Promises of finding love, keeping love, and recovering from love gone badly are ever-popular motivations to seek help from gems and crystals. The list of stones beneficial in the love department is long and varied. Have you ever asked, “How can such different stones all benefit the same cause?” I will try to explain.
Before we get to the geologic origins, and your eyes start to glaze over, let me summarize. While the yearning for love is a requirement of the human condition, we are each at a slightly different point in life, and bring a different history and predisposition to the party. Therefore, the different “love stones,” each with their own nuances, are available to help according to our individual need.
An intellectual approach to choosing beneficial stones is appropriate, and the rest of this article will deal with that. However, as in many of the energy healing arts, intellect enhances intuition. It is fitting to combine kinesiology, dowsing, and dream information with book learnin’.
Two of the most often cited stones for enhancing love are Rose Quartz, and Rhodochrosite. Visually, it is easy to understand how this might be - the stones look like Valentines. They are pink and softly colored. While the visual aspect of a stone is one of its benefits, these stones have additional properties that benefit the heart and soul in different ways.
I use Rose Quartz as the basis for most of my Heart Chakra formulas. Quartz is an igneous rock formed by the cooling of liquid magma. Because of this origin, igneous rocks encourage learning processes. Love is the greatest teacher on the planet. Quartz is made of Silicon Oxide. Oxides have a transformative effect, changing unstable conditions to stable ones. This transformation is often experienced in love. The remaining elements found in Rose Quartz include Sodium, Aluminum, Iron, and Titanium. |
The properties of these elements combine to give Rose Quartz its specific effect of empathy, romance, openness, and self-love, as well as its physical support of blood circulation, the heart, and sexual organs.
 Rhodochrosite is formed by sedimentary action. The influence of sedimentary stones is reflected in this action. They help us recognize and process the effect that environmental conditions have in shaping our beliefs and attitudes. Sedimentary stones can help with situations that involve conflict with our environment, or other people. Rhodochrosite is a carbonate (MnCO3). Carbonates influence the developmental process and lead to permanent change. Rhodochrosite helps us learn from our experiences, and open our minds and hearts to accept and love unconditionally. The primary element in Rhodochrosite is Manganese. In the body, Manganese increases fertility by stimulating the sex organs and influencing the heart and heart function. Mentally, Manganese encourages empathy, allows psychological wounds to heal, and stimulates a clearing of consciousness. The origin and composition of Rhodochrosite offers new insight into our own hearts, and an understanding, and a love of the things that make us most human.
Other stones that strongly influence love may look very different from Rose Quartz and Rhodochrosite. They include Moonstone, Chrysoprase, Emerald, Morganite, and Ruby. We will talk about them another time.
Judy Parady is an artist, jewelry maker
and student of the energy arts. Examples of her
jewelry and information about Gem Therapy is available at www.judyparady.com. Custom Gem Readings with talisman are available. jparady@mindspring.com |
