
This is a bit of a stretch, I admit. If my readership drops over this post, I will consider myself duly punished….
A rather strange Etsy find, this crystal really does (to me) look a bit like a space shuttle. Even in nature, spacey things can be found?


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I recall a lot of people in the 1980′s touting miraculous properties which crystal are supposed to possess. If those notions that sprang from their new age noodles were correct, I could hang that quartz craft around my neck and always be a mere meditation away from a solid rocket boost.
All of those people came to Mt. Shasta and stayed there.
Those advice books are always saying you can think stuff, wish stuff and want stuff and it’ll automatically come to you. Not only could you use this crystal to boost yourself into orbit, but in theory my wishes should be generating a free ride to the Moon and all the equipment necessary for a nice exploratory stint, right on my front lawn, right about… NOW.
Now.
Now?
It isn’t working.