Crystals

A rough cluster of pyrite, the mineral once mistaken for gold. Pyrite is iron sulphide, and it grows in cubes, so a raw piece is all small square faces catching light at different angles. Prospectors called it fool's gold. Feng shui takes the resemblance...

Rough green quartz, broken rather than polished, the surface like wet sugar. Green strawberry quartz is clear quartz grown through with fine green inclusions, which give it both the colour and the faint glitter where light catches the crystals inside. Green stones have long...

Citrine in the rough, broken rather than cut, pale lemon yellow. Citrine is the yellow form of quartz, the colour of low sun through a window. It has long been kept for optimism and for inviting opportunity in, and traders kept a piece in...

Rough clear quartz, broken not cut, sold by the kilo. Clear quartz is the master stone, valued for clarity and for holding whatever intention is brought to it, and it is the stone most often used to fill the dish in front of a...

A tree of citrine chips, wired branch by branch, rooted in a gold pot. The money tree is the feng shui picture of wealth that grows rather than arrives: many small stones, each one a coin, held up by branches that keep reaching. Citrine...

A sphere of black obsidian, smooth and still in the hand. Obsidian is volcanic glass, formed the moment molten rock meets cold air. It has been kept for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone, valued for the way it...

A sphere of obsidian, etched with the Heart Sutra. Obsidian is volcanic glass, long kept for grounding and for the way it draws the attention inward and holds it steady. Carved here with the Heart Sutra, one of the most recited texts in Buddhist...

Rose quartz, cut to a point, the gentlest stone in clear form. Rose quartz has been kept for centuries as the stone of the open heart, the love you offer others and the harder kind you offer yourself. Shaped into a prism point, it...