It had been another long week of hunting crystals, Jasmyne stretched in the early morning light. She had spent the  last two hours digging up the crystals from her side garden where she cleansed them once a month, The amethyst feet cool and pure and the Howlite practically glowed with the natural energy it had collected from Mother Gaia. Placing them in the basket she stood and brushed the grass and dirt from her jeans. Grabbing her basket she moved inside her small two bedroom house that she had moved into only a year prior to starting the herb garden out back.  The mint, sage and lavender had taken off like wild fire shortly after having been planted potions seeming stronger than when she had tried buying the herbs or stones and crystals.<br/><br/>With the Summer Solstice coming up she had to get ready for ritual, It had been so long since she had not been with a grove and this would be the first time in nearly four years that she had been practicing alone. Setting the basket on the counter she went up stairs to get ready for work. Being a witch sadly did not mean that she didn't have to work. It was fun though, working in a cafe four days a week and the local crystal shop two days a week doing readings of palms and tarot cards, she had cleaned the crystals withe a rosebud blend with herbs to remove the crystals unnatural energies from anything that the customers brought to buy.<br/><br/>An hour later she had changed into a long black dress and her black low heeled boots and put her long silver hair into a braid, her soft blue eyes sold her out as an old soul with the nearly black ring on the outside of the iris of her eyes. Taking her place behind the counter of "The Crystal  Path" with the newest crystal ritual book as Allison counted the drawer and made her deposits to the safe. The afternoons were usually slow, but that was when the interesting people came in, the abnormal, the people who actually had the natural powers rather than those who simply played hocus pocus in their basements with the voodoo dolls and poorly crafted love spells.<br/><br/>Waving goodnight to Allison as she left Jasmyne settled in and waited as two  of the regulars went through the incenses and the normal low level ritual books near the back of the store. Nine o' clock seemed as though it would take forever to get there.