Home Exhilarating News Archives List List1 |
Azurite
Posted by Luminakisharblaze on March 27, 2011 at 7:44pm in Crystals And Crystal Healing
Properties: Referred to as the jewel of wisdom or Stone of Heaven. Azurite symbolizes insight and discovery. It is said to increase psychic abilities. Azurite activates the Brow and Throat Chakra for more assertive communication and alertness. It allows for quite, deep access to the subconscious and as a seeing stone offers access to other times, places and lives. Therefore, it is a great stone to assist in astral travel. This great balancer helps those who talk too much and allows for those who to be expressive when they have a tendency to hold back. This opens our psychic intuition and gets us aquainted with our innerselves. It is a stone that stimulates creativity, giving access to a fountain of ideas, images and awareness of things around us. This is a wonderful stone for decisiveness and decision making. Keep this around when you have important choices to make. It is the stone for deeper insight and seeing truths. It challenges our old belief system and tests them against the truth. It is a good stone for students and business people as it helps with focus and concentration. It also sharpens the wearer's sense of justice! The deep blue stone helps you release the past and gracefully anticipate and accept the future simultaneously. Cultivates the ability to reach into the subconscious and examines states of mind. This cleanses the mind and makes one more capable of insight and pure thought. Helps one recognize the resources within themselves. Azurite can be an integral part of many crystal and gemstone-healing grids and layouts. Also enhances meditation. Promotes patience, spiritual guidance and cleansing.
Folk Remedies: Azurite is the stone for wound healing and post-operative care. Azurite is known for reducing depression, as well as anger, Its high copper content stimulates the thyroid, bones and sinus. Great dextoxing stone. Azurite helps with skin cleansing through detoxing the spleen, stomach, liver, gallbladder and stimulating the nervous system. It is well used to wake up the mental and etheric bodies. Esoteric gem literature states that azurite can restructure molecules, abnormal cell growth and revitalize the brain, rebuilding gray matter and assiting in developing embryonic babies in the womb. Therefore, a great stone for when you become pregnant.
Feng Shui: Use this stone in the Center for balance of health, spirituality and wellbeing. Use in the Northeast for wisdom.
Crystal Cleansing: This stone does not need charging. Cleanse it once a month by placing it overnight in a bowl of tumbled hematite.
History: Azurite, Cu3 [(OH)2(CO3)2] is a solid deep blue, blue-purple. A blue copper-based stone (approximately 55%) is found in association with Malachite forming together, which is its cousin. They are both formed by the oxidation of copper such as you would see in chalcopyrite. Less common than Malachite but found in abundance in Arizona. This stone was given its name from the Persian word, lazward, meaning blue. Used for many purposes, this stone was ground up and used as a dye to color clothing during the Greek and Roman era. The Mayans believed that azurite was able to connect them to higher wisdom. The Native Americans used azurite to connect to their spirit guides.
Azurite Flower
(Source http://www.peacefulmind.com/stones.htm)