ABOUT

Thank you so much for visiting Crystal Voyager. My name is Jillian Kasimow and this is my offering to the world. Using my background in art and design in tandem with my intuitive abilities, I am able to interpret the properties of crystals and their energetic effects. Now I am a crystal matchmaker of sorts.

After working as a creative for some of the world’s top design studios, including 2x4, IDEO, RoAndCo, and The Line (RIP), I decided to launch CV so I could share with others the way I feel and see. Naturally, my relationship with the mineral kingdom began as a visual one. I was so taken that Earth could produce such perfect pieces of unadulterated art. I was wowed by all the variety of colors and forms they came in. Geometric shapes were contrasted with completely organic ones in such pleasing and unique ways. Interacting with stones evoked the same sensations of utter awe, inspiration, and soul-fullness that overcame me when I encountered a piece of art or design that I loved, many of which I realized mimicked exactly the aesthetic attributes of stones. It was only later that I came to understand that the ways I relate to something visually are how I relate to subtle energy, my intuitive abilities, and to a higher power. The information I receive through sight is ironically how I am able to connect and process information that I cannot see at all.

Everything I do is informed by my personal experiences.

From the moment I entered this world, it was apparent that I was “highly sensitive” or as my dad likes to say “high-strung.” I didn’t experience childhood the way other kids seemed to, joyfully and without worry, because I was too acutely aware of situations and sensations that they were not. School only reinforced my emotional burdens and made me feel increasingly anxious and isolated. By the time I was a teenager, I believed I had been born “damaged” because my sensitivity was so debilitating.

I have spent most of my life trying to find something that would make me feel whole and fulfilled. I was raised Jewish but only culturally. Organized religion was way too dogmatic for me and I didn’t like the way it was vastly manipulated to justify whatever agenda it was serving. I was much more intrigued by alternative therapies and thought systems, a ton of which I have attempted to use to “fix” myself. I was particularly lured to ones described as mystical because in my mind that meant they would miraculously transform my reality without any action needed on my part. I didn’t trust myself or my intuition so I just ignored it, instead relying on healers to tell me the answers because I assumed they knew better. Most of what I tried had no impact or left me feeling worse than I initially had. It took a long time to realize that merely going through the motions of change was not enough if I didn’t actually do anything to change myself. I had to take responsibility for my part of the equation.

I didn’t seek out energy work the same way I had everything else I tried. I had done reiki but I didn’t have any underlying understanding of energetics. When a psychic referred me to an energy coach I was skeptical. However, she gifted me the first session so I figured it couldn’t hurt. This changed everything. Virginia explained to me the concept of subtle energy and how the whole world is affected by it. A lot of things started making sense. I knew I was very sensitive to external stimuli, but Virginia helped me to see that I was deeply empathic and unknowingly had been taking on the energy of others my whole life. Now I know why growing up had been so challenging… why I was troubled by things others were not to a paralyzing degree, why I found myself more exhausted than other people my age, and why I didn’t crave the same socialization and entertainment. This new knowledge freed me from the idea that I was damaged or broken. I was different, but not in the bad way I had thought.

Learning about the mechanics of energy motivated me to do the internal work that was required of me to see tangible change in my life. The only way I could create a new reality was by actively addressing the harmful beliefs I had seared into my brain and that consequently determined the negative quality of energy I was projecting. If I didn’t, I would continue to produce and attract the same energy that held me back. I started doing what I refer to as “the work”, which meant rewiring my brain through meditation, energetic visualizations, journaling, and connecting to Source so I could resonate with the vibrations of what I wanted to manifest. Crystals were instrumental in being my gateway to this work because they helped me understand abstract ideas in ways that my visually inclined self could make sense of.  

Crystal Voyager is the result of continuous education, experimentation, and implementation. It is the union of all that fulfills my purpose and provides me joy — spirituality, beauty and visual inspiration, helping others, and research. It is how I am able to best utilize my inherent qualities of being deeply empathetic, creative, and expressive. What I developed arose out of my natural inclination to make complex systems digestible and navigatable, and to relay what I have synthesized in an aesthetically pleasing way.

Thank you for visiting

xx Jillian Kasimow