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Moonstone Gemstone meaning:
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 Passionate love that will fly
you to the moon- It is said if you give your
lover a moonstone necklace when the moon is full you will always have passion
with each other. Moonstone is a highly valued gemstone for these reasons:
- Brings good fortune
- Assists in foretelling the
future
- Enhances intuition
- Promotes inspiration
- Brings success in love as well
as business matters
- Offers protection on land and
at sea
- The moonstone is associated
with the moon and was the stone of the goddess Diana. The most powerful time to
use the moonstone is in a full moon.
 It has been worn as an amulet
to bring good emotions to the wearer, while protecting those of a sensitive
nature. It can reunite lovers who have quarreled. Moonstone is also considered a
good luck stone.
Moonstone is a very personal
stone. It is a reflection of the person who owns it. It does not add or detract,
only shows how it is. This is why the moonstone is said to perceive that which
"is". Moonstone is an excellent stone to use in meditation to understand
oneself. Placing it in the moonlight of a moon reaching its fullness, not a full
or waning moon, can revitalize it. This is a particularly good gemstone for
women. It is a good stone for young women or teenagers.
Healing properties of Moonstone
Moonstone stimulates the
functioning of the pineal gland and balances internal hormone cycles with
nature's rhythms. Moonstone is a stone of inner growth and strength. Though
often considered to be a woman's stone, it can be beneficial to men in opening
the emotional self.
Sources of moonstone
There are two moonstones.
Adularia moonstone is an almost transparent pale gray or silvery white or blue
shimmer. It is mainly found in Sri Lanka, Burma, India and Madagascar. Albite
moonstone is in the feldspar group. It is semitransparent with a pale,
shimmering reflection. It may be a little dull. It comes mainly from Canada.
Moonstone
The moonstone is characterised
by an enchanting play of light. Indeed it owes its name to that mysterious
shimmer which always looks different when the stone is moved and is known in the
trade as 'adularescence'. In earlier times, people believed they could recognise
in it the crescent and waning phases of the moon.
Moonstones from Sri Lanka, the
classical country of origin of the moonstone, shimmer in pale blue on an almost
transparent background. Specimens from India feature a nebulous interplay of
light and shadow on a background of beige-brown, green, orange or brown. These
discreet colours, in connection with the fine shimmer, make the moonstone an
ideal gemstone for jewellery with a sensual, feminine aura. This gemstone was
very popular once before, about a hundred years ago at the time of Art Nouveau.
It adorns a noticeably large number of the jewellery creations of the French
master goldsmith René Lalique and his contemporaries, mainly to be found in
museums and collections today.
This gemstone is surrounded by
a good deal of mystique and magic. In many cultures, for example in India, it is
regarded as a holy, magical gemstone. In India, moonstones are also regarded as
'dream stones' which bring the wearer beautiful visions at night. In Arabic
countries, women often wear moonstones sewn out of sight into their garments,
for in their cultures the moonstone is a symbol of fertility.
The moonstone symbolises our
being in its entirety. With its soft shimmer, it strengthens our emotional and
subconscious aspects. The associations connected with that make it a "lovers'
stone", evoking tender feelings and safeguarding the true joys of love. It is
also said that wearing a moonstone strengthens our intuition and our capacity to
understand.
What are moonstones and where
do they come from?
This enchanting gemstone
belongs to the large mineral group of the feldspars, of which almost two thirds
of all the rocks on Earth consist. The moonstone is actually the feldspar
variety known as 'adularia', a potassium aluminosilicate of gemstone quality,
which is also found in the European Alps near the Adula Group - hence the name
'adularia'. Another synonym for moonstone is 'selenite', from the Greek 'selene'
('moon').
In their uncut state moonstones
are rather unprepossessing and afford little idea of what it is that actually
constitutes their charm: that mysterious shimmer of light. For that shimmer is
not really shown to advantage until the art of the cutter has been brought to
bear. Classical moonstones are always cut as cabochons, the most important thing
being the correct height of the stone. The cutter must also align the axes of
the crystal precisely into the zenith of the stone, for that is the only way in
which he will bring about the desired light effect.
Traditionally, the classical
moonstones, almost transparent and with their bluish shimmer, come from Sri
Lanka. However, they are also found in the USA, Brazil, Australia, Myanmar and
Madagascar. Since bluish moonstones of good quality have been becoming more and
more of a rarity in recent years, prices have risen sharply.
For a few years, there have
also been some green, brown and orange specimens on the market, as well as some
with a smoky colour and some the colour of champagne, and some black and some
reddish ones, mainly originating from India. Some have a cat's eye effect or a
four-spoked star as well as the typical undulating shimmer of light. These
stones are not only cut as cabochons, but also as artistic cameos or engraved
with the faces of children, the moon or grotesques. But they too have the
shimmer of light typical of the moonstone, as do the beads which are cut from
suitable raw material for gemstone necklaces.
Where does this strange shimmer
of light come from?
The shimmer of light of the
moonstone is something very special in the fascinating world of gemstones.
Specialists refer to the phenomenon as 'adularisation'. The cause of it is the
lamellar inner construction of the gemstone. Incident light rays are refracted
and scattered in the stone. In this way, a unique light effect comes about, and
it is this which makes the moonstone so distinctive and so desirable.
However, this beautiful
gemstone does have one weak point, and that is its relatively low hardness of
only 6 on the Mohs scale. For that reason, moonstones should be handled with
care, for they are sensitive. Having said that, minor flaws such as may occur
when the stone has been worn for some time are quite easy to remedy. A jeweller
can have a moonstone which has grown matt repolished, after which it will
shimmer again just as it did on the very first day.
Three-dimensional colour and
seductive aura
When purchasing moonstone
jewellery you will come across the most astonishing price differences. The more
intense in colour, the larger and the more transparent, the more highly valued
the moonstone. Really fine blue specimens display an incredible
'three-dimensional' depth of colour which the observer does not really come to
recognise until the stone is moved about in a playful way. Specimens of that
kind are highly esteemed on account of their rarity and their prices are
correspondingly high. The colourful Indian moonstones, on the other hand, are
not only very much in fashion. They are also, as a rule, somewhat more
reasonably priced than classical blue moonstones. This means that today, anyone
can select the moonstone to suit his or her taste and pocket.
Moonstones are treasures of
Nature with a sensual and seductive aura. Not only do they like to be looked at
and admired a lot; they also thrive on being worn and moved about a good deal,
for only then can the soft shimmer of light which makes this gemstone so
desirable really come into its own.
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