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Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez  and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #30 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Jet crystal meanings, including:
- Working with Jet Crystals during the Full & New Moons
- Adopting the ‘less is more’ approach with Jet crystal energy
- Jet’s historical significance, including its connection to queer identities in the ancient world
Tune in now for a deeper look at Jet crystal meanings!
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 four crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for a casual chat about all things crystals.
Kyle Perez: Hello, and welcome to another crystal confab. Today, we’re staying with another, not necessarily ‘gemstone-gemstone’, and I’m joined by Adam and Nicholas, and we’re going to dive into Jet. How many of you love a bit of Jet action?
Nicholas Pearson: I’ve grown fond of it over the years.
Adam Barralet: Yeah. Me too. I think one of the really interesting things a lot of people find is just tactile-wise, how it feels so different to a crystal. And, you know, one of the problems I think all of us probably get is people sending pictures or trying to identify what this crystal is. And the great thing about when it comes to black crystals, Jet is so much lighter.
So if it’s a really, really light crystal, then it’s going to be really, really easy to go up that Jet type of thing. So that’s one thing. But I, you know, I’ve had experiences and I’ll share them later on about just the tactileness of Jet is really, really nice. But, I believe it’s been used for a long, long time and has a really great history about it as well. And who better to tell us about the history than Nicholas?
Nicholas: Yeah. This is one of those rocks that I think we can trace approximately 30,000 years of human use of. Going back a really long time. In, you know, the earliest instances, people didn’t necessarily make the strong geological distinction between Jet and related materials. Kennel coal and lignite and sometimes black shale were treated very similarly.
So we kinda have to have a little grace in interpreting the data. But it is a stone that is inherently in between, and I find that really magical. One of the most important sources for Jet in the ancient world was in Whitby and what is now modern day Whitby in Yorkshire. I have a bit of Whitby Jet here from the coast of England, and it is my favorite piece in my collection, of very few pieces of Jet. But I think it is really marvelous to imagine that particularly during the Roman occupation of Britain, this material was traded across thousands upon thousands of miles.
We find evidence of Whitby Jet carvings in faraway Switzerland and Germany, as well as in Rome proper. So this was a commodity that was traded for a very long time. In other parts of the world where Jet can be found, we find similarly ancient uses of it. But when this kind of Romano British center production was in full swing about thirty five hundred years ago, Jet seemed to acquire, if we read between the lines, a number of uses that are a little bit weird, a little queer, we might even say. And one of my favorite examples is, the remains of a a skeleton found in a a Roman period burial.
The skeleton is officially known as skeleton six five two, because we don’t have names and dates and ages for all of these figures. And there are a lot of confusing data points about this. This person was interred with a lot of very lavish expensive funeral goods, including jewelry, but they were buried in the part of the cemetery that you would put people who were on the outskirts, the fringe, the beggars, the thieves. So we have a little bit of contradictory information there. When this area was being excavated for the first time, doing, osteological analysis, looking at the the bones of the remains, researchers came to the conclusion that this person could be identified as and it’s a problematic term, but we’ll say to use use the terminology they did, anatomically male by by their bone structure.
But all of the trappings are of what a female identified body would be buried with, including, most importantly, a multi strand necklace consisting of more than 600 rather beads of Jet said to be scattered among the rib cage because, you know, the thread had broken like a swarm of ants. And so we have to do a little bit of reconstruction about what this might have meant. And, there’s probably a very strong influence from a cult of a particular goddess who came from the Far East, and she was symbolized by a great black stone. Her name is often anglicized, Cybelle or Cybelle or Cybele. I’m not really sure what the original pronunciation was or worship would have originated in the Anatolian Peninsula where there’s a material very similar to Jet found.
Looking at some gemological analysis, there’s actually debate over what we should classify it. That’s somebody else’s problem. We’re gonna consider it to be socially akin to Jet and treat them very similarly. And, worship was one that we find very similar mythic cycles in other parts of the world. We have a kind of eternal goddess who is the mother of the earth.
She has a dying and resurrected lover. We’ve seen this motif with Adonis and Aphrodite. We see it with Irushtar, Ishtar and her consort. We see it with Isis and Osiris. So it’s a, we’ll say a mythic motif or theme that recurs in many parts of the world.
But one thing special about Kibele’s worship was that she had a unique class of, we’ll say, priestly people. And I’m using those words in particular because by modern day terms, we would consider Munich. They were the third gender. They underwent a process to to become third gender, if you catch my drift, and occupied a kind of liminal space, an in between space that was neither male nor female. And the kind of resurrecting power of the goddess was said to work through them and to grant them great gifts in the next life, but they were the shamans and the priestesses of this cult.
They entered ecstatic trance. They were ferocious when they needed to be, tender and loving when they could be. They didn’t necessarily operate by all the rules of society. To engage in the worship of the goddess this way was a really transgressive act. And the fact that her worship was also marked by a very curious stone, something that we find in geological environments, but it floats in seawater.
Something hard and enduring, but also flammable, something ancient and of the earth, but still organic, means that Jet has, we’ll say, received quite a lot of unusual imagery over the years. And, we can associate Jet with this in between space. It is a stone and not a stone. It is a fossil, but it is not a mineral. Unlike petrified wood, it hasn’t undergone the process of permineralization where something like silica or another mineral comes in and replaces the organic tissue.
In fact, it is the organic remains of an ancient class of trees called auricaria that were probably swept out to sea, or to bodies of water, we’ll say, by a great and cataclysmic event or series of events. And the two rough categories of Jet that are out there, hard Jet and soft Jet, which actually has a lot more to do with their oil content than their brittleness because they have the same hardness range on the Mohs scale. But one one would have gone in seawater and the other into freshwater, immediately be buried by sediment and compressed by the sands of time. And that hypoxic environment prevented decay and putrefaction. It prevented microorganisms from breaking it down like other organic materials tend to.
And so living in this in between zones in the earth, in the water, but not really either, it becomes this other thing. And so Jet for me has been a stone of embracing the otherness, the queerness, the liminal spaces of life. I think of it as a stone that I turn to when I need to feel surrounded by my queer ancestors and the people who have been the trailblazers for me to live the life that I live as openly as I live it. It is protective. It is a stone that helps us face our fears and maybe examine where they come from.
And at the same time, it’s a stone of incredible mystery. You know, we have expressions like black as Jet because the color of the stone is so iconically dark, unknowable, impenetrable. It is not transparent in thin sections like obsidian and some onyx and even some tourmalines would be. It is opaque, and there is something about the opacity that it represents of the unknown that when we surrender to, we can come out really empowered and transformed. And so when I need a little extra queer magic in my life, Jet is one of my go to stones.
Adam: Nicholas, black stones are often seen as being good for protection. Would you say that maybe Jet might be a good one for queer people who feel that they need extra protection?
Nicholas: Yeah. I do. And, you know, the reason for this, I think, is manyfold. Jet has been associated with another stone we’ll eventually talk about, amber, because they’re found in similar environments. They both float in seawater.
They’re both flammable. So they kinda share a little bit of one another’s functions in different historic periods, and both are considered very protective. We can find references in medieval and earlier and later texts, but, describing how either of these stones were placed on coal and allowed to smoke because they’re organic materials that smoke will drive out demons and spirits. And I think of that as something symbolic. Like, sure, you can burn Jet.
I actually have a Jet incense recipe coming up in the witching stones, which will be out in the fall. But, rather than physically setting it ablaze, I think it is kind of nourishing that inner fire to stand up in the face of fear and marginalized people of all kinds, of all colors, of all ages, of all shapes, and race races, and nations, and identities. We have a different kind of fear than people of greater privilege. And I recognize two things can be true at once. I have a lot of privilege in my life, and still I can be scared as shit about some stuff as a queer person.
And Jet helps me just find that little spark of courage and keep at it so that spark takes purchase, so it kindles something, so I can stand up and keep doing what I do. So I think it is a great stone. It also reminds us that we’re not alone. As a fossil, it has a very ancestral vibe. I think something we hinted at last week.
Fossils have this deep connection to the past, but the fact that it has this special connection to queerness and otherness, to those people occupying liminal spaces in society, it reminds me that I don’t have to go it alone, that there are people in community, whether they are remote, like you friends and Ashley, where where the people in my physical space, in my home, at my job, and anywhere I go, I can try to forge those same ties. So I think it’s a great stone for protection in a lot of ways.
Adam: I really love one of the things you spoke about there about talking about queer ancestors. And often what one thing I have to talk to, you know, people in traditional and heterosexual relationships is whereas when you grow up in a regular family as a heterosexual person, your life is kind of modeled to you when you kind of have that family where, you know, this is what you’re gonna do when you get older. And as a gay person in a growing up in that, we almost we have our blood family, but we have to go find our other family that will model what are we meant to do with life because that tradition of, you know, go to school, go to uni, find a nice partner, get married, have some kids, and so on. And I know not all heterosexual people adhere to that, but then it’s kind of a traditional model. With gay people, there’s many obstacles that stop us from doing those types of things. Whether it be in your country, you may not be able to get married.
Obviously, biologically, we can’t have children when we’re in a gay relationship, unless you bring help with that type of thing. So, yeah, that, need to not only find our own queer family in our everyday life, but also reach back into queer ancestry and find queer guides and queer spiritual support. I really love that idea, and I think that would be something that probably I know I haven’t really explored too much apart from an affinity with some more gay gods. But I love thank you for introducing that, Nicholas. That’s really powerful.
Nicholas: My pleasure. Thank you.
Adam: So, Kyle, what about yourself? How do you like to use Jet?
Kyle: Well, I think just to touch on all of that, I think it’s really important that throughout, I think, pretty much all cultures in all histories, it was the queer person, the in between person, the gender fluid person that was the one that was the shaman, that was the spiritual connector, that was the healer. These were the ones that were sacred up until much more recent history. So I think that’s a really important thing to know and a really important connection. But for me, Jet has been a lesson of less is more. I am a more is more person.
I’m a maximalist. I’m a doer. I like stuff. I’m enthusiastic to a fault. And I have had a few points in time and I literally have two items of Jet.
One came to me at the very start of my journey and one came to me last year. This one was that when I was studying especially, don’t push out the pressure on yourself to do so much. Whenever I put the pressure on myself to do so much, I found myself getting less ahead. Like, what’s the saying, slow down, hurry up, something where you’re like you’re basically going backwards to go forwards. But I realized by my second year of study of gemmology that if I was more efficient with the way I did it, if I did it on one day instead of spread out throughout the week, if I was less stressed about trying to always do it because the brain doesn’t work that way.
It’s not that it’s not built that way, especially ten years after doing any sort of study to then go back and, like, stretch the brain again into science. I realized that by doing it every day, I wasn’t actually helping myself learn. If I did a full day, like a full day of work, seven or eight hours with a lunch break, I was able to do assignments. I was able to study. I was able to learn and get further ahead quicker.
And I found that, like, really efficient use of my energy was getting me further ahead. So it’s like when you do less, and it’s not that you’re doing less, you’re actually just being more efficient. And I think that’s what Jet is. Like, it has gone through pressure. It has gone through life.
It has been this. It has been that. And now it’s just, you know, bogged along to come to shore to find us. Like, it’s totally adaptable. And if we are able to, like, put less pressure on ourselves to do everything and be able to be more adaptable in the moment when we feel present, when we can do, we can do more.
Take the pressure off yourself to do things all the time. Does that make sense? Like, there are times when you feel capable often, and then there are times when you don’t feel capable every day. And as someone who suffers chronic pain, like, my % can be 30%. Right?
It can be not much. And to have to balance two full time jobs with study meant that I had to, like, rearrange my life. And by allowing myself just one day, one day between my classes, I found myself getting so far ahead so quickly. I was like, why the hell didn’t I do this sooner? Jet was like this light bulb of, like, less is more.
And there’s this saying from an old Simpsons episode that I can’t remember, exactly what it is. And it’s a funny thing. It’s totally totally stupid. It says, aim low, achieve your goals, avoid disappointment. And it’s like it was totally said in jest, and it’s like sometimes we actually need to set ourselves little incremental achievable goals.
Today, this is what I’m going to do, and that’s what I’m gonna do today. That’s all I need to do. And if I don’t do it, that’s fine. But I’m gonna do a little bit, I’m gonna do a little bit, and I’m gonna do a little bit. Maybe it’s half an hour a week where I set aside something to learn something new.
Maybe it’s an hour a month where I’m going to do x, y, or z. Like, instead of going, I’m gonna go to the gym three times a week straight away. I’m gonna start studying. I’m gonna do this. Like, when you try and jump into something especially from nothing, I find it, like, too much.
And then you fall off the bandwagon. You don’t wanna do it anymore, and you lose that enthusiasm. But if you can go, I did this. I did this. I did this.
And you’re checking it off and you’re seeing yourself progress, you actually have so much more faith in yourself. This was brought back to me in a reading that I did last week, where a client spoke about the fact that they did this on this holiday, and they would never have done it two or three years ago due to fears. And it’s like, you were just saying you haven’t gone anywhere and you just said, look at how far you’ve come in a couple of years. Right? If you look back to last week, if you look back two months, of course, it doesn’t feel like you’ve done anything.
But if you break things down over a long period and you look back over six months, you look back over two years, you look back over five, ten, you’ll actually see that you’ve come a lot further. Right? Jet takes that patience to another level of, like, allowing yourself to just do enough and enough is enough. And sometimes that’s more than enough. Right?
Does that make sense? And then it came back again into my life last year with this bracelet when I broke my arm. So I fell down the stairs. I broke my arm. The radial head was fractured just there by the elbow, and it’s something that you don’t do surgery on.
Couldn’t put a cast on it because it was my point. It was like, just wear a sling and just deal with it. Let it heal. And this was like an immediate ‘take me.’ You need me.
You need to, like, resist the compulsion to do because my compulsion is to do. I work in a workplace where rocks are heavy. Right? I, like, want to do and pick things up, and, like, my limit is five kilos. Still, a year later, it is five kilos.
And if I go beyond that, I then get pain for another week. Like, it comes back again. And I then have to go, oops, put my Jet back on, remind myself to slow down and do a little bit less. There are other people that can do heavy lifting. There are other jobs that need to be done.
There are other things that you can do. You don’t have to do it all at once. Maybe you can break it down into lighter bits that you can lift and then you’ll be able to move the thing over there. Right? I am, like, one shopping bag trip home from the shop.
Like, I will and have hurt myself so often over the years. It’s that reminder for me, do less, achieve more. Come back to a little bit more efficiency. Right? Two pieces over fifteen years of collecting.
Like, it’s enough.
Nicholas: I really love this, and I’m, like, having a little bit of a moment myself that connects this message to, like, even the materiality of Jet. So, you know, Jet is light. It takes up the same amount of space as a heavier material, but because it’s less dense, there’s less matter inside it. And even, like, the darkness, this idea of, again, connecting Jet to blackness to night, like, we see in several languages words for Jet that are ultimately derived from, like, old Persian roots that mean night. Spanish is a really great example of a word that has this old Persian origin.
And, you know, night is the space between days. It is the period of rest. Even the darkness in the sky at night is necessary for us to appreciate the points of light that are the stars between them. And if we don’t have those restful, dark, dim moments, we can’t also have moments of activity of light. And I really love how you helped me connect the dots there.
So thank you for that, Kyle.
Kyle: I am so so happy to do so this is something that I say in so many readings is like you don’t have to get there so fast things can get there at their own pace and you’ll get there when you need to and I love also the taking up space thing. I actually really love that essence of being able to take up space and coming back to queerness. Right? And minorities and everyone, we are allowed to take up space. Everyone is allowed to have a little bit of space on this planet.
Adam: I think for you know, there are so many people who feel guilty like you were saying, Kyle, when it comes to doing nothing. I remember, you know, I had a friend when I lived in Melbourne who, you know, had a bit of a rough childhood, but he couldn’t be by himself. And if he was, he had to have music on loud. And he’d ring me on a Sunday morning going, what are you up to? And I’m like, just cleaning the house.
He’s like, do you wanna come grocery shopping with me? And I’m like, why? But it’s just he wanted the company all the time. Now he’s an extreme example where it’s amazing how, you know, I I’ve noticed a few people have commented recently in just different things, how we can’t do nothing anymore, or we can’t, you know introspection and quiet time used to be just sitting on the bus and looking out the window. But as soon as we have a quiet moment, and I’m guilty of this as well, what do a lot of people do?
We just pick up our phone and start scrolling. We fill that space straight away, and this idea of doing absolutely nothing, people just don’t know what to do when they can’t when they do nothing. And I think Jet might be a really interesting one and maybe a really great practice with Jet is sit there, and what do you do with it? Nothing. And can you do nothing for fifteen minutes?
Yeah.
Kyle: Exactly. Can you, like, take it on a train trip with you? Keep it on you when you’re in the car. Take it on a plane ride, like, when you’re going on holiday when you would normally, twenty years ago, we would have done nothing because we didn’t have phones to play with.
Adam: Exactly. Yeah. I love that. I I wanna ask you, Jed, before I get into kind of some astrology that Jets can be really helpful for, coming up for us, you know, protection crystals and black crystals are often seen as being the key ones or often come up first on those of what’s a good protection crystal. So we’ve kind of got our big four.
We’ve got black tourmaline, black obsidian, black onyx, and then Jet. I’d love to know from each of you, how would you differentiate those in different ways? How would you differentiate them, Nicholas?
Nicholas: Oh, I mean, energetically speaking, obsidian is reflective. It is a glass. It is insulative. It lacks the long range crystal and the long range order that defines a crystal lattice. So, you know, I think of, like, the void of becoming.
It is the prima materia, the first matter out of which other things can arise. So it’s great raw material. I don’t think it is good long term protection, though, because it just doesn’t have the heft required. Really good if we need that kind of insulative shielding in the short term, but I definitely wouldn’t use this long term, unless I were in dire straits. And, ultimately, I’d wanna remove myself from dire straits and rely on total, you know, hermetically sealed kind of energetic protection.
When it comes to something like, black tourmaline, I don’t think of it as primarily shielding. I think of it as primarily purifying. It is in a way kind of like this cosmic garbage disposal. When we look at the crystal structure of tourmalines or cyclosilicate minerals, those can take two general categories. Tourmaline takes the columnar structure.
So all of the rings stack on top of each other and create these, like, really teeny tiny microscopic channels through which small bits of stuff can move. That includes maybe also small bits of energetic stuff that can move from them. So, this is a really powerful grounding stone. It is the most iron rich member of the tourmaline family. Iron has this descending quality to it.
So it doesn’t just move stuff. It helps us release stuff downwards into the earth. It’s like that, grounding prong in most outlets worldwide. And, therefore, by linking us to something greater, the body of the earth, giving us a safe and easy channel through which to discharge things. It’s almost like having a cosmic garbage disposal in your energy field.
It’s not about keeping stuff out. It’s about dispelling the things, discharging, releasing the things you don’t need because they can just pass through you unimpeded. Jet, you know, I’ve already kind of given some, some discussion of, but I think of it as warmer, softer, lighter, and definitely has that kind of symbolic quality of chasing away the things that we fear, maybe by helping us spark the light. And then was black onyx your fourth one?
Adam: It was. Yes.
Nicholas: Yeah. So, you know, being a chalcedony, I think that it’s having this kind of settling effect. If we think about how those form, I know it’s been a long time since our black onyx episode. They tend to form out of, like, a colloid, a gel, a goo made out of silica that settles, precipitates from solution. And so it’s got this kind of, like, letting things let the stuff settle, the dust settling after an explosion, for example.
And by getting things to settle, we can reorganize, rebuild. It’s, you know, getting all the bricks to find their ideal space to create the wall that is gonna protect us. So four different makeups, four different stones, four very different kinds of energetic properties for me.
Adam: I love that. I love that. Carl, what about yourself?
Kyle: For me, I think black tourmaline is like the snow plow. Get the f out of my way. Obsidian is why don’t you look at yourself before you look at me, protector? I think black onyx is like Teflon. You can move through things without really being noticed.
And Jet, I think, bobs above everything. I’m gonna shorthand everything. And I think, yeah, Jet is kind of more bobbing above everything, protecting by kind of floating above everything.
Adam: Mhmm. Mhmm. I couldn’t agree with you both more, especially with the black tour lane. You know, I find I think of it, you know, when you see a celebrity being pushed by a crowd and the bodyguard is out of the way, please, out of the way. For those that like angels, there’s an angel known as Jehudiel.
And he is often a protection angel. He’s often depicted as being black. He’s very quiet, not kinda like the Michael kind of way who’s like, get out of the way. Very subtle when he’s way up. I’m black toiling is that real good snow plow or, you know, bodyguard, whatever that may be, pushing danger or hindrances or distractions out of the way.
I find with, you know, black, obviously, as an energy, it obviously can absorb things. I find black crystals a bit like a sponge, and I find I like to use black obsidian for more fiery or aggressive protection. So I think that road rage or anything like that. Whereas onyx, I find is more really, really beautiful for things that you are unaware of. So if I lived in the middle of a city, God forbid, you know, I’d probably put a bit of black onyx around my house just to absorb the unwanted energy just being around that many people and that type of thing as well.
So that kind of unknown versus right in your face for the obsidian versus onyx. When it comes to Jet, though, what I find is it’s a really great one for absorbing also our unwanted energies as well. So whether we’re feeling angry or frustrated or irritable or any of those types of things, I find it to be a really nice one just to hold in your hands. It is really quite comforting and to just kind of soothe you through that emotional turmoil that you’re going through as well. The biggest one that I recommended for and where it kind of played its most important role in my life is when my father passed away.
I have a Jet palm stone and just again, that comfort of using Jet to, you know, just kinda offer comfort, but also absorb a bit of that grief and to help you deal with that. And I’d know even at the funeral, I still remember holding that in my hand and just, you know, when we were in that kind of depth of sorrow and grief, you kind of don’t know what to do and don’t know what to say about anything. So just having something, I guess, to fiddle with. But the soothingness of it is really, really powerful. And this could really lead into some of the things that are happening this week.
So first of all, we have a new moon in Taurus happening. So Taurus is our money sign to be really kind of simple about it. So it’s a really good way to maybe stop it, contemplate where you are with your money, where you are with your spending, where you are with where you know, your next financial goals or whatever that may be in your life and, you know, exploring that, doing that little check-in. Now why I love Jet for this instance is often when we think about Taurus, we think about, okay. Maybe we can bring in some green crystals like adventurine or emerald or or jade for abundance or citrine or something like that.
Whereas we might want to look at not necessarily bringing money in, but how can we calm down the amount of money going out? So I find Jet to be a really beautiful one to work with when it comes to overspending. Now I’m always reminded of one of my students, several years ago, who learned in one of my classes, I’ve been talking about Jet can be good for absorbing those, for overspending and those tendencies where we tend to shop to fulfill a short term, lack in our lives, a craving, wanting that little dopamine hit or that type of thing. And so if she went and grabbed herself a piece of Jet, and it was just large. It was, you know, probably the size of, you know, a baby’s head, I should say.
And she popped it in her handbag and her justification was, well, one, hopefully, the energy stops me from shopping, but two, I can’t fit anything in my handbag anymore. So it’ll work one way or another. So this can be a really nice one of kind of stopping to kind of you know, this can be done with when it comes to eating. I listened to an amazing Mel Robbins podcast last week where she was talking about, with with a doctor who was talking about when we go to get a snack that we don’t actually it’s not part of our nourishing our body, just acknowledging the emotion before before we eat that ice cream or that chocolate or that that type of thing. And I probably suggest applying that kind of wisdom when it comes to buying something.
When you’re okay. Do I really need to buy that other shirt? Is this a need, or am I just feeling a bit down and this will make me feel better for a minute? Or, you know, that kind of scrolling on the Internet. And, you know, I’m guilty of Instagram getting me with these things that I didn’t realize I needed until I saw this quirky little ad.
And Jet’s a really good one for going, okay. Let’s absorb those unwanted low vibration energies and emotions that are causing us to spend unresourcefully. Let’s be a bit more Taurean and steady and calculated in our approach to money, and how can we set some goals. So that’s one reason we might wanna have Jed around us, in the coming days. But on top of that, we also have Pluto going into retrograde.
Now Pluto is our you know, although out in the far cold depths of our solar system, also has a bit of a volcanic energy, and it’s very much about transformation. And there’s some really great transformational energy that will come up each time Pluto goes to grave. Now some of the more traditional viewpoints will express things like, this is where any toxicity in life will come to the head. So an example of this may be corruption. Corruption in your life, corruption, you know, this is where maybe governments or politicians or celebrities or other people get found out.
All things come to the surface when Pluto goes into retrograde. Now for us, this is the best time to do a detox. So it can be a physical detox. So if you like to do gut detoxes or juice fasts or things like that, Pluto is a really great time to do that. It’s also a great time to do emotional detoxing and doing practices such as, you know, going and watching the sunset and putting that energy into the Jet.
And then, you know, either gifting the Jet back to the, back to the planet, back to the earth, or then cleansing it can be another thing as well. Mental detoxing all and spiritual detoxing as well. So having Jet around at this time is a really powerful one for helping you to cleanse because what Pluto truly wants is it wants to connect you with that animalistic drive, that core spiritual drive of what motivates you. It’s about authenticity. And there are a lot of things we surround ourselves with in our lives that are, I guess we bring them into our lives because we feel that we have to be something or someone or look a certain way or have a certain item or have a certain house or all these different types of things.
So there’s gonna be this really beautiful cleansing energy that allows you to be more authentic and to live the life that you want to live. And I guess, as we’ve mentioned already, to kind of take up space a bit more in the authentic you take up space rather than the artificial aspect of yourself. So really see what comes up this week. There’s gonna be some challenges, but the comfort of Jed, I think, will be really, really beautiful to help you learn these lessons. And, you know, people always hear the word retrograde, and I see people start going, you know, all the new ways bloggers start freaking out.
Every retrograde, as I say, is a lesson. Things come up to be tended to so that you can get them sorted and you can actually evolve and grow. So if you want to be on the spiritual path, you can’t run off and hide from a retrograde. You can’t fall on the ground and cry and blame a retrograde. You’ve got to face the retrograde head on.
Remember that Mother Earth loves you. She gives you crystals, she gives you essential oils and all those different things to help you navigate each retrograde so that you can grow and do what we talk about in the new age as well. So we’re kinda coming to the end of this episode, but I’d love to ask the other two gents as well. I love what Kyle said about the surgery. I think it’s a really great thing.
People often ask, you know, what are some crystals I can take for surgery? I’ve got, you know, a big surgery coming on, and, you know, I often recommend things like blue lace eggs that I find to be really beautiful and calming. But you’re so right, Kyle, that we are in this instance of, like, you know, yep. I gave birth to eight children yesterday, and I’m back in the boardroom today. I think Jet, that real nice one to calm us down.
But, Kyle, do you have any other ways that you might practically use Jet?
Kyle: I’d like you to remind yourself of this. Like, growth as a permanent fixture isn’t healthy or sustainable. We have plateaus. We have dips. We have times where we get stagnant.
That is the natural cyclical nature. Right? We have winter. We have spring. We have autumn.
We have summer. It’s not always going. It’s not always the same and so is our life. Right? So maybe work with Jet to reassess where you’ve been thinking the same way for the last ten, fifteen years and you haven’t realized that your body’s aged.
You’ve gone further, you’ve dealt with life, you’ve you want different things, you’ve evolved, you’ve grown. I think that coming to that realization that we are allowed to grieve and let go of things that are now done so we can move into something new. I think that’s really, really important.
Adam: Maybe that’s the reason that Trey’s lived for a few hundred years, and we all struggle to make it to a hundred because they sit back and have a bit more of a rest. Yeah. What about yourself, Nicholas?
Nicholas: I often use Jet in tandem with amber. So I’ve even got some Baltic amber, which can wash up on the shores of Whitby and other parts of England as well. And those are two things that I might just carry together to give me that interplay of darkness and light, of active warmth and cooling rest. You can wear them as jewelry. I mentioned that I actually make Jet incense.
I also make amber incense with small amounts of the stones ground up. And other things that smell better than Jet does, it kinda produces some unpleasant smoke. And I think they make a great divination tool as well. Ashley was recently talking about her kind of, like, crystal casting method, and you can do something similar if you get, a few pieces, inexpensive tumbled stones of amber and Jet of similar sizes. They can even be little chips.
Keep them in a pouch together, and you can use them for, like, drawing lots or casting lots, to give you a kind of simple yes or no divination. This is great when we need the short kind of closed ended answers, given to us in time. Whether Jet should be yes or no is kinda up to you, because, historically, the interpretation has been inverted over the years. But give your amber and your Jet complimentary functions. And then you can use that as a kind of divination tool, and you just need some quick advice.
Adam: Amazing. Amazing. Well, hopefully, we’ve been able to inspire you a little bit more about Jet. I do find that when it comes to our black stones, it kind of falls into the shadows. Maybe that’s a deliberate thing, but maybe it needs to come out once in a while as well compared to the other black crystals and stones as well.
We’ll be back next week when we dive into another gift from mother earth. Until then, get your Jet out and do nothing. Take care and blessed be.
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