RHODOCHROSITE

COLOR: Pink to orange

APPEARANCE: Banded, all sizes, often polished or tumbled

RARITY: Easily obtained

SOURCE: United States, South Africa, Russia, Argentina, Uruguay

ATTRIBUTES: Rhodochrosite represents selfless love and compassion. It expands consciousness and integrates the spiritual with the material energies. This stone imparts a dynamic and positive attitude.

Rhodochrosite is an excellent stone for the heart and relationships, especially for people who feel unloved. It is the stone par excellence for healing sexual abuse. Rhodochrosite attracts a soul mate but this may not be the blissful experience you are hoping for. Soul mates are the people who help us learn our lessons in life, and although this is not always pleasant, it is for our higher good. Rhodochrosite teaches the heart to assimilate painful feelings without shutting down, and removes denial.

This stone clears the solar plexus and base chakras. Gently bringing painful and represses feelings to the surface, it allows them to be acknowledged and then dissipated through emotional release. Rhodochrosite then helps to identify ongoing patterns and shows the purpose behind the experience. This is a stone that insists you face the truth, about yourself and other people, without excuses or evasion but with loving awareness.

Rhodochrosite is useful for diagnosis at the psychological level. People who have an aversion to the stone are repressing something in themselves they do not want to look at. The stone urges that they confront irrational fears and paranoia, and reveals that the emotions that they have been taught to believe are unacceptable are natural. They then see things less negatively. Psychologically, Rhodochrosite improves self-worth and soothes emotional stress.

Rhodochrosite is mentally enlivening. It encourages a positive attitude and enhances dream states and creativity. This stone links you into the higher mind and helps you integrate new information.

Emotionally, Rhodochrosite encourages spontaneous expression of feelings, including passionate and erotic urges. It lifts a depressed mood and brings lightness into life.

HEALING: Rhodochrosite acts as an irritant filter and relieves asthma and respiratory problems. It purifies the circulatory system and kidneys and restores poor eyesight, normalizes blood pressure and stabilizes the heartbeat, and invigorates the sexual organs. As it dilates blood vessels it relieves migraines. The elixir relieves infections, improves the skin, and balances the thyroid.

POSITION: Wear on the wrist or place over the heart or solar plexus. For migraines, place on the top part of the spine.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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