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Healing with Crystals: Alabaster

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Alabaster Stone

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Spiritual and Healing Properties of Alabaster:

Alabaster Promotes Clarity

I use this stone to assist in my art work. It helps promote clearly what I wish to make and the how of doing it. It assists me in seeing new things to create as well as assisting in old things I already know how to make but need to shift to a new level. It allows me to do things like making a gourd basket that has pine needle work added to the top and beadwork used as trimming so that many aspects that I already know how to do are put into one piece or art.
~forum post from whitehorse woman

Spiritual Art Chalk

Alabaster is mostly white in color, sometimes it will have just a "hint" of soft colors as well. It is a very soft stone, 2 on a scale of 1-10. It is easily carved into charms etc. But because the alabaster is such a soft stone it can be used in different ways. It is a "drawing" stone meaning it has the ability to draw things to you or to draw things away from you, depending on what your needs are. For myself, it works wonderfully for drawing things of the Spirit to me, the white color summons the spiritual. At times, early in my walk, I would use the alabaster when I was searching for my spiritual path and would also use the alabaster to draw certain "spiritual" things that had been given to me, that I came to find later were wrong, or at least wrong for me. Because the alabaster is so soft, it does best with a sun's cleansing and should not be used in making elixirs.

Forgiveness

It can also draw forgiveness, whether it be you that needs self forgiveness or the ability to forgive someone that has done you wrong. It also draws energy from other stones as well, meaning you can "soak" up the energy of one stone and have the properties of both stones with you while only carrying the alabaster. It helps to draw anger out of a person and to release it to the light.
~forum post from stones

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