Stop Asking Your Bartender if You Can Charge Your Healing Crystals
With the crystal trend so hot-hot-hot right now — who doesn’t have a rose quartz hanging out in their purse these days? — many local bartenders in the New York area have complained over the incessant request for space to properly charge your stones.
“I get it,” an anonymous Hell’s Kitchen barkeep said. “You’re out all day, you’re running around the city, sometimes you need to rejuvenate your crystal, but we’re a bar. We don’t have window ledges in the back for our customers’ amethysts to soak up the full moonlight.”
The barkeep said she was asked several times this past shift where she kept her own crystals to charge during a long work day. “No one believes me when I say we just don’t have space. And yes, I admit that I keep my own crystals charged in the back, but this is my workspace. I’m here all the time. I shouldn’t be in charge of guarding your crystals and your drink. What if you left them here? I can’t touch them. And how am I to know it’s your crystals before you leave?”
A few bars in the Lower East Side have become a united front against crystal charging in their vicinities. The group calls themselves Gin Joints Against Gems (GJAG). “There are no outlets behind the bar for your phones, and there’s no window in the back for your stones,” is becoming a familiar sign in many pubs and cocktail lounges in the area. We reached out to a rep from GJAG but they said they’re only a group in that they created a name and signed up to get the signs made at FedEx down the block, nothing more.
Apps like Crystal Up or Stonergy promise to assist in bringing sunlight and waning or waxing gibbouses to your energy needing crystals and are good back ups when you’re sensing your geodes are feeling less than spectacular.
But the best advice is to charge the night before. “Go home,” the Hell’s Kitchen bartender advised. “If you’ve used up your crystal’s power and it’s 2 A.M. already, maybe it’s time to go home. You both need a recharge anyway.”
