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Lapis Lazuli
Color: Blue to dark blue with gold/silver flecks.
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Various |
Composition:
Rock containing luzurite and other minerals |
Hardness:
5.5 |
Lapis Lazuli is a blue rock made up of several
different minerals, including lazurite, sodalite, hauyne, calcite and
pyrite. The composition and color of Lapis Lazuli varies, but it is the
intense dark blue, with minor patches of white calcite and brassy yellow
pyrite, that is considered to be the best quality.
Occurrence: Lapis Lazuli is usually found as
boulders or within lime stones. The best quality Lapis Lazuli is from
Afghanistan , and has been used in many famous pieces, including the
mask of Tutankhamen. Argentinean lapis lazuli is also of a high quality.
A pale blue variety occurs in former USSR and in Chile . Lapis Lazuli
from USA is a darker shade of blue, Canadian specimens are lighter blue.
Remark: Lapis lazuli has been worn in the
belief that it will protect the wearer from evil. It has been imitated
by stained jasper, and by paste with inclusions of copper. Imitation
lapis lazuli is also produced by Pierre Gilson in France , and has very
similar composition to natural lapis lazuli.
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Metaphysical:
For many people all over the
world Lapis lazuli is considered a stone of universal truth and
friendship.
The blue stone is reputed to bring about harmony in relationships and to
help its wearer being an authentic individual who may openly state his
or her opinion.
Lapis Lazuli is a powerful stone for those who seek spiritual
development. It brings mental clarity & emotional healing, and enhances
judgment and wisdom.
This stone is also considered strengthening to mind and body. Lapis
lazuli allows us to tap our own inner power while purifying the soul and
the thoughts. Helps us contact our spirit guardians.
Lapis Lazuli - Energizes the throat chakra. Augments strength, vitality,
virility, mental clarity, illumination. Enhances psychic abilities and
communication with higher self and spirit guides.
Creative expression.
It has also been used as a protective stone, sheltering the
wearer/carrier from physical danger and psychic attacks.
Lapis Lazuli is a "stone of total awareness", helping to expand
awareness and intellectual capacity, and allowing for conscious
attunement to the intuitive and psychic aspects of ones nature. "
Stone of truth to be open in all ways. Tranquility, positive
manifesting. Attributes of the night sky with golden stars.
Lapis Lazuli as a psychic facilitator. Used by ancient Egyptians to
access sacred knowledge. Cleanses the mind body and spirit of toxins and
negativity. Key words are: will, perfection, awareness. Encourages
integrity in relationships. Strengthens the immune system.
Lapis Brings Focus
Lapis (the deep blue kind) allows you to perceive emotional issues more
clearly. Now, that does not mean it helps calm them or affect the type
of emotions. It allows you to see them for what they are, clearly.
Something like putting on glasses when one cannot see. It takes away the
blur
~forum post from whitehorse woman.
Lapis is Calming and Cooling
A stone good for the 5th chakra. It helps to open the 6th chakra during
meditations. It brings a higher guidance and intuition. It helps you to
connect to the Higher Self. It helps to organize and quieten the mind
and also brings self expressions, helps with dream insights, writing and
creativity. It's a cooling stone, by this I mean it helps to draw fevers
out of the body. It calms the nervous system, helps with anxiety and
insomnia. It can sooth autism. It also aids with speech and hearing
difficulties. Works best with a water cleansing or the moon.
~forum post from stones.
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Physical:
Anxiety, restlessness,
insomnia, shyness, nervous system, speech, hearing, pituitary,
inflammation, pain. Mind expansion, intuition, creativity, spiritual
connection. Organize, quiet the mind. Anxiety, restlessness, insomnia,
autism, shyness, nervous system; MS, speech, hearing, pituitary, DNA,
lymph, inflammation, pain (especially head), Throat. Bone marrow.
Insomnia. Ears protection.
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Keywords:
Self esteem, truthfulness,
openness, inner power, love, purification, intuition, a sense of wonder
and mystery, positive magic, self confidence, virility, manifestation,
an appreciation of mystery, psychic ability and tranquility.
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Main chakra: 6th
chakra Elements:
Water
Astrological sign: Sagittarius, and Aries
Vibrations: #1 #7 and
#9 |
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