Crystal Cleansing with the Harvest Moon

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Crystal Cleansing with the Harvest Moon

 

Full Moon names date back to Native Americans, of what is now the

northern and eastern United States. The tribes kept track of the

seasons by giving distinctive names to each recurring full Moon.

Their names were applied to the entire month in which each occurred.

There was some variation in the Moon names, but in general, the same

ones were current throughout the Algonquin tribes from New England to

Lake Superior. European settlers followed that custom and created

some of their own names. Since the lunar month is only 29 days long

on the average, the full Moon dates shift from year to year.

 

Full Harvest Moon of September is the full Moon that occurs closest

to the autumn equinox. In two years out of three, the Harvest Moon

comes in September, but in some years it occurs in October. At the

peak of harvest, farmers can work late into the night by the light of

this Moon. Usually the full Moon rises an average of 50 minutes later

each night, but for the few nights around the Harvest Moon, the Moon

seems to rise at nearly the same time each night: just 25 to 30

minutes later across the U.S., and only 10 to 20 minutes later for

much of Canada and Europe. Corn, pumpkins, squash, beans, and wild

rice the chief Indian staples are now ready for gathering.

 

Cleansing Your Crystal

 

Several ways are suggested:

 

*Place it under the light of a full moon/sun for 24 hours.

 

*Bury it in the earth (make sure you mark it!), for 24 hours.

 

*Place in Sea Salt Water. One teaspoon of Sea Salt in a glass bowl in

cool water. Place the crystal in the water. Make sure the crystal is

covered with water. Let this bathe in the water for 24 hours. This is

a wonderful way to rejuvenate the power of your crystal. It washes

away the negative energy it has absorbed and recharges it with the

positive healing energy again. (Note: Some crystals should NOT be

washed/cleansed in salt water/sun for it changes their physical

properties (not their metaphysical properties), they are listed below.

 

Not to be cleansed in Salt Water:

*Calcite

*Carnelian

*Labradorite (Spectrolite)

*Lepidolite

*Moldivate

*Opal

*Turquoise

*Ulexite

 

*Use caution only with the softer Mica and crystaline stones

 

May fade in Sunlight:

*Amethyst

*Celestite

*Opal

*Turquoise

 

 

*Smudge your crystal with sweetgrass, sage, cedar or incense. Pass

the crystal several times through the wafting smoke.

 

*Place your crystal on a large crystal cluster for 24 hours.

 

*Soaking your crystal in flower water with the petals of the flowers

such as rose, honeysuckle, orange blossoms for 24 hours will cleanse

the crystal of all it's negative energy.

 

 

Andrew Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac.

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