MOONSTONE

ORIGIN: Armenia (Lake Sevan area), Australia (Austrian Alps area), Mexico, Burma, Norway, Poland, India, Sri-Lanka and USA.

MOONSTONE is a type of feldspar that displays a pearly and opalescent schiller. Most frequently, it occurs in blue, green, champagne, and peach colours. 

HISTORY: It has been used in jewellery since ancient times. The Romans admired moonstone, as they believed it was derived from solidified rays of the Moon. Both the Romans and Greeks associated moonstone with their lunar deities. This stone is sacred in India, where the popular belief is that it brings long and healthy live as in Hindu mythology, this stone is believed to be hardened moonlight. In other, Eastern cultures, Moonstone is associated with moonlight virtually in all parts of the world. In more recent history, moonstone became popular during the Art Nouveau period, French goldsmith Rene Lalique and, many others created a large quantity of jewellery using this stone.

HEALING: Moonstone is known for calming and soothing of emotions. Moonstone is filled with passive female energy and that is why it is believed to calm strong reaction and restore conscious control over the emotional life.

AFFIRMATION: I allow the mystery of life to unfold.
ENERGY: Calm, Self-Control, Soft-Nature and Simplicity. 
ZODIAC: Cancer, Gemini and Scorpio.
BIRTHSTONE: June
WHEEL OF LIFE: White - June/July - Summer Solstice.
CHAKRA: Third Eye and Solar Plexus.
PLANET: Moon
NUMBER: 4