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Smoky Quartz
A clear gray or brown variety of crystalline Quartz. Also known as "Cairngorm" or "Morion" and occasionally referred to as the "Dream Stone".
The presence of sodium in clear quartz is said to create smoky quartz. While clear quartz (especially that with rainbows) is used on all chakras, the smoky variety, as with all dark/blackish stones is generally associated with the base chakra.
- A grounding and stabilizing stone. brings calm and centering, lifts depression, enhances practicality, and generally removes negative energies, bringing happiness.
- A good luck stone, a protective stone particularly for psychic protection. Assists in tapping subconscious wisdom. Often a good luck talisman for competitors, protecting and encouraging. It provides energy and fortitude and gives new heart to those in difficulty. A stone to re-awaken the dormant ‘inner you’. Very protective and grounding stone. Enhances survival instincts, and can help one reach personal and business goals, as well as assisting in making wishes come true. Beneficial for groups, and engenders cooperation. Helps with creativity, prioritizing needs and wants, and wisdom. Brings abundance, prosperity.
- Emotionally, excellent for elevating moods, overcoming negative emotions, and relieving depression. relieves stress, fear, jealousy, anger and other negative emotions by transforming them into positive energies. Comforting and calming, and can be considered a stone of serenity. Can be helpful in relieving grief. Especially useful for grounding and draining away negative energy.
- In the psychic and spiritual realms, grounds one during meditation, and can provide a grounded link between the physical and higher selves, helping to uncover subconscious wisdom. Using smoky quartz during meditation enables you to reach higher states of consciousness. Smoky quartz also stimulates kundalini. Because smoky quartz transforms and removes negative energy, it also protects and cleanses the aura and astral bodies. can be used for psychic shielding.
- Believed to help one come to terms with circumstances, becoming more acceptant of bodies and lives. Helps us to make our dreams into reality. Stimulates pride, self respect and self esteem.
Sleeping with Smoky Quartz under the pillow can help one remember and understand the significance of dreams.
- Heightens understanding of nature and concern for the environment.
- Physically, smoky quartz is helpful for kidneys, abdomen, pancreas, reproductive organs. Removes toxins from the body and helps the adrenal glands. Helpful for regulating body fluids and relieving fluid retention. Excellent for dealing with hyperactivity, and attention deficit disorder, for balancing and improving one's general health, and for Cholesterol problems.
Smoky Quartz is especially useful for grounding and draining away negative energy. It heightens your understanding of nature and concern for the environment.
For Men it is excellent for inflammation of Prostate Gland. This stone is effective for Breast Tumor and also excellent for Cholesterol.
Weak people obtain a lot of energy and power from this stone. This stone also takes away fears and low spirit.
Mystical Properties:
- The national gem of Scotland, a large smoky quartz crystal sat atop the scepter of Scotland.
- Most commonly mentioned for relief of depression, anxiety and sadness and to improve a cooperative attitude.
- Natural Healers use Smokey Quartz crystals to remove negative energy from within the body and surrounding the person. Thought to protect from negative entities during Astral Projection or while entering trances or ethereal realms. The stone is said to draw the negative energy into itself and therefore should be regularly cleansed by moonlight or sunlight.
- Crystal spheres or orbs of smoky quartz were famous for scrying the future. The most famous of these Smoky Quartz spheres was the "Show Stone", owned by Dr. Dee, a renowned court diviner to Elizabeth I of England.
- Considered a gemstone of Capricorn and important to the number 8 in Numerology.
- Considered a gem of Autumn.
Healing Properties: Most commonly thought to be a depression lifter--mood enhancer.
Scientific Properties:
- Smoky Quartz crystals are composed of Silicon Dioxide with trace quantities of aluminum.
- The coloring is from "radiation" within the earth (synthetic versions are bombarded with radiation to create synthetic smoky quartz).
- Found commonly in Alabama, Arkansas, Maine, Montana, New Jersey, North Carolina, South Carolina U.S.A. Hardness: 6.0 - 7.0 on the Moh's Hardness
Essential oils of: Rosemary
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