Summer Solstice Week: Summer Crystal Reiki Grids

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Summer Solstice Week: Summer Crystal Reiki Grids

Many Healers are called to facilitate 'distance' energy sessions for

people that do not have access to in-person care. Often, this

includes seriously ill clients/friends/family that could use Reiki or

healing energy each and every day. Distance energy work in the

same way as sending a 'prayer'. A prayer is energy that transcends

time/space to interact with a situation/person/event. The

requirement for any distance energy to be effective is a strong,

concentrated intent from the person sending the energy/prayer.

This includes Reiki work and all other forms of 'sending energy'

across a distance.

There are many props that can be used to assist us in 'sending' our

healing energy in a coherent and concentrated manner. First, we

must adequately establish a connection with the receiving person.

Photo's, personal items, or a previous meeting with the receiving

person (ie, someone we already know) are usually the best ways

to connect. Second, many Healers find it very useful to facilitate a

full session on a proxy... like a stuffed animal, with the other items

(if they are available) close by.

You may also want to create a grid for the season's solstice. This

grid allows for the purification of the energy around you in your

home, office, meditation space or garden! Creating your own grid

with your crystals is a personal and balancing way of manifesting

good energy for a good season! There are many combinations you can

create! Here is one suggestion:

Evoking the Element of summer, which is fire, make a space that is

for your crystal grid. This should be in the south direction of your

home, garden, meditation space or office. Use a fire stone in the

center of your grid such as garnet, ruby or red spinel. Evoke the

other seasons and directions by placing 4 crystal quartz points

around the center red stone with the points facing away from the

center. in between the 4 quartz points you may put 4 complementary

color to red, which is green (such as jade, aventurine or peridot).

Bless the grid with incenses, herbal sage or sweet grass or simply a

prayer for a bountiful harvest (which is surely a metaphysical

metaphor for our lives) and then allow the grid to do its work.

Working with Reiki Energy

Many Reiki Practitioners and Energy Workers add the

subtle vibrations of stone energy as a complement to their

healing sessions or daily lives. Usually this includes the

laying on of the appropriate colored stones to coordinate

with the Chakra centers, meditating with a particular

stone, or wearing the stones as jewelry when the

inspiration hits. There are, however, even more uses when

stones are set up in a 'Grid' and are properly 'activated'.

A 'Grid' is more simply put, a way to arrange the stones in

a sacred geometric pattern. They are then consciously

'activated' by connecting a 'line of Light' between the

stones so that they radiate an energy field in the immediate

environment in which they are constructed. Those of you

who are sensitive to energy will be able to tell immediately

that there is a shift of energy in the room where you

construct a Grid. Depending on which stones you choose,

there will either be a gentle shift... or a very tangible one.

Creating a Sacred Space:

We live and work in a variety of environments. Many of these

environments have a specific function to fulfill that can be

consciously and energetically supported. The current attention on

Feng Shui and similar 'getting the energy in the room just right'

techniques have shown that we, as a society, are becoming more

aware of how our immediate spaces can either be harmonious or

disharmonious to our goals. Constructing a Crystalline Grid in an

environment that supports the function of the room is yet another

way to contribute to the overall energy flow.

Most people wish to create a Sacred Space in personal rooms;

such as, Healing, Meditation, and even Bedrooms. Healing rooms

should be warm, inviting, supportive, loving, and full of Light

(Selenite, Rose Quartz, Turquoise, Crystal Points, etc.). Meditation

rooms should be soothing with an added emphasis on reaching

high vibrational states of consciousness (Amethyst, Azurite,

Moldavite, Angelite, Celestite, Selenite, Crystal Points). Bedrooms

are the alchemical combination of dreamtime, regeneration, and

(hopefully) intimate bliss (Herkimer Diamond, Rose Quartz,

Garnet, Lapis, Azurite, etc.). These are all examples of rooms one

might wish to support with appropriate Crystalline Grids... but

certainly not the only kind.

There are other spaces that can be supported by a general 'vibe'...

such as living rooms, children's spaces, offices and workspaces,

etc. In a living room, one may wish to add a Grid that supports

harmony of a group or general feelings of Love and Comfort

(Crystal Clusters, Rose Quartz). A Grid in a Child's space might

include nurturing, creative, and joyful energies (Moonstone,

Citrine, Rose Quartz, Kyanite). An office Grid might include

harmony of a group, calmness, grounding, and shielding (Crystal

Clusters, Amethyst, Black Tourmaline, etc.).

There are no right and wrongs.... you choose the space, you

choose the Crystalline Grid to support it the way your intuition

guides you. Familiarizing yourself with the various metaphysical

properties of minerals can be very helpful to you as you make your

choices. You can get a nice list of stones you may want to use and

then use a pendulum to figure out which ones would be the most

effective for you.

The Star of Pattern

Place quartz crystal points under our massage table in a pattern

called the Star of layout. For this, place crystals on the

points of an imaginary Star of : one each below the head and

foot, one each below the shoulders and hips.

This layout creates a very stable and relaxing energy pattern which

seals in the Reiki energy. We also recommend it for meditation.

There are many possible variations to this pattern. Amethyst or

citrine may be used instead of quartz, and the points may be

alternated with stones of another kind (rose quartz for a love grid,

aventurine for healing, aquamarine for creativity, hematite for

psychic protection).

Hands On

Often clients enjoy holding a crystal in one or both hands during the

treatment. You can either let them choose the one(s) to which they

are attracted, or make suggestions, such as:

For grounding issues: hematite, tiger's eye, black tourmaline, red

jasper, smoky quartz

Anxiety/nervousness: amethyst, rhodochrosite, aquamarine

Love issues: rose quartz (for relationship issues); emerald, for

feeling cut off from divine love or one's spirituality

Opening up spirituality: clear quartz, chrysocolla, amethyst

Spiritual Teaching Grid

(suggested by Zoe Lan)

For my grid I use stones which I purchased specifically for the grid.

They happen to be phantom amethyst raw chunks from Africa. I have

this great shallow bowl which I have filled with sand which I

reikied, and then I program each crystal to sit *proxy* for a person

or a situation. I then arrange them in any formation I wish.

Often, I will put a crystal in my grid representing a spiritual

teacher - Sai Baba, the Dalai Lama, Sri Ganapathi - others who I

consider avatars or great teachers who I feel are able to also focus

grace into my grid. For our circle, I begin by washing all the

crystals I have at my disposal. It is quite a ritual for me since I

just enjoy that sort of thing. I often prepare myself by taking a sea

salt and soda bath.

I invite my reiki guides and any other beings who have the permission

of my higher self to come and assist me. I then *ask* the pile of

clean crystal *beings* who would like to sit proxy for so-and-so.

Invariably, one of them speaks up or I perceive a light from them. I

then program that crystal just as one might program a piece of paper

for distancing reiki. I state the name and the request and I place it

in the grid and move on to the next one.

Then program the entire grid itself stating that by the law of

correspondence, whenever I reiki the grid that the people the

crystals are sitting proxy for will receive a complete reiki

treatment. During our circle I spend much more time and individually

connect with each crystal since I put them in an order and know who

is who. But in between circles, I reiki my grid as a whole. I find it

also easy to add crystals as the need arises...more requests in

between etc.

For me, it is sort of a mini-medicine circle or my personal

stonehenge! It is also like walking a labyrinth in a way since I work

my way with the energy step by step.

I top off my grid with a gold-plated pyramid which surrounds the grid

and creates a standing columnar wave...I find it very powerful to

reiki right over the apex and I am also able to perceive that the

sacred geometry shape has an effect as well being over them. I am

also into pyramid energy so have thrown that into the mix because it

works for me!

Healer's Energy Grid

(suggested by Kuaffman)

The first thing to do is develop clear intent of the purpose of your

grid. It is best to start with a grid to help you with your distant

healing, then if you want you can move on to grids for specific

projects or situations.

Do a prayer of intent that you wish to the perfect grid to assist you

in your distant healing work, and be guided to select the right

crystals for it.

It is best to use single terminated quartz or quartz-like for the 6

outer crystals (unless you receive strong guidance to use something

else). They can be any color of quartz or quartz-like i.e. clear,

rose, amethyst points, citrine, etc.

For the central crystal select something " special " i.e. a cluster, a

sphere, a pyramid or just something particularly meaningful to you.

Then you need a crystal that feels powerful and strong to you for

your master crystal. I feel that a crystal that is a blend of

masculine and feminine energies is most powerful for me. i.e. it is

very clear in areas and cloudy and filled with inclusions in other

areas. It will probably be slightly larger than the 6 outer crystals.

Allow a couple hours to create this tool the first time. It deserves

a sacred space in your life and is very worth the time. After it is

created it only takes a few minutes each day to maintain the energy

Preparing the Crystal Grid

-Cleanse the crystals

-Hold them one at a time and put all the Reiki symbols in them,

intending to charge them and asking them to serve as channels for the

Reiki energy. This can take anywhere from 5-15 minutes per crystal

depending on your guidance

-Place them in formation. ( uses a Star of Pattern with a

cluster or other special crystal in the center.)

Then take your master crystal in your hands and pray to have the full

power of the Reiki energy flow through you as you empower your grid

to heal with love and light. Create an affirmation to do this

something like:

" I empower this grid to heal, to heal, to heal, with love, with love,

with love, with light, with light, with light " .

repeat this three times as you connect the grid lines moving counterclockwise

around the grid.

To connect the grid lines start by pointing the master crystal toward

the central crystal holding it a few inches above the grid . . . when

you feel the energy flow move the master crystal up to the crystal at

the top of the grid drawing a line of energy, then move diagonally to

the crystal on the left, then back to the center, then retrace the

line you just drew, then move to the next crystal on the left. Go

back to center and then retrace that line you just drew, then

continue around the grid as you say your affirmation.

It actually looks kind of like you are cutting a pie, except you are

retracing each line from the center back out. When you feel that you

are finished come back to the top crystal and then move to the

central crystal . . . let the final burst of Reiki flow into the

central crystal. You can then draw a power symbol over it if you

want, intending that you are increasing the power of the grid.

(connecting the lines and affirming the healing power is done daily

to keep the grid active 24 hours a day)

Next you just need to link the names of the people you want to send

Reiki to or the situations. I have my grid on a table that has a

drawer. The grid is on top and the names are in the drawer. You can

also can put a bowl under a table or simply keep a bowl or basket

with pieces of paper with the people's names on it near the grid and

intend that it is linked to the grid.

For crystal healing in person:

The crystals and stones can be placed:

-Upon the subject in a grid or pattern.

-Be extra careful when placing crystals or stones in particularly

sensitive areas such as eyelids.

-You can use a pre-planned grid or pattern, or place the stones on the

chakras, or use your intuition to access healing information from the

-Divine and use a pattern of your own devising.

Below the subject.

-Again, you can use pre-planned grids or patterns or use your intuition.

-Be careful of accidentally causing stone bruises, and pad the stones

if necessary when placing them under the healee.

Around him or her.

-Near or touching the body in a pattern around the healee can work

well for healing. You can effectively make the healee part of the

pattern in this way.

For long distance healing:

You can use a substitute to stand in for the actual healee who is at

a distance from you. A photograph of the healee is a great

substitute, however, if no photo is available, writing down their

name and using that is good also.

For ritual magick:

After preparing for your magickal ceremony, use the stones to help

focus the energy of your ritual magick, or as specified in the spell

or charm you are working with.

See our Stone and Crystal community files for great Reiki Grids!

StonesandCrystals/files/

Pacholyk, MS, L.Ac.

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