I have a crystal sphere that apparently needs charging...
Last night I cleaned up my altar. It doesn't get a lot of use, because I don't do a lot in the way of actual ritual/spellwork.
Anyway, it's gotten a bit dusty, and yesterday I'd gotten bad news about a friend being diagnosed with a serious illness. So I went to clean it up, pondering the while what sort of changes might be appropriate to add healing workings there for her.
The surface got wiped down, and given the dust, most of the pieces on it were taken for a light wash in the sink.
When I got to one particular piece, I had a reaction to it.
I don't normally *react* to my stuff, magickal or not. And *this* piece, while it's on my altar, wasn't purchased as a magickal item. It's a ~ 2" crystal sphere that I bought nearly 14 years ago because the seller showed me how a reflection would invert if it was moved. I bought it because I thought it was cool. And when I later set up a formal altar for personal use, that's where it went. (Well. Sort of. Actually the altar happened to get set up where the sphere happened to live, mostly because that particular surface - the top of my dresser- was convenient, and it made sense for the sphere to become one of the altar items, despite it's de facto status as a knickknack.)
But last night, as soon as my fingers closed around it to pick it up...I heard that voice (it's *mine*) in my head, the one that speaks up from time to time to tell me things. It's an actual voice.
*Shit, it's empty.*
Empty. Not charged. No energy. Aside from the fact that I had any reaction *at all*, this is notable because I don't normally charge my stuff. In fact, until I got the Goblet of Fire, I don't think I'd ever charged *any* of them - I never felt the need to.
And I wasn't sure whether it needed charging because it ran out, or whether it had *always* been empty and now I was sensing it. Or what to do about it.
So I took it to the sink, and put it in water with rosemary and lavender - my normal cleansing mix. It didn't seem happy. (Cleansing isn't charging, after all.)
*What do you want?* I thought at it.
I got a mental image of the sphere, buried in a bunch dry lavender flowers, only in my mind, the lavender flowers looked more pink than light purple.
It didn't seem to want the lavender flowers I *have*. (Maybe it's not lavender it wants to be nested in? If not, what was that I saw? Anyone know what herb might look like pink lavender flowers?) It doesn't want the lavender *oil* I have.
I put it on the tray next to my bed overnight, along with a token from my friend, the one who's ill. (Something she gave me a few years ago, which happens to live on my altar.)
In the morning I tried to put it back where it'd been. (NW corner) It didn't want to go back *there*. I sort of hovered it around the altar to see what might feel "right".
It wanted to be next to the token, which had already been put back in it's usual spot. OK then.
I think it still wants charging, but I'm not sure *how*. That's mostly what I need suggestions on.
Other stuff I'm thinking about may or may not be related, but I think I've rambled enough.
Anyway, it's gotten a bit dusty, and yesterday I'd gotten bad news about a friend being diagnosed with a serious illness. So I went to clean it up, pondering the while what sort of changes might be appropriate to add healing workings there for her.
The surface got wiped down, and given the dust, most of the pieces on it were taken for a light wash in the sink.
When I got to one particular piece, I had a reaction to it.
I don't normally *react* to my stuff, magickal or not. And *this* piece, while it's on my altar, wasn't purchased as a magickal item. It's a ~ 2" crystal sphere that I bought nearly 14 years ago because the seller showed me how a reflection would invert if it was moved. I bought it because I thought it was cool. And when I later set up a formal altar for personal use, that's where it went. (Well. Sort of. Actually the altar happened to get set up where the sphere happened to live, mostly because that particular surface - the top of my dresser- was convenient, and it made sense for the sphere to become one of the altar items, despite it's de facto status as a knickknack.)
But last night, as soon as my fingers closed around it to pick it up...I heard that voice (it's *mine*) in my head, the one that speaks up from time to time to tell me things. It's an actual voice.
*Shit, it's empty.*
Empty. Not charged. No energy. Aside from the fact that I had any reaction *at all*, this is notable because I don't normally charge my stuff. In fact, until I got the Goblet of Fire, I don't think I'd ever charged *any* of them - I never felt the need to.
And I wasn't sure whether it needed charging because it ran out, or whether it had *always* been empty and now I was sensing it. Or what to do about it.
So I took it to the sink, and put it in water with rosemary and lavender - my normal cleansing mix. It didn't seem happy. (Cleansing isn't charging, after all.)
*What do you want?* I thought at it.
I got a mental image of the sphere, buried in a bunch dry lavender flowers, only in my mind, the lavender flowers looked more pink than light purple.
It didn't seem to want the lavender flowers I *have*. (Maybe it's not lavender it wants to be nested in? If not, what was that I saw? Anyone know what herb might look like pink lavender flowers?) It doesn't want the lavender *oil* I have.
I put it on the tray next to my bed overnight, along with a token from my friend, the one who's ill. (Something she gave me a few years ago, which happens to live on my altar.)
In the morning I tried to put it back where it'd been. (NW corner) It didn't want to go back *there*. I sort of hovered it around the altar to see what might feel "right".
It wanted to be next to the token, which had already been put back in it's usual spot. OK then.
I think it still wants charging, but I'm not sure *how*. That's mostly what I need suggestions on.
Other stuff I'm thinking about may or may not be related, but I think I've rambled enough.