Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez , Ashley Leavy and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #29 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they do a deep dive into Ammonite & Fossils meaning, including:

Kitchen witchery & Fossils
Opal and Fossils combining to make Ammolite
Horns of Ammon, Avalon connection and Ammonite


 
Tune in now for a deeper look at Ammonite & Fossils meaning!


 
Podcast Episode Transcript:
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.

Adam Barralet: Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of crystal confab. Each week, we like to talk about things that are buried in the ground and have been waiting for a long, long time for us to discover them. But today, we're doing something a little bit different because we won't be talking about a crystal. We're gonna be exploring the world of fossils and things like amylenite and ammolite. So I'm gonna be honest with you.

Fossils don't really thrill me. So I've set a challenge to the other three to see if they can win me over by the end of the episode. So to dive in and explore these, welcome, Kyle, Nicholas, and Ashley. Kyle, I know you like the ammolites and ammonites. Talk us a little bit through them.

Kyle Perez: Well, for me, I am kind of like you in the way that I'm not a huge fossil person, but I know other people around the confab are much much bigger. I will start with fossil light, ammolite. But what I wanna talk about first is what I've seen as an explosion of interest in fossils recently. I don't know if the rest of you have seen this as well, but last year at the gem show that I worked at, people gave no crap about the crystals. I had to learn on the fly about the fossils that we had because that's where a huge amount of interest was.

Our ammolite shells, our ammonites, the megalodon teeth, like amber, green ambers, all of these sorts of things were, like, really exciting. Have you seen that sort of thing, or is it maybe just a niche thing that's happening here?

Nicholas Pearson: Yeah. I'm pretty much seeing it industry wide, but I would love to say that it's probably people like Ashley and me who might be bringing some more crystal folks to the dark side. I haven't been to any, like, really big trade shows in a hot minute, but I know Ashley frequents them. So she might have some more insight there too.

Ashley Leavy: Yeah. I think if I really reflect on it, the fossil boots might have been a little bit busier than they normally are. Usually, I'm one of, like, two or three people shopping at those booths for the store. So maybe that is the case. I haven't noticed it yet trending amongst the crystally people, the healy feelies, like all of us.

I feel like I'm always being like the fossil evangelist out there, trying to get people to appreciate them a little bit. I know Nicholas is the same. We actually did an amazing event last year hosted by Anwen Avalon who did, like, a fossil symposium, and it was Anwen, Nicholas, myself, Brett Holyhead, and Moss Matthew. And it was just, like, five days of fossils, and it was super fun. But that is very much not the norm.

I think it takes a little, a little bit of special interest to get people going.

 
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Kyle: I love that. I think it's really interesting to see these trends that we see in the industry. Now we digress. I'm going to talk about amylites. Now amylites are the very niche ammonites that have a really beautiful opalized shell that you find in the Upper Western Territories of Canada, I believe, is where you're finding it.

And it's the, sorry. I can never remember exactly where it is but I know it's on the West Coast Canada, Alaska like that bridge between the two and that you're kind of only finding them there. And what's amazing about them is they take these shelves, these ammonites that we all know and love that we've seen all over the place and they become opalized and really saturated in color and I'm just gonna be a little bit annoying and pop my light on and hopefully you'll be able to see it in full quality. We love it when we do this live because we're not as prepared as we want to be. There we go you can sort of see it's opalized that this one has a really beautiful color.

What I love about it is, for me, it's about illumination. The spiral path that the ammonites show us for me is really omnipresent. It's like we're on this spiral. When you work with them, you're going inwards, you're going outwards. Energy is coming and going in this beautiful flow.

And analytes have shown me the spiral path can be beautiful. We can illuminate and expand. We can draw in magic when we work with it in the right way as opposed to feeling like I'm going round and round in circles and I can't get off the loop. Right? That's the dichotomy of the spiral path.

When we think about going round and round in circles we can't get out of it. We can't break the cycle. That's really really frustrating. But when you look at ammonites, they radiate. Right?

And as they go outwards, they expand. So as we go out and grow and go forward and do more and break through these cycles they get easier. We get further perspective from them. We're able to shift what we're seeing and shift what we're doing with our life. We're feeling more capable.

We're seeing more options. We're seeing a bigger spectrum of color being illuminated in front of us. That's the lesson for me that amylite has really shown me. It's been like yes it does go around. Yes you will find these lessons come around again.

Yes you will hit a point where you're seeing it again but that's what we do. Right? The earth goes around and around in cycles and it's going around the sun. And the sun is going around the center of our galaxy, and the galaxy is spinning and expanding, and everything is spinning and expanding in this universe. And that's a big thought process to think about when we're thinking about fossils.

But if we can bring it back down to us, the journey is always expanding and growing. And, yes, we will hit points where we've come around and I thought I dealt with that problem, but maybe you need to just grow from it again. Maybe we need to continue to experience these things because otherwise history repeats itself. Right? When we get too far away from the problem and we've healed it all of a sudden and it hasn't been around, it comes back around again because we've stopped talking about it.

We've stopped thinking about it. It hasn't been a problem anymore. All of a sudden, a couple of generations down the line, you see the same thing happening. And we're all seeing it happening, right, on the planet. It's really important that we're like, okay.

Yes. It's a cycle. How can we expand? How can we grow? Right?

We're in a different place and time than we were when we were going through similar things. How can I use a shift in perspective that is more illuminated? And this is where Amalites have really come into their own for me because they show that full spectrum. All opals reveal a full spectrum of possibility, a full spectrum of what you can do, what you can dive into, what you can actually achieve, and it really lifts instead of the spiral going down and the spiral going inwards and the spiral coming to that point of my cart and closing us off. I like to work with it in that way. If I'm drawing it in, I'm drawing it into me because I'm trying to create something.

I'm trying to bring energy in. I'm not using the spiral to go down. Does that make sense? Like, it's that kind of spiral thing. So when you work with your beautiful ammonites, it doesn't have to be opalized, but you do find ones like this that have a little bit of that opally sheen.

There are other ones that are like light that really sort of gray light opally. Really beautiful. You can see them. They're so affordable. They're everywhere.

Start with one of those because the Ammolite from Canada is a bit harder to get and a little bit more expensive.

Ashley: I have a question for you, Kyle. A lot of times when people are considering the ways in which they work with their stones, they're looking at color as part of that. And when we have these, like, completely beautiful rainbow filled amylites, do you notice any difference? Because it's rare to find a piece that has, like, all the colors of the rainbow. They kind of tend to be, like, a little warmer colors or, like, red, orange, gold or a little cooler colors, kinda blue, green, violet.

Do you notice any difference between the two? Do you have any, like, anything to share with folks who might be wondering about, like, the color part of that and how that fits in?

Kyle: Absolutely.