I infused (potentized) Jurgita’s created perfume with selected crystals from my personal collection, which I use for healing in homeopathy and radionics, to crown O3’s theme. I’ve collected crystals for many years from various parts of the world and tested them in my long-term psychotherapy practice: which ones are best for healing our deepest wounds and which reveal our inner horizons to explore and connect with individual symbols. All of these vibrational medicine secrets I’ve learned mostly from my mother, after growing up in an ongoing atmosphere of discoveries, like how to diagnose and treat patients, how to prepare individual remedies using frequencies of nature’s gifts as well as the secrets of the plant and animal kingdom, colors, sounds, sacred places, and symbols. I have found and experienced that crystals are the great masters for transforming our limiting thoughts and beliefs into clear, complete mental structures.
I have used many different smokey and clear specimens of the Lightning Strike quartz, which is usually found in the Serra do Espinhaco Mountains of Brazil. Smokey quartz in mineral therapy is related to our unconscious processes and the shadow side of the personality; it helps the processes travel deeper into our psyche. When lightning travels through a quartz crystal that’s still in the ground, it produces a very intense electrical charge as well as rapid heating and cooling. This affects quartz crystal in many ways, which can be understood and seen symbolically as a great initiation into higher spiritual realms. Lightning strikes also sometimes leave a mark on the crystal’s surface, which is called a zig-zag pattern. You can actually see, scrutinize and touch the lightning – something that’s impossible to stop as it catches the sky. These crystals have fulfilled my ceraunophile passion: I’ve adored storms, thunder and lightning from early childhood.
Natural lightning strike markings on quartz crystals. Personal collection.
“The importance of lightning to religious thought is related to its celestial qualities, its associations with liquid, light and sound, at once indivisible and unique. Lightning in Andean religious thought represents an absolute manifestation of the heavens that suppresses differences in that even pairs of opposites coincide. This explains why it is such a powerful entity and agent of transformation throughout the ancient world”.
“The term “Illapa” refers to the physical phenomena of thunder and lightning and to lightning bolts. The Inca regarded Illapa as the animating essence that controlled thunder, and by extension, all celestial bodies and climatic forces, particularly rain, hail and rainbows.”
“In the context of Inca religious thought, Illapa consistently formed part of the group of three named deities, Viracocha, Inti and Illapa”.
John E.Staller. Lightning (Illapa) and its Manifestations: Huacas and Ushnus, 2014
In Lithuanian mythology Perkūnas is the god of lightning, thunder and storms. In a triad of Prussian gods Perkūnas (middle-aged man with fiery hair) symbolizes the creative forces, courage, success, responsible for justice, the sky, rain, thunder, heavenly fire (lightning) and celestial elements, while Potrimpo (Patrimpas – bearless young man) is involved with the seas, ground, crops, and cereals and Peckols (Potollo, Patulas – an old man with long white beard), the god of darkness, in charge of the underworld, and death.
Flag of mythical Prussian king WideWuto, by Caspar Hennenberger after a description by Simon Grunau (16th century).
The Hand of Perkūnas by Mikalojus Konstantinas Čiurlionis
Photo by David Moum