Different Crystal Shapes: Their Energy, Meaning, and Uses for Everyday

Crystal spheres emit their energy from all sides, expanding to an entire room evenly. Their energy has a childlike innocence to them and they bring a playful, whimsical element to our lives.

Spheres provide us with an overall feeling of stability, harmony, and unity since their crystal energy is very balancing. The circle resembles the circle of life, and brings in life force energy and wholeness.

Uses:

• Program your crystal sphere with a specific intention to release energy wherever it is placed or to aid you in meditating on a particular problem or healing a certain emotion.

• Place a crystal sphere in the center of a grid to emit the energy/intention gently and evenly. Connecting the life force energy that runs within us to the energy of the grid makes it even more personal.

• Use your sphere for scrying. Crystal gazing is a type of scrying done with a crystal sphere. Get yourself into a meditative state and gaze into the crystal to receive divine downloads or outlooks into the future… The sphere acts as a window to important energy or messages meant for you.

• Massage therapy: try rolling a sphere where you have pain or tension in your body. Spheres are excellent for releasing pent up energy stuck in the body.

• Use a cleansing sphere like Clear Quartz, Carnelian, or Selenite to cleanse other crystals or different areas in your home.

• Hold a sphere in each hand during meditation for harmony and connection to life force energy.

Crystal clusters and geodes have strong vibrational energies due to having many points combined together. Geodes, unlike clusters, have all of their terminations located on the inside. They are typically rounded and show no sign of crystals on the outside unless they are broken in half. Sometimes geodes are cut at the base so they can be displayed standing up. Each little point within a geode emits its own energy, making the inside of the geode very powerful and perfect for charging or cleansing tumbled stones or small crystals.

Clusters have points of all different shapes and sizes that typically terminate in different directions. Each cluster is special and unique in its own way, no two clusters are ever the same.

As we know from earlier in the blog post, crystal points are powerful energy amplifiers, so clusters are especially powerful with their output of energy. The points in a cluster vibrate together harmoniously to bring positive energy and transmute negativity in any space they are in. They can also help us feel more energized mentally and physically as well as aide us with decision making.

Larger clusters have the ability to cleanse larger areas, for example, a whole 2nd floor, a classroom/healing center, or a master bedroom and bath.

Uses:

• Cleanse your space.

• Place on your altar or in your sacred space to bring positive vibrational energies and transmute negative ones. Clusters can also be used for protection with any magic or divination work such as tarot, scrying, or channeling.

• Meditate in front of a cluster to raise vibrations and achieve higher states of consciousness.

• Some clusters work perfectly as jewelry holders - place rings on the points, drape bracelets or necklaces over the cluster. Not only is this a beautiful way to display your jewelry, but it will also cleanse and charge it if it is a piece of crystal jewelry.

• Place other crystals inside or on top of your cluster. Sometimes clusters can perfectly hold spheres or other small crystals.

Palm stone is more of a blanket term. There are many types of palm stones: thumb stones, worry stones, gallets, palm stones, and touch stones. They each have specific features, but sometimes in the market the names can be interchanged, and it can get a little confusing, so I’m going to go over them and give my personal classification of each.

Thumb/worry stones are smaller in size and sometimes have an indent on one side to place your thumb. Palm stones are equal in size and proportion. They can be circular or oval shaped and small enough to fit in the average hand size.

Gallets are bigger in size, they are usually more circular and chunky because they stay true to the nature of the material when it was found and less is carved away. Finally, touch stones are extra large palm stones, sometimes almost like a freeform.

Uses:

• Palm stones are perfect to hold during meditation due to their size. Personally this is one of my all time favorite crystal shapes to purchase due to their accessibility and affordable price.
• Fidgeting device. Palm stones provide you with something to keep your hands busy or help you to focus and stay grounded.
• Keep one in your pocket or bag. I love to pick out a different palm stone I’m drawn to each day to take with me wherever I’m going. That’s another reason why I love palm stones, they are small enough to throw in your bag or pocket and go (although I have to admit I do sometimes like to bring tiny clusters or spheres with me)!
• Finally, another way I enjoy using palm stones is sleeping with them. If you have trouble falling asleep or staying asleep, palm stones are incredibly comforting to hold while you fall asleep. You can also place a palm stone under your pillow if you don’t want to hold it. Specific types of stones can aid us in sleep, lucid dreaming, and dream recall.

Hearts are very similar to palm stones, they are just shaped to look like a heart. Hearts can range in many sizes and styles. They connect with the energy of the heart chakra and emit their energy in a very loving and gentle manner while giving us a sense of peace and harmony. Hearts can be good for those who are extra sensitive to the energies of crystals since the energy output is softer.

Uses:

• Crystal hearts are wonderful to aid in heart chakra healing. They can be programmed with specific intentions if you wish to do so. Hearts that are green or pink, such as Rhodonite, Rose Quartz, Green Aventurine, or Green Opal will have an even stronger attunement to the heart chakra.
• In addition to this, all of the uses mentioned for palm stones work just as well with heart carvings.

A freeform is a chunk of material that is carved typically in an irregular rounded shape, sometimes if a stone grows a particular way or requires a specific type of cut/polish they will appear more flat, like labradorite for example. Freeforms come in all sizes and each one is unique and highlights the natural beauty of any stone.

A flame is similar to a freeform but they taper off at the top and they resemble the organic movement of a flame, they kind of remind me of soft serve ice cream cones! Flames can be more simplistic and geometric in style as well.

Freeforms do not have a specific meaning or special output of energy like the rest of the shapes, but that doesn’t mean they don’t still fill a room with good vibes and beauty.

Uses:

• Statement pieces to decorate your home.
• Meditate in front of a freeform or place it on your altar or in your sacred space. Labradorite would be especially useful in these spaces to activate the third eye and heighten intuition.
• Depending on the material, use a freeform for crystal gazing.
• Some people like to place their hands on freeforms to reset, charge, or cleanse their energy.
• Use as paper weights or bookends.