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Carol says, "I purchased these little crystal growing kits from Michael's craft
store.
What do you think about these?" You know what, Carol? I just got one for myself while I
was at the Tucson show
and it was like really super cheap. It was like $4 or $5.
But I'm excited to try it out and use it. Normally you grow alum crystals with
those
and they're fairly easy to use as long as you follow the directions really closely.
I think it's a fun experiment to do just to learn about
how crystals grow and how they structure themselves. You know, there are seven
different crystal systems in the mineral kingdom. So
there's trigonal (some people pronounce it TRYgonal),
there's hexagonal, there's
triclinic and monoclinic and there's all of these different formations that crystals
grow in.
This does affect the energy that each crystal has. So each system
you'll see - all the crystals in that system will share
similar attributes. For instance, cubic crystals, so crystals that grow into
cubes,
like Pyrite and Galena, those are usually fairly
grounding. And what's really interesting about that is a cube is basically just
like a three-dimensional square, right?
And a square has been used for the symbol to represent the
earth for thousands of years in all different traditions and cultures.
So it's really interesting that these crystals that form into cubes
actually have this grounding energy or this connection with the earth.
So I think that those crystal growing kits that you can pick up at different places
are actually really cool because they can teach you a lot about how the
crystals structure themselves, and its fun to
be creating something like that. Because the earth creates, you know, all
these beautiful things all
the time that just amaze me. I can't even believe that they come out of the earth
like that sometimes. So to actually do that yourself
feels really cool.