Citrine

Citrine is a yellow, golden or orange-yellow transparent variety of crystalline quartz. While quartz is a very common mineral in nature, naturally occurring citrine is relatively rare.  The finest natural Citrine comes from Brazil.  Hardness: 7.0 on the Moh's Hardness Scale. It is known by many other names, for instance, it was sometimes referred to as  "Madeira" or "Bahia" Topaz, "Cuddle Quartz" and the "Merchant's Stone."

  • Provides a sense of stability, practical application of ideas, adds energy and emotional balance rational approach towards things, grounding to the here and now. Self-esteem, joy, dear thinking, activates solar plexus, “merchant’s stone” brings more cash to cash drawer. Opens solar chakra by breaking up old patterns of thoughts and habits. Promotes intuition mental clarity. Enhances creative and abundance and helps elimination of toxins from the body.
  • Works with the yellow color ray. When worn over time citrine aids one to hear the inner music and open more fully to the joys of spirit. It helps to clear the aura. It increases muscular flexibility reducing back pain and cramps.
  • Citrine is known as the "success stone" because it promotes success, prosperity, and abundance. It particularly promotes success in business, earning it another nickname, "merchant's stone", and is said to bring business if put in the cashbox of a shop or carried. Citrine is a stone of good fortune, although it brings good fortune in sometimes unexpected ways. It is a stone of manifestation, helping manifest abundance in many ways. Along with prosperity and good fortune, citrine imparts generosity, to share the wealth, so to speak.
  • Citrine dissipates negative energies of all kinds. It also does not absorb any negative energies from its surroundings, and thus never needs energetic clearing. Citrine can be used to clear unwanted energies from the environment. Family issues caused by negative energies can also be resolved and cleared with citrine. Since citrine eliminates negative energies, it helps generate stability in all areas.
  • In the mental area, citrine enhances mental clarity, confidence, and will power. It also increases creativity and promotes honesty.
  • Emotionally, citrine relieves depression, self-doubt, anger, and irrational mood swings. Citrine is a stone that brings happiness and cheer to one who carries or wears it. Citrine also reduces self-destructive tendencies. Citrine helps eliminate fears caused by others' ideas and suggestions. It can help one overcome emotional traumas and grief. Sensuality and sexuality can also be heightened by citrine.
  • In the psychic and spiritual realms, citrine is good for general psychic awareness and spiritual development. Citrine clears the aura of negative energies and influences. It is also very useful for meditation. Citrine is a stone of protection, removing or deflecting negative energies of all kinds. It is also excellent for dream recall and dream work.
  • Physically, citrine is beneficial for the digestion, stomach, eliminating nightmares and other sleep disturbances, thyroid, general health, heart, kidney, liver, muscles, thymus,  strength, endocrine system, circulatory system, tissue regeneration, urinary system, immune system, fibromyalgia. Citrine is also good for removing toxins, and overcoming addictions.  Diminish growths.
  • Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it promotes success and abundance. It enhances mental clarity, confidence, happiness and will power. Citrine brings good fortune in sometimes unexpected ways. It can alleviate depression and self-doubt, and diminish irrational mood swings due to the effect of mental clarity it has. It can aid the digestion and eliminate nightmares that disturb one's sleep. It is associated with the solar plexus chakra.

Mystical Properties:

  • Most commonly referred to as a gemstone that brings happiness, hope and cheer to its wearer.  Hence the name, "Cuddle Quartz"-- as it is said to make the wearer feel "cuddled.".
  • Some believe placing citrine crystals in a safe or locked place will cause income to increase, hence the name "Merchant's Stone."
  • Jewelers consider it a gemstone of November, however, because of its yellow color, it is sometimes associated with the Sun (Leo).
  • Thought to chase away nightmares and ensure a good nights sleep.
  • Vibrates to #6.

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