Cleansing Your Crystals
Cleansing your crystals is an important part of owning and using crystals. As they heal energetically, when you use a crystal or place it in an environment, it will pick up the energetics of the person or place. Cleansing assists with removing the unwanted energy from crystals so they work more effectively and with more clarity. After cleansing your crystals, you may notice they appear brighter or even glistening, these are happy crystals.
There are a variety of ways you can choose from to cleanse your crystals. Trial some different methods and you may find one that works best for you, or best for your crystals.
Incense Cleanse/Smudging:
Smudging is when you cleanse your crystal with a smudge stick, often made out of sage, cedar or sweetgrass. Hold your crystal in the smoke or fan the smoke over the crystal until you feel that the crystal has been cleansed. Alternately, use frankincense, sandalwood or sage incense to cleanse your crystal with smoke.
Water Cleanse:
First determine if you crystal is water friendly, some do not like getting wet.
Salt Water Method: Boil some water and dissolve a generous pinch of salt in a bowl that will cover your crystal. Place your crystal in water and leave for an hour or so. Rinse with pure water
Running Water Method: Holding your crystals in a waterfall, stream or the kitchen tap will quickly cleanse them. Allow them to dry in the sun.
Crystal Cleanse:
(My preferred method) Place your crystal on a large Quartz cluster and leave for a minimum of 12 hours. I use Clear Quarts for its purity and healing energetic properties.
Sound Cleansing:
Using specific sounds will help draw out excess energy from your crystals. Commonly used are drums, bells, cymbals, Tibetan bowls or chanting.
Salt Cleanse:
Crystals that are not water friendly can be cleansed by being placed directly into salt or on rock-salt crystals (e.g. your salt lamp). Similar to a crystal cleanse, leave for a few hours or until you feel they have been renewed.
Moon cleansing:
Crystals are cleansed by the light of the full moon, even if it is cloudy. Place your crystals outside either one day before, the day of or one day after the full moon so they can receive energy directly from the full moon. Be careful not to get them wet.
Earth Cleanse:
Dig a hole or place your crystals in a pot of dry soil on the night of the full moon. Leave for 10 days or until the next new moon for a deeply nourishing and grounding cleanse.