When you select seemingly at random two or three crystals from a number of different stones to answer a specific question, the process is in fact far from random. Most people work with crystals of similar size kept within a drawstring bag so that the hand is guided purely by intuition in a form called psychometry or psychic touch. I've already described elsewhere the symbolism and methodology behind my own crystal pouch (pictured right) ... the black pouch representative of 'the sub-conscious mind' ... and the process of dipping the hand into the pouch to pick a number of the crystals hidden there as 'reaching into the deep sub-conscious and bringing something to the surface from there' ..
Invariably you choose the specific crystals that answer your question, no matter how many or few crystals you have within your bag.
When carrying out crystal divination for others, allow the questioner to select the crystals and you can choose one extra stone on their behalf. In this way the questioner’s own intuition is the prime mover and you are the psychic guide or interpreter.
Divinatory crystals can be categorised both by colour and by the kind of crystal. Both of these definitions offer information as to the meaning of the individual crystal that is chosen in a reading. Using as an example Red Garnet ... red is a colour of action, change and determination and so would indicate these particular qualities or strengths are needed in the questioner’s life to resolve the matter under question.
But different red crystals also have their own strengths. The garnet (which can also be found in green) is traditionally a very protective stone, in folk lore associated with guarding travellers from every hazard including vampires. Put the two definitions together and the red garnet crystal may be telling you that you know in your heart you have make a change, maybe a career move or according to the question you asked you need to undertake a physical journey or house move. But deep down you may be worried about issues of security, material and emotional as well as actual in this change. Will the move or journey bring dangers and uncertainties you had not anticipated? Do you really want to make the journey or change?
The answer to the question posed will lie also in the colour and kind of the other crystals you cast in the reading to answer the question.
However crystal divination is unique in that not only the specific stones cast offer guidelines but by holding each of these crystals in turn you can access all kinds of relevant knowledge beyond that revealed by colour and kind. This information is also received intuitively through your fingertips by the psychometric process that prompted you to choose specific crystals in the first place from the divinatory bag.
You may also as you hold each crystal you have selected, see images in your mind. These images like dream symbols can be interpreted to help you understand what is really going on deep down within your invariably wiser inner self. You may also hear words in your mind related to the issue spoken by your wise inner self.
The wise and often disregarded inner self knows the answers even if your conscious mind can’t or won’t listen. Often symbols we visualize when crystal reading are ones we already understand from dreams.
It is this spiritual process of allowing the individual crystals to speak to you in words and images that enables you to work with a relatively small number of crystals and yet get accurate answers.
