While some of us are trying to figure out if Samhain is about ending summer or welcoming winter, the stars are having their own party. And with the full moon making its cameo right before Samhain, expect your crystal collection to either give you profound insights or just sit there looking pretty.

Speaking of Crystals…

Black Obsidian: Perfect for when you want to block out the haters… or just negative energies.
Smoky Quartz: For those late-night chats with Great Aunt Edna’s spirit. She still nags from the afterlife, by the way.
Amethyst: Boosting intuition or just making your meditation corner Instagram-worthy? You decide.

As we pay homage to our ancestors and prepare for the winter ahead, we’re also reminded of the intricate dance between the earthly and the cosmic, and the unseen forces that shape our journey.

Properties: 

• Emotional Release
• Highly Vibrational 
• Transformation 
• Love

Clears, Activates and balances all chakras especially the heart.
Stone of transformation and assisting in big changes
Helps heal old emotional abuse and wounds, especially childhood trauma

Element: Earth, Fire, and Water

From Tiny Rituals:

A favored tool of alchemists and healers back in the day, Malachite has proven its worth over centuries when it comes to imparting wisdom on the body. It’s a stone known to keep blood pressure on the down low and its calming nature certainly helps this. Malachite also works in harmony with the bones, encouraging quick healing for broken bones, torn muscles, and problems with the joints.

Thanks to its strong feminine energy, Malachite is also a stone that lends a hand to period problems like menstrual cramps and making the body flow in better harmony when it comes to labor pains. It has earned its other name as the Midwife Stone.

Malachite is an amazing stone at helping diminish fears, not just in an emotional way but also in helping the body deal with the pounding heart and sweats that can accompany resistance to change and phobias. This is perhaps how Malachite also earned its reputation as being a talisman for travelers, particularly those who fear to step on airplanes or who suffer from travel sickness.

Epidote is very much like a magnet in the sense that it attracts. On top of attracting the energies around you and your environment,  it will also help attract your desires that you programmed into the Epidote. It mainly attracts abundance, prosperity, and creativity, but can also be programmed to assist in finding love and relationships. Epidote does not provide a “free ride”, it very much is a karma-based stone that attracts what you output.

Crystal Pairings

Epidote pairs well with a few stones, one such stone being Moldavite. Epidote accelerates the Moldavite’s transformation process, attracting synchronicities along with it.

Chakra

Epidote is a hearth chakra stone. This stone can be used to open, activate, cleanse, and balance the heart chakra.

Theme

Releasing Negativity
Embracing positive patterns
Attraction of what one emanates

Sources: 
https://thecrystalcouncil.com/crystals/epidote

Planet: 
Jupiter

Sign: 
Sagittarius

Charka: 
Third Eye and Throat
The spiritual meanings of Sodalite are wisdom, clarity of thought, creativity, and cosmic beauty.

Can stimulate lucid dreaming
Provides deep spiritual insight and direction

In addition to these meanings, the deep blue and indigo colors within the Sodalite crystal represent honesty, introspection, and a long, meaningful life.

The mixing of these colors is essential for going inside ourselves and discovering the true nature of our characters, our challenges, and the situations we find ourselves.

The Sodalite stone is a perfect ally and guide when traveling on a shamanic or spiritual journey. It can impart new wisdom and clarity to the visions which you may receive.

In today’s world, Sodalite is an excellent tool for anyone on a path of truth and discovery, particularly of a spiritual nature.

Those who practice divination, such as psychics, empaths, shamans, tarot card readers, and rune readers, can deeply benefit by having Sodalite on their altar.

During times of readings, the Sodalite will bring the wisdom of the universe into its aura. And it will promote feelings of truth, honesty, and gentility.

Together these qualities may produce profound and loving words of wisdom.

Resource: https://meanings.crystalsandjewelry.com/sodalite/

Tigers Eye is a member of the Chalcedony mineral class family. It has a silky luster and an opaque transparency. Tiger’s Eye is commonly a metamorphic rock that comes in shades of reddish brown with iron stripes. The meaning of Tigers Eye is self-confidence and inner strength.

The Origins of Tigers Eye

• Traditionally used to ward off curses
• A protective amulet 
• Once considered more precious than gold
• The power and courage of the queen of the jungle

Physical Healing Properties

• Balances the endocrine system
• Good for seasonal affective disorder

Emotional Healing Properties

• Clears negative energy
• Builds confidence and self-worth

Spiritual Healing Properties

• Clears the root chakra 
• Enhances psychic abilities

Tiger’s Eye is an amazing amulet for dispelling fear, weaving in higher levels of protection, and bringing positive powers of transformation into everyday life. It’s an important stone for those who struggle with feeling grounded and who feel like an extra dose of good luck in life would help lay the foundations for being connected to their own sense of worth and confidence and reaching their fullest potential.

Linked to Mother Earth, the natural world, the ground beneath the feet, and the ancient spirits of protection, the Tiger’s Eye is a worthy choice for those keen to tap into fiercer powers. For those who feel the need to stand a little taller, raise their voice a little louder, and have the self-assurance to stride forwards and step into their own light, the golden orb of this rich and fabled stone can be the perfect talisman to help take you there.

Resource: https://tinyrituals.co/blogs/tiny-rituals/tiger-eye-meaning-and-uses

The vibration of Super Seven links all of humanity, and guides us to help change the vibratory level of the entire planet. It aids in personal ascension by assisting us in developing our psychic gifts, especially psychic knowing, which helps us take the right path for our own spiritual enlightenment and elevation. It aids in the healing of physical, mental, and spiritual diseases.

Super Seven attunes us to our own metaphysical abilities and triggers the development of psychic abilities to further heal on all levels, both in our own lives and for the betterment of the world.

Once we attune to the vibration of Super Seven, we discover a spiritual guide within the crystal, which offers support and assistance for our spiritual journey. This stone bring our soul back in communication with the Divine.

It opens, activates, and heals all seven Chakras of the body and is associated with all twelve signs of the zodiac.

Source: https://sagecrystals.com/blogs/properties/super-seven

Helps one ground themselves to Earth, in addition to opening up the root chakra and solar plexus. It’s the perfect stone for people who constantly find themselves with a wandering mind and an inability to focus. This stone is here to assist in not only clearing your mind but to allow you to be more level headed. 

Smoky Quartz has always been known as one of the strongest and most effective tools for dissolving and transmuting negative energies. Not only will it protect one’s aura and body from negative vibrations, but also change those existing negative energies into something more positive. For example, Smoky Quartz can help one break bad habits and patterns by showing your true inner strength.

Smoky Quartz is one of the most powerful grounding gemstones that help connect you to the energy of the Earth. It helps you to keep your feet on the ground and remain balanced in any situation.

Even the spaciest and scattered individuals can become fully functional and collected by wearing Smoky Quartz jewelry or carrying Smoky Quartz crystals with them wherever they go.

Wear a Smoky Quartz necklace to stimulate and balance all your chakras, specifically focusing on cleansing the root chakra to ground you.

It is grounding in a very uplifting way, providing subtler energy than other grounding gemstones.

Chakras: Root and Solar Plexus

Elements: Earth

Astrology: Smoky Quartz is associated with the sign of Capricorn. It is said to help those who are under the influence of this sign to stay grounded and focused and to help them achieve their goals.

Moonstone is a stone of self-discovery at the highest of levels. Infuse your body with the essence of Mother Earth and become more in touch with your inner spirit than you ever have before. Allow Moonstone’s energy to truly engage your intuitive spirit and pave the way for growth, opportunity, and action. Peach Moonstone shares the same divine feminine energies as other Moonstone varieties, but offers an extra special connection between your heart and personal will (solar plexus). It is a more inward-loving mineral and helps reignite your passion for the things that make you happy in this world. 

Considered a stone of the goddess, Moonstone is associated with the moon, the tides, femininity, and the subconscious. It helps sync the rhythms of lunar energy to the rhythms of a woman’s body. Moonstone helps men become more in-tune with the feminine aspects of their nature. It stimulates the right side of the brain to encourage nonlinear thinking and emotional balance.

Planets:
Moon

Zodiacs:
Cancer
Libra
Scorpio

Elements:
Water
Wind

Phenakite or Phenacite is a beryllium silicate that belongs to the phenakite group of minerals.  It is a rare mineral, especially in well-formed crystals with transparency. It is found in pegmatitic pockets and is associated with gemstones such as topaz, beryl especially emerald, chrysoberyl and smoky quartz. This stone is transparent to translucent with a vitreous lustre.  It occurs as colourless and white but also occurs with tints of yellow, brown and pink.

Phenakite is a stone recommended for advanced crystal workers. When using Phenakite, it is useful to keep a good grounding stone, such as Black Tourmaline, Red Jasper, or Hematite nearby. Phenakite is a true multidimensional healer. Phenacite is a very powerful stone that emanates high vibrations and powerful visionary effects. This supreme stone of the third eye has the ability to allow one to dive deep within themselves. Phenacite is strong enough to affect people who may not normally be sensitive to crystals, as well as groups of people at a time. This powerful mineral opens up inter-dimensional portals during meditation, allowing one to journey inwards on a much more subconscious journey. People working with Phenacite will begin to travel throughout higher realms and bring back information of use on the physical realm. Phenacite activates the light body and is a very strong communication tool. 

When working with Phenacite, its best to place a single piece on your third eye during meditation sessions. Due to Phenacite being as strong as it is, you will begin to feel a tingle or slight sensation almost instantly. Even if you’ve never worked with Phenacite before, this stone occasionally offers immense experiences of telepathy and inner vision. To increase understanding of these visions and their imagery, its recommended to place a piece of Phenacite on your Crown chakra, while also keeping one on your third eye. This links the crown and third eye together, allowing increased strength and understanding. The sensation of the energies pulsating will be unlike anything you’ve ever felt.

Meditating with the use of a Phenacite can be an intense experience, and it may not be the meditative experience that you want to do on a regular basis. 

Although Phenacite is usually always attached to the upper chakras and visionary power, its also a very powerful healer. Physically, it’s a full body healer that stimulates pulsing energy patterns when placed on any part of your skin. On an etheric level, this crystal does a complete cleanse of ones aura and rejuvenates it with pure white light.

This stone will also support you as you download your spiritual knowledge. It will also unlock your higher chakras and help you in aligning yourself with your higher self.

Links:

https://www.healingwithcrystals.net.au/phenakite.html
https://thecrystalcouncil.com/crystals/phenacite