Crystals for Friendship
Rose quartz, turquoise and chrysoprase are the three stones traditionally exchanged between friends. Giving is most of the practice here. A stone that was chosen for you by someone who knows you carries the one thing a stone bought for yourself cannot: proof that you were thought about on a day you were not in the room.
The six
Which six stones does tradition name for this?
Six, not sixty. Each one carries a different reason, so you can pick the reason that sounds like your week rather than buying the whole row.
Rose Quartz
The default gift, and there is no shame in the obvious choice. Its meaning is wide enough to cover affection that has nothing romantic about it at all.
Turquoise
In several traditions a stone that is given rather than bought for yourself, and is said to work best that way. That makes it the most fitting stone on this list.
Chrysoprase
Apple green and associated with ease. People give it to the friend who has had a long hard year and is starting to laugh properly again.
Green Aventurine
Cheap enough to give several of, which is the practical reason it appears here. A stone each for a group of friends is a good use of twenty coins.
Amazonite
For the friendship that needs an honest conversation rather than more pleasantness. Its association is saying the true thing without turning it into a fight.
Moonstone
Traditionally given to someone leaving on a journey. It belongs here for friendships that survive distance, which are the ones worth marking with an object.
The practice
How do you work with the set?
Buy two of the same stone, keep one and give one, and say plainly why you picked it.
That sentence is the actual gift.
If your friend is far away, post it with a note rather than a photograph of it.
An object that travelled to them does something a message does not.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Questions
What else do people ask about this?
Is it bad luck to buy turquoise for myself?
That is the lore, not a rule, and nothing bad happens either way. The tradition is best read as a nudge toward the useful part: this is a stone associated with what passes between people. Buy it for yourself if you like it.
What if the friendship is ending?
Keep the stone or do not, but do not turn it into a ceremony of blame. Friendships often end quietly and without anyone being at fault, and an object from the good years is allowed to just be an object from the good years.
Nearby
The needs that sit next to this one.
Two ways on
A need is one door in, a stone is another.
Six names, and behind each one the tradition that gave it the job and the plain limit of what it cannot do. The body reads the same set differently, and the seven centres are that reading.
- 104
- stones, each with what tradition says
- 64
- everyday uses, six stones under each
- 7
- centres, the same set read through the body