Intuition is a big thing when you’re choosing which crystal you should be working with. I had never been drawn to work with Rose Quartz until one day at a Mineral Show there was a monstrous raw Rose Quartz that kept drawing my attention. It’s soft pink color and rough edges were so enticing I kept watching the table with apprehension every time someone would approach it. Unfortunately, my budget didn’t permit me to purchase the basketball-sized Rose Quartz, but I did bring home a nice 3.5-pound baby. What happened next astounded me. Once home, every time I would go near it, it felt like Regina from Once Upon a Time was reaching into my chest and twisting my heart. Every. Time. My chest would ache, I would feel anxious and uncomfortable. It was not pleasant in any way. I started to question how in the world could a crystal that was causing me physical pain be the crystal of love and compassion?
Here is where the intuition part is integral. I was drawn to the crystal. I could not keep my eyes off it the entire time we were wandering around the show. I knew I could not go home without one. That thought seemed absolutely ridiculous to me at the time. What I didn’t know was the work I needed to do, and that I was being called to do.
I was still early in my recovery from postpartum, had recently completed my Crystal Healer certification and was now compelled to enroll in a Doctorate of Metaphysics and Life Coaching program. It was a busy time of learning, self-reflection, and growth. Not a minute was dreaded and I would do it again in a heartbeat. The work I was required to do as part of the curriculum was deep and required me to uncover and work through a lot of the issues that had me constantly in a reactive state.
So what does all this have to do with Rose Quartz? How does it relate to the crystal of love and compassion? The one thing that I had not been providing myself with before this journey was self-love and compassion. The inability to love and have compassion for myself is what made my postpartum and anxiety that much worse. Looking back, when all the big stuff and courses were finished, that was when I had time to reflect on what had been unleashed at the time I brought the Rose Quartz home.
The non-believers will continue to hold their position that the Rose Quartz had nothing to do with any of it, and that’s ok. This isn’t about converting them or making them believers. Who knows if I would have enrolled in the program had I not brought home the Rose Quartz? Maybe I would have hemmed and hawed and chosen another path. Now that the work is completed, all I can say is that I can happily be around, hold and meditate with my Rose Quartz baby and I don’t regret one bit of the journey I took to get here. Rose Quartz certainly lives up to its reputation for being the crystal of love and compassion.
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