Citrine: the champagne of crystals
My journey with crystals didn’t START with Citrine, per se.
But if I were to pick a single stone that is WHY I do what I do for a living, it would absolutely, 100%, for sure, definitely, be Citrine.
If you’re familiar with my story, you know that my artistic/business background is not in jewelry. Honestly, what I’m best at/have put most of my professional efforts into is garment sewing, followed closely by teaching, then other assorted fiber arts (think knitting, crochet, embroidery), then writing, then fine arts…
Jewelry is, honestly, not very high on my list of experience/skillset, and yet, this is the thing I do for work, that’s been, truly, the only thing that’s WORKED long-term.
But that’s the magic of Citrine.
While my first experience with crystal energy happened during a very strange crisis-induced visit to a metaphysical store, it took several more months to meet Citrine.
I first heard of Citrine from Gala Darling, when I did her Cash Money Honey course (that was the only course I finished out of another crisis-induced course bundle purchase), and there was a lesson about cleaning out your wallet and putting a piece of Citrine in it to attract and multiply abundance.
As a newly single, extremely traumatized mother of two small children, with no income after several years being a SAHM, this was the hope and positivity I needed.
So on my SECOND trip to a metaphysical store, I bought myself a tiny piece of Citrine.
If you haven’t ever been to a metaphysical store, you may not be familiar with the little cards that come with the crystals to tell you more about them. As I became more familiar with my little piece of Citrine, I leaned into its properties: joy, success, abundance… in clear yellow bubbles just like a sip of champagne.
It was everything I wanted and needed in my life at that time.
And I needed to have that energy with me at all times. I needed a Citrine Necklace.
I had a super clear picture in my mind of what I wanted, and I was SURE that I’d quickly find what I was looking for on Etsy.
Unfortunately, I didn’t.
Which was weird because I definitely knew that the beads that I wanted on the necklace existed, and because I had previously gone through a phase of making essential oil necklaces for friends and family, I knew it would be very easy to put them on a necklace chain in the configuration that I was envisioning. But no one else was already doing it. So, I guess I had to?
Well, here’s a fun fact for anyone out there who doesn’t know about jewelry making supplies: for some weird reason buying a single quantity of any jewelry supply item (necklace chain, beads, wire, etc), is roughly the same price as buying a bulk pack of that item.
So… I made the (at the time) questionable decision to spend $100 that I absolutely did not have on my PayPal business credit line on some supplies so that I could make this necklace happen and just… hope? that my Instagram friends would buy enough of them to cover this financial misstep.
Obviously, I wouldn’t be here writing this if they didn’t.
The first batch almost completely sold out. People asked for more choices. Smaller stones. Earrings. Sterling Silver instead of plated. Gold filled hardware. And on and on from there, my business slowly and steadily grew into what it is now.
And it all comes back to that Citrine.
A stone that’s not just about financial abundance that comes from years of hard toil, but abundance that FLOWS through joyful, cup-filling work, that is EASY and FUN and GOING WELL.
Over the past, I don’t know, year and a half? So many aspects of my life and business have just, imploded. When I start to unpack where things went wrong, it comes right back around to Citrine. Or rather, losing sight of that Citrine energy, and letting my life overflow with those magical champagne bubbles of joy and abundance.
It’s time to bring that back. It’s why I’m even here in the first place. If I’m going to keep going, that’s the magic I need to hold on to.
So, let’s raise a toast to Citrine: the champagne of crystals.
