Amethyst

Amethyst is a renowned and famous stone, particularly appreciated for the beauty of its violet crystals. It has been a great success for millennia in both lithotherapy and jewelry.

What are the benefits of amethyst?

Too many redundant thoughts cluttering up your mind? Are you suffering from mental overload? Do you have trouble sorting out your thoughts and seeing clearly? Are you easily stressed, anxious or angry? Do you often let things get to your head and struggle to let go?

The company of Amethyst in your daily life can help you find your serenity more easily by stopping that mental hubbub that confuses and overloads your mind, preventing you from living in the moment and simply connecting with your intuition. Your intuition, that is! This feeling of immediate knowledge, this conviction beyond reasoning that springs from deep within you, is often the one that gives you the keys, or at least the clues, to solve your problems and difficulties. Suddenly, with clarity, a message becomes obvious: you can see into yourself.

Amethyst and sleep

Do you cogitate too much and often feel stressed or anxious at bedtime? Amethyst could be the stone for you if you have trouble falling asleep.

You can place an Amethyst geode on your bedside table and relax every night at bedtime with an Amethyst placed on your forehead.

As Amethyst can amplify perceptions , you can also use it to intensify your dreams and remember more easily messages received during your nocturnal travels.

Amethyst and addictions

It is a stone often used to help free oneself from all types of addictions , such as drugs, alcohol, sugar, compulsive buying or tobacco, as it helps reduce nervousness due to difficult emotions and withdrawal. For greater effectiveness, you can combine it with Smoky Quartz or Botswana Agate.

It can be a great help in freeing oneself from addictions to drugs, alcohol, sugar, compulsive shopping or tobacco.

The magical virtues of amethyst

Yes, amethyst is often associated with magic, mystery and the divine. A purifying stone with spiritual energies , it is used by many to amplify extra-sensory perceptions such as mediumship.

What are the physical benefits of amethyst?

Amethyst relieves headaches and migraines, and has been used for thousands of years to reduce fever, treat burns, gastric disorders and poisoning.

How to use an Amethyst

• To enjoy its benefits all day long, place your Amethyst against you, in your pocket or bra, or as a piece of jewelry.
• In case of stress, nervousness and concentration problems, you can do regular relaxations with an Amethyst placed on the 3ᵉ eye or above the head or take a bath with your stone.
• If you wish to use an Amethyst to improve your sleep , place a geode on your bedside table or a piece of this stone under your pillow.
• To detoxify your body, drinking Amethyst gem water is ideal, especially in the morning on an empty stomach.

What stones should Amethyst be associated with?

Amethyst goes very well with most semi-precious stones.

• To promote the earth-sky , material-spiritual link , combine your Amethyst with an anchoring stone such as Black Tourmaline, Black Spinel or Fossilized Wood.
• For extra-sensory perception , combine it with a Rock Crystal or white Labradorite.
• The combination of Amethyst, Botswana Agate and Smoky Quartz or Morion can be a great help in freeing yourself from addictions or nervousness.
• To detoxify your body, especially the liver, green opal, peridot, lizardite or smoky quartz or morion are well suited.
• To encourage concentration, place an Amethyst, Pyrite and Fluorite on your desk or on top of you.

Where to place an Amethyst?

The presence of an Amethyst in your home creates an atmosphere of relaxation, serenity and openness. This stone has the advantage of purifying its environment.

• It's perfect for the bedroom, the living room or, as it's not afraid of water, by the bath or even in your tub for a moment of pure relaxation.
• In the workplace, Amethyst helps with concentration, creativity and clarity of mind.
• Amethyst can be placed in a carafe to purify and energize water.

Is it possible to purify stones with an amethyst druse?

It's common to hear that stones can be recharged or purified on an Amethyst crystal druse.

If this method appeals to you, I suggest you first purify your Amethyst druse before placing your stones on it.

Amethyst is a stone with spiritual energies and works mainly on the "higher" chakras. While it is well suited to minerals with similar energies, using it to purify stones and crystals with earth or fire energies is questionable, to say the least.

Amethyst in mineralogy

A violet variety of quartz, amethyst is formed hydrothermally at temperatures ranging from 100°C to 250°C from an iron-containing silicic acid-rich solution that seeps into the cavities of volcanic rocks.
Its violet color is due to the presence of ionizing radiation emanating from the surrounding rocks.
This oxide-class crystal is composed of silicon dioxide and traces of aluminum, iron, calcium, magnesium, lithium and sodium.

Its rhombohedral crystals take the form of crystal meadows or coarse clusters of various sizes lining the cavities of volcanic rocks in the form of geodes or druses.

The main amethyst deposits are found in Brazil, Australia, Uruguay, Mexico and Namibia.

Did you know?

The term geode
refers to a rock cavity lined with crystals. The term druse
is used to designate the flattened cavities of geodes.

Amethyst crystals are found in the Swiss Alps

When heated to around 450°C, Amethysts turn yellow and are called "Citrines": at this stage, they are often mistaken for natural Citrines.

Uruguayan amethyst is highly sought-after because its crystals are more intense violet and brilliant than those from other deposits.

The history of Amethyst

Amethyst has been used for thousands of years in goldsmithing and lithotherapy.

Until huge deposits of amethyst were discovered in South America, it had almost the same commercial value in Europe as diamonds.

Among the Greeks and Romans, amethyst had a special connection with wine and was used to resist the effects of alcohol. Indeed, its name comes from the Greek "Amethustos" , meaning "to protect from drunkenness".

Amulet stone for Egyptians and Europeans in the Middle Ages, it was used as a protection that gave courage while protecting against betrayal and black magic. In medicine, it was famed for bringing down fevers and curing gastric disorders and poisoning.

In the Middle Ages, the Church saw Amethyst as a stone linked to the blood of Christ, symbolizing obedience to God and renunciation of material possessions.

Myth linked to the origin of Amethyst

Dionysus was particularly interested in the young and virginal nymph Amétis. When he became insistent, Artemis decided to protect her from the ardors of Dionysus and the famous Greek orgies by transforming the young nymph into a magnificent white and pure Crystal.
Very angry, the god of wine took revenge by pouring his cup of wine over the crystal.

Another version has it that Dionysus, angry with humans, decided to unleash his tigers on the 1st human who crossed his path. It was a young girl named Amétis who happened to be passing by at the time. Feeling threatened, she asked the goddess Artemis for protection. The goddess transformed the girl into a white crystal. Dionysus immediately regretted his cruelty and delicately poured wine over the crystal as an offering.