I win the Oscar for longest title!!! Thank you so much, it's such an honour I'd like to thank Systemic Collapse, Capitalism, Attention Deficit Disorder, Discombobulation and Circumlocution personally for all they've brought to my life. Now back to that first thing, Crystals and Energies, I bet that you didn't know crystals held different energies did you? Or maybe you handwaved or poo-pooed it thinking it was for those “wacky crystal hippies” that were always banging on about how they needed to realign their chakras or clear their energy or something. In fact, everything is vibrating at some sort of frequency, we know from science that in order to form a solid mass atoms need to move quickly/vibrate and any time you have a vibration you have a frequency and being that we are all different we tend to vibrate differently so too do crystals.
In point of fact here's what a rose sounds like musically….. All this to say that crystals are rocks that come from the Earth and the Earth is a living breathing thing (that we are most unfortunately killing at a disturbingly rapid pace) and as such that means these rocks, crystals resins are and hold energy and different energy depending on where they originate, how close or far they are from Earth's core what's around them as they heat up or cool down, how long they heat up and cool down etcetera etcetera. At any rate there are tons of books out there that can help you break down what each stone/crystal/resin's primary functions are, 1001 Crystals: The Complete Book of Crystals for Every Purpose by Cassandra Eason is one of them and there are others that focus on Crystal Healing: meaning how you can use and work with crystals to supplement your own healing process.
The funny thing about this is so many of us and our Ancestors were already doing this long ago before Capitalism reared its ugly head and declared anything of the Earth not of value and anything and everything man made, like money, (literally printed paper ironically which originated from trees in the Earth) as of the utmost value to the point where we are supposed to sacrifice our mental, physical and social health to get more and more of the stuff while suffocating in a world of pointlessness, exhaustion, burnout, debt, financial obligations and terror that keeps the capitalistic wheel a-spin-spin-spinning.
Any time someone implies that Chakras, Crystals or Astrology are silly endeavours tell them first, that's racist. The concept of Chakras comes from Eastern Philosophy which has been around a heck of a lot longer than North America, (two fake countries created on the genocide of Indigenous Children and Stolen Land) second Crystals and Astrology are what so many of our Ancestors have been following and using for years. In fact much of the world revolves around astrology, systems were created to follow when the Sun rose and set, where the Moon and Stars and Planets were in the sky would inform people about crops, seasons, weather changes etc. People were connected to the Earth because people knew that we had a symbiotic relationship and we could only exist and thrive insofar as the Earth herself was thriving. Capitalism's job was to disconnect you from that, to make you forget that you need trees to live and that they are far more fundamental in your life than a Taylor Swift concert.
Capitalism wants you to believe that you are an island entirely without need for anyone or anything else, it wants you to believe that Israel's destruction of Gaza has nothing to do with you, that children being forced into the mines for your phones and tech in the Congo is not your problem or that you personally can't do anything to fix it.
None of this is true, at all and I'm not trying to make you feel like shit by saying it, although I suspect if your heart is beating and your eyes are somewhat open you probably already do feel pretty shitty. If it all feels overwhelming to take it all in then just know that to start the first step is and will always be connection and community, going to a local coffee shop instead of Starbucks (who btw is in partnership with ElBit Systems who are currently bombing at least 4 countries) taking an interest in Gardening or Pottery or Painting or Witchcraft or Crystals by going to your local library or local bookstore instead of treading hard on the planet by ordering from Amazon and feeding a billionaire even more money than he already has. Checking in on your friends and stepping outside of your nuclear family to make connections within your local community, looking around and seeing where you might be of service, where your unique skills might make things a bit better for someone else and applying them.
You are not trying to change the WHOLE WORLD, you are just trying to make a tiny little dent in your corner of it and you do that by connecting with other people around you. You don't need to connect with the WHOLE WORLD, just your tiny corner of it and the ripple effect is that which you can never fully measure. Coffee walks in nature wearing your Green Aventurine necklace that your friend Emma made for you from tools at her local crafting shop, days feeding the birds at the beach or in the park, nights stargazing trying to identify the planets, medtiation with a piece of Rose Quartz to work on your self love. Do what you need to do to remind yourself that you are here, on this living, breathing planet for a finite amount of time and it's NOT to provide value for shareholders.
Joy
(I talk about and post this interview a lot because I feel like it just gets to what the true point is of being a human being, this is the stuff that makes you want to get up in the morning, the creativity, the expression the longing for knowledge, to be seen, the be known and to be understood)