QUESTION: “I have two beautiful crystals in my kitchen windows. Recently, while I was cleaning them, I noticed that they both have a new ‘picture’ in them. Both of them. In the same spot. It looks like a ladder but makes me think of a pyramid. The colour is white in the way that the ‘lasered glass etchings’ appear to be white. I was wondering if this is a common occurance in crystals because I do have a few and have never experienced anything like it before. I want to know because I put a protection shield up around my house and the very next day I noticed the new ‘ladder’ shape. I’m not a big believer when it comes to coincidence…anywho, Please let me know if this is a regular thing so I can stop fretting over whether the change was caused by myself or by something trying to bust in.”
MY ANSWER: I expect that the sudden “ladders” in your crystals are from being in more sunlight. Sunlight can show up minute water bubbles, air bubbles, or tiny inclusions in stones, and that happens fairly commonly. Essentially, it’s fairy frost showing up, and not a negative sign at all. If you’d looked at the crystals under a microscope before, you’d most likely have seen them there, even though you couldn’t see them with the naked eye. Under the light and heat of the sun, they probably just showed up to your eyes.
My experience with stones having serious negative energy poured at them is that they have either turned very dark from it (similar to the way severe radiation exposure creates deeply black coloring in crystals) or shattered. However, do keep in mind that natural radiation — even the sun has radiation, so it’s not necessarily a bad thing! — and excessive heat can do the same things. And crystals can shatter for other reasons that are less negative to us, like for instance even a great excess of positive energy. Most crystals in a protection shield will hold up well to negative energy, as long as you cleanse and clear them regularly, which it sounds like you’re doing.