{"id":8176,"date":"2013-03-03T09:49:47","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T14:49:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2013\/03\/02\/"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:49:47","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T14:49:47","slug":"crystals-crystals-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/?p=8176","title":{"rendered":"Crystals, Crystals, CRYSTALS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve always loved gemstones and minerals.  In school, when given the option, I always took geology because there was always a section on minerals and stones.  And volcanoes and plate tectonics are pretty cool too.  I was so into all of this that I actually gave my high school geology teacher cash and a shopping list to take to a gem and mineral show she was going to, and in return I got some beautiful fluorite.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/crystal-intro-picture-edit.png\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/03\/crystal-intro-picture-edit.png\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"99\" height=\"66\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8181\" \/><\/a>When I learned that minerals, crystals, and gemstones had magical associations you can imagine how blown my mind was, that would be very.  Like many teenage girls I was big into rose quartz, it was affordable and good with matters of the heart and love.  As I matured I got quartz points which I learned how to cleanse and care for, and I took the time to learn about the gemstones that I already owned.<\/p>\n<p>Crystals and gemstones can be lifelong companions, but in order to get the most out of them, you\u2019re going to need some guide books.  That\u2019s what we\u2019ll be talking about this week, books about stones and crystals!  On Tuesday we\u2019ll be talking about \u201cA Lapidary of Sacred Stones: The Magical and Medicinal Powers Based on the Earliest Sources\u201d by Claude Lecouteux and on Thursday we\u2019ll review the two books in one \u201cCrystals, Jewels, Stones: Magic &#038; Science\u201d by Isidore Kozminsky and \u201cCrystals and the New Age\u201d by Stuart Weinberg.<\/p>\n<p>In order to hold you over until Tuesday, why not check out my review of \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/2012\/08\/29\/power-crystals\/\"target=\"_blank\">Power Crystals: Spiritual and Magical Practices, Crystal Skulls, and Alien Technology<\/a>\u201d by John DeSalvo Ph.D.?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A week of jewels, crystals, and stones?  Too good to be true?  Nothing is too good for my readers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4,27],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=8176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/blog1\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}