I wear a pendant made of a double-terminated amethyst on a simple copper mount and all on a sterling silver serpentine chain. I never take it off. I even shower in it. This morning the SO found it on the bathroom floor. The clasp was closed and the chain was unbroken. The chain is not long enough to slip over my head. The clasp must be opened to remove the pendant from my neck. I am a heavy sleeper but sometimes I do get up to go to the bathroom. The odds that I opened the chain, removed the pendant and closed the chain again, all while sound asleep are small. Also, it is unlikely that I would have put the pendant on the floor after carefully handling it. The only alternative is that I became temporarily incorporeal allowing the chain to fall to the floor.  Neither of these answers is really satisfying to me.

I put the above out on social media, particularly X and Bluesky. The responses tended to break into two approaches: do a detailed magickal cleanse on the crystal or (2) stop wearing it altogether. My witchy guides on X (Twitter) are really good and I take them seriously when they talk. There’s enough history built up that I trust them as sources and witnesses. So, I listen. I have stopped wearing the beloved amethyst for now. I will go shopping for another stone this weekend. I will do a deep cleanse on the stone this weekend.

The thought here is about energy. The stone is a conduit of energy. It has received and transmuted a lot of negative energy with me. This stone has been taken off of me by nurses as I was going into surgery. It has heard a lot of sadness and struggle. So I can’t ignore it getting off of my neck in the middle of the night. I couldn’t get it off even in broad daylight in the bright morning while looking into a mirror, but it got off of me in the middle of the night. This kind of energy is significant and cannot be ignored.