Today we're celebrating the Winter Solstice! It’s a key point in the wheel of the year where there is maximum darkness and minimum daylight. Today the Sun is reborn, the light will return and it is a time of new beginnings.

There are crystals to help us with that! There are crystals to help us with everything!!

Petrified Wood is a favourite stone of ours to keep close whenever embarking on new beginnings or a new cycle. It brings grounding, patience, wisdom and steady growth. The insight it imparts activates awareness to past events and past lives, helping us to turn past weaknesses into new strengths. This really helps us to avoid making the same mistakes we have before and instead create a fresh and new reality this time around and an upgraded experience.

A totally different energy that we can use is that of Honey Calcite. This beauty brings mental clarity and focused energy in addition to inspiring grounded action and perseverance so we can keep our attention and be able to complete tasks and long term projects. If you find it hard to finish what you have started, this would be a brilliant stone to work with.

Garden Quartz makes a fabulous companion to either of these energies as its strength is in helping us to break new ground and to evolve beyond our current limitations and boundaries. It’s a real force to be reckoned with!