Lapis Lazuli: Put on your crown

It’s known that the pharaohs of Egypt lined their crowns with Lapis Lazuli for guidance and wisdom. These leaders even ground the stone into eyeshadow to adorn their eyes with mystic vision.

What the ancient Egyptians knew is that this stone helps one tap into possibly the most powerful energy of all: audacity.

Lapis Lazuli is known as the stone of leaders, one of wisdom and intuition. This indigo blue stone amplifies the energies of the third eye chakra, the seat of intuition. And following intuition takes audacity. Because intuitive knowing isn’t always logical or linear. It’s not about moving from a place of 'tried and true.' And it certainly doesn’t ask for permission or acceptance from the outside.

Leading from a place of intuition, audaciously following your inner knowing, takes a bold badass energy. It takes massive confidence. It takes a sureness that ignores all doubts and critics.

When leaders who move in this way begin, the backlash is loud. These individuals go against the grain, against tradition, and dismiss what’s been proven to work before. They launch out on their own path, carving a way that is new and innovative. While in the beginning, this is labeled risky and stupid, when these innovators succeed (only by blocking out the noise around them), they are hailed as courageous pioneers.

While there are many third eye chakra stones that can help one follow their intuition, a leader who audaciously does this for all to see needs the extra spark that makes Lapis so bold. Flowing through Lapis are little flecks and streams of Pyrite, a gold metal whose energy is, in a word, invincible. Like golden armor, Pyrite brings the extra fearlessness needed to go forward and do what you already know is possible. Even though it hasn’t been done and everyone says it can't be.

Lapis’ energy is calm and steady, unshakable because it’s hooked into the ancient realms of all knowing. This stone is unflinching at the critic’s noise. The aggressive backing of Pyrite’s confidence drives Lapis’ energy forward, to aligned movement, seamless momentum.

The human mind is full of the shouting of critics, without any needing to open their mouthes. Our brains are like catalogues that only know what has been done to this point, categorizing anything outside of those safe parameters as reckless and foolish. Doubts and fears quickly squash any fresh, intuitively innovative idea before it even has a chance to fly. Which is why lining your crown with the stone that helps amplify this intuitive innovation is just so clever.

Because action backed by audacity cannot be squashed. The leader hooked into a knowing, and inner sureness and has the audacity to follow it, is an unstoppable being.

And you are a leader, my friend. You are the creator of your reality boldly leading yourself through what only you can travel. Your journey is unique to you, only your truth and intuition can guide you. Your life has never been done, because you are the only you. Thus, trying to oblige the status quo feels ill-fitting. Because it is. It’s someone else’s. Lapis Lazuli calls you to listen to what you already know and boldly follow that knowing. Put on your crown, go forth, and claim your most magical life. It is out there waiting for you to show up.

Take some Lapis with you, it will help.