Goldstone Crystal Properties

Transmute, Confidence, Strength

Aka: Aventurine Glass, Stellaria, Gold Star Glass, Monkstone, or Monk’s gold

Spiritual Properties

• Has the ability to transmute ideas into physical manifestations
• It helps with distant healing and deflection and brings protection

Mental Properties

• A stone of ambition
• Enables you to obtain your goals
• Inspires you to keep fighting
• Will help you stay energized
• Enables you to believe in yourself
• Increases motivation, drive, and confidence
• Enables you to appreciate the wonders of the world
• It builds energy courage and a positive attitude
• Stands for change, transformation, alchemy, and strength
• Great for redirection/reorientation either physically or mentally
• Its energies encourage those who are aloof and detached to come out of their shells and overcome their shyness

Emotional Properties

• Helps you stay enthusiastic
• Improves emotional intelligence
• Gently uplifts and provides vitality
• Brings on positive self-esteem and self-worth
• Releases unwanted toxic thoughts and emotions
• Stabilizes your moods and strengthens your faith
• Can help you stay calm and stabilize your emotions
• Works to calm your strong emotions so that you will still be able to think clearly and not make any rash decisions

Kundalini Properties

• Strengthens Chi energy
• Has the ability to remove all negative energies and attract positive ones
• A spiritual protector that allows the energy to flow between the physical and spiritual realms

Correspondence

• Chakras: Root, Sacral, and Solar Plexus
• Energy: Projective and Receptive
• Planets: Jupiter
• Element: Fire and Earth
• Zodiacs: Sagittarius
• Number: 3

Affirmations

• I harness my courage and strength.
• I trust the intelligence of the universe.
• I know there is always light to be found in any darkness.

Health Benefits

• Reduces tension
• Can coax aches and pains
• Contains copper, which is very helpful in areas of inflammation, and increases your blood flow

Physical Properties

Color: Reddish brown with copper flecks; other colors include blue, purple, and green

Habit: n/a

Rarity: Common

Luster: Vitreous

Species: Silica glass with metallic crystals (commonly copper, but also can include cobalt, manganese or chromium)

Zoning: Absent

Parting: Absent

Streak: Colorless

Gravity: 2.3 to 4.5

Tenacity: Brittle

Fracture: Absent

Cleavage: Absent

Hardness: 5.5 to 7

Locations: Produced in Venice

Twinning: Absent

Inclusions: quartz glass, copper, gypsum, and feldspar

Dispersion: Absent

Chatoyancy: Absent

Pleochroism: Absent

Fluorescence: Absent

Birefringence: Absent

Diaphaneity: Opaque

Melting point: 1084.62 °C

Luminescence: Absent

Chemical Name: Silica Copper Glass

Refractive Index: 1.47 to 1.7

System/Structure: Absent

Optical properties: Displays Aventurescence

Chemical Formula: Absent

Chemical Classification: Glass

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