Orgonite Malachite Sphere | X Large

For change that's already happening, not change you're considering.

Malachite forms in banded green layers around copper deposits — the colour is the copper, oxidised. Cut across the bands and you get concentric rings like a target; cut along them and you get the swirling pattern that made it a favourite of Russian stonecutters. The Malachite Room in the Winter Palace uses two tonnes of it.

The Egyptians ground it for eye paint and mined it in the Sinai from 4000 BC. It's one of the oldest known pigments, and one of the most toxic — which is the part that matters to you.

Malachite is worked with for transformation and for drawing out what needs to surface. It sits with the heart. It has a reputation as an intense stone, and it earns it.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Important: never put this stone in water you intend to drink.

Not a stone, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Orgonite is a made object: crystals and metal shavings suspended in cured resin. It's based on the work of Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst who in the 1930s and 40s theorised a form of energy he called orgone, and built devices layering organic and inorganic material to interact with it. The modern craft version dates to the 1990s.

There's no scientific consensus behind it, and we'd rather say so than imply one. What's true is that each piece is cast individually, so the internal pattern of metal and crystal is never quite repeated, and people keep them near electronics or in workspaces.

If you're drawn to it, it's worth having. If you want a natural mineral, look at black tourmaline or shungite instead.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.