Here are some different types of faces that can occur in quartz crystal.
Channeling Crystal (7-Sided Crystal). 7 lines making up one of its faces with a perfect triangle directly opposite this face. Helps you to focus and move through inner space to locate and transmit information.
Personal Power (Merkabah). Three faces meet at the top point and three small triangular faces intersect between them, where the sides meet the top. Signifies personal power being held in proper place by spiritual power. A very powerful combination for metaphysical work.
8-faceted. Regenerates the balance of spirit & matter. Helps with abundance, communication with guides.
Isis (Goddess) Crystal. Any crystal with at least one 5-sided face. Primary goddess stone, for men & women linking to and being protected by the yin aspect of source. Good dream stone.
Shovel. Face and shape look like shovel. Helps one shovel through details to get to core and apply it to situation.
Numerological. Any & all crystals with clearly defined facets. Count the lines creating the outline of each face, add them up, reduce to a single digit. You can then access and utilize more efficiently the power of the master number of a crystal.
Receiver. Quartz crystal with one broad, upward-sloping face. Used by healers to draw out, move, receive energy, often combined with a generator. Helps you to be more open to new concepts & ideas.
Receiver-Generator. A generator crystal with one face sloping inward more than the other five. Simultaneously receive & project energy. Good for telepathic communication.
Time traveler (time link). Parallelograms which by their incline offer you windows into the past or the future.
Transmitter. Crystal with two symmetrical 7-sided faces on either side of a triangular 3-sided face. Helps you consciously connect to higher dimensions for specific purposes.
Window. A diamond shape in the center front on its faces, often making it a 7-faced crystal. Serves as window into other dimensions while helping you balance the energies as you work with them.
Hi there, I’m visiting Nepal and came across a large clear quartz crystal with five vertical sides so it’s columnar shape is pentagonal instead of hexagonal. O know some crystals have five edge faces bit I cannot find any online with five vertical sides. Can your advise me are they so rare? I can send pictures to you.
All the best, Jarrod Wood.
Hi Jarrod. Quartz, as you note, generally has six sides. I suspect that this quartz has been worked on by someone, who took a large piece and machine shaped it, either intentionally or unintentionally creating five sides. As you are probably aware, a five-sided face of a crystal is an Isis crystal – securing the feminine energies. So…extending this… five is a grounding earth stone. This appears to be a quartz you could work with for the grounding of energies for the use of earth. As always, if the stone speaks to you and your need at this moment, it would be useful to work with it, either as your own, or identifying with it where it is right now. And, however, this is a very large world, and anything is possible…so it may be possible the quartz is naturally configured to five sides, in which case, congrats on your find!
I have a Lemurian Wand with 7 Faces, not sides. What is that formation?
Thanks.
Hello Aether. With situations like this, you can find information by breaking down the object into parts, and doing a Google search. The Lemurian crystals connect back to the Lemurian culture, an ancient heart-based intuitive culture. A seven-faced crystal is unusual – it is a channeling crystal, useful for the person who is holding/working with the crystal. So the combination would indicate this is a wonderful tool/friend to work with you to get in touch with your own inner spiritual power and to assist you in accessing, grounding and working with these inner gifts.