Whether you are waiting for Valentine’s Day to celebrate love or you are a passionate person all year round, let’s have a conversation about love, passion, and seduction and the fascinating gemstones and crystals that can spice up your romantic life.

All of us want to love and be loved, and some would say that love is a universal energy we can learn to attract into our lives. But did you know that besides the large variety of books and articles discussing the art of seduction, crystals and gemstones can help you heat up your romantic and sex life?

Crystals might be what you need if you are a married woman, in a relationship, single, or just exploring the dating scene. That’s because crystals can:

• help you get attuned to the energies of sensuality and love.
• combine their gentle energy with your desire to attract love in your life.
• support your expression of self-love and love for others.
• help you nurture deep connections and intimacy with others.

If you wish to strengthen your existing romantic relationship or attract a loving partner, the following crystals and gemstones can be powerful allies.

Gentle Pink Crystals for the Ultimate Love

Pink crystals and gemstones are the most suitable when it comes to matters of the heart. The soft and gentle vibes of the pink crystals can help you open your heart to receiving and offering love, tenderness, and compassion.

The most popular pink crystals I recommend are:

Rose Quartz

A crystal that attracts unconditional love is the rose quarts. Besides deepening the connection in your existing relationship or attracting new gentle love, it is an excellent stone for working on yourself and learning to love yourself first. Lovers can wear rose quartz to attune to each other’s energy.

Mangano Calcite

This gemstone invites the energy of universal love and heals a broken heart. It’s also a stone that harmonizes relationships and deepens the bond between the two.

Rose Calcite

This pink gemstone aligns the mind with the heart and opens up new opportunities for love. If you have been through difficult moments regarding relationships and haven’t been feeling too eager to look for a new love experience, this crystal can be an excellent support for trying to explore again.

Rhodonite

Rhodonite is a pink stone for emotional healing and pure love. It’s a crystal for those dealing with anger, frustration, and jealousy in their love lives. The powerful energy of rhodonite will make you resilient and help you bring compassion into your couple’s life.

Tranquil Blue Crystals for Opening the Heart Chakra

Gorgeous light blue gemstones and crystals such as celestite, blue calcite, and chrysocolla open, stimulate and balance the Heart chakra. A harmonious and balanced Heart chakra will enable you to love deeply and sincerely.

For a fearless and open heart, I recommend using the following blue crystals to attract and maintain love and harmony in your life.

Celestite

Besides its energy that attracts harmony and peace, celestite is associated with pure and angelic love. It will help you experience a healthy romantic relationship with openness to communication and pure affection.

Blue Calcite

Often, unresolved misunderstandings can lead to feeling distant from the other person. Blue calcite brings fulfillment to your relationship and facilitates clear communication between lovers.

Peruvian Blue Opal

This gemstone brings happiness, harmony, and love in relationships with others by enhancing self-love and nurturing your inner emotional resources.

Chrysocolla

Chrysocolla stabilizes emotions and provides healing energies to help you communicate assertively and avoid taking everything too personally.

Aquatine Lemurian Calcite

Crystal healers often use aquantine lemurian calcite to connect the Heart chakra with the rest of the chakras. This brings a sense of stability, emotional support, and serenity to your heart, enabling you to love with confidence and healthy boundaries.

Nurturing Green Crystals for Harmonious Love

Green crystals carry nurturing, soothing, and balancing energies that are great for manifesting affection and harmony in your romantic relationships. They are also great for balancing emotions and bringing love into your friendships and platonic relationships.

The following green crystals can be used to harmonize your energy by keeping them close to you during the day:

Canadian Jade

Canadian jade is a green crystal for faithfulness and trust between lovers. A great stone for those who are tired of relationships that are not based on trust. This type of jade will bring you the emotional strength needed to heal and build strong connections.

Green Calcite

Green calcite infuses your Heart chakra with high-vibration energy and pure light. It will help you build a relationship full of acceptance, understanding, compassion, and love without giving up on your boundaries.

Green Aventurine

This is a stone emanating optimism. Green aventurine keeps the heart open to new romantic experiences. It will keep you grounded and ward off negativity during your dates and the beginning stages of a relationship.

Green Quartz

This green crystal energizes and activates the Heart chakra giving you the power to live from the heart. It also provides gentle energy that brings forgiveness, compassion, and empathy.

Prehnite

Prehnite is a crystal suitable for existing long-term relationships. It brings more profound discovery between lovers and a sense of renewed happiness, affection, and peace.

Fiery Red Crystals for Igniting Passion

Who says you can’t experience burning passion in a relationship after 60? You probably reached a point where you already know what you like, what’s a turn-on for you, and how to communicate your needs upfront. And that might have improved the quality of your passionate experiences.

But that doesn’t mean you can’t harness the energy of the following red crystals to enhance the excitement and passion of a new relationship or maintain the desire with a long-term partner.

Ruby

Ruby is a much-admired gemstone that resonates with universal love. It enhances sensuality and tenderness and can help you manifest love.

Red Jasper

Another red gemstone, red jasper is a great choice for spicing things up in an existing relationship. You can use it with your partner to channel your sexual energy and express your desires and sensual self without shame or hesitation. It will definitely surprise you with a burning passion.

Garnet

Garnet is a powerful gemstone for physical love stimulating and connecting you to your sensual energy. If you want to feel irresistible, you can wear garnet for a date or when going out to attract love and attention.

Soft Orange Crystals for Enhancing Sensuality and Libido

If you want to enjoy the sensuality a relationship can bring or your love language is physical touch, you can try keeping the following orange crystals around you. It is said that the southwest corner of your home is the best place to keep them as it is associated with relationships and love.

Here are the are must-have crystals for a fulfilling love and sex life:

Peach Moonstone

The crystal of harmony and love is peach moonstone. This orange crystal is a powerful tool for manifesting sexual desires and attracting love. It’s often used for improving relationships.

Orange Calcite

A crystal emanating creative energy that brings new ideas into the bedroom is orange calcite. It also boosts libido and energy for both partners and maintains a healthy physical and emotional relationship.

Carnelian

If you’re looking for a stone of seduction that stimulates and opens the Sacral chakra, carnelian is your best choice. It helps express one’s sensual energy and awakens sexual desires and passion.

Flower Agate

Flower agate carries soft and feminine energy. This delicate orange crystal will help you manifest your erotic desires. It will help you live your love life to the fullest, protecting you from intrusive fear and insecurities.

Powerful Shiva Lingam for Sacred Sexuality

If feminine energy is essential for you to feel sensual and desired in a relationship, this sacred Shiva Lingam stone is for you. It symbolizes the perfect union between the divine feminine and divine masculine in the universe, known as Shakti and Shiva in Hinduism.

The stone can be used to attract love, passion, and sensuality in your love life and can help you feel feminine and seductive at the beginning of a new relationship. Of course, Shiva Lingam can also ignite passion in an existing romantic relationship where the sexual energy of the two was neglected for a while.

To bring the harmony and fiery passion you desire, you can use the Shiva Lingam stone in various ways:

• when meditating, hold it in your hands and focus on its energy and presence;
• sleep with the stone under your pillow;
• place it on your altar or sacred personal space;
• carry it in a pouch during the day.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Have you ever used crystals and gemstones to attract love? How important for you is the passion in a relationship? What is your favorite stone for love and sensuality? How do you celebrate self-love and passion when you are single vs. in a couple? What crystals resonate best with your love language?

Angie Katsanevas’ Neon Cutout Dress at Heather’s Party

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The best thing to pair with a power pony is probably a bold shoulder. Which is exactly what Angie Kastanevas did in her neon cutout dress at Heather’s party. I think she looks suuuuper chic. Unfortunately the stock of the dress does not look as chic because it’s sold out. But, we rounded up Style Stealers below that will certainly have you singing in the shower its praises.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

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Originally posted at: Angie Katsanevas’ Neon Cutout Dress

Meredith Marks’ Pink and White Tie Dye Hoodie

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I don’t think we here at BBH could ever not love a lounge look. Which is of course how we feel when it comes to Meredith Marks’ pink and white tie dye hoodie. It looks cute and comfortable which is a duo you can’t pass up. And the exact reason that we need to shop the Style Stealers of it below that are just to dye for.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

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Originally posted at: Meredith Marks’ Pink and White Tie Dye Hoodie

Living alone is a luxury for single people. In my case, I relish having total privacy. It’s because I grew up sharing a bedroom with a sibling. Then, I left home for college and moved into a dorm, only to share another small room.

If I was lucky enough to move into a larger space, like a one bedroom apartment, it was with a roommate. The situation didn’t change much after graduation, because I was broke.

For some, the scenario continues until marriage, which doesn’t facilitate a “solo” space. But, if one remains single, he or she prefers to live alone after landing a job. It’s a status symbol – one that marks coming of “mature” age and claims of “making it.”

Going Solo Is a New Phenomenon

As sociologist Eric Klinenberg identified in his 2012 book Going Solo, living alone was virtually unheard of in most world cultures before the 20th century. But now, in the U.S., an estimated 32.7 million people live alone. This represents about 28 percent of the country’s households today, compared with 17 percent in 1970.

Klinenberg points out that the medical and mental effects of this change are complex. For example, many people who live alone remain highly social and connected. This means that living alone doesn’t necessarily result in social isolation or loneliness.

What About Those of Us Who Live Alone in Isolation?

The National Institute of Health says that separation is not beneficial for anyone, no matter what age. That said, isolation can have an especially negative impact on older adults. This is because isolation among our age group can lead to ill health, a reduction in social activities and feelings of loneliness. None of these results are good for positive aging.

The day I moved into my first “solo” living space, I celebrated. Just turning 22, a year after college graduation, I got a decent paying job that facilitated the indulgence.

Today, living alone has lost its appeal. Now, I know the risks of isolation in older age. They’re not good. But, the good news is that I don’t allow myself to become isolated. I have friends and go out often. I also love to travel.

My neighbor is 85, uses a walker and lives in a two-story home. I’m sure that she loves her privacy, but, is it worth the risks?

Is Living Alone Everything It’s Cracked Up to Be?

I miss living among a mix of generations. I’m sure that many people my age feel this way. Somehow we’ve become hyper-individualized. We don’t even mix with other generations now. It feels like living alone is right for me, but, is it really?

Being alone, I lose connections and access to shared knowledge. I also face isolation and, at times, feel disconnected. It’s alarming how segregated I’ve become.

Young people don’t know how to be around older adults. They feel uneasy. The result is an adverse inference called ageism. In my younger years, I felt the same way about my older relatives. Now, I’m on the other side of the table. I get it. However, at times, I do feel disregarded.

Aging Alone vs. Aging Together

Could intentional communities, cohousing groups, ecovillages, municipal networks, support organizations and home shares provide a solution to the aging alone problem? In part, yes, they could.

The mixing of generations into one society, living and sharing together could solve financial pressures and eliminate seclusion.

Some time ago, I attended the American Society on Aging Conference in Washington D.C. I met experts from several roommate matching services, including Silvernest.com. They provide a nationwide database to pair homeowners with potential roommates.

At the conference, I was surprised by a statistic provided by the Village to Village Network. Throughout the U.S., in their communities, over 50% of the members living in the village network are people who live alone. I’m not sure why this is the case, but I’m also not surprised.

Cohousing communities are intentional and collaborative. They combine the benefits of private homes with those of sustainable living. Cohousing promotes active participation in the design and operation of neighborhoods. It also offers shared facilities and relations.

I want to learn how these communities blend resources for their mixed age communities. I’m also excited to have an opportunity to meet people who live this way and to hear about their experiences.

My goal is NOT to age alone. I may LIVE alone, but I want to do so in an environment that supports social connections, life-long learning, fulfilling activities and easy access to transportation. I also want to live in a place that includes people of all ages, not just those of us in the 55+ age group.

If you’re looking for information about aging alone and want to connect with like-minded individuals, check out the Elder Orphan Facebook group.

Let’s Have a Conversation:

Age you aging alone? What has your experience been? Do you think that living in a community would be beneficial? If so, how would you describe your perfect living situation? Since affordable housing is a growing concern, what ideas do you have to help lower the cost of lodging?

Heather Gay’s Purple Colorblock Dress at the Party Venue

Real Housewives of Salt Lake City Season 3 Finale Fashion

Heather Gay looked cute while scoping out the venue for her book cover release party. She wore a purple and grey color blocked dress that gives a cool shabby chic vibe. Even though it wouldn’t provide much warmth due to the sheerness I still think this is a good style for this time of year with the rib knit aspect of it. And with that being said I think not shopping a Style Stealer of it would be very bad.

Sincerely Stylish,

Jess

Click Here to See Her Bottega Veneta Dress

Originally posted at: Heather Gay’s Purple Colorblock Dress