Crystal Cave Meditation

If possible it is preferable to actually have a geode that you can hold whilst doing this meditation. If possible it is worth visiting any good accessible cave systems near you, to improve your connectedness to and appreciation of such caves, as well as bringing away with you images which help make it easier to hold the visualisation! You may find this meditation easier to do if you tape it first (leaving appropriate pauses for yourself to experience events) so you can play it back and concentrate fully on the experience.

Create a sacred space in a manner you are comfortable with. Take a few minutes to still yourself and relax. Make sure you are sitting comfortably, and close your eyes. Focus your awareness on your breathing, gently bringing it back if it wanders. In your mind's eye see the room (or space if outside) becoming filled with a white mist. It becomes thicker and thicker coalescing and blanking out everything around you until all around you is white mist, you are floating in a sea of white mist. Then the white mist starts to disperse, thinning out, drawing back to reveal a cave around you. There is a hole in the roof or one side of the cave, letting in some moonlight which is reflected off the walls, the light bouncing from crystal to crystal as you look around, and realise the entire cave is lined with crystals. The floor is very smooth and polished, like the face of a cut crystal, and there are facets of crystals all around.

Take time to explore and examine the crystals. Then sit in the middle of the cave and let your awareness expand to fill the cave.How does it feel? (You should remember this for later). Be aware of the energies flowing through the earth which you are now connecting to. Expand your awareness further, feel the earth around you. What do you feel? You may continue expanding your awareness as much as you choose, so that e.g. you end up becoming the whole earth, or focusing inwards into the centre of the earth and becoming aware of the molten core of the earth.

After a while start to contract your awareness again, reducing it until you are back to the cave at the centre, and then looking around the cave, see the white mist start to fill the cave again, obscuring the walls and ceiling and floor. It completely blankets you so you are aware only of the sea of white mist around you. Now see it roll back and reveal the familiar surroundings of the room (or space) that you started in. If you do not feel fully earthed, stand up and stamp your feet a few times. Record your experiences in your magickal diary. A variation on this theme worth trying is that when you have expanded your consciousness to that of the cave, you then become the universe, i.e. you become the first manifestation in the void.

Extract taken CRYSTALS - Healing & Folklore (Capall Bann, 2002) by David Rankine. Available from Capall Bann Publishing