In addition to the
general characteristics mentioned above, quartz crystals
sometimes have other special attributes that enhance their
power. To identify these special types of crystals, pay
particular attention to the largest of the faces that slope
toward the point. Does it have pyramids (triangles) on it? Count
the number of edges surrounding the face. This number can be
anywhere from 3 to 8, and is one of the things that determines
the special characteristics of the crystal. In addition to
strengthening the Inner Being as all crystals do, the crystals
listed below are true teachers and provide additional special
help. Most of them are relatively rare, and they should be
highly treasured when one of them finds you.

ISIS
CRYSTALS have five edges surrounding
the largest sloping face. These crystals strongly amplify the
feminine energy, and can help you get in touch with the 'female'
or unselfish side of yourself, no matter whether you are a man
or a woman. These crystals are useful in balancing your
male-female energy if the female energy has been suppressed, or
if you need a greater balance of female energy for any reason.
Isis crystals put you in touch with the power of the Goddess.
For men, the Isis
crystal will help you become more in tune with your feminine
side and to become more aware of the aspects of women that you
may find troubling.
For women, the Isis
crystal will help you regain some of the power and energy that
society has taken from you. Teaches that feminine is not weak.
Anyone doing healing work with another person needs the Isis
energy to be effective.
The Isis crystal should
be carried or held when dealing with issues that are emotional
and difficult.
Exercise: Isis
crystals can be used to project nurturing energy toward another
person. To do this, sit quietly with the Isis crystal in your
hand with the point directed away from you. Visualize the person
that you wish to help and visualize white light going from the
point of the crystal and surrounding the person.
To nurture yourself,
sit with the Isis crystal in your hand with the point directed
toward you. Visualize white light going from the point of the
crystal and surrounding you. After doing this you should feel
strong and cared for.

CHANNELING
CRYSTALS have seven edges surrounding
the largest sloping face. These crystals are especially useful
for obtaining information from deep within yourself or from
sources that are outside of your normal realm. They can help you
draw on the knowledge and information that is provided by the
universe, and can aid you in getting help from a higher source.
A channeling crystal can be used anytime you are seeking answers
or help from outside of yourself. You must `listen' very
carefully when using this crystal and realize that answers can
come from many sources.
Communication with
Guide: A channeling crystal is a line of communication with
sources outside yourself. Generally, the main source is your
guide. A guide is a non-physical entity whose primary job is to
look after you. Every human being has a guide. Guides are
sometimes called other things, such as conscience, or angels,
but they are always with us. We must learn to listen to what
they have to say. Your guide will never tell you what to do, or
interfere in other ways with what you want to do, but your guide
is there to help you find answers for yourself. And you can use
your channeling crystal to let your guide be your conscience.
A channeling crystal
can only be used by the person holding it. In other words, you
can't send the energy to someone else in order to let him
receive the information directly. However, since guides
communicate readily with each other, you can become good at
getting information to people by asking your guide to give you
the needed information for someone else, and then relaying it to
the person. This is how you channel information for others.
Channeling crystals amplify the quiet inner voice of your guide,
and can be a big help in learning how to channel information,
both for yourself and for others.
Exercise: Sit
quietly holding the channeling crystal in your hand and focus on
or consider the problem or area that you need help with.
`Listen' carefully but remember that the answer might not come
immediately. Often, in the beginning you may find that you wake
up some morning and seem to `know' what to do. When you are
working on a problem, keep the channeling crystal with you as
much as possible and keep it close at night. Sometimes that is
the only time the answers can come clearly when you are just
starting to open yourself.

GROUNDING
CRYSTALS have eight edges surrounding
the largest sloping face. They are quite rare and not always
easily available. Grounding is the ability to deal with
practical matters in a realistic way. For example, in dealing
with the question `How am I going to make a living', a grounded
person will consider his skills and decide how best to use those
skills to make a living. An ungrounded or `spacey' person does
not like to deal with the practical or realistic aspects of
life.
Grounding crystals help
you deal with practical matters in a realistic way. They connect
you with the earth and keep your energies from being scattered.
They help you think clearly and express yourself clearly. When
used in meditation they help you form a strong connection with
higher knowledge, but keep you grounded so that you can apply
that information in practical terms. When using a grounding
crystal to work through a personal problem, remember that it
will require you to look at the truth of the situation and
compel you to deal with that truth.
It is sometimes
difficult to recognize times when you need this crystal because
not being grounded can be a way of life for some people. These
days, it is common to be a little spacey because of things going
on in our world. When you are having trouble concentrating,
feeling a reluctance to tackle a task that needs doing, or find
yourself running in circles but accomplishing nothing, you need
a grounding crystal.
Exercise: Sit
quietly holding the crystal. Visualize yourself firmly rooted to
the earth. Breathe deeply and visualize the roots going deeper
into the earth. Continue this exercise until you feel calm and
peaceful. When you are having a `spacey' time be sure to keep
your grounding crystal close to you. Some people may need to
keep it with them most of the time.
You can sometimes help
another person become more grounded by sitting quietly, holding
your grounding crystal, and visualizing that person being firmly
rooted to the earth.

WINDOW
CRYSTALS have a small diamond
shaped face which takes the place of one of the corners
where two of the parallel faces usually meet the corresponding
two sloping faces. Window crystals are introspection crystals in
that they help you see what is inside yourself. They help bring
things to the surface so you can see them and effectively deal
with them. If you are having problems and aren't sure why, a
window crystal can be a good help.
Window crystals are
used for working within yourself to deal with problems and
changes that must be made in your life. They are used in
meditation to help you solve problems that are troubling your
Inner Being. For example, if you find you are very jealous of a
friend, you can use a window crystal to work within yourself to
find the reason and deal with it.
Think of a window
crystal as a window into your soul. These are very personal
crystals, and when one comes into your hands, it is intended to
help you specifically.
Exercise: Sit
with the crystal in your hand and concentrate on whatever there
is within you that needs dealing with or changing. Just sit
quietly and allow your mind to go where it wants to go. If you
aren't sure what changes you need to make, sit with the crystal
and ask it directly to help you find the areas in your life that
may be causing you problems that you are not aware of.
This crystal can be
used when trying to help someone else solve problems. If a
friend comes to you to talk about a problem have him hold the
window crystal while you talk. It can help him open up.

RECORD
KEEPERS have a pyramid
shaped indention or elevation that appears to be etched on
one of the sloping faces. These are fairly rare, and often the
pyramid will not be noticed until the crystal comes into the
hands of the person it was meant to work with. Sometimes the
pyramid can disappear and sometimes more pyramids show up. Each
of these crystals has its own special lesson to teach, usually
the lesson the person most needs to learn.
Record keepers differ
from window crystals in that window crystals help you look
inside yourself to let you see the various things you need to
learn, while record keepers deal with a specific lesson that you
need to learn. A record keeper will often pass from your hands
very quickly once the lesson is learned.
Carry your record
keeper or put it close to your bed so that it can work with you.
It can also be used for meditation.
Some crystals have
several special characteristics, i.e. an Isis with a Record. In
this case there is a specific lesson to learn that deals with
the feminine side of your energy. If you have an Isis with a
window it means that you need to look inside to find the areas
in your feminine side that are causing you problems.

TWIN
CRYSTALS have two
terminations (points) at the same end, which have developed
from a single base. You can tell a twin crystal from two
crystals that are simply attached to each other, by the fact
that both parts of a twin crystal are exactly parallel to each
other, and have no boundary between them in at least a small
region of the crystal. These are wonderful crystals to use when
dealing with `relationship' things. They can help you gain
insight into the underlying problems in a relationship, and help
work through them. They can generate very positive energy
towards improving a relationship. This works for any kind of
relationship, not only a man-woman relationship. A twin with a
rainbow can be very effectively used to project healing energy
into a relationship or to keep a good relationship strong.
When you are having a
problem with a relationship sit quietly with the twin and ask
for help. Remember, that answers come from many directions.
Twins are personal
crystals as one of the twins is very closely tuned to your
energy, so it is not possible to use this crystal to work for
others in relationship matters.

DOUBLE
TERMINATED CRYSTALS are
crystals that have points on both ends, allowing energy
to flow readily in both directions. Double terminated crystals
strengthen energy flow, and are especially useful when you need
to share or exchange energy between you and another person. They
are useful when you are working to help other people, for
example in massage or counseling, where energy needs to flow in
both directions. In these situations, energy flows toward you
when you tune in to a person to find out what that person needs,
and energy flows from you when you give the person the needed
healing energy. Double terminated crystals are very important to
people doing healing work for themselves or others. They also
help teach sharing through energy exchange.
Exercise: If you
are feeling out of balance with the world, sit quietly and hold
the double terminated crystal in your right hand. Visualize
white light flowing into the first point, through the crystal
and out the other point directly into your body.
If working with someone
else, visualize energy flowing into you through the top of your
head, down your arm, through the crystal, and into the other
person. This can be done while you are with the person or it can
work from a distance.
If you have children,
try using this crystal to send positive energy to the child when
the child is upset or angry. It can have a very calming effect
on both of you.
RAINBOW
CRYSTALS have a rainbow
reflected from within the crystal. Usually they are best viewed
in sunlight. These crystals are especially good as meditation
crystals for working deep within the subconscious. They work
particularly well to lighten the mood for people experiencing
sadness, grief or depression. Just holding a rainbow crystal can
lighten your mood. Rainbow crystals are also very good at
drawing negativity from a room or a situation. Always cleanse a
crystal that has been used to clear negativity by letting it sit
in the sunshine for a while.
Exercise: Rainbow
crystals bring joy into your life. If you are sad or depressed
sit and meditate on the rainbow. It can help lighten your mood.
If working with another, let him hold the crystal if he is with
you. If he is not with you, hold the rainbow and visualize white
light leaving the rainbow and going to him.

CRYSTALS
WITH BABIES are crystals that
have tiny crystals growing inside a larger crystal. These
are very good for people who have had traumatic childhoods,
physically or emotionally. They are helpful for people who are
blocking painful memories. They help bring the cause of the pain
to the surface and allow the person to successfully deal with
it, while shielding that person from the pain those memories can
cause. These crystals work well for people who are working
through current family problems.
Work slowly with this
type of crystal, so that things can be cleared at your own pace.
You may not feel inclined to work with it at all in the
beginning. Don't force yourself. When you are ready, you will
find yourself drawn to that particular crystal. You may have
this crystal for years before you use it.
Also, sometimes
crystals come to you so that they can go to someone else. For
example, someone might receive a crystal with babies, have it
for some time and not be drawn to it at all. Suddenly they will
have an urge to pass it on to someone else.
You can use this
crystal in meditation or just keep it close to you. Just be
prepared to deal with whatever comes up. Try to have some sort
of support around you if you are going to work with this
crystal.

TRIGGER
CRYSTALS have a smaller
crystal growing out from them. This `trigger' can be gently
squeezed to activate the power of the crystal and strengthen its
attributes. These are just used for a surge of a particular kind
of energy.

SELF-HEALED
& PHANTOM CRYSTALS: A
self-healed crystal is one that has been broken off and
damaged quite badly, but then begins to grow again. A phantom is
a crystal that has had some impurity drop on it during growth,
but then continues to grow right around the impurity. Either of
these types of crystal can help you heal from being hurt, heal
from emotional injuries. These are important crystals that will
usually come into your life at a time when you are carrying a
lot of pain. Just sitting with this crystal will help you deal
with the pain effectively.

CLUSTERS: These
represent community and are very powerful at clearing any
negative energy from a room. Just set one out somewhere and
allow it to work to clear the environment.
AMETHYST/SMOKY CLUSTERS: These
particular clusters are mined in a very small area of the
Colorado Rockies. They are powerful in keeping the spirit
centered because they carry a special kind of energy that keeps
all the energy centers within the body aligned, balanced, and in
harmony with each other.
BRAZILIAN
CRYSTALS: Crystals from Brazil
have the special quality of enhancing your ability to project
energy over a distance. For example, in some of the above
exercises, where you are sending healing energy to someone that
is too far away for you to touch physically, hold a Brazilian
crystal along with the other crystal to strengthen the
transmission.
TIBETAN
CRYSTALS: These extremely rare
crystals are hand mined high in the mountains of Tibet, and are
carried down the mountainside by backpack. Tibetan crystals are
for protection. Just having a Tibetan crystal close to you puts
up an automatic shield against negative energy. It also helps
shield you from other people's negative energy. This shield is
even stronger if you do a centering exercise while holding the
crystal.