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Best Crystals for Gemini: Stones to Steady the Twin Mind
Best Crystals for Gemini: Stones to Steady the Twin Mind
Mercury, the swiftest planet in our sky, races around the Sun faster than any other. That quicksilver energy is the very thing that hums inside you if you were born... Read more...
Best Crystals for Capricorn: 10 Stones for Makar Rashi
Best Crystals for Capricorn: 10 Stones for Makar Rashi
Does the work never quite feel finished, so that the moment you clear one summit another one appears on the horizon? Are you the person everyone leans on, quietly carrying... Read more...
Best Crystals for Cancer: Gentle Stones for the Moon's Own Sign
Best Crystals for Cancer: Gentle Stones for the Moon's Own Sign
Watch the sea for long enough and you understand Cancer. The tide comes in, the tide goes out, pulled by a Moon that never stops changing shape. If you were... Read more...
Best Crystals for Aries: Calm the Fire, Fuel the Drive
Best Crystals for Aries: Calm the Fire, Fuel the Drive
Picture the friend who says yes to the trip before checking the dates, who starts the project at midnight because the idea will not wait, who fights for you before... Read more...
Best Crystals for Aquarius: 10 Stones for the Visionary Water Bearer
Best Crystals for Aquarius: 10 Stones for the Visionary Water Bearer
Ever been told you live ten years in the future while forgetting where you left your keys today? That you care deeply about humanity in the abstract, yet need plenty... Read more...
Birthstone for December - Turquoise, Tanzanite and Eight More Stones
Birthstone for December - Turquoise, Tanzanite and Eight More Stones
December is the year drawing its last long breath. The light comes late and leaves early, the solstice tips the calendar toward its darkest night, and something in us wants... Read more...
Birthstone for November - Topaz, Citrine and Eight More Stones
Birthstone for November - Topaz, Citrine and Eight More Stones
The best crystals for November begin with its two birthstones, golden topaz and honey-warm Citrine, and widen to include turquoise, labradorite, garnet, amethyst, malachite, smoky quartz, rhodochrosite and blue lace... Read more...
Birthstone for October - Opal, Tourmaline and Eight More Stones
Birthstone for October - Opal, Tourmaline and Eight More Stones
October has a particular feeling in India. The year is quietly winding down, and at the same time the diyas are being cleaned and set out, the nights are turning... Read more...
Birthstone for September - Sapphire, Stone of Wisdom and Calm
Birthstone for September - Sapphire, Stone of Wisdom and Calm
Does September always land on you as a reset, the year's real new beginning, more than January ever did? Do you want the summer softness to stay a little longer,... Read more...
Birthstone for August - Peridot, Stone of Renewal and Abundance
Birthstone for August - Peridot, Stone of Renewal and Abundance
Ask anyone what August feels like and you will get two answers at once. There is the last of the summer gold, long evenings that refuse to end, the heat... Read more...
Birthstone for July - Ruby, Stone of Passion and Vitality
Birthstone for July - Ruby, Stone of Passion and Vitality
There is a particular hour in July, somewhere near dusk, when the day has spent all its heat and the sky turns the colour of a ripe mango. The fans... Read more...
Birthstone for June - Pearl, Moonstone and Eight More Stones
Birthstone for June - Pearl, Moonstone and Eight More Stones
The Feel of June June arrives with the longest days of the year and a kind of open, unhurried light. The summer solstice lands mid-month, the evenings stretch out, and... Read more...