A personal reflection on working with Atlantisite and Canadian Jade, exploring themes of chaos, order, and reconnecting with the self.

Its New Year’s Eve 2025, and I am at the shop. Its cold and I know I will not stay open for much longer as its very quiet, but I let the stillness work in my favour and use the time to reflect — my own personal version of an end-of-year review.

In numerological terms, 2025 is a 9 year, a year associated with completion, closure, and letting go. And now, we stand on the edge of 2026, a 1 year, symbolising new beginnings and fresh starts.

This idea comes from numerology, which views time as moving through repeating nine-year cycles, each carrying its own themes and energy. A 9 year invites reflection on what has run its course, while a 1 year asks what we are ready to begin.

Standing here in the quiet, it feels like a natural moment to pause — to acknowledge what is ending, and to make space for what comes next.

Working with Atlantisite and Canadian Jade: A Personal Reflection

I hadn’t intended to write this reflection – it simply arose while I was making bracelets with two new strands of beads that arrived yesterday: Atlantisite and Canadian Jade.

Whenever I work with gemstones, I like to connect with them inwardly rather than relying on traditional metaphysical descriptions. I prefer to sense what each stone means to me, listening for whatever message emerges from my own inner awareness. This process even led to a spontaneous Facebook video (which I wasn’t sure would upload!), but you can view it here.

As I worked, two distinct themes emerged – one from each stone.

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Canadian Jade Message: Connection to Self 

While making the Canadian Jade bracelet, I had a strong sense that whenever I wore it, it would gently remind me of my connection to self. In a world that constantly draws our attention outward, this felt like an anchor – a quiet return inward.

Canadian Jade is a form of nephrite jade, and across many cultures jade is not associated with escape or ascension, but with embodied presence. It symbolises continuity, inner coherence, and a steady sense of identity.

What came through wasn’t a message of finding myself, but of remembering myself.

This felt like a reconnection with something stable and unchanged beneath life’s shifts – an identity that exists prior to roles, expectations, or striving. Jade, for me, speaks of integrity, honesty with oneself, and living in alignment with what feels quietly true.

It doesn’t push transformation.
It invites embodiment.

Its whisper is simple:
Stay with yourself.

Atlantisite Message: Out of Chaos Comes Order

Atlantisite was less immediately clear. A phrase kept repeating in my mind:

“Out of chaos comes order.”

This didn’t feel dramatic or urgent – more like reassurance. The kind that appears when you’re in the messy middle of something: when old structures are dissolving, but the new shape hasn’t fully formed yet.

Here, chaos didn’t feel like disorder in a negative sense, but rather:

• Letting go of old patterns
• Sitting with uncertainty
• Resisting the urge to force clarity too soon

The message felt more like:
Trust the process you’re already in.

From a mystical perspective, chaos has long been understood as potential, not failure. It is the raw material from which new order emerges. This phrase often appears during periods of emotional healing, identity shifts, or spiritual reorientation – moments where something deeper is quietly reorganising itself.

Rather than asking, “What does this mean?”, the more helpful question felt like:
What is reorganising itself within me?

Chaos and Order: A Shared Theme

There was a meaningful contrast between the two stones:

• Atlantisite reflected transition and integration – chaos gradually forming into order
• Canadian Jade offered stability and grounding – a return to self

Together, they suggested a gentle sequence:

1. Something dissolves
2. You re-anchor
3. Identity simplifies

Where Atlantisite speaks of change, Canadian Jade speaks of staying present.

A Personal Closing Reflection

All of this fits beautifully within my own nine-year cycle. I stepped away from the world of crystal healing so I could focus on remembering who I am. I still love my crystals and will continue to sell crystals; they bring me joy, and I’m very comfortable allowing them to be part of my own reflective practice without needing to explain exactly where those experiences come from.

Looking back over the past nine years, I can see how much has dissolved so that something more authentic could take shape. This year feels like a natural closing — not with dramatic endings, but with quiet integration. Atlantisite reflects the inner reordering that has taken place, while Canadian Jade reminds me to remain anchored in myself as I move forward. As the year ends, I’m not setting intentions to change, but to inhabit more fully the self that has been slowly revealed.

Moving into the New Year, I hope to share more inner reflections that arise from working consciously and intuitively with my crystals.

Happy New Year.

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About the Stones

The reflections above are my own personal experiences of working with Atlantisite and Canadian Jade. But there is another side to their story that I find equally fascinating — what these stones actually are and how they came to exist.

What is Canadian Jade?

The name Canadian Jade usually refers to nephrite jade, particularly the beautiful green material found in British Columbia, Canada.

Interestingly, jade isn’t the name of a single mineral. Two different materials have historically been given the name: nephrite and jadeite. They can look remarkably similar, but they have different mineral compositions.

Canadian nephrite is famous for its toughness. Rather than growing as large individual crystals, its mineral fibres form a tightly interlocking structure. This makes nephrite exceptionally resistant to breaking — one of the reasons jade has been treasured for carving and toolmaking for thousands of years.

Its familiar green colouring can range from pale, almost creamy greens to deep spinach and forest shades, influenced by elements such as iron within the material.

British Columbia is one of the world’s most important sources of nephrite jade, and some truly beautiful material has come from this part of Canada.

So while my experience of working with Canadian Jade was about connection to self, its geological story is one of strength, structure and an extraordinary journey through the Earth.

What is Atlantisite?

Atlantisite sounds wonderfully mysterious, but the name itself is actually a trade name.

It is most famously used for material from Tasmania, Australia, where patches of purple stichtite occur within green serpentine. The contrast between those two colours is what gives Atlantisite its unmistakable appearance.

Stichtite is a relatively uncommon magnesium- and chromium-rich mineral. Its lilac-to-purple colouring can appear as patches, veins or irregular areas surrounded by the green serpentine.

The story of how these minerals came together begins with rocks rich in magnesium and iron. Over geological time, circulating fluids altered the original rock and allowed new minerals to develop, including serpentine and stichtite.

So beneath the romantic name Atlantisite lies a very real story of geological change and transformation.

Perhaps that’s one of the reasons I find these two stones so interesting.

My personal reflections and their geology tell very different stories, and I don’t need one to explain the other. I can simply appreciate both.

The experiences I’ve described in this article are my own. I’m not suggesting that Atlantisite or Canadian Jade will create the same thoughts or feelings for somebody else.

For me, that’s part of the joy of working with crystals.

We can learn what the Earth tells us about a stone — while remaining curious about what the experience of holding it might bring up within ourselves.