|
Moonstone
Moonstones come in a variety of colors, ranging from colorless to white, gray, brown, yellow, orange, green, or pink. Clarity ranges from transparent to translucent.
Description: (K, Na) AlSi3O8, Moonstone) is soft milky white stone, the most valuable variety of feldspar with an rainbow sheen. shows a silvery or bluish iridescence, that is caused by the intergrowth of two different types of feldspar with different efractive indexes.
The name's origin: The moonstone named for its semblance in color to the moon.
Birthstone: Moonstone along with alexandrite and pearls are birthstones of Gemini (Twins): May 21 - June 21.
From the stone history: Moonstone was very popular with the Romans, who thought it was formed out of moonlight, also used in Roman jewelry since 100 AD. In India moonstone is considered a sacred stone to this day.
Shopping guide: Stone has a rainbow-like array of colors and will pick up colors you wear. The best moonstone has a blue sheen, perfect clarity, and a colorless body color. It is often worn in rings, pendants or bead necklaces.
Healing ability: Moonstone aligns vertebrae. It is good digestive aid. Moonstone also soothes and balances the emotions.
Mystical power: Moonstone is believed to be protective for women and babies. It's also associated with the sea and planting cycles. Moonstone is said to balance yin and yang. In India, moonstone is regarded as a sacred stone. It is believed to bring good fortune. Legend says that Moonstone is a highly prized gift for lovers as it arouses tender passion.
Deposits: Moonstone is found in Brazil, European Alps, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, and USA (Pennsylvania and Virginia). Sri Lanka produces the highest quality moonstones
- Assists you to further your growth universally as part of a world wide improvement & progress. Takes you to the 'heart of the Light', which radiates from the centre & perpetually gives birth to the illumination of life. Helps you to recognize the interdependence from each flash of the 'fountain' & assists the cycles of your life to be integrated with each other. Brings rainbows into your life. Brings the white light of healing. It is a mirror to cycles, operating on different levels of reality, which we all experience. It brings a flow of life information to the user. With the aid of rainbow moonstone, you can access that 'which has been' & 'that which will become' with respect to your personal life. Assists you to recognize the difference between 'seen' phenomena (that which is available to the senses) & that which is 'unseen' & only accessible through the intuitive system. Brings that intuitive 'seeing' into order so that you can build a reality around it, rather than wonder what you are 'visioning'. Promotes contact with your Higher Self. A very useful stone when you are receiving intuitive pictures & flashes & are not seeing or sensing the complete picture of what they are about or where they have come from. Brings it all together into a holistic 'Oneness'. Use in intestinal digestion & cleansing: liver, pancreas, gall bladder.
- Hoping, wishing, needing, feeling, intuition, flashes of insight, cleanses chakras.
- “Traveler’s stone”, good fortune, tenderness, calmness, awareness.
- Skin, hair, eyes, fleshy organs, assimilation of nutrients, toxin elimination, lungs, pregnancy, fertility, PMS, insomnia, water retention, insect bites, allergic reactions, vibrates to #4 .
Back to List of Gems
|
