Pink, apricot, orange, or salmon moonstone
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Moonstones come in four main colors: orange-pink, white, gray (or gray-brown), and black. Each color symbolizes the energies of a phase in the cycle of life, whether it be the lunar cycle, the female cycle, the cycle of the seasons, or the cycle of the day.

The pink or orange moonstone represents the new moon or crescent moon. It is a symbol and youth, spring, morning, young girls, and all new and .

Symbols and

Thus, the pink-orange stone, which owes its soft pearly reflections to potassium and feldspars, is a symbol of the zest for life, bringing with it the blossoming of possibilities and creative forces of renewal.

She is the archetype of the virgin or young girl, supporting the energies of the sacred fire of the earth, which drives you to draw on your creative power to implement the projects that are close to your heart with dynamism, curiosity and . Her energy of renewal encourages you to dare to start again, to be reborn with a new lease on life, like a bud, a young shoot in spring that opens and in the morning light.

According to tradition, its meaning makes it an excellent stone to use in cases of infertility, absence of menstruation, irregular cycles, menstrual pain, miscarriages, low libido, or blockages related to desire. Its wisdom can guide and in healing your wounds related to sexuality. For women, it can help release memories and accumulated over time due to wounds in the pelvic area.

She is also a wonderful and luminous companion during pregnancy, childbirth and the post-partum period.

Her presence, her gentle and energy and connection to the vital forces of the sacred feminine are an invitation to heal through the integration of the wisdom of cycles, through a perspective that could translate into a new creativity: if the movement linked to change and passing and time has destabilized us, a revitalized awareness of the connections between all things will become a mirror of the equivalences between our actions on the world and our minds. Acting on the world has the virtue of acting on ourselves; it is up to us to conceive of a necessary fluidity.

You can also check out our black moonstones, white moonstones, or gray-brown moonstones to explore our available pieces or learn more and their symbols and , and mineralogy.
 

How to use a pink moonstone in crystal healing?

• Wear a pink moonstone every day, preferably directly on the stomach area to benefit from its properties related to women's health.
• Create a ritual with a pink moonstone to enhance fertility.
• Place a pink moonstone in your marital bed to boost libido.
• If you have menstrual pain, take a bath with a pink moonstone on your stomach.
• A new project? A fresh start? Let yourself be inspired by the energy of this stone.

Where to place a pink moonstone?

• A pink moonstone in your living space will diffuse energies that promote serenity and .
• It will be perfect for your studio or office, stimulating your creativity and a breath of fresh air to your projects.
• In your bedroom, it is ideal if you want to have a more harmonious sex life with your partner.

Pink moonstone, for whom?

• For all those who dislike having their periods and to reconcile themselves with the blood of the moons.
• for couples wishing to have a child and pregnant women.
• For men and who want to explore the potential of their own feminine energies.
• According to tradition, for all women who experience pathologies or disorders related to their uterus or cycles.
• for people who live in the past, who are sad or listless, without desires or plans.

Which stones go well with pink, apricot, or orange moonstone?

In lithotherapy, it can be combined with other stones and depending on the desired properties:

• You can accompany it withAmethyst, a form of purple Quartz for emotional calm and mental and
• Carnelian, the stone of joy, is an excellent complement for supporting creativity, vitality, and .
• For protection and intuition and transformation, combine it with Labradorite, the stone of light, and clear or colorless Quartz and purification.
• For gentle emotions, healing of the heart and , choose rose quartz, the stone of tenderness.
• Rhodonite, pink manganese, will be a good complement to orange moonstone for deep emotional healing. It will promote compassion and emotional stability.

Precautions for combining this stone with other minerals

Moonstone has a hardness of 6 to 6.5 on the Mohs scale. Among the stones we recommend pairing it with, it can scratch rhodonite (5.5 to 6 on the Mohs scale) and scratched by amethyst (7), carnelian (6.5 to 7) and rose or clear and (7). Moonstone, carnelian, and (6) can scratch each other.

Handle with care!

Mineralogy of Pink Orange Moonstone

Moonstone is adularia, a potassium feldspar belonging to the tectosilicate group.
Its microscopic lamellar structure produces adularescence, its characteristic opalescent sheen.

As a general rule, the color of a moonstone depends and the proportion and distribution and potassium feldspar (orthoclase) and sodium feldspar (albite). Its pink, apricot, orange, or salmon color comes from tiny inclusions in the stone of iron oxide (hematite, most of the time), goethite for warmer shades, colloidal inclusions, or micro-cracks that scatter light for a pale pink color. Other factors may also come into play, such as the thickness and of its lamellae or the quality of its transparency.

Moonstones of this color mainly come from Madagascar, India, or Sri Lanka.