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Raw lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a stone that vibrates especially with the third eye chakra: it develops intuition by amplifying and expanding psychic and clairvoyant abilities.

It activates the pineal gland and opens communication with one's spiritual world, promoting the development of imagination.

Like most blue stones, lapis lazuli also stimulates and activates the throat chakra.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Lapis lazuli, semi-precious stone

The meaning of the word “lapis lazuli” dates back to the Persian word “lazur”, which means “blue stone”. Generally, lapis lazuli comes from Afghanistan, but it is also found in Italy, Egypt, Chile, Russia, and the United States.

These are very shiny and beautiful stones to look at, but they can take on different colors depending on the traces present inside them. Normally, it is found in the blue variety and contains inclusions of white calcite and golden pyrite.

History

Lapis lazuli has been known for thousands of years: it dates back to the time of the pharaohs. It has always been highly appreciated by the Egyptians both as an amulet and for creating jewelry, and specimens have also been found in the tomb of Pharaoh Tutankhamun.

According to the Bible, one of the stones of the High Priest of Jerusalem's breastplate was lapis lazuli. Part of the Book of the Dead was written on a slab of this mineral, while classical texts document how ancient peoples recognized great value in these splendid blue crystals. They were considered sacred stones, connected to spirituality, wisdom, enlightenment, and harmony.

Why use lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli is a stone that vibrates especially with the third eye chakra: it develops intuition by amplifying and expanding psychic and clairvoyant abilities. It activates the pineal gland and opens communication with one's spiritual world, promoting the development of imagination. Like most blue stones, lapis lazuli also stimulates and activates the throat chakra.

Being a highly spiritual stone, it also vibrates with the fifth chakra, improving creativity, creating clarity in communication, and depth of thought. It is considered a crystal connected to truth, as it allows one to speak without betraying one's heart.

Precisely because lapis lazuli helps develop depth of faith and great conviction, it increases self-confidence and the understanding of one's spirituality, making one lean towards the right decision. From this derives what is called “enlightenment”, that is, an instantaneous and surprising understanding of one's spiritual path.

Regarding health, lapis lazuli is connected to the well-being of the thyroid, throat, immune system, respiratory system, and nervous system. It seems that wearing the mineral can relieve migraines and help those who feel anxious or depressed.

Usually, lapis lazuli is quite easy to find, precisely because they are very beautiful stones that make splendid jewelry, such as pendants and necklaces if you want to keep them close to the throat chakra, or in the form of earrings if you want to keep them in the third eye area.

Properties of lapis lazuli

Lapis lazuli finds its perfect place at the height of both the fifth and sixth chakras. When used during a crystal therapy treatment with the purpose of increasing a person's expressive abilities, it is placed at the height of the neck. If, on the other hand, the spiritual path and clairvoyance are to be promoted, it will be placed between the eyebrows. Let's see what the properties of lapis lazuli are on the physical, spiritual, and mental levels.

Benefits for the body

Chromatically, lapis lazuli pairs perfectly with the fifth chakra, the throat chakra. Physically, it seems to work well on vocal cord problems, helping the wearer manifest repressed anger not with violence, but with words. It is also used to reinforce therapies aimed at resolving inflamed throat problems. Generally, it keeps blood pressure low, regulating hormones in the body such as those typical of menstruation, menopause, and pregnancy. Generally, it keeps blood pressure low.

Lapis lazuli works a lot on the feminine sphere, giving women a great sexual charge, especially after menopause. Giving it to a married woman, instead, encourages a sense of loyalty and passionate love with her partner.

Benefits for the mind

Wearing lapis lazuli helps promote dignity, making the individual more honest and desirous of always staying in line with their past statements. It is a stone that gives such mental clarity that it induces the person to always express themselves consistently, managing to sometimes set aside personal grudges and conflicts. Meditation with lapis lazuli helps relieve anger and the flow of negative thoughts. It is also used to accentuate the creative side.

Lapis lazuli is used by crystal therapists to gently stimulate the opening of the third eye, helping the person open their senses to the world of the invisible. It is a mineral that gives wisdom and honesty.

It is one of those minerals that lead us to deal with ourselves, helping us to appreciate the company of the people we love so much when we are alone. It inspires and makes us creative, allowing us to see the world not only with the eyes of the body, but also with the spirit. It is a magnificent gift for children, even when they are in their mother's womb. It is a companion that can help in the most difficult moments of life.

Lapis lazuli is one of those minerals that allows one to regain lost sleep, especially when rest is lacking due to repeated and frequent nightmares.

Labradorite is a stone with beautiful colors that protects and strengthens the aura.

It prevents energy dispersion. Labradorite supports people who are particularly sensitive when they are in crowded environments.

For shamans and other healers, it is a protective stone that helps them “travel” safely between different levels of consciousness.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Labradorite

Labradorite Description

Mineral class: tectosilicate, feldspar family.

Chemical formula: Na[AlSi3O8]Ca[Al2Si2O8] + Fe, K, Ba, Sr

Labradorite is a feldspar, specifically a member of the plagioclase series, that forms in pegmatites or basic magmas. Its bright colors on a gray-green base are due to the refraction of light on its lamellar structure, known as labradorescence.

Element

Air: the air element relates to communication and intellect (expression, creativity, wisdom, travel).

Chakras Associated with Labradorite

Third chakra Manipura (“Navel and Solar Plexus”)

Sixth chakra Ajna (“Brow or Third Eye”)

Seventh chakra Sahasrara (“Crown”)

Mythology

Discovered in 1770 on the Labrador Peninsula (Canada), from which it takes its name, labradorite has no therapeutic history but is considered a protective stone of strength that increases magnetism.For shamans, it helps to summon and communicate with the spirits of nature.

Effect on the body

Labradorite alleviates the sensation of cold and is therefore indicated for preventing colds and other colds-related illnesses, rheumatism, and gout.

It acts as a sedative for stomach tension and is useful for lowering blood pressure.

Effect on the psyche

Labradorite is an excellent antidote to illusions. It overcomes dispersion, strengthens intuition, and allows us to see the true nature of our goals and intentions thanks to its iridescent surface of various colors.The transcendental and changing nature of labradorite supports us in learning to develop a deeper gratitude, to eliminate old tendencies, and to learn the great lesson that change is the true nature of life.This stone helps shift perceptions to a higher level and potentially change an individual's choices in a positive way. It stimulates creativity, imagination, introspection, and the depth of feelings. It reduces anxiety and stress.

Howlite is used to overcome past wounds and trauma, process anger, and renew oneself. It is used for anxiety, shock, and panic. It instills a new sense of self-confidence and helps find the strength to move forward.

It helps one listen to oneself and take responsibility. It allows for better and healthier contact with the environment, as well as with other people.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Howlite

History

Howlite is a fairly common white stone. It is characterized by gray inclusions that make it look veined; sometimes these inclusions are black or bluish.

Sometimes it can also be found colorless. It is often used as an imitation of the much more expensive turquoise and is therefore dyed blue. Howlite is used because its white color and porous nature make it suitable for imitations. Sometimes it is dyed red as a substitute for coral.

Howlite belongs to the borate class and was first described by Henry How in 1868. Transparent crystals are very rare. It was discovered in Canada, but today the main sources are found in Los Angeles and California. Sources in Marmara and Turkey are also very important.

Properties of howlite

Howlite is a fairly commonly used stone in crystal therapy, although it has not achieved the fame of other crystals. It is particularly appreciated in jewelry for imitating the more precious turquoise and coral. This does not mean, however, that it lacks properties.

Physical benefits

Physically, it increases oxygen flow, helps with thyroid problems, and can also be useful in supporting treatments for autoimmune and degenerative diseases. It is used in crystal therapy treatments against infections. It stimulates fertility and strengthens the heart.

Psychological benefits

Psychologically, however, it is used to overcome past wounds and trauma, process anger, and renew oneself. It is used for anxiety, shock, and panic. It instills a new sense of self-confidence and helps find the strength to move forward.

Wear it as a pendant at heart level if you need to open up a little more to your feelings. It is a stone that amplifies vibrations, increases love for oneself and others. At the same time, it helps calm overly turbulent thoughts and feelings, and to put fears and feelings such as jealousy into perspective. It teaches one to adopt less impulsive, more understanding, and more tolerant behaviors toward others.

Spiritual benefits

Spiritually, as a white stone, howlite can be used for the seventh chakra. It helps one listen to oneself and take responsibility. It allows for better and healthier contact with the environment, as well as with other people.

This is a natural product, so the color, shape, and size may vary and differ from the image shown.

The new "Jade" is not actually jade, but a type of light green serpentine.

It is a stone for having a calm mood and helps when we feel stuck in a situation.

It is said that stones of this type help with emotional cleansing in general and it is believed to be an excellent stone for meditation.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Raw Serpentine Jade

Serpentine is a mineral with various shades of green. It has a rather scaly appearance when it is in its raw form and that is exactly why it was given the name serpentine. It has been used for healing purposes for several centuries, already in pre-Roman times they believed that it had the power to keep diseases and spells away. Serpentine amulets were quite common. Clearly, there was a lot of superstition before, but still, if you want to give a nice gift to someone who feels particularly affected by "bad luck", then opt for this stone!

At a mineralogical level, serpentine is very interesting. First of all, it forms in a tertiary environment, that is, by the metamorphism of basic igneous rocks. Perhaps it has also been sold to you under the name of "New Jade". It can be found in trade in three different forms. A lamellar form, a fibrous one, and a striated one.

Properties of serpentine

Serpentine is used in crystal therapy to heal and free the aura from all energy blocks that prevent total and full healing. It works excellently on the mental, physical, and emotional levels. It is the stone par excellence that in my opinion reflects the Eastern vision of healing. In order for the individual to feel truly well, it is necessary to work on all three levels. During a crystal therapy session, place it at the level of the heart chakra to work on feelings.

It is also used to awaken the Kundalini energy, the serpent that is found coiled at the base of our spine, in the first chakra.

Benefits for the body

From a physiological point of view, serpentine is useful for all problems related to the heart, in particular the alteration of the rhythm. Some crystal therapists also use it for people who have stomach problems, especially in case of constipation or diarrhea. It is useful for people who cannot lose weight due to a slow metabolism. Just keep it in contact with the skin to get benefits in this sense, thus speeding up metabolic functions. Women can keep this stone close to the ovaries (so the idea is that you use two of them) to relieve menstrual cycle pain. Benefits for the mind I really like serpentine because it is an excellent ally in case of nervousness. Very often, in fact, we let ourselves be taken over by stress and anxiety because of the people around us. For example, when we are criticized for the choices we made, or for those we are not able to make. The fear of disappointing... in short, it is our anxiety about betraying the expectations of others that pushes us to live in a perpetual state of stress.

Serpentine protects us from these influences, it teaches us to keep our distance from the desires of others to prioritize our own. Use it and you will also notice that often it is possible to find a solution that works for everyone, it makes you available to compromise.

It seems that serpentine also helps in the sexual sphere by unblocking women who can never reach orgasm during intercourse with their partner.

Benefits for the spirit

Serpentine is a very valuable stone from a spiritual point of view. If you are very chaotic people, it helps you find balance within yourself, to find that little corner of tranquility in the middle of a 24-hour day to reflect, to investigate who you really are. I strongly advise you to use it during meditation practice!

This bezel setting is designed to let you wear any type of stone around your neck, measuring approximately 2–5 cm in diameter.

It is spiral-shaped. To open it, simply widen the metal wire, insert the stone, and then close it again.

Choose the size best suited to your stone.

Please note: the stated measurement is of the closed bezel setting, excluding the loop where the cord is inserted.

Free waxed cotton cord!

Material: silver- or gold-colored brass

Fluorite promotes freedom of thought and encourages individuals not to compromise or let external influences affect the fulfillment of their lives. It helps restructure one's life and achieve autonomy and emotional stability, instilling confidence and clearing mental confusion.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Fluorite

Fluorite Description

Mineral class: halides.

Chemical formula: CaF2 + (C, Cl, Fe, Ce, Y).

Fluorite is a fairly common mineral composed of calcium fluoride. It can be primary, secondary, or tertiary in origin. The most important deposits are of magmatic origin.

It cleaves perfectly into octahedral crystals, which are double pyramids joined at the base.

Almost always transparent or translucent, or with a vitreous luster, it is rarely colorless, while it is commonly found in purple, green, yellow, orange, light blue, pink, brown, and black. Multiple colors can be found in a single crystal, and it has the characteristic of changing color when exposed to sunlight or heat, while returning to normal at night.

Element

Fire: the fire element relates to the sphere of energy and masculine strength (courage, willpower, purification, conquest).

Chakra associated with Fluorite

Sixth chakra Ajna ("Brow or Third Eye") and seventh chakra Sahasrara ("Crown")

Mythology

The name derives from the Latin fluere, "to flow," and it has been known as "flowing stone" since the mid-18th century: it was not considered a true mineral, in fact, as it was classified in the category of spats, which are minerals that cleave easily (from the German spalten, "to split"), and the adjective flowing was added because its brilliant appearance resembled that of molten glass. It is no coincidence that fluorite, along with quartz and colored glass, was used as a substitute for precious stones as far back as ancient Greece.

When exposed to ultraviolet rays, it exhibits the phenomenon of fluorescence, which is precisely where the material takes its name.

Effect on the body

Fluorite stimulates the regeneration of the skin and mucous membranes, especially regarding the respiratory tract and lungs. It helps with calcium absorption and therefore strengthens the teeth and bones. It is indicated for joint problems and general stiffness, including those related to arthritis. It alleviates discomfort in cases of psychosomatic allergies and promotes the activity of the nervous system, particularly the brain. Useful for those with memory problems, disorientation, and lack of concentration.

Effect on the psyche

Fluorite promotes freedom of thought and encourages individuals not to compromise or let external influences affect the fulfillment of their lives. It helps restructure one's life and achieve autonomy and emotional stability, instilling confidence and clearing mental confusion.

It promotes learning by stimulating the perception of relationships between things and the processing of information, thus the subject's logical-cognitive ability. The ability to align the body with the mind and bring the mind into harmony with the spirit is the true talent of this stone: fluorite encourages channeling the energies of meditation and prayer on the earthly plane.

It stimulates creativity and imagination. It facilitates contact with one's subconscious and makes repressed feelings conscious by gradually bringing them to light. It is useful for overcoming addictions, fixed ideas, and limiting thought and behavior patterns.

It develops self-discipline and a sense of order, concentration, and grounding while maintaining the person's vital energy at a high level of openness. Self-discipline is essential for controlling and correcting one's thoughts, actions, and words, and improving oneself. It is the inner strength necessary to shape one's life as desired.

How to use fluorite

Fluorite can be cleansed after use under running water. To achieve lasting effects on the spiritual plane, it is recommended to always carry fluorite in close contact with the skin or apply it to the affected area for physical therapy. To strengthen the sense of order, groups of fluorite crystals can be placed in the environment: their presence reminds the mind to stay focused and helps organize work.

During meditation, a fluorite pyramid is useful for descending deeper into oneself in search of balance between the dimensions of being, allowing one to see the reality behind the illusion, the eternal behind the transitory, and the truth beyond confusion.

Yellow Fluorite is useful for learning and understanding, promoting a positive attitude towards one's existence, supporting the stomach, strengthening bones and joints, and providing internal and external elasticity.

Dimensions: variable

Material: Yellow Fluorite

Fluorite Description

Yellow fluorite is used in crystal therapy to work on the third chakra, also known as the solar plexus. Yellow fluorite has several interesting properties, foremost among them being its ability to stimulate creativity and intelligence.

Body

It works on fat deposits, balancing cholesterol. It relieves stomach and liver problems and intestinal blockages. It helps combat allergic reactions and boosts the immune system. For more information, I recommend reading the article dedicated to fluorite!

Mind

It promotes intellect, the ability to better understand things, and memory. It also stimulates creativity, imagination, and initiative. It helps you align your ideas with your abilities so that you can make them a reality. If you have always liked working alone but suddenly find yourself having to work in a team, it helps you deal with this change and join forces with others.

Another important aspect is that it helps you unmask illusions and achieve dreams that have a sense of purpose, rather than just fantasies.

Spirit

It works on the emotional chakra. It balances you from a physical and emotional point of view. It brings clarity, joy, and meaning to life. We can improve our way of communicating. For the rest, read the article on fluorite and discover the spiritual properties of this stone.

Emotions

At the slightest criticism, you immediately get defensive, you do not know how to accept it, and others notice. Yellow fluorite helps you welcome criticism and learn from it when it is constructive. Instead of closing your eyes and ignoring the problem, yellow fluorite teaches you to reflect on it. It leads to more genuine interactions with others. It promotes self-love.

How to use yellow fluorite

You can use it as a talisman to promote creativity. In feng shui, it is placed in the center of a room to bring joy and cheerfulness to the home or work environment.

Yellow Fluorite is useful for learning and understanding, promoting a positive attitude towards one's existence. It supports the stomach, strengthens bones and joints, and provides internal and external elasticity.

Dimensions: approx. 2 - 2.5 cm

Quality: AB

Material: Yellow fluorite

Fluorite Description

Yellow fluorite is used in crystal therapy to work on the third chakra, also known as the solar plexus. Yellow fluorite has several interesting properties, foremost among them stimulating creativity and intelligence.

Body

It acts on fat deposits, balancing cholesterol. It alleviates stomach and liver problems and intestinal blockages. It helps combat allergic reactions and boosts the immune system. For more information, I recommend reading the article dedicated to fluorite!

Mind

It promotes intellect, the ability to better understand things, and memory. It also stimulates creativity, imagination, and initiative. It helps you align your ideas with your abilities so that you can turn them into reality. If you have always liked working alone but suddenly find yourself having to work in a team, it helps you deal with this change and join forces with others.

Another important aspect is that it helps you unmask illusions and achieve dreams that have a sense of purpose, rather than just fantasies.

Spirit

It works on the emotional chakra. It balances you from a physical and emotional point of view. It brings clarity, joy, and meaning to life. We can improve the way we communicate. For the rest, read the article on fluorite and discover the spiritual properties of this stone.

Emotions

At the slightest criticism, you immediately get defensive, you don't know how to accept it, and others notice. Yellow fluorite helps you welcome criticism and learn from it when it is constructive. Instead of closing your eyes and ignoring the problem, yellow fluorite teaches you to reflect on it. It leads to more genuine interaction with others. It promotes self-love.

How to use yellow fluorite

You can use it as a talisman to promote creativity. In feng shui, it is placed in the middle of a room to bring joy and cheerfulness to the home or work environment.