11 Aug Crystal Grids: What They Are & How To Use Them
Crystal grids are a great way to use your crystals for healing, cleansing, manifestation, and more. They can look complex and intimidating at first glance, but we’re here to help! So what exactly are they are how do you use them? Let’s take a look.
What Are Crystal Grids?
A crystal grid is when you take different crystals and set them up in a way that focuses their energies towards a specific intention, such as chakra healing, physical healing, emotional healing, or spiritual healing, as well as attracting success, romance, and more.
You can also use it to clear out negative energy from your aura or home, protect it, and invite good energy in. It works by placing crystals that complement each other next to each other in a sacred shape, such as a circle or triangle, to magnify their metaphysical properties and amplify their vibrations.
What Do I Need To Create A Crystal Grid?
Here is everything you need to create a crystal grid.
Choose Your Crystals
The first step in making your crystal grid is to choose crystals that reflect your intention. We’ve compiled a few short lists of the best crystals for the most common crystal grid uses.
Chakra Healing Crystals
The best healing stones for the seven chakras are:
- Red Jasper or Hematite (root chakra)
- Carnelian or Tiger’s Eye (sacral chakra)
- Citrine or Sunstone (solar plexus chakra)
- Rose Quartz or Green Adventurine (heart chakra)
- Lapis Lazuli or Blue Lace Agate (throat chakra)
- Amethyst or Moldavite (third eye chakra)
- Clear Quartz or Selenite (crown chakra)
Physical Healing Crystals
The best healing crystals for the body include:
- Bloodstone (increases blood circulation and reduces inflammation)
- Hematite (detoxifies the body and energy field)
- Howlite (improves sleep cycle and quality)
- Pyrite (alleviates pain)
- Red Jasper (increases strength and vitality)
- Amber (fights off infection)
- Malachite (boosts the immune system and aids full-body healing & recovery)
- Emerald (regenerates body)
Mental & Emotional Healing Crystals
Here are some great stones for deep emotional healing, boosting self-esteem, & calming anxious minds.
- Rose Quartz (boosts self-love and allows you to let go of the past)
- Sunstone (boosts confidence and self-esteem)
- Lepidolite (to alleviate depression)
- Turquoise (stabilizes mood swings and anxiety)
- Blue Lace Agate (gets rid of worrisome thoughts and social anxiety)
Spiritual Healing Crystals
Here are our top stones for getting in touch with the spiritual world and accessing your spiritual abilities.
- Amethyst
- Clear Quartz
- Moldavite
- Labradorite
- Selenite
- Moonstone
- Angelite
- Celestite
Energy Clearing Crystals
To clear your home or aura from negative energy, consider using one of the following:
- Selenite
- Clear Quartz
- Black Tourmaline
Protection Crystals
These crystals can help to protect you and your space from bad energy.
- Black Tourmaline
- Black Obsidian
- Smoky Quartz
- Shungite
Positive Energy Crystals
To attract positivity into your life & home, use these!
- Sunstone
- Citrine
- Amethyst
- Rose Quartz
Creative Energy Crystals
These stones are great for attracting creative energy for personal projects and creative work.
- Carnelian
- Apatite
- Blue Topaz
- Citrine
- Malachite
- Pyrite
Meditation & Spell Casting Crystals
Use these crystals for meditation, spell casting, and other spiritual rituals.
- Serpentine
- Amethyst
- Carnelian
- Moldavite
Dream Crystals
For help with dreamwork, lucid dreaming, and astral projection.
- Labradorite
- Sodalite
- Amethyst
- Pink Calcite (for nightmares)
Success & Wealth Crystals
The best stones to manifest success and attract good luck & abundance in all your endeavors:
- Blue Sandstone
- Jade
- Topaz
- Tiger’s Eye
- Moss Agate
Love & Romance Crystals
Here are some great stones to help you attract love, sexual energy, and improve your relationships.
- Rose Quartz
- Carnelian
- Green Adventurine
- Emerald
Elemental Crystals
If you’re looking to make an elemental crystal grid, consider some of these.
- Sunstone, Carnelian, Garnet (fire)
- Aquamarine, Blue Chalcedony, Turquoise (water)
- Dalmatian Jasper, Smoky Quartz, Moss Agate (Earth)
- Clear Quartz, Howlite, Fluorite (air)
Zodiac Crystals
If you’re looking to make a zodiac crystal grid, consider these stones.
- Garnet & Aquamarine (Aquarius)
- Amethyst & Fluorite (Pisces)
- Bloodstone & Carnelian (Aries)
- Sapphire & Malachite (Taurus)
- Agate & Chalcedony (Gemini)
- Emerald & Moonstone (Cancer)
- Onyx & Tiger’s Eye (Leo)
- Aventurine & Chrysoberyl (Virgo)
- Rose Quartz & Rhodochrosite (Scorpio)
- Topaz & Turquoise (Sagittarius)
- Hematite & Jet (Capricorn)
Divine Feminine Energy Crystals
For female power, beauty, and allure.
- Moonstone
- Larimar
- Rose Quartz
- Carnelian
Divine Masculine Energy Crystals
For male power, strength, and attractiveness.
- Malachite
- Tiger’s Eye
- Black Tourmaline
- Pyrite
Choosing a Crystal Grid Shape
There are many different shapes in which you can choose to set your grid up in. These are the most popular ones; you can make your own crystal grid, buy a physical grid online to set them up on, or simply set them up in your desired shape.
Straight Line
Straight line grids are used when you want to align something; it is most commonly used to rebalance the seven chakras or to unite the body, mind, and soul.
Circle
Circles are most often used for grounding, clearing, and protecting the energy of a person or space. It’s also great for healing the body and mind and attracting true, everlasting love.
Spiral
The spiral symbolizes the universal consciousness of nature expanding outwardly; it represents life, creation, birth, rebirth, evolution, awareness, and growth or development. It’s a great shape for attracting creative energy, career opportunities, and new people into your life, as well as personal development and spiritual growth.
Triangle
The triangle or pyramid is an ancient, sacred shape that represents manifestation, enlightenment, revelation, and a higher perspective. It’s a great shape for manifesting change and spiritual enlightenment.
Square
In ancient geometry, the square is a shape that represents simplicity and structure. It is a great shape for physical healing and achieving emotional balance or financial stability in turbulent times.
Hexagon
The hexagon appears in many ancient symbols; in sacred geometry, it represents the potential for life, so it’s a great shape for manifesting your biggest and wildest dreams or aligning yourself with your life purpose.
Mandalas
In the Eastern religions of Hinduism, Buddhism, Jainism, and Shintoism, Mandalas are like a map of the deities, paradises, kami, or actual shrines. It generally represents the spiritual journey, starting from the outside to the inner core. It is a great shape for evolving the soul and taking your consciousness to a higher level.
Pentagram
The pentagram is another ancient symbol that is tied to Wicca, Paganism, and witchcraft. Although it’s often associated with dark magic, that isn’t necessarily the case. It’s a magical star-like symbol that can be used to conjure up all sorts of things, from spirits, (good or bad), to spiritual abilities and material success.
Merkaba
The Merkaba is a symbol that has roots in ancient Jewish mysticism. It is like a 3D Star of David that is generally believed to represent spiritual enlightenment, so it’s a great shape to use for spiritual healing – but it can also symbolize protection.
Flower Of Life
The flower of life, also called the seeds of life, is an ancient geometric pattern consisting of overlapping circles which represent the circle of life in a symmetrical composition. It symbolizes birth, which is perfect for manifesting and attracting creative ideas. In Christianity, it also represents the sum of the Holy Trinity and the four corners of the world.
Ashok Chakra
The Ashok chakra, also known as the Wheel of Time, looks like a wheel with a circular edge and 24 spokes that symbolize twenty-four hours in the day, as well as a major principle of life. It is perfect for invoking big life changes in small amounts of time.
How To Make A Crystal Grid
Here is our step-by-step guide on how to make a crystal grid.
1. Choose A Space
You can place your grid wherever feels right to you. If you’re trying to change the energy in your home, somewhere central or significant will do. If it has a more specific purpose, try using ancient Feng Shui techniques to decide where to place your grid.
These techniques are fairly simple and require that you put your grid somewhere that relates to its purpose; for example, healing crystals should be placed in your bedroom, where you relax and recuperate, and creative crystals should be placed where you use your creative energy the most, such as your study or studio. Placing it next to a window or some plants can also add some natural, celestial energies into the mix.
2. Cleanse The Space
The first step to setting up a crystal grid is to cleanse the space that you’re going to be putting it in. You can do that by burning sage or another cleansing herb, diffusing some cleansing essential oils like Frankincense around the space, or spraying it with salt water.
3. Set Your Intention
Next, you need to set your intention for the crystal grid. You can do this by stating your intention aloud or writing it down on a piece of paper and placing it underneath where the center crystal will sit on the grid. Try to keep it as concise as possible and use words that make sense to you.
4. Place Your Crystals
The placement of your crystals is very important. You should place the stone that resonates most with your intention in the center. Like all things, crystals have an aura, so the central stone will be what gives off the strongest energy.
The surrounding stones will amplify the center stone, running along the lines of the grid, and compliment it with their own energies. You should use your intuition as to what you place where around the center stone following your chosen shape, or look up some crystal grid templates online if you feel like you need some help.
You can also use longer crystals as grinding points to reinforce the shape, although they’re not essential. These are typically Quartz stones or Tumbles placed in a corresponding outer grid or alternatively placed in geometric points between the stones surrounding the center stone.
If you want to, you can also put relevant objects on the outside of the grid, such as a photo of your romantic interest, a coin if you’re trying to manifest money, or something else related to your desired manifestation. Alternatively, you could use some flower petals or leaves that feel positive to you.
5. Activate Your Crystal Grid
Finally, you can activate your grid by using a crystal or metal wand, a pendulum, or your bare hands to extend your energy field and transmit your intention, activating the grid.
How to Use Your Crystal Grid
On top of setting your intention with the grid, you can work with it by meditating on your intention when you’re next to the grid, repeating positive affirmations, or simply sleeping next to it to absorb its magical properties in your sleep.
Do You Need To Cleanse Your Crystal Grids?
You should cleanse your crystals around once a month to rid them of any negative energies that they have absorbed. Depending on how you like to cleanse your crystals, it can be a pain to remove your crystals from the grid and have to restart the whole ritual again afterward, so, if you like, you can cleanse the entire grid at once with the following methods.
The easiest way to cleanse your crystal grid is by letting it bathe in the full moon’s light. You can do this by placing it on a windowsill on the night of the full moon. You can also smudge it with a sage stick, or place a cleansing crystal such as selenite next to it (unless there is one on the grid already, in which case, you do not need to cleanse it at all).
Or, if you prefer to cleanse your crystals individually, you can take them off the grid and wash them all under the tap in some water or salt water. To charge them back up with positive energies, place them in sunlight for a few hours, or if you want to charge them individually, you can bury each one under the Earth for a day.
Where Can I Buy a Crystal Grid?
If you don’t want to make your own crystal grid, you can buy kits online for specific purposes, or if you have your desired crystals, you can buy boards on which to sit them, as mentioned above. These are available to buy at many online spiritual stores, but we recommend sticking to those with good customer reviews and ratings to avoid fakes and scammers.
The Bottom Line
Crystal grids are a fabulous crystal practice, utilizing their energies and pairing them with sacred geometry shapes for health, happiness love, and luck. Follow our top tips for the best results.