Peace, Dreamwork, Healing
Metaphysical Properties
- Travel Amulet
- Home Purification
- Brings protection and spiritual growth
- Enhances memory and improves motivation
- Use during all psychic work and divinations
- Talisman for raising hopes and lifting the spirit
- Helps you remember and understand your dreams
- A great beginner stone because it has a variety of uses
- Promotes peace, patience, acceptance, and relaxes the mind
- Dispels anger, rage, and fear, while alleviating sadness and grief
- Place under pillow for a peaceful sleep, and healing prophetic dreams
- Rids your home and body of negative energy while attracting positive energy
- Hold or wear on your non-dominant hand for a soothing and de-stressing effect
- Aids in psychic development and opens intuition, while guards against psychic attack
- Good with helping you make decisions and move forward in life by promoting focus and clarity, while helping you to see and understand the bigger picture
Affirmations
- I am inspired
- Love makes me free
- My life moves with grace
- I am amazing in my own unique way
- I am calm and find peace within the chaos
- I am connected to the wisdom of the universe
- I am calm, peaceful, and relaxed in my mind body and soul
Correspondence
- Chakras: Crown and Third eye
- Energy: Receptive
- Planets: Jupiter, Neptune
- Element: Water
- Zodiacs: Aquarius, Capricorn, Pisces, Virgo
Physical Properties
- Color: Light to Dark Purple
- Habit: 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Vitreous/Glossy
- Species: Quartz
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 2.6 - 2.7
- Hardness: 7
- Cleavage: None
- Fracture: Conchoidal
- Twinning: Dauphine law, Brazil law, and Japan law
- Locations: Africa, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Russia Uruguay, and the USA
- Pleochroism: Weak
- Fluorescence: None
- Birefringence: 0.009
- Transparency: Transparent to translucent
- Named After: From Greek "amethystos", meaning not drunk
- Classification: Tectosilicate
- Melting point: 1650±75 °C
- Discovered In: France, About 25,000 years ago
- Discovered By: Prehistoric People
- Luminescence: Weak
- Chemical Name: silicon dioxide
- Refractive Index: 1.54-1.55
- System/Structure: Hexagonal, Rhombohedral, Trigonal
- Chemical Formula: SiO2
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemistry Classification: Silica
Health Benefits
- Helps those with an addiction overcome it
- A natural tranquilizer. It relieves stress and strain, while soothing irritability, and balancing mood swings
- Helps with physical ailments such as headache, insomnia, and arthritis
- Useful for those suffering of diseases of the lungs and respiratory tract, skin conditions, disorders of the cells, and diseases of the digestive system
- Aids in Hormone production, which brings an important balance to the endocrine system. This plays an important role in general metabolism
- Boost the immune system by purifying the blood, and reducing psychological, emotional, and physical pain