Healing & Health

A small card to carry, blessed at temple before it reaches you. Talisman cards belong to a long Chinese and Buddhist tradition of carrying a written blessing close, in a sleeve, a wallet, a phone case, so that protection travels with you through the...

A wooden box burner, made to hold the smoke as well as the stick. Cut from rosewood, this burner has a lidded lattice design: light the incense, rest it in the holder inside, and close the lid so the smoke drifts out slowly through...

A plain rock on the outside, a cave of quartz crystals within. A thunder egg is a geode, formed slowly inside volcanic rock and revealed only when it is cut and opened. Clear quartz is the stone most associated with clarity and with holding...

The Hu Lu has been a protective charm in Chinese homes for centuries. Shaped like the calabash gourd, once dried and used to carry medicine and water, the Hu Lu came to stand for health and a long life. Taoist practice has long used...

Incense sticks of fragrant wood, with nothing added.Made from wood and wood powder alone, without synthetic fragrance or colouring, which is why the smoke is thinner and the scent sits closer to the material than to perfume.Used the way incense has always been used:...

The Pixiu, carved in green jade. The wealth guardian of Chinese feng shui, the Pixiu has the head of a dragon and the body of a winged lion, said to draw in gold and silver and hold onto every bit it takes. Green jade...

Amethyst, cut to a point, the calm stone in clear form. Amethyst has long been kept to steady the thoughts and soften the edges of a hard day. Shaped into a prism point, it makes a quiet object to hold during meditation or to...

The Hu Lu has been a charm for health and protection in Chinese homes for centuries. Shaped like the calabash gourd, once dried and used to store medicine, the Hu Lu came to stand for wellbeing and a long life. Its narrow waist and...

A sphere of black obsidian, smooth and still in the hand. Obsidian is volcanic glass, formed the moment molten rock meets cold air. It has been kept for grounding and protection for as long as people have carried stone, valued for the way it...

Guan Yin is the bodhisattva of compassion, the one who hears. Across Buddhist practice she stands for mercy, calm, and care, the steadying presence you turn to in a hard season. Kept in the home, her figure is less an ornament than a reminder...

Rose quartz, cut to a point, the gentlest stone in clear form. Rose quartz has been kept for centuries as the stone of the open heart, the love you offer others and the harder kind you offer yourself. Shaped into a prism point, it...

Fluorite, cut to a point, for clearing a clouded mind. Crystal practice knows fluorite as the stone of focus, worn or kept to quiet mental noise and bring one clear thought to the front. The bands of green and violet are natural, the way...