How to Cleanse Crystals + The 4 Best Moon Crystals for Manifesting
Crystals and stones are beautiful tools for manifesting as they can enhance any environment's personal frequency and vibration. They are mystical items that hold philosophical lessons and intentional memory because of their ability to provide colorful insight to its user.
By harnessing kaleidoscopic crystal power within a lunar cycle, you will learn to balance your sacred active and passive energy and enhance your manifestation advances or Sushumna.
Oooooh La La.
Cleansing crystals adds a layer of personal domestication and creativity to a manifestation practice. If the brain's right hemisphere overindulges or asks for stimulation, practically strategizing with the moon to cleanse the crystals’ power comes in handy.
Like in relationships, our radiance can be asking for a douse of self-love, making love explorative and stronger; a crystal deserves a replenishment of energy after every use.
If using a (4) crystal sequence in alignment with the moon sounds of interest, consider cleansing each crystal when not in use. Try cleansing all 4 crystals on the Full Moon for a ceremonial practice to replenish the way of living. Remember, cleansing crystals enhances your spiritual connection and gives wealth to your body. The timing is placed from within; practice and trust your truth.
How to Cleanse Crystals
Cleanse Crystals in Salt Water
Is your moon sign ruled by Jupiter or Neptune? Without water, our essence would not exist as this element sustains us, nurtures us, and cleanses us.
Submerging your crystal in Moon water for 2-3 hours is one way to cleanse a crystal. Moon water is a pool of saltwater basked in the full moon overnight.
Another way to enhance a crystal’s healing properties is to substitute the Moon water with Earth's natural salt water. Holding a crystal in a stream of running water supports the imagination of renewal. When you do this, your mind must focus on the intention of performing a ‘cleansing ritual’ to purify our crystals clean for future use.
Make sure that the crystal you are cleansing is compatible with water. Crystals incompatible with water include fluorite, selenite, opal, and azurite (among others). Also, did you know that basking in a hot tub during the Full Moon will create a moon-water-manifesting machine?
Another Oooooh La La.
Cleanse By Using Other Crystals
Hey, Virgo, Taurus, and Capricorn beauties! Mother Gaia carries a divine frequency; within this physical plane lie crystals that do not require cleansing themselves. These unwavering crystals are clear quartz and selenite.
Whichever crystal you wish to cleanse, set one of these earthly self-sustaining elements nearby. When you pair clear quartz or selenite with a crystal in use (throughout one of the lunar quarters), any stagnant or negative energy is naturally purified and drawn out.
Your crystal will then be ready for its next 29-day journey.
Use Sacred Smoke to Cleanse Crystals
Fire represents force and power, so we must remember to prepare our surroundings safely when choosing this crystal cleansing ritual. This includes removing any flammable objects or gas from the space, having water on standby, and opening windows to let the negative energy escape.
Smoke can create sacred space within our homes and our physical bodies. Smudging is an ancient Native American tradition where herbs are burned, and smoke is waved to purify surrounding objects and spaces. Commonly used plants include palo santo, sage, cedar, frankincense, or lavender.
To practice smudging, set your herbs to flame, blow out the fire, and watch the smoke take shape. Then, set an intention for your crystal: is it cleansing, or do you desire a new creative direction for it (e.g., harmony, passion, renewal)? Finally, smudge your crystal with the smoke by holding it directly with the herbal haze.
This Native American ritual has history, so as we hold gratitude to those who have come before, we connect ourselves to the ancestors of Mother Gaia.
Cleanse Your Crystals In Moonlight
La Luna! The moon. The yin to the yang. Our inner divine passiveness. While a water cleansing ritual involves purifying a crystal in Moon water, a crystal can also be cleansed by the Moon without water.
Full moons are the perfect time to perform a moonlight cleansing ritual for yourself and our crystals. Just as you can supercharge your manifestation power through your heart chakra, essence, and gratitude, so can your crystals through the moonlight.
Leave your crystals outside overnight during a Full Moon to recycle any surplus negative energy. If you place them physically outside, remember to bring them back inside first thing in the morning. Your crystals and intentions are now recharged and cleansed, ready for the top of your awakening.
How to use Crystals to Manifest with the Moon
Best New Moon Crystal to Manifest a Rebirth
Rainbow Moonstone encourages you to take on new opportunities and be open to any new beginnings that may come your way.
This stone carries the attributes of both Moonstone and Labradorite. While Moonstone is associated with the moon, Labradorite is associated with the sky; both are stones for the sacred passive energy. What better crystal to use when manifesting with a New Moon than Rainbow Moonstone?
Practicing with this crystal invokes magical and powerful natural energy that flows our manifestations towards us. Rainbow Moonstone also enhances creativity, intuition, and inspiration when setting an intentional theme for a lunar cycle every 29 days.
By purifying your mind, body, and spirit, you will notice an increase in your intuitive and intellectual abilities–just by holding this crystal within your sacred space.
Best First Quarter Moon Crystal for Manifesting Money & Creativity
Carnelian is a reddish-brown crystal that activates personal power and fiery natural energy within, allowing our confidence, courage, and creativity to have the space to soar toward inflamed illumination.
The First Quarter Moon is the perfect time to use our sacral energy to shift our physical and mental bodies into action. Carnelian is known as the “Artist’s Stone” for its innate warmth and creativity. So, by practicing with this crystal, Carnelian will infuse our body, mind, and soul with passion, sensuality, and pleasure.
Carnelian is all about producing free-flowing manifestation energy toward your heart! This carves out a receptive pathway for more downloads and possibilities. It connects you to your inner Venus goddess and gives you a bolder voice and illuminating radiance. This powerful manifestation crystal will help you stabilize your core and anchor you into your present moment.
Carnelian is the perfect crystal to give you the stability and confidence to explore new creative directions as you journey toward manifesting all you desire. It is, after all, a strengthening crystal that lights a fire to our essence.
Best Full Moon Crystal for Manifesting Love
Labradorite is the gemstone to help us protect our limitless potential during a Full Moon. Just like how butterflies must go through their chrysalis phase, so do we and our crystals.
A Full Moon in the sky reminds us to supercharge our manifestation power by finding harmony within. Specifically, a strong understanding of self-love and self-worth during this lunar phase will enhance our willpower to manifest our dreams.
Labradorite’s flashes of color are called labradorescence, caused by lamellar twinning inside the crystal. This characteristic reminds us to strengthen our auric body. To extend our light from our essence as we work through the rainbows (chakras) in our physical bodies. And most importantly, to deflect lower vibrations and frequencies on our way toward our goals.
Labradorite encourages you to banish your fears and insecurities and trust yourself fully. It is a stone of transformation that will protect your natural energy, allowing only what matches your true frequency to flow into your life.
Remember, you are limitless and deserve everything you desire.
Best Last Quarter Moon Crystal for Manifesting Spiritual Surrender
During the Last Quarter Moon, the week where the moon wanes, surrendering to the universe and rooting into the Earth is said to feel like the color red. This mystical crystal improves our focus and allows us to look at things from a higher perspective.
Now it is time to start focusing our attention inwards and ward off negative energy and stress, for we are all surrendering to the ultimate death of activity.
Purple Fluorite, associated with our Third Eye, connects us to our inner wisdom and supports heightened clarity with its glimmering effect. Because anchoring ourselves into security & stability or balancing our root chakra can bring up hardships and challenges, this crystal can assist the duality of light and dark.
Practicing with Purple Fluorite during this disseminating phase will dissolve any energetic bonds that no longer serve your highest good, allowing you to find balance and harmony before the next lunar cycle.
Reach into the cosmos and balance the Muladhara and the Root Chakra simultaneously! This manifestation crystal enhances intuition and advances our spiritual awakening by asking us to revitalize our power, worth, and will.
Moon Manifestation Rituals
As La Luna takes time to reset, renew, radiate, and retreat, so do we. The goal of a moon ritual is to intuitively raise your vibration and align your intentions and manifestations with the Moon’s illuminating power.
When preparing a moon manifestation ritual, there is no wrong way to do it. Whatever practice you choose, it's always nice to have your favorite journal, candle, and manifestation crystal ready by your side.
Here are a few rituals you can try to begin manifesting with the Moon:
1. Moon Wishes Ritual - What wishes do you have? Write down the things you'd like to manifest on tiny pieces of paper and place them in a special box or jar (and under the moonlight). Revisit your list regularly to remind you of your dreams. Pairs well with Rainbow Moonstone crystal during a New Moon.
2. Movement Ritual - This can be anything you want! Move to the rhythm of your heart, a song, or even your spirit animal. If your goal is to release, imagine shaking off all stagnant energy. If your goal is to revitalize and create, choose a song your best self would listen to and dance till you feel your solar plexus chakra glowing. Pairs well with Carnelian crystal during a First Quarter Moon.
3. Chakra Visualization Ritual - Close your eyes, take a few deep breaths and imagine the chakras spinning. From the Root up to the Crown, imagine water moving across each energy wheel, "cleansing" it and "unblocking" it. Pairs well with Labradorite crystal during a Full Moon.
4. Smoke Cleansing Ritual - Cleanse negative, stagnant energy from your home by burning incense and herbs. Waft the smoke around your space and your sacred crystals. Set the intention to release any limiting beliefs that no longer serve you. Remember to open a window and remove any flammable objects or gas beforehand. Pairs well with Purple Fluorite crystal during the Last Quarter Moon.
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