Herkimer Diamond | In The Rough | Small

🌙 All of our rough pieces are sized not by eye, but by weight so we can be sure all pieces within a size are cohesive. The weight range for these Small roughs is as follows:

⚖️ Weight Range - 30-50g

✨ Price is per one piece, intuitively picked for you. The pictures represent the quality and sizing you can expect to receive however please note that stone is unique and one of a kind so there will be slight variations. 

PLEASE NOTE:  These herkimers are rough, they are completely untouched and untreated and come out of the ground exactly like this. Not cutting, no polishing. This is their natural growth formation. Please note as they are 'rough' they are perfectly imperfect and include natural fractures (making rainbows!), missing faceted sides, some are clearer than others, some have a slight smokey tinge and some have inclusions. These are intuitively chosen by us, for you, and the right piece will make it's journey to you.

📝 These raw quartz crystals are affectionately referred to as "Herkimer Diamonds" because they're found in Herkimer County in New York, and they form so clear there with such beautifully terminated facets that they sparkle like crazy and evoke the feel of a diamond. They have smooth, naturally formed faces, and sometimes have neat little inclusions or refractive pockets that shine like rainbows in the sunlight.

attunement| peace | visualisation

CHAKRA: crown, third eye 

SIGNS: sagittarius, aries

ELEMENT: storm

PLANET: sun

MINERAL FAMILY: quartz

CRYSTAL SYSTEM: trigonal

COLOUR: colourless, sometimes with inclusions  

AFFIRMATION: “I easily manifest my desires and align and vibrate with the purest light.”

BEST FOR: mental clarity, boosting psychic powers, lucid dreaming, manifesting

ORIGINS: New York

CRYSTAL COMPANIONS: for transformation – moldavite or malachite, for opening the mind + heart – kunzite,

RARITY: rare

Herkimer Diamonds are called “attunement stones" and are useful in attuning you with others, your surroundings, or new energies. This makes Herkimer Diamonds a natural choice to assist in Reiki attunement and other types of energy work.

Herkimer Diamonds help to relieve tensions, producing a peaceful calm. Working with them is said to bring visions and an increase in psychic experiences. Great for meditation, Herkimer Diamonds can help one to experience true Divine Grace and bring Divine energy down into the Third Eye and Crown Chakras. As such, Herkimer’s have the capacity to aid in astral travel and lucid dreaming.

The Herkimer Diamond is a stone of release and relaxation. It helps to clear the mind/body of unconscious fears and repressions, allowing for a complete and total relaxation and expansion of life energy. The Herkimer Diamond can also be helpful to release and remove toxins from the body. Are you having trouble sleeping or remembering your dreams? If you wish to begin to experience lucid dreams, where you are aware of the content of your dreams while you are still asleep, it may be extremely helpful to place one under the pillow. It is well known that Herkimer Diamonds will help to heighten your ability to dream and that they can stimulate lucid dreaming. Using them may result in surprising insights, creativity, and true vision in every area of your life.

Their strong crystal energy may activate your third eye chakra, crown chakra, soul star chakra and etheric chakras. This may boost your powers of perception, giving you almost visionary ability and allow eyesight improvement and healing.

CRYSTALS + YOU

Here are some of our favourite ways to incorporate crystals into your everyday life

✨ MEDITATION | Surely, we all know by now that a meditation habit is maybe the healthiest habit any of us can hope to develop (it beats smoking or gambling anyway, trust us).  But transitioning into a meditative or mindful state isn’t always easy, and often, even with the best of intentions, people give up on their practice.  They find it difficult to sit still and focus.

Never fear – this is where crystals come in handy.  Crystals can cleanse the mind of chaotic thoughts and doubts, they calm and ground us and elevate our energy, so that you can fully immerse yourself in your meditation.

✨ SLEEPING WITH THEM | When you have difficulty sleeping, any number of things could be responsible for disturbing your rest.  Whether you have too much on your plate and can’t switch off, or you can’t seem to settle your energy and are constantly worrying you’ve left your hair straightener on, crystals can bring you the peace you need to sleep easy.

If you are just lying there, sleeping sweetly for 8-ish hours every night, you might as well be absorbing some good vibes from your crystals, right?

To use your crystal at bedtime, try setting it next to you on your bedside table, placing it under your pillow or (best of all) holding it in your palm as you drift off.

✨ MASSAGE | Crystallising your massages can elevate your body work session to previously unknown levels of bliss.  Using crystals along with soft tissue manipulation can reduce not only muscle pain, but also any pain or blocked energy stored in your mind or energy body, helping to bring your body and energy field back into balance to create stability.

✨ SKIN CARE ROUTINE | When used as part of your daily skincare ritual, a crystal facial roller and/or crystal infused facial serum can work to stimulate collagen synthesis, minimise fine lines and wrinkles, support lymphatic drainage, reduce pore size, boost elasticity, soothe irritation, minimise puffiness and promote deeper product preparation…  Yikes – trying saying all of that without taking a breath.

Physically, it helps firm the outer layers of the skin through gentle massage. It also aids in detoxing through the lymphatic system, the body’s main major detoxification structure.

✨ WEAR THEM | Having your crystals close to you is the most effective way to utilise their power. Whether it be crystal jewellery or a little tumble in your pocket (or bra!) Having them close to your skin and vibrating with your aura is the most ideal situation to reach your goal or intention for them faster.

+ so much more, including but not limited to - elixirs, adding them to your altar, creating crystal grids, spells, the posibilities are endless.

CRYSTALS + THE HOME

You’d have to be living under a rock (pun intended!) to be oblivious to how popular gemstones, rocks, crystals and geodes have become in interiors.  Seriously, if Instagram is anything to go by, we are definitely not the only ones using crystals to boost the ambiance and good vibes of our living space. 

And while there are obviously plenty of creative ways (hello Pinterest!) to take advantage of the healing powers of crystals, if you’re looking to take full advantage of their witchy vibrations and magickal energy, there are ways to place them around your home intentionally, so that their energy can support you in various specific environments.

And don’t forget that the energy of your home can shift over time.  If you’ve ever been in a space that was totally spick and span, and flooded with life giving natural light, but somehow just felt heavy, or uncomfortable, then you can understand how a home’s energy is dictated by more than just cleanliness.

The vibe of a space has a lot to do with the energy that has been expelled there, and not cleared away.  Breakups, stress, deaths or grief, parties that got out of hand, or even arguments about whose turn it is to take the bins out can leave behind energy in your home and if you’re not smudging or getting rid of that negativity with high vibe crystals for your home, your space can start to feel dirty, no matter how hard your scrub.

Need somewhere to begin? Read our beginers blog on Crystal placements in the home here

REMEMBER, you don't HAVE to believe they're magic - you can just collect them because you think thy're pretty - there are no rules and we are not the gate keepers of crystals 💗

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