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(00:01):
She's a professional aroma therapist and he is
an international wellness advocate for the largest essential
oil company in the world, but their love
for essential oils has brought them together.
Welcome to Fellowship in Essential Oils,
where Elizabeth Ashley and Adam Barrelet
discuss essential oils and their gifts for the

(00:21):
body, heart, head, and spirit.
Hello, and welcome to the Crystal Confab.
I'm Kyle, the Crystalline Mage, and I'm joined
by Ashley Labe, Nicholas Pearson, and Adam Barralet,
my crystal besties, as we dive into,
back to our regular programming,
one mineral
per episode. And today is honestly one of

(00:45):
my personal favorites, and I'm sure you've heard
us all say that several times over the
episodes, but it truly is. And it's damn
right, and it's one that I wear often
and regularly. And we are going to pass
straight over to Ashley who's literally
direct
from Tucson
to have a little chat.

(01:05):
It was such a fun show this year.
There was so much to see. There's always
a lot of excitement come Tucson time. I
think, you know, both
for shop owners like myself who are going
over there to,
you know, source things for our
sales and storefronts,
as well as for the vendors that are

(01:26):
traveling from all over the world to come
to the show, show what they have,
get you introduced new things.
There was a lot of excitement and a
lot of buzz this year. I think
a few trends that I noticed that I
wanted to share
were I saw definitely
more push for ethically sourced minerals this time,

(01:46):
which I have to say was really great.
Like, several of the vendors that I've been
going to for years that do ethical sourcing
had more availability
than what they've ever had before, which is
really cool,
And a few other vendors
who have kind of tried to do that
in the past, but maybe not across the

(02:06):
board,
have found new sources, new suppliers,
new cottage miners to work with who are
doing things a lot more ethically.
I've also talked to a few vendors this
year who changed the way that they're manufacturing,
which is huge. So they're doing a lot
of it in house, so they have more
oversight.

(02:26):
Like, those are the kind of changes that
I get really excited about seeing, and I
know that that comes from
consumers,
you know, re who are purchasing retail, like,
the end consumer level,
putting pressure on the storefronts,
and then those storefronts putting pressure on their
sources.
And also
the work of amazing people,

(02:49):
like Nairi from Crystal Auras by Nairi who
just had World Crystal Healing Day, the first
ever,
who are just champions of ethical sourcing. And
so I think we're we're starting to see
the very beginning of that, which is interesting
because we were just talking about this in
a recent episode. So that was awesome.
The other thing that

(03:11):
I noticed
is
that a lot of the vendors were trying
to get new things out there.
There were a couple cool new finds.
So from the DRC,
there is a botryidal
malachite
with kind of a druzy quartz coating
that was absolutely stunning
the first time I've ever seen it. There

(03:33):
was
incredibly
high grade pink aragonite,
like nothing I've ever seen,
way out of my budget personally, but it's
great to look at.
There was also
this really cool combo of chrysocolla,
kind of that chalky
botryidal crust chrysocolla

(03:54):
and cobalt, hoan, calcite crystals
growing together with this intense
blue and pink in one cluster. So those
were some of my fun new finds for
this year that I was excited to see,
but there were also some things I wasn't
thrilled about, including some crystal fakes. So
many of us have probably seen over the

(04:15):
last
eighteen months to two years
this Honeycomb
Ruby.
And it is touted as being natural ruby.
It kind of looks like a lava rock
that is dyed hot pink,
if you can picture what that might look
like in your head. It's quite heavy because
it is actually corundum. It just happens to

(04:37):
be lab grown, if I'm not mistaken about
that. Nicholas, Kyle, can you confirm? Nicholas has
something to add.
Yeah. So I I investigated this.
It's not it it's the same ingredients as
corundum, but it lacks the crystal structure. It's
essentially
made from powdered aluminum oxide and powdered chromium
oxide.
You get the ratio just right, and you

(04:59):
flash heat it. And that's why it's got
that kind of bubbly texture because it cools
so rapidly. The bubbles are still present.
So it is just, like, cooked.
It is cooked.
Yeah. It is possible to make this in
a microwave at home. I've seen demonstrations.
Woah. Okay.
Learning new things from Nicholas every episode, but

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that was a big one. So the same
ingredients,
not the same structure, which to me,
not the same crystal. So not gonna work
with it. It feels weird. It looks weird.
It's kind of scratchy, like, and sharp. It's
a it's a it's an odd thing, so
be on the lookout for that. It's being
sold as natural all over. It was all
over the shows,

(05:40):
so that means if you find some in
your local Christmas Christmas crystal shop, don't be
surprised
if you see it labeled as natural. It's
probably not the shop's fault. They were probably
just told that. So give people the benefit
of the doubt, but do a little bit
of friendly education if you get the opportunity.
The other one that I saw, and I
saw it for the first time last year

(06:01):
just at one place,
all of a sudden it was everywhere,
is composite
lepidolite.
So they are taking
lepidolite
crumbs,
gathering them up with purple glitter and resin,
and forming them into

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spheres,
towers,
palm stones, you name it.
It is atrocious.
It is not nice at all. You can
actually see the bits of glitter in there,
and they are actual bits of little plasticky
flashy glitter. So not nice. I saw that
just labeled as lepidolite

(06:43):
all over the place and then also as
recon
lepidolite. So if you see that there is
a bit of lepidolite in it. You could
see some bits.
It's probably just all the stuff that's sitting
at the bottom of the bin after they,
you know, do a big shipment, after they
process them. They're turning it into something else.
It's not that it's not,

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well, I don't find it pretty. Some people
might find it pretty,
interesting to look at, but not
a real crystal.
So,
keep on the lookout for that, and I
think that is it for new trends and
some crystal fakes to look out for.
That's awesome. Thank you so much for that.
And I think, you know, like you're saying,
some of these fake crystals do have elements

(07:26):
of the real crystal in them. But I
think one thing that makes a crystal magical
is the fact that it actually grew within
mother earth over
thousand upon thousands upon thousands, if if not
longer years type of thing, and that gives
it the final energy in that way. So
it's not just the actual makeup, but it's
that energy as well. Now obsidian,

(07:47):
you know, would be an exception to that
rule, but there's still birth by mother earth
in one of her actions
in that way. So
no. There are lots of fake crystals out
there. We've talked about it in the past
before.
If you like them, go for them. But
as a group,
we're we'll give it thumbs down and yeah.
I know I was
sending, vomit emojis to Ashley

(08:09):
as as she was posting the the fake
ruby on her Instagram,
throughout the week. So, yeah, totally up to
everyone, but it's good to be educated to
know exactly what you're buying. And I love
what you mentioned, Ashley, about sometimes shops just
don't know because they have to trust their
vendors. And somewhere along the line, someone's told
them this truth, and it might not be
that final shop. So, yeah, that was awesome.

(08:31):
But Well, so, you know, I have to
I have to jump in real quick and
just say, it reminds me of this whole
thing where we see Fushite,
being labeled as emerald all the time. And
that's because somewhere along the way, one of
the big distributors who I will not name
here and call out, but they called it
emerald fuchsia because it's emerald colored fuchsia.

(08:52):
And one of the other distributors bought a
bunch, dropped the
fuchsia part of it, which is what it
is. And now everyone just sells it as
emerald all the time, and that's not at
all what it is. So we have to
we have to just be careful with those
things.
Wow. Wow. Well, we're gonna lift our vibration
a little bit because we're talking about a
beautiful high vibration crystal today. Damburite.

(09:14):
Did you see any damburite at the show,
Ashley? And and how do you normally work
with damburite?
I did finally find some damburite at the
show. I was actually on the lookout for
some
because it is, like Kyle said, also one
of my favorite crystals. This is a piece
that I got many years ago now, maybe
about ten or fifteen years ago. This is

(09:34):
from Mexico, I also have some from Ohio
here in The United States. It is a
beautiful crystal. This one has a very ever
so slight pink color to it, but only
if you hold it up to a bright
white paper,
filled with rainbows, and I just love the
crystal structure of these. If you are watching
the video version,

(09:54):
you can actually see this nice
kind of shovel point that it has. And
I find
that Danbury, with that formation, helps us dig
down to the root of what matters,
dig down to,
what is kind of waiting inside side of
us to come to the surface
in terms

(10:15):
of our purpose, our drive, our passion.
This is a crystal that's always been sort
of a guiding light for me when I
feel really lost,
when I feel
disconnected from that part of myself that's kind
of tuned into my inner guidance.
And we've all had those times where we
feel a little uncertain. We feel a little

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disconnected.
I know there are times in my life
when I have felt so certain and so
guided
about what my next step should be, and
other times
where
I really wasn't sure. And that is really
disheartening. Right? Especially when you've had that experience
of being so in flow and so connected

(10:56):
and in tune with what you should be
doing.
To have
a question mark
after that feels scary.
And Danbright is one of those crystals that
I think helps sort of bring that up
out of you if you've been feeling a
little uncertain.
So I think especially right now this is

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a great crystal to turn to to give
you a little bit of,
direction,
but really direction that is coming from inside
of you. If you just can't quite find
it, you can't quite connect or tune in,
this is a crystal that you can sit
with in meditation and sort of listen for
that guidance. We've also talked about doing, you

(11:38):
know, what is often called, like, automatic writing
or some journaling,
just letting that sort of pour out. Ask
yourself the question,
where is my soul path taking me? Where
what am I supposed to be doing right
now? What is the most important thing for
me to focus my energy on? There are
a myriad of ways that we can phrase
this question. So find the thing that feels

(12:00):
right to you,
work with your Danbury,
and wait for that answer to come. And,
again, maybe this is tuning in and listening
if you're maybe more a little clairaudient.
Maybe this is doing some journaling, some reflection,
writing it out. Maybe this is talking with
a close friend, a family member. Because here's
what I will say,
that knowledge, that know how,

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that
thing that you really need to be doing,
that thing that you that you need to
work toward or move toward,
get more in alignment with, it's inside of
you. You just have to find out how
to tap into it again. And it's normal
for all of us to get disconnected
at one time or another, but I know
that Dan Bright has helped me on more

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than one occasion get back into that path.
Ashley, you're saying that one of your Danbury's
has got that flat pink in it. Do
you find that that pink alters the energy
at all?
Yeah. I found that the crystals that have
that little bit of pink are a little
bit softer. They're a little bit more gentle.
It's kind of like the difference between maybe

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a parent who would
kind of tell you what you should be
doing and one who might help just nudge
you along and lead you to discover something
for yourself.
I think that's a little bit more what
the the pink Danbury does.
I love that. And, Paul, I think you
find this is it being a clear crystal
that you find it a real nice clarifying

(13:27):
one?
I find, honestly, all flavors of Danburite that
I have worked with all bring this amazing
directness.
I think that chisel shape, that blade shape
that we can see,
this is also a Mexican
piece. It has that soft pink. It's actually
a twin.
This is one of those things that you'll

(13:47):
hear me mention over and over again is
I find twinned crystals. This is another twin
crystal. This one has a sidecar.
This is, like, my first Aburite that I
got. This sort of double up is is
always important to me, but it cuts through.
It's like I like to think of it
as like a hot knife through butter, you
know, or a machete through the jungle. It
really helps to just cut through things easily

(14:08):
where it can be easy already or difficult.
It doesn't really matter the situation. I will
always
wear
this when I'm doing readings. Whenever I'm doing
readings, whenever I'm doing psychic readings,
I always wear my damn beer out because
it allows me to make sure I have
that,
like, clarity,
but that direct connection to the information that

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I need to hear that cuts out all
of the noise. For me, it's all about
cutting out the distraction, cutting out the noise,
allowing you to create that
directness that you need to get to the
point. As Ashley was sort of saying, it
helps you to sort of find that clarity
that you're craving.
And what was really interesting is I did
a little bit of research because I just

(14:49):
wanted to do a little bit of research
just for my own.
And it is a
let me write remember.
I write things out and then I forget
about it. It is a, complex boron
silicate with calcite. Calcite, boron, and silica is
its makeup.
These things
are

(15:09):
three things that go into fertilizers,
and there are fertilizers that have exactly those
three things. And it's a targeted fertilizer that
helps with crop resilience
and maximizing
productivity.
Like, it blew my mind when I read
that. I'm like, that's damn right for me.
Like, it helps you to be resilient and
stronger as you grow, as you evolve, as

(15:32):
you become more yourself,
and it helps you to then create more,
do more because all of that extra noise
of doubt is gone. All of that chaos,
all of that excess,
you can just focus and bring it to
the surface. And I just I love that.
Like, I love the idea of something being
fertilized. It's something that nourishes us, and I

(15:53):
I think we're always
so focused on the end result,
focused on how we feel right now. And
it's not to say how we feel right
now isn't valid, but it is to say,
what are you doing to nurture yourself as
you go along? What can you keep giving
yourself? What's going to support you and sustain
you?
Things that have a little bit of longevity,

(16:13):
things that have a little bit more cadence
are really, really important, and we need to
remember that
cyclically,
not everything happens at once. Not everything's going
to happen directly, and if we can give
space over to this is what I need
to do now, I'm in a growing phase,
so I'm going to make sure I'm giving
myself what I need to grow. Or I'm
in a flowering phase, so I need x

(16:34):
y zed. Giving yourself what you need in
the moment will always get you to that
result, and I find Danbury is always a
positive source of energy for what do I
need now to work on what am I
doing right now. It's less about
the past
and getting caught up especially in what has
happened. I feel it's almost pragmatic

(16:57):
in a way. Like, it allows you to
know what you can do. It allows you
to know where you can direct your energy.
I have a couple of pieces.
If I don't know if you can see
it. These have pyrite inclusions,
tiny little pyrite inclusions. And I love that
idea of being able to manifest
through our spiritual side, through our esoteric

(17:17):
information, our psychic information, and bringing through
all of that stuff that helps you to
get over what's logical.
Like, even though it has a pragmatic side,
I find Danbury, it helps you to get
away from what is necessary and logical.
Like, this is what I feel like I
need. This is how I'm going to allow
myself to flow forward, and I always find
it

(17:38):
less
when I need to be logical, I often
don't wear my damn dry. I often am
not touching it. I am often not needing
it because if I'm at work doing my
thing where I need to look at numbers
and selling and blah blah blah,
I don't need my Danbury right there. But
when I'm doing my readings, when I'm doing
my one to one, when I'm doing my
lives every Sunday, I will wear my Danbury

(18:00):
right because it gives me that, this is
what I need now, this is where I'm
at now, This is clear. This is connected,
and this is free from any doubt that
may come my way. And I find if
doubt is something that is omnipresent in your
life, it's something that comes up.
Danbury is such a positive aid, and this
is where I think, especially the soft blue

(18:22):
gray
damburite that comes from Bolivia really comes into
its own is it's sort of this
nurturing softness that allows you to sort of
flow really beautifully whilst being trusting in your
soul and what it's telling you and where
it's taking you because
the doubt often comes up when the soul
tries to take you somewhere and we go,

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no. No. That's scary. Oh, no. What's gonna
happen? Oh, no. People are gonna look at
me funny.
Yes. They probably are, but it's still gonna
be really good for you. So why don't
you do the thing? Right? Why don't you
actually
cut through
all the BS, all the noise, all the
what everyone else is doing and actually make
things happen. And then there's also our golden
damperite,

(19:04):
which is Russian in origin, and this for
me is
I would say its closest relative would be
imperial topaz in how it works, but still
they're not the same.
Golden Danbury, for me, is
a enlightened
energy.
It really is,
a lift.

(19:24):
It really is a buoyancy, and it helps
to see sort of positive ways forward and
positive actions. And
I can, not I can't,
which I really, really adore. I love them
as a family. I think they're all amazing.
As I said, I wear it whenever I
do this sort of work, so I think
it's great if you are a practitioner, a
medium, a psychic, and maybe you want to

(19:46):
dive into that further,
create more clarity in that way, I can
definitely recommend it.
I should have had a trigger warning at
the start of this episode because I forgot.
Well, I I I often am reminded of,
something that happened with me and some golden
damburite. So I did a stint of living
in The Middle East in the country of
Bahrain for eighteen months just a couple of

(20:07):
years ago. And moving over there, I just
had to take my most important crystal. So
that was one big flat flat and it
probably was about half the weight of what
I travel over there with. Anyway,
it was in my bedroom in in a
wardrobe in the apartment I was staying in
that type of thing. One day, I'm just
rushing around and I was running late to
get out to appointment.
And just as I'm about to step out
the door,

(20:29):
I hear this bang crash as though someone
just broken into my apartment. Now it's on
the Eighth Level, so that hadn't happened. So
I quickly dashed down to the bedroom at
the far end of the apartment,
and the top shelf in the wardrobe where
the crystal sat
was that flat of all my crystals
had fallen to the ground.
Now this had all my pendants, my high

(20:50):
end pendants, my, you know, favorite tumbles, everything
that I've been kind of used for my
YouTube videos and everything for that year.
And I just kinda looked at it and
went, oh my god. Everything looks kind of
okay. I'll deal with that when I'm back.
And I remember the the the ride back
home
three hours later just going, oh my god.
I wonder how they all are.
Everything survived

(21:11):
apart from
a slice of labradorite
and this beautiful golden damperite pendant, which was
large.
And I've I've been trying to find something
online since, and it was just a May
it's amazing. But I love golden damperite
for that. Like like you said, Kyle, it
is such a happiness
crystal. You know, for those that are into

(21:33):
the tarot, if I had to associate a
crystal with the sun card in the major
arcana, probably damn golden damperite would really bring
in that energy. But it's just it's got
this light, powerful happiness, hasn't it? But it's
also
almost like childlike and innocent at the same
time and really pure. I love it.
Absolutely.
Super playful. Super playful being in the moment

(21:55):
in a really lovely way, I think.
Yeah. And talking about different types of demurrage
as well. I think, Nicholas, you're showing a
Japanese demurrage
before we jumped on.
I was talking about it. And you I
was talking about it. Yeah. Yeah. For for
those of us watching the video version, it's
always the joke that the the Aussies are
color coordinated to match the crystal. So I
was improvising. You can find some some Japanese

(22:18):
Danbury's that are anywhere from, like, a pale
champagne to, like, really
transparent
saturated yellow to rival, like, the best Zambian
citrine.
Yeah. And and so for you and Danberites,
how do you tend to work with them,
or what do you find they're really grateful?
This is, one of those stones that
I I go through, like, cycles of

(22:40):
forgetting and then cycles of, like, falling back
in love with a crystal I haven't gotten
to spend time with in a while. So
I'm I'm in this moment doing that with
DanBrite because it feels super timely in a
lot of ways. My one of my oldest
favorites, I
got this way back in the day when
it was a few dollars and, was just
super happy. And then I've got my little

(23:00):
blue Bolivian one.
And for me, Danbury works on a few
levels. So,
like, the, like,
thesis statement is, for me, about
balancing ecosystems and getting us in touch with
a sense of belonging that is more than
material.

(23:21):
So on, like, the first level of this,
we've got its crystal structure, which is orthorhombic.
So we've got three crystal axes. They meet
at right angles, but they're not all the
same length. So that gives us this little
rhombus or diamond shaped cross section, most crystals
of it.
And this is
a structure that yields a sense of dynamic
balance
of of being able to teeter totter without

(23:41):
losing our footing. It helps us learn to
prioritize
tasks, and it also teaches us a lesson
about where we fit in and how to
cultivate a sense of belonging. And that doesn't
always emerge from where we are in, you
know, the coordinate plane of this three d
Earth, but how we fit into the spiritual
ecosystem that's there.

(24:01):
And,
this is a stone that I think a
lot of folks
who probably got into crystals around the time
all of us did will will remember, you
know, maybe the online hype of all four
crystal sellers online at the time, talking about
it being like a really shamanic stone, a
a stone of spiritual communication, a stone for
opening our upper chakras.

(24:21):
And I think that these really kind of
come
into alignment with this idea that when we
open ourselves to experiencing
not just the human world, but what we
could deem the more than human world, that
way we're not, you know, prioritizing one over
the other. They exist together.
But when we widen our perspective, we're naturally

(24:43):
going to be
in a sense of communion or contact with
beings that are not like us.
They help us, dance birds help
us find a way to live in harmony,
not just with our fellow humankind,
but the elemental spirits,
the earth,
the resources
of plant and tree and creature and mineral.

(25:04):
They also allow us to become more perceptive,
more able to communicate with the realm of
spirit.
And Kyle pointed this to this as well.
Like, why is it such a great stone
for psychics and mediums?
Because we're communicating with the unseen worlds, with
the more than more than human worlds, and
we engage with that kind of work. So
I think Danbury is such a wonderful ally
for it.

(25:24):
It becomes this, like, blessing, this ally that
helps us.
It's almost like a go between for us
and those others spheres of existence. So whether
we wanna communicate with angels or ancestors
or long forgotten deities or just your own
private spirit that that inhabits that one tree

(25:44):
stump in the forest behind your house, it's
gonna be the perfect ally for opening those
doorways and building relationships to our helpers in
spirit,
promotes a kind of healthy and thriving and
balanced spiritual ecosystem
because we are not doing more taking than
we are giving, and that's also embodied in
that crystal structure.
It's the sense of reciprocity

(26:05):
that we get from working with it.
And when we live in that kind of
way, when we are open to receiving those
messages
and,
living as as, we'll say, relationally
focused as possible,
all of those beings in spirit, they step
up because you've stepped up for them. So

(26:27):
when we feel more isolated,
more vulnerable, when we might be under attack
in a spiritual sense or a sociopolitical
kind of sense,
We're never going to feel isolated when we
open those doorways.
And Dan Burwright stands at the thresholds, you
know, that kind of chisel shape we've all
pointed to. It's it's like the end of

(26:47):
the crowbar to, like, just pry open that
doorway so we can
just peek and see what's on the other
side. And oftentimes, just doing that is enough
to recognize that we're
we're supported everywhere we go. We're actually probably
more supported than we think we need to
be if only we will open ourselves to
it. And so Dan Bright is such a

(27:07):
great ally for me when I I do
feel alone, isolated, vulnerable, when it feels like
I'm just not getting clear messages from my
spirit team, my allies on the other side.
And, also, I think it's a really good
one when we're skeptical
of what we're going to find there or
maybe even a little bit afraid of it
because it is so gentle and loving and

(27:28):
so filled with light. It's like holding a
torch. So the kind of ecosystem we cultivate
is one that is naturally going to be
beneficial rather than one that's going to make
us feel uncomfortable because it's ooky spooky.
I love what you shared there. That was
really, really interesting. And
I'm
I love the play you're talking about, Nicholas,

(27:49):
there about when we're we how like, this
is considered a high vibration or a powerful
crystal,
but often
powerful might seem the opposite to gentle.
But I think there's a real power in
Dan Burrage in that way that it it
is gently powerful. Would you agree, Nicholas?
Yeah. There there is a tenderness and a
sweetness to it. I find that irrespective of

(28:10):
its color, it always hits me right in
the heart. Maybe other places as well, but
it it starts here.
And it is
reminding us, I think, that
the the glue that holds the spirit world
together is the same thing that holds the
fabric of the universe together, and that is
love.
We might experience that as light. We might

(28:30):
experience that as healing. We could experience that
as romance,
like we talked about last week. But there
there is a very
nurturing, loving quality that Danbury brings.
I would actually love to ask you all
because this reminds me of something that comes
up for me a lot.
And, you know, I think we could probably
have pretty short answers, so we still have

(28:51):
time for all the things we wanna talk
about. But do you find that you often
have folks when they're asking you about, like,
for a crystal suggestion
that they'll say, well, what's the most powerful
crystal
for this or the most powerful crystal for
that? Like, there's always this emphasis on power
that I find so
interesting

(29:12):
because the most powerful
isn't always the best,
and, like, it's not always the best in
every situation.
Kyle, I see you definitely shaking your head.
Is that
something you've run into before?
Oh my goodness.
Over the however many years, if I've heard
someone say, I want a piece of moldavite

(29:32):
because I've heard it's the most powerful thing
that's going to blah blah blah, I might
just fall off
something high. It is
never about the strength because if it was
always about the strength
then
we would always be able to get things
done through those avenues. Right?
It's about what do you need personally

(29:53):
in the now? What do you need as
far as that energy energy
goes? And anyone that sees my weekly readings
knows that when I give one card I
then give this whole plethora of crystals that
you can work with because everyone feels a
little bit different, everyone has a different connection,
and I will say if anyone wants a
recommendation I'll throw five at them. I will
never throw just one crystal when someone asks

(30:16):
for the most powerful or the best for
this. I will say, which of these are
you drawn to? Because all of these work
on it in a different way, like our
12 plus that we talked about for love
last week. Right? One word
has so many connotations.
Power
has so many connotations. For me, the power
of nurturing natural agate,

(30:38):
such an overlooked
crystal and mineral, but it is so good.
Like,
I could go about go go on and
go on about
get over the idea of power being
one thing.
Feel into what you are drawn to and
know that you will get the power that
you need through your intention and the crystal
that you're working with.

(30:59):
I love that explanation. Adam, is this something
you've come up against as well?
Yeah. I I think, you know, a lot
of the time when people are we we
can all think of an experience in our
lives where we've probably gone in like a
bull in a China shop and it hasn't
turned out well.
So I'm always reminded of the saying, sometimes
a gentle nudge is more powerful than a

(31:20):
big shove.
And I think, you know, when we're talking
about crystals like dam derived, they bring that
kind of gentle energy in, which allows us
to get a lot further
along whatever we're trying to achieve rather than
just trying to force our way through.
There are crystals, you know, motivate is a
great example of that. I think Fennecke is
another one that, for me, has this kind

(31:40):
of like thunderous kind of like,
energy. And that is great in certain contexts.
But in others, we do need to go,
well, how do I gently go in? And
I think Damnedra would be amazing for that.
I do wanna say, Kyle, you were saying
that you throw five crystals at people. I'm
not sure if I agree with that technique
when you're reading. But apart from that, I
love your readings of the Sunday, and everyone

(32:02):
should try and catch them on Insta.
Thank you. Definitely.
Luckily, we have screens to hide behind. Exactly.
What about yourself, Nicholas? Do you find people
wanting the powerful crystals?
I do, and I'm kind of a brat.
I will flat out say, well, I'm not
into superlatives, and here's why.
The most powerful for this situation is not

(32:23):
the most powerful in the next. My set
of baggage requires a different
workaround than yours. So let's start thinking about
the most specific crystal rather than the most
powerful crystal.
I love that approach for sure.
One thing I find really interesting as well
about
how I think I discovered Danbury. It was

(32:45):
many, many years ago when I was an
eager student and trying to gobble up as
much information as I could and you'd Google
and you'd buy books and all that type
of thing is I came across Robert Simmons'
synergy 12,
which he listed as being the 12 most
probably powerful
crystals that are available on this planet.
Now I personally, with with my thirty years

(33:07):
of experience now, would probably remove at least
two of those and swap them in with
something else to have any problem. We can
cover that at a later date. But that's
what really opened up to me the the
power and the,
intrigue with clear crystals.
Because as a crystal novice, we can't just
like this clear quartz.
And, you know, the other ones, well, white

(33:27):
crystals got selenite and halite. But then, you
know, like, damburite,
phenakite,
naturalite,
scholicide,
all these, they they're very much, you know,
although in their structure, you know, we've been
talking about that wedge shape today that really
separates damburite from recognizing it. But they are
it really shows you that clear crystals

(33:48):
can be really
powerful.
I'm scared to use that word now, but
all in different ways. Has anyone else found
that?
Absolutely.
Ashley, I like to hear it.
I was just gonna say I, you know,
I find it so interesting you brought up
this concept of the synergy 12, Adam, because
this is something, like, you used to hear

(34:08):
more about, but I feel like it's starting
to make a little bit of a resurgence
just fairly recently
where people are kinda coming back to it.
And the the thing that always stands out
to me is the idea of them being,
like, quote, unquote, high vibration. So many people
are into this concept of high vibration.
And, like,
when we consider, like, high vibration

(34:29):
powerful, it almost implies that there are crystals
that are, like, low vibration.
And,
you know, I just I just that hasn't
been my personal experience. So I always
think about the early days of my own
crystal journey, exploring,
like, what other authors were talking about, what
other folks were talking about, and finding yeah.
It introduced me to some new crystals. It

(34:50):
got me excited and intrigued about some new
crystals.
But
having a lot more years of experience under
my belt now, I could I definitely feel
what what you think too, Adam, about, like,
you know, there's some things I'd probably swap
out on that list.
But, also, I would really encourage people to
question,
like, this concept of, like, the most powerful

(35:11):
and that, like, high vibration list and and
what is really meant by that because
just because those are a group of crystals
that worked for one person's or even a
group of people's,
like, spiritual journey,
doesn't mean that those are necessarily gonna be
the exact right crystals for you. And it
also doesn't make the crystals that you're intuitively

(35:33):
chosen
to assist you with that, like,
wrong or incorrect. Like like Kyle was saying
earlier, like, there are things that are gonna
be more right for you. But what were
you gonna say, Kyle?
For me, it basically plays off that. It's
the idea that these were also
written about, what was it, twenty years

(35:53):
ago? The the Earth and culture and the
world has evolved
dramatically
in twenty years.
What we need as our most powerful allies
are different. What was happening at that time
was different, and crystals come out in waves
of fashion of what we need
often in timely times. Someone will write about

(36:14):
it. Someone will bring it to the fore.
It will
become
this thing that a lot of people are
working with. Like,
an, example of this is, of course, garnet
for Victorian
jewelry
through, like, the late eighteen hundreds because of
grieving
and jet as well. Like, it was all
about the darkness. It was all about these
dark stones and nothing bright was worn. Right?

(36:36):
These fashions come and go. What people want
come and go.
And I think they were timely at that
point in time, and what we find most
powerful is going to be different
to what the next person is and the
next person is and to what you felt
ten years ago and to what you're gonna
feel next week.
It's a really great point. And, you know,

(36:57):
speaking of power,
we have a full moon in Leo coming
up, which is definitely a powerful energy. Adam,
what can you tell us about Danbright as
it relates to that Leo full moon?
Yeah. So those that obviously have followed me
on social media or heard past episodes will
hear when I talk about the full moons
that, obviously, each full moon is in a
sign. Each sign represents a different aspect of

(37:20):
life. Now Leo,
which is, you know, anyone who knows a
Leo,
if you know a Leo, you'll know a
Leo because they'll make sure that you know
them. Yep.
They they like to be,
you know, centered
under the spotlight and that type of thing.
And the Leo aspect of life is a
really interesting one that I find a lot

(37:40):
of the time gets dismissed
behind some of the other aspects of life.
So for me,
Leo governs the aspect of life, which governs
pleasure,
leisure,
and play. Now it does have a bit
of a connection to children, so that inner
child and that type of thing as well.
So as you're listening to us right now,
I'd really encourage you to think

(38:01):
how much space do you have in your
life
for fun,
for leisure,
for play?
Normally, what happens is once we've done all
our work and looked after our family
and done all our looked after our health
and done all those other things, then we
just get to do something
fun
and leisurely in that type of way. You

(38:22):
know,
one of my exes that I was with
for quite a significant amount of time was
that had sun, moon, and Mercury all in
Leo, so I feel very well versed in
the University of Leo. And one thing I
found amazing, very big hearted, very bold, very
courageous, all those type of things,
very hardworking.
But once I've got to,
like, I've done my work for the day,

(38:44):
they couldn't possibly get up and do another
thing and help with dinner or anything like
that.
And
that is that annoying me because I'm a
bit of a workaholic and I don't stop
type of thing. But
I started to get the lesson of, like,
no. No. No. They're just really prioritizing. And
if you think about a lion,
yes, they're, you know, powerful animals, but they're

(39:06):
still cats and they flop around and lay
around for a lot of time.
So what do we do on this full
moon? Well, this is a really great time
to actually analyze
how much funds in your life. You should
be the adulting and getting things done. You
don't actually just allocate time for pleasure.
When we look at,
you know, people that live to a hundred,

(39:26):
if you looked into the blue zones, it's
a really interesting concept where people in certain
parts of the world have lived for longer.
Those that have
that social community, but also just take time
to hang out with friends and not do
anything in particular, just just chill and do
something. It actually is good for our health
and well-being.
So I think Danbury works really, really well

(39:47):
for this. For me, Danbury has almost a
celebratory energy.
And we've talked about, you know, Kyle talked
about wearing it
a lot when you're doing readings when you
need that type of clarity as well. I
would suggest that you actually grid it around
your house. You know, we often use clear
quartz points, which had that point that send
direct energy in.

(40:07):
And you know, we've had great analogies for
the damned right points, we've had machetes, we've
had crowbars,
I think of them as little door wedges,
and they kind of just leave the door
open for the angels and all the blessings
and the good times to come in. And
so I would encourage you to work with
Dan Burat, maybe charge some pieces on the
full moon
to bring a more fun and leisurely spirit

(40:30):
into your space.
And that could be at home, it could
be at work, it could be wherever you
want, and maybe four of them around that
space just to invite that in as well.
A final thing I wanna share about Danbury,
it's something I've read once upon a time
and it really I don't know
what the reasoning behind it is or where
it came from, but I really liked and
it really resonated with me.

(40:51):
And it said that Danbury is an amazing
crystal
to help you heal with your eyes.
Now a lot of the time when we
think of healing, we think of our our
healer and I use my hands and I
put energy through my hands or different things
like that. But I want you to think
about and I still remember this here experience
from twenty five years or so ago, sitting

(41:11):
on a train
and, you know, minding my own business
and someone got off at a station. And
as I got off, they just turned around
and looked at me and I actually can't
remember
what they look like now. But I still
remember their eyes and their eyes were just
almost angelic
in this manner. And it was just so
uplifting.

(41:32):
In one glance, I felt uplifted.
And I think, you know, when we talk
about the fact that the eyes are the
windows of the soul,
this crystal could be a really powerful one
at helping to cleanse our spirit,
bring in that gentleness, bring in that clarity
that basically our eyes sparkle. And just by
looking at people, you'd light them up. And
so I'd I'd really encourage people to play

(41:53):
around with that. Leo is a leadership type
of energy and imagine if you could lead
with your eyes and inspire people with that
little twinkle and spark in your eyes. Dane
Bright might be able to help you with
that. So it's the perfect crystal to work
with this week.
So
I think we've kind of explored
damn right fully. I know some of you

(42:15):
are very excited about Tucson. I should say
if anyone's wondering why we're talking about Tucson,
am I right in saying it it's definitely
the biggest gem fair where all these people
from around the world come in America? Is
it the biggest in the world or is
there it is the biggest in the world.
I know Europe had some big ones as
well. I've heard a hot debate that it
was second, and it is now first, and
I would say that's probably true.

(42:36):
Yeah. It's an amazing experience. If you're in
The USA, if you love crystals, you need
to start saving up your pennies because it
happens late January, early February
each year. So it's worth going. And you
can just go down as a retail shopper
and buy a couple of goodies, but, yeah,
leave your credit cards at home. I've I've
been over a couple of times and you
get into trouble on that. But it's amazing.
And even if you're a crystal lover, even

(42:58):
if you think about maybe visiting The USA
One day or just want a crystal trip,
it'd be a great place to go to.
And I would love to invite everyone. If
you aren't able to make it to the
show in person and you wanna see some
of the great things that I've picked out
for my shop, you can join us for
an upcoming live sale. Our next one will
be just a couple days after this episode
airs
on February 13, the US time. So you

(43:21):
can head to mimosa
spirit on Instagram
and head to the link in bio to
RSVP
for upcoming lives.
Amazing. We'll be back next week to explore
another crystal. I'm wondering one day whether we
should go head to head on creating our
own synergy twelves. That could be a a
very interesting, very long, and very messy episode.

(43:43):
But if you're up for it, let us
know in the comments because we're here for
you and to serve our crystal community, and
we love hearing from you. Thank you so
much for all the positive feedback. I know
that so many people were intrigued in the
12 crystals that we chose for love. It
opened up some conversations there and that was
amazing to hear your feedback and your suggestions
as well. Until next week, enjoy your crystals,

(44:04):
enjoy the fertile moon and we'll see you
then. Blessed be.
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