INSIDE: Crystals offer so many rich gifts in our lives, from healing vibrations to gorgeous eye candy! Let’s learn how to store crystals to maximize their effectiveness while showing off their beauty and influence on your spiritual life.
Most naturally-occurring crystals have taken thousands, maybe millions of years to form beneath the earth’s surface. Similar to enduring food storage systems of traditional agriculture-based communities, the deep sturdy layers of the earth make the perfect vessel to protect these masterpieces of nature.
By carefully preparing grains and other crops before placing them in durable structures for a period of time until needed, communities decrease their ecological impact and empower their members with healthy nutrition.
Crystals may not fill your stomach at every meal, but they can play a vital role in wellbeing – and contribute to some pretty incredible physical health benefits!
Treating crystals with the same care that we give healthy produce – starting with how to store crystals properly – can amplify their strength, energy, and vibrations to last even longer from this side of the earth’s surface!
How to Develop a System for Crystal Storage
Before you find the need for crystal storage, you will undoubtedly have spent time examining your crystals and learning to use them. Understanding the unique features of your crystals – from healing vibrations to physical characteristics – will help you develop an organized system for how to store crystals.
Getting organized and developing a storage system will keep your stones safe so they can do the same for you when you need them.
Organize by Healing Properties
We want to start by focusing on the deep roots of crystal healing before talking about the physical characteristics that influence how to store crystals. That’s because a helpful organizing system for your crystals revolves around the different energies they emit to empower, ground, and heal.
For example, you can store crystals by intention, setting aside special containers for crystals for grief, creativity, love, or focus. You can create chakra boxes with complete sets of chakra-balancing crystals that correspond to the healing color spectrum.
If you’re living in a studio apartment in Manhattan with limited space, you don’t have to worry about having multiple containers for each healing property – you can have one box with segments labeled for each grouping.
Once you’ve opted for a few healing categories, you can further group your stones by physical characteristics to keep them in their optimum energetic states and conditions.
Organize by Hardness
Some crystals, like Fluorite and Quartz, seem almost indestructible – their elemental structures form bonds that won’t scratch, chip, or budge. Learning about the “hardness” of crystals can give you important information about which stones can physically interact and which ones need their own special space.
In gemology, the Mohs scale measures a mineral’s hardness, which determines its ability to scratch other stones. Scratches in stones or damage caused by another crystal can’t always be seen, but you don’t need to get fancy equipment to check if your crystals have clashed.
If you store softer crystals (to be clear, they won’t feel “soft” to the touch) in padded and reinforced containers, you prevent them from meeting damage even from the hard edges of boxes, chests, and other stones.
Also, if you secure harder crystals separate from others, you will avoid causing damage to other stones.
Organize by Fragility
There are other ways to consider fragility that can influence how to store crystals.
Some crystals are water soluble, which sounds quite friendly, but actually means that they can dissolve in water! Beyond submerging crystals in water, you need to consider the environment you plan to keep your crystals in because humid places can gradually break down your stones.
Crystals also have varying sensitivity to sunlight. Calcite, for example, cannot endure long exposure to the sun. That doesn’t mean it doesn’t hold potent sun energy though!
Light sensitivity can affect whether you place your crystals near a bright, open window or somewhere with a bit more shade and shadow.
Organize by Textures & Shapes
We recommend starting with classification systems that protect your stones when first deciding how to store crystals. Once you have in mind the crystals that play nicely together in environments optimum for their frequencies and properties, then you can further group your crystals by other physical characteristics.
Texture is a great way to store crystals together. Tumbled stones fit nicely together in a container, and their smooth surfaces are less likely to cause damage. Natural, rough crystals can chip or scratch smoother crystals, so consider keeping natural, unshaped stones together.
Shapes can also influence how you store your crystals. Grouping crystals by shape –…
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