Cleaning Pack | Calm

For a stretch that's been heavy, and needs to move again.

Calcite comes in more colours than almost any other mineral — orange, honey, blue, green, optical clear — and each carries its own character. What they share is softness. Calcite scratches with a copper coin, forms in rounded shapes rather than sharp points, and fizzes if you put acid on it.

Optical calcite has a trick worth knowing: look through a clear piece at a line of text and you'll see it doubled. That's double refraction, and it's why Viking navigators may have used it as a sunstone to locate the sun through cloud.

Calcite is worked with for clearing stagnant energy and for renewal — less about force, more about letting things move again. Which chakra it sits with depends on colour: orange for the sacral, honey for the solar plexus, blue for the throat, green for the heart.

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

For clearing that leaves something sweet behind.

Palo santo is aromatic wood from Bursera graveolens, a tree native to the dry coastal forests of Ecuador, Peru and other parts of South America. Its name means holy wood in Spanish, and it's been burned for centuries in South American healing and cleansing traditions, valued for a warm, sweet, slightly citrus scent unlike the sharper smoke of sage.

Ethical palo santo only comes from trees that have died naturally and been left on the forest floor for several years before harvesting — the wood needs that resting period to develop its aromatic oils fully. Trees cut down while still alive don't carry the same scent, and doing so damages a species already under pressure from demand, which is why sourcing matters here as much as it does with sage.

Palo santo is worked with for cleansing and for inviting in something positive once the clearing is done, rather than clearing alone — a gentler, sweeter companion to sage's sharper reset. It's used before rather than during, a preparation rather than the main event.

Sheri chooses every stick by hand, and it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

For a space that needs to feel like it's starting fresh.

White sage, Salvia apiana, grows wild along the coastal hills of Southern California and northern Baja California, and it's been used in smudging ceremonies by Indigenous peoples of that region, including the Chumash, for generations — long before it was ever sold in bundles. Burning the dried leaves releases a strong, herbal smoke, traditionally used to clear a space, an object, or a person before something important begins.

Demand has grown well beyond what the wild plant can sustainably support, and several Indigenous communities have asked people to source thoughtfully rather than harvest it themselves from the wild. Organically farmed sage, grown specifically for this purpose rather than taken from native stands, is the more sustainable way to keep working with it.

White sage is worked with for clearing stagnant or heavy energy from a room before ritual, meditation, or simply a fresh start. It's used before rather than during — a preparation, not the main event.

Sheri chooses every bundle by hand, and it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

Burn with care: use a heatproof dish, keep it away from anything flammable, and never leave it smouldering unattended.

Selenite is a form of gypsum, soft enough to scratch with a fingernail, and satiny enough that light travels along its fibres like a fibre-optic cable. It's named after Selene, the Greek goddess of the moon — light without heat.

Its practical value is cleansing. Place other crystals on a selenite plate, or beside a tower, and they clear without any further work from you. It's the one crystal that doesn't need cleansing itself, which is why it earns its place in almost every collection regardless of what else is in it.

Selenite is worked with for clarity, peace and clearing stagnant energy from a space. It sits with the crown.

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

One warning before you buy: this stone and water do not mix.