QUARTZ: RUTILATED QUARTZ

COLOR: Colorless or smoky with golden brown, reddish, or black strands

APPEARANCE: Long thin "threads" in clear crystal, all sizes

RARITY: Readily available

SOURCE: Worldwide

ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES: Rutilated Quartz is an effective integrator of energy at any level. It heightens the energetic impulse of Quartz and is a very efficient vibrational healer.

Spiritually, Rutilated Quartz is said to have a perfect balance of cosmic light and to be an illuminator for the soul, promoting spiritual growth. It cleanses and energizes the aura. This stone aids astral travel, scrying, and channeling. It facilitates contact with the highest spiritual guidance. It draws off negative energy and breaks down the barriers to spiritual progress, letting go of the past.

Rutilated Quartz is helpful for therapists and counselors as it filters negative energy from a client, and at the same time supports their energy field during emotional release and confrontation with the darker aspects of the psyche. It gives protection against psychic attack.

Psychologically, Rutilated Quartz reaches the root of problems and facilitates transitions and a change of direction. Emotionally, Rutilated Quartz sooths dark moods and acts as an antidepressant. It relieves fears, phobias, and anxiety, releasing constrictions and countering self-hatred. This stone promotes forgiveness at all levels.

Rutilated Quartz opens the aura to allow healing. At a physical level, it absorbs mercury poisoning from nerves, muscles, blood, and the intestinal tract.

HEALING: Rutilated Quartz has a vitality that is helpful for chronic conditions and for impotence and infertility. It is excellent for exhaustion and energy depletion. This crystal treats the respiratory tract and bronchitis, stimulates and balances the thyroid, repels parasites. It stimulates growth and regeneration in cells and repairs torn tissues. It is said to encourage an upright posture.

POSITION: Neck for thyroid, heart for thymus; solar plexus for energy; ears to balance and align; sweep over aura to draw off negativity.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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