The Love Stones
It is no accident that all of these stones are pink. Pink stones not only help to clear emotional stress, they also express the energy of unconditional or universal love and compassion. The vibration of pink helps to reduce aggression and promote understanding and empathy.
Rose Quartz
Also known as the love stone, rose quartz is effective in attracting love as well as drawing love and relationships toward you. For existing relationships, it will restore trust and harmony, encouraging unconditional love. If you have loved and lost, rose quartz comforts your grief. If you have never received love, it will open your heart so that you become receptive.
Rose quartz is an excellent emotional healer, removing blocked emotional stress and gently drawing off negative energy while replacing it with loving vibrations. It is the most important crystal for the heart and the heart chakra. Wear it over the heart; it will strengthen the physical heart and circulatory systems.
Rose quartz makes an excellent gift for lovers, children, and anyone in need of sympathy and affection. As its name implies, it belongs to the quartz family, composed of silicon dioxide. An historical note: Masks cut from rose quartz were used to beautify skin in Ancient Egypt.
Rhodonite
Rhodonite is also an emotional healer that stimulates, clears, and activates the heart and the heart chakra. It nurtures love, promoting unselfish love and forgiveness.
Rhodonite is rich in manganese, an element that gives it its characteristic rich rose pink or red color. It is often found patterned with dark brown or black oxides. Pink rhodonite helps us to monitor our thoughts, desires, words, actions, and responses. Red rhodonite encourages self-discipline, stability, moral courage, and faith.
Pink Tourmaline
Tourmaline occurs in a wide variety of colors, but it is again the pink stone that we look for when searching for love. Pink tourmaline is an aphrodisiac that attracts love in both the earthly and spiritual realms. It inspires the trust in love of oneself that is necessary before one can be loved by others. Promoting peace and relaxation, Pink Tourmaline connects you to wisdom and compassion and stimulates receptivity to healing energies.
Rhodochrosite
Representing both selfless love and compassion, Rhodochrosite (alternate spelling rhodocrosite) is an excellent stone for both the heart and relationships, especially for people who feel unloved.
Similar in color and composition (manganese ore) to Rhodonite, Rhodochrosite contains additional calcium, magnesium and iron, which give it a more transparent or translucent aspect. This stone’s coloration, with its banded zones of pink, red, peach, and cream, allow it to clear the base, sacral, and solar plexus chakras, blending these energies wherever there is disruption due to emotional stress. Look for this stone to improve poor self-worth and lack of confidence.
Mentally, Rhodochrosite is enlivening, encouraging a positive attitude, and enhancing dream states and creativity. Emotionally, this stone encourages the spontaneous express of feelings. To achieve equanimity, breath through the stone, visualizing pink light around you, allowing tensions to drain through the soles of your feet. Physically, Rhodochrosite relieves asthma and respiratory problems, acting as a filter.
Pink Opal
Pink Opal is one of a variety of common opals that appear opaque, with none of the dynamic plays of color seen in precious opals. However, pink opal vibrates at a gentle frequency, thus enhancing its calming and soothing effect on the emotional body. Associated with love, passion, desire, and eroticism, pink opal will help to bring the joy back into your life. This stone is well suited for the sensitive and loving individual – anyone in need of healing from the wounds of the heart using the heart chakra.
Pink opal helps one remain calm and centered; it brings a sense of love, peace, and tranquility to the aura. As a stone of renewal, pink opal will aide in the journey toward self-acceptance and love. These stones are also helpful in the relief of fear, worry, or anxiety.
The word opal derives from the Sanskrit upala and the Latin opalus meaning precious stone. The Romans considered the opal a stone of love, compassion, and hope. According to Australian legend, the stars are governed by a huge opal that also controls gold and acts as a guide to profound human love.
Physically, Pink Opal soothes irritated skin, helps with issues relating to the lungs, heart, liver and spleen, and may be beneficial for those suffering from hypoglycemia or diabetes.
Warning: Common opals contain up to thirty percent water; if the stone is cracked, it loses the water that is responsible for their opalescence. Do not leave opals in sunlight or the stones will become brittle and break.