Crystal Lightning Storm
Lightning struck quartz came forward as the year stone for 2024 and I’ve been keeping it close by all year. I’m looking back over the past 12 months and honouring how this crystal made a difference in my year.
Magnetism
Crystals that have been struck by lightning have incredible magnetism and I’ve been working with it to grow my community and work on my leadership skills. Looking back, I realize that though I did feel its magic at play when I created a brand new community, where I’ve noticed the biggest difference is in the depth and quality of the relationships with the lovely people in each one of my communities.
What I find most striking is that many of the individuals in my groups have themselves stepped into more powerful presence. So while I was drawing leadership energy from the lightning crystal, the lightning energy also seemed to radiate out to the people in my life.
Heart’s wide open
Electricity can restart a heart that stopped beating. Focussing on the frequency of electricity through the lightning crystals with intention can be a powerful way to open the heart. Even without intention—I did not plan on working with the heart chakra—the expansion I experienced was profound. I have been able to hold presence in some intense emotional situations, feeling fully open in my heart without taking on those feelings myself. That’s pretty huge for an empath. We get lost in other people’s emotions quite easily and that can leave us without the inner resources we need to deal with our own stuff.
Creativity
Lighting is quite a destructive force, but from destruction comes creation. This has been an abundantly creative year for me. I picked up my paint brushes for the first time in years and I’ve been having lots of fun spreading colour on blank pages.
Cleansing
Lightning has this natural ability to cleans the environment. The lightning crystal can attune us to that frequency. With it we can cleanse a space or our body like lightning cleanses the atmosphere.
Our family decided to make 2024 a year of decluttering. We did get rid of a lot of clutter in the house but the big thing was that after 3 years of talking about it, we finally got around to clean out the garage. Our garage was so jam packed full of stuff, it could have easily been chosen for an episode of hoarders. Every time the garage door opened and I saw inside, I would feel upset. Finally cleaning that space shifted big energy in our lives, including ancient ancestral patterns.
Clarity
As my life became cleared of clutter, my mind became clearer. I was clearer in my ideas, my focus, my intentions, my purpose. And so decisions became easier—even the little ones, like what to make for dinner. Cleansing brings clarity and that was one of the most profound gifts of the lightning energy.
Power
Lightning crystals hold a lot of power—of course. People can usually feel the energy of lightning crystals even if they don’t feel anything from other crystals. That power might evoke some fear—likely because there is a lot of fear around lightning itself. I always suggest that if that there is a fear of a crystal, not to work with it. The crystal is not the issue, the fear itself is.
Immersing myself in the energy of the lightning crystals this year brought many unexpected but welcome changes. I have noticed a strengthening of my personal power—not just in my sovereignty but also in my physical strength.
Working with a single crystal through the 4 seasons can bring gifts that would never have been otherwise received. If you have not done this before, I invite you to try it. The Year Stone for 2025 will be announced soon.