La Rubellite - Pink tourmaline
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Rubellite - from the Latin rubellus, "reddish" - is a pale pink to reddish-pink or purplish Tourmaline, composed of lithium-rich crystalline silicate.
In lithotherapy, love, healing and protection are the watchwords of this beautiful stone.
What are the virtues and properties of pink tourmaline in lithotherapy?
A stone of love, tenderness and compassion, this warm crystal helps heal emotional wounds. Various ancient cultures and traditions have seen it as a stone of peace and protection.
The origins of pink tourmaline
In China, legend has it that the very enlightened Empress Dowager Cixi(venerable mother) was so fascinated by this stone that when she died, her head was laid on a pink Tourmaline pillow. This story underlines the importance of this crystal in Chinese culture, where it was a symbol of serenity and a defense against evil spells.
In ancient Egypt, it also had protective and curative properties.
In ancient India, Rubellite jewelry and talismans were used for enlightenment and to enhance human qualities.
In the Andes, it was a tool for accessing knowledge of the past.
It arrived in Europe on merchant ships in the 18th century - along with its connection to healing practices. A Dutch scientist, Johann Georg von Eckermann, believed that placing a Tourmaline in silk on the cheek of a feverish child would induce sleep.
Lithotherapy benefits of pink Rubellite
Love and compassion, emotional healing and tenderness escort this stone in lithotherapy. Soothing and balancing, it opens the heart chakra, warmth and empathy, making it a sought-after choice for jewelry and talismans.
Pink Tourmaline is an excellent energizing stone: it brings strength, joy and enthusiasm, while exuding a serene energy conducive to relaxation. It releases negative emotions and promotes self-love, attracting positive energies and relieving stress and anxiety.
This feminine energy stone provides the courage and support needed to get through life's emotional whirlwinds.
For emotional wounds from the past and present (break-up, conflict with a loved one, betrayal, loneliness, jealousy, grief, etc.), Pink Tourmaline soothes, heals and calms painful emotions.
It has the wisdom to teach true Love, that which is lived without projections or expectations.
It's the ideal stone for overcoming a break-up or for calming conflicts between mother and daughter.
The benefits of red tourmaline
On a physical level
Pink Tourmaline is a wonderful support during menopause, when hormonal changes are difficult to cope with on a daily basis.
As a general rule, Rubellites are excellent for improving the circulation of energy in your body. Pink tourmalines are particularly good for the heart chakra and red tourmalines for the root chakra.
How to use pink tourmaline
Relaxation with a pink Tourmaline crystal placed on the heart chakra.
It can also be worn as jewelry, close to you, or in your pocket to benefit from its virtues on a daily basis.
What other crystals can amplify the beneficial effects of lithotherapy?
- Combined with green tourmaline, it provides in-depth care for the heart chakra.
- Rose Quartz to amplify inner peace
- Amethyst for added stress relief
- Chrysocolla to unblock emotions
- Rhodochrosite for self-love
- Morganite to attract harmonious relationships.
- Peridot to free yourself from toxic emotions.
Purify your pink Tourmaline
Refilling / cleaning
Moon, earth, fumigation, running water, breath, intention, singing bowl, form waves, prayers...Astrological signs
Baeance, Taurus and ScorpioChakras
Heart chakra (pink tourmalines) - Root chakra (red tourmalines)Elements
Water - for purification, circulation and emotional healing (pink tourmalines) Earth - for the circulation of telluric energies (red tourmalines)Mineralogy of pink tourmaline
Pink tourmaline or rubellite forms mainly in pegmatites, igneous rocks rich in rare materials. It is a complex borosilicate of aluminum, iron, magnesium, sodium, lithium or potassium, most often found near minerals such as Mica, Quartz and Feldspar.
Its color, from pink to violet to red, is due to the presence of manganese and lithium crystals in its structure.
Its hardness on the Mohs scale ranges from 7 and 7.5, making it a relatively resistant mineral and highly suitable for jewelry.
Initially, the term Rubellite referred only to red Tourmalines, but has since been applied to the much more common pink Tourmalines.
Lithotherapy
- Zodiac(s) :
- Aries, Scorpio, Taurus
- Purification :
- Singing bowl, Water, Fumigation, Moon, Form waves, Sun, Breath, Earth
- Physics :
- Hormones (regulation), Vitality
- Emotional :
- Love, Emotional hurt, Courage, Enthusiasm, Strength, Joie de vivre, Willpower, Emotional, Balance
- Spiritual :
- Harmonie
- Miscellaneous :
- Relationship
Mineralogy
- Hardness :
- 7.0-7.5
- Moths scale:
- 7
- Strunz classification :
- Silicate
- Crystalline system :
- Trigonal
- Chemical element :
- Na, Li, Al, O, H, B, Si
- Line color :
- White
- Density :
- 2.9 - 3.2, average = 3.05
- Cleavage :
- Poor
- Fracture:
- Irregular to conchoidal
- Transparency :
- Transparent, translucent
- Refringence :
- Ne=1.603 to 1.634, No=1.619 to 1.655
- Birefringence :
- Negative biaxial, -0.013 to 0.024
- Pleochroism :
- Net to strong
- Colors :
- Pale pink to reddish pink or purplish
- Magnetism :
- no
- Radioactivity :
- no
Other stones for the Heart Chakra
*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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