Pink Quartz

It is the stone of the Heart par excellence! It's a concentrate of pure love with soft, feminine and comforting energies.

When your heart, attacked by torments of the present or the past, becomes an iron shield, when an emptiness inside you cries out for tenderness, when your tears that dare not flow are like blades for your soul, when your heart is heavy, filled with a mass of emotions too long unexpressed, this pile of sorrows that has become a weight you can no longer bear, Rose Quartz is there with all its gentleness and love. To overcome communication problems, if the approach of a loved one makes you lose your bearings, you may need soothing to express yourself sincerely. You can then explore the additional lithotherapy properties of Blue Quartz.

With him, you'll learn that you no longer need to lock your heart behind a shield, that you can be receptive to love in complete safety, that you have within you all the tenderness you need and that you're entitled to give it to yourself and that yes, your tears can flow like a stream, a river and even a torrent if need be! Perhaps that's the best way for your inner waters to regain their tranquility?

With him, you'll learn to free yourself from your sorrows and to finally dare to heal the wounds of your heart in order to cheer up.

Rose Quartz inspires Love, Love with a capital A. Unconditional love, the kind you feel when you're bathed in the maternal womb. It teaches you empathy, the art of loving, the strengths of your sensitivity, the importance of self-love and helps you become aware of your own worth.

It is a calming stone that promotes peace of mind and soothes tension. It will support you wonderfully in case of crisis, anxiety, break-up, depression, cruel lack of love, trauma or emotional shock and especially when you carry wounds linked to your maternal lineage.

With Quartz rose, melancholy is a poetry that takes flight to make way for music composed of sweetness and love.

It is perfect for helping with sleep, encouraging the birth of a child by working on the welcoming and opening of the heart, being a precious support during pregnancy and babymoon, or during convalescence or the end of life. It can also be an invaluable support during pregnancy and babymoon, or during convalescence or the end of life. It also knows how to accompany babies and children, especially when anxiety or too many emotions cause them to cry or worry.

Physically, it's an excellent stone for lowering blood pressure and improving circulation. It promotes skin tone and helps firm tissues and accelerate healing of wounds and bruises.

How to use rose quartz

Rose Quartz Moon Water: place one or more Rose Quartz stones in a carafe of water and leave the carafe with the stones outside on a full moon night. Store this water in a closed glass bottle.

To brighten your complexion and prevent wrinkles, put a little of this water on your face every day.

To harmonize the energies in your home, spray this water in every room. You can also drink it consciously every morning.

Accompany yourself with a Rose Quartz whenever the need for love and gentleness arises.

When your heart is heavy, take a moment to relax with a Rose Quartz placed on your heart chakra.

To encourage the arrival of a child, place a Rose Quartz on your heart and another on your uterus. Ask for the immediate dissolution of any blockages and the liberation of any memories that would prevent the coming and welcoming of a soul. You can also place a Carnelian or Moonstone in place of the Rose Quartz on your belly.

You can give or offer yourself massages with a pebble, massage roller or massage stick made of Rose Quartz. It's an excellent stone for the skin and soothes tension.

For a moment of pure relaxation and softness, to take care of yourself and pamper yourself, take a bath with one or more Rose Quartz. You can also add powdered clay and coarse sea or Himalayan salt to your water.

To enjoy its benefits every day, wear a Rose Quartz on you, as a bracelet, pendant or in your pocket or bra.

Where to place a Rose Quartz?

Rose Quartz in your living space is excellent for harmonizing the energy of your surroundings. In fact, this stone is frequently used in geobiology to counter certain disturbances.

In a home, it diffuses welcoming and protective energies conducive to benevolence, harmony between inhabitants and love of self and others.

Placed in your bedroom, its softness will promote restful and recuperative sleep and in your living room, it will radiate energies conducive to relaxation, inner peace and family harmony.

In a child's or baby's bedroom, it's much appreciated for the comfort and sense of security it brings. It helps calm anxieties and soothe emotional little wolves.

Its presence in your garden will enchant and attract fairies. At the entrance to your home, it will act as a protector and invite any negative energy to stay behind the door.

In your treatment room, he'll be happy to accompany you with his energies of unconditional love, and in your office, he'll help you avoid excess stress and invite you to work from the heart too.

You can also choose a Rose Quartz Yoni or Jade egg.

The history of pink quartz

Very famous and equally appreciated and used in jewelry and lithotherapy throughout the world, Rose Quartz seems to have always been the stone of the heart and of love. Its history began around 9,000 years ago in Mesopotamia, then throughout the Middle East where, in the Bronze Age, it was associated with the great goddess of love and fertility Astaré.

In Egypt, Rose Quartz was a symbol of beauty and was used to slow skin aging.

In ancient Greece, it had its legends: the story went that this stone of love and beauty, which facilitated fertility, had been created when Adonis, Aphrodite's lover, was out hunting. He was attacked by a wild boar. In an attempt to save her lover, Aphrodite scratched herself on a bramble bush and found Adonis mortally wounded. Their blood mingled and form a magnificent Rose Quartz, the symbol of their love.

It was also said that, tired of seeing so much anger, war and cruelty, Eros decided to place Rose Quartz on earth to breathe peace and love into mankind instead of hatred and destruction.

On the border between Honduras and Guatemala, archaeologists have found a skull carved from rose quartz. Legend has it that this skull is linked to the Mayan legend of the 13 skulls.

From the 17ᵉ century onwards, numerous sculptures and objects in Rose Quartz from Asia were marketed in Europe.

Mineralogical characteristics of pink quartz

Did you know? There are two types of pink quartz: the most widespread is "coarse" pink quartz, which forms at very high temperatures in pegmatites. Its main deposits are in Brazil, Namibia and Madagascar.

The other variety is called Quartz rose in French, but English and German distinguish between the two (Rose Quartz and Pink Quartz in English and Quartzrose and Rosaquartz in German). Unlike rock crystal or amethyst, it has the particularity of forming developed crystals, which is very rare. It is formed from hydrothermal solutions containing aluminum phosphate. The only deposit of this variety of pink quartz is in Brazil.

These two varieties belong to the Quartz group and oxides. They are composed of silicon dioxide and contain sodium and aluminum. Coarse" pink quartz also contains phosphorus and traces of iron and manganese. Crystallized" pink quartz contains iron, titanium and traces of magnesium, calcium and manganese.

Rose Quartz comes in a lovely range of pinks, from very pale, almost white, to deep pink, with purplish or salmon hues. The most sought-after are those that are both deep pink and translucent, but these two qualities are quite rare. In general, the more translucent the pink, the paler the pink.

The origin of its color is perhaps not yet fully understood. Until 20 years ago, mineralogists believed that iron, manganese and titanium were responsible for its hue, but further study has revealed the presence of pink fibers of a Dumortierite variety, which are thought to be responsible for its color.

The second, crystal-forming variety of pink quartz is another story. Here, natural irradiation creates an exchange of ions in the Quartz's atomic structure, giving it its pink hue. When coloration occurs via this mechanism, it creates a photosensitivity that explains why this variety of pink Quartz can fade in sunlight.

In the therapeutic virtues of Rose Quartz described above, I'm talking only about the most common variety, the one that doesn't form developed crystals. As the two varieties have different formation and composition, their virtues are not quite the same.