1. SMOKY QUARTZ
The color of Smoky Quartz varies from brown to smoky gray or black. It represents our journey inward and the longer and longer nights.
This stone helps clear negative energy from external sources or our own creation. Work with this crystal to become aware of negative thought patterns and to help you develop a more positive mindset.
2. TIGER'S EYE
A stone of protection, the golden and brilliant light of tiger's eye is reminiscent of autumn leaves which sparkle in the sun.
It is a stone that brings luck and security, and can also work to stabilize moods and bring peace, helping your mind to focus on the things that are truly important.
3. PYRITE
This metallic crystal appears to represent the golden colors of nature and sunlight at this time of year.
It is a stone of the concrete, of rational thought and of the restructuring of the mind. Wearing a Pyrite is an effective way to increase your energy levels and decrease your mental exhaustion, it brings inspiration and motivation, while attracting you abundance and success.
4. MOON STONE
The Moon begins to become more visible at this time of year, and it rules our inner world. This stone will help you connect with your intuitive and psychic nature. Moonstone is traditionally used for new beginnings, and for navigating new phases in our lives, it clears and dispels negativity from all chakras, and provides additional energy and support to balance the physical, emotional and emotional bodies. intellectuals.
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Red Jasper is also an excellent stone for this period. A stone of willpower, it is excellent for giving you the energy you need to pursue your passions with determination.
Citrine , a warm, sunny stone that radiates warmth, happiness and abundance, supports the solar plexus, creativity, dynamism and manifestation.
Black Obsidian is also among our favorite stones: it is a dark and temperamental stone, excellent for cleansing. As you turn inward and the days grow shorter, obsidian can help you examine some of the darker aspects of the season.
The practice of Lithotherapy attracts more and more curious people thanks to its energetic powers of protection and cure. Stones can help us heal emotional wounds, bring well-being into our day-to-day life, and protect us from harmful energies. Certain special stones are extremely powerful in blocking and neutralizing these unwanted energies.
It is however very important to clarify that, even if the crystals have protective powers, it is up to us to attract this kind of power to the stone. Even a stone that is not a priori recommended for protection work - like a snow crystal for example - can also help to conceal negative energies if it is programmed to do so.
Black Tourmaline Necklace by La Boboa
When I think of stone, I think of Black Tourmaline. It is the most complete, expensive and recommended stone of protection in the mystical world. In addition to being THE stone of protection par excellence, it also has the ability to capture the energy of the atmosphere and dissipate in several directions the particles charged with ions, which have the power to purify the air, the water, improve metabolism, in addition to reducing the effect of electromagnetic waves from mobile phones and other electronic equipment.
Its powerful energy is able to protect and free our body from negative influences, including those of people with whom we come into contact. She has the power to dissipate the negative energy of space with her mystical force, transforming the tense and rigid atmosphere more amiable, and the harsh people, more flexible and receptive.
It is a crystal suitable for distrust, greed, envy, jealousy, conscience, negative influences and black magic.
Onyx is part of the Quartz family, it is a powerful stone that absorbs and transforms negative energy, and helps prevent the loss of personal energy. This stone gives us physical and emotional strength and resilience, especially when we need relief in times of stress, mental confusion and pain.
Contact with this crystal makes decision-making easier and more prudent. Very important in emotionally difficult times, Onyx absorbs excess emotional energy and helps us to soften the "roller coaster" of emotions that may arise at any given time.
It is also a beautiful stone for entrepreneurs and inventors, as it repels negative energy around other people's opinions or ideas.
The most versatile of crystals, Rock Crystal is a stone that can help us in the most diverse areas of our lives, and also in the protection against negative waves in spaces. It is for this reason very indicated to protect, purify and energize all types of environment.
Clear Quartz can easily disintegrate negative vibrations and ward off dark forces bringing light and purifying energy to space.
It relieves stress, anxiety and brings emotional calm. It also dispels fear, negativity and depression. In addition, Quartz gently neutralizes negative vibrations and is detoxifying on all levels.
Black Obsidian Choker by LaBoboá
I am in love with this "stone" (which is indeed a naturally formed glass from volcanic lava). Obsidian has powerful metaphysical properties that will protect you against harmful energies. It repels negativity and disperses unworthy thoughts, releases imbalance and also negative energies.
This stone dissolves old and emotional trauma, bringing clarity to the mind, while clearing the confusion of the present. It also clears mental tension and helps block psychic attacks, forming a shield against negativity.
Black Obsidian Boho Necklace by LaBoboá
Red Jasper is a very powerful stone capable of blocking even the strongest attacks of black magic, envy and evil eye.
This stone can be used both for personal energy protection and for the purification and protection of our home. In addition, it is an excellent stone to avoid nightmares and drive away malicious people.
Red Jasper is ideal for the most difficult times in our lives, as it helps us stay calm and focused even in the most difficult situations.
The vast majority of our stones are mined in Brazil, my native country. I buy them directly with a few companies that have their own mines in the southern region of the country, in Rio Grande do Sul. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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I know the owners of these companies and I know that there the minerals are pulled under good working conditions. The stones of this region are rather Agates and Quartz (Amethyst, Rock Crystal, Rose Quartz, etc.).
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We also sell stones from other regions of Brasil, especially from the state of Minas Gerais. Taxation is therefore not always easy.
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However, these are companies that work with exporting to all over the world, and they must always be in the right working steps otherwise they can easily lose their license. ⠀⠀⠀⠀
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So I trust them. We find all our stones with traditional companies in the city of Soledade, in Brazil, a region where part of my family grew up and we know families of miners from several generations.
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Most of the stones are chosen one by one for me (hello, @annecauduro here), with great care and respect for nature. ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
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Nice day!
I really like to talk about self-love, maybe because it's a difficult subject for me. This subject touches me and fascinates me because it is very extensive.
Taking care of yourself is knowing what makes us feel good, it's getting to let go of our toxic relationships. It's learning to say no, to let our guilt dissolve. It means putting ourselves first, and recognizing our values and qualities. This does not mean that we see ourselves as perfect beings, to whom no change is necessary; quite the contrary.
It is succeeding in seeing ourselves as something in constant transformation, that will always have a way to go. As a woman, I think this topic can be even trickier. We are shown ads every day with women who don't represent us, who have nothing to do with real life. They are ''perfect'', we are not. But who said we should be "perfect"?
At 28, I'm in the middle of the transition to adulthood, from being a girl to being a woman, and it's still not so obvious to me: it's mostly a very irregular journey. I think to see myself as a woman I have to look more refined, be more talented, more successful...always more something. And this is a reflex of our society, we must always be dissatisfied for the system to be perpetual.
Yesterday I realized one thing though: to be a fulfilled woman is to have confidence in who we are in this world. It is recognizing our value with self-love. Because once we value ourselves, no one can undo that. When we recognize our value, we automatically begin to take care of ourselves.
The journey begins in us, for us. We have to let go of our old habits (including our emotional habits) for change to happen. It is a labor of love and benevolence to be done daily so that we can remember the beauty that dwells within us every day.
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If you are on this path, there are some crystals that can help you work on self-confidence:
Rose Quartz: Stone of unconditional love, It emits gentle, calming vibrations that regulate your emotions and restore your emotional nature after overwhelming events. It attracts long term harmonious relationships by opening your heart chakra.
Célestine: Soft blue stone very suitable for shy people. It calms our emotions and stimulates communication.
Lapis Lazuli: Crystal of a beautiful blue color, Lapis Lazuli brings deep peace and facilitates the expression of our emotions and feelings.
Smoky Quartz: It relieves fear, stress, anger and unspoken resentment, lifts depression and fatigue, and teaches us to let go of what is no longer needed for growth. It also boosts our confidence and eliminates our fears.
The witch's broom is an effective and powerful cleaning tool. It symbolizes the feminine and has been used for a long time by wiccans, which can also be a great instrument for all apprentice witches;)
Kisses,
Anne
]]>The Crystal image has been used extensively in the visual arts over the centuries; indeed, it is so common that it can even be considered almost an obsession . Solid, geometric shapes representing crystals exist in 15th-century art – examples including Jacopo de Barberi's Luca Pacioli portrait (1499), and Durer's Melancholia I (1514), both depicting polyhedra. With its multiple potentialities, at the same time that crystals are a geological phenomenon, they are also seen as objects of aesthetic fascination, flashpoints for affective and also symbolic intensities.
Crystals have been studied by Archimedes, Plato and Aristotle, by Kepler and Descartes, among others. During the Renaissance, crystals were seen as symbols of perfection, which possessed a rational form and all the fundamental elements of life, namely earth, air, fire and water. In most ancient civilizations they were objects of fascination, capable of resonating immutability and transformation simultaneously.
The crystals, these things , articulate in the very narrow line of what is animate, alive , and what is inanimate, dead . And it is around this line of uncertainty that the fascination for crystals exists in the visual arts and in philosophy; because they are indistinguishable in their classification. We know that molecules and chemical components are always (or almost always) classified as organic or inorganic. Because crystals do not contain carbon, they are generally classified as inorganic - yet they grow and change in response to environmental forces, such as what is organic in nature.
While all objects have natural frequencies and vibrations, crystals – especially Quartz harness energy in unusual ways such as in radios, watches, computers, cell phones and…art.
Crystal is thus used as a material, a process and an emerging property in a range of artistic practices. In architecture, the "Michael Lee-Chin Crystal" at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, or the German Expressionist glass architecture of the early 20th century, for example, represent this seduction of crystal, which seems to have an ability to materialize idea of transparency, vitalist transformation and purist stability.
In 2008, artist Roger Hiorns and his team reinforced the walls and ceiling of a ground floor apartment that was to be demolished and covered them with plastic wrap. Then 90,000 liters of a heated solution of copper sulphate was poured through a hole in the ceiling, and after a few weeks, when the temperature of the solution fell, the liquid was removed, paving the way for crystals are forming. A few months later, the whole interior of the house was crystallized. About this work, Hiorns says, “I am not a scientist. I'm more concerned with starting a natural process, which will continue on its own. It never ends, it never stops. Hiorns plays precisely with the organicity, the living aspect of this thing which, according to science, is not organic.
In the works of David Altmejd we notice that the artist plays with this same aspect, this same line between the living and the dead. We see the crystals take on a violent and disturbing form with his hybrid sculptures of human, animal and crystal, especially in Index (2007). Grotesquely beautiful, this work has an aura of science fiction. “Instead of rotting away, the characters in my work are crystallizing. This makes the narrative of the plays go forward, life rather than death” explains Altjmed. Index deploys crystal in a re-conception of animal and human, embodying fundamental creative energies that cross boundaries between animate and inanimate matter.
Sculptures made for Yeasayer's album Amen & Goodbye on the left and Eye (2015) on the right
Kyle Montgomery in turn uses the sacred icon of the Virgin Mary to incorporate crystals into found sculptures of the saint. Like juxtapositions between spirituality and religion, Montgomery's Virgin is representative of a collision of these two beliefs. The idea of life after death, of the power of the advice and support of both the saint and the crystal, the organic and inorganic form at the same time, everything is present and makes the symbolism of these pieces very strong.
]]>Let's get to know: Anne, Brazilian, 28 years old, designer of La Boboá. Condemned feminist, lover of crystals, passionate about alternative medicine and little witch in my free time. And you, what's your name? I really like knowing who is here with me, so feel free to comment below a little bit about yourself, your story, what you like, your hobbies, passions, etc. (if you want, of course).
So... many talk about the energetic power of stones, but few know how this practice began, how Lithotherapy was created and by whom. Today I will make a small introduction of this subject. Let's go !
Let's start simple:
Lithotherapy is a treatment, an unconventional medicine, which consists of healing our emotional and physical wounds and improving our well-being through the vibrations of crystals and minerals. This improvement comes with a rebalancing and harmonization of our Chakras, which we will talk about another day.
The first civilizations and the cult of the Stone
It's amazing when you realize that human beings have (almost) always made use of the metaphysical effects of stones. From the cavemen, the first humans already carried stones in amulets to protect them. Even without any knowledge, they already recognized that, in life, there are forces which the eye cannot see, but which one can feel. These are feelings - of attunement and energy - and that's exactly what I find magical in the energy world: we work on our intuition, we learn to listen to our inner voice.
Later, among primitive peoples such as Australian Aborigines and Native Americans, crystals played an important role in their religious practices. Among the Incas, the Aztecs and the Mayas, for example, there are several stone sculptures of gods, as well as amulets and jewellery.
In China, India and ancient Greece, several temples and statues were built with precious stones, and the manufacture of jewelry with gems was highly valued. It is at this time that we begin to use crystals for their physical and psychological virtues.
Lithotherapy was far from being as developed as today, but these civilizations had already noticed that minerals had a certain power to connect them with their spiritualities. The stones have gradually thus naturally become a symbol of the divine.
In Ancient Egypt, a very mystical civilization, healers wore many precious stones everywhere in their bodies and in their hands in order to draw strength and power from them to transmit it to the sick in order to heal them. They were the first to organize the stones by a system of symbolism of colors and placement on the body, founding techniques of modern Lithotherapy. Deep blue, for example, brought strength, and yellow, the color of the sun, was considered effective for disorders of the nervous system .
In the Vedas , the sacred texts of Hinduism, crystals are mentioned for their healing properties. In Greek (where the word Crystal comes from, from the Greek 'krustullos', which means 'ice') and Roman Culture , soldiers rubbed crushed Hematite on their bodies before combat to protect themselves against enemy blows. Besides protecting, they believed that crystals and minerals could also improve their health and bring them good faith.
Healing crystals in the Middle Ages
The collapse of the Roman Empire caused a terrible loss of knowledge around Lithotherapy. Poor translations and fragmented works of vanished civilizations have given way to clumsy interpretations.
At the same time, however, the most advanced medicine of the time was the Arab, and it was they who advanced the knowledge of crystals. They have indeed studied the stones, their symbolisms and their properties based on Egyptian traditions, while attributing healing properties to the stones. At the same time, Chinese medicine used Jade stone powder quite a bit for its healing properties - but they were a bit clunky with how the healing process worked.
It was not until the 16th century - after the Dark Ages - and during the Renaissance that knowledge around lithotherapy began to develop in Europe. Little by little Arab knowledge on the virtues of stones arrives and sheds new light on the subject in the West.
From this moment, lithotherapy in Europe has great advances until finally becoming a branch of medicine. Thanks to Nicolas Lemery, doctor to Louis XIV and precursor of pharmacy, the virtues of the stones are once again dissipated with his encyclopedia of drugs of 1748. In it, he cites several uses and virtues of more than fifty stones and minerals, which remained in use until 1914 in pharmacies in France.
While traditional medicine was developing, however, stone medicine (at the time it was not called lithotherapy) gradually lost its value in society, either because of the interests of a growing pharmaceutical industry quickly with science and which begins to take the place of all medicinal forms. As a result, knowledge from thousands of years is discredited in the Western world, as well as all other non-conventional forms of medicine (and until today the same system is still in place, these forms of medicine do not are not accepted by a large part of the Western population, but that is a subject for another post hehe).
Let's continue with the story... It was in the 18th century that Abbé René Just Hauÿ discovered the 7 crystalline systems and founded crystallography. René had a huge collection of minerals, which are now on display at the Museum of Natural History in Paris. At this time, the crystals are used in the form of elixir and powder, and therefore scientific research on the structure of mineral species is essential.
It was during the 20th century that the term “lithotherapy” (finally!) appeared for the first time. American clairvoyant Edgar Cayce, a well-known personality at the time, used crystals for their therapeutic powers and recommended stones as a form of meditation aid and protection. Cayce advocated, through his readings, the use of various semi-precious stones, namely Opal, Ruby and Lapis, as well as several base minerals and metals. Lapis in particular has received much attention from those who study Cayce. It was through him that stone medicine was rediscovered and the healing power of stones came into play.
In the 1970s the New Age movement was born and, with it, interest in spiritual practices seems to be gaining ground in modern society to counterbalance the tensions of the time. This is where modern man rediscovers the virtues of crystals and minerals :)
Today lithotherapy continues to evolve and gain the interest of a wider audience. We have several forms, care and uses: stones that are discovered every day, jewelry (yes jewelry!), pocket stones, meditation stones, elixir, etc... well, plenty topics for our next posts!
Did you already know the history of Lithotherapy? Do not hesitate to comment your thoughts and your questions/suggestions for themes for our next meeting which will take place here next Wednesday!
I wish you a very beautiful day with lots of light.
Kisses,
Anna
]]>I put MPB artists from the 60s and 70s that you may know, such as Caetano Veloso and Gilberto Gil, but also some from the new scene, like Céu and Barbatuques.
Brazilian music makes me feel at home, but more than that, it gives me a wonderful feeling of peace of mind, of tranquility, of feeling the bright side of life even when things are not going so well. It's a kind of necessary feeling of nostalgia.
I hope you like it, I really want to know if you like the music of Brazil and what it awakens in you! Don't hesitate to tell me :)
Click here to access the Playlist: Playlist Brazil Tropical by La Boboá
Big kisses !
Anne
]]>Who is behind La Boboá: where do they live, what do they eat, do they feed on crystal energy? 👀
Today I launch the first post in our blog and nothing better than to present ourselves well so that you understand who is behind the screen.
Let's get to know: Anne, 28 years old, 13 tattoos, Brazilian/Italian. Jewelery designer, feminist, laughs quietly, likes to be a mystic and a witch in her free time.
Guilherme, 28, Brazilian born in Bahia, land of the sun. Visual artist, photographer, loves a fortune telling, does unconventional moves when dancing and is addicted to movies.
We've been together for three years, and since then we've been making good daily company in this crazy life. We share day after day, our small apartment, Tuca (our future dog that we have just adopted - but who will not arrive until September) and of course, this company that makes us happier days.
After meeting Guilherme in Brazil (and having a very cute love story that I won't tell you so as not to annoy you), I moved to Paris (more in the suburbs of Paris). In short, he was already living in Paris 3 years ago and I arrived in 2015. A year later La Boboá was born.
La Boboá is a mixture of references. Every detail of our jewelry, from the selection of the stones, through the creation to the packaging, is thought out (again and again) by the two of us.
We love what we do, and this small business helps us to be able to transmit our vision and our mission for this life: to remind people (and ourselves) that there is real happiness in the little things. It is in the most naive acts, the most ephemeral events, the simplest objects created by someone; the wind that blows and untidies the hair, the sun that recharges us, an affectionate hug, a spontaneous laugh, a work of art that only makes sense to us...
Because once we remember what the important things in life are, our existence becomes lighter, like a breath of freedom.
Besides introducing us, I also wanted to thank you for being there. Because it is thanks to you (and I say this from the bottom of my heart) that we can do what we love, it is thanks to your presence here that we can have beautiful exchanges and remember all together that the life is still beautiful and that there is beauty in sharing.
So thank you for your presence. Thanks to the universe for making it possible for our lives to intersect, even if briefly, even if we don't know each other. Nothing is by chance. That we can grow together in the journey of life.
Kisses,
Anna
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