Krista holding a large ajoite in quartz stone

Special note: Originally this post was titled “How to Find Your Soul Stone + Crystal Totem”. In learning more about the appropriation of Indigenous beliefs and practices, I have respectfully switched to using the word talisman. To learn more about appropriation, you can start by reading this article: 100 Ways to Support - Not Appropriate From - Native People

If you’ve worked with crystals for a while, you no doubt have a growing collection of different stones. Some you may work with daily, some may have spoken to you at the time you acquired them but you have yet to dive into deeply. Some are old faves, some are new and exciting.

I was speaking with a friend + fellow crystal healer the other day about the value of going back to the basics in our healing process: amethyst, rose quartz, calcites, which are like coming back to old friends after spending time with some new and intense crystals for so long.

The scope of my work with crystals is in some way limited, but also quite expansive: There are types of things that I’m not super into (geology, grids, crystal facials) in so far as my focus of study + teaching, but at the same time, I consider the healing, transformational, and transdimensional work I do with crystals to be limitless.

Just like each and every plant, person, and planet, a crystal has a universe hidden away inside it, waiting to be unlocked and explored. Can you imagine the possibility?! So very exciting to contemplate and pursue!

It brings me to a teaching of crystal consciousness that I received a while ago, and that pops up occasionally on my radar as I’m doing my work: Teaching people about finding and working with your soul stone.

The soul stone reminds me a little of the Arkenstone from “The Hobbit” tale: a gem that was the heart of a mountain, most treasured by the dwarves who found it.

In the crystal kingdom, for each of us, there is a soul stone. A stone that represents the heart of your life quest, purpose, or path. That resonates most deeply with your soul and spirit, and represents your higher self and greatest radiance, or potential, in this lifetime.

There is generally one soul stone per lifetime, but there are also crystal talismans that can change for us based on what energy we need in our healing process, or what our spirits are calling to us to support us on our path.

an ajoite included clear quartz cluster with visible ajoite inclusions toward the tip of the crystal points

My Soul Stone

For me, my soul stone is ajoite. A high frequency divine feminine crystal that embodies radiance, healing, guidance, and uncompromising truth.

Ajoite feels like my heart in crystal form.

When I tune in to ajoite, I feel I’ve come home. I feel that I merge with the highest version of myself and Universal consciousness. I don’t need to hold or wear it all the time, or work with it every day. Its frequency is always there, and whenever I focus on my heart and picture the crystal that most resonates, it’s what I see and feel.

a natural stromatolite fossil with a sandy brown color and it has visible, protruding orbicular patterning that looks like ripples

My Crystal Talisman

And my crystal talisman at this point on my path isn’t a crystal at all, but a fossil. My talisman is stromatolite, source of Earth energy medicine and wisdom.

Stromatolite is what I’m returning to most in the past while for teachings, guidance, grounding, and healing.

Prior to stromatolite, my talisman was definitely selenite for a long time.

How to Find Your Soul Stone + Identify Your Crystal Talisman:

Finding your soul stone is definitely not something that comes from the mind or the ego. If you try to reason it out or pick what you’d most like it to be, it won’t resonate. You could end up feeling lost, confused, or dissatisfied in your work with it.

Your soul stone is a mirror and guide, literally a touch stone you can come back to again and again for energy, solace, healing, and illumination. Its frequency and vibration closely matches the frequency and vibration of your soul, the core of who you are, untouched by traumas, conditioning, or the shadow self.

It can be any crystal or stone in the mineral kingdom. It could even be a rock you find in your back garden or riverbed. It does not have to be fancy, high frequency, rare, or expensive. Each and every one is beautiful. Each and every one has a universe inside it, waiting for you.

The truth is, you don’t go looking for it – it finds you. Your soul stone wants to work with you, to be held by you, to be discovered by you. It’s a gut thing: you may already know what it is, or, if you’re new to crystals or simply haven’t discovered it yet, it will show up for you time and again in the space of months or years, and you’ll know it because it will “sing” to you in a way that no other crystal does.

It may be a singular piece, like a specific piece of amethyst, or it might be amethyst collectively.

A crystal talisman is a crystal whose energy medicine you particularly need on your path right now. You may be working with other crystals as well, but there’s one in particular whose energy is most potent for what you’re working on or learning in your healing and growth process.

Identify the main theme of what that is (for example: abundance consciousness, heart healing, empowerment, dream magic, etc.), and the crystal you most feel drawn to working with throughout that theme.

Again, this is not a thinking thing: it’s a gut thing.

And it doesn’t matter if you don’t identify a particular crystal talisman for right now. It’s not something that’s needed in your process. But finding it and cultivating a relationship to that crystal can help support you and provide a deeper connection to your needs, inner magic and workings.

Identifying your soul stone and your crystal talisman helps you move from the basics of just stuffing a rock in your bra (or pocket), to working consciously with sacred sources of Earth medicine and crystalline consciousness.

Enjoy that blessing and let it enrich your life and process. It may just be the game changer you’ve been looking for, lighting your way. 💎🙏🏻

If part of your soul’s vision is to learn more deeply about crystals + crystal healing, you can check out the Istaria Crystallis® online certification program or any of my magical Crystal Courses open for enrolment.