Winter Minerals
The number one mineral I would recommend for the Winter season is LABRADORITE. This stone is all about magic! Don’t be fooled by its dark outer appearance, this stone holds a rainbow of brilliant hues as it catches the light. This is a great stone for assistance as you move through the darkness, the void, the unconscious, and the unknown of life. It helps illuminate the truth while protecting you as you traverse into unseen worlds. It strengthens your intuition and enhances your particular psychic abilities. Perfect for moving through these darker, winter months; helping you to go within, find the magic, and bringing the light.
MALACHITE
To help surface energy and deep emotion stuck in the body. Energy can get stuck, and when we hold on to it it can cause anxiety, tension, stress and even fear. This stone will help draw that up and out, allowing it to pass through your loving and compassionate heart. Emotion can get stuck (it’s not your fault), because of trauma or denial, sometimes it is frozen in the body, especially in the cold months where energy naturally moves slower. Help it to release.
APATITE
Especially of the blue / green variety, will help during this season as things are darker, more heavy, and as fear is present. It will help you to transform your despair into hope, and your fear into courage. This one is particularly helpful if you feel an inner fear when there are such long nights (sometimes I have this, fear and panic in the early night hours - like 4:30pm-5:30pm).
ROSE QUARTZ
Known to be a stone all about the heart, gentleness, relationships and love, this is also a great stone that can help you during the winter months to support your kidney function. By opening the heart center it allows for a release of stress, tension, and heartache, while supporting the kidneys and adrenal glands. It also helps you connect to others through your open heartedness, in a time that can be isolating if you tend to hibernate (which is natural to do during this time, it is helpful if your hibernation leads to feelings of loneliness).
COPPER
An excellent conductor of energy. It's an enhancer. And is also known as the lucky metal. This would be great to aid in circulation issues or to stimulate the flow of energy. Perfect for colder temps when your energy can get a little stuck from not moving enough and not enough heat and sun, and your emotions can tend freeze up as well. A copper ball is also a great foot massager ;) for cold feet.
PICTURE JASPER
To help reveal hidden thoughts, griefs, and fears so they can be seen and healed. This stone holds a hidden message or picture from the past that can help you on your journey of growth. What we fear and repress in ourselves can be a gateway for profound healing. It is also great to work with as we look ahead to the coming year. (A good one to work with if you are doing the Magic of Winter Workshop - use it during the last meditation that is about seeing what is on the horizon for 2020.)
APACHE TEARS
For helping you feel safe to express emotions that you are holding, or that might be uncomfortable to feel. It is perfect for supporting you during any kind of grieving; grief that is current and even old grieving you have yet to do. Holidays can bring up old wounds, losses, things in our past. Grief is often more present around holidays as well. This is a great friend to your grief.