Broken Crystals: Still Treasures
By: Amy C. Keiper, also known as the writer, LC Harrison
Healers throughout history and metaphysicians acknowledge the energy that flows through crystals and how that energy is ever-changing, growing, and adapting. It may be that energy that draws someone to choose a crystal, or perhaps it sparkles a certain way when they look at it, but what happens when that energy changes by a break or a chip in the stone? Is that stone still useful? That crystal’s owner may temporarily feel saddened by the change in their favorite stone. They may think something has happened to ruin the energy that drew them and the stone together, but perhaps, this may be a natural process and development in that stone’s ever-changing energy.
Consider that in adapting, that chip or break allowed negative energy or energy no longer beneficial to you or the stone to be released. The stone could be allowing light to direct through in a new way, perhaps the changed crystal’s keeper has evolved or gained a new perspective that has brought them new enlightenment. A break might be the crystal’s response to growing with its holder. Someone in tune with crystal energy may feel that the crystal needs a rest, or perhaps the crystal or a piece of it is ready to be gifted to someone who needs this new energy. Perhaps, serendipity has caused a fallible accident, that has not ruined the crystal, but created a catalyst for that stone to grow in a new way.
In considering what to do with an altered crystal, first take a moment to let your saddened state pass, smudge the stone, and meditate to clear yourself including your thoughts, heart, and chakras. If you feel the stone needs a rest, place it in, on, or near the pot of a favorite plant, or place the stone in a dish of any type of salt or sand or dirt, you could even bury it, if you feel the stone needs good grounding. Other ways to allow stones to rest and clear include placing with amethyst or upon selenite, or even laying the stone out on velvet or silk cloth. What should the keeper of such a crystal do next? The crystal might be adapted to jewelry for the owner to wear, kept in a dish of favorite crystals to bring light and happiness to the environment, or sometimes a stone may take to being glued. It is all right if the stone can not be repaired, its energy is still there for the keeper, and is ever in tune with them, still in a positive, although new way.
I have experienced the changing of stones, and I still adore them all. I had a favorite amethyst pendulum that had its point break, and it is still an accurate and helpful tool. Likewise, I had a favorite piece of honey calcite split in two during a moment of serendipity, that stone now resides in a dish of stones bringing as much light and joy as ever. Also, I had a favorite pendant of carnelian and agate that I never took off, and after a car collision I was involved in, that stone broke, was lost, and returned to me all very serendipitous, and I keep it in a treasure box safe beside my bed. Most recently, I acquired a cavansite ring, that in the first day of wearing split into two pieces, the crystal had inspired me so much, and I didn’t want to discontinue wearing it, so I got some craft filler glaze glue by Mod Podge and coated my stone to keep it in its setting. I am still just as inspired by my cavansite, and it still sparkles.
When crystals adapt and change by breaks and chips, never despair or fret, the stones are still sharing their light for all who wish to involve crystals in their lives
