Selenite

Selenite is crystallised gypsum — one of the softest minerals you can hold, light as honeycomb, with a pearly glow that seems to gather whatever light the room offers. The Greeks named it for Selene, the moon goddess, and on a windowsill at dusk it earns the name.

It forms in evaporating ancient seas, growing in long translucent blades. Some of the largest crystals on Earth are selenite — the famous cave at Naica in Mexico holds beams of it the size of pine trunks.

In the crystal tradition selenite belongs to the crown chakra and to clarity — it is the stone people use to mark a clean surface, a cleared mind, a fresh week. Practitioners often keep a selenite plate as a resting place for jewellery and other stones. Taurus and Cancer are its zodiac companions.

Two honest practical notes. Selenite is soft — a fingernail can scratch it — so it prefers shelves to pockets. And it dislikes water: never rinse it, just dust it. The care it asks for is part of its character; it teaches gentle handling by requiring it.

In the catalogue: charging plates, lamps and towers, palm stones and wands. Each piece is cut from natural Moroccan or Mexican gypsum, and each glows slightly differently.