Malachite: healing and transformation coming in hot

When you make the choice to grow, to ascend, to follow dreams, to be the best you, the Universe says: Heal yeah! I thought you’d never ask! And then swiftly hands you a treasure map to Your Best Self. Consider this a quest. The great quest of the spiritual path. The Hero’s Quest archetype. That’s you! (Yes of course you are a hero! You are not only a brave badass, but the savior of your own life! Don’t downplay the heroics happening!)

As the monomyth goes, the hero sets out, hero faces challenge, hero overcomes challenge (with lots of preceding self doubt, personal crisis, hand wringing, failed attempts that almost end in giving up, and yet hero does in fact overcome the challenge), hero returns home transformed.

As much as humans fear change and challenge, it remains a crucial piece of our journey. No matter how much one plans and strategizes, challenge shows up. That’s because the sneaky, yet benevolent Universe know challenge is the opportunity and vehicle for growth and transformation. Challenge is a blessing. Challenge ensures continued evolution of our ever expanding beingness. When said in this way, we think, well of course I want that. And then challenge lands in our lap and we go into quick backpedal mode.

So what is a hero to do? Luckily, on such a quest, the hero always bumps into some unexpected new allies that end up lending a major hand in this challenge business. One such ally is the gorgeous Malachite. Fierce and powerful, Malachite is the perfect crystalline guide to lean on as you move through the foes and hurdles you face on this path to transformation. 

Malachite says: You wanted better? Ok, here’s all the stuff that’s kept you from being there already. You are ready to face it. 

Malachite is going to take you though what’s hard: the stories, the blocks, the challenges you haven’t wanted to look at, or what you maybe didn’t even know was there holding you back.

This looks like stories and mindsets from our culture and family, and past pain warning us to fall back, abandon the quest altogether. Malachite helps you find the bullshit that’s in your way and your sovereignty in the process. 

Choosing better and walking toward it brings forth challenge because you are moving out of where you’ve been and the things that kept you there. As Jen Sincero says: “If you want a life you’ve never lived, you have to do things you’ve never done.” And this brings up stories and doubt and resistance faster than anything else. Because if you were comfortable with these things, you would have been doing them already.

So a major focus of this Quest for Better becomes accepting challenge and knowing what to do when you’re in that space. And the foe to battle is usually your own heavy feelings. Rather than resisting, rejecting, sinking back, Malachite teaches you to acknowledge and receive your feelings. This crystal supports you through the process of going into the heaviness, embracing it, sitting with it, honoring it, accepting it, loving in, having compassion for it…it’s a heart chakra stone after all. Malachite is fierce, but leads with love. This crystal will lead you straight to what needs to be healed. Because what you want is on the other side of this healing.

Malachite is known as the stone of transformation, a stone with powerful energy thanks to it’s high copper content (a natural energy conductor). Temper Malachite with rose quartz, mookaite jasper or bloodstone. These stones are master healers themselves, embodying the soothing, stabilizing energy needed to ease the intensity of Malachite’s fire.

To work with these crystals, try wearing them, taking them to yoga, meditating with them, or just sitting with them in your space. Pay attention to what starts to come up. And don’t forget to compassionately receive it all.