Part I
I am not particularly one who worships via crystals, but I do from time to time wear stones and crystals based on their magical properties. Many, many years ago, someone told me (and I can’t for the life of me remember who) that when you lose a crystal, it means that its work with/for you is complete, and you don’t need it anymore.
Last February, at Wicked Faire, I got a tarot reading and some massage/body work. These two women (the reader and the healer) happened to be situated right near each other, and had connected with each other through the event. Both the reading and the massage were powerful experiences. Separately, each of the women told me I needed more of a particular stone, (one was rose quartz and one was… maybe garnet? amethyst?) and the both told me I needed hematite. So I went and found myself, for only seven bucks, a little beaded bracelet with all the stones, and came back and showed them both. And I wore it every day.
But it was always really hard to put on… the clasp was cheap and annoying.
Separately, I had this friend. A man friend. An entirely unavailable out-of-the-question-on-every-level friend. But I dug him, and had some attachment to him. And there was this one time many many months ago when I was trying to put the stupid thing on in front of him and I secretly wanted him to help me because… because I just so wanted that moment of him helping me on with my bracelet. God, it is such a girl thing to want that, but guess what. Me? That’s right–a girl. Read the rest of this entry »
