Zodiac: Pisces, Sagittarius
Chakras: Throat
Colour: Turquoise, green, blue
Appearance: Opaque, often veined, all sizes, often polished or tumbled
Psychologically:Turquoise is a strengthening stone. It dissolves a martyred attitude or self-sabotage.
Mentally: Turquoise instils inner calm while remaining alert, and aids creative expression.
Emotionally: Turquoise stabilizes mood swings and brings inner calm. It stimulates romantic love.
Physically`: Turquoise is an excellent stone for exhaustion, depression or panic attacks. One of its protective functions is against outside influences or pollutants in the atmosphere.
Healing: Turquoise strengthens the meridians of the body and the subtle energy fields. It enhances the physical and psychic immune systems and regenerates tissue, supports the assimilation of nutrients, alleviates pollution and viral infections, and heals the whole body, especially the eye’s, including cataracts. It reduces excess acidity and benefits gout, rheumatism and the stomach. This stone is anti-inflammatory and detoxifying and alleviates cramps and pain.
Positioning: Anywhere but especially on the throat, third eye and solar plexus. It also makes an excellent elixir.
Tumbled Turquoise
Weight: Between 7g-16g
Size: Between 2cm-3.2cm
Known as the ‘Stone of Heaven’ to native Americans, Turquoise is a purification stone with anti-inflammatory properties. Turquoise aids in meditation and promotes balanced thinking.
Further attributes:
Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. A protective stone and has been used for amulets since time immemorial. It is believed to change colour to warn of danger of infidelity. Turquoise promotes spiritual attunement and enhances communication with the physical and spiritual worlds. Placed on the third eye, it enhances intuition and meditation. On the throat Chakra, it releases old vows, inhibitions and prohibitions, and allows the soul to express itself once more. It explores past lives and shows how the creation of your ‘fate’ is ongoing and depends on what you do at each moment.
Turquoise dispels negative energy and clears electromagnetic smog, providing protection against pollutants in the environment. It balances and aligns all the Chakra’s with the subtle body and attunes the physical level to the spiritual.
In traditional thought, turquoise unites the Earth and the sky, bringing together male and female energies. This stone is empathic and balancing. A promoter of self-realisation, it assists creative problem-solving and calms the nerves when speaking in public.
Khemet – The stone of Turquoise is seen as a connector of humans to Mother Gaia and as being the voice of Earth itself. Also, revered as creator of the human body. So, by aligning to Turquoise we align to the creation of our physical form and the innate sacred geometrical structure the specimen form possesses.