I have a large collection of Rose Quarts crystals and absolutely love the calming and reassuring energy this stone emanates. Rose Quartz, with its gentle pink essence, is a stone of the heart, a Crystal of Unconditional Love. It carries a soft feminine energy of compassion and peace, tenderness and healing, nourishment and comfort. It speaks directly to the Heart Chakra, dissolving emotional wounds, fears and resentments, and circulates a divine loving energy throughout the entire aura.
All areas of the home will benefit by putting rough rose quartz stones in each corner of the room. Even eating areas can benefit from this soft sweet energy - and it may also improve your digestion too!
Rose Quartz is also the modern birthstone of Taurus. Being a Taurus myself, I wear it always with pride and style, love and respect, and enjoy my personal Rose Quartz birthstone.
Quartz is the second most abundant mineral in the Earth's continental crust, after feldspar. It is made up of a continuous framework of SiO4 silicon–oxygen tetrahedra, with each oxygen being shared between two tetrahedra, giving an overall formula SiO2. There are many different varieties of quartz, several of which are semi-precious gemstones. Most rose quartz crystals come from Brazil, US and China, but South Africa also has large deposits, found primarily in granites in Limpopo Province, in the Soutpansberg district and near Gravelotte. It also occurs at some tin mines in the Bushveld complex.
Rose quartz is a type of quartz which exhibits a pale pink to rose red hue. The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the massive material. Some rose quartz contains microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light. Recent X-ray diffraction studies suggest that the color is due to thin microscopic fibers of possibly dumortierite within the massive quartz.
In crystal form (rarely found) it is called pink quartz and its colour is thought to be caused by trace amounts of phosphate or aluminium. The color in crystals is apparently photosensitive and subject to fading.
If you are wearing or keeping your crystals or stones on you all the time, remember to methodically cleanse them. If you have been using them to heal health issues or when you were in a negative frame of mind... they would probably have absorbed your negative energy. This is why it is a good idea to purify them on a regular basis. Cleansing quartz crystals is very simple, as they are some of the easiest crystals to cleanse... so do it regularly for best long term results.
There are various methods of cleaning your crystals - If you do not know much about crystals... avoid using water to clean them. Some crystals may be totally ruined by contact with water ... so use other methods of cleansing crystals unless you are absolutely sure.
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Crystal Singing Bowls cleanse crystals with sound :
A crystal singing bowl may be used to cleanse your crystals. There are two ways to do this. If the stones are small you may put them into the crystal singing bowl. For bigger items, place them close to the bowl, then play the bowl for a few minutes. The lovely crystal bowl music is very powerful and the sounds emitted by the bowl will resonate throughout the room. As the strong vibration of the pure crystalline sound of your crystal singing bowl fills the crystals... it will drive out any negative energy. This will lift the vibration of any of your crystals that are close by.
However, the method I prefer most is playing music to my crystals. I place a few crystals in front of my computer speakers, choose a song with heavy bass (bass vibrations enter the crystals easily) and enjoy the music while my crystals are being cleansed.
A full moon rising over my garden wall
Bury stones or use moonlight for cleaning crystals :
The moonlight has a powerful influence that will re-energize your crystals... and allow them to lift their vibrations naturally. A good time to for cleansing crystals is at the time of the full moon... when it is at its brightest. Place them somewhere in your home where they will be in the moonlight for as long as possible. Leave them there overnight if you are able to. By absorbing the energy of moonlight... you will allow their vibration to naturally lift. I put my crystals outside on a table during full moon and collect them early in the morning again.
You may also choose to bury your stone in the earth, but again make sure that you know if the stone is one that can take water, in case rain seeps through to where they are located. This is a perfect way to cleanse many stones, but do mark where you put them so that you can find them again! You can dig them up after a day or two.
"What we are today comes from our thoughts of yesterday... and our present thoughts build our life of tomorrow. Our life is the creation of our mind."
- Buddha
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