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[lupagreenwolf]

Newest Therioshamanism post - jumping off a recent WV article about strip-mined crystals, and adding in my own two (mined-copper-coated) cents!

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[adnarel]

I loved this. Especially the part about how so many pagans fill their house with pretty "witchy" junk. I look at my altar some days and I feel terrible because I don't have the "cool" stuff on there-just a couple of stones and feathers and a picture of Lu. That's IT. Below it are my Tarot cards. Other then that? No statues, no witchy stuff. But there are other days when I go 'thank the gods', because not having so much is less for me to clean. How respectful is it to the gods when you let their statues get all stinky dirty and dusty? Unless their a god of dust, probably not very.

(which reminds me, my altar needs cleaning this week. . >.>)

Also, I'm very fortunate that all the stones I have were either bought A) from a store where I knew the owners personally-they traveled a lot and bought all their stones local and so were very aware of the conditions from where they came. They were pretty firm about ethics involving obtaining them, or B)given to me by friends that had had them a long time, so their energies were clean and balanced, and because I got them as gifts, very positive. So, it's a matter of personal preference, I would think, but I also think I'm just lucky. :P

[redsixwing]

That's a very good point.

The prevalence of carefully-cut crystal Natural Points!!eleventy!! - especially when they're those metal-plated, highly processed ones - kind of cracks me up, but it also seems fundamentally disrespectful to the stones to treat them that way.

Being a lapidarist who is sort of slouching toward animism, I find the condition of my rocks to be very important, and some just don't want to be cut - and didn't want to be removed, for that matter, from their places. (Although the great majority don't seem much to care. They are, after all, rocks. They have the legendary patience of stone.)

Then to take a stone, cut it into a pleasing shape, metal-plate it for color and sell it as zomgnatural, becomes a problem, in my view.