sapphire in his wine
Carnelian
Enhances feminine sexuality
Promotes healing after miscarriage, abortion, child loss
Eases monthly menstrual cramps
Shields and energetically protects empaths
Intensifies feminine sexual energy
Represents fertility and the sacred power of a woman’s womb
Topaz
Promotes hope in the hopeless
Assists women who have been broken by failed relationships
Attracts true love
Increases affection between partners
Nurtures honesty and openness in relationships
Combats eating disorders, including anorexia and bulimia
Selenite
Amplifies Goddess and Moon energies
Cleanses and clears stagnant energies (charge your other crystals by placing them on or beside Selenite)
Assists new mothers who must multi-task many responsibilities
Clears ‘mom brain’
Enhances psychic abilities