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Crystals for Mediumship: What They Really Do (with Charlotte Leech) 🔮 · The Psychic Explorer

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Hello, I'm Matt and I am a psychic medium, but
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it has taken me quite a while to feel comfortable
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saying that. In my podcast, I explore the up
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and down journey of getting comfortable with
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my psychic and mediumship abilities. I will be
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talking with guests about their experiences whilst
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turning the spotlight onto myself and figuring
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out how I can embrace my gifts while living a
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normal life. So welcome to The Psychic Explorer.
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Hello everyone, I hope you're well As I'm recording
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this I should be working but I've had to take
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the day off because it is raining cats and dogs
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I'd love to know where that phrase came from
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but I am not able to work so I thought right
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come home do some more recording for the podcast
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and I'm really excited to bring you this conversation
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today because in today's episode I am reminded
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that not everyone's journey is the same some
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people come to this world of psychic practice
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or mediumship suddenly others take almost an
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entire lifetime to arrive yet some people are
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almost born into it And that is the case with
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my guest today. I'm not going to give any spoilers
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away but Charlotte runs an online crystal shop.
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She also goes to Mayan body and spirit fairs
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throughout the country where she sells her amazing
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stock. And I wanted to find out more about crystals
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from her because it's not a topic or it's not
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a subject that I know a lot about. I was very
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conscious when I stepped into this world that
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I didn't want to go to full on woo woo. You know,
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my guest Dana Willey, an episode or two back,
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said that when she stepped into this world, she
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went full on woo. And I was conscious that when
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I stepped into this world, I didn't want to do
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that. I was really conscious of how other people
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would perceive me. And I remember someone saying
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something to me, one of my clients actually,
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when I told him that I was feeling these feelings
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and... that I felt I could communicate with people
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who were no longer physically here. He said to
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me, oh, that's amazing. That must be so wonderful
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to have that connection to your mom and to have
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that connection to the other side. And then very
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quickly after he followed it up with, but I don't
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understand people that go into all these crystals
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and stuff and it's sort of, oh, straight away
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my back didn't get put up. But I was conscious
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that other people might perceive me as fully
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drinking the kool -aid. If I started showing
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interest in that sort of thing. But part of exploring
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is evolving your mindset and I've come to the
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realization that these little shiny pebbles and
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rocks, for some people they are just that, they
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are pretty shiny rocks. For other people they
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mean a hell of a lot more. They give people power,
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they give people belief. They are a physical
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manifestation of your intention. Unlike with
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all rituals and dare I say spellwork, there may
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not be anything in it, but if it gives you the
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power to put your intention into something, to
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bring a belief almost to life, then there absolutely
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is something to it. So in this conversation with
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Charlotte, I'm going to dig a bit deeper, try
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and find out a bit more, see if I can broaden
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my horizons, look past any judgment or stereotypes
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or anything like that. So I invite you to listen
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to Charlotte's story and to listen to what she
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has to say about crystals. If you're not sure
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what they are, this is a great episode because
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she goes into detail about The vibration of crystals,
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the charging of them, the properties that they
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have. And you may not feel that they have these
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properties, but actually, like all tools in this
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psychic work, they can be used as a gateway.
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They can be used as a tool. Taro, oracle, crystals,
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reiki, whatever it might be. So sit back, relax.
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Enjoy this conversation as Charlotte Leitch and
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I talk crystals Charlotte Leitch is a developing
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medium with a passion for crystals and animals
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With a deep understanding of crystals, Charlotte
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runs an online shop called Out of the Earth Crystals,
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of which I myself have been a very satisfied
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customer. She also runs Ellie for Animals, a
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charity set up to rehome Romanian rescue dogs.
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But when she is not out walking the mini dogs
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in her care, she can be found all over East Anglia
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at Mind, Body and Spirit Fairs, selling her stunning
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collection. Welcome to the Psychic Explorer,
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Charlotte. How are you? Oh, hello. I'm great,
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thank you. What an introduction. Thanks for having
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me. Not at all. And we go to the same circle
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and I've seen you in a few events before I knew
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you were a circle and I thought, who's this person
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selling crystals and what are these about? And
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it's always fascinated me because my other half
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has been really interested in crystals from day
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one. Not necessarily spiritual, but... It seems
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to be once you've set down this path, you sort
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of go down these little rabbit warrens of interests.
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And I really want to know more about this. So
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I have so many questions. To me at the moment,
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and I state at the moment, crystals are pretty
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stones. And that's about it. They're pretty,
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but I don't really know anything more about them.
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But I know there's so much more to them. And
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I'm really excited to talk to you today, Charlotte,
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to get a bit more information from you. But before
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we go there, let's start at the beginning. What
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first sparked your interest in crystals? Well,
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crystals have been a part of my life from a very
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young child because my father had a crystal wholesale
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business when I was growing up. So I've always
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been around crystals and their energy and it
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was a new age wholesale business. So he had mediums
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that worked for him. So I've always been in that
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space really they've always been a part of my
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life That's amazing. So literally has been in
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the family yeah, yeah, so my dad is retired now
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he has been for about 15 years and As a child,
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I would go on work trips with him to some of
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the world's biggest gem shows out in America.
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So I was always sort of part of the process of
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picking the crystals. And usually it was the
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sparkly pretty ones, you know, being a little
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girl and with my sister as well. But my other
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passion is animals. So I kind of went down that
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path more. And it's only sort of in the last
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five, six years, I've really sort of shown a
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bigger interest in the crystals and that's now
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why I have my own business surrounding crystals.
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So what sparked that? Was that the retirement
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of your dad and you taking over the business
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or was that something else? So I would say a
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big part of that was in 2019. I was struggling
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a bit. My background is I'm a dog behaviourist
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and that's what I studied at university. and
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obviously I've been involved in running a rescue
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for over 11 years now and I had a really difficult
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foster dog, a long -term foster dog that without,
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you know, going into too much detail, she spent
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most of her life in a kennel in a public shelter
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in Romania in very poor conditions and she came
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over. I unexpectedly ended up with her and she
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had a lot of health problems and she had dementia
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as well. So it was very difficult and I was rather
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stressed and a friend of mine, Helen, she lives
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in Manchester and she'd been attending attending
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an animal energy conference every year and I'd
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always thought, oh, I wonder what's that about?
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And she invited me along in 2019 and I just felt
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a real pull to go there. So I went and I had
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the most incredible few days and I really do
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feel it was life changing. I met a lady called
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Elizabeth Whiter there and she runs the Healing
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Animals Organization and I felt very drawn to
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her. And naturally I feel that our paths were
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meant to cross. because I realised that her name
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had been mentioned to me twice before in the
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past. It had come up and I'd jostled down her
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name in the past, lost the piece of paper. So
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I met her and I went on a foundation course in
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animal healing with her. It was in discussion
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with her and about my father with his crystals
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and knowing that... we still had some of his
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crystals. She said, why don't you sell some of
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them whilst you're on the course? So really it
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was Elizabeth thought pushing me down that path
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and doing the year long healing diploma for animals.
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That is also what got me more into that space
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as well. I guess I went with the intention of
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healing animals because of my experiences of
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working with traumatized animals, but actually
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it was like a healing. journey for myself. So
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I would say that was the turning point really.
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Over the last year and a half, two years, I've
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really focused just on the crystals. The crystals
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help me help the animals as well financially.
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So you are a developing medium. Did that kick
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off with your interest in crystals when that
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kicked off or was that always in the background?
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I think has always been in the background. I'd
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had some experiences as a child. I've obviously
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always been around spiritual people and my mum
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would regularly go to a spiritualist church and
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I'd go with her. Even as a child when I wasn't
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really, I used to just go and take a notebook
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and scribble in it and not really understand
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what was happening. So I guess I've kind of always
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been interested, but it's... I'm not sure really
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what sort of sparked me. It was really, I wanted
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to start developing more and Nicola mentioned
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that she would be running a circle if I was interested.
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So I sort of been in her circle from the start
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and so Nicola has been a big sort of impact in
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my life as well and guiding me in the right direction
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and you know, a big support. Yeah, we've done
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platform together and I've witnessed how talented
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you are. some of the evidence that you come through
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is just phenomenal, it's amazing. And I wonder,
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how have crystals played a role in your psychic
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or your mediumship development? Yeah, I definitely
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feel that they do support. One of my go -to crystals
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for when I'm working in my mediumship is clear
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quartz. I feel that that's a crystal that very
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much resonates with me and it is sort of... there
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to activate your crown chakra and your spiritual
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connection. Clear Quartz is often my go -to.
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Just the other day in Circle, we did a meditation
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that involved rainbows and working with a color.
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I could feel my pendant around my neck getting
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stronger and stronger, my Clear Quartz pendant.
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When it came to working in pairs, I actually
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had to take off for a moment because the energy
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felt so intense, but it was I really felt it
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was really supporting me and really getting me
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ready and raring to go. Wow. There is a physical
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connection that you have to it. Absolutely. Yeah.
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And obviously I'm surrounded by crystals all
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the time. I have them all over my house and I'm
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wearing them. So sometimes I guess the energy
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can get a little bit too intense and I have to
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make sure I ground myself. But there are certain
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crystals, what can just be described as an intense...
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feeling. That's the only way to describe it really.
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Well I've not planned this question so forgive
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me for springing this one on you but this is
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my scientific logical brain coming into into
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play here. What's the science behind it? Like
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what is the, is there a vibration? Is it because
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they've been created so deep in the earth? What
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is it about them? So we're all energy quoting
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Einstein Crystals, they all have their own frequencies
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and they vibrate and transmit this and this aligns
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with and interacts with our own energy field.
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So this is how they're able to help us in different
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areas of our body and different aspects of our
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life. And when you think about it, the world
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is practically made up of crystals. You know,
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they even use quartz in watches. So there's definitely
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something to it with their energy. They're formed
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over thousands and millions of years. And I know
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not everyone can necessarily feel the energy
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of a crystal and I think that comes when you're
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tapping more into your spirituality and I find
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through meditation, same with your mediumship.
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Some scientists they will say well yeah crystals
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work because they're a placebo effect but this
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is where I love my work with animals because
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there is no placebo effect with an animal. Some
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things that really stick in my mind is my own
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cat is very curious about my crystals. I have
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a huge amethyst bed and I have just found him
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occasionally just curled up on it and it's spiky
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so you think okay that's not the most comfortable
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place to sleep so I do feel he's you know he's
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absorbing the energy. and a friend, she's a mad
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cat lady, she loves her cats, very enthusiastic
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about her cats and has quite a few rescues. She
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lost one of her cats and really did, you know,
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her existing cats that were still here were quite
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subdued and she bought a piece of amethyst from
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me and again, she sent me a beautiful picture,
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I think it was her cat Mango, and he was curled
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up next to the crystal, just absorbing the energy.
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I have a rescue dog from China. She was in a
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puppy mill and was being sold for dog meat so
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she's had quite a lot of trauma. She's one of
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my dogs that just shows such an interest in my
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crystals and it was the snow courts in particular
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with its soft energy. I have a picture of her
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just lying next to it with her head resting on
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the crystal. Wow. I had a message from a new
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customer a while ago. They have a poorly dog
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that has cancer so she bought some crystals.
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to help her dog. Now she placed them in her dog's
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bed and obviously the dog had a choice to sleep
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next to them or not but it was actually her other
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dog that had injured itself that day that for
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the first time ever curled up in the other dog's
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bed next to the crystals and it really just blew
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her and her mother's mind because they're like
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wow because they're just getting into crystals
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themselves and they can already see how their
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animals responded to the crystal energy and I
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think this is the thing. A lot of people tell
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me, oh, I collected crystals as a young child.
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And I think this is the same when it comes to,
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you know, our psychic work. So many children
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are in tune. It's because they've not been conditioned.
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I think there's something in that as well, just
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thinking about it. You know, how so many children
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like to collect crystals, but then they move
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on with other areas of their life and maybe forget
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about them, but then maybe explore them again
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later on in life. What you are saying, Charlotte,
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is resonating with me so much. And I find it
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fascinating because but straight away you're
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saying well yes we use quartz in watches and
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of course we do that that's i've never even made
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that connection before an animal can't lie they
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don't lie they either are or they aren't and
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you are in such a unique position to be able
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to almost experiment to see if this works or
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if this doesn't and from what you're saying the
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results are clear yeah absolutely Also, what
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you're saying about the children, my other half
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collects or collected crystals and has a whole
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bag full of them. They were bought up from his
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parents when they moved house. And it's just,
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there was just a shoe box full of crystals that
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he collected as a child. And now, you know, he
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doesn't believe in any of this stuff. This is
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to him. This is like, no, it's just too woo -woo.
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He was the one that collected them and I find
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that really, really interesting. Exactly, exactly.
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You said earlier on that you use clear quartz.
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I mean, you have thousands or hundreds of crystals
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in your collection. How do you choose which crystals
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work with certain readings or certain energy
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works? Are you drawn to them? Is it your background
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knowledge of knowing which works with what? How
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does that work? Yeah, I think first and foremost,
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it is just your intuition, the first one that
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you feel that aligns with that reading, with
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that person. Another basis, and I guess when
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I was first starting out, I would look at the
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chakras, the seven main chakras, and you'll have
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crystals that align with those. And a good tip
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for people really is A lot of the chakras, so
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you get your yellow crystals, so they align with
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your solar plexus. And your pink and green crystals
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will align with your heart chakra, so that's
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a good way of remembering. A lot of the darker,
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like the blacks, they will be quite grounding
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crystals and protective. So yeah, it's quite
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easy when you sort of start looking into it really.
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And I know there are thousands of different crystals
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and some I've never had or I can't even pronounce.
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Some of them have got crazy names. Oh thank god,
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I thought I was the only one. Some of the ones
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that I bought from you, I was like, this little
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yellow one here, I love it, it's beautiful. Sometimes
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when I meditate I just hold it with me, but I
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have no idea what it's called, it's stunning.
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Oh, the orange cow site. There you go, thank
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you very much. Yes, it's the orange one in my
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vocabulary, so yeah. So the chakras, I know,
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again, this is another topic I'm not fully aware
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of. I know that chakras are associated with different
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colours. So you're saying that different crystals
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that align or the same colours as those chakras
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align with those chakras? Yes, that's right.
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Yes. So we have seven main energy points, as
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a lot of people like to call them, or they're
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named as chakras. in our bodies there are more
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but the seven main ones they are all linked to
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the endocrine system and an endocrine gland and
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these energy points will sort of if they're if
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they're unbalanced they can affect us physically
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mentally and spiritually so that's why having
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treatment like reiki or working with crystals
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just helps align and balance those chakras. And
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this has been going on for thousands of years
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hasn't it? Not something new. Is that part of
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what you love about it, being connected to something
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so ancient in such a modern world? Yeah, the
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Egyptians, for example, how they would use crystals
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and ancient tribes. I know there's a crystal
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dragon blood Jasper. They would channel the energy
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of the dragon just before going into battle.
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So I just think it's fascinating and what I'm
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really excited about is I've got quite a bit
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of it recently and some huge pieces of petrified
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wood from Indonesia and it dates back to the
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tertiary period and I just think wow. Through
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volcanic activity, the wood and the trees, the
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lava has washed over them, killed off the microbes
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and over the years silica -rich minerals have
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seeped into that wood and crystallised within
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the wood. So you'll get your quartz and your
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chalcedonese and your jaspers. So you've got
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the benefits there of the crystals and the wood
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and the history that comes with it. Another one
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that really fascinates me as well is amber, especially
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Burmese amber, because it's a hundred million
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years old, which just... How much? A hundred
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million years old. Oh my god. So this is the
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times of the dinosaurs. So I think this is what
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excites me as well, my geeky side. And I had
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some pieces recently where they had insects within
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the amber. So I just think, wow, that little
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fly there, that was around with the dinosaurs.
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So I just think it's that connection to these
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ancient times. And I think when we're tapping
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into these crystals as well, perhaps we're connecting
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on a soul level to them. And I guess sometimes
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maybe why we like that crystal so much, because
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we have a history of that time. And going back
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to what you were saying about the vibration,
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you know, that crystal has been forming over
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literally hundreds of millions of years. It can't
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not have absorbed all that energy in the earth.
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Yeah, and I think this is where crystals are
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great to meditate with as well because it can
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take you back to that time You said earlier on
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again when I go back to the clear quartz So one
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of my questions was do you have a favorite crystal
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or one that you always carry with you? So I presume
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that would be your crystal quartz or your clear
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quartz That's one of my favorite pendants that
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I wear I feel very connected to it, but I have
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many many many favorite crystals I guess it's
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what I need at the time, but I do have For example,
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I love Labradorite simply because I just love
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the colours. You get the blue flashes, the greens,
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the yellows, the pinks, the purples. It's just
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beautiful to look at. Some of them is just really,
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I guess, purely for how they look. But also one
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that I guess I've needed quite a bit over the
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last couple of years where I had four senior
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dogs pass back to back. So it was, you know...
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A lot of heartache, my emotions were very up
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and down. So Rhodonite was a very good crystal.
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So I have got quite a collection of Rhodonite
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now because I kept feeling drawn to it and I
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do feel it supported me through my grief. And
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yeah, healing my heart, obviously, you know,
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although we have the ability to connect to the
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other world, as I like to say, we are still human
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and we live in this physical world and yeah,
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we miss physical beings. Yeah You are talking
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to a total novice here, but I have heard I've
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got a friend in the village that I live in and
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she's massively into her crystals and She was
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telling me that around her house. She is convinced
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that there are magpie and crow nests Full of
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her crystals because when she puts them out to
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charge in her garden She comes out the morning
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and the magpies are stolen them and I said to
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her Charge? What are you talking about? And she
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was talking about charging and cleansing her
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crystals in the moonlight. Can you walk me through
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that a bit more? What is that about? Yeah, so
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crystals will absorb energy, whether it's positive
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or negative. To have the crystal working back
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to its full ability, you want to cleanse it.
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And by doing so, you I mean, there's a number
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of ways you can cleanse a crystal, just by running
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water, ideally a natural source of water, but
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you know you can just run it under the tap. A
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lot of it is about setting that intention as
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well. I was going to ask you about that, is it
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intention? Yeah, you know there's various methods.
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I'm a big fan of sound, so I have a buffalo drum,
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I have a singing bowl, tuning forks, so all of
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those, the sound waves will vibrate the crystal
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and release any stuck or stagnant energy and
24:35
you're just brings the crystal back to its natural
24:38
state. A lot of people like to use sage or palo
24:42
santo. I do that sometimes but normally just
24:45
for a few minutes because I am asthmatic and
24:47
I am obviously cautious of my animals in the
24:49
home as well, giving them a choice whether they
24:51
breathe it in or not. So yeah those are sort
24:54
of ways that you can cleanse your crystal and
24:56
that's like kind of giving them a spiritual bath
24:58
so to speak, whereas charging them is like almost
25:01
like feeding them. By charging them on a full
25:04
moon that's just adding just so they can work
25:07
to their full ability. Sunlight as well but obviously
25:11
some crystals they might fade in the sunlight
25:14
like amethyst and rose quartz but some crystals
25:17
like carnelian and black obsidian they're great
25:20
fine to be outside in all the elements and also
25:23
you've got selenite and clear quartz they will
25:25
also charge other crystals. So they're like mini
25:29
batteries? Yeah, exactly. So one of my best sellers
25:32
are the selenite plates and the bowls because
25:35
they're easy then. People can just put their
25:37
crystals on or around them and that will give
25:41
them a charge. And we are recording this on a
25:44
full moon, so will your garden be full of crystals
25:47
tonight? Some of my own personal ones, yes. But
25:50
the easiest way for me, and obviously Kaubara,
25:52
I do take my crystals to shows and a lot of people
25:54
pick them up and see them. The easiest thing
25:57
for me is sound, which is why I like it. because
25:59
then I can just, you know, go around with my
26:01
drum or my singing bowl and that will, that will
26:04
cleanse them. I'd love to see that. Charlotte
26:07
walking around the house, followed by dogs just
26:09
banging her drum and singing and doing her bowls.
26:12
It really takes a picture, yeah. It does, it
26:14
does. And what a fabulous image to end part one
26:32
on. If you wanted to reach out to me, you can
26:42
find me on threads, Instagram and Facebook, the
26:46
.psych .explorer. I would love to hear from you
26:49
and what I would really especially love is to
26:53
hear your voice. Send me a voice note. If you've
26:56
got a tale you want to tell me, if you've got
26:58
something you want to say, send me a note on
27:00
Instagram and I'll try to include it in a future
27:02
episode. But for now, let's get back to Charlotte
27:07
with some more practical tips on how crystals
27:10
can work for you. So you've been brought up with
27:25
this, you've gone to America, you've gone to
27:27
the big gem shows with your father. When you
27:31
started to... share your interest in crystals
27:34
back in 2019. How did your friends and family
27:38
respond? Well my family, I guess my dad felt
27:43
quite proud actually because obviously he's retired
27:47
now and it's given in a way given him a new lease
27:51
of life as well because I'm actually teaching
27:54
him some things because there's new crystals
27:56
being discovered all the time. So I'm showing
27:59
him crystals that he's never seen before. So
28:02
in terms of my parents, yeah, they're very pleased.
28:06
There's a pride there. With my friends, I guess
28:12
it's not so much. I think my friends, they've
28:16
always known I've been a little bit spiritual.
28:19
I guess in terms of where I was in the dog behaviour
28:22
world and it's all very science -based the behaviour
28:25
work that I did. Some maybe don't understand
28:30
it or see a place for it and I kind of have drifted
28:34
away from some people and I think that's just
28:37
a natural thing with life though. How stepping
28:41
onto this path brought any self -doubt and if
28:45
so how have you learned to manage it? Well I
28:50
think it's quite natural for a lot of people
28:52
when they're starting something maybe new to
28:55
have self -doubt and to maybe compare themselves
28:58
to others and how others are doing. But as a
29:00
very wise lady that we know often quotes comparison
29:04
is a thief of joy. So I think it's through experience
29:09
and through practice that we gain confidence
29:13
and Trust is a very big word that I often say
29:18
to myself, especially when I'm, you know, doing
29:23
my mediumship. I've learned to trust the information
29:26
that I get and I've learned to trust, you know,
29:30
it's my team and it's building up a relationship
29:33
with my guides and my helpers in spirit. So I
29:36
really do think, you know, if anyone's just starting
29:38
out on this journey. It really is about practice
29:42
and this is where joining a development circle
29:44
is great because you get to have that practice
29:46
and you know there's no judgment everyone's you
29:49
know in the same boat we're all sort of exploring
29:52
these these these new avenues and we've all been
29:54
pulled there for a reason so yeah I do think
29:57
that helps and obviously like positive feedback
30:00
also helps. Now, you know, I'm a dog trainer,
30:04
so I train my dogs with positive reinforcement.
30:06
So I do feel like I need that a little bit myself
30:09
as well. But I just think, yeah, it's time we
30:13
build up our own confidence and we really should
30:17
trust in our own abilities. And why can't we
30:21
do these things? Thinking about your mediumship
30:24
and your crystals, so compared to when you started
30:28
out, How have your beliefs or understanding evolved?
30:33
And again, I would like you to relate that to
30:35
both your crystals and your mediumship. I would
30:39
say I'm more open minded. Although I've been
30:44
brought up around all of this, it's only, I guess,
30:48
in my 30s now that I've really shown more of
30:50
an interest and wanting to learn more. So I definitely
30:54
do see that I have developed. And I know when
30:57
it comes to learning about the crystals and how
31:00
they can help. I know I have friends that have
31:02
been with me from the start and even my mum,
31:05
when she's seen me at shows, she's like, wow,
31:07
you've really matured as well. Do you feel that
31:12
your crystals have helped your mediumship? I
31:16
definitely do believe they have and I do think
31:18
with a lot of things and with your crystals,
31:20
it can be good to set the intention with them.
31:23
So many who will just think... they're going
31:24
to get a crystal and oh it's going to do this
31:26
and change my life or I'm not going to feel this
31:28
way anymore but it's so it's about the intention
31:31
so it's also then your mindset as well. I have
31:35
to say doing the platform work a few weeks back
31:40
just before leaving I really felt drawn to wearing
31:44
a seraphimite bracelet which I had in my stock
31:47
and I didn't have one of my own. and I thought
31:50
no no no I've got to take one out of the stock
31:53
and it's quite an expensive mineral because it's
31:54
rare and it's from Russia so it's quite pricey
31:58
so I wasn't going to have one for myself but
32:00
I just felt the need to wear it and I've actually
32:03
been wearing it pretty much every day since and
32:06
that crystal in particular is known for connection
32:11
to angels and to the spirit world and it's the
32:15
stone of transformation so I do feel that I needed
32:19
to have that bracelet, and it was just working
32:22
on platform. Yes, I could have done the platform
32:24
work without it, and I probably would have been
32:27
the same, but I guess for me mentally, having
32:30
that bracelet helped. Yeah. And it's a physical
32:35
manifestation of your intention. Yeah. Crystals
32:39
are not in place of medical reasons. Don't take
32:43
your pills and just take crystals. You can't
32:45
say that to people, but I have had... people
32:48
come to me and they truly have believed that
32:52
the crystals have helped them with really you
32:55
know severe illnesses. I really do believe that
32:59
they do play their part. My dad had an accident
33:02
at Christmas and he had a piece of golden healer,
33:05
which is known to help through illness. And he
33:08
truly believes that that helped him recover quicker.
33:10
And even the doctors and nurses in the hospital
33:12
were very interested in his crystals. And I ended
33:14
up visiting him and giving some of the nurses
33:17
crystals as well to have on them whilst they're
33:19
at work. So yeah, it's just sort of spreading
33:22
that joy as well. Okay, now I've got an image
33:24
of your dad in the hospital bed surrounded by
33:27
candles and stones and rocks. And the funny thing
33:32
is, when I speak about my dad and having a crystal
33:35
business, everyone paints him as being this hippie
33:38
where he's not at all. He worked in the stock
33:42
exchange as an accountant for many years. So
33:45
he's not that image that anyone would paint in
33:48
their head when I talk about him. It's quite
33:50
funny really. Yeah. Crystals can feel, I mean
33:54
you're throwing these names and these words out
33:57
at me and it's, I love it, it's amazing, but
34:01
they can feel like it's such a huge world. What
34:04
is your advice to someone just starting out who
34:07
might feel a bit overwhelmed? Yeah, so say wanting
34:12
to get into crystals but feeling a bit overwhelmed
34:14
because there's just hundreds out there. I have
34:17
this you know regularly at my events, people
34:19
are drawn to them but don't really know where
34:21
to start. often you know whilst they're standing
34:24
there in front of me I say is there a particular
34:27
crystal you feel drawn to right now and it could
34:30
just be because that one's sparkly but it's I
34:34
want to know what they're drawn to because so
34:36
many times they give me a long list of things
34:38
I need help with I ask them what they were drawn
34:40
to and often that actually pairs to that crystal
34:44
so intuition is a big thing. You don't have to
34:48
necessarily be, you know, working as a psychic
34:51
or a medium or sort of in this line of work.
34:54
Everyone has got intuition and it's just obviously
34:58
we're tapping into it and building on it when
34:59
we're developing as mediums. Firstly, I would
35:02
say what are you drawn to? Some of the main ones,
35:07
the popular ones would be your quartz, so like
35:09
your clear quartz, your rose quartz and your
35:12
amethyst. They're sort of three of the main ones.
35:16
There's a lot of people wanting support for mental
35:19
health and that are very stressed and anxious.
35:21
So I get asked that question a lot. And there
35:23
are things like amethyst, fluorite and lipidolite,
35:28
which I often recommend. And lipidolite is one
35:31
of my best sellers because it's a lithium rich
35:33
mineral. So it's great for stress and anxiety.
35:36
It brings peace. And it's also good for women's
35:39
hormonal cycles. So a lot of women are wanting
35:42
that crystal. I know I always do a certain time
35:45
of the month. want to be wearing that crystal.
35:48
Yeah, anything that helps. Why not? Yeah. Firstly,
35:53
is there one that you're drawn to or maybe go
35:56
for one that pairs up to what you're wanting
35:59
help with? So you're saying just don't be put
36:03
off by what the official descriptions are of
36:05
what the official personalities or properties
36:08
that a crystal might have. Instead, see how it
36:13
feels. Yeah, I wouldn't get too hung up because,
36:17
you know, there's hundreds of books out there.
36:19
Some of them can have various definitions for
36:23
the crystal. A lot of the information, not all
36:25
of the information, but a lot of the information
36:27
has actually just been channeled and that's channeled
36:30
from the source. So there's wonderful people
36:33
like Judy Hall, who has an array of books, The
36:37
Crystal Bible. That's somebody that my dad worked
36:40
with throughout the years. She's actually passed
36:42
now, but she's left an amazing amount of information
36:46
here on earth, and her daughter is still running
36:49
some things in her honour. So there is a lot
36:53
of information out there, but yeah, exactly,
36:56
how does that crystal feel for you? Have you
36:59
heard of lithomancy? No, I haven't. If you're
37:03
into crystals, I would seriously suggest you
37:06
look into this. I was listening to a podcast
37:09
and a guy was talking about it and it's basically
37:11
tarot. But instead of using tarot cards, he uses
37:15
crystals. Oh, wow. Okay. Apparently, it's a really
37:20
rare topic. Only a few people out there do it.
37:25
But yeah, he uses instead of using tarot cards,
37:28
he uses got his bag of crystals. And he just
37:31
puts his hand in and he reads tarot but through
37:35
crystals. Each crystal will have a different
37:37
property, as you're saying, and he'll give the
37:39
reader a reading based on the type of crystals
37:43
that he pulls. Oh, I like that. Yeah, because
37:46
I have crystal oracle cards. I've got quite a
37:49
few different crystal oracle cards, which I like
37:51
to play with. But yeah, I know that's nice. Yeah,
37:54
I like that. I haven't got with enough collection
37:56
of crystal to do it, but you might say. Charlotte,
38:01
thank you so much for coming on this evening.
38:03
I really appreciate it. I really enjoyed it.
38:05
I've learned a lot as well. Oh, good. So final
38:08
question before I let you go this evening, Charlotte.
38:11
What has been the most surprising or challenging
38:13
part of your journey so far? Well, I think the
38:18
surprising thing is just how much enjoyment that
38:22
you can get out of For me, what essentially is
38:25
my work, and it's going to these, especially
38:29
the mind body spirit fairs, where you're meeting
38:31
so many different people, their true authentic
38:36
selves, and they have different gifts and talents
38:38
to share with the world. So, and I know that
38:42
through my training, like how I really embrace
38:45
color, and that was with my healing, with my
38:48
animal healing as well, how much color. where
38:52
I never thought it would and how I visualized
38:55
the color around the animal and things like that.
38:58
And I'm really interested in spirit art now as
39:01
well. And I think maybe through experiences.
39:05
when I was younger, child, teenager, I'd seen
39:09
some spirit artists and I just found it a little
39:12
bit spooky, some of the images that would get
39:15
drawn, because I think, oh, they're drawing someone
39:17
in spirit. But it's actually realising that spirit
39:21
art, and you don't have to be an artist. And
39:24
I know that this is something that we've done
39:25
in our development circle. you're just, you know,
39:28
you could be working with someone soul to soul
39:30
and it's just the image that comes to you and
39:33
then it's interpreting it. So you're almost drawing
39:35
your own oracle card and you're reading from
39:38
it. You're looking at maybe the image of a flower
39:42
like a rose and oh, what colour is the rose and
39:45
why is it that colour and the information that
39:48
you can get from it. And I just think it's tapping
39:50
into that creative side. So I think that that
39:53
has surprised me. That's really interesting because
39:57
that's not the sort of answer I was expecting.
40:01
Normally when I ask these questions, people come
40:03
back with people with judgment, the ways that
40:06
maybe their families have changed around them.
40:10
But with you, it's more about the toolboxes that
40:17
are available for you to use to practice your
40:19
mediumship or your psychic work. Just quickly
40:23
to go on to that then. How do you deal with judgment?
40:27
Have you had people judge you or have you had
40:29
people poo poo you? I know we've sort of touched
40:32
on this briefly with friends and family earlier
40:34
on. But what about judgment? Because that's so
40:37
hard for me to get past sometimes. You're always
40:41
going to get... judgment from people being in
40:44
this line of work that thinks it's a load of
40:47
rubbish and that's their opinion because everyone's
40:49
entitled to their opinion. We are all on our
40:52
own individual soul journeys and I just try to
40:56
remind myself that now when people are maybe
40:58
not so nice I just say this is their journey
41:00
and that's rather than reacting. So I guess there's
41:04
learning to being your true self and not letting
41:08
anyone pull you down. or berate you and this
41:13
is my business as well selling crystals so there
41:16
is that part of it but I just put my faith in
41:20
the universe and that life will guide me where
41:23
I need to go and always provide. And what an
41:26
absolutely beautiful sentiment to end on thank
41:29
you so much Charlotte I've already really enjoyed
41:32
listening to you and learning so much from you.
41:35
Where can listeners find you if they want to
41:38
reach out to you? So I do have an online shop
41:41
which is www .outoftheearthcrystals .com and
41:47
my email is the same outoftheearthcrystals .gmail
41:50
.com and I'm on all their social media platforms
41:53
as well. So yeah, many ways. Brilliant. And you
41:57
are specialised, you're based in East Anglia,
42:00
so you do all the mind, body and spirit affairs.
42:03
So do you have a list of events that you go to?
42:06
Yeah, so I do share that on my social media and
42:09
on my website, monthly where I'm going to be
42:11
that month. I do also venture out to Sussex because
42:15
that's where the Healing Animals organisation
42:17
is based. So I go there about once a month and
42:21
the Harry Edwards Healing Centre when they have
42:24
fairs running in Surrey. So I do spread out outside
42:26
of East Anglia and I did a fair this year in,
42:32
oh gosh, where was that? Milton Keynes, that's
42:35
the one. We're just lovely as well because you're
42:38
meeting lots of different people each time and
42:41
that's what I like. Thank you so much Charlotte,
42:44
I've really loved it. Thank you so, so much.
42:46
Yeah, it's been great chatting to you. And that
43:07
was Charlotte. How wonderful was that? I know
43:10
a lot of the words and the names of the crystals
43:12
that Charlotte was using were washing over me.
43:14
And maybe they were washing over you too. But
43:17
what she was saying about choosing crystals that
43:20
spoke to you really chimed with me. You don't
43:23
have to necessarily worry about what the official
43:25
properties are. It's about what you're drawn
43:29
to and what is drawn to you. If you are using
43:32
your intuition, then you are going to choose
43:34
the right one for you. The crystals that I bought
43:37
from Charlotte, I'm guilty of buying them because
43:40
they're pretty and I wanted something nice for
43:42
my recording office which makes it sound far
43:45
more glamorous than it actually is. It's just
43:47
about better. But there was also something that
43:51
Charlotte said which really struck me about intention
43:55
and what I have chosen to take forward around
43:58
divination. You can use absolutely anything.
44:02
As long as there is intention in whatever it
44:05
is that you are using, you don't have to go out
44:07
and spend loads and loads of money on crystals.
44:11
You might want to use jewellery that you already
44:13
have or fashion. I mean, you could argue fashion
44:17
is the biggest magic work going. It doesn't physically
44:21
change you, but it makes you feel a certain way.
44:24
It makes you present yourself to the world in
44:26
a certain way. It can give you confidence. It
44:28
can make you feel sexy. And it's exactly the
44:31
same for crystals, exactly the same for pendants
44:34
or charms. Whatever it is that you want to use,
44:37
it's all about the intention that you put into
44:39
it. Once again, I would really like to thank
44:43
Charlotte. She was so generous with her time.
44:46
I mean, she is so generous anyway. She helps
44:49
run a wonderful animal charity. And actually,
44:52
if you want to support Charlotte with her charity,
44:55
you can find them online. Ellie for animals,
44:58
that's E -L -I for animals. They've got their
45:01
own website, E -L -I for animals .co .uk. And
45:06
actually, while we're on the topic of dogs, I
45:08
want to thank Charlotte's dogs because as we
45:11
were recording that conversation, they did not
45:13
utter a single peep. I think she fed them just
45:15
beforehand just to preempt any bark. So I really
45:19
appreciate that. Thank you, Charlotte. And thank
45:20
you to your dogs. Just going back to the crystals
45:24
for a moment, though. I asked Charlotte about
45:27
lithomancy, about defining information from reading
45:31
the crystals like tarot or oracle cards and when
45:34
I first heard that podcast Part of me thought,
45:38
no, that doesn't feel right. Or what does that
45:41
even mean? But actually thinking about it, I
45:44
had exactly the same reaction when I went to
45:47
my first development circle and they bought out
45:49
a box full of Oracle and Tarot cards. I thought,
45:53
how does this even work? And it does because
45:55
I use it. during my readings. They help connect
45:59
me to messages. They help connect me. So I am
46:02
going to open my mind up and I'm going to try
46:04
to use crystals more in my mediumship or at least
46:08
in my psychic work. I don't have many, but the
46:12
ones that I do have are quite nice. So I'm going
46:14
to just see where that goes and I will let you
46:16
know. So all that is left for me to say is thank
46:20
you for listening. Let me know what you thought.
46:23
What are your thoughts on crystals? Do you use
46:26
them? Do they help you? Or do you use some other
46:30
talisman or object to help you in your spirituality?
46:35
Remember, you can find me at the .psychic .explorer.
46:39
The next episode is a solo episode. I've not
46:42
recorded it yet, so I'm not sure what it's going
46:44
to be about. But the next guest episode is my
46:48
circle leader Nicola Gigi. It is such a wonderful
46:52
conversation because it gave me an opportunity
46:55
to get to know Nicola some more. And we have
46:58
a conversation about Circle. What is Circle?
47:02
Who is Circle for? What one should expect from
47:05
Circle? We explore how she started and we also
47:09
look at her philosophy and the philosophy that
47:12
shaped her spirituality. If you enjoyed Dana
47:16
Willey's episode a few episodes back, you're
47:18
going to really enjoy Nicola's. So that is coming
47:21
up. On that note, I will leave it there. Thank
47:25
you so much again for listening, guys. Sending
47:27
all my love. Take care. Bye.