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Welcome to The Gem – Your Natural Healing and Metaphysical Shop in Cape Town

Step into a world of natural wellness, crystals, Reiki-charged treasures, enchanted tools, sacred healing modalities, and transformative, soul-led workshops—all designed to uplift, align, and empower your spirit.

Life is Magick

Metaphysical Shop * Creative Workshops * Natural Healing * Magick

Esoteric Gallery

Metaphysical Shop

Browse a curated collection of custom, handmade, and ethically sourced items that support your spiritual journey. Our natural healing and metaphysical shop in Cape Town also uplifts local artisans and creators by offering a platform for their unique magickal creations.

Natural Healing

Facilitate your healing in a safe, sacred environment. Choose from, Quantum Healing, Reiki, Hypnosis, Soul Plan Readings, Tarot Readings, Private Ceremonies.

Book your session or visit our metaphysical shop in Cape Town for personalized insight and spiritual support.

Creative Workshops

Inspire your intuition and connect with your creative power. Our in-person and online workshops offer hands-on learning in Reiki & Energy Work, Crystal Healing, Magickal Arts, Intuitive Development and more…

Hosted at our Cape Town-based natural healing and metaphysical shop.

Magick

Curious about energy, consciousness, and the universe? Our metaphysical shop invites you to explore Meditation, Psychic Development, Astrology & Tarot, Reiki, Chakra Healing and more…

Your spiritual evolution starts here.

NEW NATURAL HEALING AND METAPHYSICAL SHOP COMING SOON!

After years of growing our sanctuary of healing, love, and creativity in Observatory, we’re ready to expand.

We’re opening a new space in the deep south—right in the heart of Simon’s Town, just across from Long Beach.

We’re incredibly grateful and excited to bring The Magickal Gem to this beautiful, energetically rich part of the world.

Don’t worry—we’re still The Magickal Gem you know and love.

Our new shop will offer healing sessions, workshops, and all your favourite hand-crafted divination tools and metaphysical essentials.

We can’t wait to welcome you into the new space.

With love,
The Magickal Gem

The Nervous System & Sacred Tea

Blue Lotus & Butterfly Pea: A Sacred Tea for Nervous System Healing Our nervous system is the bridge between the physical and the energetic body. It carries signals, interprets sensations, and influences how we respond to life’s challenges. When overworked or...

The Nervous System & Breathwork

Breathwork for Nervous System Healing: A Simple Practice to Restore Inner Calm In our fast-paced, overstimulated world, many of us live in a constant state of stress without even realising it. Our bodies remain locked in fight-or-flight mode, leaving the nervous...

The Nervous System & Spirituality – Blog

The Nervous System as the Root of Embodied Spirituality The nervous system, particularly the autonomic nervous system (ANS), governs how we respond to the world—how we experience safety, connection, stillness, and expansion. These experiences are not just biological...

Glamour And Illusion

The Glamour Trap: How Illusion Uses the Mind to Keep the Soul in Hiding Not All That Glitters Is Truth   In today’s spiritual circles, glamour is often mistaken for empowerment — a way to manifest attention, embody beauty, or radiate mystique. But glamour isn’t...

Energetic Protection

Grounding: Rooting Into Protection The first and most essential step in protection for your energy is grounding—connecting fully to yourself and to the steady, nurturing energy of the Earth. When you’re grounded, your thoughts become clearer, your emotions settle, and...

The Heart’s Medicine: Micro-dosing San Pedro

A Sacred Path to Healing There’s a whisper in the wind. A soft, ancient hum that calls us to slow down, to listen. It’s the voice of the Earth, asking us to remember who we are — to remember the medicine that has always been here, beneath our feet, in the very soil we...

Catharsis Retreat: A Sacred Return To Your Creative Soul

There comes a moment in each of our lives when the ache to be seen, heard, and truly felt becomes undeniable. We long not just for healing—but for expression. For beauty. For wholeness. The Catharsis Retreat is a 7-day immersive experience that offers exactly this: a...

Alchemy Of The Physical & Etheric Body

Welcome to Heal & Nourish: A Sanctuary of Skin, Soul & Spellwork   In this little corner of the wild and wondrous, we tend to the sacred layers of healing—where petals meet purpose, and your daily rituals become acts of magick. At Heal and Nourish, we weave...

The Sacred Medicine Of Rose And Blue Lotus

Discover the healing power of Red Rose, White Rose, and Blue Lotus flower essences — handcrafted by Phillippa at The Magickal Gem in Cape Town. Cured for four months and made with love, these vibrational remedies are transforming lives.At The Magickal Gem, we honor...

Unlocking the Sacred Power of Palo Santo: Benefits and Uses

Palo Santo is more than just a fragrant aroma. Revered for its spiritual,physical, and emotional healing properties, it can be a powerful tool in your holisticwellness toolkit. Explore how this sacred wood can enhance your life.Have you ever encountered a scent so...

"The universe is always speaking to us...sending us little messages, causing coincidences and serendipities, reminding us to stop, to look around, to believe in something else, something more."

― Nancy Thayer

"Believe in yourself and all that you are. Know that there is something inside you that is greater than any obstacle."

― Christian D. Larson

“Know your magick, trust your magick, use your magick and know that you are a manifestation of life’s magick.”

― Rasheed Ogunlaru

Natural Healing and Readings

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Owner and founder of Magickal Gem

Phillippa Schmulian, founder of The Gem – A natural healing and metaphysical shop- she is a Reiki Master, Quantum Healer, Hypnotherapist, and ceremonial magician. With over 20 years of metaphysical experience, Phillippa infuses her deep knowledge into every aspect of our holistic healing and magick tools online offerings

With a background in Metaphysics, Reiki, Hypnosis, Psychic Development, Quantum and Crystal Healing, Yoga, Soul Plan readings, and ceremonial facilitation, Phillippa brings a deeply integrative approach to healing and transformation. Her extensive training—including space and energy clearing, as well as tea ceremony facilitation in Ubud, Bali—allows her to create sacred, intentional experiences tailored to support each person’s journey.

“I believe in ceremonial and ritual work as it has been used as a rite of passage for ages. It helps people create a milestone and a commitment back to living at their highest potential while finding a connection with something greater. I also am deeply committed to supporting my clients in deep transformational work and healing.”

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I am blown away…

In the year 2017 during the period between January to March, I was going through a difficult time in my life and for the first time, I felt I would benefit from Hypnotherapy. I googled & could not link up or connect with anyone & I laid that to rest.
5 years later in 2022, while on a journey of deepening my spirituality, & found my Authentic Self, the universe presented me with a dear sister, Phillipa through a weekly Sunday evening meditation session organized by another dear soul brother, Luke. I was blown away & I did not hesitate to contact her & in a period of 2-3 weeks of making contact with her I had my 1st Hypnotherapy Session.
What an experience, words of gratitude to this dear sister, she is one of a kind. Indeed I experienced an Aha moment. Thank you very much, my soul sister, I have found a dear sister in her.
I would recommend her to people in my inner circle & anyone else who needs reconditioning of the subconscious.
Namaste 🙏

Dr Bongi Yose

Amazing Experience

Good afternoon! I must tell you that since yesterday’s reiki I’ve been in such a deep amazing process surrounding my coaching business and after meeting with my own coach this afternoon I’ve never been clearer on the path and area of coaching I wish to specialize in. I feel centered and clear And I just want to take this moment to honor you for giving me your all so that I can give myself my all. By giving myself my all I can indeed give others my all. I honor the reiki guides and the specialness that u radiate.

So in short – just a massive thank you and so much love

Healing Reiki

Customer

Our Wedding Service

We asked Philippa to marry us and affiliate our wedding ceremony in March ‘22.

We met her due to frequent visits to her beautiful shop in Cape Town. Every time we saw her we felt such good energy from her. It just made sense to us that she should be there to celebrate our special love. We also knew that she understood and could feel the love between us.

We had a white dress code at our wedding and I totally forgot to tell Philippa! But somehow her black outfit was so perfect, as she stood out beautifully as our facilitator. Her words carried so much power and I could feel everyone being drawn into her beautiful speech.

We wanted to start with a short meditation, while still respecting our traditional families. She did that perfectly and got everyone in a calm, present space before we continued.

She somehow managed to capture and share our love story perfectly! After the wedding, we got so many compliments about her and the ceremony. We are so glad we found her and that she was part of our wedding day.
Thank you for bringing and sharing your beautiful light! ✨

Happy Bride

Customer

Only Love…

I had the enormous honor to have this stunning human being and beautiful soul as my closest companion in the journey of my self-marriage.

I was reading a book on self-love and the ritual of a self-marriage ceremony when I participated in a mushroom ceremony that Philippa guided. Here I went in with the intention to find alignment for my upcoming 40th birthday – and experienced a powerful and beautiful mushroom journey.
This inspired me to ask Philippa if she could imagine conducting a self-marriage ceremony for me which she enthusiastically accepted 🙂
….Well, what I imagined to be just a little thing in a small circle developed into a profound 1,5-day ceremony on my 40th birthday in the most amazing setting and with the most empowering rituals.

Since this celebration, I feel like I have embraced my life in an even more powerful and authentic way. I feel more connected to myself, less dependent on the outside, and like I left energies behind which have not been serving me anymore. My path seems more clear, my heart is more light, and my soul more joyful.
I am so deeply grateful for this life-changing experience.

For this Philippa gave in all her heart and literally out of this world know how to help me celebrate myself, my life, and my manifestations.
I felt so seen, understood, well taken care of, and loved by her.
Philippa’s energy is beautiful, creative, powerful, yet empathetic, and energizing and she shines from within and transmits her love and light to others.

She is one of the most inspiring humans I have encountered and I feel blessed to have experienced this life-changing ritual with her. She will always have a huge space in my heart.

Only Love for you guys

Customer

Light as a Feather

Light as a feather 🪶 is how I feel inside and my ears are still hearing vibrational sounds, it’s continued like that for most of the day so far. I also feel as though I’ve been snugly wrapped in a warm invisible blanket on a cold evening. Something has definitely shifted and I have such a sense of a deep work that is busy taking place. The process has left me feeling quite tired and quiet though, which is a good indication of background stuff taking place.

Basically, I feel damn great 👍………… thank you so much 😇🙏

Blessed to be apart of this

Customer

Happy Client

Good morning 🌞
I’m feeling a deep sense of peace

It’s an incredible difference from how I felt before I came for my session with you

It’s almost crazy how we walk around with emotions that can have such a big influence on our daily lives

I feel very clear and focused
Like I don’t need to pay attention to my heart being broken

I think the hatred I was holding onto was also a little bit of self-hate
Because I woke up yesterday feeling quite happy with myself and looked in the mirror feeling like I’m actually happy that I did something for myself for once hehe

And also I feel a sense of clarity after the confirmation of there being a generational curse
It’s good to know because I’ve always felt like there’s a bigger reason that all the women in my family have struggled so much with Love and we’ve all suffered so much

So I feel very happy to know that potentially that can be lifted so that we can live without the fear of entering an abusive relationship again you know

Thanx so much for everything
I’m so happy to have found someone who can make sense of things for me and help me clear up blockages

Happy Client

Customer

The most inspiring human I have encountered…

I had the enormous honor to have this stunning human being and beautiful soul as my closest companion in my journey of my self marriage.

I was reading a book on self love and the ritual of a self marriage ceremony when I participated in a mushroom ceremony which Philippa guided. Here I went in with the intention to find alignment for my upcoming 40th birthday – and experienced a powerful and beautiful mushroom journey.
This inspired me to ask Philippa if she could imagine conducting a self marriage ceremony for me which she enthusiastically accepted 🙂
….Well what I imagined to be just a little thing in a small circle developed into a profound 1,5 day ceremony on my 40th birthday in the most amazing setting and with the most empowering rituals.

Since this celebration I feel like I have embraced my life in an even more powerful and authentic way. I feel more connected to myself, less dependent from the outside and like I left energies behind which have not been serving me anymore. My path seems more clear, my heart more light, and my soul more joyful.
I am so deeply grateful for this life changing experience.

For this Philippa gave in all her heart and literally out of this world knowhow to help me celebrate myself, my life and my manifestations.
I felt so seen, understood, well taken care of and loved by her.
Philippa’s energy is beautiful, creative, powerful, yet empathetic, energizing and she shines from within and transmits her love and light to others.

She is one of the most inspiring humans I have encountered and I feel blessed to have experienced this life changing ritual with her. She will always have a huge space in my heart.

Nadine Schneider

Customer