GinaStars.com Most crystal cleansing guides start with the two most obvious methods and stop there. Sunlight for an hour. Moonlight overnight. A quick rinse under running water. These instructions are fine for the crystals that can handle them, which is not all of them. Sunlight fades amethyst. Water dissolves selenite. Prolonged sun exposure cracks malachite...
GinaStars.com You already know the feeling. You spend an hour with a particular person — a colleague, a family member, someone you cannot easily remove from your life — and afterward you are exhausted in a way that has nothing to do with what you actually did. You did not run a marathon. You had...
GinaStars.com There is a crystal you keep going back to. Maybe it is the amethyst you picked up two years ago and still cannot stop touching. Maybe it is the black tourmaline that appeared in three different shops on three different days until you finally bought it. Maybe you do not even work with crystals...
Citrine, selenite, tiger’s eye, and clear quartz. Here’s the real breakdown. By Gina, GinaStars I want to talk about four crystals that come up constantly — in shops, on TikTok, in every ‘beginner crystal kit’ you’ve ever seen. Citrine, selenite, tiger’s eye, and clear quartz. They’re popular for a reason. But the way they get...
Not just the birthstone you already knew. The stone that matches what each sign actually struggles with. By Gina, GinaStars Most zodiac gemstone lists just repeat the standard birthstone chart and call it astrology, which always bothered me a little, because a birthstone is really just whatever someone decided your birth month deserved. It has...
Rose quartz, black tourmaline, and labradorite get lumped together as a starter kit. They actually do nothing alike. By Gina, GinaStars These three show up in almost every beginner crystal kit you can buy, which is a little funny, because they’re not actually a matched set. Pink, black, and grey. Love, safety, and clarity. If...
Before the 1800s amethyst was worth as much as diamonds. Here is what we forgot about it. By Gina — GinaStars I have bought amethyst more times than I can count and given most of it away and then bought it again. That probably tells you something. Amethyst is not the flashiest crystal in the...
Moonstone: The Stone That Moves With You By Gina — GinaStars Okay so I need to tell you about the first time I held a moonstone, because I think it explains everything about why I became so obsessed with it. I was in this tiny shop — the kind that’s barely wider than a hallway,...
