If you're a beginner ready to buy crystals, you're in the right spot because I'm going to share with you the best crystals for beginners so that you can save money on buying crystals you can use right away.

It can be overwhelming when you start shopping for crystals. For example, when I started shopping for crystals, I still needed to learn what I needed and just started buying crystals without a purpose.

When picking crystals to work with, you need to have an idea in mind of what you're seeking to accomplish with the help of the crystal.

Are you seeking to calm your anxiety or get focused when it comes to taking on a project? Figuring that out first is a good idea for streamlining purchases.

There is a core group of crystals that you’ll find common and very useful for many different applications.

The Ultimate Beginner Crystal: Clear Quartz 

Clear Quartz is colorless translucent and one of the most common crystals. Sometimes it is called “rock crystal.” It’s the stone for energy amplification, purifying, and healing. 

Clear Quartz is a crystal you can program to be any other crystal you need. So, in theory, you could only buy one crystal - Clear Quartz and be done.

However, if you're planning on working on different things, programming and deprogramming your Clear Quartz could become a pain in the ass.

Clear Quartz is the one crystal to help you achieve anything you aim to. It brings clarity and purpose to your mind and then helps you to amplify that intention. What do you want to bring into your life for your highest good?

Clear Quartz can be worked with to help enhance your psychic gifts and your communication with your spirit guides by meditating with this high-vibe crystal.

Divine Amethyst

Amethyst activates your psychic gifts. Work with Amethyst to raise your vibration to make communication with your spirit guides easier as it cleanses your aura, transmuting negative energies.

Amethyst is a potent ally in helping you during the spiritual awakening of your soul. While working with this special stone, you will realize that you can accomplish more than you've ever believed.

Amethyst is fantastic for breaking bad habits, addictions, and detoxification. It's said that ancient Greeks and Romans used to drink their wine from Amethyst goblets to help keep them from getting too drunk.

Amethyst is an excellent crystal to protect you from psychic attacks…no bueno invisible negative energies are coming your way. Instead, Amethyst will bring you the energy of peace here and in the spiritual world.

Amethyst is the purple variety of Quartz that is said to eliminate insomnia and nightmares and gives you peaceful 😴 sleep once you place it under your bed 💤pillow.

Stone of Love Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz is the most valued of the quartz family, and titanium or manganese gives it its pink color. It’s the stone for love. Love for yourself and others. Wonderful for releasing emotional stress. Even more powerfully, work with Rose Quartz to start a positive self-affirmation routine.

Rose quartz may become your next favorite crystal when you feel like your life's taking a never-ending trip through Bummersville. It is essential to work with it if you're ready to heal your heart chakra so you can find the inner peace you deserve.

Rose Quartz embodies love. Love for yourself, love for your family and friends. If you're looking to work on healing your heart chakra, attracting love, or need to tap into the power of love, this is your new ally in that journey.

Rose quartz, sometimes called pink Quartz, is a part of the quartz family and can be pale pink to deep reddish pink. It may be really opaque or somewhat translucent. It gets its pink color from trace amounts of titanium, manganese, or iron. No matter the shade of pink, know that the calm vibration of love is there to help you filter out the negativity.

Rose Quartz is a beautiful stone to help you regain emotional balance and heal emotional wounds by bringing the energy of LOVE into your life.

Rose Quartz is the stone to have if you're looking for love! Rose Quartz embodies the energy of love, reminding you that you're ready to give and receive love and telling the universe you're ready for love!

Good Luck Green Aventurine

Green Aventurine is a Quartz family member and a stone of optimism and prosperity. You’ll notice that it has a sparkle to it that is from the Fuchsite particles within the quartz. It’s the stone for optimism and good luck.

It's a stone you don't necessarily need to work with as much as just carrying it along to experience its benefits.

Green Aventurine reminds you that with the ups and downs of life, you will come out to the other side and be able to rise again.

Green Aventurine is a stone embodying the energies of Water and Earth. You can tap into this stone's emotional healing (water) and grounding (Earth) energies as you release old patterns so new spiritual growth can occur.

Green Aventurine's grounding energy encourages you to get out of your head and back down to Earth to experience life instead of constantly analyzing it.

Green Aventurine is a heart chakra stone ready to help you find emotional balance and healing. Green Aventurine is the comforter of your emotions, soothing your heart whenever you need it.

Abundance Citrine

Citrine is a form of quartz that is a pale yellow color. Heat-treated citrine is as effective as natural Citrine and is sometimes the only option because finding natural; straight from Earth, Citrine is hard to find and will be super expensive if you find some.

Citrine is the merchant's stone helping to bring money and abundance to you through your manifestation techniques. You'll find empowerment, creativity, and clarity with Citrine so you can manifest what you desire from a place of confidence.

Citrine carries the energy of the Sun, helping to energize you as you are filled with optimism and comfort as it brings light and clarity to any situation.

Citrine is said to be a stone to help you manifest clarity of thought, amplified power, and creative imagination - even if you never feel creative - through your second, third, and sixth chakras.

Black Tourmaline

Protector Black Tourmaline

Black tourmaline, also known as Shorl, is a stone of protection. It gets its color because it contains a large amount of Iron. You’ll find that it banishes an area of negative energy and purify a space. It’s also a wonderful grounding stone.

Black Tourmaline is one of the most protective and grounding stones for your crystal tool kit. It's your shielding stone to deflect any potential harm from negative forces.

Black Tourmaline is a stone I keep in my car's center console to protect me from the crazy drivers on the road. You know those people… and so far, knock on wood, the Black Tourmaline has kept them away from hitting me on the road.

Black Tourmaline is a stone to help ground you, bring you into the present, and balance extreme energies when it feels like the crazy energy is rising! 

Black Tourmaline will transmute and purify negative energy. Using it with Selenite is even more effective in creating an energetic boundary for your sacred space or any place where destructive energies are whirling around.

Black Tourmaline can help you kick negative energies to the curb, purifies your auric field, and grounds you when you need to feel calm.

Bad Vibes Be Gone Smoky Quartz

Whether you need help getting out of your head and beaming yourself down to Earth, or you are ready to make your dreams come true, this Smoky Quartz is the crystal for you. Perfect for you if you're ready to bring practical application to your spiritual practice.

Smoky Quartz can absorb and transmute negative energy (good in case those negative Nancy types constantly surround you). So hold on to a piece of Smoky Quartz and feel your bad vibes melting away (even if Nasty Nancy is sitting next to you!). 

Smoky Quartz is like a smokeless version of Sage. Smoky Quartz clears and cleanses the energy field and your auric field. 

Smoky Quartz draws out the denser energies and grounds and transmutes those energies into that Earthy energy. Once you cleanse those energies out, you'll be able to focus on your goals and achieve them. 

The Ultimate Cleansing Crystal: Selenite

Selenite is a fibrous form of gypsum, so it is very soft. It’s extremely sensitive to water and humidity and can be easily scratched. It’s the stone for clearing away negative energy, unblocking stagnant energy, and bringing clarity of mind.

Selenite radiates positive, white light energy in all directions when placed in any space. Because Selenite is an effective space purifier, it is one of those crystals you will enjoy having along your spiritual journey.

Selenite is an excellent crystal for raising vibration in any space. It clears out the negative energy and infuses the space with higher vibrations of peace.

Selenite wands are perfect to use with Black Tourmaline to create an energetic barrier in your home to prevent outside energy from coming in that you didn't invite. I've also suggested creating this energetic boundary for clients that live in a place with a shared wall with a neighbor to block out their energy from coming in and messing with your sacred space.

Psychic Vacuum Fluorite

Fluorite occurs in all colors due to various impurities. Different varieties of fluorite have different properties. Purple Fluorite is good for purification. Yellow Fluorite enhances intellectual ability, and multi-color Fluorite is best for overall energy cleansing.

Fluorite, also known as the "psychic vacuum cleaner." Fluorite absorbs and neutralizes blockages and negative energies that do not serve you. When you’re ready to release those energies that aren’t in your highest good, you can release them with Fluorite.

Fluorite is great to work with if you want to learn something new. Fluorite helps you to focus, commit and take action - making order out of mental chaos.

Fluorite is ready to help you with your spiritual growth. When you start working on yourself, you’ll start to dig deep into suppressed and hidden energies and feelings that need resolution. Work with Fluorite to help bring those feelings to the surface to resolve them.

Fluorite will help to stabilize and cleanse your aura drawing off the negative energy and stress you carry around. Fluorite teaches you the importance of balance and helps you to bring that back into your life.

Fluorite helps you when you’re ready for a spiritual detox. Work with Fluorite to transform and shed negative energy that is not for your highest good into positive energy and peace of mind.

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