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Meet Janet: The Person Behind Serendipity Crystals
If you’ve discovered Serendipity through a favourite crystal, a piece of jewellery or a gift for someone special, you may not yet know much about the person behind the collection. Meet Janet Thornton, owner of Serendipity Crystals and the holistic practitioner behind Essential Healing in Peterborough. Janet took over Serendipity in August 2025, bringing the
Crystals & Mindful Daily Rituals: Simple Holistic Touchpoints for Autumn
Autumn can be an invitation to notice what we need a little more closely. Perhaps it’s a quieter start to the morning, a clearer boundary at the end of the working day, or simply a few moments that belong entirely to us. Looking after ourselves doesn’t have to mean creating an elaborate routine. Sometimes it
Bedside Crystals: How to Create a Calming Nighttime Sleep Sanctuary
How we spend our final waking hour sets the tone for our entire night’s rest. In our screen-filled lives, winding down can often feel challenging. Blue light from phones, late-night emails, and lingering to-do lists keep our nervous systems on high alert, making it difficult to transition into deep, restorative sleep. While crystals are not
Crystals for the Autumn EquinoxÂ
The Autumn Equinox marks a quiet turning point in the calendar. Occurring in late September, it represents the moment when day and nightstand in equal balance before the earth begins tilting towards shorter days, cooler temperatures, and cosy evenings indoors. In seasonal living traditions, the Equinox is considered a sacred threshold: a time for harvesting
Grounding and Protection
Ensuring we are grounded and have asked for protection is a vital element of walking a spiritual path.
We have to be grounded in order to know where our base is and where we are coming from. If we do not ground ourselves, eventually we’ll go ‘high’ on spiritual energy and the only way down is with a bump.
Energy can move in strange and mysterious ways so it is also essential to protect ourselves. We are not protecting ourselves from attack on any level.
Crystals and Colour Therapy
It has long been known that wearing different colours or liking a crystal of a particular colour can indicate things about our subconcious. Colour can be used to tone things down, brighten things up, raise our spirits and even make our eyes sore!
The below information on colour is what we’ve learned over the years. It’s a handy indicator of where our sub-conscious is by the colours we reach for/connect with at any particular time. It also indicates how you can use colour to help yourself.
Crystals and the Chakra System
As a very general rule, we can look at a crystal, examine its colour and attribute it to one of the Chakras. However, the energy of the world we live in is changing….therefore, what crystals do is changing and the books that are being released now aren’t keeping up fast enough.
