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Crystals have fascinated us for thousands of years and magic users of every culture have always considered them a vital part of their ritual equipment.

Glimmering crystals have always held a strange fascination over us that calls to the magpie in our soul. They make us want to collect them, hoard them and treasure them - sometimes at any cost. Crystals are important for healing and are a powerful complementary force to herbs. Just as herbs provide medicine and energy for the physical body, gems provide the same for our spiritual and astral bodies, the energetic 'layers' of our aura that we cannot detect with our normal senses.

They aid our spiritual development and help to balance, align, teach and cure us.

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They can help us to rediscover our lost affinity with the Earth and teach (or perhaps remind) us how to draw the energy we need from the body of the Earth Mother. Gemstones are one of our most important allies on this journey of discovery. Every creature on earth depends on the mineral kingdom for its life. Rocks and mountains wear down over millions of years to become soil and this fertile earth, rich in mineral nutrients, feeds the plants and animals that feed us humans.

At the point of physical death, the bodies of plants, animals and humans break down into their mineral components, meaning that no energy is ever lost from the system. Crystals also have other subtle functions that are important to our well being on a spiritual level. They provide us with energy that is just as vital to our soul as calories and vitamins are to our bodies.