Several weeks ago The Lorian Blog published a post by Mary Reddy entitled "Rock Talk." (Click here to read it.) We received a number of responses from readers and would like to share some of their delightful experiences with rocks:
"Mary Reddy's "Rock Talk" essay struck a chord with me. I came to an appreciation for rocks through my practice of geomancy using Israel Regardie's "bowl-of-stones" method. I spent a couple of years gathering just the right set of stones along our dirt road during daily walks. New Hampshire is known for its quartz and granite, so I also collected semi-matching examples of that at the same time. I set them on a window sill as a kind of "altar" overseeing my working library of tarot books. I also created a rather Freudian piece of art with them. Here are some pictures."— Wayne Limberger (Ed. Note: All photos below are from Wayne's collection.)
"My own experience with rocks has been a mystery but delightful nonetheless. About 8 years ago I felt a strong connection some acreage of land in Western Australia. The pull was very strong and I eventually purchased this land. Over time I noticed that certain rocks had 'arrived' on the land, noticing the way they sat on the land, I knew they had perhaps 'arrived' within the last 24 hours. I noticed if rocks had been there for a long time, they sat in the ground and underneath them was soil and perhaps some insects. Those that arrived more recently still had live green grass underneath which bounced back when I picked up the rock. There seems to be a certain magnetism on this land. For a very long time I have loved rocks and have travelled to many places where there are ancient rocks, eg England, Scotland, Ireland, Egypt, Bosnia, Africa and of course my own beloved Australia. What messages do they have for me I wonder?"— SF
If they’re small enough I bring them home for blessing with Love’s Light, to then offer in healing to the fractured places of the world. With a large glacier erratic, the blessing occurs within their (adopted) ‘home-space’. In German we call them 'Findling' which (translated) is the same as ‘Foundling', a child abandoned on a doorstep. It's this 'mother-love' that I bring to my embodied relation with stone (standing or otherwise), which has opened me to the 'mothers' of Gaia, a very precious collective of crone wisdom …"— Anne Gambling
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