Tourmaline
black, green, blue, pink, watermelon, red, violet, brown, multicolored

What does it mean?

With its rod-like energy-conducting crystals, Tourmaline represents the verticality between earth and sky. The energy that connects.

What are its virtues?

Tourmaline is an exceptional healing stone, in particular for promoting the circulation of energies in the body and the release of energy blockages, but also the release of blockages in general, such as recurring difficulties, fears, accumulated tensions, the feeling of stagnation, of being constantly prevented from moving forward, fears of judgments by others and all types of personal blockage linked to our wounds.

An energy-generating and channeling stone, its crystals (similar to magic wands) are particularly effective when used correctly during an energy treatment to work on releasing blockages in the meridians and chakras.

A great help when you feel "fragmented" or in conflict with yourself, Tourmaline teaches you to accept your different facets, your own diversity and works for harmony between mind, body, soul and spirit.

It is also reputed to be of great help to anyone suffering from psychological disorders or pathologies such as psychosis or personality disorders.

The benefits of different Tourmaline varieties

The more specific virtues of each variety of Tourmaline vary according to the chemical elements of which it is composed and the type of mineralogical formation.

Black Tourmaline - Schorl

It is without doubt the most widespread variety on the market, the most accessible and the best known.
Its reputation as a protective stone is well established and has been a huge success for many years.

An anchoring and protective stone, Black Tourmaline helps you plant your roots deep in the earth, fully accept your earthly incarnation and make peace with or regain your balance in the world of matter. Particularly effective in protecting against all kinds of undesirable energies, including black magic attacks and the presence of entities, it is also effective in protecting against electrosmog.

It is highly valued in geobiology for overall energetic protection of the site or to correct the harmful effects of a fault or negative Hartman telluric lines and crossings.

Chakra : Root
Star sign : Libra

La Dravite - Brown tourmaline

Dravite anchors you and helps you take action by relying on concrete and pragmatic reasoning. With it, a sense of responsibility takes center stage and you gain confidence in yourself and your potential to achieve your goals or meet your commitments or obligations.

A refocusing stone, it is a great support for people who struggle to bring stability to their lives and projects, who find it hard to organize themselves and who scatter easily.

It is also used as a support for breaking bad habits or addictions.

Chakra : Root and Solar Plaxus
Star signs : Aries

La Verdelite - Green tourmaline

A stone for healing emotional wounds linked to the paternal lineage, Verdelite teaches you righteousness, tolerance, trust and understanding of your own and others' functioning. With it, you learn to respect the limits imposed by an external framework and to respect your own limits, your own framework, your safeguard.

No more impulsive reactions triggered by anger, feelings of injustice or frustration. With it you learn to keep your center to act in a just way without letting yourself be blinded by your wounds linked to authority or a desire to rebel, with it you take back your free will and learn to hold the reins of your own life and to take the place you choose to take.

Rubellite - Pink or red tourmaline

Pink Tourmaline, complementary to Green Tourmaline, is a stone for healing emotional wounds linked to the maternal line. With Rubellite you learn to heal your wounds, to heal your wounds, to take care of yourself with gentleness and kindness. Having it as your companion helps you to free your heart from encrusted emotions and feelings that weigh it down or close it up, such as resentment, anxiety, fear or jealousy and allows you to make room for and focus your attention on positive feelings too, such as wonder, joy, gratitude or feelings of love.

It is particularly suitable for calming conflicts between mother and daughter, soothing resentment towards one's own mother and reconciling with one's own feminine energies.

It is a stone that gives off a powerful and gentle energy and brings enthusiasm and vitality as well as serenity and peace.

On a physical level, it helps regulate hormonal secretions and is particularly suitable for calming the upheavals of menopause.

Chakra : Heart
Star signs : Libra, Gemini and Virgo

Red Tourmaline is a stimulating and joyful stone that makes you want to move forward and achieve your goals. With it, there's no question of staying in one's shell or comfort zone! It favors a positive attitude in the face of difficulties, encourages extroversion and fosters social relationships.

By helping to release blockages in the^1st and 2nd chakras, Red Tourmaline promotes and balances the circulation of sexual energy and fosters the desire for a creative, respectful and fulfilled sexuality.

Physically, it stimulates blood circulation and the function of the sexual organs.

Chakra : Root and Sacral
Star signs : Scorpio and Sagittarius

Watermelon Tourmaline - pink in the center and green on the outside, or vice versa.

Watermelon tourmaline is the perfect marriage of green and pink tourmaline and combines the virtues of both varieties.

Chakra : Heart
Star signs : Gemini and Virgo

Elbaite - Multicolored tourmaline

Multicolored Tourmaline or Elbaite stimulates your imagination, the richness of your inner world and your creativity. It helps you to live alongside and cohabit with all kinds of different energies. It helps you understand that everything is connected, that everything is one.

The more specific virtues of each Elbaite differ according to the chemical elements of which it is composed.

Chakras: according to their colors. Pink and green - Heart, ochre and yellow - Solar plexus and Sacral
Star signs : Libra and Gemini

Indigolite or Indicolite - Blue Tourmaline

Indigolite helps to free oneself from obsessive thoughts and promotes a better circulation of energy in brain areas. With it, you learn to free yourself from obsolete ideas and make room for new knowledge.

Very useful for clearing blockages in the throat and ^3rd eye chakras, it encourages the expression of feelings and authentic self-expression.

Chakra : throat and ^3rd eye
Star sign : Taurus and Libra

Siberite - Violet tourmaline

Highly supportive in cases of anxiety or panic attacks, Siberite reduces self-destructive or senseless compulsive behavior.

Regenerating on all levels, it is also welcome in cases of burn-out, emotional, mental or physical exhaustion.

Chakra :^3rd eye and coronal
Star sign : Pisces and Aries

Tourmaline in mineralogy

Tourmaline is a borosilicate of the cyclosilicate class and comes in 12 different varieties, distinguished by the elements present in their chemical composition:

Brown Dravite contains aluminum, magnesium and sodium.
Chromdravite, a green tourmaline whose color is determined by its chromium content.
Feruvite is black in color and contains iron, calcium and aluminum.
Liddicoatite, a multicolored tourmaline with lithium, aluminum and calcium.
Uvite is brown with calcium, aluminum and magnesium.
Tsilaisite is a dark yellow Tourmaline containing sodium, manganese and aluminum.
Povondaïte, a black tourmaline with iron and sodium.
Schorl, a black tourmaline with iron, sodium and aluminum.
Olenite is pale pink and contains aluminum and sodium.
Foitite, indigo blue containing iron and aluminium.
Buergerite, brown with sodium, aluminum and iron.
Elbaite, a multicolored tourmaline containing lithium, aluminum, magnesium and sodium.

Tourmalines are usually classified by color:

Idicolite for blue Elbaites
Verdelite for Tourmalines in various shades of green
Rubellite, originally used for red Elbaite, but now extended to pink Tourmalines.
Tourmaline melon d'eau or watermelon for Tourmaline crystals with pink cores and green exteriors, or vice versa.
Tourmaline de Parabaïa for rare blue Elbaite varieties containing copper
Achroite, for colorless or lavender-colored Elbaite
Siberite, a violet Tourmaline variety

To find out which variety a Tourmaline belongs to, for example whether a green Tourmaline is an Elbaite or a Chromedravite, the color alone is not enough, but the deposit from which it comes can give precious clues.

Tourmaline can be formed in four different ways:
From liquid magma, which crystallizes when the first feldspars are formed and the crystals can still expand. In this case, its constituent elements come exclusively from the magma.
By pegmatite formation, in this case, its composition is determined by the magma and by the minerals extracted from the surrounding rock by the hot magma.
By pneumatolytic formation, where boric acid vapors dissolve minerals from surrounding rocks and together form tourmaline.
By hydrothermal formation, where hot water leaches the surrounding rock, causing the minerals to dissolve in the liquid and crystallize as it cools.

A trigonal crystal system, Tourmaline forms long, rod-like crystals of varying thickness. The varieties that form the largest crystals are Black Tourmaline and Dravite. These crystals terminate asymmetrically or flat. Its crystal lattice is characterized by 3-sided prisms that form a structure whose elements are almost always multiples of 3.

Did you know?

Tourmaline has two very interesting properties:

Piezoelectricity, which means it becomes electrically polarized when subjected to stress such as shock or pressure and thus generates energy.

Pyroelectricity means that when a Tourmaline crystal is heated, its electrical charge changes, a positive charge is created and the stone attracts fine particles such as dust, ash, straw, etc. Moreover, Dutch sailors, the first importers of Tourmaline, used it to clean their pipes and some manufacturers of hair straightening irons include Tourmaline to avoid static electricity.
This property has earned it the nickname "the love of Ceylon".