Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #23 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Bloodstone meaning, including: Bloodstone for ancestral connection Mobilising defenses with Bloodstone What your body needs & Bloodstone Bloodstone & Blood Moon in Virgo   Tune in now for a deeper look at Bloodstone 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 four crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for a casual chat about all things crystals. Nicholas Pearson: Hello, and welcome back to Crystal Confab. I'm Nicholas, and I'm here to confab about crystals with some of my favorite humans. I'm joined by Ashley Leavy, Adam Barralet, and Kyle Perez. And this week, we are diving deep into one of those stones. It's been around for quite a long time, valued for a good chunk of human history, but I think is a little underappreciated in today's crystal world. And that stone is Bloodstone. Historically, it's been known as heliotrope, a name we also give to sunflowers, which means to turn toward the sun because in medieval lore, it was associated with the sun and conquering things as we might talk about later. And it's a variety of chalcedony, but it's not the only thing out there called bloodstone. And we've got this African bloodstone out there as well, which is a more translucent chalcedony with a breccia, a broken kind of fragmentary bit of the reddish jasper that's in there. Does anyone else have some experience with seftonite? They might wanna talk about comparing and contrasting the two. Ashley Leavy: Yeah. This is a stone that, you know, I think became kind of popular on the market maybe, like, 2017, 2018. Somewhere in there is where I really started to see it come out more, and it started being called African bloodstone. And then a lot of people dropped the African and just started calling it bloodstone, which has definitely created a bit of confusion with our dark green chalcedony that we're so used to seeing with those beautiful red spots, which is the bloodstone we're all here to confab about today. I do think that the African bloodstone is really interesting. I can see how, at least symbolically, some of that energy still comes through in a similar way to what we would have with our traditional bloodstone. You have these little red sort of patches, not quite spots. So, you know, it doesn't have that same long historical use and lore that our regular bloodstone has, but there are some things about it that I think are interesting. I found that stone to be really, really grounding to help me when I'm feeling scattered, and I think that really has to do with that breccia. I always think of that as being something that pulls everything together. So that is one great way to work with that. But I do want to just really drive home with folks, and when we were talking about this just just before we started recording, Kyle actually brought this up, that it's not exactly the same as our traditional bloodstone. And so if you see sort of that gray with the more angular red bits in it, those little breccia bits of the red jasper, not the same as the traditional bloodstone. It will have a little bit different quality to it, but I also find that that one is really good for dream work and dream recall, which I found interesting. I didn't expect it because that is something that, at least in my experience, is vastly a different type of quality than I would expect from traditional bloodstone. Does anybody else have experience with that? Kyle Perez: I really love that avenue. For me, it has very much been a stabilizer. You can see here, like, the jaspery redness and then that chalcedony kind of inclusioniness. Like, it is definitely not the same stone. I think that clarity, the softer chalcedony really has a difference too. Like,