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How Necklaces ‘Work’
By Jim PathFinder Ewing (Nvnehi Awatisgi)
January 2006
Annette and I were talking the other night and we were discussing a necklace she was working on. The person who she was creating the Totem Necklace for wanted a necklace to help protect her from negative influences at her job, but wasn't sure she needed it to to help her work on improving herself.
I respectfully disagreed. We all need help "improving" ourselves, and everyone has room to grow.
Just working in a place where one feels the need for protection --something familiar to all of us, no
doubt--is a challenge, an opportunity to grow. Similar to the Toltec belief that "Petty Tyrants"
--those difficult people in our lives, are there to help us to develop our strengths, opportunities for
growth abound in a 'low vibration' workplace.
A necklace helps in a very particular way.
Stones have their unique vibrations and some help with one thing more than
another. They are
natural channels of energy. When put together, they act like a
piano's keys, playing a tune,
according to how they are selected and arranged.
No matter how much a person "works on" him or
herself, there is always room for improvement.
Consider: If a person has, say, 10,000
thoughts a day, even if one is rigorously "working on"
oneself, only a few
hundred thoughts are actually of any worth toward raising vibration rate,
focusing on goals, appreciating "what is," or doing any of the things that bring
us greater insight
or awareness. What necklaces, bracelets, pendants, etc., do is to anchor our thoughts on what
we
are aiming to achieve -- healing, growth, transformation, etc. -- and then
channeling those energies
where they need to go.
Put another way: Each of the Creator’s stones
have a vibration. Each has an affinity for one
thing or another. When put
together, they create a harmony or overtone that can help keep
oneself in
harmony with the intent one wants to achieve.
Remember, in shamanism, energy work, intent is everything.
We give energy by attention; we achieve or bring things into reality by intention.
Of course, mixed in there is male and female
properties. So-called “female” properties attract,
like magnetism; “male”
energies direct. When both are in balance, you have as Jesus said the
Secret
Gospel of John (an Essene text): All is motion and rest. Or, yin and yang. You
want to be
in the center of that, in balance, allowing the energy of your
directed (male) intent to go out,
magnified by the stones, while the attractive
(female) energy of manifestation is brought to you
along the line of your intent
you sent out.
For tens of thousands of years, indigenous
peoples have been choosing stones to wear. They
aren’t just for ornamentation.
They are, if properly chosen, power objects that can have great effect.
An example: for thousands of years, Cherokee
medicine men, or priests, have carried crystals with
them for healing and other
uses. Some people today mistakenly attribute use of crystals to
“New Age”
thought; but it’s indigenous.
Among some tribes in the West, medicine men are
leery of people who carry crystals. They
wonder “why would someone want to carry
such a powerful stone?”
What they say is true. Powerful stones are all around us. Sometimes, especially on
the road,
when doing Drum Circle, I’ll pick up the stones being used in the
parking lot of wherever we may
be – whatever stones “call to” me. They have
power, too. They are grandfathers, like the mightiest
of boulders. Their wisdom
is old.
It doesn’t matter that they were found in a parking lot. Power is
anywhere, and everywhere.
Crystals are the most recognizable of stones
that have Power, however, because they are pretty
and popular. They magnify
energy, but they’re not very choosy. All stones have personalities,
if you will. Quartz crystals are happy go lucky. Sort of like puppy dogs. But some can be dangerous
.
You usually don’t see those in rock shops or hanging around people’s necks.
Anyway, a stone shaman, someone who understands
the properties, vibrations, healing abilities,
etc., of stones can use them to
affect various intents.
You may remember that in the Old Testament, a
breastplate was worn that had great power:
Exodus 28:17-20: Set it with four rows of
mounted stones. The first of these rows shall contain a
ruby, an emerald and a
crystal. The second row: carbuncle, sapphire, pearl. The third row: topaz,
turquoise, calf eye. The fourth row: chrysolite, onyx, jasper. These stones
shall be in their fullness,
placed in gold settings.
After the breastplate was woven and
folded over, it was set with four rows of precious stones:
Ruby Emerald Crystal;
Carbuncle Sapphire Pearl; Topaz Turquoise Calf Eye; Chrysolite Onyx Jasper
The four rows paralleled the four directions.
Funny, how all the ancient teachings of indigenous peoples all over the world tell similar stories.
The breastplate was not only a healing garment
that would help the healer and the healed, but it
channeled Power from above, to
given insight, direction, and bring out the best qualities of each of the tribes
of Israel. Each tribe had its stone that, unfortunately, has been corrupted
today into the common idea of “birthstones.”
The garment can be seen as a medicine wheel.
We do the same when we drum, calling in the four directions.
When the stones are used in this way, in sacred
geometry, they are being used to magnify the star tetrahedron that is the energy
body. The wearer is “connected” in time and space to all things,
all events; a
merkaba. Your vibrational rate has to be pretty high to
make it work right; but
sometimes when we do special ceremony, we get pretty
close.
Annette and I have long talks about these
things. She has a natural ability with the stones –
much better than I.
So, it’s a good thing that she does making these necklaces.
Tsiwonisv!
-- PathFinder
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