Rhodochrosite

Excerpted from Wisdom of the Gemstone Guardians, by Michael Katz. Order the book here.

Chapter 8

Rhodochrosite: Developing Inner Freedom

Ruby's gaze was focused in the distance, where a tornado was forming. The other listeners and I had not yet seen it. Our attention was still on Ruby as we wondered whether she would continue her discourse. 

Then we heard the sound. It was a thunder unlike any heard on Earth, and it grew louder as the tornado moved closer. I had a feeling this whirlwind was the manifestation of a Gemstone Guardian and wondered how I would step into its consciousness. How does one communicate with a tornado? I thought I should feel afraid, yet my heart was still so full of Ruby's love that there was no room for fear to take hold. So I watched patiently with the others.

As the tornado drew nearer, we could see that it was actually a swirling mass of translucent pink energy. It grew larger and larger, until it hid the entire horizon. Then suddenly it was upon us, and we were enveloped by it. The thunder was deafening. Flashes of white light in the pink whirlwind blinded me, forcing me to shut my eyes. The wind and storm did not disturb my clothing or hair. Instead, it moved through me, affecting me on inner levels.

Then the center of the tornado hit. The impact of the silence and calm was even more forceful than that of the raging wind. Beyond the stillness could be heard the distant sound of a single note. This sound was not a hum, nor a siren, nor a flute, and yet it was all of these. The pink and white whirlwind of thunder and light now spun around us. Standing next to Ruby, in the absolute center of the calm, stood a man with dark hair and deep olive skin. He wore white and pink robes. 

"I am honored to introduce you to the Guardian of Rhodochrosite," said Ruby, as she stood and stretched out her hands to this man. The two held hands for a moment.

"He will discuss more deeply the patterns within the physical and emotional bodies," Ruby explained. "Whereas Ruby gives an individual the power, love, and desire to change patterns, Rhodochrosite actually changes them." Without warning, Ruby became a vortex of red energy. Then she disappeared.

The Guardian of Rhodochrosite waited until the group's surprise at Ruby's sudden disappearance subsided. A calm settled over the listeners. Then he looked at me and said, You know what you must do to relay my words to the people of your planet.

I was somewhat reluctant to approach him. Then his eyes caught mine, and I felt a flood of reassurance similar to the calm that had embraced the group.

It will be all right, he said. I gathered my courage and walked forward to the Guardian. Then I turned so I was facing in the direction that Rhodochrosite faced. I kept my attention on the sound of Spirit, which I had learned to trust so completely.

Greetings and welcome, Rhodochrosite began. Then he turned to Michael. I believe we have some focused business. I will do my best to answer your questions. You may begin.

"Can you give us a brief overview of your effects?" asked Michael. 

Change. I cause change. But the changes I produce are not directed at the physical body. I am responsible for making changes in the emotional aspect of individuals. Nonetheless, these changes often result in alterations in the physical aspect of those who wear me.

There was a long silence. We wondered whether Rhodochrosite would continue. 

You did say "brief?" the Guardian asked.

"Yes, I did," replied Michael apologetically. "Would you please give us more detail?"

Yes. When I am worn, I make changes. I do not wait until my wearer becomes strong enough to handle me. If a change needs to be made, I make it. I do not wait for the person to get under an umbrella before I rain.

The vibratory rate of my sound does one thing; the vibratory rate of Rhodochrosite itself does another. The thunderous sound I carry destroys the emotional patterns that restrict an individual's growth. It also cleanses any disharmony caused by the destruction of these patterns. Then the vibratory rate of Rhodochrosite rebuilds. These three functions--destruction of patterns, cleansing, and rebuilding--work together. I do not allow any work to be left undone.

My work can be compared to playing with a puzzle. When an incorrectly assembled puzzle has been sitting around for a long time, dust settles between the pieces. If the puzzle is shaken up, this dust will fly into the air. Emotional patterns behave in a similar way. When unhealthy emotional patterns are formed, they tend to collect miscellaneous and undesirable energies--in other words, emotional "dust." These energies further clog the emotions and prevent them from being expressed. When Rhodochrosite is worn, my thunder shakes up these unhealthy patterns and cleanses the "dust" from them. Then I rebuild the puzzle so that all the pieces fit together correctly.

"Can you tell us of your birth?" asked Michael. "Were you formed at the birth of the planet, did you evolve naturally, or were you brought here by others?" 

When your body needs a certain chemical and it has the ingredients, tools, and energy to produce this chemical by itself, it will do so. For example, when you eat something, the cells in your digestive system begin to produce acids and digestive enzymes that were not present before the food was ingested. The Earth also has the power to manifest the chemicals or vibratory rates it needs when and where it needs them. Hence, Rhodochrosite was not brought here; nor was it formed when the Earth was formed; nor did it evolve with the planet. The planet manifested it, just as a human being manifests certain enzymes when the need arises. When the need arose, Rhodochrosite was born.

There is something else you should know. Your scientists say that the Earth is so many millions of years old. That is because they measure time as a constant. Actually, time has slowed down since the early years of the planet. Today, it may take several thousand years for a crystal to grow from point A to point C. A hundred thousand years ago, time on the planet moved much more swiftly. Crystals did not need the same number of today's years to grow from point A to point C. What might take a year to happen now may have happened in a week back then. In other words, the Earth is much younger than you think. But time is an illusion anyway, so in the end what difference does it make?

Human Disease/Planetary Disease 

Within the Earth are secrets, powers, and abilities of which you are unaware. The Earth and human beings share a profound connection and similarity. Once people understand this connection, they will be better able to understand and master the forces of their planet. 

The Earth is a living entity, a living creature. Gemstones are also living beings. A gemstone is made up of one homogenous pattern; I will call it one type of "cell." The Earth, like human beings, is made up of many different kinds of cells: its "cells" are the gemstones, rocks, and other elements of which it is made. 

Why are human beings so similar to the planet on which they live? Because, among other things, they are born on the planet and have lived on it for thousands and thousands of years. The relationship of human beings and the Earth is so symbiotic it is uncanny. Everything the human race experiences is reflected in the planet, and vice versa. If you need to understand and cure a certain disease, look first to what is happening in the planet. In the future, physicians who dedicate their lives to discovering cures for diseases will need to spend many hours in the study of the planet's physics and "supra-physics." Yes, I am speaking of a new science: "supra-physics." 

They will study this, because every human disease is reflected in the planet. Because the planet is so big, it is easier to see which planetary pathways need to be cleared to resolve a certain disease; it is also easy to see the relationship of these pathways to those in a human being. 

"Can you give us a specific example of the relationship between human beings and the Earth?" asked Michael.

I am reluctant to speak. Yet I look to Spirit, and Spirit approves to a degree. So I will speak of this to a degree.

If you are thwarted in your attempts to reach a greater understanding of any disease, you must look beyond physical chemistry. Look to what is happening in the planet in a spiritual sense. When you look at the Earth this way, you cannot help but see the group consciousness of human beings. You can see how human beings and the Earth are related and the direction in which the two are going. 

Also, you cannot help but notice patterns. Diseases do not just happen suddenly. They are the result of patterns. Every one of them--from the common cold to AIDS to the most elusive cancer--is the product of patterns. Many patterns are the responsibility of the individual; hence, the currently popular philosophy that you create everything and are directly responsible for everything that happens in your life. However, many patterns affect you that are not the direct result of your own actions. They are the result of your relationship with your planet, society, and other factors over which you have only indirect control.

When specific locations in the body become the repositories for the body's toxicity, tumors are formed. Tumors are isolated encasements of toxicity. Often the rest of the body will seem healthy; hence, the idea that you can surgically remove the toxicity or tumor and the body will be healed.

Look at the Earth now. Are there any spots on the Earth that are like cancerous tumors?

"Yes. Toxic or radioactive waste dumps." 

I was actually thinking of some cities, where the toxic encasement forms a cloud of pollution encompassing the city. Looking at the Earth from above, you can see that cities look like isolated pockets of toxicity, indicated by the cloud or dome of pollution surrounding them.

Toxic Waste Dumps 

Radioactive or toxic waste dumps are somewhat different, in that their effect on the Earth is different. Instead of forming a surface dome of toxicity, they act like an injection of a harmful substance into the Earth's body. The vibratory rate of radioactive or toxic waste is not limited by its containers, no matter what is used to encase it. Instead, it seeps into the Earth.

Usually, when human beings inject certain chemicals into themselves, at first they feel very good and even experience a heightened sense of awareness. Then what happens? They fall. Often this fall is harder than they consciously realize. Sometimes they don't even think they have fallen. However, their vibratory rate falls, and that is disastrous, because maintaining a high level of vibratory rate is essential to the maintenance of life. 

When radioactive toxicity is dumped into the Earth, its vibratory rate is thrown into the surrounding "cells" of the Earth. For a short time thereafter, because of the nature of the radioactive material's vibratory rate, the radioactive energy acts on the planet like a hallucinogen.  

I was not going to speak about this. However, since you mentioned it, I will say that radioactive waste dumps are more dangerous to the people of Earth than the most polluted city. Why? Because a drug addict is unpredictable. A cancer patient is much more predictable than a drug addict, wouldn't you agree? 

Once you start injecting hallucinogens into a planet, you don't know what the planet will do. This is not good, considering what only the slightest variation in a planet's orbit or in the tilt of its axis would do to the climate of the planet. The slightest falter or misstep in the Earth's rhythm could bring planetary disaster. 

Perhaps the only reason I began to discuss this is so that people will know what they are doing when they dump toxic wastes into their planet. Perhaps that was the whole point of this tangent. If I leave you with this awesome situation to ponder, perhaps it will give people more impetus to stop the injection of hallucinogens into the Earth.

In any case, diseases are caused by patterns. My role is to change the patterns that eventually cause disease. It is certainly a diseased individual, or group of individuals, who would inject their planet with a hallucinogen.

"One more thing. Does the Earth have the ability to resolve the effects of radioactive waste dumps?" Michael asked hopefully.

Look at the human drug addict, suggested Rhodochrosite.

"Addicts often need to fall before they really come to grips with their lives," said Michael.

Or the ones who love the drug addict help the addict before he or she falls. When a drug addict falls, you don't know whether the fall will just be a fall, or whether it will bring death. 

Many forces love the Earth planet enough to prevent it from falling. Many individuals are even willing to sacrifice their lives to stop the use of radioactive substances. Yet, in order for the efforts of these people to be truly effective, they must work on the actual cause of the problem. They must work on the patterns that cause people to want to promote the use of radioactive substances and related technology. 

Spiritual or positive forces that intend to make any kind of major change must work subtly. They must be in the door and working before the individuals who need to change even know that these forces are there. In other words, they must be established in the individual's consciousness before the person even realizes that the change is something to be resisted. This can also be true for changing diseases or for altering the course of conditions that are becoming diseases. 

Creating Healthier Patterns 

To understand how Rhodochrosite works, you must also understand patterns. Behavioral patterns manifest in the inner bodies as what appear to be very thin lines. A closer look reveals that they are made of "blocks" positioned one after the other. One block is a certain cause, the next block is the response to that cause. The next block is a cause, the next is its response, etc. The more often you respond in the same way to a particular cause, the longer that pattern line will become. 

As soon as you finish reacting to a certain cause, the circumstances surrounding the next cause will start to form, until a complete new cause block is formed. As soon as a new cause block is completed, it develops a magnetic charge which draws to it the response characteristic of that particular pattern line. The longer your pattern lines are, the more strongly they can affect you.

Rhodochrosite affects the magnetic charge at the end of each pattern line, adding to it a small ball of energy resembling a little sparkler. Once the magnetic charge of the cause block has changed, ideally, a different response is drawn to it. 

Usually this new response is not drawn to the cause block immediately. Instead, the next time you respond to a particular cause, you may simply find you have a greater awareness of your actions--that these actions no longer feel like the most comfortable response you could make to that situation. It may seem like you have outgrown that response. Yet you will still respond in the same old way, despite your new awareness. It will be like wearing a shoe that fits a little too tightly but that you continue to wear because you have not yet made the effort to buy another pair of shoes.

You might even respond the same way a second time; but this time the shoe will fit even more tightly, and the response will feel even less comfortable. By this time, you should be ready to buy another pair of shoes. "Buying a new pair of shoes" means deciding how you would like to respond differently the next time and practicing that response over and over in your mind.

Here is an example. Your father has done a certain thing for years, and each time you have responded in a certain way. Now you plan to respond in a new and different way. If you wish to heal yourself and your relationship with your father, the new response should be more in harmony not only with yourself, but between you and your father, you and Spirit, and you and life in general. Once you have decided what your new response will be, think of your father's actions and mentally practice the new response you plan to give him. 

When you begin to react in a different way to a particular cause, you will form new pattern lines. Hopefully, these new pattern lines will be more uplifting and harmonious. 

The Influence of Patterns on Health 

I do not affect all patterns, because some are as simple and insignificant as the way, every morning for the past thirty-six years, you have brushed your teeth as soon as you woke up; then, before you did anything else, you washed your face and then brushed your hair. This same pattern, repeated again and again, is not negatively affecting your health. Rhodochrosite only focuses its energy on those patterns that have been highlighted by the mind. Your mind knows which patterns are adversely affecting you because it can look upon the emotional and physical bodies and see their needs.

Emotional patterns feed energy into emotional and physical conditions like laser guns. The amount of energy fed depends on the amount of feeling connecting the cause block to the response block. Whether this energy is positive or negative depends on the attitude connecting the blocks. 

For example, there is little emotion in the pattern of waking up, brushing your teeth, washing your face, and brushing your hair. Because there is little emotion involved, little or no energy is thrown into the physical body.

If the attitude attached to a pattern is one of harmony, goodwill, and happiness, the energy thrown into the physical body will be positive. If, when you were a child, your mother gave you a big hug every time you did your chores, a strong pattern full of wonderful feeling would have been formed. Therefore, this particular pattern line and the activities associated with it now throw wonderful, good feeling into the physical body. They have an uplifting influence on you.

On the other hand, if the attitude connecting the response block to the cause block is one of hurt, anger, fear, or anything else negative, then this is exactly what will be thrown into the physical body. If enough of these negative emotional energies are poured into a weak spot on the body, physical disharmony will result. If unchecked, this disharmony will eventually manifest as an unwanted physical condition or disease. 

One can stop feeding the physical area with disharmonious energies by resolving its associated pattern lines and by creating new, positive patterns. Gem-quality Rhodochrosite will assist in this process. 

Another way Rhodochrosite assists is by making pattern lines more flexible or less stuck in the emotional body. When pattern lines are stuck, they restrict the flow of life force to the corresponding area in the physical body and thereby weaken that area. When people wear Rhodochrosite, their pattern lines begin to loosen until they move with the breath, like the ribs. 

Self-Confidence 

As your patterns begin to change, you will become stronger. You will realize the great power you have within yourself. Perhaps you will also realize that Rhodochrosite is only a tool; that it is simply the force which mobilizes, encourages, and motivates. For it is you yourself who have allowed the changes to happen. When you realize you have the power to change your life and to change your emotions, patterns, and reactions, you will feel tremendous self-confidence.  

Some people who wear Rhodochrosite will feel greater self-confidence almost immediately. Others may start to behave differently before this new confidence is felt. Consequently, these people may be a little unsure of themselves at first. Continuing to wear the Rhodochrosite will eventually build their self-confidence.

When a tornado comes, it breaks things up and dust flies. Similarly, when people begin to work on their patterns, their lives start to change. They start reacting to things differently. The self-confidence they gain from wearing Rhodochrosite may encourage them to do and say things they've never done or said before. As new emotional patterns are expressed, other people, in their surprise at this new behavior, may react unpredictably. If my wearer is affected by the behavior of others, my work will be disrupted. Therefore, I protect my wearer from the outside influences that would interrupt or inhibit my work.  

To counteract any disharmony created by my wearers' changes, I bring a harmonious force into the auras of those who wear me. This force touches their families, the people they work with, and anyone else close to them who might get caught in the possible dust storm. This harmonious force prevents a dust storm from occurring. Then it helps rebuild my wearers' lives by helping create even more harmonious and uplifting patterns. 

Rhodochrosite is here to support people's overall growth by helping them rid their emotional bodies of past impediments, accumulations, and emotional "tumors." Indeed, I can help people make these changes and rebuild solid, efficient emotional foundations.

Rhodochrosite is a tool you can use to change your life. Conscious knowledge of how to use this tool will make its effects much more profound. Also, the more willing to change you are, the easier it will be for you to receive Rhodochrosite's benefits. Nonetheless, Rhodochrosite--like any gemstone--will work regardless of how aware you are of its effects or how willing you are to accept these effects.

"Can you speak about your future on the planet and how you will be assisting people? Can you give us a more expanded focus?" asked Michael.

Expanded focus! the Guardian laughed. That seems like a contradiction in terms! Yet one could say that the top of a tornado provides an expanded focus.

Although people may know they need to change and that Rhodochrosite will assist them, Rhodochrosite will not be for the many. It will only be for those who are truly willing to change. Often these are the people who have a very special connection with Spirit. They see the purpose of changes and why mastery of the physical and emotional aspects is so important. 

It is not my choice that Rhodochrosite is for the special few. Each individual will have to determine whether he or she is one of these select few. This is because it takes a lot of strength to experience changes, and often this strength must come from Soul itself.

"Before we close, is there any other information you would like to share?" asked Michael.

I'm sorry, but nothing profound comes to mind. If you pay particular attention to what happens when I leave, you may receive some insights.

I have spoken of the power of Rhodochrosite. Let it be known that it is with great love that I wield this power. It is a love for Soul's freedom. Patterns can enslave an individual. Yet when patterns are highlighted, worked on, and given perspective by Rhodochrosite, they can give an individual the lessons needed to master life. 

There is another who also has the mission of creating great change. We do not work together, yet our missions are parallel. This individual is the Guardian of what you call Purple Rainbow Fluorite. In order for you to understand the mission of this gemstone, it is best that you first interview the Guardian of Amethyst. Amethyst tends to come in his own time and in his own way, so I shall leave you now.

It has been an honor to be included in these interviews.

"May the blessings be," said Michael.

May the blessings be, answered Rhodochrosite.

I slipped out of his consciousness gently, as if I were being held and supported. Yet I wanted to hold onto this consciousness, for it was such a heightened one. I had clearly seen the pattern lines of which Rhodochrosite spoke. I had felt the Earth's pain when he spoke of radioactive waste dumps. And I had seen the profound relationship between human beings and the planet; indeed, we fit together like two perfectly matched puzzle pieces.

As the outer rim of the tornado was passing through us, I knew that this heightened awareness would be gone as soon as the tornado departed, and I was filled with sadness. Then Spirit reminded me that, by following Spirit and the light and sound within me, I could again reach these states of awareness and even go beyond them.

Then the tornado was gone. The sunlight returned, and once again we could hear the roar of waves and the song of birds.

"Let's see if Amethyst can top this performance," said one of the listeners. We all laughed and felt more relaxed. The experience had strengthened our group consciousness; somehow Rhodochrosite's presence had left us feeling as though we were each part of a team on a quest for greater knowledge.

© 1997 Michael Katz. All rights reserved.