Amethyst

Good evening, everybody. This is Jay Jackson, and I'm hosting tonight Crystal Illuminations, and it's great to be here with you. As always, I encourage questions or comments that would— that you might have It can be related to this topic for tonight, or it can be related to other crystal questions that you may have that come up, and we can always ask, and I can always try to come up with an answer for you. So tonight we're going to be discussing the wonderful crystal of amethyst. Amethyst is a very special crystal. It's been a special crystal for the, for humans for many, many centuries since it's been a fairly common stone for people to find. And it's found in a fair amount of abundance throughout the world. And since it's such a beautiful stone, it was highly sought after, and people found it had very interesting energetic properties with it. So I personally use amethyst in my, my own personal healing practice. I meditate with amethyst. This is a copy of an amethyst that I use. And this amethyst is one that I use for my meditative work. And you can see it's a very, very dark purple. So sometimes these crystals will actually come in very small— well, small sizes, and sometimes a very light color, like in a lilac color. And then they come in very, very dark purples, some as this one, and it will even come sometimes, even very rare cases, but sometimes even a deep red color. As we mentioned before, this crystal, this crystal is one of those that can fade if exposed to a lot of sunlight. So that's something we want to keep in mind, keeping our amethyst away from strong sunlight. It will start to fade, fade the color after time. On this particular stone, it's just got this nice little perfect place for my hands to grip like this, and then a little cup holder— oops— here on this side here for my thumb. And that's how I hold the stone to meditate. And I don't meditate by looking into the stone, I actually just meditate by holding the stone and feeling the energy of the stone and feeling that divine connection that it makes to, um, to different realms. I find it brings me a lot of peace and a lot of healing and clarity to things that I'm meditating on. So amethyst has been used in a lot of jewelry Throughout the years, amethyst is just one of my foremost healing stones that I use. It's one of my favorites. So just to talk a little bit more about amethyst in itself and what some of the energetic properties that it has. So amethyst is a form of quartz crystal. And it is considered a stone of spirituality and contentment. So anyone who has experienced amethyst usually will find that it does have a lot of peaceful energy with it. This stone can also facilitate the transmutation of lower frequency energies into higher frequency energies of both spiritual and ethereal realms. So that's interesting that it can actually help bring your energy, lower levels of energy, up into higher frequencies. So often our human nature is to resonate down at lower frequencies. Spiritually, emotionally, we really do have a need to communicate at a higher frequency. Especially when we're trying to do spiritual work and healing work. And amethyst will help with that. So I have always considered this stone to be a stone of healing. It's one that I, I thought every healer, anyone who thought in calling as a healer, should have amethyst as part of their own personal stone, as for their own personal work, and for even working with your clients. To me, because of its beautiful purple colors that it has, it kind of has the mystique for me of signifying royalty. You think of that royal purple color, and you know, in some eras and some societies, that purple color was only reserved only for the, the royal family. And not just anyone in the royal family, but those who are in the higher echelon of the royal families. So if you can imagine having a, a normal person in society and having a piece of amethyst, what that— how that must have felt to be able to to experience that color and to feel that color. Some people claim that it helps with throat chakra issues and with hearing. Of course, for me, hearing is part of the throat chakra communication element. I primarily use amethyst when I'm working with chakras to be crown chakra healing. Sometimes third eye, but usually it's crown chakra healing is, is what I'm normally using it for. So, oh, since it's, um, we're doing this, um, recording in February, it's good to know that for anyone who's born in the month of February It is the birthstone for February. And so another unique feature of amethyst is that it brings stability, strength, and invigoration, and perfect peace. So what does perfect peace mean? So Some claim perfect peace is a peace before birth. So when I've read that, that is peace before birth, I kind of thought, okay, so we won't have peace when we're— as since we're born. But no, amethyst will help us bring back to that perfect peace even now. And to me, it also brings that perfect piece of connecting to the Divine in the future as well. Using amethyst can also, like I mentioned before, can assist in deep meditation. That's how— that's what I primarily use this stone for. I don't use this stone very often in healing sessions with others, but I use this stone for my own personal meditation work and spiritual connectivity to the, to divine and brothers and sisters of the light. Um, it also has a lot of emotional healing properties to it. Amethyst promotes the love of the divine while encouraging selflessness and spiritual wisdom. So I'm always looking for some spiritual wisdom. So, um, amethyst— that's one of the reasons why amethyst is so popular with me and the work that I, that I'm trying to do. So people who are having difficulty with connecting with the divine can use amethyst, and it can help actually activate their spiritual awareness. So sometimes that spiritual awareness is lost for some people, maybe because of different injuries that have occurred from religious injuries that they may have occurred, or maybe they just had never had the opportunity to have a spiritual awareness before. Amethyst can actually help with that no matter what spiritual path that person is taking on. It also can enhance enhance one's psychic abilities. Now, there are all kinds of different types of psychic abilities, so, um, when you're working with the stone, you probably want to be clear into which of those psychic abilities you really want to enhance. For many, many years, amethyst has been a facilitator of dreams. So some people will actually use amethyst. They'll put some of the amethyst in their pillowcase with their pillow to help them facilitate their dreams and for a higher state of sleep. So if anyone has ever tried that, make sure that you have a good pillow, that you're not going to be clunking your head on a bunch of rocks. That happened to me before. So I would put rocks in my pillowcase, and then I would roll over in the night and clunk my head. So sometimes the smaller stones in a pillowcase actually works better than a large, large rock, unless you have rocks in your head like me, then, then maybe it won't matter at all. Um, so Corey, I'm so glad you pulled out amethyst for today, and, um So, but I want you to reframe, um, from worry stones, put encouraging stones that they'll help eliminate your worries. So, um, I know that the idea behind a worry stone, but, um, the crystals will actually help you to move those worries into other areas so you're not worrying any longer. And so, so any other questions that we have on amethyst or any other crystal questions? So these stones, you also find them— you may have seen the great big huge giant clusters of the stones because they will form in sometimes these large flumes of rock, and they crystallize inside this tube. And then the crystals will form along the edges of this tube inside this cave, a geode. And sometimes these geodes can be quite large. Um, and so with— we have higher abilities to find the stones and mine them out without just destroying the whole tube. They're able to collect those tubes of amethyst and then slice them open, and then you have this beautiful display of these geodes, open geodes. Um, I highly recommend anyone to to get a geode of some sort. It's a beautiful decorative piece for your home or for your office that can offer a peaceful environment to you. So I highly, highly can recommend acquiring a geode, even if it's a small one of amethyst, that you can have on display in your home. It'll help with the peacefulness in your home, your peacefulness and being able to connect with it. So I really hope that you're able to, at some point in the near future— Corey, since you already pulled one out— meditate with amethyst. See what— how it changes the direction of your meditation when holding it. Even while you're holding it, you can kind of ignore that you have amethyst in your hand and then just start meditating and see where those meditations take you. Are you going into different realms? Are you having been guided in a different way? So I also find when working with crystals that there are spirit beings that are, that are, have charge of the crystalline realms. And when we work with the crystals, they come and assist with us. As well when we're doing this, any kind of spiritual work that, that we're engaged on. So I'm going to hold this up. We're just going to go into just a couple of minutes of meditation with the amethyst. If you have an amethyst in your possession, go ahead and, um, go ahead and hold it right now, or you can just actually just look at the viewing of this amethyst, I want you to go ahead and take a couple of deep breaths in and out. And I hope you can connect now, just feel the energy from this piece of quartz, which is called amethyst because of this beautiful purple color. Take another couple of deep breaths, connect with that stone a little more deeper, and find a connection to the divine through peace with the amethyst. Allow the amethyst to guide and direct your thoughts and meditation at this time. As you breathe deep in and out, allow your mind to find the wisdom, the spiritual healing that amethyst brings. And at this time, you can connect with any of the brothers and sisters or Lemurian beings, brothers and sisters of the light and Lemurian beings that are here to guide your journey, that are here to assist with the crystalline realm and helping us connect our understanding of Mother Earth, Pachamama, so that we can be better stewards of our planet. And with the energy systems within the world that we live in. Take another deep breath in and out. And release. So if you'd like to just share anything, insights that you received while connecting with this amethyst, um, go ahead and put those in, in our comments section. So I have to tell you, since I use this stone to meditate with a lot, it would be a little difficult to do this, um, live because I wanted to my— wanted just to go into a deeper, deeper meditation. And so I was really having to pull back a little bit so that I wasn't going into a deeper meditation. So one thing to note also is that some people will use amethyst if they're having a lot of chronic headache. Pain. So some people will use that as well for amethyst. Let's see what else I have here for you tonight. Oh, so one of the chemical properties that, that makes the color red is the manganese. So manganese is the one thing that helps, which gives this quartz crystal its purple colors, the manganese. And it also has a certain amount of iron with it in it as well. And the manganese is, uh, is the main thing, but iron will kind of actually start to give it a little bit deeper and sometimes redder tint with it as well. So if you see almost a red-colored one, then that's, that's the iron that's being combined with the manganese. One of the— I can remember when I was young and faceting precious gemstones, and one of the, one of the early stones that I cut was a very light-colored amethyst. So this was an amethyst that was collected in the Northwest United States, so it had more of that lilac color, that more lighter color. And, and this— I was so proud of the stone that I cut with that. It was called a double daisy, was the name of the design that I used to cut this, this amethyst. One of the interesting things that I noted about that is that the pigmentation of the color. The stone overall had a very, very light lilac color, so it was a very light color, but you can see flecks of very, very deep purple, just little spots of deep purple throughout it. So that's one of the interesting things that I find out with looking at natural crystals is the imperfections of some of the crystals are some of the most beautiful aspects for me, from what I see. So Monique has said that she felt the crystal inviting us into deeper, deep meditation, and that's what it does for me, this, especially this one, because this one's programmed to go into deep meditation. I would really encourage you to try meditating with amethyst. Of course, any of your crystals you can meditate with, and I encourage that. You're going to get different information and different energies from them. Again, the amethyst is one that I truly, truly do enjoy meditating with. But what's interesting is that Quartz crystals in general will have very, just a regular clear quartz crystal will have a very intense energy personality for it. The amethyst is very different in personality, very, very different than a regular quartz crystal. I find that it, and I don't know if I want to use the word stubborn, but, um, it— in the same time it has all this peace in healing with it. It's very dedicated, tenacious in its purpose, um, and I think it understands its clear purpose and it takes it to heart. And so that's one of the reasons why I have such admiration for amethyst, is because most of the amethyst that I've encountered have that strong personality that even while it's bringing out the energies of peace, meditation, and connecting to the higher realms within the divine. So if you have any experiences with amethyst in the future, please feel free to shoot me an email. It's— my email is listed in, um, in the comments section there at jay@illuminewellness.com. I'd like to just again remember, remind people that you can go to reiki-university.com and you can find the Crystal Illuminations weekly coursework that will just have a link to the meditation for for the, the stone of the week. And then it will have a, um, so this, this live will go on as a recording, a link for that. And then there will be a recorded, um, meditation that's about a 20-minute meditation specifically for, for in this case, amethyst. And also a slideshow, PowerPoint slideshow in that app that will show you different pictures of some of the different amethysts and some of the different interesting facts about the stone of that particular week. So that's— there's no charge to join there, just go ahead and join there. You can also find me at reiki-healing-arts.com. And look at the list of classes. I wanted to make a note. So this, this particular one, there's some other ones that actually have a little bit longer, um, tail to them, and they'll actually call that a torch. So they'll come amethyst torch. And then the smaller stones, a little bit smaller, they'll call— some of those will call— I've heard them called dragon teeth. And I had a couple years ago, I was teaching the advanced Reiki crystal healing class in Sedona, Arizona at Peace Place. And of course, since I was at Peace Place, which was an incredible crystal store, and I had access to all the back rooms because pulling all the elements together for class, I found a huge collection of these dragon teeth amethyst points. And when we had— we were introducing the symbols that go with that advanced class, so crystal symbols for working with that. So I had the students create that symbol out of those amethyst dragon teeth and to make this symbol. And it was a beautiful exercise, and the students were able to really connect well with the symbols much more intelligently and energetically because the crystals were helping form that symbol, and they had a visual representation and could feel the crystal energy with within this symbol itself. So that, that's just another idea which you can do with your crystals. If you have symbols that you've, that you feel drawn to, whether they be Reiki symbols or symbols that you have been guided to in your life, take some small points and actually create the symbol in, in, uh, from the crystals and make that your whatever the symbol is, make the lines from out of crystals, and you might be surprised at the energy that you'll feel off of because the energy's imbuing it even stronger. So I want to— and just thanks for everybody who came and showed interest tonight. Next week we'll have an interesting discussion on the aventurine, and so I look forward to seeing everybody there. Again, if any feedback is always welcome. Um, I hope everyone has a great night. Thanks so much, everyone. Talk to you later.