Creating a Crystal Grid
The ancient Lemurians encoded cosmic wisdom in crystals and used them as powerful activators to enhance psychic ability, telepathy and healing gifts, to manifest and even to create portals to other worlds. Grids are intentional arrangements of stones designed to raise energy for a specific purpose. Think of them as a way to amplify and supercharge the power of the crystals within them.
There are many ways to create a crystal grid, being guided by your intuition to create a mandala of great beauty, radiating out in the shapes of sacred geometry – think of the flowers of a petal. But, for a basic grid, take 4 of each stone you want to work with, 8 small quartz shards, 1 central ‘power stone’ and 16 tiny tumbled chips. I like to work in multiples of four so that the stones point in multiples of the 4 cardinal directions.
Gridding in any sacred geometric shape is powerful. Use your intuition to place stones according to size, shape, colour or texture and remember to have fun! Whisper mantra or invocation as you place your stones, burn essential oils and even add flowers and leaves to your grid for amplification and beauty.
Remember that you’re magnifying the energetic properties of the crystals and getting them to work together in a synergistic way. Here’s a simple, step-by-step guide to placing your first crystal grid:
Step 1: Set your intention
The first thing to do is determine the intention behind making a grid. Possible purposes could include manifesting abundance, attracting love, amplifying your intuitive powers, activating lucid dreaming or balancing a specific chakra. As an example, I’m going to create a grid with the following intention in mind: “Activating my throat chakra, so that my heart can experience it’s fullest expression and my higher chakras can transmit their knowledge freely to my heart. Calling on the courage to speak my truth at a time when we’re all being asked to be more courageous in the world and not shrink.”
The throat chakra (Vishuddha), and it’s vital role as a conduit between the heart and higher chakras, is something I’ve been thinking of a lot lately. The signs of an unbalanced throat chakra include fear of speaking, social anxiety, shyness, and the inability to express your thoughts.
Step 2: Pick a grid shape
Grids can be tiny or massive, but a nice basic grid can begin as a circle, with a large central ‘power’ stone, 4 medium-sized rough or tumbled stones and 8 small clear quartz shards radiating out from the centre. You can then create a ring around the entire grid of 16 tiny stones or flower petals – just have fun with it! Different geometric shapes work with different energies - triangles tap into simplicity and structure, squares help with boundaries, while spirals are about reaching out and expanding. The circle represents belonging, oneness, and protection. I like to place grids in my bedroom, so that their effects will work overnight while I’m dreaming, near plants and by a window to receive solar and lunar energies.
Step 3: Choose your stones
You’ll want to choose crystals that have the properties that coincide with your intention. I’m choosing a grid to help me tap into my voice and overcome the fear of speaking up, so I will choose stones that help me reach that place. These include stones like blue lace agate (which I will place at the centre), lapis lazuli and chrysocolla to help with communication, heart chakra stones like amazonite and malachite for universal love, self-compassion and self-acceptance, clear quartz shards to call in my spirit guides and the council of light, and some rainbow moonstone chips around the edge to bring balance, harmony and hope while enhancing creativity, compassion and inner confidence.
If you can’t find everything you need, use what you have, even including elements of nature like flower petals, leaves and seashells. You can also place other trinkets in the grid, whose energy coincides with your intention. These can stand in for the stones and add even deeper meaning to your grid because of their personal connection to you.
Step 4: Use your voice to activate your grid
Once you have your grid in place, activate it with your intention. This means speaking the intention aloud so that the universe knows you’re serious. For example “Star guides, star ancestors, Council of Light, with this crystal grid I activate my throat chakra and inspire courage in me. Through these stones, I ask that you help me lift my voice and shine my light, even when I have the urge to shrink.”
Each time you pass your grid, you can hold your hand to your heart, take a deep breath and remind yourself of its purpose. Crystals are from the earth. They’re healing. They’re supportive. They’re there for you. We’re walking on them all the time. They’re with us in our own brains and they’re as old as stardust itself. And so are you! Enjoy x
Photos: Maha Rose & Unearthed Crystals
Emotional Healing with Crystals
Not all pain is physical. Not all wounds are tangible. The majority of wounds are invisible, not just because they are under our skin, but because they don't directly damage physical tissues. Emotions constantly run through our bodies, accompanying what we do, think, see and dream. We feel them in the form of feelings and these feelings affect organs and systems as an energy, so they are invisible to the eyes. That's why we feel something tightening in the stomach before speaking in a conference or a headache each time we have to do something we hate. Even if no one can see them, (except perhaps mediums and healers), emotions change our attitude, self-esteem and the vision we have about ourselves.
Everyone feels emotions in a unique way, and everyone lives their experiences according to their "perception mode". Every action creates a specific feeling, which is not just something related to five senses but also to consciousness. In addition to that, the majority of our emotional memories are stored inside our cells or cellular memory.
The Mask
Emotional wounds are so painful in our life that they become the foundation of our social masks. When you say “I am what I am" or “I am not made for this" always ask yourself: Does this affirmation come from my consciousness? Or is this a reaction to past wounds that changed my nature by instilling fear? It is when these fears and blocks come in that you start to wear your masks. They seem a way to find relief from suffering and rejections and they promise to protect you, but it's a trick. In fact, when we're an adult, we start to perceive that our masks are actually spiritual cages and we need to cultivate higher consciousness to awaken our talents and live fully.
The journey takes time but the treasure will be priceless.
For one hundred years, D.C Alchemists started to study the "loss of pre-destiny", and this gives you an idea of how old this issue is for all humans. These ancient "doctors" tried to heal their patients by realigning the self with their primordial project.
"Where spirit suffers, body suffers too." – Paracelso
The Wound & the Talent
A physical wound is a damage of skin and mucous. Emotional wounds are not different even when we try to heal them. As it happens for a physical wound, when we work to heal an emotional trauma or shock without working with consciousness, we tend to pretend to forget or remove the experience. Then we create a "forced closure" of a potential profound cut, which is the perfect environment to grow a colony of bacteria that can severely damage the entire body system in the long term. If we want to work to effectively heal emotional wounds, we have to know and understand our talent first because this is the way to find healing from the inside.
Your Talent
The majority think that talent is a unique skill, that every one of us is born with a talent, but just a few people can develop it. Actually, "Talent" is not a skill or ability. Even if in the modern world this word means "a good singer", "an extraordinary painter" or whatever. Here with "Talent" I mean the universal and innate talents of all Humans, such as Faith, Comprehension, Incarnation, Wisdom. At this age they look so far from our lives that they seem impossible to reach. That's why we think that Emotional Wounds are impossible to heal. But it is not true.
The Healing
When we overcome a trauma intentionally, we heal Emotional Wounds by surgery. This includes a few phases like observation, awakening, consciousness, and comparison. This surgery is the best way to heal emotional wounds because they will sew up themselves avoiding potential bacteria. To do that, we need to intentionally work with our Talent, learning to bring them in our day on a daily basis. This is the cure that profoundly restores every hurt from the inside, giving back our life and our identity.
1. REJECTION // MERCURY
• Archetype: Mercury
• Keywords: rejection, escape, inner empty, introspection, absence, detachment from the present.
• Physical Structure: thin and also scrawny. Those who have rejection wounds do not want to occupy space with the body, they would love to be invisible.
• Psychic Structure: rejection wounds can be extremely early, and because of that also deep. Those living with the “Rejection Wound” might not know what he/she is looking for in life, but he/she continually needs new information, knowledge, new theories, excessive spirituality, everything she/he can use as a support. All these theories become labyrinths, so we lose ourselves in them.
• Physical Unbalancing: Skin problems, she/he refuses any skin contact.
• Chakra: Root Chakra, Base Chakra, and Solar Plexus.
Mercury's Talent: INCARNATION
Coherence is the keyword. When we live rejection wounds we need to do what we think. We need to take action and do what we feel, live the life that we deeply want. We need to be one with their essence. Living complete and concrete experiences, not just concepts or theories.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
The best Crystals and Gemstones that actively support you walking on this journey are Black Obsidian, Jet Stone, Citrine, Carnelian, Garnet, Fire Agate, Pyrite and Smoky Quartz.
2. ABANDONMENT // VENUS
• Archetype: Venus
• Keywords: abandonment, addiction, lack of spirituality, extraversion.
• Physical structure: they, or some part of their body, tend to fall down. It could be posture, lip, eyelid or also internal organs. Every area could be a wound that comes out as a physical pain. A careless child, he/she tends to bump things into things around them. Thin wrists and ankles, curved back.
• Psychic Structure: Their mood can change suddenly and often. Can be overly sensitive, indecisive and fearful.
• Physical Unbalancing: diabetes, fungi, bacteria, viruses, asthma, breathing issues. She/he can suffer from migraines and fat accumulation.
• Chakra: Solar Plexus and Throat Chakra.
The abandonment wound is the most prevalent worldwide.
Venus's Talent: CONNECTION
We need to leave the idea that "the mother" is the woman that put us on this planet. The great Mother is Gaia, everything around comes from her, ourselves included. We need to connect ourselves with the present, diving deeper inside our feelings, reconnecting us with our body. This is the way to know the immense love of Mother Earth, she never abandons us.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
Keeping Chrysocolla, Aquamarine, Citrine, Silica Jem, Rhodochrosite, Gold Topaz and Heliodor close to our body all day long is a great support to enhance the sense of connection with the environment, and be more present day to day basis.
3. BETRAYAL // MARS
• Archetype: Mars
• Keywords: betrayal, resentment, anger, control, explosion.
• Physical structure: they have a well-structured and robust body, this will be the armor that shields them from future attacks. Many of them are athletic people with vital and light eyes.
• Psychic Structure: aggressive, intolerance, need to prevail, every confrontation often becomes a clash. They live a stressful life, they can't lose time. They forget to eat when they're working.
• Physical Unbalancing: stomach and liver problems. Usually they suffer from inflammation, the areas of the body more affected are the respiratory tract, the body's defense system, circulation, thyroid, and throat.
• Chakra: Heart and Throat Chakra.
Under a Betrayal Wound is usually hidden an Abandoned Wound.
Mars's Talent: COMPREHENSION
We can understand "comprehension" just when we can let go, when we release the tension. Life is not a betrayal. We betray ourselves by listening to our mind's schemes without understanding the meaning of life and focusing just on ourselves. Sometimes when we work on forgiving we pretend to forgive while inside resentment and anger are still there. That's why working on grounding, making sure to overcome any abandoned wounds, is vital before stepping into the betrayal wound journey.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
Wearing Rhodochrosite, Green Opal, Cherry Tourmaline, Pink Kunzite, Azurite, Silica Gem, Aquamarine, Blue Apatite, Elestial Rose Quartz, Chrysocolla, Peach Morganite intentionally helps you to dive into this journey with compassion and patience supporting you to understand and practice comprehension and releasing tension and fear.
4. INJUSTICE // JUPITER
• Archetype: Jupiter
• Keywords: injustice, choice, rancor, judging, rigidity.
• Physical structure: straight and well-proportioned body, with broad shoulders. They tend to take a "military" attitude. The jaw is rigid, and muscles are often blocked by tensions.
• Psychic Structure: making a choice is always tricky. They never choose to relax because they fell guilty. They buy something just if they really need it, which is very rare, just because they love it. They feel guilty when others are working while they are on vacation. They blame themselves and they never ask for help. The concept of "merit" is vital to them, they look for perfection and they envy those who reach high results with few efforts. They are great idealists, they prefer to help others instead to be helped. They hate being the favourite, and they don't believe in luck.
• Physical Unbalancing: They're usually stressed, they have back problems, they suffer from cramps, muscular spasms. Constipation is one of their main issues. They can also suffer from skin problems like eczema and psoriasis.
• Chakra: Throat and Third Eye Chakra.
Under a Betrayal Wound is usually hidden an Abandoned Wound.
Jupiter's Talent: FAITH
When we have faith we live in the flow where we find elasticity and carefree connection. Everything has a meaning, nothing happens accidentally. We usually get a positive and unexpected result when we don't force the events, life shows us its simplicity and its balancing effect.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
Wearing Aquamarine, Blue Apatite, Chalcopyrite, Amethyst, Shattuckite and Chrysocolla as a jewel or Amulet helps you to dive into this journey with compassion supporting your core to experience the flow of live with faith, trust and joy.
5. HUMILIATION // SATURN
• Archetype: Saturn
• Keywords: responsibility, hardness, criticism, debt, shame.
• Physical structure: they tend to retain water in tissues, they suffer from water retention and also obesity.
• Psychic Structure: they fear to fall. Managing the space around them is often hard for them, so they look clumsy. As a child they were not free to express themselves, so they built a strong inner friction. They are not able to find freedom through actions, because they fear to be punished and this creates a tremendous inner pressure. They also have to solve sexual inhibitions and blocks. They can't defend themselves, so they usually leave the competition. They tend to humiliate themselves and others. They care about everything and everyone, except themselves.
• Physical Unbalancing: back problems, massive shoulders, and hump (water and fat retention under the neck), tonsillitis, cystitis. Hypothalamus and pituitary gland unbalances. Every issue or unbalancing generated by expression block.
• Chakra: Throat and Crown Chakra.
Humility wound is probably one of the first wounds of humans, and because of that, it affects so much in life. This is the reason everyone looking for freedom but we're also scared from it.
Saturn's Talent: WISDOM
We need to listen to our needs and express ourselves. However, the mental barrier that we built convince us that the only way to live safe and secure is in a psychological prison. There we'll be free from the fear of judgment. So we build a life of suffering, blocking any way towards fulfilment and happiness. Free yourself from Humility wound means to dissipate the fear of judgment, from the fear of wrong and punishment embracing every experience as an opportunity for growth.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
Wearing Aquamarine, Elestial, Herkimer Diamond, Apophyllite, Blue Apatite, Chrysocolla, as an Amulet gently guides your spirit into this journey with deeper energy, enthusiasm and a sense of airiness that helps you to dispel fear of judgment.
6. DETACHMENT: GAIA
Archetype: Gaia
Keywords: detachment, lack of support, loss of center, disharmony.
Chakra: Crown Chakra and Earth Star Chakra.
Gaia is the energy of the creation that everyone has in every cell. We all are part of the immense ecosystem of Gaia, our Planet. This is not just about our connection with nature, but also the alignment with the biological rhythm of day and night for example. Be fully conscious of the Universal Love of Gaia, which is the same energy we're made of. What happens inside of us needs to reflect our actions like a mirror. Allow your body to walk this journey towards changing so the Spirit can express itself in every practice.
Gaia's Talent: GRATITUDE
The detachment from the rhythms of Gaia usually brings frustrations and unbalance. When life doesn't give us what we ask, is just because we ask in the wrong way, because we lost the connection with Gaia. Asking doesn't mean pray on our knees with tears, but being grateful for what we already have in life, whenever it looks good or bad in our mind.
Best Crystals & Gemstones
The best Crystals and Gemstones that help you to tune your vibe with the energy and wisdom of Gaia are Tiffany Stone, Herkimer Diamond, Moonstone, Elestial Quartz, Tektite, Black Kyanite, Shungite, Chalcopyrite, Black Tourmaline and Eilat Stone.
7. DARKNESS // THE SUN
• Archetype: The Sun
• Keywords: melancholy, the darkness of the soul, the lie of the mind, decay, loss of the meaning of life, depression.
• Chakra: Root, Base Chakra and Heart Chakra. When the five emotional wounds crush our Heart, so we start to doubts to exist. Our mind learned to sabotage our lives and forget who we really are. We find the healing accepting our destiny. The Seventh Wound is a great gift because it comes to heal through the highest experience of pain.
The Sun's Talent: REMINISCENCE
Reminiscence is the awakening of the memory. We bring to our conscious mind something that was in our unconscious. You need to work on the three aspects of existence; psyche, body, and soul. Is Just towards this journey that Spirit can re-take the control on the mind, body, and soul. We can heal the seventh wound by disciplining our mind and overcoming our masks.
Crystals & Gemstones That Help
There's a quite rare combination of Azurite Malachite and Chrysocolla that works on the spiritual, emotional and physical level assisting you to restore and heal past hurts and traumas encouraging development and renewal. Azurite Malachite Chrysocolla is an extraordinary and rare gemstone and a powerful elixir that works at many levels: While Azurite calms physical disease supporting renewal, Malachite heal the whole body shielding it from the negative. Chrysocolla promotes mental clarity, mindfulness, and calm over the entire process, allowing to Malachite and Azurite to operate at the deepest level and then setting this experience as reality.
What you find here is crucial for the spiritual and physical healing of everyone because just you can be your own doctor, your shaman and your healer, and you don't need to learn anything, all you need is already in you. You just have to be more conscious about the power you have. Don't be afraid to ask help from Mother Earth that will guide you through your consciousness and your inner vision, so you can live the life you deserve.
Credit: I discovered this article through Francesca Mancini, a Bioenergy Therapist and crystal jewellery-maker, whose research was based on "Trattato di Alchimia Delle Emozioni" by Gianpaolo Giacomini.