The love of crystals runs deep for many of us. So many choices, so much energy and such beautiful shapes. Each crystal completely unique from the colour grain, where it came from and what energy it carries.

I first found I was obsessed with crystals when I was very young.  It was holiday in Spain in a little crystal shop and there it was my very first piece of amethyst. It was beautiful, deep purple in colour with translucent tones and the jagged shards reached for the sky.

Oh my god…I was hooked.

It took me all holiday to persuade my Dad to buy me that crystal. I returned to the shop when I could to just stare at it some more. It never occurred to me that someone else might buy it. I guess I already knew it was mine somehow. I felt the connection.

I wanted that crystal in my life so badly, but I wasn’t sending out desperate vibes, I knew she would be coming home with me. Sure enough, at the end of our holiday I was wrapping my new crystal in a million t-shirts and wedging it securely into my suitcase. It felt like I had opened up something deep inside that made me want more crystals. 26 years later, a little faded and cracked I still have her.

Thinking back to my childhood holiday and to all the other times I have obtained crystals throughout my life journey I questioned whether I chose the crystals that adorn my bedside table or did they choose me?

It is the chicken and the egg scenario!

After journaling about what crystals I have, why they are in my life and what I use them for, I came to a conclusion. Just to confirm my own findings I asked some super awesome crystal gurus their opinion and they felt the same.

I can understand why we would sit with either, they choose us or we choose them because of the circumstances that surrounds it. If someone talks about a certain crystal that has helped them through some tough times and you seek it out – you feel like you have chosen it. If you wonder into a crystal shop and are drawn to the crystal counter. Your eyes gaze over the array of delicious looking crystals and one jumps out at you – you then believe it chose you.

It is m belief that both of these are true. Think of it like an energy match. For whatever reason we vibrate at a certain frequency and so does the crystal therefore we attract each other. Our feelings, emotions and circumstances dictate what kind of crystal we may desire but the energy of both us does the rest. Try to imagine that we are like energetic magnets. As soon as we give out a particular frequency we somehow find each other.

I have a confession to make, a lot of people ask me about crystals and what their energetic power is and I don’t always know. I am somewhat different to many crystal lovers. I have always gone with my gut when choosing crystals. I don’t know all their names, where they come from or what healing properties they have because if I feel a certain way and I need a certain crystal, I know that it will find me.