“And finally the day arrived, and I headed to Joy, my Intuitive Coach’s, office.  She and I had spoken since my last visit and she had indicated we had “another road” to take in my own insightful learning. 

She had arranged a meeting with a very insightful and dynamic lady named Becca.  Based upon Joy’s comments concerning Becca and my own great knowing about Joy, I was very much looking forward to this meeting.

I arrived and both Joy and Becca were already there.  As I walked in, it became obvious they knew each other and held each other in high esteem.  This was all I needed to gladly join the conversation.

Prior to my joining, Joy had shared my experiences with the stone energy jewelry, the experiment I had conducted with my friends, the Jewelry Box Parties I had orchestrated, and finally my own awareness of what I now called “my weekly jewelry ritual”.

“Different stones, different outfits, different days each were worn.  I had no idea my life was in such a pattern.  This also meant I tended to wear certain colors on certain days of the week as most of the outfits supported the colors of the stone jewelry.

Was color a support to the stone energies or to me?  Were the stone energy and/or my energy further boosted by the specific colors?

I noted these thoughts and began to formulate the questions for my next meeting with Joy. In this process, I was finding out much more about myself than I expected. 

So I waited impatiently for the meeting with Joy, knowing there was even more to uncover.”

So, with this in mind, we ended the session and I returned home to ponder this even more. 

Why did I subconsciously seem to use the stones to communicate?  And who was I communicating to?  Myself?  Others?  Both?

As I stood looking at my stone jewelry, I thought about the outfits I wore with each of the stones.  For each of the pieces I wore frequently, I had two or three outfits I typically wore them with.  And, although this pattern was not as concise, the outfits were typically different for the different stones.”

“So, concluded Joy, when I am optimistic I tend to wear Moonstone, the Stone of New Beginnings.  I saw each week, beginning on a Monday, with great potential and was very optimistic.  And further, I was subconsciously reinforcing this feeling by wearing the stone that paralleled my feelings.

Hmmm, I thought I was going to wear the stone that would best support me not the stone that mirrored how I was feeling.

Joy went on to say that the fact I was wearing more of what mirrored me was my way of telling the world how I felt and what I was expecting of the world.  And, although most people seemed to utilize the stones for what they needed, I was using them to communicate to others.

This conclusion went again what I had understood thus far about the stones and I really needed to sit with it for a bit.”

First, she asked me about how I typically felt as the week began. My response:  I typically felt energized and optimistic as each week began.  The weekends seemed to re-energize me and I was most ofte4n raring to go on a Monday morning.  And, by Friday I was tired and with significantly less enthusiasm than I began the week.  On Saturday, I typically did mindless things – running errands, some cooking, some reading and a bit of TV watching. And my Sunday, my energy was beginning to return with it peaking as I began my week on Monday.

She was amazed that I did not begin my week with the normal Monday morning blues – and I responded that I really did not.  I began most Mondays (there were a few that this was not the case) with a great deal of enthusiasm and optimism.  And I ended the week with this enthusiasm and optimism drained out of me.”

She was amazed and not really surprised.  Joy told me that my own analysis was going to assist me in seeing my patterns and needs.  She then asked what I typically wore on the weekend.

That varied a great deal (or so my research had indicated).  I often would wear a jazzy Pearl necklace (the Calming Stone) and if not my funky Pearl necklace, I often wore Citrine, the Stone of Rejuvenation or Turquoise, the Stone of Strength. 

What I wanted to know was how to interpret the patterns I had discovered.  What were these patterns telling me about me?”

I then went on to talk about what I had discovered when I spent the time in my own jewelry box.  Specifically, I told her that the information I had gleaned from the study of my own jewelry box and the observations I had made as to why certain stones attracted me on certain days was, to say the least, both intriguing and concerning.

Intriguing as I had found a pattern to the week, or so it seemed and concerning as the pattern had seemed to play out over and over again and I had no idea what the pattern was revealing about myself and my needs.

With this as an opener, Joy asked a few more questions.”

“The discussion about being attracted to stones allowed me to move on into an overview of the Jewelry Box Parties.  I shared how these parties were a brain child of the Stone Shop owner and me; how various ladies atte4nded the parties; and how each brought the stone energy jewelry “in their jewelry boxes” that they most often wore or used to most often wear.

Joy asked about the “findings” of these Jewelry Box Parties and smiled as I began to share with her the similarities we had discovered in each of the ladies jewelry boxes.  How the stones of Jasper, Amethyst, and Moonstone tended to be present in the mast majority of the jewelry boxes.

And how, when we asked the ladies to think about a day they had been called to wear a stone or stones, each “thought” it was due to the color of the outfit they were wearing that day…and when we were finished with the evening, most had come to the conclusion that they had, unknowingly, chosen the outfit so they would feel comfortable wearing the stone they were drawn to that day.”

“Joy was intrigued by the impact of the subtle energies of the stones.  I could see her thinking about the stone jewelry she most often wore and what it might be saying about her.  It is absolutely amazing how we are all impacted, even without our awareness and how we are each seeming to have an innate knowledge about what we need even though we  do not know (or think we know) anything about the stones.

We talked further about the subtle impact of the stones and how beliefs and fears – whether conscious or unconscious – seemed to open or close what I had come to call the “subtle energy portals” in our lives.

And how, although we may have those subtle energy portals more open or closed, we seem to continue to be attracted to the stones.  And how this attraction seems to be giving us information on what we desire to have in our lives.”

And I began with the stone energy experiments with my friends.  I told Joy how each friend had selected a stone they were drawn to, had agreed to wear that stone every day for a three week period, and how, at the end of the period, we had convened and reviewed what was happening in each person’s life.  And, as the stories unfolded, how we all noticed the impact of the various stones, however subtle and however different, on each friend’s life.  I used a couple of my friends as examples – both of the amazing impact and of the very subtle and not easily recognizable impact the stones had seemed to have on their lives.

We then discussed my conversations with the ladies who seemed to know about subtle stone energy and what I had learned during those conversations.”