Chrysocolla: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Chrysocolla is traditionally called a stone of the voice, and specifically of speaking a hard truth without cruelty. Crystal lore ties it to teaching, to women's wisdom and to saying the thing that has gone unsaid. Its blue green is read as the meeting of water and earth.
What tradition says
What is Chrysocolla known for?
Chrysocolla is a copper mineral that forms as crusts in the oxidised zones of copper mines, so it usually arrives mixed with quartz, malachite or turquoise. The name comes from Greek words for gold glue, because ancient smiths used it as a soldering flux. Crystal writers give it the throat and describe it as the stone for the moment you have to say something true to someone you love.
The practice
How do you use Chrysocolla?
The common practice is to hold it at the base of the throat and rehearse the sentence you have been avoiding.
Teachers and anyone who speaks for a living tend to keep a piece near the desk.
Wearing it at the neck through a difficult conversation is the other standard use.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Chrysocolla 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 Chrysocolla for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Chrysocolla?
Is chrysocolla the same as turquoise?
No, though they are both copper minerals and look alike at a glance. Chrysocolla is softer and greener. Some material genuinely contains both, and honest sellers say so.
Can I wear chrysocolla every day?
Only if it is stabilised or set in quartz. Soft pure material will scuff and lose polish fast in a ring. Pendants survive far better than anything worn on the hands.
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