Blue Quartz
fine blue stones polished and matt, pierced, in bracelets and pendants
Blue Quartz is a natural stone used since ancient times as a protective amulet. Its beautiful blue hues associate it with heaven and earth. In lithotherapy, it has soothing properties. Its energies work primarily on the throat chakra, and its benefits relate to communication, expression and listening.
What are the virtues and properties of Blue Quartz in lithotherapy?
Calm and soothing, Blue Quartz helps you rest your mind so you can understand and feel the world with greater clarity. Anti-stress, it can accompany you in periods of overwork by making it easier to express your emotions and feelings without anxiety - and by helping you to listen better to others.
Ancient benefits and powers
The ancients already linked Blue Quartz to the deities of water and sky. The Egyptians incorporated it into their jewelry and rituals for its crystalline beauty and soothing and good-luck properties.
For Roman sailors, it was a protective companion against storms and the dangers of the sea during uncertain voyages and crossings.
Many Native American cultures, such as the Hopi, Navajo and Cherokee, used Blue Quartz for its calming benefits and to strengthen healing and resilience.
In lithotherapy, a stone linked to communication and truth
Blue quartz is thus linked to the symbols of truth, in its expression of peace, clarity and honest communication.
Its association with the element air helps mental clarity and exchange through expression, while the element water favors emotional processing through its soothing and balancing energy.
Thus, in lithotherapy, Blue Quartz is useful for improving communication and expression by opening the throat chakra. Untying emotions and feelings - and "knots" in the throat - it is an antidote to stress and anxiety. Calm, tranquility and serenity accompany it.
Its symbolic protection is sometimes said to boost the immune system.
You can discover another anti-anxiety blue crystal and properties that facilitate communication: Cyanite, see here.
Purifying your Blue Quartz
Refilling and cleaning
Sun, running water, fumigation, wind/breath, intention, singing bowl, form waves, prayers, earth...Associated astrological signs
Cancer, Capricorn, Gemini, Taurus, VirgoCancer, Scorpio and Pisces: water signs will strengthen intuition and their ability to communicate.
Chakras
Throat chakra: Blue Quartz improves the fluidity of interpersonal exchanges Third eye chakra: intuition and authenticity enhance understanding of self and othersElements
Air and WaterNotes on the mineralogy of your stone
The particular blue color of this crystalline quartz comes from the inclusion of tiny needles of rutile or other minerals such as crocidolite, which cause light to scatter in this wavelength.
Under conditions of high temperature and pressure, blue quartz is formed mainly in hydrothermal veins and pegmatites, where mineral-rich fluids deposit quartz and other minerals.
Lithotherapy
Mineralogy
- Hardness :
- 7.0
- Moths scale:
- 7
- Strunz classification :
- Oxides and Hydroxides
- Chemical element :
- Si, O, Ti
- Line color :
- White
- Density :
- 2.65
- Cleavage :
- Imperfect (parallel to rhombohedral surface)
- Fracture:
- Conchoidal
- Transparency :
- Translucent
- Colors :
- Translucent light blue
*Please note! Some minerals may be toxic and must not be licked or ingested (as such or in the form of powder, elixir or stone water) or be in prolonged contact with the skin or mucous membranes.
*The information on the stones described here are general indications based on our research and experience, and are not exhaustive.
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