aka Green Beryl, “The stone of successful love”
Love, Balance, Healing
Metaphysical Properties
- Healing heartbreak
- Receiving abundance
- Helps to restore your confidence
- Opens and activates the heart chakra
- Enhances your positive mood and sensitivity
- Helps you self-release unnecessary attachments
- Eliminates negativity and inspires positive actions
- Enhances unconditional love, unity, and friendship
- A symbol of spiritual protection, awareness, love, and wisdom
- Contains pure forms of love, compassion, sensuality, and healing
- Brings balance and equilibrium to all aspects of life and emotions
- Represents free-flowing energy and directly empowers our heart chakra
- Supports strength of character and the ability to cope with life’s misfortunes
- Theorized that many green stones in the past were commonly mislabeled as Emerald
- Will help you begin to understand why your body creates this aura of self-protection
- Keeps partnerships in balance, in the event it changes colors it could mean someone was unfaithful
- Harnesses our true emotional body and is capable of projecting this representation into the physical realm
- You may notice a facade of love that you have formed around yourself, which is a false shield that your mind and emotional body created to help protect your heart space
Affirmations
- My heart is open to receive
Correspondence
- Chakras: Heart
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury, Venus
- Element: Water
- Zodiacs: Taurus, Aries, Gemini, Libra
- Number: 4
- Candle Color: Green
Physical Properties
- Color: A distinctly green color that ranges between bluish green and slightly yellowish green
- Habit: Masses and prismatic crystals
- Rarity: Rare
- Luster: Vitreous
- Species: Beryl
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 2.7 - 2.8
- Fracture: Conchoidal
- Cleavage: One direction of imperfect cleavage
- Hardness: 7.5 - 8
- Twinning: Rare
- Locations: United States, Australia, Russia, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Africa, and Egypt. However, the three major sources are Colombia, Brazil and Zambia
- Fluorescence: None
- Pleochroism: Strong
- Birefringence: Weak, -0.006
- Transparency: Transparent to opaque
- Named After: From the ancient Greek word for green, “smaragdus.”
- Classification: Cyclosilicates
- Melting point: 3600C
- Discovered In: Around 1500 BC
- Luminescence: LW Red
- Discovered By: Egyptians
- Chemical Name: Beryllium aluminium silicate
- Refractive Index: 1.565 - 1.602
- System/Structure: Hexagonal, Trigonal
- Chemical Formula: Be3Al2(SiO3)6
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
- Greeks consider it to be a symbol of the goddess venus
Health Benefits
- Helps with depression
- Provides regeneration and recovery to the physical body