#stone stuff

[rainofthedeath]

HHHHHHHHHHHHHH-

Got a new stone necklace ;D (the pink one)

I’M SO HAPPY ;0

[biologyweeps]

I just found a pagan supply shop that sells ‘lemurian seed crystals’

Claiming that this was an ancient culture like Atlantis

and I am

I am so

I don’t even

how can people be like that ffs. Lemuria was a landbridge proposed back in the day before people knew about plate tectonics to explain the fossil record across the indian ocean. 

Until some woo idiot got their grubby dollar-grabbing hands on it nobody in fucking ever connected it to woo.  

And here we are, with the money grabbers at it again fooling some poor fuck into shelling out money for this. 

[little-eclipse-kitten]

Almost forgot the other fossil from the beach

[biologyweeps]

My mom bought me a "protective amulet" made of Lek Lai and told me to look it up online, and this is what I found: ww w. lek-lai. com/ about-lek-lai/ Like really? It prevents guns from firing? It "consumes the phosphorous" from bullets? It can get lighter or heavier? CITATION FUCKING NEEDED.

ok, so I have to judge my looks and the verifiable physical properties (like ‘melts in a candle flame. Btw a candle flame can reach easly over 1100°C so that’s not honestly not as cold as people think), but I’m strongly suspecting that Lek Lai is in fact a mineral known as Goethite. 

It’s weakly magnetic (what with being an iron ore) and I would chalk up any ideas about it becoming ‘heavier or lighter’ to that. Additionally, it only got a mohs hardness of 5 to 5,5 which is pretty damn low, and a melting point of only 350°C (as we covered above, a candle can do thrice that easily).

Additonally it can carry beautiful rainbow iridescence when oxidised and often forms that sort of ‘bubbly’ appearance that you can see in some of the picture on that website. It’s actually what first clued me in, as it’s pretty distinctive with the combination of clearly metallic luster, bubbly look and low melting point. 

[biologyweeps]

Like the witch in me is like "dat sympathetic magic though" (so basically the idea is that the critine or whatever the fuck else can take on the qualities of a healer and pull illness out of you or whatever I dunno. I don't rock with rocks okay. So forgive me for not knowing all the symbolism on a rock). But then the skeptic is in is like lawls it wasn't even sympathetic magic being described in the actual post. All of these are things like says this crystal will do it if you place it on the (1)

(2) The body. That does mean that it’s actually magic, a spell, or any kind of charm. I mean okay maybe it could be a charm in someways. but it’s not completely that way because the person who is putting the rock on themselves is not in the paradigm that it needs to be in that. Like the idea of sympathetic magic and/or animistic qualities needs to be further explored in context to provide paradigmal explanations of why that rock = cleanser or whatever rock it is. Like it could be the color

(3) is the reason it is because urine and such. Or maybe the concept is that the rock somehow, by sitting on top of the organs, is charmed to help ya liver process toxins better because magic. But that all requires like… a paradigm. A knowledge base. And certainly a technique to be established rather than “Put Rock on point A u b k”. Understanding a paradigm is understanding a technique. Having a bare, cherry picked fucking technique out of paradigm is literally unhelpful for those who are

(4) Trying to learn how to do the technique or who are practitioners of that technique passing their practices forward to others. It basically says that there is a universally, widely accepted, everyone does it, thing with critine. Like you wanna talk woo with me, you want to talk spells and techniques with me, don’t come at me with some cherry picked, outta context, no one knows what the base paradigm is. And certainly don’t sit there and say “Oh well I used language to hint that this isn’t

sound medical advice”! Like, okay you’re hinting at it, not directly stating it. And half of those sentences? Are straight up declarative sentences that are saying this rock thing will do this y thing over here as facts. Don’t be mad that you’re called out on your fact statements when you don’t bother to put a context or a warning on them. Bare bones, a stone is just a fucking stone. This is why you need to talk about magic within a context rather than make fact statements. is2jss.

[biologyweeps]

Non biology question, but: I'd like to get a necklace with a pretty mineral, but obviously I do not want to get like, rashes or other ugly reactions on my skin. Googling for this pretty much just comes up with lots of esoteric stuff which is nice, but doesn't help me :( Do you know if amethyst, pyrite, labradorite etc. are safe to wear on skin? Or, which commonly collected minerals are safe? (Or where I could find this kind of information for myself maybe?) Thank you in advance anyways <3

you can get an allergic reaction to basically everything, I’m afraid. 

What you could do is avoid wearing the item directly on your skin, either by getting a pendant with a completely closed back, or by having it sealed in somehow, though the sealant itself may influence the color and/or appearance of the stone. 

Generally, if they sell it at a jewelry store it’s ok to be worn though that still may not preclude allergies and always remember that many gemstones are sensitive to light or sweat and may not be intended for extended wear to begin with. 

The only stone I an currently think of that is incredible unlikely to do anything is straight up clear quartz/rock crystal. It’s SiO2 and shouldn’t react to much. If you buy jewelry, also make sure that you other material of your necklace are not something you may get an allergy to, too. 

[biologyweeps]

Would wearing a polished rose quartz stone in one's navel (admittedly for wooish ritual reasons) damage either the stone or the human?

The stone themselves are a silicate with either phosphor or aluminium causing the color. That shouldn’t be a problem to wear for you. However, the stones themselves are photosensitive and shouldn’t be exposed to UV-light if you can prevent it. Application of water and soap can also damage the stone, as can rough handling with other stones, as quartz clocks in with Mohs 7, so it’s possible that other stones worn at the same time can scratch it. 

[queermoire]

Witch Tip

If you have sensory issues, make it a point in your craft to collect raw gems and crystals of different sizes, textures, shapes, and colors. You’ll find that stimming with the various stones has different effects both physically and metaphysically. Try and sync them up if you can. If you need to fuel a hex, get one that the texture/shape/color makes you angry as well as the metaphysical properties of the stone. The same for calming stones and grounding stones. I’m currently rubbing my pyrite to fight my depressive slump I’m in. It’s very rough and has a lot of ridges, it’s also a very calming (to me) grey color. Always remember to cleanse your stones before you use them, especially for mental health, get those negative energies outta there.