[Miss Scarlett]

Today's stone is Celestite.

Celestite (also known as Celestine) is a very powerful stone. It emits a very high vibration and can be used to restore the inner balance. It helps to integrate instinct with consciousness.

To those on a spiritual path Celestite marks the direction, facilitates insight, and helps expand the mind. Celestite has not only the ability to clarify and center the mind, it also purifies the heart. It helps dispel worries, solve conflicts, and restore harmony in difficult circumstances. Relationships that are at the turning point may profit from this properties as the stone seems to create a perfect climate for reflection. It helps to find a creative solution to the conflict and facilitates communication. It helps to think and articulate clearly. Celestite also helps to analyze and comprehend complex concepts. Artists, writers, and musicians may find new inspiration as well as new ways to connect with the outside world.

Celestite is said to alleviate despair and worry, helping the intelligence to perceive things more optimistically. This is in part facilitated by its purifying action on the aura. It assists in bringing order to our higher vibrations. Celestite balances the yin and yang energies in the energy field of the individual.

It helps one experience the positive side of rationality, encouraging different methods of analysis and bringing fluency to communication. It helps establish balance in general, but especially between the masculine and feminine aspects of the personality.

Useful for those wanting to experience leaving the confines of the gross physical body - astral travel, both in the waking and dreaming state. As its name suggests, it can help forge contact with the angelic realms.

Celestite is an extremely popular tool for use in communication with angelic and other spirit guides. This is a crystal that will instantly life you above the mundane, once it has caught your eye.

Mediation with Celestite will open a clear channel of communication, allowing one to tap into the perfect power of the universe's total love. It will teach you the peaceful trust in acknowledging and accepting that each of us is part of the Divine Plan, and that it is the ebb and flow of ones life which propels you to where you need to be.

Use this stone to assist one in remembering dreams, keep a stone under your pillow and a dream journal beside your bed, each night request the aid of the crystal in remembering and each morning just as you awake, write what your memory brings. As dreams are tools to the subconscious uses to help the physical and the conscious heal and evolve, this stone will enhance the process through more lucid dreaming, keeping dream records and as a communication channel between the two realms.

Astral Travelers can use the crystal to improve accuracy in achieving pre-determined destinations.

Celestite is worn or often carried to aid in creating eloquence and to promote compassion for the earth and our fellow creatures. It has been used to relieve headaches as well as tension in the body, for it removes stress from the physical form.

Celestite should be cleansed in a bowl of tumbled hematites, if it has points, the points must be positioned so that the points always point towards the sky. These crystals will only need recharging occasionally, which should be done briefly in the sun. Be careful not to leave your stone too long in the sun, as it may cause discoloration of the Celestite.

Celestite that has been compressed for millions of years is known as Angelite.