Gypsum is named from Greek "gypsos" - plaster, alluding to its practical use. It has been known from antiquity. Gypsum is composed of hydrated calcium sulphate and takes many forms, occurring as tabular, bladed and diamond shaped crystals. it also occurs in fibrous form, and in compact, granular masses, and as rosette shaped aggregates with included grains of sand. Gypsum varies from colourless to white, gray, yellowish, reddish, greenish, and brown.
Gypsum is one of the more common minerals in sedimentary environments. It is a major rock forming mineral that produces massive beds, usually from precipitation out of highly saline waters. Since it forms easily from saline water, gypsum can have many inclusions of other minerals and even trapped bubbles of air and water. Gypsum has several variety names that are widely used.
Selenite is the colourless and transparent variety that shows a pearl like luster and has been described as having a moon like glow. The word selenite comes from the greek for Moon and means moon rock. Another variety is a compact fibrous aggregate called Satin Spar. This variety has a very satin like look that gives a play of light up and down the fibrous crystals. A fine grained massive material is called Alabaster and is an ornamental stone used in fine carvings for centuries, even eons. Desert rose is the colloquial name given to rosette formations of the minerals gypsum and barite with sand inclusions. The 'petals' are crystals flattened on the c crystallographic axis, fanning open along characteristic gypsum cleavage planes.
Crystals of gypsum can be colourless and transparent, making a strong contrast to the most common usage in drywall. The crystals can also be quite large. Gypsum is a natural insulator, feeling warm to the touch when compared to a more ordinary rock or quartz crystal. Sheets of clear crystals can be easily peeled from a larger specimen.
If making crystal water use the indirect method as all these crystals dissolve in water. Clean the stones by placing in sunlight or burying in salt.
Desert roses are formed when the mineral gypsum crystallises in rose like clusters or lenticular crystals mixed with sand. These form in dry, sandy locations and are also called gypsum rose or selenite rose. Listen to your inner voice and if necessary, step back and take stock of your life before making any concrete or important decisions. This is the stone of inner gold, which represents your as yet undeveloped potential.
Desert rose is good for aligning your spine and muscles and for bringing you entire body into balance, which helps adjust your emotional body as well. Desert rose is the perfect stone for parents. It helps parents in being strong when they set boundaries with love. This stone is good for all types of caregivers or anyone who works with other people to help keep them aligned with their hearts while maintaining leadership or a strong position.
This is an excellent stone for healing grief and abuse and for letting go of what holds you back from experiencing life to the full. It is good for viral infections, especially of the skin, such as warts. Desert rose also relieves nausea and so is good for those who suffer travel sickness and unsettled stomachs that are caused by tension. Desert rose will calm panic attacks and assist with overcoming phobias, especially claustrophobia.
Desert rose carries the energy of universal love. By reminding you of your true nature, which is love, this stone gives you the ability to expand the love that you are and to attract back to you all that is love and loving. Desert rose is also useful for balancing your chakras so that you can align all aspects of yourself.
Place a desert rose in the centre of your home to encourage family unity. At work, it is good to help you to develop a particular area of expertise or responsibility and for long term training. Carry a desert rose stone when you wish to keep a low profile at a time of possible redundancies, sackings or general tension in the workplace.
Desert rose is a tool that helps you activate the scholar within. It opens the crown chakra to assist you in learning and retaining complex information. This stone will support a budding scholar who needs to integrate complex teachings into his or her knowledge base. This stone is beneficial to clear your thoughts of anything not resonating at the rate of love.
Desert rose helps connect you with your guides, angels, archangels and Ascended Masters. This is a perfect stone for aligning with the Divine Mother. The symbol of the rose connects you with your sacred heart of love, which is your true nature. Desert rose further aligns you with the truth that you each carry a seed of love within. It is up to each of us to cultivate and nurture that seed into a blossoming flower.
Desert rose can amplify fire magic, especially in transformation spells. It is also good for star magic, for accessing past lives and for contacting angelic or devic essences.
Selenite is an excellent stone for massage therapists, chiropractors and physical therapists - it can be used to amplify the benefits of their treatments. This stone also supports the proper care of muscles, bones, nerves and tendons, helping to strengthen your core physical structure. Selenite's protective qualities and its ability to align you with only the highest good for all concerned helps you maintain loving vibrations when placed at the entrance to your home both inside and out.
Selenite clears or bridges blockages and densities in your energy field. It can be used to direct high frequency energy into the body, stimulating physical healing. Selenite heals the cells of the body and the fluid system. It improves skin tone and increases calcium absorption. A fertility, pregnancy and motherhood stone, it protects a pregnant woman and her unborn child. It also increases your libido.
Selenite is a reminder that you are spiritually, physically and mentally aligned. It is easy to keep your emotions in balance. Selenite helps you detach from drama, thereby allowing you to gain a greater understanding of people and situations. Use this stone to help dissipate any feelings of inadequacy, jealousy, doubt, fear or any other type of negativity.
Selenite is the stone of partnerships, both in love and relationships, and creates a firm foundation for long lasting commitment. Selenite gently encourages all forms of communication and enables you to see through lies and deception.
Selenite stimulates the emotional body and compels you to move forward with your life. It assists in overcoming stagnation and prevents you from succumbing to the illusion of security and comfort.
Selenite brings mental clarity and helps you maintain focus. This is a grounding stone that keeps your thoughts focused on your intention. With this stone in hand, allow your intuitive nature to bond with your intelligence, combining your knowledge with spiritual wisdom.
Selenite is a powerful stone for psychic communication. It helps interaction with the wise ancestors, angels, spirit guides and loved ones telepathically and through divination. It is a stone that should be used by mediums and clairvoyants. It also promotes the recollection of dreams and past lives.
Selenite aligns you with your higher consciousness. Associated with Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon, this stone is a heaven sent tool that activates your connection with ancient wisdom and knowledge. Use it during meditation with the intention of aligning your awareness with spiritual master teachers, Ascended Masters, angels and spirit guides.
Selenite clears etheric blockages and debris, allowing for a freer flow of energy through the higher chakras, that facilitate connection and communion with the Higher Self.
DESERT ROSE AFFIRMATION My head and my heart are aligned with the Divine. I am a miracle worker. I spread love and wellbeing to all life. I am balanced, aligned, healthy and strong. It is easy for me to stand in the center of my power and emanate love.
SELENITE AFFIRMATION I am aligned with the Divine. I am a spiritual being of divine love and divine light. My spine, bones, tendons and muscles are healthy, strong and aligned. I have access to the ancient wisdom stored within me.
The chakras are the body's internal energy centres, and are aligned vertically near the spine. Energy enters the body through the head (heaven) and the base (earth). The seven chakras are vortex points where these forces mingle, with each producing a distinctive energy pattern. The purpose of these chakras is to absorb, transform and distribute the body's internal energy, known by terms such as prana, life force or chi. Specific organs and body parts are associated with each chakra, as well as corresponding behavioural, emotional and personality patterns. It is important to note that the chakras are in constant interplay, and cannot really be separated.
There have two extra chakras discovered recently; the Earth Star Chakra and the Soul Star Chakra, I have included a brief description of these in the page.
Human beings are not just the physical body. You have seven auric bodies. These seven unseen bodies are known as energy bodies, energy layers or auras. The seven non physical bodies aren't separate from the physical body, they are all interconnected with each other. The health of any of these bodies contributes toward the overall physical, mental, emotional and spiritual wellbeing of a person.
These energy bodies are affected by all aspects of your lifestyle. The energy that feeds them comes from outside and inside. Everything in your life influences these bodies. The health of these energy bodies depends on the amount and quality of prana or chi flowing through them which is generated in the Kundalini Line and Chakras.
When any one of the auric bodies is not working properly, it affects the other bodies and the physical body, as each body relies on the others to gather and distribute energy. read more
Use these Gypsum Stones to enhance the positive qualities of Aries
Adventurous
Alert
Ambitious
Candid
Confident
Courageous
Dynamic
Energetic
Enthusiastic
Generous Friend
Individualistic
Open-Minded
Outspoken
Pioneering
Quick to Act and Speak
Use these Gypsum Stones to enhance the positive qualities of Pisces
Affectionate
Altruistic
Creative
Compassionate
Devoted
Easy Going
Emotional
Enchanting
Imaginative
Instinctive
Intuitive
Kind
Loving
Mystical
Reverent
Selfless
Submissive
Sympathetic
Unworldly
Use these Gypsum Stones to enhance the positive qualities of Sagittarius
Adventurous
Ambitious
Broad Minded
Charming
Enthusiastic
Far Sighted
Freedom Loving
Good Humoured
Honest
Idealistic
Impulsive
Independent
Intellectual
Jovial
Loyal
Lucky
Non-Possessive
Optimistic
Outgoing
Passionate
Philosophical
Straightforward
Talkative
Use these Gypsum Stones to enhance the positive qualities of Taurus
Artistic
Determined
Discriminating
Domestic
Gentle
Loyal
Loving
Patient
Persistent
Placid
Reliable
Sensual
Security Loving
Warm-hearted
negative qualities
Use these Gypsum Stones to reduce the negative qualities of Aries
Daredevil
Foolhardy
Impatient
Impulsive
Lacking in Direction
Poor Follower
Quick Tempered
Selfish
Use these Gypsum Stones to reduce the negative qualities of Pisces
Always looking for Compliments
Confused
Depressed
Easily Led
Escapist
Goalless
Inarticulate
Idealistic
Indecisive
Irresponsible
Lazy
Manipulative
Needy
Secretive
Vague
Weak Willed
Use these Gypsum Stones to reduce the negative qualities of Sagittarius
Aggressive
Blindly Optimistic
Careless of Self
Careless with Money
Dogmatic
Exaggerates
Flighty
Judgemental
Impatient
Impetuous
Irrational
Sarcastic
Selfish
Unpunctual
Unreliable
Use these Gypsum Stones to reduce the negative qualities of Taurus
Greedy
Inflexible
Jealous
Possessive
Resentful
Self-Indulgent
Unenterprising
likes
Aries likes the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily lives, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Action
Challenges
Championing Causes
Coming First
Spontaneity
Pisces likes the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Anything discarded must stay discarded
Being a Role Model
Feeling Needed and Appreciated
Input Valued
Getting Lost
Mystery in all its guises
Romance
Sharing Thoughts/Dreams
Solitude to Dream
Stability
The Ridiculous
Sagittarius likes the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Causes and Demonstrations
Daydreaming
Family Friends
Feeling Trusted
Freedom
Getting to the Heart of Matters
Intellectual Compatibility
Laws and Meanings
Literature and Theatre
Music and Dance
Philosophical and Political Debates
Socialising
Taking Risks
The General Feel of Things
Travelling
Taurus likes the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you are encouraged to be aware of when something becomes an obsession
Being Attracted
Comfort and Pleasure
Consistency
Fine Food
Good Provider
Practicality
Routine
Security
Sex
Stability
Things Natural
Time to Think
dislikes
Aries dislikes the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics that you see in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Admitting Failure
Humouring Fools
No Opposition
Other People's Advice
Tyranny
Waiting Around
Pisces dislike the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Being Criticised
Being Ignored
Crude Behaviour
Feeling All at Sea
Feeling Alone and Unloved
Feeling Vulnerable
Know-it-all’s
Noisy Scenes
Not Dreaming
Ostentatious Displays of Knowledge
Sagittarius dislike the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.
Apathy/Laziness
Being Constrained
Being Doubted
Being Tied Down
Details
Clubs
Control
Convention
Duplicity
Explaining Themselves
Jealousy
Over the Top Theories
Possessiveness
Routine
Shallow People
Waiting
Taurus dislike the following but by using these Gypsum Stones in your daily life, you can become aware of when these characteristics in yourself and others are starting to control your feelings and actions.