Rose Quartz

Rose Quartz
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Alternate Names & Name Spellings: "Love Stone"

Metaphysical and Healing Properties Lore
Keywords: Love

Rose quartz is pink quartz that is often called the "Love Stone." It is a stone of unconditional love that opens the heart chakra to all forms of love: self-love, family love, platonic love, and romantic love. The high energy of quartz gives rose quartz the property of enhancing love in virtually any situation. In turn, this lowers stress. All in all it is a very soothing and happy stone.

Emotionally rose quartz brings gentleness, forgiveness, compassion, kindness and tolerance. It raises one's self-esteem and sense of self-worth. It helps balance emotions and heal emotional wounds and traumas, even grief, bringing peace and calm. Rose quartz removes fears, resentments and anger. It can also heal and release childhood traumas, neglect, and lack of love, in part by enhancing inner awareness. It can help with reconciliation with family and others. Overwhelming or unreasonable guilt is eased by rose quartz.

In the psychic and spiritual realms, rose quartz is often used to attract love, and for love spells. It is also used to ease the process of transition in dying. Rose quartz can be helpful for dream recall and dream work.

Physically rose quartz is used in crystal healing to benefit the heart, the circulatory system, fertility, headaches, kidney disease, migraines, sexual dysfunction, sinus problems, throat problems, depression, addictions, ear aches, slowing signs of aging, reducing wrinkles, spleen problems, fibromyalgia, and reaching one's ideal weight / weight loss. Rose quartz is also helpful and protective during pregnancy and with childbirth. It is also sometimes said that rose quartz is helpful for supporting brain functions and increasing intellect.

Rose quartz is associated with the heart chakra.

Smoky Quartz Properties

Smoky Quartz is a strong healing stone, alleviating a variety of physical, mental and emotional health problems. It is excellent for removing negativity, and helps protect the user from both physical and psychic negativity. It engenders cooperation in group and assists people who are working together, and makes goals more easily attainable. It also has a grounding faculty that enhances basic instincts and abilities (such as creativity). This gemstone brings abundance, prosperity and good fortune.

The physical healing properties of Smoky Quartz focus on the lower torso region and improve resistance to general infections. It treats many areas of the lower body, including the reproductive organs, pancreas and abdomen, and also helps menstrual cramps and fertility problems. It benefits the functioning of the kidneys which regulate bodily fluids and fluid retention, aiding in the removal of toxins from the body.

In addition, it strengthens the adrenal glands and alleviates hyperactivity and attention deficit disorder. Smoky Quartz is excellent for maintaining a well-balanced condition and healing infections and maladies. Smoky Quartz is also used as a mental aid during meditation. It allows the grounding of the physical self in order to achieve higher states of consciousness, and allowing access to subconscious wisdom. The stone links the base chakra to the crown chakra, allowing increased relaxation. Also, by transforming negative energies into positive ones, this gemstone can be used for psychic shielding.

The emotional effects of Smoky Quartz include mood elevation and overcoming negative emotions. This is an excellent stone for relieving depression and controlling negative moods. Its ability to turn negative energy into positive energy works to help the individual overcome hazardous negative emotions such as fear, jealousy and anger into more positive emotions. Positive emotions help the individual reach personal and business goals. Thus, Smoky Quartz is associated with serenity and peace of mind.

Stimulating Creativity
Smoky Quartz can enhance the creativity of those who wear it, diminishing mental blocks and enabling fresh ideas to proliferate. This is a valuable aid for many different artistic endeavors, but also helps ordinary creative functions used in daily life. Creative solutions to basic problems can be found, even ones as small as finding the quickest way to get to work. The needs and wants of the individual are met with wisdom that fosters the productive creative forces.

Base Chakra
For most of its healing properties, Smoky Quartz is associated with the Base (Root) Chakra. It is also believed that Smokey Quartz channels the light from the Crown Chakra to the Base Chakra, unifying the subconscious intellect with the physical senses, providing grounding in meditation and the revelation of subconscious wisdom, as well as progression to a higher consciousness

What I learned about Citrine

Having gone to purchase myself a Smokey Quartz, I have been advised by the lady there to take home a piece of Citrine with it. And after wearing my Smokey Quartz bracelet for a few days I felt a bit low. I thought it could be anything else but when I started losing interest in certain things I thought of my Smokey quartz bracelet as the first suspect. I was right as its grounding abilities established my sense of being here and now and that left me an able to indulge in my usual day dreaming being a sensitive girl ;)
My Citrine though rebalanced my inner wellbeing and nurtured my sense of joy and happiness.

Citrine's Mystical Properties:
In ancient times, citrine was carried as a protection against snake venom and evil thoughts. Citrine is known as a "success" stone because it is told in folklore to promote success and abundance, especially in business and commerce.
Citrine is one of the only stones that dissipates negative energy and never requires cleansing or clearing. It emits a warm energy that promotes optimism. It attracts abundance and is known as "a merchant's stone" to be placed in a cash register or where one conducts business, to not only acquire positive wealth but to maintain it as well. It enhances the body's healing energy and opens the conscious mind to intuition. It helps one adjust and adapt to process changes, feeling confident and secure. Citrine's magnetic radiating energy can aid in voice projection, making this the perfect stone for actors and public speakers.
Assists in acquiring wealth and to maintain the state of wealth. Citrine is helpful for directing creative energy into the physical body. Some find it helpful in building self-esteem. This crystal is an invaluable aid to the digestion of all emotions, place it on the solar plexus in crystal healing layouts. I find that Citrine is useful in combating decisiveness allowing me to make important decisions on a regular basis.