July 24, 2024 • 47 mins
In this enchanting episode, we dive deep into the heart of what it means to be a witch, focusing on personal journeys that define modern witchcraft. Then, we embark on the first part of our series on building a crystal toolkit, discussing essential stones and their uses. We'll also guide you through a powerful Litha or Midsummer ritual to celebrate the summer solstice. Finally, we wrap up with a three-card Tarot pull to provide insight and inspiration for the days ahead. Join us for a magical journey full of wisdom and wonder!
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Hey, and welcome to Intel intentional spiritual
living with Brian. This isseason three episode one.
It has been quite a while sinceepisode.
I think it was four in seasontwo before I took a hiatus to
continue growing the businessand so for those of you who do
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not know me, I want to kind ofgo over a little bit about who I
am and what to expect out ofthis podcast if you're just
picking it up in 2024 for seasonfour. My name is Brian Campbell.
I'm the curator and owner ofravens cauldron We have
locations in Delaware andMarysville a into N full service
metaphysical shop. We offertarot readings, a monstrosity
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huge collection of crystals. Ifwe don't have it, we'll get it
anything from the rare thingslike Vivian knight to common
things like Amethyst, andanything in between the smallest
pieces the size of a pinky nailto statement pieces taller than
me. And we have been growing andcurating that business since
2020. And I just feel like theworld is in such a place right
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now that it is time to get backinto this podcast. And so I have
written 10 episodes for seasonthree. And you're about to
experience episode one. I alsohave moved the store in Delaware
for those of you that have notbeen in or don't know, we used
to be at 110 South SanduskyStreet in our cute little
Victorian house where we had thedownstairs occupied and we
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simply were busting at theseams. We love that building. We
own that building and we neededmore product. We wanted to
expand our offerings, thingslike DW home candles and event
space and stuff and we'd simplywere busting at the seams in our
little building. So we moved tohistoric downtown Delaware. And
we now have Escape Rooms cricketcottage escape rooms. In that
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old building. They were upstairswhen the Ravens cauldron was
still there. And now we havefive rooms we're opening a new
one on August 1. It is calledCrabtree Manor death in greed.
It's kind of a haunted VictorianManor where two kooky old ladies
live there who have sincepassed. And their younger mean
sister Constance Merriweather ischallenging you and your group
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to go in there and find the lastwill and testament she hated her
sisters. But she wants theirestate and their money and she
will give you a portion of it ifyou escape. So enough about
that. Cricut cottage escaperooms so intentional, spiritual
living with Brian season three.
What can you expect out of this?
I am a practicing eclecticwitch, if you will. I've been
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into this craft my entire life.
I am a nearly 40 year tarotreader. And so I practice in
this stuff daily. And I love toshare things like I've done in
the other seasons of thispodcast, rituals, tarot
readings, topics aboutwitchcraft, pagan holidays,
crystals, anything that you wantto know to grow your craft, and
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we have different topics witheach episode. So I don't want to
spend too much time on thisintroductory stuff. I don't want
to get to the meat and potatoesof it, if you will. But what you
can expect coming up in thisepisode, we're going to be
talking about witchy stuff. Whatis a witch?
What is witchcraft?
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How do I Brian practice and I'lltalk to specifically why I want
to talk about me. I'm notwanting to want to talk about
myself a lot. But in thisinstance, it's irrelevant. So
the first thing we're going totalk about is witchy topics,
then we're going to have a 10part series for this entire
season on how to build a crystaltoolkit. We often get people
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coming into the store. And theylove the crystals. They love the
look. They love how they feel intheir hand, but they don't
necessarily know what to do withthem and how to get to know
them. And I feel like we'repretty good at that. And so I
want to talk and share someinsights with you. And we're
going to talk about 10 differentcrystals, we're going to talk
about clear quartz, the mastercrystal Master Healer today.
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Then we're going to talk aboutlitho and mid summer, which
began on the 24th of June and inthe first couple days of August,
I'm going to litho slashmidsummer is all about a magical
time, prosperity generatingfortune, that type of thing. And
I've designed a ritual around anavocado seed that I think you're
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going to enjoy. I love plantrituals in the craft. I'm a bit
of a kitchen witchery kind ofperson and I'm really into that.
And so I did one of these withfennel for my very first podcast
episode back in 2020. And I wantto do this one with avocado and
finally we're gonna pull a threecard Tarot reading to kind of
set the stage As you can usethis as twofold, the cards are
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going to be pulled during thispodcast. So you can look at it
as what's going on in the worldright now. It's a general
reading, it's not about me, it'snot about you. It's about
collectively all of us. Or youcan use it to kind of learn the
ins and outs of tarot. Andthat's certainly a huge
undertaking, as we all know. Andso I'm here to share. So with no
further ado, my good friends,enough about me, let's talk
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about fun stuff. Let the showbegin.
Okay, so what is a witch?
What is witchcraft?
These are questions that arevery interesting to many of us
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and are widely misunderstood inthe world. And it bears
repeating a million times. Andso if you've heard me talk about
this in person, on anotherepisode, I apologize. But for
the new folks that are comingaround, and for those of us that
just need to rehear it, that'swhat this is all about. And so
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in our world, and globally,really, which is have a
connotation of Hollywood, womenwith black pointed hats and
green skin and cauldrons withgreen, bubbling water in them,
where they're putting the eye ofa newt and the tail of a rat and
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making potions and doingseemingly harmful things, if you
will. So why are we allattracted to that? Well, we're
not for instance,not everybody is just like, not
everybody likes peanut butterand jelly sandwiches, if you
will. But for me, since a childI love that esoteric, Arcane
stuff that kind of spooky vibe,the the the natural way of
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living, if you will, makingtinctures and potions. And so I
wanted to talk a little bitabout how I practice rather than
answer what is a witch? And whatis witchcraft? I would rather
lead by example, if you will.
And so, for me, for those of youwho have never met me, or I'm
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very unassuming if you were tomeet me, I dress like a dork. I
am 52 years old, six foot twoaverage white man, if you will,
no one would point at me walkingin a crowd of 100 people be like
now that so which right therethat person practice witchcraft.
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That person is into weird shit,if you will excuse my language.
But I'm into all that. Well,I don't know if I would call it
weird. I don't believe in theword weird. And I don't believe
in the word normal. There are nosuch things as our ideas and
ideals that are, I believethrust upon us. But since I was
a child, I've been drawn intoall this stuff. I've always
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liked to go to the crystalstores. I've always like to
collect crystals and see whattheir powers are. I'd like to
practice the most basic alchemy,if you will, as a kitchen, which
I started cooking. For instance,when I was my mother, I should
back up a second my mom, shedrove a school bus. And so I
would have about an hour and ahalf after school when I walk
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home from school school daybefore she got home and I
learned to cook that way. Mostbasic things all the way up into
soups and chilis and hamburgers.
Making a big potato Boylan goofystuff like that. But it's all
alchemical if you will, you'retaking raw materials and your
denaturing them you're changingthem to put them to your good
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use kitchen witchery at itsfinest. So I've always been
attracted to that. I've alwaysbeen attracted to the power of
intention and manifestation andfeel like I have been very very
good at manifestation andbelieving in the power of an
intention so things I how do Ipractice? Do I Do I Do Full Moon
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rituals every month? Am Ichanting to do tattoos and hecka
tea and all these figures thatwe know about? No, no and no, I
lead a very normal life. Andwhen I say normal, I don't
believe in that word, but Idon't do the things you are
people may assume that comes outof a witch when I go home at
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night I watched things likeRuPaul drag race or I love Niecy
Nash's show don't don't forgetthe lyrics, that type of thing I
cook, but I do also honor myspirituality. And so I want to
talk about and it was a longwinded way to get around to this
because I want to really pressupon this point of what a witch
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is, what witchcraft is and whatit isn't, versus what a
Hollywood would have you tobelieve with horror movies and
that type of thing. That issimply an aesthetic and
aesthetic that we collectivelytypically love as craft Partly
practitioners, I love to deck myhouse out in Halloween with
spooky clowns and witches andstuff. But that's just all for
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fun. So, one example of how Ipractice. As you know, we talked
about Cricut cottage escaperooms. And I still have a couple
of places over there that arenot part of the escape room
that's kind of that building hasa bit of haunting to it. And we
will do a whole episode on thaton paranormal stuff that I've
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experienced in that building isthe most active place I've ever
been. And so I practice overthere, I may go into a secret
room in there, and I may placefour crystals to the north,
south, east and west. And I willchange the elemental
representation of those crystalsbased upon direction based upon
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what I'm doing. So I may, forinstance, say, gods and
goddesses of the North and theelement of fire, I'm calling
upon you and this piece ofCarnelian to aid me in getting
passed a test that I'm about totake, for instance, and I would
do a similar thing for South,East and West with different
materials, usually a crystal inthe middle. And then I leave
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them there for 24 hours. It'slike a living crystal grid, if
you will, and then take them outof there and put them back in my
crystal toolkit. These arecrystals that I've worked with
for years and that type ofthing. So that's just a quick
and goofy example, about how Imight practice and I would do
that late at night. Is that doesthat seem spooky? And weird? I
don't think so. It's nodifferent than a prayer. As many
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of you know, and my new peoplethat you don't I was raised in a
very Catholic family. So wheredoes my love for the stump? This
type of thing come from verysimple. I mean, I went to all
the Catholic grade schools, highschools, all the services and
stuff, and to those who haveever been to a Catholic mass. I
mean, there's all kinds ofsmells and bells, if you will,
incense of different kinds,frankincense, myrrh, bells,
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transformations happening andthat type of thing. And so
ritualistic stuff is in myblood. But I don't like the
organized portion of it, if youwill. And so that's kind of how
I went out and went upon my ownpath with crystals and herbs and
manifestation, that type ofthing. So does that make me a
witch? Sure. I guess it does. Isit practicing witchcraft when I
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take crystals and assignelements to them with
directional to try to pullenergy into them to navigate the
path of my own life, if that'switchcraft, and I practice it
all the time. And so that'sreally what I wanted to talk
about, in a nutshell is simplythese are topics that are near
and dear to all of us. And weall have our way of practicing
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and what I want each of you toknow, there's nothing wrong with
it. There's nothing bad aboutit. You're simply just enhancing
your own life with your ownspirituality and your
spirituality really comes fromyour own heart. Yes, it can be
taught to you there are peoplethat can stand up at a pulpit
and tell you, you should dothis, and you need to do that.
And that works for a lot ofhumans, it doesn't work for just
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as many. I like to kind ofnavigate my own path and evolve
with the times and my craft hascertainly changed over the
years. It's not written instone. I'm not reading some
stone tablet to tell me how tolive I'm actually evolving as a
human being with wisdom, on mypath from things that I've
ascertained and grown with, Imean, for instance, one of the
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most powerful things that Ipractice with and many of you
who may be listening to thishave come to our events. We do
candle magic events at ravenscauldron and they're extremely
powerful. I've had testimoniesof people coming in and saying
whatever they were focusing onfor our two hour event, where
we're grinding crystals, weregrinding herbs were oiling a
candle or carving sigils into acandle. We're writing letters of
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intention, we're burning things,to get a seven day candle to
represent your desire for yourown life. And I've had many
testimonials about how powerfuland well that worked. And
that's, that's what we do. Theseare the types of things that
these you can call it paganpractitioner, you can call it a
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Wiccan, if you practice Wicca,you can call it you're just
simply a witch. You can call itwitchcraft, you can call it your
spiritual path. I don't call itanything. I never refer to
myself as a witch to people.
It's not something that I talkabout with my friends all the
time. Everybody knows by comingto my house, there's crystals
everywhere, and I'm into tarotcards and stuff, but that
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doesn't make me any differentthan you. And so I know I keep
rounding back to that samething, that same idea that it's
all the same story. It's beenwritten before but it because it
kind of is and what I love aboutthe craft is that we can
manipulate that craft to workfor us and the only rule that I
have, it's very similar toWicca. I only do things in my
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craft to illuminate The path andenhance my very own life. That's
the rule I have. That is not arule, I'm telling you you need
to live by, I'm not telling youto practice like me, I'm just
telling you what I do. I wouldnever, for instance, my partner,
I would never go do some sort ofritual for him. Now, if he's
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aware of that, and wants me to,because he knows that I know how
to get things done. That's awhole completely different
story. But I don't feel like itis in my bill of rights, if you
will, to manipulate anything inanyone else's life. But mine,
for the love of all things good.
My life is in a constant stateof flux, and its constant need,
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it needs all my attention. Idon't have the energy or the
time to fix somebody else's lifeand who am I to say what you
need to do to make your lifegood. So
that in a nutshell, my friendsis a roundabout way of talking
about what is a witch? What iswitchcraft, and how I
particularly practice, and Iwant you just to reflect on
that. Who are you, and labelsare not necessary. But this is a
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here, here's what I call myself,I don't call myself a witch, if
you will, I'm not offended bythat. And I can be called that I
call myself a spiritual person,plain and simple. I have my own
Brian spirituality path. And I'dlike to share it with all those
that want to know about it. Itdoesn't make me much different
than any one else. All right. Upnext, we're going to talk about
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building a crystal toolkit. AndI'm very excited about this next
section.
Right,let's get into how to build a
crystal toolkit. I talk aboutthis lot in my store in in my
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events. And one of the mostcommon questions that ravens
cauldron that comes up, when youcome in there can be
overwhelming because we probablyhave 165 Different tumbled
crystals. And when I say tumbledcrystals, crystals the size of a
quarter or less, you can carryin your pocket, all different
metaphysical meanings. Plus wehave all these massive crystals
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and POM stones and the list goeson. And people come in
constantly and they say thingsto me, like, I love all this
stuff. But what do I do with it?
And that's a truly validquestion. Because a lot of times
you could just come in and buyall these crystals. And then
they just sit in your house andyeah, sure they're pretty good.
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You dust them and but what doyou do with them? It's kind of
like they become Nitnemknickknacks, if you will or
tchotchkes and no, that's notwhat they are. And so I want to
start with building your crystaltoolkit. So I have a massive
crystal toolkit in my house. Ihave a special kind of carrier
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for them. Most of my ritual typecrystals are palm stone, so
literally the size of a lemonflat and then a lemon but that
kind of palm size. And then Ialso have an inordinate amount
of small crystals tumbles thattype of thing that are with me
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constantly for differentreasons. So right now I just
reached into my pocket as I saidthat and I have a tumbled piece
of Chevron amethyst, why would Icarry a piece of Chevron
Amethyst with me? So last night,I went to see Christie hind and
the pretenders in Akron. Forthose of you that know she
actually is from their legendarysinger legendary band called The
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Pretenders and had to work todayto record this podcast and Dan
is working at the Marysvillestore. And so Chevron Amethyst
is the keep on keeping on stonefor me. What it does is it lets
me be the best version of myselfand through thick and thin when
I'm tired when I'm not feelingit. Not that I'm not feeling
this today. But I knew thatbeing out late staying at a
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hotel driving back from Akronand getting on line to do all
this stuff today was going torequire stamina. And it helps me
to not take things so seriouslylike the tiredness and that type
of thing. And just to keep onkeepin on and that's what I use
Chevron Amethyst for. Whichbrings me to a point about
metaphysical meanings withstones. Only take what you read
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about them. So far, like kind ofwith a grain of salt, if you
will, because it's not it'ssomebody's opinion. I just told
you my opinion of dream Amethystor Chevron amethyst. And what it
does for me, it helps kind ofsustain my energy, not ramping
up to where I'm like a nut jobwhere I'm busting at the seams
and wanting to get things done.
But just to kind of help me sailthrough my day and get things
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done. You may read 1000Different things online. And it
may be completely different maymake zero sense to what I'm
saying. And that's the beauty ofcrystals. There are a few
generally accepted truths withthem. A lot of them have to do
with chakra colors and chakraFor us, but for the most part
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you do with them how you feel,if that makes any sort of sense.
So one of those master truthsone of those universal truths is
with the one we're going tostart with today. When you're
building your crystal kit,everyone needs a nice, high
quality. And when I say highquality, what I mean by high
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quality is not somebody valuedit for expensive price, but a
piece of clear quartz that youcan see into and it feels and
looks right to you. And you onlyit might be the cloudiest, clear
quartz you've ever seen. But youmay see a rainbow in there. And
that rainbow sparks somethingwithin you, it may be worth two
cents, it may or may be worth $2million. And who knows, it
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doesn't matter. None of thevalue stuff on crystals matters.
They're expensive, becausethey're we're paying for people
to go miles into the earth andpull them out for us and risked
their lives and all thesemineral rich areas. And one of
the most mineral rich countriesin the entire world is the
United States. So just know thatif a crystal is expensive, it's
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not because somebody says it'spowerful, it's because of what
it takes to get it or its itsvalue. You know, it might have a
clarity that's never been seenbefore that type of thing. But
clear quartz is known as amaster crystal. And when I say a
master crystal, it's likerosemary is in the herb world.
If you're doing potions andwitchy concoctions with herbs
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and you're missing somethinglike something a little rare,
maybe clean of the meadow, orMullin you can't get a hold of
that type of thing. You canalways substitute Rosemary that
same concept holds true withclear quartz it's known as a
master crystal. So if you're ina hurry needed to throw
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something together real quick toget some manifestation done. And
the only thing you have accessto is clear quartz use it by all
means, but what it does in thecrystal world is it magnifies
the intensity and properties ofother crystals. So when you put
a piece of so for instance, if Iwas doing a crystal grid and I
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it's just five tumbles fivetumbles, I've got a piece of
Carnelian. For vitality, I'vegot a piece of Amethyst for
peace and calm. I've got a pieceof Celestite for psychic ability
and I've got a piece ofadventuring for prosperity. So
I've covered the whole gamut andthis is not a crystal grid I
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would normally do I'm just I'mjust making an example here in
the middle of those fourcrystals, I would lay them
appropriately on my grid wouldbe a piece of clear quartz. So
if you imagine those fourcorners feeding into that clear
quartz and then the clear quartzpushing out, it is amplifying
all of those properties to giveit your best chance to work and
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that's what a master crystalclear quartz does. So that's
part of the part of the dealhere is to learn that but that's
only 50% What I say how to buildyour crystal toolkit, the other
50% is getting to know yourcrystal and it's not all pieces
of clear quartz. It's not allpieces of Amethyst, it's the
ones that speak to you and Iknow that sounds a little woowoo
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and quite honestly my version ofwitchiness is not woowoo I am a
pragmatic logical person. But itis an absolute truism that you
cannot assume that every pieceof Amethyst is the same you've
got to go to your crystal store.
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This is why I'm totally againstbuying a lot of this stuff
online. You got to hold it yougot to get to know it and a
plain and simple I use thisexample in the store all the
time Amethyst does not speak tome. It's okay. But it will it's
just very common to me I havetons of it. I love big Amethyst
geode and that type of thing butAmethyst tumbles and stuff.
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They're supposed to induce calmand make you feel great and help
you sleep and stuff. I don'tfeel that way about them. Purple
is not my favorite color andit's just not a stone I vibe
with but if you were to read allthe documentation on amethyst,
it would say quite the contrary.
So what I tried to say is get toknow your crystals, go to your
crystal store, hold them Go to acorner of your store, any self
respecting store owner willallow you to do this and see how
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you feel. Dig through thosetumbles, take two or three of
them feel how you feelseparately. That's how you get
to know your crystals and thenwhen you bring them home. You
really it's not as if a lot ofpeople get hung up on this
ritualistic thing like I don'thave time to sit for an hour a
day and you know when you'reeating your dinner when you're
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watching your TV show, hold oneof your crystals that you just
bought and see how it makes youfeel. If it makes you feel
inspired. For instance, then Youput that in your vitality
collection, that's one that forme, that would be a carnelian.
It helps, helps me want to getit done, get the job done. But
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start with this clear quartzbecause clear quartz when you
hold, it can have all thatmanifestation feeling of all
these things of energy of peace,all those things, because it's
kind of a master crystal. Butwhat you're looking for with
your first piece of clear quartzthat you're going to use to
amplify everything is just makesure when you hold it that you
feel good, that it feels rightto you. If it doesn't put it
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back and find another one. Thisis how we get to know our, our
crystals. And it's only once weget to know them. And we know
that we can stand them andhandle having them in our life
is it that we start using themfor manifestation and in some of
those meanings and clear quartzis one of the most benign
because it amplifies everythingelse. And so that's the one to
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get to know. And it's always forme a central
crystal and crystal grids andrituals and stuff. It's the
piece in the center, and itpushes out its energy and pulls
in the energies from the others.
And so that exact four piececrystal grid that I talked about
with the earlier with the clearquartz in the middle. So after I
was done charging that crystalgrid, if you will, I would
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actually leave it sit for a fewdays to get the power swirling
and all the energy and then Iwould pull the middle piece of
clear quartz. And that's thepiece I would carry with me for
the duration of what I'm lookingfor leave the other four because
they've been charged and fed offthat energy, leave it in the
room until my wish has beengranted if you will. And then
when you're done, you simply setall five of those crystals when
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it's all said and done in awindowsill on a moon. It doesn't
have to be a full moon, youdon't have to get that
scientific about it. But whereyou can actually see the moon
and it's illuminating, to sitthem right in your windowsill
and they will be charged andready for your use. Again, they
last forever. There are alsobeliefs like you can one use a
crystal and then it's done. Idon't believe that. Now there
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are certain things that I willdo with rituals. And this is
going to be on how to build yourcrystal toolkit but let's just
say that I was doing some monthlong ritual where I was adding
crystals and herbs and all thatstuff. And these weren't
showcased this is wasn't mycrystal toolkit stuff actually
obtained these crystals for aritual, I may want to take all
of that tie it up in Muslim andreturn it to the earth by
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burying it that's completelypermissible. But it's not
because I feel like the crystalshave done their job and now
they're not useful to anyoneelse. It's just giving a gift
back to the earth if you will.
All right friends. So that'swhat I wanted to talk about
there. I just this is thebeginning of how to build a
crystal toolkit and it's themaster crystal with clear
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quartz. So if you haven'tstarted building your toolkit
then yes, start with clearquartz go to your crystal shop,
get to know it and give yourselfa couple of weeks to get to know
it. It could be just a tumble,it could be a palm stone of
clear quartz, anything likethat. And then once you get to
know it, you add it and I reallyencourage you to find a vessel
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to store them in and keep yourcrystals in one place because
you will call upon them to doglorious and huge things in your
life. I have examples afterexample of that, I'm going to
give you one to close off thesuccess this particular session.
Those who have come in the storemay know Laurie Laurie is the
manager of the Delaware storeshe manages all things ravens
called her and I other teammembers are Miss Katie she runs
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Cricut cartridge escape roomsyou might see her at the store
occasionally to on Thursdays andthen we have Tracy and Kim who
work in float between bothstores for customer service for
us. So Lorie long, she's got avery beautiful long red hair. We
do a lot of rituals together.
And so I had set up a new shoponline, I won't get into all
those details yet. But I set upa shop to kind of cater to
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people. We get a lot of peoplethat come into ravens cauldron
that don't necessarily lovemetaphysics, if you will, they
don't love we will studies theyjust love geology, they love the
crystals. They want the showcasepieces, but they don't want
anyone to tell them that that'sgoing to bring them prosperity,
and to each their own look justas much as people judge us for
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believing that I don't have aright to judge people for not
believing that. So I want tomake sure that those have those
people have a welcoming spacewhere they can come by Carnelian
palm stone palm stone becausethey want it for their house
because they love the look. Theydon't necessarily think that
it's a vitality razor, if youwill. Okay, so I set up this
whole new online store for thosepeople and it's kind of a new
brand and that type of thing tokind of get in front of people
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that again, just love geology. Ijust love Earth made things. It
was maybe the second week and Ithink I had sold a couple things
but it was very slow. And I havethe if I need anything in my
life, I should do rituals everyday to enhance my patients
because I have none so we wereover in our secret room at the
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escape room kind of workingtowards getting some prosperity
for this new brand. So I boughtseveral crystals. And we did the
north south east west, I talkedabout assigning in rituals,
assigning elements and directionI really believe in that and
deities to these crystalssitting in these particularly
physically sitting in northsouth east west and doing some
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chanting, and walking in circlesto kind of drum up what I
wanted. And so the underlyingdesire here was I need sales for
my new brand. Universe, I'mbegging you, please give us
sales for our new brands. So Ican get this off the ground and
get cars for me. They don't haveto be huge sales, but I have to
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show people loving and gettinginterest so that I can get
interest and vitality and energyto take the next step and take
it over the moon. So we did thatwe probably spent an hour and a
half on this ritual pack today.
And it was midnight got in thetruck, I was getting ready to
take Laurie off. And as I got inthe truck to leave to Ching
Ching, there was a sale rightthere for my new brand. And it
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was a big sale was like $300.
And so there's just one of amillion examples I can give you
this stuff really does work.
Where we get in our way with itis if we don't believe in it, if
you believe in it, it'll happen.
There's a will there's a waythis is powerful, powerful
stuff. So how to build yourcrystal toolkit, grab yourself a
master crystal of clear quartzand start your toolkit today
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because it's done wonders for mylife. And I know it will you
too. Coming up next we're goingto talk about a litho midsummer
ritual that I think you're justgoing to love
Hey, and welcome to Intel intentional spiritual
living with Brian. This isseason three episode one.
It has been quite a while sinceepisode.
I think it was four in seasontwo before I took a hiatus to
continue growing the businessand so for those of you who do
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not know me, I want to kind ofgo over a little bit about who I
am and what to expect out ofthis podcast if you're just
picking it up in 2024 for seasonfour. My name is Brian Campbell.
I'm the curator and owner ofravens cauldron We have
locations in Delaware andMarysville a into N full service
metaphysical shop. We offertarot readings, a monstrosity
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huge collection of crystals. Ifwe don't have it, we'll get it
anything from the rare thingslike Vivian knight to common
things like Amethyst, andanything in between the smallest
pieces the size of a pinky nailto statement pieces taller than
me. And we have been growing andcurating that business since
2020. And I just feel like theworld is in such a place right
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now that it is time to get backinto this podcast. And so I have
written 10 episodes for seasonthree. And you're about to
experience episode one. I alsohave moved the store in Delaware
for those of you that have notbeen in or don't know, we used
to be at 110 South SanduskyStreet in our cute little
Victorian house where we had thedownstairs occupied and we
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simply were busting at theseams. We love that building. We
own that building and we neededmore product. We wanted to
expand our offerings, thingslike DW home candles and event
space and stuff and we'd simplywere busting at the seams in our
little building. So we moved tohistoric downtown Delaware. And
we now have Escape Rooms cricketcottage escape rooms. In that
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old building. They were upstairswhen the Ravens cauldron was
still there. And now we havefive rooms we're opening a new
one on August 1. It is calledCrabtree Manor death in greed.
It's kind of a haunted VictorianManor where two kooky old ladies
live there who have sincepassed. And their younger mean
sister Constance Merriweather ischallenging you and your group
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to go in there and find the lastwill and testament she hated her
sisters. But she wants theirestate and their money and she
will give you a portion of it ifyou escape. So enough about
that. Cricut cottage escaperooms so intentional, spiritual
living with Brian season three.
What can you expect out of this?
I am a practicing eclecticwitch, if you will. I've been
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into this craft my entire life.
I am a nearly 40 year tarotreader. And so I practice in
this stuff daily. And I love toshare things like I've done in
the other seasons of thispodcast, rituals, tarot
readings, topics aboutwitchcraft, pagan holidays,
crystals, anything that you wantto know to grow your craft, and
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we have different topics witheach episode. So I don't want to
spend too much time on thisintroductory stuff. I don't want
to get to the meat and potatoesof it, if you will. But what you
can expect coming up in thisepisode, we're going to be
talking about witchy stuff. Whatis a witch?
What is witchcraft?
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How do I Brian practice and I'lltalk to specifically why I want
to talk about me. I'm notwanting to want to talk about
myself a lot. But in thisinstance, it's irrelevant. So
the first thing we're going totalk about is witchy topics,
then we're going to have a 10part series for this entire
season on how to build a crystaltoolkit. We often get people
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coming into the store. And theylove the crystals. They love the
look. They love how they feel intheir hand, but they don't
necessarily know what to do withthem and how to get to know
them. And I feel like we'repretty good at that. And so I
want to talk and share someinsights with you. And we're
going to talk about 10 differentcrystals, we're going to talk
about clear quartz, the mastercrystal Master Healer today.
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Then we're going to talk aboutlitho and mid summer, which
began on the 24th of June and inthe first couple days of August,
I'm going to litho slashmidsummer is all about a magical
time, prosperity generatingfortune, that type of thing. And
I've designed a ritual around anavocado seed that I think you're
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going to enjoy. I love plantrituals in the craft. I'm a bit
of a kitchen witchery kind ofperson and I'm really into that.
And so I did one of these withfennel for my very first podcast
episode back in 2020. And I wantto do this one with avocado and
finally we're gonna pull a threecard Tarot reading to kind of
set the stage As you can usethis as twofold, the cards are
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going to be pulled during thispodcast. So you can look at it
as what's going on in the worldright now. It's a general
reading, it's not about me, it'snot about you. It's about
collectively all of us. Or youcan use it to kind of learn the
ins and outs of tarot. Andthat's certainly a huge
undertaking, as we all know. Andso I'm here to share. So with no
further ado, my good friends,enough about me, let's talk
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about fun stuff. Let the showbegin.
Okay, so what is a witch?
What is witchcraft?
These are questions that arevery interesting to many of us
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and are widely misunderstood inthe world. And it bears
repeating a million times. Andso if you've heard me talk about
this in person, on anotherepisode, I apologize. But for
the new folks that are comingaround, and for those of us that
just need to rehear it, that'swhat this is all about. And so
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in our world, and globally,really, which is have a
connotation of Hollywood, womenwith black pointed hats and
green skin and cauldrons withgreen, bubbling water in them,
where they're putting the eye ofa newt and the tail of a rat and
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making potions and doingseemingly harmful things, if you
will. So why are we allattracted to that? Well, we're
not for instance,not everybody is just like, not
everybody likes peanut butterand jelly sandwiches, if you
will. But for me, since a childI love that esoteric, Arcane
stuff that kind of spooky vibe,the the the natural way of
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living, if you will, makingtinctures and potions. And so I
wanted to talk a little bitabout how I practice rather than
answer what is a witch? And whatis witchcraft? I would rather
lead by example, if you will.
And so, for me, for those of youwho have never met me, or I'm
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very unassuming if you were tomeet me, I dress like a dork. I
am 52 years old, six foot twoaverage white man, if you will,
no one would point at me walkingin a crowd of 100 people be like
now that so which right therethat person practice witchcraft.
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That person is into weird shit,if you will excuse my language.
But I'm into all that. Well,I don't know if I would call it
weird. I don't believe in theword weird. And I don't believe
in the word normal. There are nosuch things as our ideas and
ideals that are, I believethrust upon us. But since I was
a child, I've been drawn intoall this stuff. I've always
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liked to go to the crystalstores. I've always like to
collect crystals and see whattheir powers are. I'd like to
practice the most basic alchemy,if you will, as a kitchen, which
I started cooking. For instance,when I was my mother, I should
back up a second my mom, shedrove a school bus. And so I
would have about an hour and ahalf after school when I walk
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home from school school daybefore she got home and I
learned to cook that way. Mostbasic things all the way up into
soups and chilis and hamburgers.
Making a big potato Boylan goofystuff like that. But it's all
alchemical if you will, you'retaking raw materials and your
denaturing them you're changingthem to put them to your good
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use kitchen witchery at itsfinest. So I've always been
attracted to that. I've alwaysbeen attracted to the power of
intention and manifestation andfeel like I have been very very
good at manifestation andbelieving in the power of an
intention so things I how do Ipractice? Do I Do I Do Full Moon
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rituals every month? Am Ichanting to do tattoos and hecka
tea and all these figures thatwe know about? No, no and no, I
lead a very normal life. Andwhen I say normal, I don't
believe in that word, but Idon't do the things you are
people may assume that comes outof a witch when I go home at
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night I watched things likeRuPaul drag race or I love Niecy
Nash's show don't don't forgetthe lyrics, that type of thing I
cook, but I do also honor myspirituality. And so I want to
talk about and it was a longwinded way to get around to this
because I want to really pressupon this point of what a witch
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is, what witchcraft is and whatit isn't, versus what a
Hollywood would have you tobelieve with horror movies and
that type of thing. That issimply an aesthetic and
aesthetic that we collectivelytypically love as craft Partly
practitioners, I love to deck myhouse out in Halloween with
spooky clowns and witches andstuff. But that's just all for
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fun. So, one example of how Ipractice. As you know, we talked
about Cricut cottage escaperooms. And I still have a couple
of places over there that arenot part of the escape room
that's kind of that building hasa bit of haunting to it. And we
will do a whole episode on thaton paranormal stuff that I've
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experienced in that building isthe most active place I've ever
been. And so I practice overthere, I may go into a secret
room in there, and I may placefour crystals to the north,
south, east and west. And I willchange the elemental
representation of those crystalsbased upon direction based upon
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what I'm doing. So I may, forinstance, say, gods and
goddesses of the North and theelement of fire, I'm calling
upon you and this piece ofCarnelian to aid me in getting
passed a test that I'm about totake, for instance, and I would
do a similar thing for South,East and West with different
materials, usually a crystal inthe middle. And then I leave
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them there for 24 hours. It'slike a living crystal grid, if
you will, and then take them outof there and put them back in my
crystal toolkit. These arecrystals that I've worked with
for years and that type ofthing. So that's just a quick
and goofy example, about how Imight practice and I would do
that late at night. Is that doesthat seem spooky? And weird? I
don't think so. It's nodifferent than a prayer. As many
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of you know, and my new peoplethat you don't I was raised in a
very Catholic family. So wheredoes my love for the stump? This
type of thing come from verysimple. I mean, I went to all
the Catholic grade schools, highschools, all the services and
stuff, and to those who haveever been to a Catholic mass. I
mean, there's all kinds ofsmells and bells, if you will,
incense of different kinds,frankincense, myrrh, bells,
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transformations happening andthat type of thing. And so
ritualistic stuff is in myblood. But I don't like the
organized portion of it, if youwill. And so that's kind of how
I went out and went upon my ownpath with crystals and herbs and
manifestation, that type ofthing. So does that make me a
witch? Sure. I guess it does. Isit practicing witchcraft when I
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take crystals and assignelements to them with
directional to try to pullenergy into them to navigate the
path of my own life, if that'switchcraft, and I practice it
all the time. And so that'sreally what I wanted to talk
about, in a nutshell is simplythese are topics that are near
and dear to all of us. And weall have our way of practicing
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and what I want each of you toknow, there's nothing wrong with
it. There's nothing bad aboutit. You're simply just enhancing
your own life with your ownspirituality and your
spirituality really comes fromyour own heart. Yes, it can be
taught to you there are peoplethat can stand up at a pulpit
and tell you, you should dothis, and you need to do that.
And that works for a lot ofhumans, it doesn't work for just
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as many. I like to kind ofnavigate my own path and evolve
with the times and my craft hascertainly changed over the
years. It's not written instone. I'm not reading some
stone tablet to tell me how tolive I'm actually evolving as a
human being with wisdom, on mypath from things that I've
ascertained and grown with, Imean, for instance, one of the
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most powerful things that Ipractice with and many of you
who may be listening to thishave come to our events. We do
candle magic events at ravenscauldron and they're extremely
powerful. I've had testimoniesof people coming in and saying
whatever they were focusing onfor our two hour event, where
we're grinding crystals, weregrinding herbs were oiling a
candle or carving sigils into acandle. We're writing letters of
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intention, we're burning things,to get a seven day candle to
represent your desire for yourown life. And I've had many
testimonials about how powerfuland well that worked. And
that's, that's what we do. Theseare the types of things that
these you can call it paganpractitioner, you can call it a
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Wiccan, if you practice Wicca,you can call it you're just
simply a witch. You can call itwitchcraft, you can call it your
spiritual path. I don't call itanything. I never refer to
myself as a witch to people.
It's not something that I talkabout with my friends all the
time. Everybody knows by comingto my house, there's crystals
everywhere, and I'm into tarotcards and stuff, but that
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doesn't make me any differentthan you. And so I know I keep
rounding back to that samething, that same idea that it's
all the same story. It's beenwritten before but it because it
kind of is and what I love aboutthe craft is that we can
manipulate that craft to workfor us and the only rule that I
have, it's very similar toWicca. I only do things in my
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craft to illuminate The path andenhance my very own life. That's
the rule I have. That is not arule, I'm telling you you need
to live by, I'm not telling youto practice like me, I'm just
telling you what I do. I wouldnever, for instance, my partner,
I would never go do some sort ofritual for him. Now, if he's
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aware of that, and wants me to,because he knows that I know how
to get things done. That's awhole completely different
story. But I don't feel like itis in my bill of rights, if you
will, to manipulate anything inanyone else's life. But mine,
for the love of all things good.
My life is in a constant stateof flux, and its constant need,
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it needs all my attention. Idon't have the energy or the
time to fix somebody else's lifeand who am I to say what you
need to do to make your lifegood. So
that in a nutshell, my friendsis a roundabout way of talking
about what is a witch? What iswitchcraft, and how I
particularly practice, and Iwant you just to reflect on
that. Who are you, and labelsare not necessary. But this is a
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here, here's what I call myself,I don't call myself a witch, if
you will, I'm not offended bythat. And I can be called that I
call myself a spiritual person,plain and simple. I have my own
Brian spirituality path. And I'dlike to share it with all those
that want to know about it. Itdoesn't make me much different
than any one else. All right. Upnext, we're going to talk about
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building a crystal toolkit. AndI'm very excited about this next
section.
Right,let's get into how to build a
crystal toolkit. I talk aboutthis lot in my store in in my
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events. And one of the mostcommon questions that ravens
cauldron that comes up, when youcome in there can be
overwhelming because we probablyhave 165 Different tumbled
crystals. And when I say tumbledcrystals, crystals the size of a
quarter or less, you can carryin your pocket, all different
metaphysical meanings. Plus wehave all these massive crystals
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and POM stones and the list goeson. And people come in
constantly and they say thingsto me, like, I love all this
stuff. But what do I do with it?
And that's a truly validquestion. Because a lot of times
you could just come in and buyall these crystals. And then
they just sit in your house andyeah, sure they're pretty good.
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You dust them and but what doyou do with them? It's kind of
like they become Nitnemknickknacks, if you will or
tchotchkes and no, that's notwhat they are. And so I want to
start with building your crystaltoolkit. So I have a massive
crystal toolkit in my house. Ihave a special kind of carrier
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for them. Most of my ritual typecrystals are palm stone, so
literally the size of a lemonflat and then a lemon but that
kind of palm size. And then Ialso have an inordinate amount
of small crystals tumbles thattype of thing that are with me
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constantly for differentreasons. So right now I just
reached into my pocket as I saidthat and I have a tumbled piece
of Chevron amethyst, why would Icarry a piece of Chevron
Amethyst with me? So last night,I went to see Christie hind and
the pretenders in Akron. Forthose of you that know she
actually is from their legendarysinger legendary band called The
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Pretenders and had to work todayto record this podcast and Dan
is working at the Marysvillestore. And so Chevron Amethyst
is the keep on keeping on stonefor me. What it does is it lets
me be the best version of myselfand through thick and thin when
I'm tired when I'm not feelingit. Not that I'm not feeling
this today. But I knew thatbeing out late staying at a
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hotel driving back from Akronand getting on line to do all
this stuff today was going torequire stamina. And it helps me
to not take things so seriouslylike the tiredness and that type
of thing. And just to keep onkeepin on and that's what I use
Chevron Amethyst for. Whichbrings me to a point about
metaphysical meanings withstones. Only take what you read
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about them. So far, like kind ofwith a grain of salt, if you
will, because it's not it'ssomebody's opinion. I just told
you my opinion of dream Amethystor Chevron amethyst. And what it
does for me, it helps kind ofsustain my energy, not ramping
up to where I'm like a nut jobwhere I'm busting at the seams
and wanting to get things done.
But just to kind of help me sailthrough my day and get things
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done. You may read 1000Different things online. And it
may be completely different maymake zero sense to what I'm
saying. And that's the beauty ofcrystals. There are a few
generally accepted truths withthem. A lot of them have to do
with chakra colors and chakraFor us, but for the most part
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you do with them how you feel,if that makes any sort of sense.
So one of those master truthsone of those universal truths is
with the one we're going tostart with today. When you're
building your crystal kit,everyone needs a nice, high
quality. And when I say highquality, what I mean by high
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quality is not somebody valuedit for expensive price, but a
piece of clear quartz that youcan see into and it feels and
looks right to you. And you onlyit might be the cloudiest, clear
quartz you've ever seen. But youmay see a rainbow in there. And
that rainbow sparks somethingwithin you, it may be worth two
cents, it may or may be worth $2million. And who knows, it
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doesn't matter. None of thevalue stuff on crystals matters.
They're expensive, becausethey're we're paying for people
to go miles into the earth andpull them out for us and risked
their lives and all thesemineral rich areas. And one of
the most mineral rich countriesin the entire world is the
United States. So just know thatif a crystal is expensive, it's
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not because somebody says it'spowerful, it's because of what
it takes to get it or its itsvalue. You know, it might have a
clarity that's never been seenbefore that type of thing. But
clear quartz is known as amaster crystal. And when I say a
master crystal, it's likerosemary is in the herb world.
If you're doing potions andwitchy concoctions with herbs
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and you're missing somethinglike something a little rare,
maybe clean of the meadow, orMullin you can't get a hold of
that type of thing. You canalways substitute Rosemary that
same concept holds true withclear quartz it's known as a
master crystal. So if you're ina hurry needed to throw
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something together real quick toget some manifestation done. And
the only thing you have accessto is clear quartz use it by all
means, but what it does in thecrystal world is it magnifies
the intensity and properties ofother crystals. So when you put
a piece of so for instance, if Iwas doing a crystal grid and I
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it's just five tumbles fivetumbles, I've got a piece of
Carnelian. For vitality, I'vegot a piece of Amethyst for
peace and calm. I've got a pieceof Celestite for psychic ability
and I've got a piece ofadventuring for prosperity. So
I've covered the whole gamut andthis is not a crystal grid I
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would normally do I'm just I'mjust making an example here in
the middle of those fourcrystals, I would lay them
appropriately on my grid wouldbe a piece of clear quartz. So
if you imagine those fourcorners feeding into that clear
quartz and then the clear quartzpushing out, it is amplifying
all of those properties to giveit your best chance to work and
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that's what a master crystalclear quartz does. So that's
part of the part of the dealhere is to learn that but that's
only 50% What I say how to buildyour crystal toolkit, the other
50% is getting to know yourcrystal and it's not all pieces
of clear quartz. It's not allpieces of Amethyst, it's the
ones that speak to you and Iknow that sounds a little woowoo
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and quite honestly my version ofwitchiness is not woowoo I am a
pragmatic logical person. But itis an absolute truism that you
cannot assume that every pieceof Amethyst is the same you've
got to go to your crystal store.
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This is why I'm totally againstbuying a lot of this stuff
online. You got to hold it yougot to get to know it and a
plain and simple I use thisexample in the store all the
time Amethyst does not speak tome. It's okay. But it will it's
just very common to me I havetons of it. I love big Amethyst
geode and that type of thing butAmethyst tumbles and stuff.
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They're supposed to induce calmand make you feel great and help
you sleep and stuff. I don'tfeel that way about them. Purple
is not my favorite color andit's just not a stone I vibe
with but if you were to read allthe documentation on amethyst,
it would say quite the contrary.
So what I tried to say is get toknow your crystals, go to your
crystal store, hold them Go to acorner of your store, any self
respecting store owner willallow you to do this and see how
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you feel. Dig through thosetumbles, take two or three of
them feel how you feelseparately. That's how you get
to know your crystals and thenwhen you bring them home. You
really it's not as if a lot ofpeople get hung up on this
ritualistic thing like I don'thave time to sit for an hour a
day and you know when you'reeating your dinner when you're
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watching your TV show, hold oneof your crystals that you just
bought and see how it makes youfeel. If it makes you feel
inspired. For instance, then Youput that in your vitality
collection, that's one that forme, that would be a carnelian.
It helps, helps me want to getit done, get the job done. But
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start with this clear quartzbecause clear quartz when you
hold, it can have all thatmanifestation feeling of all
these things of energy of peace,all those things, because it's
kind of a master crystal. Butwhat you're looking for with
your first piece of clear quartzthat you're going to use to
amplify everything is just makesure when you hold it that you
feel good, that it feels rightto you. If it doesn't put it
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back and find another one. Thisis how we get to know our, our
crystals. And it's only once weget to know them. And we know
that we can stand them andhandle having them in our life
is it that we start using themfor manifestation and in some of
those meanings and clear quartzis one of the most benign
because it amplifies everythingelse. And so that's the one to
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get to know. And it's always forme a central
crystal and crystal grids andrituals and stuff. It's the
piece in the center, and itpushes out its energy and pulls
in the energies from the others.
And so that exact four piececrystal grid that I talked about
with the earlier with the clearquartz in the middle. So after I
was done charging that crystalgrid, if you will, I would
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actually leave it sit for a fewdays to get the power swirling
and all the energy and then Iwould pull the middle piece of
clear quartz. And that's thepiece I would carry with me for
the duration of what I'm lookingfor leave the other four because
they've been charged and fed offthat energy, leave it in the
room until my wish has beengranted if you will. And then
when you're done, you simply setall five of those crystals when
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it's all said and done in awindowsill on a moon. It doesn't
have to be a full moon, youdon't have to get that
scientific about it. But whereyou can actually see the moon
and it's illuminating, to sitthem right in your windowsill
and they will be charged andready for your use. Again, they
last forever. There are alsobeliefs like you can one use a
crystal and then it's done. Idon't believe that. Now there
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are certain things that I willdo with rituals. And this is
going to be on how to build yourcrystal toolkit but let's just
say that I was doing some monthlong ritual where I was adding
crystals and herbs and all thatstuff. And these weren't
showcased this is wasn't mycrystal toolkit stuff actually
obtained these crystals for aritual, I may want to take all
of that tie it up in Muslim andreturn it to the earth by
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burying it that's completelypermissible. But it's not
because I feel like the crystalshave done their job and now
they're not useful to anyoneelse. It's just giving a gift
back to the earth if you will.
All right friends. So that'swhat I wanted to talk about
there. I just this is thebeginning of how to build a
crystal toolkit and it's themaster crystal with clear
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quartz. So if you haven'tstarted building your toolkit
then yes, start with clearquartz go to your crystal shop,
get to know it and give yourselfa couple of weeks to get to know
it. It could be just a tumble,it could be a palm stone of
clear quartz, anything likethat. And then once you get to
know it, you add it and I reallyencourage you to find a vessel
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to store them in and keep yourcrystals in one place because
you will call upon them to doglorious and huge things in your
life. I have examples afterexample of that, I'm going to
give you one to close off thesuccess this particular session.
Those who have come in the storemay know Laurie Laurie is the
manager of the Delaware storeshe manages all things ravens
called her and I other teammembers are Miss Katie she runs
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Cricut cartridge escape roomsyou might see her at the store
occasionally to on Thursdays andthen we have Tracy and Kim who
work in float between bothstores for customer service for
us. So Lorie long, she's got avery beautiful long red hair. We
do a lot of rituals together.
And so I had set up a new shoponline, I won't get into all
those details yet. But I set upa shop to kind of cater to
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people. We get a lot of peoplethat come into ravens cauldron
that don't necessarily lovemetaphysics, if you will, they
don't love we will studies theyjust love geology, they love the
crystals. They want the showcasepieces, but they don't want
anyone to tell them that that'sgoing to bring them prosperity,
and to each their own look justas much as people judge us for
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believing that I don't have aright to judge people for not
believing that. So I want tomake sure that those have those
people have a welcoming spacewhere they can come by Carnelian
palm stone palm stone becausethey want it for their house
because they love the look. Theydon't necessarily think that
it's a vitality razor, if youwill. Okay, so I set up this
whole new online store for thosepeople and it's kind of a new
brand and that type of thing tokind of get in front of people
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that again, just love geology. Ijust love Earth made things. It
was maybe the second week and Ithink I had sold a couple things
but it was very slow. And I havethe if I need anything in my
life, I should do rituals everyday to enhance my patients
because I have none so we wereover in our secret room at the
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escape room kind of workingtowards getting some prosperity
for this new brand. So I boughtseveral crystals. And we did the
north south east west, I talkedabout assigning in rituals,
assigning elements and directionI really believe in that and
deities to these crystalssitting in these particularly
physically sitting in northsouth east west and doing some
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chanting, and walking in circlesto kind of drum up what I
wanted. And so the underlyingdesire here was I need sales for
my new brand. Universe, I'mbegging you, please give us
sales for our new brands. So Ican get this off the ground and
get cars for me. They don't haveto be huge sales, but I have to
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show people loving and gettinginterest so that I can get
interest and vitality and energyto take the next step and take
it over the moon. So we did thatwe probably spent an hour and a
half on this ritual pack today.
And it was midnight got in thetruck, I was getting ready to
take Laurie off. And as I got inthe truck to leave to Ching
Ching, there was a sale rightthere for my new brand. And it
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was a big sale was like $300.
And so there's just one of amillion examples I can give you
this stuff really does work.
Where we get in our way with itis if we don't believe in it, if
you believe in it, it'll happen.
There's a will there's a waythis is powerful, powerful
stuff. So how to build yourcrystal toolkit, grab yourself a
master crystal of clear quartzand start your toolkit today
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because it's done wonders for mylife. And I know it will you
too. Coming up next we're goingto talk about a litho midsummer
ritual that I think you're justgoing to love
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