How To Choose Gemstones To Help Set Intention For The New Year
December 30th, 2009
Quartz Crystal
The power of this New Years Eve full moon/blue moon, can help us to get clear and focus on what we want to bring into our lives for the New Year. What a great opportunity we have this Thursday.
Full moon is a great time to energetically clear and cleanse your crystals and gemstones.The energy of the moonlight washes away anything that is no longer needed. I like to leave my stones out all night and into the next day so they can be charged by the light of the sun. The day before the full moon and the day after are also acceptable times to cleanse your stones. You can place them directly on the ground or put them on a soft cloth and lay them on a table where the moonlight will shine brightly onto the stones. Even if you live in a cold climate, you can place you stones by a window so that they will get flooded with the glowing white light of Grandmother moon.
I often find that after I have placed my crystals in the moonlight, they have a brighter glow to them, shining, radiating and ready to be of service. All color gemstones can be cleansed by the moon too.
I often find that after I have placed my crystals in the moonlight, they have a brighter glow to them, shining, radiating and ready to be of service. All color gemstones can be cleansed by the moon too.
On New Years day take the stones and sit with them. Just sit, breathe and reflect. See yourself anew, with a fresh start. Now bring your attention on what you would like to bring in for the New Year.
If you are having trouble focusing on what intentions you’d like to set for 2010, check to see if you have Hematite or any black stone in your collection. Stones like Hematite are grounding stones and they can help you to focus your thoughts and desires. When we are grounded we are able to focus our thoughts, desires, dreams and intentions. There is great power in our ability to create when we are focused. If you have set yourself a New Year’s resolution, but begin to feel it slipping past you, maybe you need to be more grounded and focused on your resolution/intention. Using the gemstone Hematite will offer you this grounding energy. When we’re not grounded we tend to be spacey, we can’t concentrate or focus attention for very long. One thought after another swirls in our mind. This will prevent us from creating the very thing we are wanting. Holding a Hematite stone will help you find the mental clarity and focus you need to achieve your desires. While holding the stone, begin to think of what it is you are wanting, continue to feel the stone in your hand and visualize what your desired outcome will be. Stay with this for 5-10 minutes, always coming back to the stone in your hand when your mind begins to stray. I find it helpful to write down the intention, using as much description as I can, getting clearer and clearer in my desire while holding the hematite. Connect to the emotion of the desire
Let 2010 be the year you focus on self awareness and well being. While it’s nice to set intention on the outside world of needs and wants, its time to go deeper and look at our lifestyle choices. Are you choosing a healthy life? Focus on setting intentions that will offer you well being.
Here are some gemstones that can help bring specific intentions into your life.
If you’d like to bring a Meditation practice into your life, work with Amethyst
Make 2010 your year of Healing, choose a green stone like Aventurine
To bring more Abundance into your life, choose Citirne
Need help with your Exercise program, choose orange Carnelian. This gemstone can energize and stimulate you to get moving.
Is this the year to start that creative project? Choose a blue stone like Lapis or Sodalite, they open up expression and creativity.
For bringing in Love, choose Rose Quartz or any pink stone, to keep the heart open to love.
Connect to your Soul, inner guides and the Divine, choose the clear stones, like Quartz, Selenite, Apophyllite or Nirvana Quartz.
So whatever it is you’d like to bring into your life this New Year, there is a gemstone that can assist you in setting your intention. All things are possible.
The New Year is a wonderful time to have a Crystal Reading. Take a look at what 2010 may bring. For more information on Crystal Readings or to learn more on how crystals can help you in your life,
check out my web site. http://www.spiralsoflight.com/crystal-readings.html
I admit, I let my meditation practice slip. It hasn’t disappeared, just been put on hold. Until today. Today I put on my OM necklace with Amethyst and sat down to meditate. Inspired to come back to my meditation cushion by a Dharma Talk given by Lama Migmar Tseten. Lama Migmar is a Buddhist chaplain at Harvard University. He founded the Sakya Institute in Cambridge, MA. 
Spirals of Light is a gemstone jewelry company that I started in 1994. We specialize in Chakra jewelry, Yoga jewelry, Healing jewelry and sell high quality Crystals and Gemstones. I also teach classes on how to use crystals and gemstones in everyday life as well as offer consultations and crystal readings. Working with stones has been my passion for the past 20 years. I developed my chakra and yoga jewelry lines as a way help me maintain my own yoga and mediation practice. I started this blog as a way to continue my exploration into the world of Crystals, Gemstones, Chakras, Yoga, Meditation & Spiritual Awakening. I hope you will join me in this discovery.
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