Orgonite MoonStone Obelisk | Medium

For intuition, and for anything cyclical.

Moonstone has a glow that seems to float beneath the surface and shift as you turn it — adularescence. It happens because the stone is two feldspars layered at a microscopic scale, and light scatters between them. Rainbow moonstone, which is technically labradorite, adds flashes of blue.

Roman naturalists believed it was solidified moonlight, and that its glow waxed and waned with the lunar cycle. In India it's been a sacred stone for centuries and is still traditionally displayed on yellow cloth.

Moonstone is worked with for intuition and for cycles — new beginnings, feminine energy, and anything that moves in phases. It sits with the third eye and crown.

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

Charge it under a full moon. It's the one stone where the instruction isn't just poetic.

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.