Citrine is without a doubt and all time favorite crystal of mine. When you think about help with staying mentally focused, awaken your creativity, attracting abundance and prosperity... this is definitely the right crystal to work with.
Introduction: The golden yellow colors of this crystal emit positive vibrations that will lift your spirit and allow you to see the joy in life. Citrine is an excellent aid to study as it helps the mind to stay focused and alert, used also for memory and data recall. This crystal promotes personal power, self-confidence, self-worth, and mental decisiveness needed to gain the respect of others for the work we do. Known as the MERCHANT STONE, Citrine helps us to acquire and maintain wealth. Citrine should be placed in your purse or wallet to attract money into your life. If you are in business or are self-employed this crystal should be kept with your order books to maintain a steady and regular flow of income. Natural Citrine is a premier stone of manifestation, imagination, and personal will. Carrying the power of the sun, it is warm and comforting, energizing and life giving. It stimulates the chakras like the sunlight of spring, clearing the mind and stirring the soul to action. Its frequency awakens creativity and imagination, and sustains the process of transforming dreams and wishes into tangible form. With its pure yellow energy, Citrine encourages fullness of life, fresh beginnings and new pursuits. Natural Citrine does not hold or accumulate negative energy, but rather transmutes, dissipates, and grounds it, making it extremely protective for the environment. It works out problems on both the physical and subtle levels, transforming negative thoughts and feelings into positive ones. It is one of only two crystals on Earth that never needs to be cleared or cleansed.
Citrine Uses and Purposes - Overview
Called The Merchant's Stone for its properties of increase in the cashbox, sparkling yellow Citrine not only assists in acquiring wealth, but helps in maintaining it. It is a stone of abundance and manifestation, attracting wealth and prosperity, success and all things good. It also encourages generosity and sharing good fortune. Citrine assists in all fast money ventures, and is especially helpful in financial speculation and for commercial success. Carry one in the purse or wallet to attract money and stop excessive outflow.
Citrine resonates with our solar plexus chakra and helps magnify personal energy and power. This crystal is said to manifest abundance, success, and good fortune, and is often called the ‘stone of prosperity’ or the ‘stone of success.’ Place in the wealth corner of your home or business, or in the cash box. Citrine fades in sunlight.
Here are some more interesting facts about citrine, and a little bit about how to use it as a meditation tool:
Citrine is believed to enhance the intuition and our connection with our higher self.
It raises one's mood and encourages happiness and laughter; it also stabilizes emotions and calms anger and frustration.
Citrine can be used to clear unwanted energies from the environment, and it clears our aura of negative energy. It removes and deflects negative energy; it doesn’t hold negative energy—it transmutes it to positive energy.
Citrine enhances mental clarity, confidence and willpower.
Working with citrine helps increase psychic awareness and spiritual development.
Sleep with citrine under your pillow to alleviate nightmares and promote a good night’s sleep. It also helps with recalling dreams.
Another name for citrine is the ‘merchant stone.’ This is because it attracts prosperity and success. Some say that putting citrine into your cash register, pocket, or purse will not only attract wealth, but help one maintain it as well.
Citrine Physical Healing Energy
Natural Citrine enhances physical stamina and energy, supports the endocrine system, and encourages proper metabolism. It is beneficial for Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and may aid in reversing degenerative disease. It is thought to balance the thyroid and facilitate the diminishment of growths.
Citrine stimulates digestion, the spleen and pancreas. It helps keep skin, nails, and hair healthy, and is good for relieving skin irritations and allergies, especially those caused by food or chemical intolerances. Natural Citrine is beneficial in eliminating infections of the kidney and bladder, and in the treatment of bed wetting, particularly in young adults. As an elixir, Citrine relieves menstrual and menopausal symptoms, such as hot flashes, hormone imbalance and the alleviation of fatigue. It may also be used for nausea and vomiting, and morning sickness. Citrine activates nerve impulses, strengthening intelligence and the intellectual faculties of concentration and wisdom.
Citrine Emotional Healing Energy
Citrine opens the higher mind to accept joy in one's life, releasing anger and negative feelings, deep-seated fears and destructive tendencies. An excellent crystal for overcoming depression, Citrine reduces the sensitivity to criticism and inspires creativity and self-expression. It raises self-esteem, and by letting go of the past, allows one to move forward optimistically, enjoying new experiences and explorations.
Natural Citrine is a powerful purifier of one's will center, helping to identify and heal issues of power abuse and feelings of helplessness. It enables one to understand what is necessary to resolve those situations, and provides the courage and fortitude needed to make difficult decisions and take action.
Citrine Spiritual Energy
Natural Citrine is an excellent crystal for those who are overly sensitive and extremely vulnerable to outside energies and influences. Worn, carried, or used in crystal healing, the radiant yellow color will increase the amount of light surrounding the body and protect the aura. It is also a good talisman to have in situations where one needs to feel confident and secure. High quality Citrine reflects the golden ray so clearly it beams positive sunlight energy directly into one's environment. In single generator form, Citrine crystals can be set in gold and worn with the termination point facing downward, channeling the crown energy into the body. Citrine Cathedral Quartz is particularly useful to those who have experienced emotional or physical lack, especially ingrained poverty consciousness over several lives. The crystal returns to the problem's core and corrects the underlying belief, replacing it with a positive outlook, and allowing for spiritual and physical abundance to carry forward.
Meditating with Citrine: Hold a piece of citrine in your hand or place it on your solar plexus. Breathe and allow the energy of the citrine to clear your aura and balance and energize your solar plexus chakra. Another way to work with citrine during meditation is to use it as a gazing stone when you want to see the possible outcome of a decision: Put a citrine crystal point or stone in front of you, and gaze upon the crystal to help you clear your thoughts and gain clarity in finding answers to your questions. Personally speaking, Citrine is my all time favorite crystal. I have a prosperity-abundance kit next to my computer, and another in the prosperity corner of the house (far left from the entrance of the house's front door). I carry a prosperity pouch in my purse with me, and when I want to feel energize, or attain more focus to work on my projects and don't get distracted with irrelevant thoughs that doesn't serve me; I always carry my citrine Indian Pouch around my neck. I also carry a smaller citrine rough point in my pants with me. I have personally experienced amazing difference in my mood and concentration when carryng or been near citrine. And if you wear it, touch it or carry close to your body, I have feel immediate positive mood changes in me. I absolutely LOVE Citrine. This is the very first crystal that came into my life and I started working with. As I needed help disipating the mental confusion I was feeling. Gain more clarity and stop having constantly negative thoughts. Working with citrine definitely helped me to accomplsih that.
Citrine honors Demeter, the Greek Goddess of the Harvest. She brings an end to the barren wintertime, filling the fields with life-giving grain. Citrine honors Sekhmet, the Egyptian Goddess of War. She is the most powerful goddess of Lower Egypt, and is usually depicted with the head of a lion and the body of a beautiful woman. All crystals of gold honor Persephone, Greek Goddess of Spring. She represents celebration and the Earth alive with new growth.
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