Aquamarine Crystal Properties
Communication, Calms, Connects
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