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,