What crystal for my purpose or need?

This article is a starting point for what crystal suits a particular need or purpose you have.

Remember your own intuition with without a crystals intuitive help is the best. I am always delighted which I assist someone at the market only to have them comment that the piece selected was the one they first noticed when they walked in with that propose in mind!

This covers the areas of:

  • Get started with crystals;
  • Take the crystal practitioner to an advanced level;
  • Have at work, during group meetings, while studying;
  • Support them from a trauma or past wounding;
  • Dream with crystals of past lives.

Remember that you can start small and over time upgrade to larger pieces, or save up your dollars to buy a few great pieces.

Over time this list will grow as experience grows our insights.

Get started crystals kit

These are my picks for the getting started kit:
  • Clear quartz
  • Rose quartz
  • Amethyst
  • Hematite
  • Carnelian
  • Fluorite
  • Aventurine - green
  • Malachite
  • Tigers Eye
  • Agate
  • Calcite
  • Book on crystals

Provide fun with help to a child

Consider not buying anything in pristine condition if you want to be OK when it is "dropped". Points can also be a little dangerous for the littlest member's eyes.

  • Green calcite
  • Rose quartz
  • Green aventurine
  • Clear Quartz
  • Selenite (not to play with unless tumble form)

Support the energy of a group

  • Yellow Fluorite
  • Solution Quartz
  • Chalcedony
  • Cerrusite
  • Citrine
  • Fuchsite
  • Desert Rose selenite
  • Barnacle crystals
  • large quartz cluster

Gift the unusual to a crystal lover

This person already has a lot of crystals and loves playing with their energies. These are unusual and will be harder to find - special orders are likely.

  • Nuumite
  • Azeztulite
  • Ajoite
  • Cobalto calcite
  • Eilat stone
  • Lybian Desert
  • Nirvana quartz
  • Celestite on Fluorite

They like clear quartz, what about an unusual form?

  • Arenite
  • Himalayan quartz
  • Solution quartz
  • Fenster quartz
  • Titanium quartz
  • Fire - Harlequin quartz
  • Isis - Goddess faceted quartz
  • Lemurian Seed quartz
  • Aura Aqua

Assist a new spiritual aspirant

It can be much easier to feel the energies supporting you with these lovelies.

  • Selenite ruler (4-8 kg) - to anchor your pillar when healing and meditating
  • Larger quartz cluster
  • Large amethyst cluster or geode (10 - 20 kg) - to be the "temple" anchor
  • Larger fluorite
  • Moonstone
  • Larger kyanite
  • Celestite
  • Lepidolite
  • Book on crystals

Basics for an altar

  • Selenite (2-4 kg) - to be the central piece to anchor and hold the pillar of energy for you. It stays in place even you change the others.
  • Nice altar cloth

Travelling with weight limits

  • Selenite (about 1.5 kg)
  • Nice cloth for altar and to protect crystal
  • Candle (safety considerations)

Offer extra help at the office

What about making a little altar at the office?

This is where we need the most help given we are there 8 hours a day! I did and it provided a lovely talking point for my colleagues while it also helped me ground my spirituality in my everyday business life.

A little shy?

What about clearing a space in the drawer or filing cabinet as close to your body and heart as possible?

Look for those that help you ground and release emotional and mental challenges while keeping you positive and creative.

  • Bloodstone
  • Aventurine
  • Banded agate
  • Amber
  • Amethyst
  • Calcite
  • Blue fluorite
  • Yellow fluorite
  • Picture jasper
  • Barite Desert Rose
  • Lepidolite
  • Selenite - centre piece:

Selenite as the central piece will hold the pillar of energy for you. It stays in place even while others will come and go as your needs change.

Ramp up the creative process

  • Crocoite
  • Citrine
  • Aventurine - red
  • Azurite
  • Celestite

Lovingly help with trauma

For those who are experiencing a hurt inner child, grief, heart break, emotional trauma

  • Colbalto Calcite
  • Malachite
  • Pink Calcite - Mangano Calcite
  • Green Aventurine
  • Green Fluorite
  • Fuchsite
  • Seraphinite
  • Rainbow Obsidian
  • Apache Tear Obsidian
  • Barnacle crystal (grieving)
  • Lepidolite
  • Dioptase

Give a boost to the study space

  • Argonite
  • Amber
  • Calcite
  • Citrine
  • Ruby
  • Hematite

Prepare you for meditation

While specific crystals for a specific mind pattern or emotion to release, past life travel or angelic connection and so on, the following are good basic pieces to always have around to help you centre while you get the hang of meditating, or if you are choosing to life your vibration to a higher level in meditation.

  • Selenite
  • Black or Black Kyanite
  • Snowflake Obsidian

Energetically strong

All crystals can be "strong" if they are the right one for you. And a powerful piece can be weak if your energy system is able to work with it. But here is a list of the typical "strong" ones that I have experienced:

  • Nirvana Quartz
  • Celestite on Fluorite

Explore past lives

  • Creedite
  • Obsidian - black and Rainbow
  • Arenite
  • Heulandite
  • Selenite
  • Serpentine
  • Quartz with Chlorite
  • Seraphinite
  • Unakite
  • Lapis lazuli (Egypt)