OH NO…. was what I screamed when this beautiful baby rolled right off my desk, onto my tile floor and shattered! My very warped mind started singing, “On top of Spaghetti, all covered in love, my poor crystal rolled onto the floor…..” I wish it had rolled but nope… it shattered! Ironically, it split almost directly in 1/2. As you can see from the picture 1 1/2 is intact, while the other 1/2 completely shattered. The small pieces on the table were the only salvageable pieces. The rest were shards.
I knew that Spirit was trying to give me a message… I searched online for the metaphysical meaning of breaking a crystal. The only information I could find really had nothing to do with the sort of accident that had happened here. Now, some of you may say, accidents happen… sometimes a shattered crystal is just a shattered crystal and nothing more and sometimes you are correct… However, that was not the case here. In the past 3 weeks there has been shattered glass all around me. It started with the back screen door shattering and on the same day a coffee cup fell on cement and shattered. Then 3 days ago my son dropped a glass jar on the floor and it shattered… These items didn’t just break, they SHATTERED into tiny shards that flew everywhere! Given these incidents, I can not discount this beautiful stone shattering as an accident.
Some of the information that I found online was semi helpful but I really had to work to piece it together. So I started from the beginning… 1st of all, this was not my personal stone. It was a stone that I was getting ready to add to my online store for sale. I will explain why this is important later. This was a Fluorite Sphere, deep purple with incredible colors and a very high vibration. And a sphere crystal is about the connection to infinity. The metaphysical meaning of fluorite is: Increase concentration, Heighten Intuition, Clears the fog of illusion and brings order to chaos, the stone of discernment, Helps you see a larger picture. This is a stone that will stabilize relationship dynamics so that all may benefit. Fluorite is about Truth, intelligence, consciousness, purification and harmony.
Each crystal has its own purpose and vibration to help you in many ways. Choosing a crystal is very personal and you may be drawn to a certain crystal not knowing why until you research its usefulness. Crystal can take negativity around you and dispel it or take the energy into itself. When your personal crystal breaks it can mean that you have healed the issue it was used for and it is no longer needed or that you are not doing your work so the crystal breaks to let you know to get busy. Your personal crystal breaking is always symbolic of what is going on in your life. Is someone breaking you or are you breaking someone else? If you take a good honest look at yourself, you will understand why your crystal broke.
So that being said, what does it mean when this crystal shattered? Online I found others asking the question, “What do I do when my crystal breaks?” And found many answers such as bury it to return it back to the earth, put it in a safe place but really, there was no advice on what to do. Do with your stone what feels right to you. And certainly no answer to why this crystal broke. The best answer that I found was, “is someone pushing you to the breaking point or is someone close to you at the point of breaking.” Another good one was, “Something in your life is getting ready to break open.” This one seemed to fit the best as I have been focusing all my attention on my business. I also found that it varies on if what broke is good or bad luck. Some people said that if the glass breaks then it took something negative that was aimed at you, essentially saving you from something bad.
But still not satisfied with the answer I went into mediation. What I feel is that this stone breaking was an omen that my business is going to break wide open and that the shattered half is representative of all the negativity crumbling away and the intact half means that just because it was broken doesn’t mean that it is not viable. I was also told that I have to release the old patterns and essentially start fresh!
I do believe that Spirit gives us messages any way that we will listen and this sure got my attention! I would love to hear your stories of what you have broken!
It is always so distressing when a crystal breaks and I do agree with you that it is so important to explore the message in this. I had a beautiful hematite pendulum that I worked with often for healing and I was shocked one day when the tip broke off. I sat in meditation with it and received the message that it had completed its work with me. It was time to take the next step with my personal healing, growth and Soul Path. The pendulum still works very well for dowsing but is not suitable for energy balancing, so I understood that the energy of the pendulum had changed – after all energy is never destroyed, it can only be transformed.
So that was the message for me – transformation, time to make changes and also time to review how my own energy had changed. I feel with crystals, they reflect to us things about ourselves and our own energetic state. They mirror back to us what is going on in our own lives. The other very important lesson here is one of attachment too, learning to let go of the past so that new energy can flow in. I have heard from others that sometimes crystals will crack or break when they need to release energy, so it might be a clue to explore what we need to release in our lives, or to explore what has changed.
Beautifully written Juanita! And thank you so much. It confirms what I was told also… Break the old patterns of thought and move forward.
Wow, what a moment of synchonicity! First, thanks for the follow. Second, one of my crystals (apophyllite) just broke recently too! I was curious if that was bad… good… or meant anything at all. Thanks for the great read!
You are very welcome… I cried when it broke… but I also know that in order to learn the lesson, sometimes Spirit needs something dramatic to get your attention!
this was very helpful as all my fluorite has been breaking recently! today i just got a smaller, very beautiful purple, clear, and dark green striped fluorite to have an unbroken peice… and not 3 minutes after i got home, it jumped out of my hand and broke in two. the smaller piece went poof. i can’t find it anywhere, but i’m just gonna assume that it happened for a reason… not sure what it is yet tho…
I think the universe is trying to tell me “stop focusing so much on your intuition”… or maybe it is protecting me in some way from an unseen source of energy since i can’t find the smaller piece. or both… hmmmmmm. lol
Thank you for this insightful information. Last night during the full moon I was holding 2 crystals in my left hand- celestite and selenite. I was spending time with a man who I was having a first date with. The celestite actually broke in my hand! Mainly into 3 pieces but also into many little crumb crystals. Still trying to figure out what it all means.
Girl.. Run! Celestite bring in the highest realms.. So you had a direct message from an Angel. It’s up to you to figure it out.. But I have NEVER had celestite break.. I have had selenite break but not celestite..
Just had my singing crystal break. Not my main crystals but was just carrying it around today for the sound after a long meditation. I came home and had a fight with my room mate. He had verbally attacked my girlfriend and we avoided him for 2 weeks. I don’t normally fight/argue, I believed mine broke because it protected me in that situation. My roommate is now moving out in a couple days. I believe it’s job was served… Another strange thing is my mala broke also this week, it was amethyst, pearl and rudraksha. I have worn it for two years straight. It has been my healer and help me transcend new heights in my meditations. I can get there now with out it, I believe that it served it purpose and have moved on to a new mala. I will take time to review what that means in my life. Thanks for your blog, been a weird time lately..
Thank you for your story Stephen! Wow… I believe in the healing power of crystals as well as the messages they can give us if we will only stop and listen.. Also, pay attention to your electronics and especially the car. If your battery won’t start the car then it could be that your own battery needs to be recharged.
So glad this article helped you! I still have the broken fluorite sphere sitting with all of my other crystal that are for sale. I feel like it brings me good luck.
I think burying the 4 pieces on the 4 corners is a brilliant plan! Or you could use the 4 pieces in your grid to anchor the energy around you. Just because a stone breaks, doesn’t mean it has lost its usefulness.
Thank you for writing this page. I just broke my orange, yellow and red zincites. I naturally did what you did screaming noooooooooo. I pulled it together and feel this happened for a reason. I may not know now why it broke but I will eventually. Thanks again for your input. Much appreciated!
I’m so glad that I was able to help!
Hi, today my selenite roll out of my hand and drop on the concrete and it broke in two, at the time it happen I was having a very negative thought about someone I deeply care about. Ive come to the conclusion that this is why it broke, could this crystal be telling me that this thought I had is not the case at all?
Selenite is a highly spiritual stone. I often use it to connect to the highest level vibrations especially when I need extra love and support. If this stone broke while you were having a negative thought I would suggest that Spirit is asking you not to send those negative thoughts and energy into the universe as they will come back to you. Instead try to send the person and the situation love. Use the pieces of the broken selenite next to your jewelry to clear it or put it next to your door. Selenite doesn’t have to be “cleared” but they do love a visit in the direct moon light or sunlight. This is a fragile stone so do not put in water.
I hope this helps you!
With Love,
Diana
Marvelous, this helps a lot! thanks for sharing this I really appreciate it.
My Red Jasper got chipped after a fall and simultaneously my multi-crystal pendulum broke into two pieces after falling off the desk. It was accident – these got pushed to the edge of the desk by the house maid and fell. I was using the Red Jasper for chakra balancing and the pendulum for chakra reading and dowsing.
I was very upset…angry almost..specially felt bad about my pendulum..it talked to me so well..
What do I make of this event?
Love,
Kelly
Hi Kelly, Did you ever clear the stones after use? Sometimes stones can’t hold any more energy and they will break. That’s why it’s important that you clear the stones.. Each stone has its own way to be cleared.. some you can use salt water, some need moonlight and some can be buried in soil or salt. I’m so sorry that your stones broke, I know its a painful experience! However, if the jasper is only chipped, it can probably still be used after you clear it! Good Luck
Hi
I have had a celestite heart for a few years. I have always expected it to split at some point as it had a line through it. This morning my son asked if he could hold it. I said yes, if he was careful with it. He picked it up and it literally came apart in his hands. I told him not to worry and that the crystal had wanted to open up it’s energy. We sat and stroked the centre- where it had come apart with new crystal inside for a bit. My daughter came and picked the smaller piece and held it for a bit. I didn’t feel sad about it as it really felt like it needed to ‘open up’. I am not an expert on crystals but have studied massage and reiki and now that my children are getting a bit bigger am considering starting up offering my services for treatments. I’m wondering what you make of this, especially on valentines day? Hearts are what I would call my symbol, I love them and have them everywhere around me.
Thanks in advance
Good Morning Emma.. I would agree with you! Your son is a very powerful energy and I feel he’s a healer.. Selenite is a fragile stone to begin with so when your son held it the stone opened to show its heart! I feel that your instincts about this are right on! I’m also feeling that your son is a bit heart broken, disappointed at a male figure and that is the other reason the stone opened up. It was helping him heal the disappointment. Selenite brings in a tremendous amount of God Energy and Light. It is a stone to use when you need to feel Gods loving energy. If this were my stone, I would finish crushing it into small powder and use it as fairy dust when your children need a little pick me up! You can sprinkle it in plants or in a bowl. Selenite will retain its energy even when crushed. I use Selenite dust in my Orgone pendants to keep the crystals clear! Thank you for asking your question and I hope this has helped you!
Diana
What a wonderful article thank you! Recently, the rose Quartz pi stone that I received my Munay-ki ceremonial rights with fell off my necklace and broke Ito four pieces. I was heart broken as it is a very powerful stone that was attuned with these rights. I was hoping to get clarity as to why it broke, and if it was possible to transfer the energy and attunements to a new stone. I recently found a fluorite pi stone that would be perfect to transfer to. Not sure what or why that happened 😦
I’m so sorry for your loss Jessica! I know how heartbreaking it is! If you still have the 4 pieces that were attuned you can put the fluorite and the rose quartz together in a dark bag or drawer for a few days to see if the energy and attunement will transfer. I have had some success with this but the 2 stones have to “agree” -for lack of a better word. When you pull the fluorite out you will be able to tell immediately if the symbols were transferred.
I hope this works for you! Please keep me posted!
This was helpful. My smokey quartz recently split apart and I panicked. Now to figure out what it means!
I had a smoky quartz wand do the same thing! I kept it in 2 pieces and added them to my plants. The plants loved them!
Interesting article. My citrine crystal broke shortly after I bought it. It was on the same chain as my rose quartz, and I was skipping, and somehow it managed to hit my rose quartz just right, so it broke in two. I glued it back together, and it still works as if it never broke at all! I just wear it on a separate shorter chain now, so it won’t happen again. 😉 I wonder what it meant.
Hello! I read your post because I really don’t know what to do… I have this pink crystal stone with a ‘luck’ word on it. I accidently brushed it off and it dropped onto the floor and broke. I was able to salvage almost the whole thing except those really small powder like fragments. There was one particular small fragment that I had originally wanted to tape back together with the other fragments but it dropped again and just went missing. I looked around my room but it was just gone…. what would be a good thing to do? Should I tape it back and continue keeping it or should I do something else like bury it for example?
Hi Hulabalu, Thanks for your post! Very good question.. sometimes the stone that we love is telling us that it does not belong to us and I think that is the case here. Perhaps you were guided to regift the stone to another person or it was to be used in another way. The stone is telling you that it is no longer useful to you. My advice would be to bury it in a plant that you love, along with the fragments and powder pieces. Or gift the fragments to your friends. I know how heartbreaking it is to lose a stone this way! But the bottom line is we have to honor how the stone works with us and for us!
Good luck!
I’m not far into my crystal working, but I have a rose quartz shaped like a butterfly that has been split for a while now. I got it from my sister, and the right wing snapped off. I have no idea what to do with it. I even tried to super glue it back together and it snapped off again, the exact same piece. What do you think I should do with it?
Hi Amanda, 1st I would like to know if this was designed as a pendant or a decoration. If it is a pendant and you are wearing it, my feeling is that it’s telling you that you need to repair your broken heart. Rose Quartz is about self love, so I would also ask, are you loving yourself well? If its intent was to be worn as a pendant, it’s telling you that your vibrations are not matching. I would clear the stone. If it has copper or any metal on it I would place it in a potted plant. If its a free stone then I would give both pieces a salt water bath. In a small dish add a good amount of salt (I use Himalayan or Kosher). Then add a little water, just enough to cover the stone. Let it set for about 24 hours. Your Rose Quartz should clear up after that!
Aloha 🙂 great article! I’ve had several experiences of crystals breaking on me so it’s nothing new and I typically understand the message behind it… Lately I’ve actually been dreaming about crystals, especially amethyst.. I usually understand what they are telling me in my dreams but as of late I am so lost! Then last night I had the craziest dream, (I’ve recently started working with a new 13 sided Vogel Crystal which I love dearly) A friend of mine who is a healer asked about my new wand, I told her it was super powerful and she asked me to show her, I hesitated because I didn’t want the Vogel to pick up on anyone’s energy but I was like whatever. I went to get the wand and when I picked it up it felt different, like something was missing.. Then when I showed her the wand I noticed a piece broke off, I was shocked! Then all of a sudden the crystal just shattered in my hand! I woke up this morning pretty startled and was just clueless… I was feeling that maybe since I value my new wand so much (representing my values), the shattering represents my old values shattering and transforming? I’ve been looking online but not much info on this. I feel like crystals shattering/breaking in Dreams are just as significant as in real life especially personal crystals. I was wondering if you had any thoughts on this? Thank god the dream is just a metaphor and not literal! Thank you so much for your time! *Blessings*
I agree that dreams about crystals are just as significant as if it actually happened! Thanks for your comment!
best response. I too, couldn’t find anything. My quartz laser wand shattered after a client and i use it too pull energetic hooks out. the point even shattered. now I know that I am free of hooks myself. ‘Being broken open’ – precisely. Someone also advised me, ‘am I missing the point’. But I do feel like it really has done its job and it is symbolic of the work you do with it, what it is that has now broken open.
With gratitude
I totally LOVE this!!! Thanks for sharing! Break open and free yourself!
I’ve had two pendants of rose quartz drop to the floor and break in half and I am wondering if it is coincidence or not. I had a rose quartz pendant about 60 mm long and about 10 mm wide which I wore most days because I wanted it to help me attract a new love. I was invited out by a new man and I was very excited about the date, but while I was getting ready to go out, my pendant fell off my neck and broke in half on the tile floor. I wondered if that meant I had met someone so I could stop looking or if it was a bad omen. Well, it turned out that he was not right for me and we never started a relationship. I put the broken stone in the kitchen drawer and bought a new pendant. Now yesterday another man asked me out for a date and this morning, my new pendant rolled off my dresser and it too broke in half just like the first one. Now I wondering what this means, is it trying to tell me something?
I think your guides are trying to communicate through these pendants. My feeling is that there is something in you that needs to heal before you bring another person in.
Thank you, that’s pretty insightful. I will meditate on that. What do you think I should do with the broken pieces of the two pendants, now that I remembered the one in the kitchen drawer?
I appreciated your article so much. I just bought the most gorgeous smoky quartz yesterday and kept admiring it keeping it near me. Just a bit ago, it fell off my automan 2 feet and broke in 2! I was very frustrated ’cause I’d just bought a beautiful Crysacolla I loved dearly a week ago I admired greatly, took it in the bathroom in my bra, and it fell out and shattered into lots of pieces. I feel the Crysacolla incident was a gift of some kind and like it sacrified itself. But now this smokey quartz! Ugh. After your article, I decided to take out my pendulum which then prompted me to hold my rock and see if it even had an power left (assuming, once it broke, it’d lose its power). To my shock, it was even more powerful with the two pieces being held together! I separated the pieces putting one in each hand it and barely felt anything. I put them back together again and felt tremendous energy. What I gathered was that it was an omen that this guy I like are both broken pieces coming together that are more powerful together than apart yet we are not one… we are separate beings that amplify one another when placed back together where they belong (we’ve had many past lives together). Wow. What a thing!
I recently went on a trip and because Im lazy and hate taking multiple trips, i grabbed my suitcase, backpack, purse(where my blue lace agate and black obsidian were in), water bottle and a bunch of stuff I juggled over to my car. When I hopped out of car and grabbed my purse (which I tossed over onto my passenger floor from standing outside my driver side) I heard a small glass breaking sound. I looked on the ground and found both my crystals on the ground and the obsidian had broken (it was a handheld, maybe 4 inches in length) and about 1 inch of the end had broken off and fell under my car somewhere. I found it all incredibly bizarre that even if I thought I threw both inside my purse and that even if they landed on top of my bag which was zipped up that it would survive my juggle of carrying lots all the way across the street to my car and a toss a few feet into my car and suddenly fall to the ground as I was exiting my car. I unfortunately was in a rush and never found the small broken piece of obsidian but I wish I understood what all that meant. Ironically my tiny blue lace agate is in my possession but I have since lost somewhere, assuming in my bedroom my obsidian that is now damaged. I wish I could understand what it all means. Im guessing maybe its done with me..at least for now. This is the closest article that sounded familiar that I could find online. Any feedback from anyone knowledged on the subject would be appreciated. Im still in Crystals 101 over here :p
Thank you for your message Melissa! It hurts my heart when one of my stones break or I lose them. However, I know that the stone is trying to tell me either what I need or what it needs. Obsidian is about purification and transformation. What were you purging at the time? It can also indicate that your transformation is complete and the obsidian support is no longer needed. I have learned to look at the loss or the breaking in a positive way! Recently I had a beautiful Lemurian point break. I had made it into a pendant and wore it all the time. For me, that suggested that I had gained the knowledge that the lemurian had for me and it was ready to be shared. I rewrapped part and put the other part in one of my plants. That plant has bloomed for the 1st time in 3 yrs! So the are both now happy! I hope this has helped!
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Diana..
Thanks for sharing your awesome thoughts. And for compiling others’ awesome thoughts like it symbolizing when something is breaking open in our life!
I just had the odd experience of having my moldavite disappear on me! It was beside me on my bedstand, and I was meditating with another stone first. Then I got to thinking how I never have any kind of results with the moldavite, despite how high powered everyone says it is. It’s a dud for me. I was thinking of why that might be, and put my hand out to grab a kleenex when the little case I keep it in dropped to the floor. The container cracked open, and I found the parts to the case, but I cannot find the moldavite anywhere! I checked under the bed, under the crack in the baseboards, in the hollow of the bed wheels, down the sides of the bed, under the rug…I checked everywhere! It is simply gone! I think I hurt it’s feelings to be honest…LOL
Here’s one maybe some of you can help me decipher the meaning. I have a large smokey quartz point about 20 pounds. I keep in the trunk of my car for protection and inside when I’m staying at an unfamiliar place. I feel it’s my protector. Currently I’m subletting from a woman who saw the crystal and asked to borrow it for a photo shoot to promote a product she has developed. She said when she gently placed it on the ground it split Into two. It’s a clean split but can’t stand now without both pieces being together.
So what is the meaning if someone else breaks your crystal?
Smoky Quartz is a form of quartz and can be easily programmed. Since you use it for protection, my 1st thought is that the woman that borrowed it needed the other half. I would gift it to her knowing that there is plenty for everyone. She clearly needs a piece of the protection and good vibes that you have added to this smoky! This is a blessing, not negative.
I had a beautiful labradorite/spectrolite point that I purchased about two weeks ago or less. I carried it everywhere. I was meeting with a friend to chat about everything that had been going on with me in my marriage and also to hear how she had been doing. It was on my lap in my car on the way to meet her. I carelessly got out of the car and it dropped on the ground and broke into two pieces. I continued to use the pieces as one piece because I’m just so attached to it. I purchased another labrodorite/spectrolite point on Saturday from the same store and it dropped out of my hand and broke into two pieces again. I decided then that I was not going to purchase anymore labradorite until it is presented to me. None of my other pocket crystals fall or break and I carry them around every single time I leave home.
Labradorite is a stone of positive transformation. Its interesting that you were going to meet a friend to talk about your marriage. This could be a good thing or a bad thing depending on what is happening in the marriage. The fact that you dropped and broke 2 tells me that you need to take a good look at what needs changing in your life and how you can make positive adjustments.
Very interesting post. I found my way here due to a dream I had last night. I just purchased a fluorite 7 1/2″ point. Last night I was holding it and just getting acquainted with my new friend. I put it down and went off to bed.
This morning I decided to learn more about this crystal when I remembered I had a dream that the point broke off. This is the first time I can remember dreaming about a crystal, so I started searching to find out what it might mean. Now while it was just a dream I can see it meaning something is going to break in my life. I too have a business, but also my daughter has been going through a stressful situation and I do believe she is getting ready to break.
So, what are your thoughts? Do you think the breaking of a crystal in a dream holds the same meaning? Do you think it could be a different meaning or the same, but maybe stronger? Thank you for your time.
Hi Joyce, I certainly believe that dreaming about a crystal breaking is the same as it actually breaking. Let’s take a look at the properties of Fluorite for a moment. Fluorite is all about healing the aura and relieving negativity and stress. The tip breaking off could indicate that the stress is so great that the top is getting ready to blow ~ I keep seeing blowing my top~. So I would use the fluorite to bring some peace to the situation and thank it for helping reduce the stress.
This came up in my search for meaning of dreaming that my Vogel crystal broke in half. Glad it was a dream and not real. This was a good read. Thank you. I’m curious how things worked out afterwards, since it’s been 5 years.
Hi there! I’m so glad your Vogel didn’t break too! So for the update: This crystal broke very soon after my divorce. I was still in the home we bought together with no intentions of moving. Soon after my ex went off the deep end (as some people do after a divorce). My life did indeed break open. I turned the house back over to the ex and my children and I moved to another state. It was the exact “break” from the ex that I needed!
Only receiving this today. Thank you for the update.