{"id":920,"date":"2013-03-03T09:49:00","date_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:49:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/crystals-crystals-crystals\/"},"modified":"2013-03-03T09:49:00","modified_gmt":"2013-03-03T09:49:00","slug":"crystals-crystals-crystals","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/2013\/03\/03\/crystals-crystals-crystals\/","title":{"rendered":"Crystals, Crystals, CRYSTALS!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve 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&#8217;re going to need some guide books.  That&#8217;s what we&#8217;ll be talking about this week, books about stones and crystals!  On Tuesday we&#8217;ll be talking about A Lapidary of Sacred Stones: The Magical and Medicinal Powers Based on the Earliest Sourcesby Claude Lecouteux and on Thursday we&#8217;ll review the two books in one Crystals, Jewels, Stones: Magic &#038; Scienceby Isidore Kozminsky and Crystals and the New Ageby Stuart Weinberg.<\/p>\n<p>In order to hold you over until Tuesday, why not check out my review of <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>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":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=920"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/920\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=920"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=920"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themagicalbuffet.com\/wordpress\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=920"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}