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Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #14 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Arfvedsonite meaning, including:

• Creating cosmic connection with Arfvedsonite
• Working with Arfvedsonite to enhance spellwork
• Arfvedsonite & the New Moon in Capricorn

Tune in now for a deeper look at Arfvedsonite meaning!

Podcast 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: Hello, and welcome to another week of crystal confab. You know, I sometimes wonder if I was to discover a crystal, would everyone call it instead of Barralet mispronouncing my name? Well, today, we’re gonna talk about another crystal that poor Johan Arfwedson probably gets rather upset often because he was a Swedish chemist who discovered Arfvedsonite, the crystal that we’re going to be exploring today. Now this is a bit of a confusing crystal. It is a bit of a rarer one.

You will find it occasionally in crystal shops, but even identifying it may be a bit of a challenge. So I’m gonna talk to my other crystal gurus and see what they can recommend on what we can do with Arfvedsonite and how we even work out if it is Arfvedsonite. So here I have 2 different crystals that are in my hand. They’re both black. They’re both sparkly.

This one, when I bought it, was labeled as a strophylite, and this one was labeled as Arfvedsonite. And maybe, Kyle, could you start off by maybe shedding some light on how we work out if Arfvedsonite is Arfvedsonite?

Kyle Perez: Well, for me, the most simple way that I’ve learned to differentiate between the 2 is the simple color shift. I see that within the especially polished stones, it’s not as easy within the crystalline form because the crystalline form is quite similar and you don’t see that sheen as much. But in the tumbled stones, polished pieces that you kind of see everywhere around the world, It is a bluer flash that you will see within your Arfvedsonite. I don’t know if this piece will show up. I think it’s showing it off.

You can see a little bit of that blue flash. Whereas with your stropholite, it’s yellow. I always see that bright yellow flash. It’s more of like a yellowy beige, maybe even a little bit of orange, whereas you’ll always see the bluey teal shift of color with Arfvedsonite that I’ve seen, but I think Nicholas might even be able to shed some more light on that.

Nicholas Pearson: Yeah. So, in simplest terms, the majority of any of the astrophyllite we’re gonna have access to in the market has crystals that are always perfectly parallel, and they’re usually in a very pale quartz matrix. They’re more rod shaped, whereas with Arfvedsonite, it undergoes more intense metamorphism and will always be fibrous and kind of twisted. It can have a blue flash. Astrophylite will never have a blue flash, but Arfvedsonite could also be green or gold or orange or several other colors.

So if you’ve got this dark swirly matrix, it is guaranteed to be closer to Arfvedsonite than anything else, but I actually know how they got confused.

Adam: But it’s not.

Nicholas: Yeah. So this is a case of someone attempting to get the chemistry right, and they came very close. So these materials that we usually see labeled Arfvedsonitet are actually, like, more more accurately. A geologist would describe them as, like, quartz amphibole schist. And the predominant species of amphibole, because amphibole is a really big and complicated group of chain silicates, the dominant species will either end up being Arfvedsonite or anthophyllite.

Anthophyllite is something we don’t see written about in the crystal world hardly ever, and it looks a lot like the name astraphylite or astrophylite, which people know better. So it was the fact that anthophyllite was listed in, the ingredients of this quartz amphibole schist that made people confuse it with astrophyllite, astrophyllite, and then that’s where the confusion stayed. But if you’ve got these schists, sometimes you find little garnets in them. That’s another telltale sign that it is not astrophyllite and will definitely be towards the Arfvedsonite or anthophyllite end of the spectrum instead. In truth, there are probably multiple of these chain silicates in there, but Arfvedsonite is the one that usually gets first billing if someone does it correctly.

Adam: So we’re clear that we’ve now got our piece of Arfvedsonite. We’ve got it in our hot little hand, or we’re wearing another piece of jewelry. Kyle, what do you find that’s really good for you?

Kyle : For me, it’s been a really incredible stone that’s helped me on my journey. That’s really allowed me to be able to be comfortable losing myself. That’s been part of my journey is really allowing myself that permission to not be as much of a control freak as I like to be because I’m a total control freak, and I love to know all the answers, and I love to know everything that’s happening, and I love to know why and the ins and the outs. And it is a story that came to me in a period of my life where it was like, let go. Go with the flow and enjoy yourself.

I literally found this beautiful heart on my trip to Europe. It was on, I would say, my 3rd day of this trip. We were walking through the streets of London and we found a really cool little crystal shop. Doesn’t matter where I go in the world, I’ll always stumble upon a little crystal shop somewhere, and this just had the littlest glint of light on it in the corner, and I’d never seen Arfvedsonite written. I couldn’t pronounce it when I first read it.

I think I tripped it up when I picked it up and I was like, I have no idea what you are, but I need to bring you home with me. I just it’s one of those immediate, you know, when you see it, you know it, you need it, it needs to come with you. And I felt so enamored and excited, and our first three days of that trip were whirlwind crazy. Like, we did so much in 72 hours. I was kind of freaking out a little bit and kind of needing a little bit of, like, it’s all gonna be okay.

Like, yes, it’s crazy. We had all of these ideas planned for the middle of our trip but we had literally booked the in and the out for a month in Europe. We had a place to stay, which was our friend’s apartment. Nothing else planned but we were going to go to Spain, we were going to go to Scotland, and we’re going to go to Stonehenge and Bastevere. All of this was planned without being properly organized.

We got this heart early. I remember sitting and whenever we were sitting doing our planning for the rest of the trip, which we did in that first next couple of days, this heart was in my hand. Like I felt really comfortable sitting, holding, and it was like, just go with the flow. Don’t feel like you need to control everything. It will work out because if you’ve ever traveled without planning everything and you’re a control freak, the idea of not knowing which hotel you’re going to next, not knowing which plane you’re getting on, I was starting to kind of get really overwhelmed, and I had had like no sleep.

So I was like, Felix, we and he’s like, it’s fine. It’ll be okay. Like, just sit, relax, chill. It’ll be okay. We managed to get flights to and from Amsterdam with a hotel, flights to and from, Scotland with a hotel, and flights to and from Spain with a bus in between with 2 hotels, all and a hire car, all in the space of a few days of not really trying.

And it all kind of really, really worked out really well. All aspects of that trip worked out really well. And of all the things that I packed away, this was the one that actually stayed in my hand luggage and traveled with me for pretty much the whole trip wherever we went. I found it was like it needed to be with me. It needed to guide me through this expansive process and allow myself to go wherever you go, just go with the flow.

Wherever you go, you don’t have to plan thoroughly. Or if you plan and plans go awry, that’s also okay. And that could not have been more true than especially on the second or third to last day we went to Glastonbury and Stonehenge. I was really excited about this. My husband was excited because he got to drive an Audi as a hire car.

Like, he was very happy with himself and those country roads are beautiful and terrifying. And we left London and it was raining. Like beautiful summer English rain. Like it was peeing down and it was like I was like oh my god this is not gonna be a time. We were going past Stonehenge.

It was pissing down, pardon me, and it was like you know what? We’ll stop on the way back. Let’s go to Glastonbury. Let’s just go there and we’ll come back on the way back and we may take a few, like, half photos. It was cool.

Oh my god. And it was raining on and off, raining on and off. We got into Glastonbury. The sun comes out and it is beautiful, and everything’s glistening because it’s just rained. But the main streets were flooded.

Like, shops were literally, like, sweeping water out of their shop fronts. It was kind of like, okay, let’s not go shopping right now. We’ll go to Glastonbury Abbey. We went and sort of explored. We had the most perfect time while we were there.

The sun was out. We got to do the tour. We got to explore. We got to find a crystal shop that wasn’t flooded to buy some beautiful things, so we had lunch. Like everyone was like, you timed it really really well.

It worked out really well for you. And we’re like, cool, awesome. We’ll head back. We’ll try to get to Stonehenge on the way home and it was actually closed. And that was one of those things that I think earlier in the trip, if I had not been working with this, I would have gone, like, I’m never gonna get to see it again.

I probably would have thrown a complete tantrum. I’ve done that on a holiday before in not getting to see something that I wanted to see. And it was like, oh, well, thank you. Like, I got to see in passing a couple of times, I got to actually experience Glastonbury Abbey and Glastonbury Tor, and they were the two places that spoke to me so deeply on a level that I have never thought of experiencing. Like the story of Arthur and the Arthurian legend and Merlin legend has always been something I felt really close to and identified with and it was like that was the important thing.

That was what I needed to connect with. It was the ruins, it was the energy, it was meditating on the tour for about half an hour and allowing myself to see things. I literally have got Merlin tattooed on my arm. I am so enamored and connected and I totally believe that aligning with this affix and that energy of expansion and allowing myself to just go with it, allowing myself to connect with what you’re meant to connect with allows you to go where you are meant to go, be where you’re meant to be when you’re meant to be there, to receive what you need to receive and to actually not be affected by what you don’t get or what you don’t receive or you don’t have. Like it is not bothered by that.

I’m not concerned by that. Like what do you have? It’s amazing what you do have, what you have gotten to experience. Like, I found myself allowing myself to be more excited by the good and focused on that than less bothered by what I didn’t get to experience. There was nothing on that trip that I went to, oh, I’m upset that I didn’t get to do that.

Everything was like, yes, I got to do that. And if I didn’t get to, if I didn’t get to, I didn’t have time. Like I was there for a month and every day was completely full so I’m not bothered. I’m like, I think in the past I have had a tendency to be frustrated by the lack of or not having or not being able to get to what I have in my head. And the more I work with Arfvedsonite, the more I work with this energy of being able to grow without being attached to things, I think it’s really important that you lose yourself.

You lose that idea of you having to be whoever you’re meant to be in certain situations and you can become who you are meant to be. You can actually unlock, unleash, step into that whole thing. Like, you don’t know who you are until you do it. Do you know what I mean? Like, I think the simplified term would be you don’t know what you can do until you do it.

Adam: I love that, Kyle. And if it’s any consolation, if you actually had to get go and see Stonehenge, it’s roped off and the distance you are from Stonehenge, probably what you saw on the car was very, very similar and you’d save yourself a few pounds by not actually going in. 

Kyle: So I’ve heard this from so many people. Literally, I’ve heard this from so many people. They’re like, you actually did the right thing. You actually went to the right place. You explored the right thing. And I totally believe that I did. I totally believe we got exactly what we were meant to see and experience.

Adam: Amazing. And I can really relate from my experience of Arfvedsonite, how it really does shift your perception to what you can, you know, focus on the good rather than the bad in that way. This might be in that future episode we may need to do about travel crystals because it’s a question I get asked. But would you say a better than that would now be a mainstay whenever you go traveling?

Kyle: So I have this Malabead kind of strand of a fettuccine that I’ve acquired, and this is the one that I travel with because I find it really easy to do that with and hold and just connect, and I find it really, really supportive. The heart is lovely but it likes to stay home. It works in a very certain grid, and it likes to stay in that grid doing what it needs to do unless I pick it up. Whereas this little strand comes with me now wherever I travel. And as someone who suffers such high anxiety, I find it really helpful to have that tactile thing to hold as well.

Ashley Leavy: Okay. I have to jump in here and say that in a future episode, we may need to have conversations about crystals connected to Avalon, Arthurian legend, the Glastonbury experience, because like Nicholas and I have so deeply immersed ourselves in that world. And like, I wanna hear all about this from you too, Kyle. And yeah. Adam, do you have any, like, just total side note, but do you have any, like, interest connection to Arthurian legend to that area of the world, Glastonbury, Stonehenge, anything like that that speaks to you?

Adam: Well, considering although my surname is French, my father’s line is from Scotland and my mother’s line is from England. Yes. I definitely do. So I think we’ll pin that in for 2025 and make that an episode for sure. That would be awesome.

For sure. Yeah. Nicholas, how do you find with Arfvedsonite that, you know, does it help to shift you being in black crystal? The black crystals are often, you know, people reach for them when they’re feeling negative or they’re having a hard time. Do you find that’s a nice one for maybe helping you kinda get out of that kinda mess?

Nicholas: Yeah. So I remember the first time I got a piece of Arfvedsonite. My dear mentor, my very first Reiki teacher in the world, Patricia, gave me this palm stone, which was much nicer than any of the little tumbles I could find. It is just so vibrant and brilliant, and it was just something she handed me on a whim one day, and I appreciated it and kind of tucked it away. But there have been some moments where it has come through pretty strongly for me, and then in 2020, it stuck around for more than a moment.

And I started to notice at the time I was working full time and then some in our local crystal store. I still work there occasionally. Mostly, I help with, like, sorting rocks, and I write for the newsletter and things. But, the whole world was undergoing transition in the macro and the micro sense of it, And one of the through lines for all of that was fear, just uncertainty, not knowing. And I started to pay extra close attention to the kinds of stones people were naturally drawn to.

And, you know, if you have a basket of little tumbles of Arfvedsonite in just average ambient lighting, it’s not exciting to look at. It’s not the kind of thing people go to, you know, unless they can see those beautiful iridescent fibers in it. And all of a sudden, everybody wanted a little piece. They’d at least run their fingers through it, and we didn’t have a super descriptive card or anything. So they’d often not linger and kinda move on.

But I started sitting with it more and more, and I started to notice just how timely it was for me. And then as I started to suggest it to others, I’d start getting feedback. You know, 2 weeks later, someone would come back and say, hey. That rock with the name I can’t pronounce, yeah, that that was exactly the right one. Or that that stone with the a in it, yeah, I really needed that and it helped me.

But I could feel this kind of palpable kind of corporeal shift in working with this stone. So it is a variety of amphibole, as I mentioned, and these are, like, long chain silicates, and they’re such a diverse group. If we look at some other members of the amphibole group, there are a few themes that show up for me. Things like past life recall, repressed memories, releasing trauma. So many of them were formed through metamorphic activities.

And so, you know, this kind of core example schist that we find here, Arfvedsonite in has gone through, like, pretty intense metamorphism, like the squeezing together of different rocks through tectonic movement and the making of mountains and sometimes contact metamorphism from heat. But it’s just been through the ringer. It has seen it all. It has done it all, and it has actually come out more beautiful, more transformed. The fact that those pressures enabled it to reorganize itself in such a way that it is more resplendent to us.

So one of the patterns that it addresses, one of the ways it addresses the pattern of fear, maybe is a better way to say this, is it helps to replace it with curiosity. Instead of going, what’s gonna happen next? It’s, oh, what’s gonna happen next? And that shift is sometimes enough to just stop the anxiety response, to stop the panic response. It doesn’t make things magically better.

Arfvedsonite is not gonna, like, make the world a kinder, gentler place instantaneously for you, but it gives you that pause between action and reaction where you can choose which channel you want to use to approach it. This can give us a sense of being more adaptable, more confident, more creative during periods of change, transition change, upheaval, whatever you wanna call it. When fear subsides, we’ve got this opportunity to sink, to see things more clearly, to feel ourselves more authentically. I think it’s also a really good ally for communication when we’re undergoing those stressful periods. If we don’t have that syncope, that beat, then we just blurt things out.

We don’t always think them through. We just say, like, the rawest version of what we’re thinking and feeling, and that’s not always what we mean. And it doesn’t always come out the way we mean, so I find it really useful for that. So we’re less likely to be triggered by fear or conflict. Instead, we’re open to navigating through that.

And it has become this kind of light on the tunnel light at the end of the tunnel for me. It’s such a wonderful ally for kind of, I think, also unpacking the baggage we have around, especially global stuff, because we can’t all be on the front lines. We’re not all able-bodied enough to to demonstrate and pick it and and, you know, march on whatever our capital is or show up for folks in other ways in a bodily sense. So how do we contribute to making the world less fearful, more full of wonder? How do we contribute to making the world less disconnected and more interwoven through community and support?

And there’s so many ways that we can show up, and I feel like Arfvedsonite kinda helps us find the level of engagement that works for us and our lifestyles. It’s not gonna say you never have to push yourself, but it is going to help you be reasonable about what those limits are. And I find that this kind of, like, fibrous structure that it’s got is almost like a cocoon that it wraps us in during our own periods of transitions even when it’s personal rather than planetary, it keeps us safe and sound. It helps us feel safe and stable to get through that. And, around that same time period, it might have been late 2020, early 2021, one of my favorite rock vendors. He’s just got the coolest stuff. My 2 citrines that we talked about recently, they came from him. He brought us a parcel of Malawi minerals. A parcel is a small way to put it. And, for those who don’t know, Malawi has some of the nicest examples of macro crystalline Arfvedsonite.

So I didn’t pick the largest for myself, but I certainly did get myself a really good single crystal of it. And the lighting is terrible, but it appears black. It’s actually such a very deep dark iridescent blue. And, I also got a really nice Adrian from the same location, and that one is so dark. It appears black, but it’s actually green, and it’s a pyroxene mineral.

This is an amphibole mineral. They’re both chain silicates, and I can’t remember which family is which. But one is single chain, the other is double chained, and, like, working with the 2 together is, like, the best kind of ass kicking you can get when it’s time for transformation. Arfvedsonite has just been something that  I really, really love. Whether you’ve got the kind of polished fibrous massive pieces, whether you can find single crystals of it.

They’re usually more like this size. It’s gonna ease transition of all kinds, and it reminds us to keep our eyes on the light at the end of the tunnel. You can close your eyes and stumble in the dark. You can stare at the darkness behind you, or you can keep your eyes on the horizon and say, the only way out is through. And Arfvedsonite is, like given that it’s got that fibro structure, it’s like Ariadne’s spool of thread, spool of yarn that’s gonna help us navigate through the labyrinth of life.

Kyle: You just need to metaphorically put out. Sorry. Oh, just said beautifully and, like, metaphorically put, like, really, poetic almost.

Adam: I love this idea. You know, many of the different cultures around the world that still live, the indigenous cultures are in touch with the land, they don’t only see us as having consciousness, but animals, plants, and also the stone. The crystal does as well. And as we know, we see this in humans all the time. Humans that have been through something traumatic, whether it be an illness, whether it be poverty, whether it be some type of discrimination.

When they get out the end of the tunnel, they turn around and they help other people come out of that tunnel as well because they understand that plot. And I love what Nicholas you were saying about how this crystal in its formation was put in through so much trauma and pressure and came out at the end of the tunnel, and it then can come back and help us to do that as well. And I heard that same thing in both what Nicholas and Kyle were sharing about. It’s a really great stone for helping us to navigate through the darkness and see, like we do when we move that crystal into the light, the flashes of light at the end of the tunnel. I love that.

Thank you. Yeah.

Ashley: That’s really beautiful.

Adam: Ashley, what about yourself? This is obviously looking at the crystal and feeling the crystal, it’s a bit of a rarer crystal. It kinda has some magical, kind of attributes to it. How would you use it in kind of more magical sense?

Ashley: Yeah. You know, I’m really sort of, feeling into what Kyle was saying earlier about this idea of expansion that we see with this crystal and that we can feel with this crystal. And so I have just this little tumbled piece here, but it does have that beautiful sort of iridescent blue shine. And I do see what Nicholas was saying about you know, if you look really closely, there are some greens. There are some golds sort of mixed in, but, predominantly, I think in the really nice quality pieces, what we’ll see is a lot of that, the blue coming through.

And the energy of expansion is so present in this mineral for me. This is one that I feel in a number of different ways. So first, I feel like it helps us, like, on this microcosm expand out into the universe. It helps us with cosmic connection, celestial connection. So I think, you know, Adam, every week, you know, you talk to us a little bit about how our crystals are rooted into some astrological events.

And it may at times feel like, you know, those planetary bodies, those heavenly bodies are so distant or maybe we aren’t really seeing the direct connection that we have. But this crystal with that energy of expansion is such a reminder that we are a part of this universe that, you know, even on our little individual microcosm level, we still have a role to play. We’re still very much influenced by those energies that surround us, and we’re very much connected to them. I mean, think about how much your big three play such an important role in your life. Right?

Dictating your personality and how you show up in the world and things like that. So this crystal, which with its energy of expansion, I think opens us up more to those planetary influences, which can sometimes feel subtle, can sometimes feel really intense. But when we want to understand them better, when we want to open ourselves up a little more so that we can get a better idea for, well, how am I affected by current astrological events? How do I connect with the energy of Saturn or Venus or whatever it is? This is a crystal that can assist you in that process.

And I think wearing it as jewelry, particularly a strand of beads like the beautiful ones that Kyle showed us, is a great way to do this because it’s just having it in your, field of energy in your presence to remind you that, okay, every time I am making contact with this crystal, every time I notice this crystal, it’s a reminder for me to sort of check-in with how I’m feeling about these really big cosmic influences on my life. And it’s just a practice of cultivating awareness and noticing that I think really comes through with this crystal. The other way that this stone is really related to expansion is through the expansion of our personal power, the expansion of our magic and our magical workings. So this is a stone that I love to have with me for spell work. Like, if I think of saying like that I’m really into the tarot.

If I think of the tarot and I think of the card of the magician, like, this is one of the crystals that I feel would so strongly anchor in that archetype of the magician. And similar to Kyle, I also have a little heart. And the heart shape is usually not one that I gravitate toward, but I was so connected to this. And I think it’s because in our magical practices, if you do any type of spell work, and you may not even call it this, but maybe you create a crystal grid. For me, that’s a type of spell work that’s weaving some magic together.

Maybe you do some candle magic. Maybe you work with herbs. Maybe you do astrology. All these things are types of weaving the threads of magic together in the universe. And so because magic is such a personal thing, because so much of it comes from the heart.

I love this heart shaped, Arfvedsonite for connecting with that magical practice and helping it expand. So when you’re creating that big magic that you are sending out into the universe through whatever you wanna call it, however you wanna phrase it, intention, manifesting, or just like direct connection with the divine, with, the land, with, God, goddess, the universe. This is a crystal that I just feel like gets that intention, that energy going. It gets things flowing. It gets it, that energy raised when you’re creating this type of magic.

And so I love personally creating a little circle of some Arfvedsonite tumbled stones, and they’re pretty affordable. They’re maybe not the most common like we’ve mentioned, but, you know, your average rock shop will carry this because it’s fairly widely available. And so even if you just got, you know, as as little as 3 stones to make a little triangle or 4 stones or 5 stones, make some sort of container of those tumbled stones, charge up your magical objects, your ritual objects in the center of that stone circle, kind of like a little grid or a little bit like a little mini stone henge. So putting those objects inside that circle, you know, this could be maybe an instrument, something that you use a bell, a chime, a drum. This could be a wand.

This could be a candle that you’re going to work with. This could be some herbs or even other crystals that you’d like to incorporate into your practice. And just let that sort of energizing, amplifying, expansive energy of Arfvedsonite lift those objects up, raise that energy before you work with them, and then bring one of those stones to your heart. Hold it over your heart and feel that magic and intention that you want to create go into that stone. And I think this is one of the simplest ways that we can connect with that really big energy of Arfvedsonite.

Adam: I love how you tied in the tarot with Arfvedsonite and the magician card. One one thing of one part of the, the symbolism I love on the magician card is that on that table in front of him, he has a sword, a wand, a pentacle, and a cup, which represents the four aspects of our body, our heart, our mind, and our spirit. And it’s kind of once we can control all these, we have, you know, we can create our universe. Thinking about what Nicholas and Kyle said as well, actually, do you think that our best in our life is one that kind of basically helps us get our shit in order in all aspects so that we do have a bit more control in our lives?

Ashley: I would definitely say so. I mean, I think when we’re doing that kind of big magic, we typically do have a pretty clear intention. We typically do have a lot of direction. And so you kinda have to have it pulled together in order to do that sort of thing. And if you don’t know what that is yet, say you’re like, I feel like I’m on the precipice.

I know big changes are coming. I know there’s transformation on the horizon, but I don’t know where it’s headed. Like Nicholas said, that uncertainty piece, this really helps bring things into alignment and give you that clarity so that you can go forward with the next piece. And, Kyle, I think you had something you wanted to add earlier.

Kyle: Yeah. It’s basically aligning to what you were saying, bringing everything together. For me, Arfvedsonite doesn’t have, like, a it’s not one of the elements. It’s all of the elements together. I find Arfvedsonite has that storm, either, all of the elements together vibe where it is a bit of air, a bit of fire, a bit of water, a bit of earth.

How do you bring it all together? How can you bring your physical body, your thoughts, your emotions, and your creativity all together? How can you be a bit more lateral? How can you be a little less rigid in what you’re doing? So just aligning and cheering on exactly what you’re saying, basically.

Ashley: I definitely feel that. And it has such an alchemical energy, right, from the coming together of all those elements. And that’s one thing I love about it. Together with all those elements. And that’s one thing I love about it. But, Adam, you know, I mentioned, a little bit of this, like, cosmic connection. You had a bit of cosmic connection that you wanted to share about this stone with us too.

Adam: Of course. There’s always something happening in the skies. And this week, of course, it’s a new moon in Capricorn. Now a little hack for everyone, whatever sign the new moon is in is the sign that’s also celebrating their birthday. So if you know any Capricorns at the moment, make sure you reach out to them because you’ve either forgotten their birthday or their birthday is coming very, very soon.

So we have our new moon in Capricorn. Capricorn governs the aspect of our lives, which is the public aspect. Traditionally, it’s to do with your job, your career, your profession, but I also like to extend that a little bit and think about our legacy. When once you have been and gone, what will the world remember you as? Now the opposing sign is Cancer.

Cancer is about your house, your home, your family, and what you’re in a circle is all about. This is what everyone else knows about. So at the moment, you are seeing Adam, Kyle, Ashley, and Nicholas in our Capricorn forms. You’re not hearing our deepest, darkest secrets, but you’re seeing what we give out to the world and what we produce. So a new moon, of course, is always a time of contemplation of redirecting the sales and kind of resetting where we want to go.

The new moon in Capricorn is always kind of around this period of the end of 1 year and the start of another year. And it’s interesting because a lot of people do. They start a new year and they’re like, right, I’m quitting my job. Right. I’m changing my profession.

All those types of things. Now if you reflect back on what we’ve been discussing throughout this episode, it’s all been about changing our attitude, about navigating through things with ease, manifesting what we want, and that all ties in really, really beautifully with the new moon in Capricorn. Now I also think of Arfvedsonite as being like the gatekeeper or the guardian. And we can get to the end of the year. And even before we started recording today, we were kind of just catching up on how everyone’s week was.

I was saying how I’ve been trying to work on my manuscript for my next book and the amount of meetings and interruptions I’ve had, I haven’t even opened the file. And this is where Arfvedsonite can be really great. By gridding it around your space or even by wearing it, it helps you to focus on what you want to achieve. Capricorn’s desire is for you to achieve greatness and achieve success, whatever success is to you. And this crystal can be quite you know, when it comes to protective crystals, I love black crystals for absorbing low vibration energies.

Anything that has a sparkle or a chitoid, they do it to deflect unwanted energies as well. These 2 are combined. So this is a really great one to help you go, right, what did I want to achieve in 2024? Was I successful? Yes.

I was in some ways. Probably not in the other ways. What do I need to do in 2025? And this is about being more disciplined. I’m reading a book at the moment about minimalism in your home and talking about getting rid of all the clutter out of your home and thinking about what you need in your house and that type of thing.

And Arfvedsonite almost allows you to do this in your life. What do I need to focus on? You know, what can I eliminate? What can I do? Where can I make myself not available so that I can be available to be successful in my way of life?

Now does that mean making $1,000,000? To some, yes. For others, no. It may just mean that you actually have a more balanced life, a more peaceful life, a more enjoyable life, a more social life. But first of all, working out what that success is for you and then teaming with that.

So it’s not even programming it as a power stone for 2025. Please keep me on track so that I have a successful 2025. So I think it’s gonna be really great to sit on that new moon and set that intention for the next year.

Ashley: So, Adam, is this done almost like, I don’t know, a little guidepost along the way? Is it something that we can come back to if it’s helping us with that intention setting? And how would we or what would you recommend that we do with this crystal maybe throughout the year to sort of check-in and make sure that we’re sticking with those intentions that we set?

Adam: You know, I think new moons are a great time to always check-in. And that’s when I often reach for one of my black crystals. And this could be one to keep going back to, you know, when there’s someone who’s been rather successful, and they always have, like, a gatekeeper. Like, you can’t speak to that person. You’ve gotta speak to their assistant.

I almost feel that when you bring Arfvedsonite into your energy, so wearing it or carrying it, it almost puts that extra layer of stopping people distracting you. So I think it might be a nice one. If you are gonna go, okay. I think the best way to find a busy day is to go, I’ve got nothing on today. This will be great.

And you notice that you get phone calls and emails and the whole day gets consumed. I might recommend it in the future, great. I’ve got nothing on today. I’m just gonna enjoy myself. Let me get that out of Arfvedsonite to ward it off so that I can actually enjoy the day and it can go nicely and not be flooded with interruption interruptions.

Does that make sense?

Ashley: It definitely does. This kind of reminds me of a completely unrelated post that I saw, like, on Instagram recently, and it was about this woman who had a fake assistant. And, you know, every time someone wanted to run something past her, wanted her to do something, you know, speak at an event, teach this class, whatever it was, she would say, well, let me send you to, I think she called it Olivia. I can’t remember who this was. And she said, you know, just by saying, let me send you to Olivia and she’ll help, you know, sort that out.

It gave her the time and space to think of whether or not this was really aligned with what she wanted. And I’m like, oh my gosh. I wanna, like, name my Arfvedsonite Olivia as a nickname. Just remember to check-in and go, okay. Is this really aligned with my intention for this year?

How can I sort of think about whether or not this is, you know, what I want? And just create that little bit of space like you said.

Adam: I love that. I think I saw the post as well, and Olivia even had her own email address. And she said, just email Olivia and she’ll get back to you. So maybe we should actually consider renaming this crystal because everyone’s struggling a little bit with our better site. Maybe we’ll just call it Olivia Stone.

Nicholas: I’m putting Olivia to work tomorrow.

Adam: Yep. Yep. Kyle I love you know, you were talking so much about how it helps you with your travel, and obviously, that would come into our everyday life as well. How would you when you’ve got your mile of beads, is it just about having the crystal near you that you find it really helps you?

Kyle: Yeah. It’s one of those, action driven, like, when I’m doing the thing with the thing, it reminds me of the thing, if that makes sense. Like, to simplify it down to basic English. But I think because the connection that I had with it was so immediate and so deep, I think it doesn’t matter which piece I pick up, it’s going to drive me forward in that way. But I think if you also remember so much of Arfvedsonite that has Garnet in it, and Garnet is such a supportive, nurturing, energizing, perfect stone for our human selves, and it reminds us what we need.

I think that combination gives it a really great base to work from. So if you find yourself with it, remind yourself that there’s also other things going on in it. So it’s not just the Arfvedsonite that’s driving you forward. There’s a few other things happening within it that are supporting you as well.

Ashley: You know, I would love to jump in because, Adam, you’ve done such a great job of every week when there’s a good opportunity to tie in a really common crystal question into our discussion. And so I would like to jump in with one this week, which is gents. I would love to know what are some of your other favorite crystals for safe travel? Because this is actually a question I get quite a bit. Nicholas, do you have any suggestions of crystals that are good for travel?

Nicholas: Yeah. This topic of safety and protection is near and dear to my heart with the new book coming out on this very subject. It’s a low hanging fruit, but I have to say it because we have the most amount of folklore for it, and that is Moonstone. Moonstone is the classic traveler’s stone. And the reason it gets this association is because of what the moon does in the night sky or the daytime sky depending on its phase, and that’s traveled through all 12 houses.

And irrespective of where it starts that journey, it always makes it back. It doesn’t have to start in the new phase in the first house. It can be at any phase. And no matter what happens along its journey, it makes a successful return in 1 month. And so the idea is that working with Moonstone as a kind of energetic support when traveling allows us to recognize our natural ebbs and flows of energy, our high moments and our depleted moments, and make sure that we pace ourselves.

And it also because it is a feldspar, it’s got that thin film interference going on like labradorite and other varieties do. It’s gonna also filter out some unwanted energies, some intrusive things that can be really easy travel drains when we’re open and we’re in that state of wonder or we’re just in a new weird place. We are more likely to pick up, like, energetic hitchhikers. We can feel other things that don’t belong to us, whether it’s just emotions you’ve tried to let go of or the ambiance of a place or that other really terrible American tourists that you don’t wanna be, you know, caught near and associated with. You know, we become sensitive to those things.

And I feel like, is such a wonderful ally to help just filter that out without closing us off from the magic of travel.

Ashley: I definitely agree with that. Adam, what about you? Do you have a favorite travel companion?

Adam: I I I’ve actually got a set of 4 crystals that come with me wherever I go, and I do a lot of flying, a lot of international flying. And so I’m always wearing the same jewelry set when I fly. So, on my left hand, I have my nuummite from Greenland. Of all the protection crystals, I believe that nuummite is the most powerful. That’s my number one.

So whenever there’s something quite scary and, you know, I’m not a nervous flyer, but flying does come with a bit of fear. So having that really grounds me and helps me feel safe. I wear a falcon’s eyes, sometimes referred to as blue tiger’s eye, as a pendant. That is renowned for helping to offer protection at heights. So, obviously, when you’re in a plane, you’re rather high.

And then on my right hand, I wear my emerald ring. I was supposed to get an emerald with Archangel Raphael. Raphael is the angel of, governing lots of different things, but the element there is one of the aspects, and travel is Raphael’s domain as well. I have a little trick that whenever there’s turbulence, I actually put my, my I hold my emerald ring. I always say a prayer to Rafael when I depart.

But whenever there’s turbulence, I put my hand on there and I visualize Rafael grabbing the plane and stabilizing it, and it works really, really well. There is a bit of a clause with this though. I have found, you know, in Australia, we have Qantas and Virgin, which are our high end or, you know, our national brands. Rafael seems to work better with them than he does with cheap ones like Jetstar or Ryanair or all that kind of thing as well. I didn’t think Angel’s discriminated, but with the turbulence, really, really good on those kinds of ones as well.

The final one I have is ones that actually land. Now, obviously, we’re kind of overwhelmed, where we can be jet lagged, all these different types of things. Moonstone, as Nicholas mentioned, is amazing. But as an Australian and as a West Australian, a crystal white plaque is called mookaite. Now that is found, only primarily in Western Australia.

It’s got these beautiful reds and ochres, which are the colors of our land, and then these spiritual colors of white and pink and purple. So it’s about connecting with the spirituality of our land here, but wherever you may go. And I love to hold on to that crystal. I wear a big pendant of it sometimes on the 1st day of my trip and do the good old visualized roots going into the ground, just connecting with the energy of the land upon which I am in. And I you know, I’ve done. I remember doing that after a really traumatic kind of trying to get to a hotel in Paris and different things like that.

It really just helps you to feel the vibe of where you are and really helps with the jet lag as well. So 3 crystals on the plane and one once I get off the plane and kind of my travel essentials as well as whatever’s happening astrologically while I’m away. What about you, Kyle?

Kyle: Amazing. I have a trio and there is a little overlap. Mukite is always one of mine, and having that connection to home when you’re away is why I use that. If you’re not happening to be from Western Australia, work with something that connects you to your home. You know, if you have a mineral crystal that comes from your home place that connects you there, just work with that or something as simple as red jasper or agate or smoky quartz.

Just a nice simple grounding energy would be a great assistant. It’s also funny that we’re talking about amphiboles, bronzite, which is a golden leaf amphibole, which is one of my absolute favorite minerals. I find it is a great protector and deflector. It has that support and I love it for any situation where anxiety comes up and you don’t know what’s gonna be around you. You don’t know how many people are going to be around you.

You don’t know all of that sort of stuff like airports can bring and foreign countries and all of that. So bronzerite gives me a great comfortable base to work from. And then as far as the flying aspect, I always call upon Sarafinite. I find Sarafinite to be my support in the air in the same way that Adam calls upon Emerald, I find Sarafinite that support and I just call directly to whether it be my great grandfather, my angels, those that are watching over me, bringing that support in the same sort of way. I don’t go straight to archangels.

I just go to my personal angels with Sarafinite. But the same pretty much the same idea.

Adam: I love that you mentioned bronzite, which is a crystal that doesn’t get too much attention. I really focus on bronzite in my book . It’s the stone of chivalry and madness, which is an interesting one because in airports and on planes and all that kind of thing, maybe we need to remember our manners a little bit there where we’re kind of crazy as well. So, yeah, I think that would be a great term stone for the reasons you gave, but also to be a little bit nicer. Not that we’re the nasty ones with someone else. But yeah.

What about you, Ashley? What do you take when you’re traveling?

Ashley: Yeah. So I’m definitely a moonstone person. Also, there is a beautiful type of sort of peach moonstone that comes from right here in Wisconsin. It’s called Wausau Moonstone. And I usually have a piece of that with me when I travel, but I actually always have a little organza bag in the glove box in my car of a Wausau Moonstone, a Rainbow Moonstone because, you know, that vibrant flashy energy kind of putting out that little protective barrier, but then also a blue chalcedony.

This is one of my personal favorites because I think it just sort of slows everything down. So when people are in that space where they’re driving, they’re rushing around, zipping through traffic. It’s just like that little bubble for me of just taking a deep breath, traveling safely, getting to your destination safe and sound. No need to rush or hurry or be swept up in the hustle bustle of traffic, just do your thing and drive securely. And I feel like there’s a little bit of that influence that hopefully reaches other people who are really caught up in the, you know, road ragey rush hour traffic also.

So that’s my little pair that’s in the little organza bag in my glove box.

Kyle: Consider blue chalcedony added to my Mercury retrograde survival kit. After this last one, oh my god. I need that soft blue bubble forever.

Adam: Amazing. Amazing. Well, I’m gonna give everyone a little bit of homework for next week. If you have some tumbled Arfvedsonite, get it and pop it in your pillow slip. One other final thing that I found is that this can be really interesting for dream work and enhancing your dreams.

Now if you’re someone who has nightmares, it can help with that. If you find that you’re someone who doesn’t want to dream because you’re scared of what dreams might come or you wanna forget your dreams, it can help with that. And also can help with remembering dreams. And a really great exercise as well as as soon as you get up, write down even before you go to the bathroom or do anything else because that conscious mind starts kicking in, write down anything you remember from last night, whether it’s just an emotion, a mood, a color, a person saying one thing, and that will actually help you over time to remember more and more of your dream. But see how you go for a week’s worth of having others not in your pillow slip.

There are different crystals that I’ve experimented with throughout the years. Quantum Foot Pro. I did this with a group and none of us could actually make it through 7 nights of Quantum Foot Pro in our pillow slip, but we’ll cover that at a later date. But Arfvedsonite is 1 to, have a play with and see how you go. And let us know in the comment section below, what you noticed so we can all learn from each other as well.

Well, I think we’ve done Arfvedsonite good and proper. And, hopefully, if you’re traveling around this time, you’ve got a few extra tips as well. We’ll be back next week to dive into another amazing gift from mother earth. Until then, get that Arfvedsonite into your pillow slip, and we’ll talk to you next week.

Take care and be blessed.

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