Love and Light Gush into Crystal Chalice

Dea Rackley recovers from her husband’s death by giving birth to a store

“He had the ultimate way to go,”says Dea Rackley, her eyes misting even as she chuckles at the quirky ways of the universe. In May 2008, her husband, Will Davis, died of a heart attack during an act of love.

His departure hasn’t kept Rackley from communicating with her husband. “We laugh about it,” she says of his unusual exit path. “He had the ultimate orgasm. What about mine? I’m asking him to get back in his body.

“He kept coming back to me. I would wake up and feel him on top of me. Honey, you’re gone! You don’t have a body any more. You have to go on.”

The experience sent Rackley deep into a spiritual quest. “A doorway got created for me,” she says. “I have elaborate dreams. I had a doorway to the spirit world.”

Yet Rackley plunged into grief and despair. A psychotherapist in Marin and Sonoma counties, she had worked for years with adults and teens to help them sort out their problems. Her turmoil mounted with such intensity that she succumbed emotionally, and her therapy practice waned.

Rackley and her business partner Jennifer Jackson envisioned a retail store where they could do their part to help heal a planet rife with conflict and despair. They opened Crystal Chalice store in Fairfax on the winter solstice, December 21, 2008.

“Spirit has motivated me from day one,” Rackley says. “I would never have imagined being a retail merchant.” They stocked the store with an array of crystals, minerals, sound healing bowls, and books on spiritual growth. She thinks of the store as a kind of crown chakra of Fairfax and Marin, aligned with Mt. Tamalpais and Mt. Shasta.

One of the members of the International Council of Thirteen Indigenous Grandmothers, Flor de Mayo from Nicaragua, came to the shop to speak of planetary ascension. “She has angels all around her,” Rackley says. “She doesn’t know you, but she’s your grandma,” like an archetype of nurturing. “It’s nice to be hooked up with the grandmamas!”

A tall crystal tower displayed in the store’s front window carries special powers for Rackley. After the tower arrived, “I went home and had the most amazing dream,” she says. The dream showed three women who announced that they were Egyptian goddesses dedicated to compassion, love, sound and humor. “When they speak to you, your heart opens up,” she says. “Their voices were magnificent. This tower is an antenna.”

The dream suggested that Rackley facilitate the building of a labyrinth in Fairfax. In response, she worked with local artists to paint a Native American medicine wheel behind the store. “It grounded some of the light in here,” Rackley says of the wheel. “It might shift to a labyrinth.”

“The more we bring light in and bring our lights together,” Rackley says, “the more we create the power of love and community. We are trying to bring awareness that there is more to life than paychecks.”

Will Davis, 1952-2008

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1930 Sir Francis Drake Blvd.
(near Good Earth)
Fairfax, CA 94930

415-785-7119

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