A number of years ago I had a psychic reading done.  It wasn't in person, it was by snail mail (thats how long ago it was,  X-D ) Anyways, the psychic told me to avoid tigers eye but never said why.  Has anyone ever heard of telling someone to avoid certain gems/crystals?  She did suggest rose quartz and citrine, both of which were sent to me.  And said to avoid nickel that it would be harmful to me on all levels.  But the precise reason for those avoid recommendations was never given to me.  I have avoided them.  I have searched for the answer to this but never come across it.  Just wondering if anyone else was told something like this?

I think some people work better with some crystal energies and are affected by other energies. I think there are two ideas here, one is who you are as a person, you might need more of this energy and less of this in your very nature as a person. Two is what is going on in your life currently, if you are experiencing heartbreak or mourning a loss you might need one stone, feeling stuck in life another and feeling too energised another, our states change a lot. We need certain healing energies at different times.

 

Back on AT there a crystals and gemstones thread that was going for years and years and a lot of people were affected by some crystals and gemstones and less by others. I remember Black Tourmaline and Black Obsidian were biggies for causing negative effects on people but they are also quite powerful energetically and could affect sensitive people but also they are great for negative energies and protection! I became worried about having them as I am quite sensitive to energies but one day I bought some Black Obsidian and it didn't affect me and yet I bought some Rose Quartz and it made me really ill when I was near it! I realised I really needed that healing Rose Quartz to heal loving myself and others but it was too powerful for me.

 

you can get around it and checking you are okay with them, especially if you are sensitive. If you go to a crystal shop, you will feel attracted to some and not interested in others but you have to be near the real crystals. Also it's worth buying a small tumbled stone size first! My Rose Quartz was this and I wore it in my pocket, it made me feel quite ill. But you can take it away from you! I realised I just needed it a room away from me. So every day, I had it on me or held it for an hour and then put it away from me, I built up the time around it and it healed me! It helped so much with a blockage for love energy and I am 100% okay around it now!

 

I think your reading those years ago was on your energies and she felt the gemstones that is best for you! I don't believe if you bought some tigers eye that you would be cursed or something bad would happen, I think maybe she felt it would do you no good! I think (I am speculating here) that she was just saying what fits you and what doesn't! I am not keen on the making people a little worried about some energies because I was put off that Black Obsidian for years because of so many negative stories and yet it has so many good qualities!

 

Don't be scared off trying any gemstones you might need, you can always get the smallest tumbled stone of Tigers Eye to try! I am not sure why she said what she did, Tigers Eye has a good clairvoyance quality and is linked to the solar plexus chakra, Nickel has a spiritual awakening quality and is linked to the Crown chakra. Rose Quartz is really a gemstone that everyone should have and I had never heard it negatively affect anyone before me  :biggrin: It's the heart chakra and Citrine is solar plexus and about healing and balance. Perhaps she felt you needed ones that healed you rather than stimulated your spirituality and psychic side? If in your postal correspondence reading you asked about love or finding love maybe, rose quartz helps you open your heart and citrine helps manifest it, the others not so helpful on this, so maybe they fitted the rest of the reading?  I don't know but I would say don't let anyone stop you from trying any of them :)

No gemstone is bad, but depending upon where you're at, some can be less, or more, beneficial than others. :)

 

For example (and since gemstones can correspond to planetary energies), in my natal chart, I have Pluto sitting conjunct my ascendant Libra at zero degrees, plus hemisphere markers (naturally) at zero all around, plus planets conjunct those points. I have outer planets (Pluto (12th conjunct 1st), Uranus (first), Neptune (third)) aspected heavily in my first three houses. So while people say, "Outer planets don't matter", that's really, **really** super relative to a chart and limited in outlook (imho). When Uranus was heavily aspected, globally, we had a major tsunami in 2011. On a personal note, within a few days of that my father drowned. Uranus: Upset/upheaval/sudden change. I ALWAYS suffer from Uranus progressions. Pluto, too.

 

On a gemstone level, I naturally LOVE LOVE weird higher energy stones: Moldavite, meteorite, tourmaline, certain flourites, etc. Why? Well, they resonate with those outer planets that so influence me anyway and make me feel pretty "out there" in terms of how I relate to the world. But to help bring me into the earth's energies better, I've had many wise friends suggest more "grounding" crystals and stones, just to round me out. ;)

 

So again, no bad choices, per se, just things to help with what might be lacking. Sometimes, too, what might be less needed. It can go either way.

 

Hope this helps!

All Best,

Sandy

 

Thank you Daniel!  You gave me lots to think about.  I used to be on AT but I didn't post all that often.  Tarot was confusing to me so mostly I just read a lot.  I had never considered that her recommendations might have been based on what may have already been a strong enough energy in my makeup. Thats really interesting to think over.

 

Your personal experience with Black Obsidian and Rose Quartz is really helpful.  Especially how you worked gradually with the Rose Quartz.  I'm not as sensitive to crystal energies as you are but I love that approach.

 

I normally do buy little tumbled stones except for quartz.  And I keep the little stones in my pocket.  I've always been attracted to turquoise. And love moonstone, moss agate, well just a bunch of them. 

 

Considering that reading was so many years ago everything may be different.  It was just puzzling to me but your post is really helping.  At the time I had it done, it was sent to me on cassette tape which shows you again how far back this goes.  Trying to remember the events surrounding it.  I had already been through a whole lot in life. Very tragic stuff.  And married a few years afterwards.  If I recall she just needed my name and birthdate to do the channeled reading. And it was a reading to see which crystals were best for me.  It was weird in a way cause she also did like a loud gasp sound about half way through the tape.  Freaked me out again,  X-D Whatever that was all about, I'm here and I survived  :biggrin:

 

Thank you again for your awesome response.  Got good stuff to think about!

 

 

Hi Sandy  :) I was trying to picture your chart and can see where anything that affects the outer planets would really affect you with them conjuncting very important places in your chart.  Oh my gosh about your father drowning and Uranus connection.  I'm so sorry.  The suddenness of Uranus and what it can it do makes me watch it as well.

 

When you use those gems that resonate with the outer planets in your chart, does it seem to reduce the ill effects of the transits for you? And just heighten the positive qualities?

 

Thank you so much for your experiences with them.  This is helpful!

 

EDIT: Sandy!!  You're mentioning astrology in connection to gemstones and effects... I just googled to find out about tigers eye.  Mind you, I never found anything about this before googling just on tigers eye alone.  But in combination with astrology there is something about it with Jyotish and Ketu and said it could only be determined by studying the birth chart.  She did ask for my birthdate.  There are recommendations for individuals to avoid certain gemstones based on astrology.  Wow, never knew that and wouldn't have found out if it wasn't for you post.  Thank you!!!  I have to read more to see what this is all about but wow.  Mystery finally solving!!  I still want to use Daniel's approach to working with it like he did with his Rose Quartz.  You guys are awesome!!

Just wanted to add/update... apparently when I had that reading she ran my Vedic astrology chart.  Vedic astrology deals with gemstone remedies for difficult placements in the chart.  I ran my Vedic chart a couple years ago at astro.com but I'm a real beginner at trying to understand it.  I like to watch KRSchannel on youtube to get just a little bit of understanding on how it all works.  He's funny too.  In Vedic astrology my Ketu is in the 7th house and apparently that is where this avoid tiger eye recommendation is coming from. Its effect is supposed to be instantaneous and negative.

 

For anyone interested in crystals/gems and astrology combined, seems like Vedic astrology would really be a fruitful thing to look into.  From the bit of reading I've done, I am gonna stay away from tiger's eye and follow the recommendation. At least for now, I'm a chicken  :biggrin: I already have a thyroid health condition that would be aggravated by it quite a bit. 

 

Always something new... I need to live a long time to look into all the things I want to look into  :biggrin:

 

 

If you got something from that it didn't come from me. :) I am only now working with guides (and of course tarot). I have had weird experiences with channeling during astrology classes (where I was very, very much a student), but nothing beyond that. So...probably coincidence there. As always, I send all love with whatever messages you receive. :)

 

I think you asked if it helps or hurts me to align with energies: I ALWAYS feel at home with certain vibrations. If I channeled those vibrations all the time I'd probably leave the earth sooner...it's like a siren's call. At the end of the day, I think of it as loved/known ones calling me home. But, it's not my time to go, so it is important to balance out with more grounding energies. I hope that helps.

 

Hi Sandy  :) I was trying to picture your chart and can see where anything that affects the outer planets would really affect you with them conjuncting very important places in your chart.  Oh my gosh about your father drowning and Uranus connection.  I'm so sorry.  The suddenness of Uranus and what it can it do makes me watch it as well.

 

When you use those gems that resonate with the outer planets in your chart, does it seem to reduce the ill effects of the transits for you? And just heighten the positive qualities?

 

Just wanted to add/update... apparently when I had that reading she ran my Vedic astrology chart.  Vedic astrology deals with gemstone remedies for difficult placements in the chart.  I ran my Vedic chart a couple years ago at astro.com but I'm a real beginner at trying to understand it.  I like to watch KRSchannel on youtube to get just a little bit of understanding on how it all works.  He's funny too.  In Vedic astrology my Ketu is in the 7th house and apparently that is where this avoid tiger eye recommendation is coming from. Its effect is supposed to be instantaneous and negative.

 

For anyone interested in crystals/gems and astrology combined, seems like Vedic astrology would really be a fruitful thing to look into.  From the bit of reading I've done, I am gonna stay away from tiger's eye and follow the recommendation. At least for now, I'm a chicken  :biggrin: I already have a thyroid health condition that would be aggravated by it quite a bit. 

 

Always something new... I need to live a long time to look into all the things I want to look into  :biggrin:

I agree with what the others here have said.  I align more with certain crystals or stones and part of that may be the timing or just me. 

 

For instance, I have a LARGE lepidolite which is supposed to help with sleep, it has a LOT of lithium, but if I put it too near my bed, it has the opposite effect and is like drinking three cups of coffee...fast!

 

I know that's not exactly what you were talking about, but just using to illustrate how some stones or crystals affect me.

Call me crazy, but if I carry ONLY tiger eye in my pocket, I seem to get more aggressive--and I'm not sure why. However, if I carry it with other pocket stones (not necessarily in the same pocket), I don't seem to have that problem. I'm glad because I'm drawn to tiger eye--always have been since I was young.