Rocks. Literally.

[mucgwyrt]

I posted this in another forum I'm a member of :fphone , and thought you guys might enjoy it too :)


I was reading another thread, and HedgeWitch & Obsidiana were talking about 'rocks' as opposed to store-bought crystals.[/COLOR]

It's gotten to the point where I can hold crystals for a few moments, feel them warm in my hand, and a tingling spread up my arm. When this first started about 6 months ago it was quite a shock - I didn't know what to make of it, until someone suggested it was the energy vibrations of the crystal which I could feel. For a few weeks I worked with one crystal - a smallish chunk of rose quartz - partly to make sure I wasn't going frooty (!), and partly to hone my senses. The tingling got stronger and stronger until it felt like a mobile phone vibration was going off in my hand!

Then I tried other crystals, and discovered that the 'vibration' of each crystal felt subtley different. Not weaker or stronger, just 'different' - like the difference between a fine wine and a £2.99 french from tesco :D An amethyst point felt incredibley fine, the rose quartz only slightly less so, and obsidian felt what can only be described as 'butch' :lol:

Anyway - the point of this ramble is that I then tried an ordinary everyday bog-basic picked-up-from-the-local-playing-field rock. And it tingled. It's energies were, surprisingly, just as strong as a store bought semi precious crystal - just 'different'. Rougher. More natural. More 'earthy'.

I also tried some beach rock from Hunstanton near Peterborough, and it felt beautiful - the tingling was so subtle that it felt like sea waves washing against shingle.

Since then, I try to use as many rocks I find in britain in my rituals or whatever. I do also use foreign store-bought crystals - you'll never see me without my flourite heart choker, for a start! - but I appreciate now how much energy ordinary every day rocks contain - more potent imo because they connect with the 'brit' in me! - and I try not to overlook them in favour of 'prettier' crystals :)

frith xx

[Wolfscout1]

I have used both for years in healings.
i have felt that the vibrations can also carry messages within. understanding what it is may be best found when holding that stone in meditation. well, that's how i work with them to discover how it will let me use it to the best ability.
feeling the vibrations within each is like the personalities of the stone. Just as in two-leggeds.
JMO

[mucgwyrt]

FAB! I've never met anyone else who uses normal rocks, so :yourock: and a karma poke to you :D :fpoke:

[Wolfscout1]

Thanks , should have gotten back here sooner .
Busy little ant i am. _wiz_

[Seren_]

I used to use some rocks I picked up from a beach - nice and smooth and round - to represent the quarters in my circle (- me, candles and three cats? Not a good combo).

I no longer feel the need to cast circles much, so they are currently decorating the rockery by my pond (the closest thing I have to an altar). Try getting your hands on some petrified wood or a rough hewn fossil, if you haven't already. They're amazing.

[mucgwyrt]

Really? Oo I never thought of that - I'll pinch some of my boyfriend's dad's at Yule. Oo and maybe I could try and pick up some bog oak...

[Tigerlily]

I use natural rocks too! In fact, I have never even used store bought rocks.

[shenanigans]

I feel absolutely no affinity for cut and polished gems and crystals. I'll sooner use a granite rock I found in my driveway. They just feel fresh and unspoiled and closer to the earth. Processed stones just lose a lot of that. I'm glad I'm not the only one who feels that way! My current favorite rocks would be a petrified chunk of tree that I found at the beach, and some other stones I have that have fossilized shells in them, they're wonderful. I also really like lava rocks - straight from the heart of the earth, and so light they can float.

[CzechWoods]

namaste

i use all kinds of rocks. sometimes pebble, sometimes gems, sometimes rough minerals, sometimes polished. it all depends on my mood and the situation. i am glad there are all varieties of uses in this community

[MockingbirdOxygen]

An amethyst point felt incredibley fine, the rose quartz only slightly less so, and obsidian felt what can only be described as 'butch'

lmao! I have a watermelon tourmaline, in comparison to this terminology, I think the blend of rough/fine feelings it evokes would be "bisexual" :bouncysmi

I'm glad you posted this...I started off with storebought crystals, but this summer when I was gardening I started collecting the rocks I found everytime I hoed out there. Hee Hee I said I hoed. Which reminds me of the time when someone called the house while I was doing that, and my little boy told the caller I couldn't come to the phone because I was outside HOEING...

Back to topic...I brought them in and cleansed them, and they've been sitting on the windowsill waiting until I come across more information (like now) to be sure it is okay to use them, too. I mean, I felt so drawn to them, I thought it must be okay, but I was afraid that maybe there was some reason you shouldn't use regular old stones from your own yard. I'm glad to know it's okay. I will still probably never give up my store boughts, but I will beign to incorporate the happiness I found "in my own backyard"!

[mucgwyrt]

:lol: glad my post was of some use to you :smile :hugz:

[CzechWoods]

:fpraise: :fpraise: :fpraise: :fpraise: macha

[Loopaleigh]

I have been collecting what I call "wild" rocks ever since I was a child. Fortunatly for me my family didn't have a problem with my picking up and draging home (sometimes literaly) every rock I took a shine to. I sorta inheirited the tendancy from my parents.

My parents went to Denmark before I was born and somehow managed to bring back a 70 lb. boulder out of Coppenhagen Bay. It's still in the family after 40 yrs. and has been dragged through at least 25 moves, including Iceland and back, Morocco and back, and Puerto Rico and back (my Dad was in the Military).

Somebody actually tried to steal it once out of our yard....but left it behind after getting only a few feet with it....It's really, really, heavy. The rock got put in the house after that and hasn't seen much of the outdoors since.

One day I hope to make it the focal point of a Zen Rock garden in my backyard.

[Hærfest Leah]

Can you tell me how you associate certain every day rocks with with what you need them to work for? I have a piece of lava rock I want to use and one I found in my drive way. I do want to buy some of those long pencil massage rocks tho. Do sea shells work like rocks, I have lots of those, what about coral or the rubble of base rock it grows on, I have that too in my aquarium?

[Loopaleigh]

Can you tell me how you associate certain every day rocks with with what you need them to work for? I have a piece of lava rock I want to use and one I found in my drive way. I do want to buy some of those long pencil massage rocks tho. Do sea shells work like rocks, I have lots of those, what about coral or the rubble of base rock it grows on, I have that too in my aquarium?


I rely alot on intuition when it comes to ordinary everyday rocks I pick up off the ground.

Sometimes I am lucky enough to recognize what I have picked up, like if it's sandstone or quartz or something, but I'm not a geologist so I usually have no idea.

I will literaly hold them in my hands and close my eyes and "feel" what they are good for or what energies they seem to contain. I also might use color, texture or the location I gathered them from to tell me something about them.

Sometimes what I am thinking or feeling at the moment might determine what I use the rock for.

If I known what the rock is I usualy google it to see if I can find any mythology or folklore about it.

As far as shells and coral....yes, they work in a similar way to rocks, with the extra added feature of being associated with the ocean and also with animal life, since coral is really an animal and the shells used to contain mollusks or snails. If you google Cowrie shells, for example, you will get some associations with motherhood and pregnancy.

The base rock coral grows on can be quite varied. Here in Miami it's mostly limestone. Whatever the rock is though I see it as a "foundation" stone. Something that must be present and solid and stable in order for other things to "grow" and thrive. Everything in life must be built on something sturdy so it doesn't collapse.

I hope I've been helpful...and BTW, if you have coral in a freshwater tank, take it out! The calcium and other minerals that erode off it over time is not good for freshwater environments. If you have a saltwater tank, then I am soooo jealous. I can never keep saltwater fish alive and that gets expensive!

[Hærfest Leah]

I hope I've been helpful...and BTW, if you have coral in a freshwater tank, take it out! The calcium and other minerals that erode off it over time is not good for freshwater environments. If you have a saltwater tank, then I am soooo jealous. I can never keep saltwater fish alive and that gets expensive!

Yes its a saltwater tank, It's my hobby. I'm so addicted, I love it.

[Loopaleigh]

Yes its a saltwater tank, It's my hobby. I'm so addicted, I love it.

Yep, aquariums can be totaly addicting! Many years ago I had tanks, but all freshwater (like I said, my track record with saltwater isn't good!)

I had a 60 galleon with Oscars, Acaras and other Ciclads (sp.?) and a 55 with Oranda goldfish....the rest were all just tropical tanks. I got tired of the upkeep, esp. with the feeding of the Oscars.....

Do you actually have live coral in your tank?

[ShamanFeather]

For other wild rocks, hehe I like that term, I use intuition. I think everything has its own personality for example certain objects of mine prefer to be in certain places, surely my fu dogs would get miffed if I put something else other then an offering on their shelves. The point is, even if rose quartz is typically for self love, etc what about that one stone, what if there is a rose quartz, for example, that wants to do more then that for you. Go beyond the call of duty so have you. By listening to our crystals or wild rcoks, hehehe, you can get more in touch with them and make them happier as well. They can be who they want to be.

I used to have some really huge rocks that have ginko leave fossils in them as quarters, my stones tend to migrate all over the house so I'm not sure where they are at the moment, but thats just one way I used wild rocks. ok I gotta give a karma tap for that term. :D

[Loopaleigh]

Well thankyou! I'm glad you like the term!
I have lots of shiny store bought rocks too....but there is something really special about the "wild" ones you pick up outside...with dirt still on them and little bits of moss and stuff. And they smell better. Earthy. :)