well, my fascination with the NASA stone started during a trip to the river a few blocks from my house. & of course i looked for rocks washed up on the riverbank. i didn't find much worth taking that day except for a large piece of orange jasper & my first NASA stone. hey, it had the sky in it, right? & pretty much river-smoothed, tho with pits in it. i grabbed it up like i was grateful to have it. then i took it home & gave it a couple days' rough-tumbling.
now, when i take stones out of the tumbler i usually sit there & gloat over them--er, i mean, i examine them for pits & smoothness, that is! & i got this really strong reaction to the blue mottled jasper the minute i picked it up. there may have been a good reason for this. i do archaic things like put tiny pieces of broken seashells into my tumbler grit. this is not quite as lame as it sounds, aside from the fact i've been feeling very primitive in regards to stones lately. as a matter of fact, it seemed exactly the right thing to do at the time. & it worked very well too, because when i opened the tumbler i could smell the SEA SALT, haha. yep, tumble & clean 'em at the same time! i knew there was a good reason for it, tho for some dumb reason it just didn't enter my conscious mind. maybe past-life personas occasionally do tell you something useful ;) (please note tho that trying to tumble using crushed quartz pieces is taking forever. i figured that primitives didn't have modern silicon carbide for grit, & in the absence of diamond dust quartz would probably have been the grit of choice. quartz does scratch glass just like diamonds, so... it works, but slowly.) anyway the long & short of it was that i had vibrationally-clean stones & a lot of stinky water. quartz grit to amplify & a NASA stone in my hand...
& the minute i start looking at it, wham! instead of bird'seye view i get NASA satellite photos. meaning a little higher up than your average plane's cruising height of 30,000 feet. i have done this kind of thing before with the crown/soul star chakra meditations. & this little stone is apparently going to make this much easier. also there was no selenite around, it fact the selenite was "in the mail" & i hadn't ever worked with it before.
if you've ever seen satellite photos of the earth, you know the viewpoint i'm talking about. these photos include everything from hurricane patterns to erupting volcanoes, but often give a much further viewpoint. i have photos taken of astronauts serving the international space station, that's about exactly the right viewpoint. or pix from the no-defunct MIR position. the viewpoint is far enough so all you really see is the earth. if you look at the pix above (my 2nd piece) you see island groups, kind of like the hawaiians or aleutians.
so in my opinion, this should be a picture jasper in its own class. the "classic" NASA picture jasper has water, land masses & cloud swirls. & then there's air. if you look at the front (below) you can maybe see some faces in the stone. which brings us to creatures breathing & the interconnectedness of all life breathing & emitting water vapor, which is then added to clouds & weather patterns. just like oceans & streams evaporate in the sun & are added to the clouds, only to be rained down once again. it gives you a better sense of ecosystem, seen from a high place. i would love to have a sphere made of this kind of jasper. because i'm thinking spheres are very powerful, & if you amplified it with quartz you maybe could see just about anywhere. just like with regular picture jasper you can see vast landscapes or other scenery, but usually it's as if you're standing on the ground staring into the distance.
well, the stone i found still needs more tumbling, but i have to replace the rubber gasket on the machine. sadly it has a couple of cracks on the front, one of them deep, & a couple pits on the back. i don't think i'll be able to get these out without hard-grinding down half the stone, so it's about ready for some finer grinding.
well, i was fascinated. so when i went to the local new age store for more citrine, i poked around in the jars of jasper. & in the jar marked "striped jasper" i found the 2nd NASA stone, the only one they had (above pix). of course i snagged it. i put the 2nd piece on the coffee table along w/ all my petrified wood & fossils. & that's another story...
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