Blue Barite Meaning | Crystal for Decision-Making, Knowledge, Transformation & Mercury Retrograde [Crystal Confab Podcast]

Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez and Ashley Leavy in Episode #9 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Blue Barite meaning, including: How Blue Barite can aid in decision-making Working with Blue Barite to promote knowledge expansion Blue Barite for supporting you on your transformation path Blue Barite Meaning & its connection to Mercury Retrograde     Tune in now for a deeper look at Blue Barite meaning! Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection, but aren't sure how to use them? Join 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.   Kyle Perez: Hello, everyone, and welcome to Crystal Confab, our weekly get together where we confab about a different crystal, and this week, we are going to dive into the incredible and rare magic of blue barite. I am, of course, joined by the fabulous panel of Ashley Leavy and Adam Barrelet. How are we today?   Adam Barralet: I'm excited to be talking about a bit of a rare crystal because sometimes the rarer crystals and not a lot of content out there, so it's gonna be a great one to talk about. What about you, Ashley?   Ashley Leavy: Yeah. I agree. These are the kinds of things that, you know, people will often ask about because there's just no resources. So I love getting to do these episodes in addition to the ones we do about the sort of tried and true ones.   Adam: Very true. Very true. And this is a really good week to be talking about blue barite, especially because it is a blue color. And that's you know, I find it works really well with the throat chakra because as many people are probably aware, they're probably seeing on their social media, It's Mercury retrograde. So let me talk a little bit about Mercury retrograde.   First of all, what is a retrograde? Well, what it looks like in the sky is that a planet slams on the brakes and starts going backwards in the sky. It's actually not. That's an optical illusion just because we're on one side or the other side of the sun and so on. But what our ancestors noticed is whatever planet goes into retrograde, while it's in retrograde, whatever it governs, it takes its help away.   So I like to think of the planets as being like our parents, and they kinda go on holidays for a little while. So we know that Mercury goes on holidays for 3 to 4 weeks at a time, 3 to 4 times a year. So during that time, we have 2 options. And unfortunately, there seems to be a lot of focus on the first one. The first one is fall on the floor and cry and blame everything on Mercury because everything goes wrong.   However, what I'm hoping to instill with you today, and I think blue barite is a perfect crystal for that, is option number 2. You're at home by yourself for your first time. Now you could either burn the house down or you can put on your big boy pants or your big girl pants, and you can learn how to do things better. So what we traditionally do find throughout Mercury retrograde, yes, back up your electronics. Yes.   Short trips like car trips can go a little bit wrong, so you wanna leave earlier. If you're traveling by air, definitely allow extra time and that type of thing. But with communication, there'll be communication breakdowns. There'll be misunderstandings. And this can be verbal.   This can be written. This can be text message, contracts, all those different type of things. And that's why you're often recommended not to sign a contract during a Mercury retrograde because you might misread it. Just take a bit more time if you do have to. So this is our opportunity.   When things go wrong, we can either blame someone else, including a bit of rock floating around in our solar system, or we can go, ah, what's the lesson here? What I love about the throat chakra is that the throat chakra for us, it has the ability to form bridges of peace or create, you know, bridges of war, the way we speak. Now 8, we know that Mercury and all the other planets are going through the 12 zodiac signs. So this Mercury retrograde is in Sagittarius. So what can you expect?   So normally, Sagittarius in its good mode is very happy, very collaborative, ver… it's like a party starter, really joyous and optimistic and exploratory. In its bad form though, it can be a little bit kind of like someone who's had one drink too many or a few drinks too many at the party. A bit blunt, a bit, say blurting things out, a bit insensitive in that way. So kind of look for yourself and be aware that other people may be blurting things out, saying things insensitively, not really, emotionally relating to other people in other ways. How do we sort this out?   Well, when we know what's happening astrologically, just like we know the weather forecast, we pack an umbrella, we pack the right crystals. And this is why we're talking about blue barite. So there are lots of great throat chakra crystals, and I'm sure you could personally name many, many, many. But what I found with blue barite is it helps you up level your communication. Really, really great.   And, you know, we talk about using crystals for protection or attracting love into your life. But I don't know if you've noticed sometimes when you're wearing a crystal, it just changes how you feel. I know another crystal from Greenland called Corticite. When I wear that, I actually noticed my posture improves. And what I noticed with blue barite is that this changes the way you communicate.   It kind of up levels it. And especially one thing that's really, really great for allowing you to, adjust how you communicate in different situations. How we talk to our partner, friends, kids, colleagues, a superior. We need to be able to modify that, and Blue Barite really, really helps you to do that. And if you are feeling nervous about maybe speaking to a superior or maybe to someone you're interested in romantically, blue barite's a really great one to help you go, how do I choose the right words for this situation?   So I'm gonna be going my blue barite throughout this Mercury retrograde to really, really help me navigate through that, process and learn lessons on how I can become a better communicator.   Ashley: Adam, let me ask you a question. I have heard of this thing called Mercury's shadow. Can you tell us, like, a little bit about that? It's supposed to be, like, the period just before and just after Mercury retrograde where things are still a little they're kind of ramping up or they're just winding down where it's gone direct, but it's still a little weird. Would that be a good time to continue working with blueberryite, do you think?   Adam: Yeah. A retrograde, just like the full moon, isn't like it happens on that day and it comes off on that day type of thing. It's more like a wave. Now I again, for another analogy, I do find that Mercury retrogrades are very much like splinters. It hurts going in the most and hurts coming out the most, but it can be a little bit painful throughout and a little bit painful after as well type of thing.   So different people will be impacted by different retrogrades and different based on their personal astrology as well. So I wouldn't go, oh, crap. It's over. It finishes halfway through December. It's over.   Okay. Get rid of the blue Barite. See how the communication's going, and you'll probably find, no. I think it's fine now. Now I can take it off or now I can stop carrying it or now I can stop, pardon me, meditating with it, in that time.   Yeah. That shadow is don't just think it's an on off switch. It's a wave that comes and goes.   Ashley: But what I also sort of hear you saying is Mercury retrograde isn't something we have to be fearful of. We don't have to cower under the table. We don't have to, like, ostrich ourselves and put our heads in the sand. It can actually be sort of a gift, sort of a time to review things and make sure that we're like, you know, taking care of things that we need to do.   Adam: Exactly. It is actually a golden opportunity. When you talk to anyone who says, what's the key to a perfect relationship? Communication. And so 3 or 4 times a year, we get this little snippet where we get to practice, evaluate, and improve the way that we communicate.   All the other planets go into retrograde for a lot longer. You know, the outer planets, Jupiter, Saturn, and so on, it's normally for, you know, 3 to 5 months for a big chunk of time, once a year. Mars does it once every 18 months and Venus is a bit erratic as well. But Mercury, we get these lessons throughout the year. Just go, hold on.   How are you communicating? And I think with a partner, it's a really great place to look at. You know, we're probably a bit more relaxed how we communicate with our partner, and this is where you can really learn where you can be maybe a bit snappy, a bit intolerant, a bit blunt, bit inconsiderate, and those type of things, and improve and create those stronger bridges of peace.   Kyle: I've literally had all of that happen on a holiday with my husband during Mercury retrograde that was, we had a cyclone that meant we couldn't go to certain locations. We had lockdowns that happened in Perth, which meant we, like, were stuck where we were. We were in a caravan, so we were on top of each other, and we had to really, like, go, this is how I'm feeling right now. This is what I need right now. I'm not happy or I am happy.   And we had to, like, change our plans. We had to rebook things. And if we weren't being clear and honest with each other, I think we might have actually killed each other in that little van.   Adam: Yep. And that that's the golden opportunity of the Mercury retrograde. And do you know what?