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Join Adam Barralet, Ashley Leavy, Kyle Perez, and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #3 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they explore Angel Aura Quartz meaning and uses, including:
- Raising energy with Aura Quartz
- Historic notes about aura-like glazes
- Coatings for Quartz in ancient Nubia
- Working with Angel Aura Quartz for the Full Moon in Aries
Tune in now and dive into the magical world of Angel Aura Quartz!
Podcast Episode Transcript:
Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection but aren’t sure how to use them? Join 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.
Adam Barralet: When it comes to man made crystals, for me, they just don’t feel right. Things like gold stone, that glassy opalite, and dyeing different things like agates and halites. However, there is one family of crystals that I will make an exception to because the power and potentiality of these crystal is absolutely amazing. These are the aura quartzes. And today, we’re gonna dive into one of my favorites.
It’s known as angel aura quartz. So welcome to crystal confab where we dive in and have a bit of a special informal chat about one of the crystals we love and we hope you love too. Joining me today, of course, is Kyle and Nicholas. How are you today, gents? Doing well.
Kyle Perez: Doing well. Thank you.
Adam: Beautiful. Now I wanna start off by kind of really clarifying, you know, I’ve got my favorite angel aura quartz. It’s actually a Lemurian seed angel aura quartz here. But, Nicholas, I remember seeing on your Instagram, I don’t know how long ago it was now, you did this amazing explanation because when I first started collecting crystals, there was only one type of aura quartz. And, obviously, the different metals that you fuse together, you get all the different colors of the rainbow. But as time’s gone on, I’ve noticed there’s different other kind of ones.
And many times even buying online, I’ve got disappointed with what’s actually wrapped up. It’s not what I believe to be a true aura quartz. But can you run us through what the aura quartz is that?
Nicholas Pearson: Yeah. Absolutely. So in the late nineties, there was a scientist in the Pacific Northwest here in the United States who came up with this process of applying a really thin, like, microns thick, layer of precious metals to the outside of quartz, and later they did it to some other materials as well. And, the first experiments were done with gold, which produced that, you know, beautiful kind of aquamarine blue color, and they were kind of iridescent. And so they nicknamed that aqua aura.
And over time, they, you know, tried some other things out with different metals, and that produced things like our rainbow aura, titanium aura, the angel aura that we’ll be discussing tonight. And it was a pretty closely guarded secret. The way of applying that metal to the outside, is a process that goes by 2 different names. It’s called precious metal anodization, where they’re, you know, vaporized. It’s also called vapor deposition, and you have to superheat the quartz in a vacuum chamber under intense pressure, to allow those metals to become a gas, like the air we breathe.
And the quartz in that environment also generates a tiny electrical charge, thanks to its piezo electricity. And that that kind of calls, if you will, the metals to it to make that permanent layer on the surface. And it’s a very, very thin layer, but it is permanent, unless you’re gonna, you know, take it to a, you know, bit of lapidary equipment, you’re not gonna sand it off. And that was pretty much it. And while I imagine there are some other folks who figured out how to do this in some other parts of the world, in the, you know, last I mean, certainly in the last 10 years, but in more recent years, we’ve seen kind of this explosion of aura like materials being sold.
The kind of second generation of them are done through a process called electroplating, where you put whatever it is you want to electroplate in a solution that has salts of usually some kind of metal. It’s almost always titanium with these guys. And you run an electrical charge to that. You have 2 little diodes, a diode and anode, and it, you know, runs this current through the solution, which breaks apart the components of the salts. Some of them become neutral, and some of them migrate.
In the case of the metal, the metallic bases migrate to the surface of the quartz. And you get wildly different kind of degrees of quality in these. Sometimes you get a really nice even coating, they had to turn the stones partway through to do that. Other times you can see, like, the metal grating imprints on the bottom where they didn’t turn them. Sometimes there will be bald spots in them.
If it’s a thick enough coating, it’s pretty permanent. If it’s not, it can rub off. And this is far less costly than making the kind of precious metal analogs using the vapor deposition process. So you can make a lot more material for a lot less expensive, but no matter what color it is, it’s almost always done with titanium. So the so called called aqua aura Quartzes that’s made with the 2nd generation process still colored by titanium and not gold.
Same with our angel aura not coming from things like platinum. It’s always almost always going to be titanium. And then, a few years after that, we see an entirely different substance on the market being called aqua aura quartz, or aura quartz kind of broadly speaking, and it doesn’t use metals at all. The crystals, get dyed first to produce the kind of undercoat of color, and then they’re sprayed with synthetic things like Teflon and other polymers to produce the iridescence on the outside. Sometimes these scrape off really easily.
Sometimes when you pull the price tag off of them, the color comes with it. So, you know, these can have any number of chemicals applied to them. We don’t necessarily know because not every treatment facility is doing the same thing. As they’re spraying them, there’s lots of runoff, so it can’t be good for the workers involved. It’s gotta, you know, have some environmental implications as well.
So, you know, it’s not truly aura quartz anymore at that point, I think.
Adam: It would just really be quartz with some stuff sprayed on it, really, and artificial stuff. And that’s similar to what I was talking about before about injecting dye into agates and things like that. Wouldn’t it?
Nicholas: Absolutely. And, you know, at the end of the day, people can collect whatever they wanna collect, whatever they’re called to, whatever they find beautiful. Beauty itself is therapeutic. But if, you know, we’re coming at it from the, you know, traditionally, but still modern, practice of, crystal healing. I just don’t see how something that’s coated in resin or plastic or some other polymer is gonna hold up.
Those are insulative kinds of materials, and I just feel like it’s going to prevent the quartz from doing all the things we hope quartz is gonna do in our life.
Adam: Now I know Ashley did this amazing experiment where she actually got, the clear quartz and the metals that were made to make these different, aura quartz of all the different colors, and we’d check the energy freak, the energy field of them. And then she’d compare that to the, to the actual aura quartz. And she found each time that the aura quartz almost doubled in its energy field. So this first type is I love them for amplifying just their own properties. We, you know, we often forget that metals themselves are crystals.
They’re just a crystal made of a single element, so they have their own potentiality. And we know that clear quartz amplifies all other quart all other crystals. So I love this first type. Nicholas, how do you feel about the second type?
Nicholas: You know, I think as long as we’re okay with titanium being the element involved, we’re not over romanticizing something as containing an element on the periodic table it doesn’t have, I don’t see why we can’t appreciate it. The coatings are quite a bit thicker than they’re going to be on the 1st generation material. And they’re often quite a bit more uneven. So, you know, we might need to bear in mind that they require a little extra care, and, you know, any number of other things can be introduced to them to also produce some of those colors. So it’s not going to be a single pure element from the periodic table.
It’s not just gold or just platinum or just titanium. It’s gonna be a range of other stuff to produce that iridescence. And, you know, at the end of the day, there’s still runoff from those, you know, chemical salt baths they have to go in, and, you know, we have to contemplate, like, how how well is that being disposed of, and, you know, how much care is given to the folks who have to deal with those caustic solutions.
Adam: I don’t know if you’ve got any insider information that you can share with us, but the type 1, does seem to be a bit of a protected, you know, like you said, process. And it does seem to be that finding that type 1 aura quartz is getting really, really challenging and difficult. Do you know what’s happening in that realm?
Nicholas: So far as I know, the guy who mentioned the process is still making it. I’m not entirely clear whether other folks have cracked the code. I’ve heard rumors, but, and because a lot of this stuff happens so far up the supply chain that if you’re even just a couple rungs removed at, you know, giant trade shows, It’s all a kind of oral tradition, if you will. You know, it’s all hearsay. It’s all anecdotal stuff.
So it’s hard to verify those things that we hear, at those kinds of events. So I’ve heard, that the process has been copied in China, but also China seems to be the center of production for a whole lot of things. Things that are, you know, wonderful, fine, valuable mineral specimens, and then also some of our cheap knock offs. So, you know, it’s a big place with a huge population and a huge market, so we can’t pin all of our problems or successes on a place. We just have to know, you know, the idea of enhancing gems, of faking gems is so old that you find earlier than medieval manuscripts talking about ways to tell authentic gems from inauthentic ones.
You find, simulated gems going back to ancient Egypt and earlier. So, it’s just human nature.
Adam: Kyle, you’ve obviously had experience with the different types of aura quartzes. What’s your experience?
Kyle: Personally, it’s very for me, it’s a very quick feeling of difference. And as Nick touched on Nicholas touched on that coating, whether it’s breathable or not, whether it holds it in or not, I think you really I can feel the difference between them. I was lucky enough to kind of, unlike a lot of people nowadays, start my connection to the industry sort of 15 years ago when fake auras weren’t really around. The real auras were kind of the only ones that were coming around and being sold and bought. So I was kind of lucky to get in, and most of my stuff is from about 10, 15 years ago.
And I find it very, interesting when you see it’s almost like it’s more metallic. It’s almost like it’s more shiny. It’s more there’s something more to it, and they’ve taken it that bit too far. But it also, yeah, we have been faking and simulating and editing and changing the feeling of gems, minerals, crystals for forever. But if we break it down to quartz and platinum or silver, titanium, then you can kind of develop that connection to what the energy is doing.
Mhmm.
Adam: Mhmm. So as for the, you know, for people that are…we’re obviously talking about the aura quartz, and I I should say, you can actually get to the best of my understanding every color of the rainbow depending on which medals are in there. So in my collection, I’ve pretty much got red, orange, yellow, green, blues, dark blues, pink, purple, and, you know, our beautiful angel aura or sometimes called opal aura as well. If someone wants to try and start collecting or get their hands on angel aura quartz that we’re talking about today or any of the other auras, they walk into a shop. How do you think have any of you got any guides that you could offer on, like, how do you pick apart from the feeling?
How do you work out if it’s real or not? Nick Nicholas, you said the great thing about the, price tag. If the price tag takes the coloring off, definitely not one. But any other ideas, Nick? Nicholas?
Sorry. We’re being Australian. In Australian, we abbreviate everything, Nicholas, so we’d constantly call you Nick. Sorry.
Nicholas: No worries. Yeah. So one of the big telltale signs of that kind of, polymer coated material is that it often looks kind of wet. The sharp edges are gonna be a little bit more rounded. You can sometimes see the glaze with your own eyes being uneven, thicker in some places than in others.
I’ve seen ones where you can see drips as it dried. The better made ones, it might have a more even coating because they took more time to, prepare it, but, still look for that kind of wetness. Definitely look for bald spots, if you will, where the coating is missing or absent. One thing that I think is, probably helpful but not a foolproof test between generation 1 and generation 2, because if the second material, the electro plated stuff is well made, it’s hard to just know by sight, but price tag is gonna be a good one. And also, the quality of the material.
Like, that original lab that did all of it in the early days, mostly did it with really good stuff. And nowadays, a lot of low quality, rocks, not even just quartz, but lots of other things get this kind of electroplating on it to hide its imperfections, to hide all kinds of things. So, yeah, you’re gonna find your kind of run of the mill obelisks and towers and spheres and other things that can have a true aura coating on them, but not as much as you’re gonna find just really stunning looking quartz. Like that Lemurian sea crystal that you’re holding up is a great example of a fine crystal to start with that got this on as an enhancement rather than as, you know, a way to kind of transform its outer appearance to distract us. A friend of mine in the local world, he likes to refer to, aura quartz, particularly the later stages, as being kind of like the drag queens of the crystal world.
You know, they’re wearing a face full of makeup, and we can celebrate that and enjoy it. But we have to remember that they don’t look like they do out of drag.
Adam: Yeah. I I think drag queens are a lot more fabulous than type 2 or 3, but I definitely know what you mean for sure. And I would agree with you totally about I have been, you know, I’ve been working with crystals for over 30 years now. I love my aura quartzes. I’ve got a good collection of them.
And occasionally, I’ve seen a picture of 1 on an online site, a reputable shop, you know, price is reasonable, a little bit high, but not, you know, dirt cheap, and gone no. I think that is 1. Purchased it, it arrives, and it’s definitely, you know, typed definitely a type 2, if not a type 3. And it’s really hard, I find, shopping online for your aura quartzes unless you can really be guaranteed. Yeah.
How about you, Kyle?
Kyle: I totally echo the price tag thing. That’s the one thing that I’ve noticed is quality and price is, like, I’ve got an, aqua aura that comes from such a beautiful specimen, and the color is so even. It’s such a really beautiful piece of quartz. I’ve got another, rose aura that has the most beautiful needles, and most of my old aura comes from really beautiful pieces of quartz. So it totally confirms totally confirms that you don’t see it as much.
Like, for me, especially, you don’t see the sort of type 1 OG on anything other than quartz. Right? Like, it it generally is essentially basically on quartz, whereas the type twos and threes, you see on selenite and kyanite and amethyst and everything else, and that kind of, for me, completely defeats the purpose of aura quartz because aura quartz is about taking quartz, which is programmable and intention based and the master energy that we can work with, and then adding something to that, raising that vibration, shifting that upwards, making that something more, something better than what it could be or bigger than the sum of its parts as it were, if that makes sense.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely. And we could probably do a bit of a master we could probably talk here for about 6,000, go through all the aura quartzes, but we won’t we won’t do that today. Let’s dig in a little bit to, Angel Aura quartz specifically. Where would you reach for that, Kyle?
Kyle: For me, with Angel Aura Quartz, it’s
Adam: all
Kyle: about, like, raising the vibe as it were in inverted commas. It’s kind of helping yourself to feel more optimistic, more positive, more relaxed, less negative, less frustrated. It’s basically about shifting those feelings, vibrations, energies that can make us feel a bit held back, feel stuck, feel frustrated, stagnant, whatever. Generally, I will reach for my angel or a court when I just want to shift it off. But it’s like, shaking off the coat as a dog would if it gets wet or, like, taking off a couple of coatings when you’ve come from the cold into the warm.
It’s like, okay. I needed that for the time being. That’s what I’ve picked up on, but I can take it off and come back to myself, kind of cleanse myself and return back to kind of oneness of authentic-ness, my wholeness as it were. And I find it really helpful to meditate, to connect to my spirit guides, to enhance those connections. I find it really, easy to develop that, openness.
I find it really, it it kind of expedites the situation quite quickly for me. It opens those channels. It removes those lower vibrational things. It helps me to feel better quite quickly and quite easily, and I don’t need a large piece of it. I don’t require, a long time with it.
It kind of, for me, has a more rapid energy than your regular quartz does, and it kind of moves more quickly in how it works. But then it can allow you to move slowly. It’s not gonna move quickly all the time, but for me, like, the initial, it’s like, okay. Let’s get into it. Let’s move out of the way needs to be moved out of the way so you can get to where you need to go, basically.
I really enjoy its ease. There there’s a lot of minerals and crystals that I have, had dis-ease with getting to know them, and I think that’s part of the challenge and part of the fun, part of the journey. Whereas, with aura quartz, for me, it’s straight to the point and quite direct and, doesn’t really fluff around, but it has a really soft comforting and nurturing energy. And I find you can kind of work with it throughout the day, like, in the pocket as a piece, and it’s going to kind of keep you going, like, energizer bunny kind of thing with that kind of long lasting or long enough lasting for a day at least. Or I love to also have it placed, I I would say, in particular places in my meditation space, it’s not going to be, like, at a really important place, but it’s going to be at a couple of places to kind of add what I need.
I usually work at it, work with it in, complement with a couple of other minerals for my meditation space. I find it really, supports energies that have a similar vibration that are different, something like angelite or celestite or even selenite. I find they all kind of party on a very similar vibrational level and kind of work really nicely as a way of really making a space protected and safe and clear for you to work with.
Adam: And, Nicholas, when would you reach for your angel aura court?
Nicholas: You know, I think there are a couple different metaphorical lenses that I might use as my reasoning for connecting to it. Aura courts is generally have this kind of alchemical vibe. We’re taking 2 things that are, you know, seemingly so different and bonding them in a way that they’re producing something really unexpected. That iridescence that we see is a result of thin film interference. So, you know, the light coming through gets scrambled as it passes through that teeny tiny, you know, few molecules thick layer of precious metal on the outside.
And for me, that’s like a shift in perspective. It allows us to take something as ordinary and bland as white light and break it up into its components. So I might turn to angel or angel aura quartz or any of the other aura quartz for that matter to, kinda get a fresh perspective on things. And then I would also look at the elements involved, And platinum is one of our noble metals, rarer even than gold. It shares a lot of qualities with gold.
It shares a color somewhat with silver, and so alchemically, it’s sometimes thought to transcend the binary, the polarity, the kind of complementary forces that gold and silver represent, kind of associated with the sun and the moon, the yin and yang, so to speak. So, for me, angel auricords is gonna be, like transcending our binaries and helping us really come into a sense of wholeness. And, you know, if we think about traditional lore about angels, they don’t fit into a binary either. They’re genderless, they’re sexless, they’re cosmic forces. They’re, you know, they do us the favor of showing up in a corporeal form we can relate to every now and then, sometimes, in early literature.
And, you know, when I think about platinum being similarly, you know, beyond that kind of division, beyond the binary, I think it helps us just become more truly who we are without having to fit into a particular box.
Adam: Yeah. I love that. I think when you look at, you know, silver is that traditional yin kind of moon energy, and when you do look at what the energy of platinum is by itself, it is very transformational. It moves us forward. And I think that being amplified by the court when we’ve got this angel or a quote together, that is a real strong message.
And often we feel in this world that for us to progress, we need to kind of drop into that yang energy. And yes, that will help us when we do our work. It helps us to achieve different things and tick certain boxes in some aspect of our life. But sometimes, it is about that bringing that more yin energy, and when we stop and when we slow down, we can actually progress a lot far above. Especially, when we’re looking in the spiritual realm.
You know, that it’s not about getting somewhere, it’s about just allowing and the more we allow, things will happen. And I feel angel or a quote for me has really, really allowed me to do that. A a keyword that really comes up for me with angel or a quote is beauty. And not necessarily just like glamor beauty or fashion beauty or, physical beauty, but just more being able to see the divine beauty in the world and how everything unfolded that should. And even being able to see things and sometimes at first seem tragic may actually be, you know, divine intervention or a beautiful way that the world unfolds in a quirky little way.
You know, we often experienced challenging times in our life, but later look back a month ago, well, I’m kinda glad that happened because look at where I am today. I’m sure none of us here and no one listening either, would be happy to still be with their first ever partner, but we were probably heartbroken when we broke up with them type of thing. So I find Angeloura brings this real peace in helping us transition through some different challenging times in life, and to find that change really easy. One place in particular I’ve had extreme success with this is well, not myself personally yet, but pregnancy and birthing, is a really, really good one. I honestly, especially for someone who’s having their first child, I can only imagine the, you know, the unusual things that are happening with your body, the unfamiliarity and the comfort and, you know, different people journey through that differently.
And then the idea of birth and then coming home, and I hear a lot of people, they get home after being in the hospital for a couple of days, and I’m like, right. What do we do with this life form? And that can be really unsettling. And I think angel or a court, I know it’s really great to even place on the stomach if, someone is experiencing, no what do you call it? Morning sickness.
But all the way through from fertility, pregnancy, birthing, and beyond. I think angel aura quartz is a really nice one to have around to just allow yourself to go easy on yourself as this change happened in your life and as the baby’s growing and that type of thing as well. So if you do have a friend who’s loves their crystals, and you’re wondering what to get them and you’ve got a baby shower coming up, find a really nice angel or a quartz, that could be a really beautiful gift that I think I’d really appreciate and find some great benefits from in that way. We talked a little bit about, like, this alchemical aspect. Do you think that, aura quartz have a bit of a link to maybe the ancient civilization of Atlantis?
Kyle: You’re reading my mind, Adam. You’re literally reading my mind. I find it really interesting that kind of link between the idea of Atlantis and Atlantean energy and aura quartz because a lot of what’s known about Atlanteans is they manipulated and affected and changed the energies of things. They learned how to harness crystalline energy, and I think that idea of auric quartz really harks back to that idea of them harnessing those energy energies themselves.
Adam: It is interesting. Obviously, there’s Atlantis, which existed somewhere in the northern hemisphere that’s still being debated. But then there is, Lemuria, which is another ancient civilization that is believed to have existed down here in the southern hemisphere. Australia was kind of part of that land mass it’s believed and so on. And they do say that, you know, people that have had visions of Lemurian, the priesthood in Lemuria wasn’t so hierarchical, I find, as Atlantis in my experiences.
But often that color, the angel aura, glimmer of robes and the cloth that they would wear would actually show in the Lemurians as well. But I would definitely say this is much more, Atlantean stone rather than a Lemurian stone. I feel the Lemurians worked very much more with what they had and how nature delivered it. Whereas, as you said, Kyle, the Atlantians really did like to see how do we bring things together and play around with them, didn’t they?
Kyle: I think it’s really important as to how some people are very reactive and they don’t like it, or they are immediately drawn to it. It. You know, maybe you do have a connection to Atlantis, and that’s why you are drawn to it. Maybe you’ve never had a connection there. There’s no connection.
You don’t feel drawn to it. You come from a more Lemurian energy, which is more natural, and so it kind of goes against what you feel connected to. I think people have that innate kind of, like, yes or no as soon as they see it.
Adam: Nicholas, would you…do you feel the aura quartz Atlantis link?
Nicholas: You know, I at this point in my spiritual practice, I view things like Lemurian Atlantis through the lens of metaphor. They are archetypal symbols that speak to our subconscious. So could we link those metaphors? Absolutely. I don’t really…while there was a point in my teenage years that, like, aqua aura was, like, deeply important to me, and I coveted this one treasure pendant that my I I got for a birthday one year.
It was the only thing I wanted, and my parents managed to track it down and deliver. And, I just kinda outgrew it. I’ve moved on to other tools that I don’t feel any strong connection to or away from it. It’s just a chapter in my life. So I don’t I don’t have, like, a strong link to it these days, and therefore, it’s not really, not setting off any alarm bells about, yes, Atlantean.
No. It’s actually the morning or any of you got.
Adam: Kyle mentioned before about pairing it with other kind of like energy crystals, and we know that clear quartz crystal do amplify other crystal’s energy. Is there any pairings that you would pair angel aura quartz with?
Nicholas: I mean, if we wanted to kinda underscore the angelic vibe, there are a lot of ways that we could go. Kyle mentioned selenite, angelite, celestite would be great options. I also think emerald could be really nice. Emerald has this connection to the celestial sphere. It is thought by several cultures that emeralds were gifts from heaven, from the gods.
They were found in Eden or paradise depending on, you know, what the scripture or group of people’s, doctrine was. So that could be a really nice option. If we wanted to partner it with something a little bit more grounding and stabilizing, so it’s got this kind of upward momentum, you know, platinum is a really expansive energy, then I would say, probably a weird pairing that I would enjoy are, these type of andradite garnets that are only found in a few places around the world, but they’re called rainbow andradites. Get them from Japan, Nigeria, Mexico, Nevada, New Mexico. The Japanese ones are near and dear to my heart because I love Japanese minerals, but, like the crystalline structure of garnet, garnets are mesosilicates.
They’re like real heavy because it’s like a little island of silica in a sea of metallic ions. So they’re real dense, and then it, you know, is an isometric or cubic crystal. And the cubic crystal family is gonna be the most, grounding, the most, like, deeply related to materiality and form. But because it’s got the same kind of, we’ll say it’s not really opalescence, but it might evoke the image of opal or iridescence or even labradorite, a lot of folks I’ve seen compare it to. It’s got this kind of optical effect that is similar.
It is produced by thin film interference. And, you know, we get these starkly different mechanisms in the 2, but by virtue of their shared objects, they’re gonna, like, harmonize really well to create a broader spectrum effect that is both stabilizing and expansive.
Adam: I’m glad I saw you do a little dance there.
Kyle: Rainbow Japanese rainbow garnet is one of my, like, top top favorite minerals. It’s one of those ones that I’ve only finally, in the last couple of years, been able to work with and access myself, and I’m going to try that pairing. It sounds really interesting, and I’m I’m I’m excited to try that as a pairing.
Adam: I actually haven’t had Japanese rainbow gunner yet, so I’ve gotta get my shop on and get shopping for that. One of the pairings that I really love with angel aura quartz is just good old rainbow moonstone, and I find angel aura quartz does really excel as a full moon crystal. Of course, this week is the full moon in Aries, and one of my favorite crystals for the full moon in Aries is, the angel or a quartz. The reason being, you know, we often hear that with the full moons, there are different, you know, it’s in Aries. It’s in Gemini.
It’s in Capricorn. What does that mean? Well, we know that each zodiac sign governs 1 12th of the population, but it also governs a different aspect of our lives. For example, Gemini has to do with our education, our learning, and our mental well-being. Capricorn has to do with our job and our career.
Aquarius has to do with community and humanitarian pursuit. But what’s Aries about? Well, Aries is the first sign of the zodiac, and it actually governs 0 to 7 ages in our life. So what is the 0 to 7 year old concerned about? Themselves.
And so the full moon in Aries is actually the full moon about yourself. Now for some people that may seem a bit selfish or self indulgent, but when it comes to spirituality, I think it’s a really great time to spend one of the full moons each year to stop and pause and think about what you need. A lot of people feel that they’re worrying about what they need to achieve in the world, the impression they need to give out, that sometimes they’re worrying about family and partners and friends and all that type of thing, and they give from everything they have to the world. The full moon in Aries is a really beautiful time to stop and go, what do I need to be at my best? And we’ve talked a little bit about the 2 crystals oh, the 2 metals, sorry, that make up Angel or Quartz, that platinum, which is transformational, and silver, which is that yin, kind of slow down moon energy of contemplating how can I stop, how can I regenerate, and how can I be my best so I can then give my best to the world?
And I really love angel auric quartz for being that tool to allow you to do that so that you are in all the other realms of your life. You can give your best. I often kind of think of the full moon in Aries as being like the warrior full moon. And if you’re a warrior, a warrior doesn’t go around and worry about everyone else. They have to make sure that they are strong, that they are fit, so that they go into battle and they can do their best.
Now, hopefully, you’re not going into physical battle each day, but we do have challenges in life. And if we’re not at our best, if we don’t know what we need to be at our best, then we can’t give our best. So a little practice if you’d like to try this for the full moon, Aries being a fire sign, I like to do a little bit of candle magic around this time. So what I would love to do is get a candle, pick your favorite color, because remember this full moon is about you. But if you get lost, a red candle for Aries can be great, or you might go just a white candle for the full moon energy, and anoint it with an essential oil.
My favorite essential oil is, coriander seed. Coriander seed actually helps us kinda get back to focusing on ourselves as well. And just anoint that. And as you’re anointing that, candle, visualize and think about what you need. And you’re living a life where you are the principal character, not a kind of an extra that kind of comes in occasionally, where you are focusing on yourself.
Light that on the night, meditate, and infuse that energy also into your angel or a court. Then each day, between that full moon and the next new moon, is sit down each day, hold your angel or a court, be connecting with that energy of caring for yourself, seeing the beauty of yourself, seeing the value of yourself, and just light that candle for 15 minutes and just do that. And just remind yourself of that. And ideally, get the candle burned down by the dark moon just the night before the full, the next new moon in that way. And that I find how I’m gonna be using my angel or a quad.
And I’d love you to give it a shot if you’d like to try and, you know, let us know in the comment. Come back and share with us whether you said to notice a difference about what happened when you put yourself first. And I think this is a really great question to allow you to do that.
Nicholas: That sounds fantastic. I’ll have to do that and try this whole moon.
Adam: Yeah. Definitely. For sure. Now before we wrap up, boys, anything else that you think we’ve missed about angel aura quartz? Or another question I’ll ask, I’m asking 2 questions at once.
Do you have a favorite aura quartz out of all of them?
Nicholas: I mean, the first one I fell in love with was aqua aura quartz. It’s hard for that not to still be precious to me. I still have that very first pendant. The crystal came out of its setting, I I think, decades ago at this point, and it is still in my jewelry box. And, you know, every so often as I’m rifling through, I pause and I I, you know, sit in wonder as I turn it through the light.
And, I I just love the alchemy that made it.
Kyle: Beautiful. Totally agree. Or aqua quartz is definitely amazing. My favorite piece is actually, I have a rose or a, as I mentioned, cluster, and it’s about palm size. All the crystals are about 2 centimeters, and it’s just hundreds of needles.
And it’s this beautiful soft…it’s back there somewhere…beautiful soft pink, color, and it just shines. And every time I hold it, I just feel 4000,000,000 times better than I was feeling a second before.
Adam: Stunning. I actually love tanzan aura quartz, and I actually attribute that to helping me write my first book, Crystal Connection. I found when I would wear it, it was almost this visual I get is like a white light. I knew what I wanted to say, but because I had written a book before, I didn’t know how to say it. And it was almost like this white light would appear above my head, and like a waterfall, the words would just tumble into my mind, and off I’d go kind of thing.
The only one thing I do warn people about Tansin or a quote, because I find if I didn’t take it off, probably you didn’t take it off by the time you have dinner. Because if you keep wearing it into the evening, I’d be laying in bed and the ideas would keep flowing. But I found that one was my it’s my favorite writings that thrown out of every single crystal I have. Really, really beautiful. So, yes, as you can see, there are so many different aura quartz.
So we’re gonna have to have a few more concepts about some other aura quartz as I think. Make sure you join us next week when we dive into another crystal. Will it be an aura quartz? Will it not? Who knows?
Let us know what you’d like to hear us talk about in the comments below. Thanks for joining us. We’ll see you next week. Take care and blessed be.
Nicholas: Bye. Bye.
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