Setting up energetic protection with crystals

I recently found occasion to purchase some crystals. I was generally shopping during a week off and found myself in a new crystal shop that had appeared in my nearest large town. For no reason I could determine I bought two Fire Agate crystals, and two Black Tourmalines. When I got them home I put them in the sun and then began to carry them around with me until I felt they were used to me. Finally I felt ready to take a look to see what people said about the qualities of these crystals, knowing full well that they might mean something different to me, yet it was a starting point. In this instance it turns out that common consensus was accurate : both crystals are associated with protection in a psychic/energetic sense – and that was exactly what I had been informed I should spend time working on, both in meditation and in practise (see this post for a prime example).

So, as part of my “Make Magick Manifest” Manifesto for this time of the year, I present the questions I went through to determine how to use these crystals to set up protection for myself once I had discovered and verified that these specific crystals could be used for that purpose. Maybe they will help you find out how to best set up such protection for yourself. Remember – all these steps are specific to me. You may have to adapt the particulars to your own circumstances, e.g. different crystals, different formation, different alignments, etc. Nevertheless, there are some interesting general points that emerged that I think will prove useful to everyone involved in energetic work and who are considering the concept of protection from unwanted interference in that work.

1. Is it necessary for me to use crystals to protect myself from energetic interference during work?
NO. They help to focus and increase the focus, to make it easier to work.

2. How many crystals provide sufficient protection in all possible interference circumstances?
Five.

3. Which type of crystals (that I own) are best suited to this task FOR ME?
Fire Agate x 2, Black Tourmaline x 2, Pillar of Quartz x 1.

4. Which positions should the crystals be located?
Kite shape – agates and quartz pointing at the star Sirius, tourmalines on either flank to them. NOTE: I am investigating why Sirius is important to this alignment of crystals. According to the dowsing rods it is an essential component!

5. Will this formation allow the entry of energies that I expressly give permission to? YES

6. Can I create this same level of protection with will power alone? YES.

7. Once I have intended a protection shell, do I need to mentally maintain it? NO

8. Will trying to maintain a thought of it deplete my energy reserves? YES

9. How long can I currently maintain a mental block against the strongest forms of unbidden energy interference?
One month.

10. Will quartz boost the power / strength / increase the time for the shield?
Crystals generally will improve the performance of the protective energy field, but quartz specifically would increase duration of the field and the types of energies that I could deflect or protect against.

11. Can I simply dismiss the shield mentally in order to remove traces of its creation?
If crystals are used then wash the crystals, otherwise simply imagine that the field is gone.

12. Can particular trees offer the same protection?
All trees can offer protection. The shape of a tree’s leaf creates the shape of the protection field around you. Imagine the leaf shape to link to tree’s inherent protection capabilities. This can occur even if the tree has no leaves because what you are connecting to is the tree’s innate conception of its leaf shape. NOTE: this is such an interesting discovery that I am going to come back to this at some point in another post.

13. What about stone circles / barrows / other man-made structures?
No man-made structures can offer this psychic protection by their structure or qualities. Note: I found this answer very surprising, and will be testing it out whenever I visit any man-made sites in the near future.

14. Do I need to set up energetic protection around my nemeton? YES

15. Can this protection be made to last a lifetime?
Yes, but you can’t do it alone. The energy of a more powerful being would be required to co-operate with that.

That was as far as I felt I needed to go at this time to understand how to set up a protection against unwanted energetic influences. If nothing else that should give you some idea of the possible, the practical and the perplexing! The most important finding, I felt, was that this could all be done mentally, and that no external paraphernalia is actually required to make this happen. However, crystals can enhance the effects and make it easier to set up, even though they have to be aligned to a specific place (in my case Sirius!). Time for some more investigation!

Gwas.