February 24, 2025 • 35 mins
Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #21 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Rhodonite meaning, including:
Venus Retrograde & Rhodonite
Rhodonite for friendship & new beginnings
Creating emotional transformation with Rhodonite
Rhodonite for living authentically
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Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection but aren't sure how to use them? Join four crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for a casual chat about all things crystals.
Adam Barralet: Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Crystal Confab. Today, we're gonna dive into another pink crystal. When people think about pink crystals, rose quartz kind of pushes its way through and holds the spotlight. But today, we shift that spotlight a little to the right, and we're gonna be looking at rhodonite. Now this is a really interesting crystal.
I know we've got some show and tell for you today, but let's see if we can help you to build an appreciation for another beautiful gift from mother earth. I'm joined today with Kyle and Nicholas. Gents, thanks so much. Kyle, why do you love this crystal so much?
Kyle Perez: Well, let's just look at it for starters. Like, the beautiful shades of pink with black, like, no two pieces of rhodonite are generally the same depending on where it comes from in the world. It can be really, really rich and magenta or it can be really soft pink, and you'll always have well, not always, but often you'll have these beautiful black inclusions as well and it adds such character. This is from New South Wales, this piece of rhodonite, really beautiful slab. This is I think Brazilian, really deep and rich.
I have found upon getting into this podcast, I have given so much of it away. It is a crystal that I give away so much. There's something that I do which is called a crystal reading, and I basically will have a bowl of crystals inspired by something that Adam did years ago where I have a bowl of crystals at a market or a fair or something. And amongst those crystals, I will intuitively pick for the person and dive into a reading for them. And there are so many people that I meet when they're at a stage in life, when they are going through changes and transformations and needing to love themselves, needing to focus on themselves, needing to bring that appreciation to self in.
For me, Rotonite helps you to love yourself, appreciate yourself. It helps you to know your gifts so you can bring them into any situation, and it helps you to get rid of the I can't or it helps you to worry about what you actually can't do or what you can't bring to situations. I find it really great to help you to know your skill level so you don't overextend yourself in things that you don't need to because there are other people that can do it. Right? I find Rhodonite allows you to fit in, and it's not about a fitting in thing.
It's allowing you to fit in wherever you are meant to be. It allows you to charm your way into situations. It allows you to hold space and take up space and know that you deserve to take up this space. It gives that connection to I can, I will, why can't I? I find it really encouraging.
I find it protective. I find it supportive, and that's why I think I've given so much of it away to these people in their readings, whether they're going through job change, relationship change, personal shifts, whether it's divorcing, whether its death and rebirth, rhodonite seems to come up again and again and again, and I think that it speaks to its energy. It speaks to its ability. It speaks to its strength of
Adam: all of
Kyle: it that it can bring to our situations. I find it has more of a push than maybe rhodochrosite, which you often will see side by side. You'll see them compared.
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Are you just starting with crystals?
Or maybe you have a whole collection but
aren't sure how to use them? Join four
crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal
a casual chat about all things crystals.
Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode
of Crystal Confab. Today, we're gonna dive into
another pink crystal.
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When people think about pink crystals, rose quartz
kind of pushes its way through and holds
the spotlight. But today, we shift that spotlight
a little to the right, and we're gonna
be looking at rhodonite. Now this is a
really interesting crystal. I know we've got some
show and tell for you today, but let's
see if we can help you to build
an appreciation for another beautiful gift from mother
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earth. I'm joined today with,
with me is Kyle and Nicholas. Gents, thanks
so much. Kyle, why do you love this
crystal so much?
Well, let's just look at it for starters.
Like, the beautiful shades of pink with black,
like, no two pieces of rhodonite are generally
the same depending on where it comes from
in the world. It can be really, really
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rich and magenta or it can be really
soft pink, and you'll always have well, not
always, but often you'll have these beautiful black
inclusions as well and it adds such character.
This is from New South Wales,
this piece of rhodonite, really beautiful slab. This
is, I think, Brazilian,
really deep and rich. I have found upon
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getting into this podcast,
I have given so much of it away.
It is a crystal that I give away
so so much. There's something that I do
which is called a crystal reading,
and I basically will have a bowl of
crystals inspired by something that Adam did years
ago where I have a bowl of crystals
at a market or a fair or something.
And amongst those crystals, I will intuitively pick
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for the person and dive into a reading
for them. And there are so many people
that I meet when they're at a stage
in life, when they are going through changes
and transformations
and needing to
love themselves,
needing to focus on themselves, needing to bring
that appreciation
to self in. For me, Rotonite
helps you to love yourself, appreciate yourself. It
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helps you to know your gifts so you
can bring them into any situation, and it
helps you to get rid
of the I can't or it helps you
to worry about what you actually can't do
or what you can't bring to situations. I
find it really great to help you to
know your skill level so you don't overextend
yourself in things that
you don't need to because there are other
people that can do it. Right? I find
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road night allows you to fit in,
and it's not about a fitting in thing.
It's allowing you to fit in wherever you
are meant to be. It allows you to
charm your way into situations. It allows you
to hold space and take up space and
know that you deserve to take up this
space. It gives that connection to I can,
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I will, why can't I? I find it
really encouraging. I find it protective. I find
it supportive, and that's why I think I've
given so much of it away
to these people in their readings,
whether they're going through job change,
relationship change,
personal shifts,
whether it's
divorcing, whether it's death and rebirth,
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rhodonite seems to come up again and again
and again, and I think that it speaks
to its energy. It speaks to its ability.
It speaks to its strength of
all of it that it can bring to
our situations.
I find it has
more of
a push than maybe rhodochrosite,
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which you often will see them side by
side. You'll see them compared. They have similar
names that and
is, I think,
not where the similarity ends, but I don't
really think they are that similar in the
way that they work. I find rhodochrosite
so different and so more emotionally based, where
I find rhodonite this fiery energy, this more
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passionate, more driven,
more,
pushy in a way. It helps you to,
like, focus on a goal. It helps you
to go after things. It simplifies
what you can do so you can actually
achieve goals quicker. I find it will allow
you to cut out the noise.
I can't, and I'm not gonna focus on
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that because that's their problem.
They didn't listen to me the first fourteen
times I talked about it, so I'm not
gonna tell them that anymore. I'm not gonna
give them that advice anymore. The most loving
thing I can do is let them focus
on themselves, and I'm gonna focus on me.
It's so like,
I'm not gonna fit into the parent group
at the school drop off. I'm not gonna
care
that people are gonna look at me for
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wearing something
different. I'm not going to try and people
please in situations that take away from myself.
There are many layers to how rodentite can
work, and I think it can bring that
self confidence and self love in
on so many beautiful, beautiful levels. And I
think
there is someone else here that has a
really deep appreciation
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for rhodonite that can show us some really
amazing pieces, but also a depth of appreciation
for a mineral that I think Adam and
I maybe don't for this specific one.
So that's me. I'm the guilty party, aren't
I?
I I wanna start just with a little
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bit of back story.
I never intended to like rhodonite.
Not that I had anything against it.
Pink has never been my color. I'm actually
quite colorblind, so something's gotta be really saturated
pink for me to even just take notice
of it.
Reds, pinks, they're they're just not something I'm
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naturally drawn to.
And it was one of those crystals that
you know, I got a couple tumbled stones
of early on just because I didn't,
and it was nice to round that out.
And then years later, I cycled back around
to it and bought myself a
really spendy,
strand of beads to wear because I was
looking for something that could just help me
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mitigate some of my experience of anxiety when
I had my corporate job.
And
it it seemed to check off all of
the boxes.
And so I wore it often, and
it became like an extension of me. It
it really did feel second nature to wear
the stone. I felt more at ease, more
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grounded, less likely to, we'll say, spiral in
my head.
Not that these things didn't happen, just I
felt more in control. I felt more like
I wasn't kinda losing it. And
there was one particular instance where
I didn't realize how much rodentite was working
for me until I had to remove it.
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So,
it was it was leap day
twenty twelve, February twenty ninth twenty twelve. I
I will remember the day for the end
of time because I, at the time, rode
a motorcycle and got hit by a car.
And so when it was finally time to,
like, take some X rays, I had to
take my jewelry off. I was wearing,
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a strand this very strand of road night
and and some,
amethyst.
And the moment I had to hand them
over to the X-ray tech, and I sat
there
just laying, waiting for the machine to to
work its magic. I I've
my heart rate started to quicken.
My blood pressure, I could feel it
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rising.
My breathing got shallower.
And, like, there's nothing about an x-ray that
is scary to me. There's nothing different about
this room than any other room that I've
been in. And, like, I've just been so
remarkably lucid the whole time from the ambulance.
I I called my boss in corporate America
to make arrangements
for her to take care of my PTO
while I was gonna be out for an
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indeterminate amount of time. Like, I'm I'm just
so so
shockingly stable when I'm a fairly tightly wound
person.
And then
handing the stone away,
this anxiety crept in that I hadn't had
a chance to experience all night.
And as soon as the tech handed me
my beads back,
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things started to relax. And I thought, oh,
yeah. This thing that I, like, tell people
about, it actually works.
It it works for me too.
Sometimes we need the really big reminders.
And,
ever since, I've just grown to appreciate the
stone so
so incredibly deeply, and I love how much
character
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every piece has.
No two are the same. I've got, like,
a bunch lined up in front of me.
I won't play show and tell with them
all, but, you know, we see a lot
of this material from Madagascar that has these,
like, manganese oxides and, like, manganese nesosilicates,
like, tephra white.
In there, I've got some big blocky crystals,
and individual crystals of this are pretty uncommon.
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This comes from Franklin, New Jersey.
I've got a little cluster of some, like,
bubble gum pink ones that come from Peru.
But, like, my pride and joy,
is this
deep, deep, deep red transparent piece that comes
from,
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
And, it has been a
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it just
fits perfectly in the palm of my hand.
It follows the crease in in my palm,
and it's just pure magic.
So, all that goes to say that I
have spent a lot of time reflecting on
what makes this stone so magical.
And it has become a stone of emotional
resilience and transformation
for me. You know, on one hand, it
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is grounding and fortifying to our emotional body.
Manganese minerals often kind of relate to a
sense of
emotional grounding.
A lot of manganese minerals, particularly manganese silicates,
I feel a kind of special affinity with
the pericardium meridian. That's the envelope around the
heart that protects it from outside stuff so
it can do its job. And energetically, it's
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like a protector for our heart chakra, so
it can do its job as well.
A lot of people do associate it with
things like anxiety, nervousness, tension,
the ups and downs of life and kinda
takes us to this space of
achieving some semblance of self worth over time.
And, like, when I really sit with that,
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I noticed that there are a few actions
that Rodenite
engages with. First and foremost, it's like an
emotional anchor.
If we drop the anchor,
whatever strong tide, whatever big wave comes through
still happens. It doesn't make that go away,
but you don't get swept out to sea
with that feeling, with that emotion, with that
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event. So there I was
literally picking myself up off the ground after
getting hit by a car, and I wasn't
getting carried away by all the things that
I could have.
But the moment
I surrender the beads, my mind just immediately
went to that anxious place.
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The the next kind of layer to it
is that it is super comforting. So it
it helps us drop the anchor so we
can witness those events without getting lost in
the minutia of them, but it is also
comforting and fortifying in a way that we
just need. There there are some days, no
matter what the crap is that happens in
our lives,
you just
need a day on the couch with a
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warm blanket and a mug of tea, and
you're furry creature of choice. Right? And and
I feel like rodentite is that vibe in
crystal form.
Some days, you just need permission to say,
I just need
rest. I need space. I need time to
regenerate this.
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And when we allow those two
functions
to take effect,
there's this really subtle magic that happens in
the background.
So we all have this accretion of beliefs
and ideas and behaviors that influences our emotional
well-being over time.
RoadKnight's
primary job is not necessarily
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taking any of the things out that don't
work for us,
But it grants a kind of emotional order
or efficiency
that is really useful. You know, imagine you
you come across like a well worn path
of cobblestones.
It's, you know,
lots of things have come loose, and litter
has gotten in there, and it's just it's
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a mess. You're gonna trip. You're gonna fall.
I am not graceful. That's not a great
situation for me. What rhodonite does is it
doesn't say, well, let's just remove all of
the trash. It says, you know,
we can settle these things in so they
they lock together. So we make a stable
foundation.
You still have to walk across it, but
it is so much easier to do.
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So by helping us examine where our beliefs
come from and how they got there, we
can say, oh,
well, to unpack that, I need to set
it over here with this other thing that
it's related to, or,
oh, this makes sense. I I kinda learned
this behavior from my parents, and that's informed
how I felt about every romantic partner or
how I perform at work. Or,
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road night's job isn't to say, well, we're
just gonna stop doing that. But when we
understand how it fits in, we can create
stable footing to then do that work on
our own. Maybe it's saying, oh, I actually
quite like this. And now that I understand
it, I can I can access it more
easily? Or we can say, oof,
that's
that's something I think I'm really ready to
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let go of.
And along the way,
it's going to help us really
gain a sense of embodiment.
All of those emotions
impact our well-being in every level. You know?
Body and mind are related. And
if we can take notice of how our
psychic,
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as in other related to the psyche, the
soul, but also the mind, when we understand
how our psychic health impacts the rest of
our health,
we can start to make changes.
And it's maybe less tangible
than moving something in the world around you,
but Road Knight helps us get a grasp
on the things within us. So we can
start to reassemble,
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our our emotional makeup in a way that
makes a lot more sense.
And, ultimately, when we do that, when there's
less clutter,
we have more bandwidth for better communication.
We get clearer perception of ourselves and the
world around us.
We start
to have a little bit more grace for
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all beings, not not just ourselves. Hopefully, we
start there.
But we can also go, oh, wow. This
person
is just a person. At the end of
the day, they're they're just as human as
I am. They're just as fallible as I
am, and it it generates this sense of
compassion that is so real and and embodied.
So I
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love this stone. I I will love it
till the end of time, I think, but
it was, like, quite an accident for me
to get there. It it was it was
very, very much the antithesis of how I
prefer to work, which was prescriptive.
These things are happening in my life.
I'm gonna pick a crystal that that matches
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it.
And I I just kinda, like, set it
and forget it until
I have that really
visceral experience of what it was doing for
me. All that time behind the scenes. I
mean, probably two or three years behind the
scenes.
And ever since that moment,
I I've I've just been so enamored.
And, like, hindsight is twenty twenty.
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I picked up a fair bit of Road
Night over the years without ever acknowledging how
much I really loved it.
And now now when I see an exceptional
piece, it it's hard to say no.
I love that. I love that. I've noticed
when,
you know, I was reflecting
on some comments that Kyle's made in past
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episodes and then how you were saying, Nicholas,
that when you went to your corporate job,
you know, that was kind of your stability
of being able to handle that environment as
well.
Occasionally,
these questions come through, and I know that,
you know, on my social media, I do
a crystal of the week. And I haven't
done it for a few years, but I'd
once a year do a challenge of a
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crystal free week where the rules are you
can't wear your crystals,
you can't touch your crystals, and you just
like you you can have them in the
room, but you just don't go near them
type of thing. And the reason I wanted
to bring this in is because I found
that there are some people that almost were
forming this codependency
on their crystals to help them handle different
things rather than them being a support or
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a friend that kinda helps you out in
that type of way.
So, you know, when people go, I can't
go to work or I can't step out
without that crystal or that type of thing,
we're kind of relying on that rather than
that strength. So I'd love to know from
both your experiences,
do you feel that we need to maybe
have crystal free weeks occasionally or or step
away from our crystals? Or
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is that too big an ask, and should
I be exiled and never come back ever
again? What do you reckon, Karl?
Honestly, I love crystal free time. I think
it's really important because
I think in any situation,
the more you spend any time with anything,
the less you're actually aware of your own
feelings and connections to things. I think you
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kind of lose that
full awareness.
But, also,
you don't see your own healing journey. Like,
if you don't take that time away, then
you can actually see how far you've come.
You can see that you're growing. You can
see that you've evolved. You're not as anxious
as you were. You're not as stressed as
you were. Like, it actually helps you to
see your own progress.
For me, like, you can see me. I'm
a maximalist. I wear, wear lots. But as
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soon as I finish work,
they all come out. Truly, this citrine
stays in and, obviously, my wedding band, but
everything else will come off. And I take
off and I refresh myself every single
day. Having a full crystal
free time generally is when I go on
holiday or when I go to the beach.
Have that full refresh, give myself that time,
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and I think it allows you to check-in
with yourself. It helps you to regulate yourself,
and I think that is really, really important.
Yeah. I love what you said there, and
I often use the analogy of it's kinda
like drinking wine. You know, if you have
a couple of wines each day, you don't
really notice it too much. But if you
don't drink throughout the week and then you
have a couple on the weekend, you're a
bit more fabulous. So it does really help
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you to kinda notice that. And I'm kind
of like you as well, Kyle. I actually,
apart from when we're recording these podcasts at
home, have no urge to wear crystals. But
as soon as we go out, that's when
the regalia goes on. Do you find the
same, Nicholas?
I do take
very calculated breaks from time to time.
It's it's hard because
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all of my work that I do outside
of the house is somehow mineral related, whether
that is scientific or spiritual, consulting, teaching. And
then a lot of the work I do
inside of the house is also mineral related.
So,
I
I will carve out moments of time.
Maybe that is running all of my errands
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today without a crystal. And,
it can be a really, really powerful tool
of reflection
just to see how well am I really
handling things.
And we can be surprised. We can be
surprised in a good way. Like, oh, I
really don't need to carry my rodentite with
me every time I interact with the public
at large. They're not that scary most days.
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But, also, we can go, oh,
I thought I'd mastered this, and I really
hadn't.
There there are so many strong arguments
for the efficacy of crystals being tied up
in the placebo effect. And if we really
wanna test that, like, take a step away
from them and see, like, are you really,
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attaching
your agency
to an external tool,
or are we treating them as allies? Are
we allowing them to be catalysts?
Because for me, the goal of a crystal
is not to do the work so I
don't have to.
The goal of the crystal is to make
it so when I show up to do
the work, it is more concise. It is
more focused. It is closer
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to the end goal.
And
therefore, if I work with one crystal over
time, I should be able to take a
step back and still reap those benefits.
And if I never do that, if I
never give myself the chance, I can't tell
what that progress looks like.
But I had a a mentor
back in my college era,
who was a big fan of taking like,
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to to complete her little program, her, like,
little correspondence course, you had to spend one
week without crystals.
And, you know, for folks in a
situation like me, my home and work environment,
it's it's not possible for me to be
away from them altogether.
But you did have to kinda intentionally say,
hey. I'm just not
I'm I'm I'm not holding them. I'm not
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wearing them. I'm not meditating with them. You
know, my job at the museum is a
little bit of a different situation, but it's
all business there.
So,
I did I did just that. And it
was it was hard for,
you know, 18, 19 year old Nicholas to
do that.
I don't find it quite as hard these
days, and, I do kind of relish the
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moments when I have successes without them there.
So, yeah, I'd I'd really encourage anyone who
kind of feels bound to a crystal maybe
try having little breaks from it as well.
Because I love the crystals you're showing us
as well. I've never been really clear.
So with a lot and the ones Kyle
was showing us, they're the pink and the
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black. And then the pendant I'm wearing, it's
mainly pink with that little bit of black.
Is the pink just the road night or
is the black
something else kind of that grows with rhodonite,
or is that part of the rhodonite as
well? Does that make sense?
It does. And and we have a case
of two
nomenclatures
happening at the same time. And we see
this in a couple other instances, so I'll
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I'll make some parallels for us. So rhodonite,
the mineral species,
is that pink stuff that you see. It
can be reddish. I mean, my my broken
hill, from New South Wales is is actually
orangey.
They they they range in color a bit.
If you've got a lot of zinc in
there, it can lean towards yellow.
So that is rhodonite, the species. But then
we also have rhodonite,
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the rock, just like we have charroite,
that fibrous
purple violet mineral, and we have the charroite
rock, which is a metamorphic
body that includes lots of other things. We
have serpentine,
which is a series of minerals, and then
we have serpentinite
rocks. So we don't go rhodonite ite rocks,
they're just rhodonite rocks.
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So oftentimes with with bodies like this that
are the product of, metamorphism,
the the kind of mixed textures that we
see in there are,
varying grains of rhodonite and quartz, but the
quartz is colorless, so we don't really notice
it. And then,
the black minerals are gonna be, like, relatives
of stuff like salamylane,
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romanachite,
which are oxides of manganese or manganese and
barium. We're gonna find tephra white in some
of them, which is a nezo silicate. So,
like, this guy up here is from Cornwall.
The dark black stuff is a a silicate
mineral of of manganese, but it's an island
silicate, so it's a little bit different to
the pink stuff. And, you know,
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the the fun thing about rhodonite is
I've spent so much of my time loving
it
thinking I knew its chemical formula.
And in 2019,
it was redefined.
So after I'd submitted,
you know, final draft of a manuscript to
a publisher
that listed its chemical formula,
yeah, that same year, they published
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new data. And so,
it we often use the simplified chemical formula
of manganese silicate,
m n s I o three, but it's
way more complicated. It's
calcium
manganese,
silicate, and sometimes it can be rendered as
calcium manganese iron silicate depending on which part
of the spectrum it's in. But it does
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have small amounts of essential
calcium in its structure. So,
yeah, it's it's interesting how we get better
data. For the sake of argument, though, you
can call the whole assembly road night, and
nobody's gonna be mad.
Yeah. Amazing. And so I was really intrigued
when you're saying you give this when you're
doing ratings,
you you're gifting a lot of this out.
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When you're gifting it out because I'm really
always interested in okay. We've got our crystal.
What are we gonna do with it? Do
you give any guidance on, like, just here,
have it
kind of thing, or what what's your tips
that come along with that?
I will always give probably more guidance than
you need. As far as tumbled stones, for
me, it's about having it on your person
as close to where you are going to
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receive its energy as possible. So in the
pocket,
in your bra, in somewhere close to your
person, in a pouch, something like that. But
quite often,
I recommend
the, like, getting into your day meditation with
Rodonite is one of my favorite things. I
always say ten minutes in the morning will
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achieve so so much if you can give
yourself that space. With a nice little piece
of Rodonite,
remind yourself of how good you are, your
confidence, what makes you amazing, the things that
build that self love, self confidence, and ability
to, like, take on the world.
By doing that, you can kind of set
that intention for the day, sit with it,
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have it with you, remind yourself of it
if maybe it flags a little bit. I
also
love it for full moon times.
Because of its kind of fiery nature, I
always love to work with burning on the
full moon, whether it be candles or writing
and burning. And I find it a really
wonderful ally to, like,
see that stuff ignite and disappear,
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see that crap
go away. I find those manganese heart based
stones
all have a power of removal
and, like, purging
in the best way possible. And so full
moon time is always such a powerful time
to do so. So a little tumble stone
is all you need to do that. Trust
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and believe. Like, my favorite little piece is
this tiny little mushroom.
It's the cutest little thing.
Transformation
mushrooms. Right?
I love that. I love that. It's been
really interesting listening to you where I talk
about the energy of it, and and this
is why I love our confabs is because
Kyle's talking, he finds Roadmap quite fiery, whereas
Nicholas was using words a bit more like
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it's more grounding. And I tend to lean
towards Nicholas's,
aspect of grounding, and I'll expand on that
in a moment. But just to remind everyone
who's tuning in is that
none of us are right. We're here to
have a chat, and you're you're the extra
person who comes in and just has thoughts
about it. And we're hoping that we can
open up different ways for you to relate
to your crystals.
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Is it fiery? Is it grounding? Is it
earthy?
It's a pink rock, and it it's your
relationship with it, which will grow and I
connect with that energy. But let me talk
a little bit more about that grounding, and
I find you know, that this rhodochrosite, rhodonite
kind of, contrast. For me, rhodochrosite's got the
fiery spark to it.
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Really great for relationships
where maybe, you know, you've been living together
for a long time and it's lost that
spark. That's where I bring in and want,
rhodochrosite
to bring them a bit more of a
deeper connection.
Where I love road night in relationships,
especially romantic ones, but all relationships,
is it helps the ground, takes some of
the fire in us out of it. Now
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we've all had these instances in our lives
where maybe things have got a little bit
snappy for a week or two in a
relationship. And I know that sometimes to someone
who tends to bite their tongue and not
say things in the interest of trying to
keep the peace. I have lost a frigging
pot plot about a flat a wet towel
on the bed. And it wasn't the wet
towel on the bed. It was what that
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means and the buildup and all that type
of thing. But if you're finding that you're
getting to that in your relationship or that's
where you are, run out is a really
good one for helping you to settle that.
What I find run out works really well
with is expectations.
And
whenever there is a conflict in any relationship,
regardless of who is right and who is
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wrong, we all know you were right, but
it's because someone didn't fulfill an expectation that
you held. You expected them to hang their
wet towel up. You expected them to remember
your birthday. You expected them to be over
at a certain time, all those different things.
And it's really interesting, quite
synchronistic that I was on my bush walk
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this morning that I like to go on.
And I was I'm listening to A Course
in Miracles at the moment.
And they're talking about relationships and the shift
of we often get into relationships going, how
can this person complete me and what can
they do for me? And The Course in
Miracles is talking about, well, how can you
actually support the other person to be the
best person they can be? And I find
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Roanoke really helps us with settling down this
expectation and demanding so much of other people
and teaches you how to love them for
who they are
rather than who you want them to be.
Now this is gonna be really significant as
we jump into March year because
on the March 2, we have three retrogrades
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with a final one coming in on the
fourth.
Now the major one is Venus retrograde.
Now when we think of Venus, the first
word that pops into our head is love,
but she is a bit more complex than
that. She is to do with,
probably the best word I find to describe,
Venus is value.
She is about not just your romantic relationship.
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I find Psyche, the asteroid is better for
that, but all relationships. And when she goes
into retrograde,
you will find relationships will become more challenging.
And this is really a great time to
kind of do a cost benefit analysis, and
this sounds really clinical of interpersonal relationships.
But Venus is the time to go, is
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this still a relationship that I should have
in my life?
Are we just friends because we've been friends
since high school? Am I just spending lots
of time with you because you are my
sibling and mom wants us to hang out
together and that type of thing? And you
may find, whether it be romantic, whether it
be family, whether it be colleagues, that all
your relationships will become a little bit more
testing.
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Roadnut could be a really great one just
to help ground you in this time to
make sure that you don't get too
erratic or wild and that you can make
these decisions with cost benefit analysis
of relationships
so that you can do it from a
more grounded place. So I'd really encourage you
to wear, carry, meditate with road night during
this time. Now the other thing that she,
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Venus is about is about style and taste.
So if you're thinking about redecorating your home,
if you're gonna change your hairstyle or your
hair color or any of those type of
things, what tends to happen if you do
it during a Venus retrograde,
once she goes direct again after a couple
of months, you're kinda like,
I don't know if the orange couch or
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the bright green mohawk was exactly the right
thing to do. So make the changes now.
Kyle Kyle's like, they're always the right thing
to do.
But any kind of judgment, even we may
fit tend to spend money a bit recklessly
because we're not getting the value from our
we're trying to make ourselves feel better. So
just watch your money and watch your relationships
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during this time. Now this is accentuated
by three minor asteroids that are floating around
as well.
First of all, we have Medusa retrograde.
She is all about learning from our mistakes,
but during her retrograde, bad mistakes may come
back up again. So you're kinda like, oh,
why am I doing this? Why am I
going down that hole? So if you become
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really quite disciplined in love,
in in how you act in a relationship
and how you deal with your money, this
may come back up as well.
Money is a big concern for me at
this time because also an asteroid called money,
m o n y, which is associated with
money, also goes in direct to grade. So
our access to money may go down. And
then Amalthea,
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on the March 4, so two days later,
also goes into retrograde, and she's about infinite
fortune.
So long term wealth and that type of
thing. So this is gonna be a bit
of a challenging time. But remember, every retrograde
offers lessons for us to learn. So we
can, whether it be Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde,
or one of these weird blooming asteroids that
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I bring up, if you feel yourself tested,
find the right crystals, look to us for
guidance on ones that might work for you
or
follow your own intuition,
and allow mother or earth to support you
as the heavens offer the lessons for you
to become the best version of yourself. So
road night for me, I think, will be
a really great one
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through the March.
Remember, when a planet goes into retrograde,
it's the March
these are all happening. It's not on the
day.
It it's a wave, and it's often like
a splinter going in. It hurts coming in
to retrograde, and it hurts coming out of
retrograde, and it can kind of settle in
between. But lean into the crystal for as
long as you need, and I think Rodena
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is a really useful one to use for
that.
Nicholas, as we kind of wrap up, is
there any kind of
ways you like to you've got a lot
of road knot.
How do you tend to use it a
lot apart from when you're wearing your beads?
So this is one that I wear quite
a bit. I keep a large
Brazilian piece near the bed as well to
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help my mind, body, and heart kinda settle
in for sleep.
I learned
a kind of really interesting,
application for it that's inspired by
gemstone medicine in the Chinese medical tradition, which
involves,
like, an acupuncture point, acupressure point just kind
of above the knob on your wrist on
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the side of the middle or or little
finger.
And if you place
a rhodonite there or gently massage that area
with rhodonite, it's thought to help us
kind of maintain our our jing, our essence,
and is considered an antiaging
treatment.
So things that
develop as we age,
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particularly things affecting the sensory organs, that is
a a a particular use of
rhodonite that's used in
one
one school of,
stone medicine and the Chinese medical arts that's
been in use for
generations.
So that that's another one. But I really
like because for me, it it is so
bodily, so,
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so much about my my visceral physical experience.
Just having it close to me does the
job that I I'm aiming for it to
do.
I I think we've all kind of said
in in one way or another, wearing rhodonite
or having it nearest,
especially around that heart or chest area will
be a really great way to use this
crystal. Well, we could go on talking about
rhodonite for a lot more, but I have
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now got this sudden urge to go and
massage just under my wrist, and I'm gonna
come back next week looking at least ten
years younger, I'm sure.
Thank you very much for joining us on
Crystal Confab. We will be back
next week for another beautiful confab about another
gift of mother earth. Until then, take care
and blessed be.
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Hello, everyone, and welcome to this week's episode
of Crystal Confab. Today, we're gonna dive into
another pink crystal.
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When people think about pink crystals, rose quartz
kind of pushes its way through and holds
the spotlight. But today, we shift that spotlight
a little to the right, and we're gonna
be looking at rhodonite. Now this is a
really interesting crystal. I know we've got some
show and tell for you today, but let's
see if we can help you to build
an appreciation for another beautiful gift from mother
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earth. I'm joined today with,
with me is Kyle and Nicholas. Gents, thanks
so much. Kyle, why do you love this
crystal so much?
Well, let's just look at it for starters.
Like, the beautiful shades of pink with black,
like, no two pieces of rhodonite are generally
the same depending on where it comes from
in the world. It can be really, really
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rich and magenta or it can be really
soft pink, and you'll always have well, not
always, but often you'll have these beautiful black
inclusions as well and it adds such character.
This is from New South Wales,
this piece of rhodonite, really beautiful slab. This
is, I think, Brazilian,
really deep and rich. I have found upon
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getting into this podcast,
I have given so much of it away.
It is a crystal that I give away
so so much. There's something that I do
which is called a crystal reading,
and I basically will have a bowl of
crystals inspired by something that Adam did years
ago where I have a bowl of crystals
at a market or a fair or something.
And amongst those crystals, I will intuitively pick
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for the person and dive into a reading
for them. And there are so many people
that I meet when they're at a stage
in life, when they are going through changes
and transformations
and needing to
love themselves,
needing to focus on themselves, needing to bring
that appreciation
to self in. For me, Rotonite
helps you to love yourself, appreciate yourself. It
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helps you to know your gifts so you
can bring them into any situation, and it
helps you to get rid
of the I can't or it helps you
to worry about what you actually can't do
or what you can't bring to situations. I
find it really great to help you to
know your skill level so you don't overextend
yourself in things that
you don't need to because there are other
people that can do it. Right? I find
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road night allows you to fit in,
and it's not about a fitting in thing.
It's allowing you to fit in wherever you
are meant to be. It allows you to
charm your way into situations. It allows you
to hold space and take up space and
know that you deserve to take up this
space. It gives that connection to I can,
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I will, why can't I? I find it
really encouraging. I find it protective. I find
it supportive, and that's why I think I've
given so much of it away
to these people in their readings,
whether they're going through job change,
relationship change,
personal shifts,
whether it's
divorcing, whether it's death and rebirth,
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rhodonite seems to come up again and again
and again, and I think that it speaks
to its energy. It speaks to its ability.
It speaks to its strength of
all of it that it can bring to
our situations.
I find it has
more of
a push than maybe rhodochrosite,
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which you often will see them side by
side. You'll see them compared. They have similar
names that and
is, I think,
not where the similarity ends, but I don't
really think they are that similar in the
way that they work. I find rhodochrosite
so different and so more emotionally based, where
I find rhodonite this fiery energy, this more
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passionate, more driven,
more,
pushy in a way. It helps you to,
like, focus on a goal. It helps you
to go after things. It simplifies
what you can do so you can actually
achieve goals quicker. I find it will allow
you to cut out the noise.
I can't, and I'm not gonna focus on
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that because that's their problem.
They didn't listen to me the first fourteen
times I talked about it, so I'm not
gonna tell them that anymore. I'm not gonna
give them that advice anymore. The most loving
thing I can do is let them focus
on themselves, and I'm gonna focus on me.
It's so like,
I'm not gonna fit into the parent group
at the school drop off. I'm not gonna
care
that people are gonna look at me for
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wearing something
different. I'm not going to try and people
please in situations that take away from myself.
There are many layers to how rodentite can
work, and I think it can bring that
self confidence and self love in
on so many beautiful, beautiful levels. And I
think
there is someone else here that has a
really deep appreciation
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for rhodonite that can show us some really
amazing pieces, but also a depth of appreciation
for a mineral that I think Adam and
I maybe don't for this specific one.
So that's me. I'm the guilty party, aren't
I?
I I wanna start just with a little
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bit of back story.
I never intended to like rhodonite.
Not that I had anything against it.
Pink has never been my color. I'm actually
quite colorblind, so something's gotta be really saturated
pink for me to even just take notice
of it.
Reds, pinks, they're they're just not something I'm
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naturally drawn to.
And it was one of those crystals that
you know, I got a couple tumbled stones
of early on just because I didn't,
and it was nice to round that out.
And then years later, I cycled back around
to it and bought myself a
really spendy,
strand of beads to wear because I was
looking for something that could just help me
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mitigate some of my experience of anxiety when
I had my corporate job.
And
it it seemed to check off all of
the boxes.
And so I wore it often, and
it became like an extension of me. It
it really did feel second nature to wear
the stone. I felt more at ease, more
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grounded, less likely to, we'll say, spiral in
my head.
Not that these things didn't happen, just I
felt more in control. I felt more like
I wasn't kinda losing it. And
there was one particular instance where
I didn't realize how much rodentite was working
for me until I had to remove it.
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So,
it was it was leap day
twenty twelve, February twenty ninth twenty twelve. I
I will remember the day for the end
of time because I, at the time, rode
a motorcycle and got hit by a car.
And so when it was finally time to,
like, take some X rays, I had to
take my jewelry off. I was wearing,
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a strand this very strand of road night
and and some,
amethyst.
And the moment I had to hand them
over to the X-ray tech, and I sat
there
just laying, waiting for the machine to to
work its magic. I I've
my heart rate started to quicken.
My blood pressure, I could feel it
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rising.
My breathing got shallower.
And, like, there's nothing about an x-ray that
is scary to me. There's nothing different about
this room than any other room that I've
been in. And, like, I've just been so
remarkably lucid the whole time from the ambulance.
I I called my boss in corporate America
to make arrangements
for her to take care of my PTO
while I was gonna be out for an
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indeterminate amount of time. Like, I'm I'm just
so so
shockingly stable when I'm a fairly tightly wound
person.
And then
handing the stone away,
this anxiety crept in that I hadn't had
a chance to experience all night.
And as soon as the tech handed me
my beads back,
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things started to relax. And I thought, oh,
yeah. This thing that I, like, tell people
about, it actually works.
It it works for me too.
Sometimes we need the really big reminders.
And,
ever since, I've just grown to appreciate the
stone so
so incredibly deeply, and I love how much
character
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every piece has.
No two are the same. I've got, like,
a bunch lined up in front of me.
I won't play show and tell with them
all, but, you know, we see a lot
of this material from Madagascar that has these,
like, manganese oxides and, like, manganese nesosilicates,
like, tephra white.
In there, I've got some big blocky crystals,
and individual crystals of this are pretty uncommon.
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This comes from Franklin, New Jersey.
I've got a little cluster of some, like,
bubble gum pink ones that come from Peru.
But, like, my pride and joy,
is this
deep, deep, deep red transparent piece that comes
from,
Minas Gerais, Brazil.
And, it has been a
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it just
fits perfectly in the palm of my hand.
It follows the crease in in my palm,
and it's just pure magic.
So, all that goes to say that I
have spent a lot of time reflecting on
what makes this stone so magical.
And it has become a stone of emotional
resilience and transformation
for me. You know, on one hand, it
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is grounding and fortifying to our emotional body.
Manganese minerals often kind of relate to a
sense of
emotional grounding.
A lot of manganese minerals, particularly manganese silicates,
I feel a kind of special affinity with
the pericardium meridian. That's the envelope around the
heart that protects it from outside stuff so
it can do its job. And energetically, it's
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like a protector for our heart chakra, so
it can do its job as well.
A lot of people do associate it with
things like anxiety, nervousness, tension,
the ups and downs of life and kinda
takes us to this space of
achieving some semblance of self worth over time.
And, like, when I really sit with that,
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I noticed that there are a few actions
that Rodenite
engages with. First and foremost, it's like an
emotional anchor.
If we drop the anchor,
whatever strong tide, whatever big wave comes through
still happens. It doesn't make that go away,
but you don't get swept out to sea
with that feeling, with that emotion, with that
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event. So there I was
literally picking myself up off the ground after
getting hit by a car, and I wasn't
getting carried away by all the things that
I could have.
But the moment
I surrender the beads, my mind just immediately
went to that anxious place.
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The the next kind of layer to it
is that it is super comforting. So it
it helps us drop the anchor so we
can witness those events without getting lost in
the minutia of them, but it is also
comforting and fortifying in a way that we
just need. There there are some days, no
matter what the crap is that happens in
our lives,
you just
need a day on the couch with a
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warm blanket and a mug of tea, and
you're furry creature of choice. Right? And and
I feel like rodentite is that vibe in
crystal form.
Some days, you just need permission to say,
I just need
rest. I need space. I need time to
regenerate this.
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And when we allow those two
functions
to take effect,
there's this really subtle magic that happens in
the background.
So we all have this accretion of beliefs
and ideas and behaviors that influences our emotional
well-being over time.
RoadKnight's
primary job is not necessarily
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taking any of the things out that don't
work for us,
But it grants a kind of emotional order
or efficiency
that is really useful. You know, imagine you
you come across like a well worn path
of cobblestones.
It's, you know,
lots of things have come loose, and litter
has gotten in there, and it's just it's
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a mess. You're gonna trip. You're gonna fall.
I am not graceful. That's not a great
situation for me. What rhodonite does is it
doesn't say, well, let's just remove all of
the trash. It says, you know,
we can settle these things in so they
they lock together. So we make a stable
foundation.
You still have to walk across it, but
it is so much easier to do.
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So by helping us examine where our beliefs
come from and how they got there, we
can say, oh,
well, to unpack that, I need to set
it over here with this other thing that
it's related to, or,
oh, this makes sense. I I kinda learned
this behavior from my parents, and that's informed
how I felt about every romantic partner or
how I perform at work. Or,
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road night's job isn't to say, well, we're
just gonna stop doing that. But when we
understand how it fits in, we can create
stable footing to then do that work on
our own. Maybe it's saying, oh, I actually
quite like this. And now that I understand
it, I can I can access it more
easily? Or we can say, oof,
that's
that's something I think I'm really ready to
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let go of.
And along the way,
it's going to help us really
gain a sense of embodiment.
All of those emotions
impact our well-being in every level. You know?
Body and mind are related. And
if we can take notice of how our
psychic,
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as in other related to the psyche, the
soul, but also the mind, when we understand
how our psychic health impacts the rest of
our health,
we can start to make changes.
And it's maybe less tangible
than moving something in the world around you,
but Road Knight helps us get a grasp
on the things within us. So we can
start to reassemble,
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our our emotional makeup in a way that
makes a lot more sense.
And, ultimately, when we do that, when there's
less clutter,
we have more bandwidth for better communication.
We get clearer perception of ourselves and the
world around us.
We start
to have a little bit more grace for
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all beings, not not just ourselves. Hopefully, we
start there.
But we can also go, oh, wow. This
person
is just a person. At the end of
the day, they're they're just as human as
I am. They're just as fallible as I
am, and it it generates this sense of
compassion that is so real and and embodied.
So I
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love this stone. I I will love it
till the end of time, I think, but
it was, like, quite an accident for me
to get there. It it was it was
very, very much the antithesis of how I
prefer to work, which was prescriptive.
These things are happening in my life.
I'm gonna pick a crystal that that matches
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it.
And I I just kinda, like, set it
and forget it until
I have that really
visceral experience of what it was doing for
me. All that time behind the scenes. I
mean, probably two or three years behind the
scenes.
And ever since that moment,
I I've I've just been so enamored.
And, like, hindsight is twenty twenty.
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I picked up a fair bit of Road
Night over the years without ever acknowledging how
much I really loved it.
And now now when I see an exceptional
piece, it it's hard to say no.
I love that. I love that. I've noticed
when,
you know, I was reflecting
on some comments that Kyle's made in past
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episodes and then how you were saying, Nicholas,
that when you went to your corporate job,
you know, that was kind of your stability
of being able to handle that environment as
well.
Occasionally,
these questions come through, and I know that,
you know, on my social media, I do
a crystal of the week. And I haven't
done it for a few years, but I'd
once a year do a challenge of a
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crystal free week where the rules are you
can't wear your crystals,
you can't touch your crystals, and you just
like you you can have them in the
room, but you just don't go near them
type of thing. And the reason I wanted
to bring this in is because I found
that there are some people that almost were
forming this codependency
on their crystals to help them handle different
things rather than them being a support or
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a friend that kinda helps you out in
that type of way.
So, you know, when people go, I can't
go to work or I can't step out
without that crystal or that type of thing,
we're kind of relying on that rather than
that strength. So I'd love to know from
both your experiences,
do you feel that we need to maybe
have crystal free weeks occasionally or or step
away from our crystals? Or
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is that too big an ask, and should
I be exiled and never come back ever
again? What do you reckon, Karl?
Honestly, I love crystal free time. I think
it's really important because
I think in any situation,
the more you spend any time with anything,
the less you're actually aware of your own
feelings and connections to things. I think you
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kind of lose that
full awareness.
But, also,
you don't see your own healing journey. Like,
if you don't take that time away, then
you can actually see how far you've come.
You can see that you're growing. You can
see that you've evolved. You're not as anxious
as you were. You're not as stressed as
you were. Like, it actually helps you to
see your own progress.
For me, like, you can see me. I'm
a maximalist. I wear, wear lots. But as
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soon as I finish work,
they all come out. Truly, this citrine
stays in and, obviously, my wedding band, but
everything else will come off. And I take
off and I refresh myself every single
day. Having a full crystal
free time generally is when I go on
holiday or when I go to the beach.
Have that full refresh, give myself that time,
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and I think it allows you to check-in
with yourself. It helps you to regulate yourself,
and I think that is really, really important.
Yeah. I love what you said there, and
I often use the analogy of it's kinda
like drinking wine. You know, if you have
a couple of wines each day, you don't
really notice it too much. But if you
don't drink throughout the week and then you
have a couple on the weekend, you're a
bit more fabulous. So it does really help
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you to kinda notice that. And I'm kind
of like you as well, Kyle. I actually,
apart from when we're recording these podcasts at
home, have no urge to wear crystals. But
as soon as we go out, that's when
the regalia goes on. Do you find the
same, Nicholas?
I do take
very calculated breaks from time to time.
It's it's hard because
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all of my work that I do outside
of the house is somehow mineral related, whether
that is scientific or spiritual, consulting, teaching. And
then a lot of the work I do
inside of the house is also mineral related.
So,
I
I will carve out moments of time.
Maybe that is running all of my errands
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today without a crystal. And,
it can be a really, really powerful tool
of reflection
just to see how well am I really
handling things.
And we can be surprised. We can be
surprised in a good way. Like, oh, I
really don't need to carry my rodentite with
me every time I interact with the public
at large. They're not that scary most days.
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But, also, we can go, oh,
I thought I'd mastered this, and I really
hadn't.
There there are so many strong arguments
for the efficacy of crystals being tied up
in the placebo effect. And if we really
wanna test that, like, take a step away
from them and see, like, are you really,
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attaching
your agency
to an external tool,
or are we treating them as allies? Are
we allowing them to be catalysts?
Because for me, the goal of a crystal
is not to do the work so I
don't have to.
The goal of the crystal is to make
it so when I show up to do
the work, it is more concise. It is
more focused. It is closer
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to the end goal.
And
therefore, if I work with one crystal over
time, I should be able to take a
step back and still reap those benefits.
And if I never do that, if I
never give myself the chance, I can't tell
what that progress looks like.
But I had a a mentor
back in my college era,
who was a big fan of taking like,
(20:40):
to to complete her little program, her, like,
little correspondence course, you had to spend one
week without crystals.
And, you know, for folks in a
situation like me, my home and work environment,
it's it's not possible for me to be
away from them altogether.
But you did have to kinda intentionally say,
hey. I'm just not
I'm I'm I'm not holding them. I'm not
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wearing them. I'm not meditating with them. You
know, my job at the museum is a
little bit of a different situation, but it's
all business there.
So,
I did I did just that. And it
was it was hard for,
you know, 18, 19 year old Nicholas to
do that.
I don't find it quite as hard these
days, and, I do kind of relish the
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moments when I have successes without them there.
So, yeah, I'd I'd really encourage anyone who
kind of feels bound to a crystal maybe
try having little breaks from it as well.
Because I love the crystals you're showing us
as well. I've never been really clear.
So with a lot and the ones Kyle
was showing us, they're the pink and the
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black. And then the pendant I'm wearing, it's
mainly pink with that little bit of black.
Is the pink just the road night or
is the black
something else kind of that grows with rhodonite,
or is that part of the rhodonite as
well? Does that make sense?
It does. And and we have a case
of two
nomenclatures
happening at the same time. And we see
this in a couple other instances, so I'll
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I'll make some parallels for us. So rhodonite,
the mineral species,
is that pink stuff that you see. It
can be reddish. I mean, my my broken
hill, from New South Wales is is actually
orangey.
They they they range in color a bit.
If you've got a lot of zinc in
there, it can lean towards yellow.
So that is rhodonite, the species. But then
we also have rhodonite,
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the rock, just like we have charroite,
that fibrous
purple violet mineral, and we have the charroite
rock, which is a metamorphic
body that includes lots of other things. We
have serpentine,
which is a series of minerals, and then
we have serpentinite
rocks. So we don't go rhodonite ite rocks,
they're just rhodonite rocks.
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So oftentimes with with bodies like this that
are the product of, metamorphism,
the the kind of mixed textures that we
see in there are,
varying grains of rhodonite and quartz, but the
quartz is colorless, so we don't really notice
it. And then,
the black minerals are gonna be, like, relatives
of stuff like salamylane,
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romanachite,
which are oxides of manganese or manganese and
barium. We're gonna find tephra white in some
of them, which is a nezo silicate. So,
like, this guy up here is from Cornwall.
The dark black stuff is a a silicate
mineral of of manganese, but it's an island
silicate, so it's a little bit different to
the pink stuff. And, you know,
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the the fun thing about rhodonite is
I've spent so much of my time loving
it
thinking I knew its chemical formula.
And in 2019,
it was redefined.
So after I'd submitted,
you know, final draft of a manuscript to
a publisher
that listed its chemical formula,
yeah, that same year, they published
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new data. And so,
it we often use the simplified chemical formula
of manganese silicate,
m n s I o three, but it's
way more complicated. It's
calcium
manganese,
silicate, and sometimes it can be rendered as
calcium manganese iron silicate depending on which part
of the spectrum it's in. But it does
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have small amounts of essential
calcium in its structure. So,
yeah, it's it's interesting how we get better
data. For the sake of argument, though, you
can call the whole assembly road night, and
nobody's gonna be mad.
Yeah. Amazing. And so I was really intrigued
when you're saying you give this when you're
doing ratings,
you you're gifting a lot of this out.
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When you're gifting it out because I'm really
always interested in okay. We've got our crystal.
What are we gonna do with it? Do
you give any guidance on, like, just here,
have it
kind of thing, or what what's your tips
that come along with that?
I will always give probably more guidance than
you need. As far as tumbled stones, for
me, it's about having it on your person
as close to where you are going to
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receive its energy as possible. So in the
pocket,
in your bra, in somewhere close to your
person, in a pouch, something like that. But
quite often,
I recommend
the, like, getting into your day meditation with
Rodonite is one of my favorite things. I
always say ten minutes in the morning will
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achieve so so much if you can give
yourself that space. With a nice little piece
of Rodonite,
remind yourself of how good you are, your
confidence, what makes you amazing, the things that
build that self love, self confidence, and ability
to, like, take on the world.
By doing that, you can kind of set
that intention for the day, sit with it,
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have it with you, remind yourself of it
if maybe it flags a little bit. I
also
love it for full moon times.
Because of its kind of fiery nature, I
always love to work with burning on the
full moon, whether it be candles or writing
and burning. And I find it a really
wonderful ally to, like,
see that stuff ignite and disappear,
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see that crap
go away. I find those manganese heart based
stones
all have a power of removal
and, like, purging
in the best way possible. And so full
moon time is always such a powerful time
to do so. So a little tumble stone
is all you need to do that. Trust
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and believe. Like, my favorite little piece is
this tiny little mushroom.
It's the cutest little thing.
Transformation
mushrooms. Right?
I love that. I love that. It's been
really interesting listening to you where I talk
about the energy of it, and and this
is why I love our confabs is because
Kyle's talking, he finds Roadmap quite fiery, whereas
Nicholas was using words a bit more like
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it's more grounding. And I tend to lean
towards Nicholas's,
aspect of grounding, and I'll expand on that
in a moment. But just to remind everyone
who's tuning in is that
none of us are right. We're here to
have a chat, and you're you're the extra
person who comes in and just has thoughts
about it. And we're hoping that we can
open up different ways for you to relate
to your crystals.
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Is it fiery? Is it grounding? Is it
earthy?
It's a pink rock, and it it's your
relationship with it, which will grow and I
connect with that energy. But let me talk
a little bit more about that grounding, and
I find you know, that this rhodochrosite, rhodonite
kind of, contrast. For me, rhodochrosite's got the
fiery spark to it.
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Really great for relationships
where maybe, you know, you've been living together
for a long time and it's lost that
spark. That's where I bring in and want,
rhodochrosite
to bring them a bit more of a
deeper connection.
Where I love road night in relationships,
especially romantic ones, but all relationships,
is it helps the ground, takes some of
the fire in us out of it. Now
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we've all had these instances in our lives
where maybe things have got a little bit
snappy for a week or two in a
relationship. And I know that sometimes to someone
who tends to bite their tongue and not
say things in the interest of trying to
keep the peace. I have lost a frigging
pot plot about a flat a wet towel
on the bed. And it wasn't the wet
towel on the bed. It was what that
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means and the buildup and all that type
of thing. But if you're finding that you're
getting to that in your relationship or that's
where you are, run out is a really
good one for helping you to settle that.
What I find run out works really well
with is expectations.
And
whenever there is a conflict in any relationship,
regardless of who is right and who is
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wrong, we all know you were right, but
it's because someone didn't fulfill an expectation that
you held. You expected them to hang their
wet towel up. You expected them to remember
your birthday. You expected them to be over
at a certain time, all those different things.
And it's really interesting, quite
synchronistic that I was on my bush walk
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this morning that I like to go on.
And I was I'm listening to A Course
in Miracles at the moment.
And they're talking about relationships and the shift
of we often get into relationships going, how
can this person complete me and what can
they do for me? And The Course in
Miracles is talking about, well, how can you
actually support the other person to be the
best person they can be? And I find
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Roanoke really helps us with settling down this
expectation and demanding so much of other people
and teaches you how to love them for
who they are
rather than who you want them to be.
Now this is gonna be really significant as
we jump into March year because
on the March 2, we have three retrogrades
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with a final one coming in on the
fourth.
Now the major one is Venus retrograde.
Now when we think of Venus, the first
word that pops into our head is love,
but she is a bit more complex than
that. She is to do with,
probably the best word I find to describe,
Venus is value.
She is about not just your romantic relationship.
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I find Psyche, the asteroid is better for
that, but all relationships. And when she goes
into retrograde,
you will find relationships will become more challenging.
And this is really a great time to
kind of do a cost benefit analysis, and
this sounds really clinical of interpersonal relationships.
But Venus is the time to go, is
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this still a relationship that I should have
in my life?
Are we just friends because we've been friends
since high school? Am I just spending lots
of time with you because you are my
sibling and mom wants us to hang out
together and that type of thing? And you
may find, whether it be romantic, whether it
be family, whether it be colleagues, that all
your relationships will become a little bit more
testing.
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Roadnut could be a really great one just
to help ground you in this time to
make sure that you don't get too
erratic or wild and that you can make
these decisions with cost benefit analysis
of relationships
so that you can do it from a
more grounded place. So I'd really encourage you
to wear, carry, meditate with road night during
this time. Now the other thing that she,
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Venus is about is about style and taste.
So if you're thinking about redecorating your home,
if you're gonna change your hairstyle or your
hair color or any of those type of
things, what tends to happen if you do
it during a Venus retrograde,
once she goes direct again after a couple
of months, you're kinda like,
I don't know if the orange couch or
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the bright green mohawk was exactly the right
thing to do. So make the changes now.
Kyle Kyle's like, they're always the right thing
to do.
But any kind of judgment, even we may
fit tend to spend money a bit recklessly
because we're not getting the value from our
we're trying to make ourselves feel better. So
just watch your money and watch your relationships
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during this time. Now this is accentuated
by three minor asteroids that are floating around
as well.
First of all, we have Medusa retrograde.
She is all about learning from our mistakes,
but during her retrograde, bad mistakes may come
back up again. So you're kinda like, oh,
why am I doing this? Why am I
going down that hole? So if you become
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really quite disciplined in love,
in in how you act in a relationship
and how you deal with your money, this
may come back up as well.
Money is a big concern for me at
this time because also an asteroid called money,
m o n y, which is associated with
money, also goes in direct to grade. So
our access to money may go down. And
then Amalthea,
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on the March 4, so two days later,
also goes into retrograde, and she's about infinite
fortune.
So long term wealth and that type of
thing. So this is gonna be a bit
of a challenging time. But remember, every retrograde
offers lessons for us to learn. So we
can, whether it be Mercury retrograde, Venus retrograde,
or one of these weird blooming asteroids that
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I bring up, if you feel yourself tested,
find the right crystals, look to us for
guidance on ones that might work for you
or
follow your own intuition,
and allow mother or earth to support you
as the heavens offer the lessons for you
to become the best version of yourself. So
road night for me, I think, will be
a really great one
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through the March.
Remember, when a planet goes into retrograde,
it's the March
these are all happening. It's not on the
day.
It it's a wave, and it's often like
a splinter going in. It hurts coming in
to retrograde, and it hurts coming out of
retrograde, and it can kind of settle in
between. But lean into the crystal for as
long as you need, and I think Rodena
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is a really useful one to use for
that.
Nicholas, as we kind of wrap up, is
there any kind of
ways you like to you've got a lot
of road knot.
How do you tend to use it a
lot apart from when you're wearing your beads?
So this is one that I wear quite
a bit. I keep a large
Brazilian piece near the bed as well to
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help my mind, body, and heart kinda settle
in for sleep.
I learned
a kind of really interesting,
application for it that's inspired by
gemstone medicine in the Chinese medical tradition, which
involves,
like, an acupuncture point, acupressure point just kind
of above the knob on your wrist on
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the side of the middle or or little
finger.
And if you place
a rhodonite there or gently massage that area
with rhodonite, it's thought to help us
kind of maintain our our jing, our essence,
and is considered an antiaging
treatment.
So things that
develop as we age,
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particularly things affecting the sensory organs, that is
a a a particular use of
rhodonite that's used in
one
one school of,
stone medicine and the Chinese medical arts that's
been in use for
generations.
So that that's another one. But I really
like because for me, it it is so
bodily, so,
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so much about my my visceral physical experience.
Just having it close to me does the
job that I I'm aiming for it to
do.
I I think we've all kind of said
in in one way or another, wearing rhodonite
or having it nearest,
especially around that heart or chest area will
be a really great way to use this
crystal. Well, we could go on talking about
rhodonite for a lot more, but I have
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now got this sudden urge to go and
massage just under my wrist, and I'm gonna
come back next week looking at least ten
years younger, I'm sure.
Thank you very much for joining us on
Crystal Confab. We will be back
next week for another beautiful confab about another
gift of mother earth. Until then, take care
and blessed be.
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