Aquamarine Crystal Properties

Communication, Calms, Connects

Gems By LYC
3 min readMay 15, 2023

Aka: The breath stone

Spiritual Properties

  • Great for meditation
  • Symbolizes youth and happiness
  • Can activate clairvoyant abilities
  • Can reveal deep truths within your soul
  • Helps you reconnect to the origins of life
  • Sharpens intuition and opens clairvoyance
  • Resonates with people new to exploring spirituality or their higher self
  • Reveals your wisdom to yourself while unlocking your truths and feelings
  • Connects you to your higher levels of consciousness as well your higher self

Mental Properties

  • Reduces stress
  • Improves communication
  • Calms and quiets the mind
  • Calms your fear of public speaking
  • Overpowers self-defeating behaviors
  • Helps you make peace with your past
  • Helps you gain the courage to move on
  • Helps you speak your truth with confidence
  • Helps you to gain closure on stressful situations
  • Clarifies perception, sharpens the intellect and intuition, and clears confusion
  • Facilitaes the process of intellectual reasoning and the ability to find answers quickly
  • Facilitates facing others or yourself head-on and staring into the depths of the soul directly
  • Invoke tolerance of others and overcomes judgmentalism, giving support to those overwhelmed by responsibility

Emotional Properties

  • Calms anxiety
  • Brings closure on all levels
  • Soothes fears and increases sensitivity
  • Promotes calmness, peace, inspiration, and love
  • Helps you be more compassionate and less judgmental
  • Removes anger and fear to help improve communication, as well as calm and clear thoughts

Kundalini Properties

  • Shields the aura and aligns the chakras
  • Helps you receive new energy and vitality
  • Clears away old energies that don’t serve you anymore

Correspondence

  • Chakras: Heart, Throat, and Third eye
  • Energy: Projective
  • Planets: Saturn, Neptune, Venus
  • Element: Water
  • Zodiacs: Gemini, Pisces, Aries
  • Number: 1

Affirmations

  • My heart and mind are in harmony
  • I boldly speak my truth with confidence

Health Benefits

  • Regulates hormones and growth
  • Counteracts short- or long-sightedness
  • Aids in the flushing of toxins from the body
  • Alleviates sinus, lung, and respiratory problems
  • Helps with bronchitis, colds, hay fever, and various allergies
  • Helpful to sore throats, swollen glands and thyroid problems
  • Boosts the immune system and alleviates overreactions, such as hay fever or allergies
  • Highly protective during pregnancy by guarding the mother and discouraging miscarriages

Physical Properties

Color: Pale blue green, Greenish-blue, light blue, sky blue, deep sky-blue

Habit: Often as perfect, six-sided hexagons, and usually in individual prismatic crystals. Also in short, stubby crystals, and occasionally in tabular crystals and flattened hexagonal plates

Rarity: Rare

Luster: Vitreous

Species: Beryl

Zoning: Absent

Parting: Absent

Streak: Colorless, White

Gravity: 2.6 to 2.9

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Uneven to conchoidal

Cleavage: 3,1 — basal

Hardness: 7.5 to 8

Locations: Brazil, Pakistan, Russia, Kenya, Madagascar, The United States Mexico, India, Ireland,, Zimbabwe, and Afghanistan

Twinning: Very rare and simple on pyramidal planes{3141} or{4041}

Inclusions: Iron

Dispersion: 0.014

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: Distinct in strongly colored specimens, blue or green/colorless

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: 0.005 to 0.007

Diaphaneity: Transparent to translucent

Melting point: 400 to 450 degrees Celsius

Luminescence: Weak to absent

Chemical Name: Beryllium aluminum silicate

Refractive Index: 1.563 to 1.583

System/Structure: Hexagonal

Optical properties: Uniaxial/-

Chemical Formula: Be3Al2Si6O18

Chemical Classification: Silicates; Cyclosilicates

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