By the Light of the Moon ~ Charge your Crystals this Full Moon #240

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Aligning yourself with the natural cycles and rhythm of the Earth and celestial bodies can be so healing and strengthening for our energy body, physical body, and our Spirit.  

When you sync up with the lunar rhythm, something shifts. You start to feel more supported, more grounded, and more in tune with your own intuitive flow. Christina shares how you can work with the energy of the Full Moon to amplify your intentions, cleanse your space, and give your crystals a deep, soul-level charge.

We’ll chat about what crystals love the moonlight, what to avoid when placing them outside, and how to create a meaningful ritual that supports your own relationship with your crystals.  

If you've been feeling scattered, drained, or like you’re carrying around energy that’s not yours, this is a great time to remember that nature has already built in a way to help you to slow down, get intentional, and reset your energy and the energy of your healing tools. 

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Transcript

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Steve, welcome to the Modern Life and Spirit podcast, where we explore spiritual topics relevant to today's world. Your hosts, certified psychic medium Christina Wooten and Reiki master teacher Robert Wooten, break down how to work with spirit to create more positive growth in your life. Consider this podcast your go to spiritual resource for navigating the modern world.

Christina Wooten: 1:39

Hey there, kindred spirit, welcome back to the podcast. I'm so glad that you are here with me. We have had so much lovely rain in the last two days. It's been amazing. My garden is so happy. It's just like bursting forward with so much life this year. We've got some herbs. The parsley has finally come up. We have a surprise watermelon that is coming up. We have lots of different flowers. We have roma tomatoes. We have zucchini and spaghetti squash, and we have a whole new rose bush that we planted. So really, it's loving this amazing weather, but it's just been nice also to be outside, to be grounded, to be connected, to do those little tedious things like weeding. And I don't know if you guys talk to your plants when I'm watering them, but I do. I tell them they're so pretty, they're so beautiful and how vibrant their leaves are. It's just a really nice calming practice that I have in my life. But anyway, I'm glad that we are here together on June 11, there is a Full Moon in Sagittarius. So when we're recording this, it's just right around the corner, and the full moon can be a really nice release and a reset for all of us, but it can also be really helpful for our crystals too. So if that's what we're going to talk about today. Now, if you are new to tracking the lunar cycles or to just slowing down grounding into more mindful, connected living like paying attention to those natural cycles and how it affects you and how you feel as a result. You might also want to check out a couple of other free resources that I have for you. So the first one is an episode of our podcast called start manifesting with the Divine Feminine through the moon phases, which is episode number 57 in that episode, we share the metaphysical aspects of these moon phases and how that's linked to the divine feminine, why you should be using the power of the moon to supercharge your manifestation efforts. So if you're wanting to be more aligned in your creative process, definitely check out episode number 57 and I also have episode number 210 for you, which is living by the moon's influence with Suzanne Gerber. That was an amazing episode. That was really informative, where I was talking with Suzanne Gerber, who is a classically trained modern astrological counselor, and she has over three decades of experience with the moon and astrological work. So she talks about how to integrate astrology and spiritual growth, and guides us in working with the moon cycles to bring clarity purpose and harmony in your lives, especially in the time where we might be feeling a little bit uncertain, and we need to bring forward more intention and more of a sense of grace to things. So that is episode number 210 so those are great resources to help you get started and help answer questions that you might have about lunar energy, if that's kind of a newer topic for you. But before we dive into our topic of today, which is incorporating crystals into that, I have to tell you that I've just opened the doors to something really special that I've been working on for months, the intuitive heart circle, if your creative spirit has been craving a sacred a nurturing space to reconnect with your intuition and your spirit guides. If you've been wanting to bring out more of your creative side, explore art in a no pressure healing kind of way, and just feel lit up, realigned with your inspiration again, this is a great space to explore that we're getting ready to start, I would love to have you join us. You can get all of the information on that at Sedona, medium.com, forward slash, intuitive heart circle, and I'm going to add that link to the description wherever you're listening today, or you can also find it in the show notes. Okay, so tell me if this sounds familiar, maybe you're trying to sleep and you're noticing that your dreams are like all over the place, or really intense. Maybe you're having a hard time even getting to sleep. You feel a little bit more restless. Maybe your emotions are feeling kind of intense or very sensitive, like they're stirred. It up. Maybe the people around you seem like they're just they've grown another head. They're starring in their own little soap opera that they've created. It might be the full moon. Maybe not all the time. Sometimes, there's other factors. But you know, I'd say like 70% of the time it's probably the full moon, and you're not imagining it. Before, I was doing this work full time, so doing readings and Reiki and teaching intuitive development, I worked in a psychiatric hospital, and I swear that every single time there was a full moon, the energy would just crank up on the units, even the very skeptical nurses or skeptical people noticed it. I mean, you knew if you were on the calendar for the full moon, like you better be ready when you walked in the door. You could feel it in the atmosphere. In the milieu, there was constantly things popping off. People had a tendency to get more upset. People in our psychosis unit were a lot more active and needed a lot of support. During that time, there were tons of admissions that would come in significantly more so over the full moon, and especially that night, if you worked night shift, it was very, very intense, and it really makes you respect the power of this subconscious effect that the moon can have in our world, in our environment, and also in our inner landscape. And it didn't stop there, either, because there was a women's hospital that was right around the corner, and the nurses there that we were connected to would always talk about how many babies were coming through at that time, and lots of events that were happening that they were emergencies, that they were having to deal with whenever it was the full moon. So it was just like clockwork. You really couldn't ignore it. There was never a time where it was the full moon and it was a nice, easy, relaxing shift, okay, it was like you were doing five shifts at one time. It was very, very intense. And I worked 12 hour shifts. So that was even more special when it fell on a full moon. But the thing about full moons is they really stir things up, for sure, but think about what's happening with the fullness of the moon. They also bring things to light, things that were meant to be seen, things that need to be felt, so that they can be processed and finally, let go of it is an opportunity for this mirror to come up and say, Hey, are you ready to release that thing that's been sitting in your energy for a while. This is your opportunity. This is your chance to let go of something that you've been carrying. So it's also a time where we can get a strong sense of a release and relief, where we're letting go of things that are no longer serving us. And sometimes it's not in the most eloquent way, because the full moon, you know, is bringing forward things with that intensity, bringing things to the surface that maybe we're a little bit resistant to. So it can get a little bit messy in that time as well, because you may notice that things are coming up without the same sense of normal control that you have over things or over your responses. So there's a lot happening when the full moon is at play, but everything is responding to the full moon's energy, and this includes crystals, so our little fun sparkly allies soak up that energy. All month long. They're soaking up our energy, the environment's energy, even other people's energy, if they've been sitting in the shared space, sometimes they even can get a little bit bogged down, just like we do. So if your favorite crystal suddenly feels a little bit not as vibrant energetically, or maybe it feels a little bit heavy, a little bit stagnant, almost like it's fallen into a state of dormancy. It might be time for a big cleanse and a recharge. And this is where the full moon can be really helpful. And it's kind of like perfect timing. We're right around the corner from the next Full Moon in Sagittarius, which is June 11, 2025 so in this episode, I'm going to walk you through why crystals really need cleansing and charging in the first place, why the full moon is such a powerful energy to do that with, and how you can get started if that is something that you would like to do, and work with your crystals to elevate their energy and help them to release and let go of heaviness that may not be serving them and may not be serving you, as well as their crystal partner. Sure. All right. So why do crystals need cleansing and charging? So think of it like energetic hygiene. Just like we pick up other people's energy, our crystals do the same thing so they can get a little bit overloaded, holding on to a lot of stagnant energy or old intentions or even stuff that wasn't ours to begin with. Imagine all the people touching them at the Crystal store, and all the energy that that leaves on them also. So when you're connecting with crystals, carrying them around all day, or using them in healing, it just it picks up a lot of energy as well, and cleansing them helps to reset them. It clears away all of that extra gunk and brings them back to their natural, pure vibration. So there are lots of ways to do that, like smudging using a master crystal, like Selenite, or certain crystals respond really well to the cleansing element of water. There are so many ways to cleanse your crystals, which you do right after you purchase them, or when they start to get that kind of heavier feeling. Now we're not going to get into the cleansing aspect in this particular episode, because we're focusing on charging How do you charge your stone? So after you cleanse, you're sort of cleaning the palette. Imagine a chalkboard, and you're just wiping it clean and fresh, charging it is where you are renewing that energy. So you're not just cleaning it and cleansing all the extra stuff away. You're really plugging it back into source, and you're helping it to work at full capacity. And where that energy is very clear, it's focused, and its cup is full, so it's ready to support you again as well. And caring for our crystals in this way, it is very, very important, because when you take crystals on, you are becoming their steward. As weird as it sounds, it is like, you know, adopting an animal in some ways, and that you are taking on a certain type of responsibility to support and help them in being their very best selves and attending to their needs and not just using them for your own purposes, knowing that they have their own mission out in the world, and you want to Help them to shine that light as well. So these sacred items, they are co creators in our healing, and when we treat them with love and intention, they will reflect all of that right back to us to in our own healing work in our environment. It's a beautiful exchange. You can always charge crystals anytime you feel inspired under the moon, under different moon phases. But a lot of people choose the full moon specifically, and this is because besides being just glorious and beautiful, the Full Moon brings a very deep Yin energy. It's intuitive, it's feminine, it's very receptive, and it's naturally cleansing all of that light that you see that's just lighting up the landscape and shining down. It's energetically amplifying whatever it touches. And crystals love this, especially the ones that are tuned into intuition, like Amethyst and Moonstone and all of the crystals that are, you know, dreamy purples and blues and sometimes pinks too, they tend to do beautifully under the full moon or being charged in the moonlight. So there are some crystals that are going to be particularly attracted to moonlight, and some that would prefer to be charged in sunlight, because they crave and are more in alignment with the sun energy. So that would be things like Sunstone or Citrine, those types of things have a tendency to prefer sun so you really have to use and follow your intuition for which crystals want to be charged in the moonlight, which cycles would be good for them particularly. But if you're going to charge in the moonlight. The full moon is an excellent place to start, because everything's at its highest level. If you want to charge your crystals in the full moon, it doesn't have to be a very fancy ritual or process in order to do this. It's really something that you know generally feels very instinctive and very natural to do so once you understand why the moon can be so helpful in charging and elevating the crystals and their energy really renewing them so that they can come back and be strong energy to support you as well. So you start. First by choosing which crystals to work with. So you're going to go to wherever your crystals live, in your house or in your environment, and feel into the ones that are asking for a little bit of love. So just let them know I'm going to be charging crystals in the full moon. Is there anyone that wants to come and wants to join, and you might just have a sense or a feeling about certain ones, or like, ooh, me, me, me, please. So you'll pull them aside and then make sure that that feels really in alignment, that they really want to go out and be charged in the full moon, and making sure that you ask them really, I know it sounds silly, but crystals will communicate with you in the same way that animals will communicate with you in unspoken ways. We just have a natural inclination when we tune in and we listen, we can get this feeling and this knowing about what is needed here, some crystals really love the moon, and like I said, others don't. So the more watery and Yin ones, the blues, purples, blacks, pinks, usually connect really well with this type of energy, and others might prefer sunlight. So you just pull those aside and make sure you know which ones you're bringing outside. And then after that, you can place your crystals outside under direct moonlight, or you might need to do it inside, on a windowsill. So if you're in an apartment or in an environment where you know you can't necessarily trust that those special ritual items are going to be left alone, then you might choose to do it on a windowsill instead. But you can place your crystals outside, really trying to focus that they're not in the shade, that they're gonna get, you know, the light of the moon shining down on them, and get a nice, good glow, and trust where you feel guided to take them. Now, keep in mind that water can damage some crystals, so think about this. In where you place them, you may need a spot that's not going to be as vulnerable to a lot of Morning Dew, for example. So just think about that. Also, if there's animals roaming around, is it going to be in an area where someone might knock it down and damage the crystal in some way? So think about those things in your placement as well, and also following your intuition for where your crystals want to be. Maybe some want to be in one area and some want to be in another area. So just follow what you feel guided to. There's no real right or wrong there. As you find that special spot, you're going to lay each crystal out and speak a blessing over it. Just really hold an intention in your heart. And maybe you say something like, Thank you for the healing that you've offered, thank you for your beautiful light. I hope that you recharge, recharge with light and with clarity and with love, something that just feels right for you. Maybe you express your gratitude for what that particular crystal does in your household or does in your life. But whatever it is, just give it a little bit of a blessing as you set it down and set your intention and then let them soak up the moonlight overnight. You don't have to grab them immediately before sunrise. Some people like to they're, you know, maybe a little bit purist and want to rush out there and set their alarm and grab it before the sunrise comes up. But really, you know, my experience has been that crystals are not too bothered by that once they're nice and charged, they've already set that intention and they're already radiating out that energy. But there are crystals who are photosensitive, who are sensitive to light, and it can damage their color if they are set out for a long period of time. So you don't want to leave them for very long outside in the bright sunlight. So don't just set them out to charge in the moonlight and then leave them for a few days, because that can definitely cause some issues in the color and clarity of your crystal. So you know, it's helpful to understand those things too. And you can also add in other elements that might feel good. So you could set them on a piece of Selenite in addition to wherever they're sitting, so that they can get a little bit of extra cleansing from that master Selenite crystal. You can use sound healing elements like a tuning fork or tinctures if you have access to them, or you could, you know, before you actually set them out, you could gently smudge them with the smoke to cleanse and help them to release and to let go before the charging but follow whatever feels good for you, and what also feels natural for your abilities, for your intuition, what feels like your true vibration. You're going to get some direction around that to really make this yours, of course. Now a couple of things to think about. Make sure that you check the weather, some crystals like I said, Don't love moisture, and they're not going. To do well, if they get rained on, and certainly if it gets a lot of rain, it could sweep your crystals away. So you want to just be extra cautious and extra aware of what the weather is doing. If you think that it's going to rain or it might rain hard, make sure that you place it, perhaps in a window sill, rather than placing it outside directly where it might be exposed to something that could be harmful. Now, if you're a part of my inner circle, you know that we track things like the full moon, the new moon eclipses. We track things like the mercury retrograde and so forth. Pay attention to what kind of energy is cycling through our atmosphere and influencing things as well, so that we can be prepared for that energy. There are some full moons and eclipses that happen at the same time or on the same day, and you might be wondering, oh, is that a great time to charge my crystals? Am I going to get some extra juicy Eclipse energy that's going to do some interesting things to my crystals as well. It's important to address this, because eclipses are like spiritual wild cards. They can bring very swift transformation in our life. They can bring karmic shifts, major reveals, and that energy can be very, very very intense. You know, track how you're feeling during eclipses and what's happening in your life around that time, to just become more aware of how intense and somewhat turbulent that energy can feel. I think turbulent is a good expression, because it can feel like you're bouncing around a little bit with all of that that is coming to the surface, it's generally considered not advised to charge crystals during Eclipse energy unless you had a very special inspiration and direct direction to do so. Most of these crystals don't want to be exposed to that level of shake up, because it is so intense and so turbulent, and it's not a very consistent energy. It's not a very relaxing, peaceful, healing, supportive type of energy, right? It's drawing a lot of stuff to the surface. So that's not always very helpful. When we're talking about charging crystals. We want to think about, you know, giving our crystals a great experience, like they're going to the day spa, they're going out, or the night spa, they're going outside. They're getting charged up, illuminated and coming out, you know, looking fresh and feeling great, whereas, if they're going outside during an eclipse period, there's a lot of things, and they're probably coming back with, you know, their hair sticking in all different directions, a little bit like Beatrix Lestrange from Harry Potter. It's a little bit like, whoa. What just happened? So not the best time, unless you have very strong direction. Maybe you have a crystal that does a lot of shadow work, or is specific to working with transformations, and you get a strong, intuitive direction that it needs to charge during the eclipse, then I always think you follow the direction that you received more so than just the general rule. I think you know, our intuition is more powerful than anything. However, for the most part, it's always best to maybe sit out charging on the eclipses, because it is not going to give you the same outcome that you're generally looking for when we are talking about charging. So if you've never charged your crystals under the full moon, this is a great opportunity for you to just give it a go, maybe even to experiment with it. Maybe you're like, I don't know if the full moon really does a whole lot. Maybe you just need a personal experience with it. So choose one of the crystals that maybe is feeling a little stagnant, is feeling a little bit heavy, give it a chance to charge outside over that full moon period, following some of the things that we've talked about, setting your intention for that crystal to be filled with love and clarity and focus and life again, and then bring it back in and see how you feel about the life force energy of that stone afterwards. I think having personal experiences are very important, because it really helps you understand there is something to that powerful energy. So pick a few special stones, set a really nice intention and let the moonlight just do its thing. And if you do, I'd just love to hear how it goes. So you can tag me on Instagram. You can send me a message. I'm always curious about what unfolds when we open ourselves to the moon's wisdom, when we listen to the natural world and we live in alignment with these influences. So until next time, I hope that your crystals sparkle a little bit brighter, and may this upcoming Full Moon help you to release whatever is heavy and make space for what's true. All right. Many blessings. The

Robert Wooten: 26:07

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