Imagine this: the moon is in the right phase, it's the correct day and hour for your intent, you've got the perfect incense burning......

When I first became interested in magical ideas (or at least when I first realized I was), I was really big on crystals. I think a lot of...

Parts one, two, three, four, five, and six. On the Therapeutic Use of Precious and Semi-Precious Stones DON'T EAT ROCKS. This is an old...

Part 6 of my notes on The Curious Lore of Precious Stones by George Frederick Kunz. Don't eat rocks. Planetary and Astral Influences of...

In this post, I'll list the stones mentioned in The Curious Lore of Precious Stones with their supposed virtues. All information in this...

This is part five of my notes on The Curious Lore of Precious Stones. Here are links to parts one, two, three, and four. Birth-Stones The...

This is part four of my notes for the book The Curious Lore of Precious Stones, which can be read here. Here are parts one, two, and...

This is a continuation of parts 1 and 2. I feel like I'll need to say this again, so don't eat rocks. Religious Uses of Precious Stones,...

This is a continuation of Curious Lore of Precious Stones - notes, part 1, which covered chapters one through four. The book can be read...

The Curious Lore of Precious Stones was originally published in 1913, making it one of the more recent items I'll be talking about on...

Around the middle of Culpeper's Complete Herbal is a section about minerals. This will be a list of some of the minerals and what they...