TOPAZ

COLOR: Golden-yellow, brown, blue, clear, red-pink, green

APPEARANCE: Transparent, pointed crystals, often small and faceted or large piece

RARITY: Easily obtained from specialist stores, red-pink is rare

SOURCE: United States, Mexico, India, Australia, South Africa, Sri Lanka, Pakistan

ATTRIBUTES: Topaz is a mellow, empathetic stone that directs energy to where it is needed most. It soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges, remotivates, and aligns the meridians of the body. Topaz promotes truth and forgiveness. It helps shed light on the path, highlights goals, and taps into inner resources. This crystal brings about a trust in the universe that enables you to "be" rather than to "do." It cuts through doubt and uncertainty.

Topaz's vibrate energy brings joy, generosity, abundance, and good health. It has traditionally been known as a stone of love and good fortune, bringing successful attainment of goals. It is extremely supportive for affirmations and manifestation, and for visualization. It is said that the facets and ends of a Topaz crystal have both positive and negative energies through which a request to the universe can be focused and then manifested on the earth plane.

Excellent for cleaning the aura and for inducing relaxation, Topaz releases tension at any level and can speed up spiritual development where it has been laborious.

Psychologically, Topaz helps you to discover your own inner riches. It makes you feel confident and philanthropic, wanting to share your good fortune and spread sunshine all around. Negativity does not survive around joyful Topaz. This stone promotes openness and honesty, self-realization, self-control, and the urge to develop inner wisdom.

those engaged in the arts. It helps you become aware of the influence you have and of the knowledge you have gained through hard work and life experiences. This stone has the capacity to see both the bigger picture and the minute detail, recognizing how they interrelate. Topaz assists in expressing ideas and confers astuteness.

Topaz is an excellent emotional support--it stabilizes the emotions and makes you receptive to love from source.

HEALING: Topaz can be used to manifest health. It aids digestion and combats anorexia, restores the sense of taste, fortifies the nerves, and stimulates the metabolism. Saint Hildegard of Bingen recommended an elixir of Topaz to correct dimness of vision.

POSITION: Ring finger, solar plexus, and brow chakra. Position or place as appropriate for healing. The elixir can be applied to the skin.

SPECIFIC COLORS
In addition to the generic properties, certain colors have additional attributes:

Blue Topaz, placed on the throat chakra or third eye, aids those chakras and verbalization. It is an excellent color for meditation and attuning to the higher self, assisting in living according to your own aspirations and views. This color attunes to the angels of truth and wisdom. It assists in seeing the scripts you have been living by and to recognize where you have strayed from your own truth.

Clear Topaz aids in becoming aware of thoughts and deeds, and the karmic effect that these have. It assists purifying emotions and actions, activating cosmic awareness. In healing, Clear Topaz removes stagnant or stuck energy.

Golden Topaz (Imperial Topaz) acts like a battery and recharges spiritually and physically, strengthening faith and optimism. It is an excellent stone for conscious attunement to the highest forces in the universe and can be used to store information received in this way. It reminds you of your divine origins.

Imperial Topaz assists in recognizing your own abilities, instills a drive toward recognition, and attracts helpful people. This stone is beneficial for those seeking fame as it bestows charisma and confidence with pride in your abilities while remaining generous and open-hearted. It assists in overcoming limitations and in setting great plans afoot. In healing, it regenerates cellular structures and strengthens the solar plexus, and is beneficial for nervous exhaustion and insufficient combustion of nutrients. It treats the liver, the gallbladder, and the endocrine glands.

Pink Topaz is a stone of hope. It gently eases out old patterns of dis-ease and dissolves resistance, opening the way to radiant health. This stone shows you the face of the divine.

COMBINATION STONE
Rutilated Topaz is rare but is extremely effective for visualization and manifestation. It is an excellent stone for scrying, bringing deep insights when properly programmed and attracting love and light into one's life.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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