Through my life, I have gone between the extremes of being very social and the life of the party to being a total hermit that hardly goes out and will not interact much with others, even with people I know.  It has always bewildered me how much I have gone back and forth between being very introverted to being very extroverted through the course of my lifetime.

My partner has been invited to several social gatherings by her friends, family and colleagues but I would almost always stay home.  During the Winter of 2010, I shocked us both by going to a gathering.  While we were walking down the driveway, my partner slipped and fell down, landing on our son who she was carrying down the very slippery driveway.  Both of them were upset and crying.  A woman I had not met before, came over to comfort them, asking if it was okay to place her hands on my partner.  After this encounter with our family, I felt myself drawn to her and spent most of my time talking with her even though there were a lot of people there I had met before and should have been more comfortable talking with.  Early into the conversation, I realized why I was drawn to her and why it was this gathering out of all others that I actually went to.  As we spoke, it came to light that she was a Crystal Healer.  We exchanged emails because I was interested in learning more about Crystal Healing and setup a time to meet at her place to chat.

After our first meeting and finding out about two places in town that sell crystals, I made my first trip to buy crystals at one of the local metaphysical stores (at that time, I could not find the other store).  The crystals they had for sale were mainly on three shelves with more spread throughout the store.  There was also a section within the store that had various gemstones which I never noticed until leaving.  There was not much that grabbed my attention that day but I did buy my first two pieces of quartz crystal:  one was a small wand that fit perfectly into the folds of my fingers; the other a much wider but shorter quartz crystal.

When I lived in Vancouver, my sisters and their kids would come to visit me.  My sister wanted to go to check out Granville Island (something I had yet to do myself) and we discovered the Crystal Ark (where my niece loved being out in the ark looking for crystals) as well as my other favourite store there, Dragonspace.  Even though after a Reiki session and my partner was sent there to pickup some Rose Quartz to put under our bed, I had not thought much of The Crystal Ark until after my Crystal Healer friend showed me some of the gorgeous pieces she had bought there and my interest in Crystal Healing was piquing.  Of course, after our visit and even more so after the visit to the local store, I was itching to get to The Crystal Ark and made my way there on the next trip to visit family on the coast.

Before our trip, I had been reading about Crystal Healing and had made up a list of the gemstones that I wanted, including a list of basic Chakra Crystals.  Although this was not my first trip into The Crystal Ark, it was the first time I went there with a purpose.  I must have spent well over an hour in there marveling over everything while taking note of all that caught my eye.  It was February so the store was not very busy because it was raining and tourist season had not yet started.  I introduced myself to Sonya and told her the journey I was on and mentioned my Crystal Healer friend in Kelowna who she knew and remembered.  Of course she lit up and was excited because she is a Crystal Healer herself and I am sure usually sees a lot of tourists in the shop because of it’s location on Granville Island.

Sonya has always been a great help in the store, guiding me on what types of pieces I might want to start using in my Crystal Healing adventures.  On my first trip, she helped guide me to picking up a large piece of black tourmaline, amethyst (which is the photo in the banner of this website) as well as some other crystals I might want to start out with learning.  I also picked up what I could from my list of Chakra Crystals (the few they didn’t have, I got locally in Kelowna).  I kept marveling over the malachite but for some reason did not pick any up.

Although I did pick up a few nice pieces on that first trip, I ended up going back a few days later to pick up the malachite that was calling me.  I also got a black tourmaline necklace that was recommended by Sonya.  During this second trip, I must have been in there well over two hours there.  Unlike the first trip, I was alone while my partner was working for a few hours so I was not feeling rushed.

I visited my friend back in Kelowna and took the pieces I had bought between the two stores and since cleansed.  The crystals I bought at The Crystal Ark were apparently very good ones, full of life, good energy and generally good pieces.  The ones from the other store, not so much but still nice to look at.  My friend told me I have good intuition with Crystals and had picked out some great pieces from The Crystal Ark.

I manged to make two other trips to The Crystal Ark in 2011 and was able to add several more gorgeous pieces to my collection.  The latest of which is a gorgeous Blue Lace Agate crystal ball.  The Crystal Ark is a store that I could probably spend days not to mention tens of thousands of dollars in if given the chance to.  although through 2011, I did not do a lot with my crystals (other then grow my collection), it is through 2012 that I see myself doing a lot more with them.  My next Touch for Health courses will not run again until March.

In the meantime, I have decided to focus on Crystal Healing, particularly with the Chakra’s and will post more about my journey into Crystal Healing on my blog.

Now, on to 2012!

Happy New Year!