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3 Aug 2025 12:30

How Crystals Work For Me

How Can Crystals Work for Me?

I first picked up a crystal when I was around seventeen. I can’t even remember what it was, I just remember being a really anxious teen and struggling to figure out what life after sixth form would look like, how a move from a small seaside town to a big city would affect me, and hoping I’d make some friends along the way. Crystals had started to become a big thing amongst people my age on social platforms, so I jumped into it and bought a small selection of basic crystals that were supposed to be good all-rounders.

I’d picked a rose quartz, clear quartz and amethyst, I think selenite and black tourmaline too. I remember seeing that clear and white crystals were good for clarity and amplifying energies, and the tourmaline was supposed to help keep me grounded and protected. The rose quartz was to help develop my sense of self-love, and amethyst is my birth stone so I picked that to move my intuition along a little. At this point, I was still kind of sceptical.

I started to take them out and about with me which, placebo or not, helped me to feel more secure and confident. I started to manifest at home that I’d be okay in a new city and my life would change for the better. I would get excited to light my candles and incense on an evening, lay my crystals out and visualise my path. My crystal collection grew quickly, and I began to learn even more names and qualities that were supposed to help me with a huge range of different things. Working in a crystal shop didn’t help, I’ll admit!

I soon started to realise that the time I spent with crystals on an evening was working wonders for my mental health. I had a way to believe that I was on the right path and things would all work out okay, maybe they’d even turn out amazing. I loved the maintenance of cleansing them with incense, leaving them out by the moon or charging them with running water (although not all of them can be charged in certain ways!) – I branched out into other ways of self-care and spirituality too. I took care of myself more, saw the world moving more around me and had a lot more faith in the universe. Crystals worked wonders for me at a time when I needed some guidance and a way of seeing things from a less anxious perspective.

Crystals taught me that I should put more faith in myself. My life is leaps and bounds away from where I was five years ago and I think a lot of it is because I managed to change my mindset before leaving home and moving to York. I started working at Shared Earth York four years ago which only bolstered my spiritual interests. The job was always the highlight of my time there – I made amazing friends at work and must have spent at least half of my wages back into the shop. I ended up loving it so much that my room now looks like a flipping Shared Earth showroom when it’s not messy!

The move to York was a turning point in my life where everything fell into place. Life was so much more free and easy, I felt liberated and so much happier in my place. I knew I was on the right path, I met incredible people and curated a life that I could have lived out for decades and never got bored. That whole time, I had faith in my crystals and carried them with me, I would even try and channel good energies into the ones in the shop and loved popping them into their little bags to travel home with new owners. I’ve never met a crystal person who wasn’t a beautiful soul and I think that’s down to the faith they always seem to have in the universe - energy seems to radiate from them and the shop was always full of good vibrations.

After a while, I started to get into other things like tarot and guidance cards. I bagged my first deck, Tarot Cats by Ana Juan. People advised me to get a more basic deck but it was actually really easy to gauge, the artwork was a huge upside and made me laugh even if the cards came with a warning! I used my crystals to cleanse them, but ended up finding a lot of guidance by combining them with the cards. Tarot and crystals helped me confirm I was doing the right thing, that everything would be okay even if I thought it might not be some days.

Whether you believe in their energies or not (I was as sceptical as anyone at first), crystals worked brilliantly for me. They brought me comfort, security and helped me stay faithful in my decisions and my path. Certain stones can help with certain things - certain combinations are even better and can help with more focused feelings. Maybe you want to hone in your intuition, help heal your trauma or you’re looking for some change, they can be a great way of visualising it while also staying true to who you are. In fact, they amplify who you are - they just help you curate the best version of yourself!

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Maggie

Created On 3 Aug 2025 12:30 - >>