- Hey there, crystal lovers.
Ashley here with the Love & Light School of Crystal Therapy.
And in this video,
I'm chatting all about working with crystals
to create protective energy for your home.
So protection using crystals
is something that I get asked about all the time.
And although I think in a lot of ways,
many of us are kind of preoccupied
with this idea of protection
and we put a little bit too much emphasis on it.
I think if it makes you feel good
and it makes you feel safe
and it makes you feel like
you've done something magically wonderful
for the people that live in your home,
your pets, yourself, your spouse or partner,
your children, brothers, sisters,
any extended family,
then this is a great thing to do.
So, we are going to talk a little bit about a grid recipe,
a crystal grid recipe for protecting your home.
That is the whole focus
of this week's blog posts and podcast.
I've put the link in the description for this video,
but rather than following a traditional tabletop style grid
that uses sacred geometry
to dictate the placement of the crystals,
this is a full scale grid that encompanies
the whole entirety of your home.
So whether you live in an apartment,
you have a free standing house, anything like that,
you can do this grid and just adapt it to your space
to make it work.
To keep things super simple,
in this crystal grid,
we are only working with two types of crystals.
Sometimes crystal grid recipes get
a little bit overly complicated,
and I wanted to keep this one really simple.
But remember, it's not following sacred geometry,
so it's a little bit different than a normal crystal grid.
Instead, it's following the shape of your home.
So you can do this just around one room in your home,
you could adapt this to your office at work as well.
You could do it around in your entire home
or around your property line.
So in this grid, we will be working with just two crystals.
Like I said, they do not have to be this large.
I just picked some big ones
so that you can see them really well on screen.
We'll be working with black tourmaline
for creating energetic boundaries for protection
and also with selenite.
And there's a whole video I've done
about the satin spar variety of selenite.
Yes, I still call it selenite.
Yes, it is selenite.
If you are uncertain about that,
go back and check that video all about selenite.
So selenite is the other crystal we'll be working with,
and this one is for energetic cleansing
to keep the energy cleansed in your space.
So just these two crystals we'll be working with,
and at the end of this video,
I'll also be showing you
some traditional protective folk terms
that I use in my home.
So to start, you're going to gather up
your black tourmaline and your selenite.
So how many pieces do you need for this grid?
Well, it depends on your home.
You might wanna start by just drawing
a simple floor plan of your home,
kind of like a bird's-eye view
of the shape of your dwelling.
So maybe it's a perfect square or rectangle.
It's really, really easy to do a grid
for your space that way,
but maybe it has a little more twists and turns to it.
I have an example floor plan at the link
that I've posted in the description here
for this week's blog posts that shows you
where to place the black tourmaline and the selenite,
according to your floor plan.
But basically, the black tourmaline
will go in any corners of the space
because these are kind of anchoring
that protective boundary.
So if you had a rectangular shape to your overall home,
then you'd just place one black tourmaline in each corner,
or if it made a few twists and turns along the way,
you'd wanna find all of those corners
and place of black tourmaline crystal in each.
You're basically just creating an outline
or energetic boundary of your space
with the tourmaline crystals
to set that protective energy in place.
Now, again, you can use any size.
It doesn't matter if you're working with tumbled stones
or terminated crystals like this one here,
whatever you have on hand is just fine.
Then along each wall
and especially over doorways and windows,
you'll place a piece of selenite.
Again, it doesn't have to be this long.
I do like for this, the short little selenite blades
because they work really, really well for the placement.
So think about it,
if they're going over doors or windows,
most of us over our doors or windows
have some sort of wood trim
and a small little selenite blade or wand,
sits above that trim really easily.
So it's out of the way,
but you get perfect placement with your crystals.
So over each exterior window and door,
you don't have to do this on interior doors in your house,
but over each exterior window and door,
you'll place a small piece of selenite.
If you have a whole entire wall of your house
that doesn't have a window or a door,
I still do recommend placing a piece of selenite,
at least one along that wall as well.
Just one is fine.
And again, if you wanna see an example of this,
head over to the link that I posted
in the description for this video,
because I show kind of a sample floor plan
and where to place these crystals.
I've also showed a floor plan example
where it's scaled back a bit,
because I realize, especially if your house does make
a lot of twists and turns
and has a lot of angles and corners,
this can be a lot of crystals.
So you can do it just in the exterior most points
to kind of cut down on the number of crystals needed.
And then the average floor plan,
if it does have a lot of twists and turns,
you can usually reduce
the number of crystals you need by about half,
which is definitely helpful for your pocketbook.
So take a look at that link to see an example,
but remember black tourmaline in the corners,
selenite over exterior doors and windows,
as well as along any walls that don't have windows.
And when I say this, I don't just mean in one room,
I mean across the length of your entire home.
So if you have two rooms in a row on one wall
and neither of them has an exterior door or window,
you still only need one piece of selenite
for the full length of that space.
The reason that we focus mostly
on exterior doors and windows
is because just like,
whereas the black tourmaline is setting up
that kind of energetic perimeter or boundary
to protect your space, the selenite,
because it's all about cleansing incoming energy,
needs to be over those exterior doors or windows,
because those are the primary spaces
where new energy will be moving into your space.
So as the energy passes through
where you've placed the selenite,
it is cleansed and moves in according to your intention.
So as you're placing your crystals,
I want you to hold the intention,
especially with the black tourmaline.
These crystals anchor protective energetic boundaries
into my space.
With the selenite, these crystals cleanse
any energy coming into my space.
And hold that intention as you're placing your stones.
Then just like with traditional grid making
that does follow sacred geometry,
when it comes to this little bit different style
of crystal griding on a larger scale,
we need to activate the crystal grid.
And grid activation is really just
about creating energetic connections
or links between all of the crystals in that grid.
So using either a separate selenite wand or a quartz point,
or even your finger, if you have nothing else to use,
find all the stones in your house.
Some people like to start with the Northern most crystal,
point either your finger
or your activation crystal at that first stone,
and then walk the perimeter of your space,
drawing sort of an energetic line.
So visualize a line of energy,
connecting all of the crystals in that grid.
The reason for this is
it will energetically link those stones,
and that's actually what creates the grid
rather than just in assortment of crystals
laying around your space.
So the thought behind grid activation
is that it unifies these crystals,
brings them together,
so that they act a little bit stronger
than just the sum of the individual crystal parts.
So activation definitely an important step
as well as really holding that intention
as you're placing each crystal.
This is a step a lot of people miss.
So just two simple stones
to create this really protective crystal grid
for your space.
It is really different than a regular crystal grid
that follows sacred geometry,
that's a small tabletop style,
but you can do this for any space.
And you don't have to limit this to protection,
you could do a crystal grid of your space for wellbeing,
for serenity, for clarity, whatever is needed.
And it's just a really cool way
to incorporate crystals around your entire space
and enjoy their energy.
So I did promise that in addition
to talking about this crystal grid recipe,
which you can read more about at the link
that I posted here,
that goes over to the Love & Light School blog,
I would talk about some other protective things
that I do in my own home
that are based more on traditional folk charms.
And since my heritage is mostly
from Britain, Ireland, Scotland, Wales,
I like to draw upon my own culture
for these protective terms.
But I really encourage you to look at your culture
and find things that work for you as well,
because there's such a rich history of protective charms
and different methods of protection across the globe.
So I'm going to start with a few things.
Now, remember we talked about
the idea of black tourmaline
as creating a protective boundary.
So what can we do to create
a protective boundary in our homes?
Well, one thing that's very traditional
of the British Isles is a Rowan wood cross,
bound with red thread.
So these sticks are made of Rowan wood.
Here in the states, instead of calling it Rowan,
you may have heard of it as mountain-ash.
And so this wood is crossed and then woven together
or bound with red thread.
And these charms are traditionally hung over the front door
or near the place where people
are predominantly coming in and out.
So in my house, that's actually the back doors,
the door that's used the most
because that's where our driveway goes.
So I actually have this over my back door
and I really enjoy it.
It makes me feel happy that there's something there
that I know that is adding
to the energetic protection around my home.
So this may be something that you wanna try.
Then alternatively, you could do something
that is a little bit more controversial.
So this one right here is actually made of black thorn.
Now in some traditions,
you're never supposed to bring black thorn into your home,
because black thorn is thought to attract mischievous
or even malevolent fairies.
And so, especially in Irish culture,
some things that I've read
and in some parts of Britain,
black thorn wasn't usually brought into the home.
However, there are other traditions
that do bring black thorn in for really strong protection,
because black thorn, similar to hawthorn,
which you may be familiar with,
actually has little spines or thorns on the wood.
And so these little spines are similar
to what you see in other traditions
where sharp objects are used for protection,
sharp objects like nails and things like that
are used to keep negative energy at bay.
And so the black thorn is kind of similar to that idea
because it has these spiny thorns.
It's sometimes said that the energy
kind of gets caught in those spines
or is driven away by those sharp spines.
And when working with a black thorn crossed twig,
then you use black cord to weave them together
rather than the traditional red for the hawthorn.
And I find this really interesting
because Hawthorne makes these brilliant red berries
that look like tiny little apples,
and one of the ways to identify them easily
is at the bottom,
they have a little star shaped
and where the blossom was.
And so there's kind of a little star
that is associated with the elements,
so earth, air, fire, water, and spirit.
And so they are thought to be very protective
and that's kind of where Rowan or mountain-ash gets
that connection with protection.
And hawthorn also has red berries,
but blacks thorn little bit different,
more used for those spines.
So those are two traditional terms that you may work with.
Another one is the besom.
And remember where we talked about black tourmaline
is more about setting that energetic boundary.
Well, selenite we talked about
is more about cleansing the energy that comes in.
So a besom or broom, and you can find these
just about everywhere this time of year,
the good old fashioned cinnamon broom, right?
Some people connect them more with prosperity
because cinnamon is very linked
to prosperity and abundance.
However, the besom or broom,
think about what it's everyday common use is for.
It's for sweeping, it's for cleaning,
it's for actual cleansing, physical cleansing.
Well, it's also a representation of energetic cleansing.
So by placing one of these brooms again,
over the door or at the threshold
anywhere there's a threshold
or an entrance into an out of your home
can help keep the energy cleansed.
So as people enter your home,
whether that's your family members,
guests, anything like that,
it's thought that the energy has kind of cleansed.
And it also is thought to push
any unwanted energy out of the space,
just like you would sweep things right out the door.
So that is another folk term you may wanna try.
And now for my absolute favorite,
and this brings it back around to crystals,
but something that is a little bit different.
We have the hag stone.
It's also called sometimes just a holy stone,
but it's known as a hag stone.
And you can see here,
you can see right through the stone
because it has natural holes in it.
Sometimes there's just one hole,
sometime there are multiple,
but these are found all over the British Isles
and they were used for many things, including protection.
And so it's thought that the hag stone
could act as kind of a protective talisman,
and sometimes you will even see small ones like this one.
See there's the hag stone, there's a red thread,
again, bringing in that red cord
or thread that I just showed you
with the Rowan cross threaded through
the natural hole of the hag stone,
and this would be hung in the home for protection as well.
And you may have noticed there's also a little key on here.
Well, what is that about?
The reason this is included
is because iron has a traditional history
of protection as well.
And so things like old iron keys
would often be threaded on as well,
so that you had both the hag stone
and the iron bringing in protective energy.
So in terms of modern crystal healing,
one of the stones,
that we often see connected with protection is hematite.
It's that heavy kind of silvery,
metallic, gray stone, often tumbled.
Sometimes you can find it rough or raw.
But hematite has a strong modern day connection
with protection.
And the reason for that is that it is predominantly iron.
So that more historical context of carrying iron
or bringing iron into a space for protection
comes through with hematite.
And just as we see it here with this little key.
So kind of a fun thing,
I hope that was enjoyable to you today.
Remember, yes, we can do protection
if it makes us feel good,
if it's something that supports us,
but don't get too hung up on it.
Don't come at it from a place of fear.
I think sometimes when people are exploring
different energetic principles like this,
they tend to get a little nervous about things
or give their power away to something,
and that is not what this practice is about.
Should be something that feels supportive to you,
that feels nurturing to you,
but it is important to have
those energetic boundaries in place.
I hope you enjoyed this video.
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Thank you so much for watching.
Until next time, crystal blessings.