The Empress of Uruguay – Frequently Asked Questions.

How much does it weigh?

2,500 kilograms, or 2.5 tonnes. That’s a lot more than a large family car and as heavy as TWO small cars! When The Empress arrived at The Crystal Caves in November 2007, two large cranes were needed to lift her into her current position.

How tall is it?

She is big! The Empress stands 327 centimetres or 3.27 metres tall. That’s nearly 11 feet in the ‘old…

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This handout photo provided by Darryl Pitt of the Macovich Collection shows an external view of a Martian meteorite recovered in December 2011 near Foumzgit, Morocco following a meteorite shower believed to have occurred in July…

January Astrology

Henry Seltzer

The Astrology of January features Mercury, Jupiter, Chiron, Uranus and Pluto. As we enter another radically transformative year, these powerful symbols are very much focalized. The New Moon from the last week of December strongly aspected these four outer planets, continuing the trend from the fall, so that the significant archetypal energies of Zeus/Jupiter, lord of death and radical transformation/ Pluto, plus the Wounded Healer/Chiron and…

International Guest Speakers and Authors

Marilyn & Tohmas Twintreess of AhhhMuse,

(from Silver City, New Mexico, USA)

are coming again this year in April to do workshops in Australia and New Zealand.

Anyone with workshop facilities and who would be interested in having them carry out a workshop on their premises contact Gareth at Crystals of the World by email or on (02) 9310 5500

Marilyn and Tohmas have carried out their unique styled workshops in the USA,…