Rose Quartz: characteristics and effects

WHAT IS ROSE QUARTZ?

The beautiful pink quartz often has a somewhat cloudy appearance. The stone is usually found in large amorphous chunks, which are transparent to translucent. From South America, however, comes beautiful transparent pink quartz, whose crystal structure you can see with the naked eye (macrocrystalline).It is the stone of the child and of the artist. Rose quartz protects all that is vulnerable and small, makes resilient and irresistible.Rose quartz is the stone of unconditional love. It teaches us to accept ourselves as we are, so that we can also love others for who and what they are.If you are looking for friendship, rose quartz is your stone. Wear it with you in a nice piece of jewelry or in your pocket. With rose quartz, you will enter the world more cheerful and free. This will help you make contact with other people.The rose quartz, if you put it in a space like your living room, has a calming and harmonizing effect on the atmosphere.

ORIGIN OF THE NAME

Rose Quartz, of course, owes its name to its pink color. The stone is often mistakenly called rose quartz, but it has nothing to do with the flower rose.The name rose quartz has been used since about 1800. Before that time, the stone was called milk quartz or (al)mean quartz.

ROSE QUARTZ THROUGH THE AGES

Rose quartz has a long history. The stone has been used and appreciated for centuries as a stone of love.In ancient Egypt, masks were carved from rose quartz, as a symbol of beauty and love. In classical Greek and Roman times, pink quartz was thought to have been brought to earth by the goddess of love, Aphrodite/Venus. Therefore, this mineral was dedicated to this goddess.The Egyptians and Romans liked to use pink quartz to carve seal stones. Fine intaglios from Roman times have also been found: gemstones with engraved decoration, in the form of rings, pendants and signet stones. A ring or other piece of jewelry made of rose quartz is said to improve love life considerably.In China, rose quartz was and is eagerly used to carve figurines, such as Buddha statues.In Japan, rose quartz was used to carve so-called netsuke’s, artfully crafted objects that belong to the Japanese costume.

ROSE QUARTZ AND HEALTH

SPIRITUAL

* Rose quartz opens your heart chakra. This makes you receptive to beauty and vulnerability. Wear rose quartz jewelry regularly and you see more clearly the beauty of nature, of young people and animals, of flowers and plants.* Rose Quartz is the stone of unconditional love. Rose quartz teaches you to love yourself, without becoming self-centered. It also teaches you to love yourself again after traumatic experiences like mental or physical humiliation, incest, neglect.

MENTAL

* Rose Quartz teaches you to accept yourself as you are. The stone gives you the strength and energy to change your lesser sides for the better.* Rose Quartz helps against all kinds of fears and phobias, such as fear of the dark or fear of being locked up.* Rose Quartz increases empathy, giving you an understanding of other people’s feelings. Calms and comforts with grief and worries.

EMOTIONAL

* Problems in the relational sphere are reduced by regularly wearing jewelry with rose quartz on your heart, or by regularly taking a rose quartz in your hand and considering it attentively.* Rose quartz cheers you up when melancholy and depression strikes.* Rose Quartz helps you to be like a child again, uninhibited and fearless. It makes one playful and cheerful.* Rose quartz is calming. The stone comforts the sad, soothes someone with a hardened mind, tempers temperamental natures.

PHYSICAL

* Rose Quartz heals the heart chakra, as well as all kinds of ailments related to the heart. From a broken heart to complaints of the circulatory system.* Rose Quartz has a rejuvenating effect on the skin because of its high content of silicon dioxide. By regularly going over the skin with rose quartz, it becomes taut. If you have problematic skin, you should cleanse your stone after a pink quartz massage! Do this by rinsing your stone well under lukewarm running water. Always use the same stone for this stone massage. Small irregularities like pimples, warts and blackheads disappear by drinking rose quartz water regularly.*A relaxing bath becomes even more relaxing if you put a few pink quartz in your bath water. Do take large stones that cannot be washed away with the bath water.* Pink quartz on your nightstand has a positive effect on your sleep (but also on your love life).* By carrying rose quartz in your pocket, you strengthen and protect the male and female organs needed in childbearing.* Rose quartz heals complaints caused by stress, especially skin complaints such as eczema.

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