The Voice Slide focuses on using our voices to uplift ourselves and each other, and spread joy. Like a flame, our voices can transform and ignite positive change, but also have the potential to be destructive if not used with care. Music is a strong and connecting force, and I have woven layers of symbolism into the Voice design: in addition to the overall flame shape, there is musical symbolism in the 5 lines of a musical staff and the stylized swirl of Beethoven’s hand-written treble clef (which I also imagined as the swell of our own voices rising up). The act of uplifting can look like celebration, like protest, like praise, like support, like expression and compassion; this Voice design is made to encourage any or all of those ways of raising our well-being as individuals and as communities.

Rhodolite Garnet supports the fire aspect of this design. Garnet can enhance internal fire, helping to bring intentions to outward completion. It also, amazingly, can attune us with the responsibility of personal freedom (read that one twice!) and spark cooperation in times of change. It is also a stone of love, which of course works well when thinking about the foundation for using our voices.

You can always request a different gemstone, just ask! Another that works well with this intention is blue topaz since it supports the throat chakra and helps us communicate consciously and clearly.