Crystals 101: For Your 7 Chakras
My first recollection of using crystals is from when I was about ten years old. My grandmom and mom would give me crystals to help cope with my parent's divorce and would tell me about their healing properties for alleviating anything, from stomach aches to feeling homesick. I would go to crystal stores and pick out my favorite stones and keep them in a giant fishbowl with a lid. As I get older and have to deal with new, uncharted stresses in my life, my collection continues to grow.
One of my favorite hobbies is visiting local metaphysical shops to pick out new crystals based on my current situation and needs. What I have learned over the years is that the crystal you need will find you, you don’t need to go in with a specific one in mind. You should choose crystals that call to you. Usually, the first one that you’re drawn to or pick up is meant for you. I also have come to realize that crystals are simply tools, but you are the magic. You don’t need crystals to make you more aligned or spiritual, you don’t need crystals at all. But they do enhance your experience if used with intention. If you are looking for a place to start, these are great beginner crystals based on the 7 chakras. Crystals can help with keeping our chakras (and life) in balance.
1ST CHAKRA: ROOT CHAKRA – GROUNDING & FOUNDATION, SAFETY & BASIC NEEDS
Color: Red
Location: Base of the spine – pelvic floor
Balanced chakra: Confidence, secure, balanced, grounded
Imbalanced chakra: Insecurity, easily angered, financial instability, anxiety, back pain, spacey
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
Red Jasper: Mood stabilizer, soothes anxiety, grounds you to a calm state
Smoky Quartz: Grounding, balancing, releases negative feelings of jealousy and anger
Hematite: Absorbs toxic emotions, clears negative feelings of anxiety and worry
2ND CHAKRA: SACRAL CHAKRA – SEXUALITY & PLEASURE, JOY, ENERGY, CREATIVITY
Color: Orange
Location: Sacrum – reproductive organs
Balanced chakra: Creativity, passion, motivation, inspiration, joy
Imbalanced chakra: Low energy, unable to process emotions, hormone imbalances, lack of creativity and joy
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
Carnelian: Puts plans into action with confidence, creates harmony between mental focus/creativity, alleviates addiction
Orange calcite: Overcome shyness, sparks creative fire, break old patterns
3RD CHAKRA: SOLAR PLEXUS CHAKRA – SELF-WORTH, WILLPOWER
Color: Yellow
Location: Naval
Balanced chakra: Motivated, Focused, Confident
Imbalanced chakra: Digestive issues, feeling stuck, unable to control life, feeling unworthy or unmotivated
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
Citrine: Increase sexual and creative fertility, clarity, inspiration, security, manifest money
4TH CHAKRA: HEART CHAKRA – SELF-LOVE & ABILITY TO LOVE
Color: Green
Location: Heart
Balanced chakra: Creativity, passion, compassion, love
Imbalanced chakra: Unattached, overly emotional, relationship problems
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
1. Rose Quartz: Help you forgive, deepen relationships and self-love
2. Green Aventurine “luck stone”: increase self-esteem, brings good fortune & new opportunities
5TH CHAKRA: THROAT CHAKRA – COMMUNICATION
Color: Blue
Location: Throat
Balanced chakra: Self-expression, ability to communicate truth and love
Imbalanced chakra: Inability to speak the truth or express self, miscommunication, argumentative, shy
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
1. Sodalite: Soothes overstressed adrenal glands, stimulates pituitary gland & opens spiritual perception, releases tensions & fears
2. Lapis Lazuli: Relieves headaches, brings awareness of soul, help speak ones truth, eases communication issues
6TH CHAKRA: THIRD EYE CHAKRA – INTUITION
Color: Purple
Location: Between eye-brows
Balanced chakra: Imagination, ability to make decisions, wisdom
Imbalanced chakra: Unable to organize life, closed off to new ideas, cannot trust “gut feeling”
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
1. Flourite: Rejuvenates Aura, aligns head with true desires of heart, opens spirituality
2. Amethyst: Purifies mind & clears negative thoughts, alleviates work-related stress, brings intuition to gut decisions
7TH CHAKRA: CROWN CHAKRA – SPIRITUALITY
Color: White/Violet
Location: Top of head
Balanced chakra: Communion with higher states of consciousness
Imbalanced chakra: Feeling lost, purposeless, closed-mindedness, disconnected with body and reality
CRYSTALS FOR BALANCING:
1. Selenite: Clears energy blockage, purifies all chakras, cleanses energy of other stones
2. Clear Quartz: Universal healer, can heal physical, mental, and emotional issues, connects with the higher self. It can be programmed to be any crystal and set any intention.
CARING FOR YOUR CRYSTALS
Cleansing
To cleanse your crystals, use sage, a selenite wand, or simply wash them in water. Cleanse your crystal once you purchase it and on a weekly basis and ask it to release your negative energy. Crystals that cannot be washed in water: amber, turquoise, red coral, fire opal, moonstone, calcite, kyanite, kunzite, Angelite, azurite, selenite, mostly stones ending in “ite.”
Cleanse and energize your crystals by placing them on a windowsill right after sunset overnight. They will absorb the most energy 3 days before and 3 days after a full moon. Simply leave them out to collect the moonlight’s energy and take them off the next day. Some crystals, such as Amethyst and Rose Quartz, lose color from the sunlight so don’t keep them out too long during the day.
Charging & Setting
Set intentions with your crystals by holding them and thinking of what intention you want them to focus on.
Crystals hold energies and their properties are based on your willingness to believe and work with them. It’s important to find ones that will help with your current situation and emotions. You can work with different ones and grow your collection as you dive more into crystals and grow a deeper understanding of what frequency you are working with. Take the Energy Muse quiz to see which crystal you should try!