A trip to the South of Czech Republic for the REAL deal - moldavite straight out of the soil!
My expectations were appropriate - a long day of travel, hard physical work in the mine of wide open sun, looking for a needle in a haystack! The attendants were very sweet with their limited English and even helped out with some mining tips.
It was a scorcher- 95 degrees, but I wasn't deterred. Somehow it felt more like I was meant to be there, and revelled in the feeling of being mere feet from the home of so many moldavites for 15 million years. The pieces that rained from the meteor so long ago landed in parts of what we now call Czech Republic, Germany, and Austria, the majority being in the southern Czech Republic. The Vlata River, which runs north-south through Prague and wanders south, dried out a bit over time, washing many moldavites downstream and eventually burying them in river beds along with other stones. So now, finding moldavite is often a slightly educated, stroke of luck! There are a few known mines in Czech Republic like the one I visited in Besednice.
The pieces we found are small but extremely powerful. They made me question if I've ever actually been near a real moldavite with the energy they radiate! Imagine pure golden sunshine beaming out in an arch, sending a charge of wakeful energy, and a lot to communicate if one tunes in. Or maybe, they have a purity to them, and since they've never traveled by human hands, and still are close to their point of origin, their energy is still in its natural-most state.
Finally, I wonder what would be shown in deep dives into regression here, in or near this location. Certainly, I've had some profound personal messages here in this short time.
Photos below, taken by yours truly, Left to Right: 1. Vlata River curling around the perimeter of the Castle at Cesky Krumlov 2. Entrance to the Besednice Mine, courtesy of the Czech government ๐ 3. With my pick-axe at the mine 4. Castle grounds at Cesky Krumlov 5. landscape near Besednice 6. the moldavites we found! 7. Beautiful examples of Besednice pieces 8. Jen Viviant in Prague