NEW ITEMS - UPDATED JUNE 13, 2010 Earth Mother Spirit Stone (TM) The origin of these stones began about 10,000 years ago as the glaciers began to recede from the large, quaternary lakes in Northern Canada. The rich mineral ‘soup’ of the glacial melts contained abundant quantities of calcium and carbonates along with titanium, rare earths and other elements. Geologically what you see now is a calcium carbonate concretion after clay. When you inspect them, they have a smooth and a rough side showing ridges and Sanskrit like markings. The ridges are actually fossils of ancient worms, thus each stone becomes a page in the book of the geologic history of northern North America. These wonderful Spirits were known as ‘fairy stones’ to the Algonquin and they believed that they brought luck in the hunts and conferred health and prosperity to the homes. The largest ones were thought to further protect against bad spirits and the most beautiful were exchanged between lovers. Although found in many locations, these come from the Harricana River near Abitibi, Quebec in Canada. This river derived its name from the stones as ‘harricana’ is the Algonquin word for ‘biscuits’ which the stones resemble. That all being said, I feel they are far more than fairy stones in that they are integrally tied to Mother Earth herself … they have definite female energies and most have the circular symbols of Mother Earth used by native peoples the world over. Each has a calming, centering, balancing energy that will take the edge off and settle your aura so that you can do a proper meditation. Place against the palm meridians and she will literally tingle in your palm, showing that she strongly connects ... and she is a wonderful grounding stone, but never one that brings you too far down. Note that this page replaces the one from last week since they were all sold. These have been cleaned off the site, so if you want pictures of your Earth Mother Spirit Stone, please ask me. :o) | 
