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Gemstones Throughout the Home

 

Stones and crystals can strongly affect the way your home feels, and

the way others feel when inside. Following are a few suggestions to

placing gemstones around the home to make it more comfortable and

inviting.

 

The Front Door and the Hall

A good way to start in your home is with the entrance. This is where

most things enter your home, be they friends, the family pet, flies

and spiders, and negative energy. Keeping a Dragon's Eye (like a red

Tiger's eye) near the front entrance acts as a powerful talismanic

guardian to your home. It might even keep away salesmen, or those

pesky Jehovah's Witnesses who don't quite get that you want to be

left alone (you'd be surprised how often they'll return to your

home). If your front door opens into a room instead of a small front

hall, consider placing a set of floor-to-ceiling shelves near the

door. This not only provides an excellent place to display your

stones, but it lets the energy circulate through your home, rather

than shooting straight through. Also, keep a crystal mobile or wind

chime near the front door to further encourage circulation. Try to

find one in a spiral pattern.

 

Hallways are, in most houses, like dark tunnels. Try lightening yours

up with a shelf displaying your more precious gemstones. Choose

stones to warm and brighten the atmosphere. Bright colours like

sulfur or opal, or reflective stones like hematite, can add interest

to your hallway. You could try a narrow hall table instead, hanging a

mirror over it and keeping a dish of polished gemstones on it.

Staircases are equally dark most of the day (unless you're fortunate

enough to have a skylight overhead). Hang a mirror in the stairwell,

and suspend a crystal mobile in front of it. This provides interest

without distraction.

 

Living Room, Den, Whatever You Call It...

If you're looking for a family member, this is usually the first room

to check. It's the room with the most comfortable couch and the most

worn carpet at the doorways. Keep a rock crystal (natural or cut,

preferably) in a place where the sun can shine through it. Even

hanging a small one in a sunny window can add interest and beauty.

Try keeping a dish of egg-shaped stones in a glass dish to encourage

the circulation of energy. Use warm colours like amber and carnelian

in a north-facing room, and cool colours like malachite and black

opal in a south-facing room. If your room faces east or west, try

white or clear stones, so the morning or afternoon sun can shine

through them.

 

Try creating a landscape centerpiece to add interest to your room.

Take a shallow dish and fill it with sand. Put a bowl of water to one

side and drop in some red stones, such as carnelian, ruby, or

dragon's eye. At the opposite side, place a black stone, about the

size of the bowl. Now you have a mountain and a pond. Place a white

stone near the bowl and a blue stone opposite that, near the black

stone. Draw fine lines in the sand, or sprinkle with clear stones or

marbles across the surface. It certainly adds a conversation piece to

the room.

 

The Kitchen

Kitchen windowsills are one of the best places to display your

stones. Clear stones aren't really recommended for a kitchen, since

grease from cooking can muck them up pretty quick. The best gem to

have in the kitchen is salt. Keep a jar of sea salt on display. It is

a reminder of life, symbolizing purity, cleanliness, and human worth.

Green stones are also a nice sight in the kitchen, and add a

comforting atmosphere. Hang a piece of watermelon tourmaline in the

window to add colour when the sun shines through. Other nice stones

are moss agate and serpentine, as well as pink stones such as rose

quartz.

 

The Dining Room

Once again, the crystal mobile makes an appearance. Hanging one over

the dining table can help to circulate energy around the table.

Decorating with gemstones is dependent on the occasion. Rose red and

turquoise are good colours for a romantic setting, hematite and

serpentine are good for an informal lunch, tiger's eye and citrine

are excellent for a business lunch. Each combination of stones adds

to the atmosphere of the meal. Keep a dish of crystals in the centre

of the table. Non-porous stones in a dish of water is a nice touch.

My suggestion is to take a deep glass bowl, stick a bunch of

translucent and transparent crystals in the bottom, fill with water

and add some floating candles. For a more romantic setting, you could

also float rose or jasmine petals in the water. Opal is a beautiful

stone to display at the dining table. It is wonderful to look at, and

adds richness to the setting.

 

The Bedroom

Gemstones and crystals can create a wonderful atmosphere in a room,

no matter what mood you're looking for. You can opt for beautiful

colour and shape, or you can choose your stones based on

functionality. Keeping a display of gems on your bedside table that

promote sleep is one suggestion. These include such stones as

hematite, to aid in deep sleep, moss agate to ward off nightmares, or

amber to help you wake up in the morning. To create an atmosphere of

intimacy, keep darker purples, reds, and blacks on display. Stones

such as lapis lazuli, obsidian, sardonyx, or amethyst. Spheres and

egg shapes are ideal, since they symbolize fertility and femininity.

 

Kids' Bedrooms

A lot of kids are fascinated by stones. Learned how to say 'stone'

because of my collection. There's different theories on buying stones

for children. Some say you should buy uncut, natural stones, so they

learn to appreciate their natural beauty. Unfortunately this doesn't

let them touch the stones and physically experience them. I say a

healthy mix of polished and natural is good. You can keep the natural

ones on display on a high shelf, and let them play with good, solid,

polished stones, like onyx or quartz - stones that will hold their

shape when bumped together, or thrown down the stairs. Anyway, we're

talking about decoration here, not children's aesthetic pleasure in

stones. Naturally, you'd want to use pink stones for girls' rooms and

blue stones for boys' rooms. Ever wondered why? In feng shui, yin is

feminine - cool, dark, submissive, and receptive, which is

represented by the colour blue. Yang is male - hot, bright, dominant,

and active, represented by red. We use pink to warm the cool energies

of girls, and blue to cool the hot energies of boys. Of course, you

can always substitute oranges or purples for pinks and blues. Gems

like rose quartz and ruby for the pinks and reds, blue howlite and

lapis lazuli for the blues, amethysts for the purples and citrines

for the oranges would be beautiful displayed on a shelf. I also

suggest keeping a dish of reachable polished stones for children to

play with and enjoy.

 

The Bathroom

This is a private place of calm relaxation and fun. Not only can

stones in the bathroom be for display, but they can be functional

too. Keeping a few pumice stones around not only adds texture, but

they're also healing, and they really take off those dead skin cells.

When decorating the bathroom, be sure to use stones that won't be

affected by the steam and water. Rock crystal is ideal, as it won't

be dulled by the heat and moisture. If you want more colour and

interest, you could display smaller gemstones in a water-tight jar,

perhaps mixed with some seashells. Another suggestion that also adds

atmosphere is to put waterproof stones in the bottom of a wide-

mouthed jar or bowl, and put some floating candles on top. Even bath

salts in a jar could count as gemstones, in a way. A lovely display

in the bathroom would be a shelf of bath oils, salts, and large

stones like rock crystals, perhaps with a few brightly coloured

candles. Let your imagination run wild - after all, it's the most

relaxing room in the house next to the bedroom.

 

At any rate, let the world see your gemstone collection. Create a

mood in your house, and fill it with the energies of the gifts of the

earth. Even something as simple as the specks of rainbow from a lead

crystal prism adds its own simple beauty and comfort to a room.

 

 

 

 

Diana

 

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