Amazonite: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Amazonite is the stone for saying the difficult thing kindly. Tradition credits it with taking the charge out of a conversation, with setting a boundary without a fight and with a stubborn kind of hope. It is often called the stone of courage and the stone of truth at the same time.
What tradition says
What is Amazonite known for?
The name points at the Amazon, where the mineral was never actually found, so it is a misnomer that stuck for two hundred years. Real deposits are in Colorado, Russia and Madagascar. Egyptians carved amazonite into scarabs for the Book of the Dead and into a ring found in Tutankhamun's tomb. The blue green comes from traces of lead. Practitioners describe it as the stone that keeps a hard sentence from becoming a hard scene.
The practice
How do you use Amazonite?
Hold it while you draft the message you have rewritten four times, then send the shorter version.
Keep a piece in your pocket during a conversation about money, boundaries or an ending.
On the desk, tradition puts it near the phone.
It suits being handled rather than worn.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Amazonite pair with?
Stones are kept in small sets rather than alone, and these two are the usual company for this one.
What it is kept for
What do people reach for Amazonite for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Amazonite?
Is amazonite safe to handle if it contains lead?
Yes for polished stones. The lead is bound inside the feldspar lattice, not sitting on the surface, so handling a tumbled piece exposes you to nothing. The precautions that matter are the same as for malachite. Do not grind it, do not soak it and do not drink water it has sat in.
Does amazonite block electromagnetic radiation?
No. That claim circulates widely and has nothing behind it. A stone taped to a router does not change what the router emits. The honest version is that people who put amazonite by the phone tend to pick the phone up a little more deliberately, and that is a real effect of a different kind.
Next in the library
The stones beside this one.
Two ways on
One stone is a reminder, a library is a map.
A hundred and four stones and sixty four everyday uses, sorted the way a week arrives. If you came here through the body rather than the mineral, the seven chakras are the other way in.
- 104
- stones, each with what tradition says
- 64
- everyday uses, six stones under each
- 7
- centres, the same set read through the body