In the modern world, feelings of disconnection are common.
Disconnection from nature, community, and even yourself can leave you feeling frustrated and without focus, while feeling disconnected from the spirit world can even make it seem like some of the “spark” has gone out of life.
No matter what kind of disconnection you’re experiencing, there are crystals that can serve as allies to help subtly guide you to re-forging the connections that you lack.
Here are some of the best crystals for when you’re feeling disconnected:
1. Amethyst
Amethyst is a good all-around crystal for forming all kinds of connections. It’s useful for romantic, spiritual, and psychic connection, and often comes in clusters that can assist with creating a community.
Keep a large cluster in your living room, a smaller specimen by your bed, or wear a piece of amethyst near your heart.
Meditating with amethyst is also very useful for healing disconnections from the spiritual realms.
2. Angelite
If you’re feeling disconnected from your guardian angels, reach for angelite. This soft blue stone is full of soothing energy and can make it easier to connect with the energy of the angelic realm.
Feelings of spiritual isolation can be very difficult to deal with, but holding angelite, meditating, and asking your angels to make themselves known can help heal this divide and allow you to recognize their energy in your life.
3. Blue lace agate
Blue lace agate can help you connect with other people in multiple ways. For one, it’s a calming stone that may help ease social anxiety, making it easier to talk to others.
It’s also tied to the throat chakra, which governs communication. Wear or carry blue lace agate on you when you go into social situations. The closer to your throat you keep it, the better.
4. Green aventurine
Green aventurine is a stone of friendship. While it’s most commonly used for luck and abundance, it is tied to the heart chakra and can make it easier to trust, open up, and connect with others.
In this context, it’s best to wear or carry green aventurine near the heart. Before going out or meeting with potential friends, hold your aventurine in your dominant hand and ask it to help you forge new connections with people.
5. Labradorite
If you’re not sure if you have latent psychic abilities, or simply feel disconnected from your intuitive self, labradorite can help you.
This shimmering gray feldspar is a stone of magic, divination, talents, and growth, and it can help you connect with aspects of yourself that may be deeply buried.
If life seems to lack mystery and you want some assistance connecting to the magic within you, wear, carry, or meditate with labradorite.
6. Moonstone
This silvery-white form of feldspar is often used to connect to one’s intuition and psychic abilities. If you’re feeling detached from your gifts, wearing or meditating with this stone can help you find your footing again.
Work with moonstone when you’re performing divination, trying to have lucid or prophetic dreams, or just need a talisman to help you access your intuitive mind in your daily life.
7. Morganite
This pink beryl is a fantastic stone for connecting to one’s emotions.
When you’re having trouble because of trauma, loss, or a lack of nurturing in your life, meditating with morganite can help heal some of this and allow you to re-connect to yourself in a healthy way.
This is an important first step to being able to forge healthy relationships with other people.
8. Rhyolite
Rhyolite is a dappled green stone for connecting to your spirit guides and higher self. It’s also very useful for connecting to nature, which is especially important for people who live in cities.
Rhyolite is wonderful for meditation, or even just placing around your home. It’s known for helping users achieve mental and emotional breakthroughs.
9. Sodalite
Sodalite is a blue stone that’s often mistaken for lapis lazuli. It can help if you’re feeling disconnected from the spirit world, or just from other people.
Like blue lace agate, sodalite is associated with the throat chakra and communication. Wearing or carrying it near there can make it easier to open up to others, fostering connections to new friends.
Spiritually, it can help increase your awareness of and connection to angels and the spirit world.
Sodalite is also helpful for thinking through the problems that exacerbate feelings of disconnection, like social anxiety.
10. Spirit quartz
Spirit quartz, also known as cactus, pineapple, or fairy quartz, is a very interesting stone. A regular quartz crystal serves as the base, and hundreds or thousands of tiny crystals project from the surface at all angles.
This gives them a bumpy, spiky look and feel. As their name implies, these crystals are valuable tools for connecting to spirit, including one’s guardian angels and spirit guides.
If you’re struggling with the monotony of the daily grind and have trouble seeing the magic of existence, meditating with spirit quartz can help you tap into that energy again.
Honorable Mention: Crystal clusters
Clusters of any crystal can be helpful for connecting to one’s community. These crystals are, in effect, a kind of sympathetic magic — they exist in community, and they can help you do the same.
One of the best uses for crystal clusters is to place them in the areas of your home where people tend to congregate, like the den, living room, or dining room.
Charge the crystals and ask them to help you form or connect to a community, and let their energy go to work.
Disconnection can be hard to work through, but it’s important to recognize that it usually isn’t because of anything you’ve done.
Disconnection can happen because of circumstances like moving to a new town, or even something as simple as emotional burnout.
If you find yourself just going through the motions without really engaging with your feelings, other people, nature, or the spirit world, taking a moment now and then to meditate with the appropriate crystal can allow you to work through this.