aka Green Onyx
Root, Solar Plexus, Heart and Third Eye Chakras
- Hardness of 6.5-7
- Boosts physical vitality
- Chemical Formula: SiO2
- Crystalline Structure: Trigonal
- Provides a shield around your aura
- Makes way for growth and renewal
- Brings feelings of warmth and peace
- Helps you stay focused on your goals
- Brings energies of youth and fertility
- Stimulates imagination and creativity
- Boosts willpower, discipline, and focus
- Brings you strength and self-confidence
- Soothing and beneficial during times of stress
- Helps relieve worry, tension, stress, and fears
- Defends against surrounding negative energy
- Opens your chakras so divine energy can flow in
- Strengthens your sense of balance and endurance
- Encourages you to become a more dependable person
- Provides strong mental support and positive feelings
- Helps you make wise decisions during your difficulties
- Common colors are black, brown, white, red, and orange
- Soothes your heart and brings you to a calm emotional state
- Used in 3,000 B.C. to make pottery items and other utensils
- Found in Brazil, India, Madagascar, Mexico, Peru, and USA
- first reported in 77 A.D. by Gaius Plinius Secundus (Pliny the Elder)
- Aligns the heart to the brain, producing honesty and powerful realizations
- Named after the Greek word “claw” or “fingernail” because of its similar resemblance
- Provides you energy to start pursuing your dreams, and protects you on your new journey
- Calls upon your inner endurance and persistence to make both self-mastery and dreadful tasks feel easy
Affirmations
- I am focused and determined to accomplish my goals
Correspondence
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Mercury
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Gemini, Virgo
Attributes
- Protection
- Vitality
- Peace