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Currently, mostly wildflower clippings once the sun has scorched them! I'm quite partial to flower magic in this phase of my life, which I never really felt drawn to before now. I'm known to dart across 4 lanes of traffic and scare my passengers when I see some nice flowers on the side of the highway
I've always been a little collector as far back as I can remember. Bones and acorns were my personal favorites. I grew up in a spiritual house but was never given explicit instruction on practices. I just made effigies and mobiles in the middle of the woods as any creepy 7 year old does...
I have a 'crystal garden' , like a rock garden but with heaps of treasurers in it . In the 'good old days' before these were very pop and expensive , we would go to 'Crystan Castle' and buy 'rejects' by the bucket load ! Ha , not a chance today .
They were also used in sculpture ; in our large outdoor circle; the four elemental altars ; two were built of rock and crystal ( water was blue and green crystals and river stones , fire was red and yellow crystals and volcanic rock { earth was one huge flat topped boulder and air .... was made of air } )
Some of the favorite ones sit inside , on shelf, window sill , a few in the wet room / bath house ( some great samples in there , I spent a bit too much )
* If you look at one of my favorites ; it is a river stone with a piece of pumice sticking out of it . It has a story ;
A volcano spat out 'lava foam' that hardened into rock sponge ( a lot harder than pumice ) - scoria : it got broken down and ended up in a river where it became rounded and a 'river stone' . Then the river turned into a glacier and picked up the stone : then the glacier broke up and and an ice berg containing the stone floated around: the ice melted and dropped the stone to the bottom of the sea into mud : eventually the mud turns to mudstone containing the mud; uplift ( subduction fault ) and erosion brings the mudstone to the surface : at the floor of the fault a river forms: the stones break up and get eroded : as one of the does, it cracks and reveals the original river stone encased within the next generation river stone .
- sorry if that was boring , I am a bit of a geonut - every stone has a story
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Oh ... another use ; See that reniform hematite above , I have a great sample of that , it is a pink - silver , soft of pale soft blue . I use it as a prop in a story . I have various kids stories for various ages ; the young ones , especially at bedtime, get the Moon goddess story . Its about an astral visualized trip to the Moon , a Moon cave and inside is throne room and everything is made of ' pink blue silver cloud shaped rocks' . In the story, the Moon Goddess gives the visiting child a piece of her special rock ' to help me look after you while you are asleep and to give you nice dreams ' . At the end of the story I pull out a piece of the 'moon rock' and show it to them and leave it beside their bed .
