In Ancient Days at the Heart, long before this website was born, I'd come back from a trip with my Pirate's Chest of Silver and Gems and it would all be priced and shoved out on the shelves at record speed. Now it's different. Every piece has to be cleaned, photographed, measured, described and uploaded. I just worked out that's 17 different operations for each piece. That's not counting my triple sort process when I'm buying, to ensure that you see only the creme de la creme. Luckily this is a loving operation. Each piece receives the respect it deserves, and after all isn't that what we a...

Geometry is a basic law of Nature - a mathematical Harmony of forces and matter on which our very existence depends. The Flower of Life is one of the best known - for a very long time, since the earliest depiction is found at the Temple of Osiris in Abydos of Ancient Egypt. It and it's component the Seed of Life is said to represent the formation of life from the void. Another equally ancient symbol is the Sri Yantra whose interlocking triangles represent the Union of Masculine and Feminine, God and Goddess. Also primal forces of creation. Wearing this can help your own inner Union and prom...

A friend once referred to Crystal Heart as an Aladdins Cave of Treasures and he spoke well. Other people invest in property and super and good on them. But I'm the Gypsy of the Family. Or maybe it's my past lives as a Pirate - which balanced my many spiritual lives !  I just love travel and gemstones.  Before each buying trip I tell myself to buy less stock. I've got enough !  So I commit to buy only really lovely things.  But I continually find more lovely and irresistable gems. So watch this space because over the next few weeks we've got some more amazing treasures to show you. NEW JEWEL...

Well Sorry all but it's been such a long time between posts. But the shop has been very busy, which is good, though in the end I was really hanging out to get away to the Bangkok Gem Show !  It was a very good trip. Even though I arrived exhausted, hobbling round like an old man :-) but it's a perpetual source of amazement to me that once I start viewing beautiful crystals and gemstones my energy always returns ! Talk about 6 degrees of seperation though. I was chatting with my new favourite supplier who has a really good eye for stones and I happened to mention that my love affair with cry...

I remember long ago being shocked by the revelation of another Chakra which was located outside the body, floating above the crown. As a Yogi I was firmly of the belief that al Chakras were firmly tethered to nodes on the Physical body. Despite initial resistance to the idea, this led to a new round of Spiritual Growth as it opened a connection to Universal Consciousness.  Some some called this Chakra  the transpersonal, but I prefer the the more evocative name of Star Chakra.  Decades later I came up with this design. The Herkimer represents the Star Chakra, connecting you to Universal C...