Lemurian Quartz: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Lemurian quartz is clear or pink quartz with horizontal ladder like striations on its faces, found mainly in Brazil. Practice credits it with slow, patient attunement and reads the striations as lines to be traced with a thumb. It is one of the gentlest stones in the quartz family to work with.
What tradition says
What is Lemurian Quartz known for?
The practice around it is unusually specific and unusually calming. You do not project onto this stone, you run a thumb along the ridges, one line at a time, and let attention narrow to the texture. Practitioners use it for people who cannot meditate because sitting still makes them anxious, because here the hands have something to do. Whatever you make of the story attached to it, the method itself is sound and kind.
The practice
How do you use Lemurian Quartz?
Hold it lightly and trace the ridges with a thumb, one line per breath, base to point.
Five minutes is a full session.
Many people use it in a waiting room, on a train, or before sleep, where the point is repetition rather than intention.
Keep the striated faces unpolished, because polishing removes the whole feature.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Lemurian Quartz 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 Lemurian Quartz for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Lemurian Quartz?
Are the striations real or made?
Real. They are growth striations, formed by layered deposition on the prism faces, and they occur on quartz from many countries. Nobody carves them. What is invented is the explanation, not the texture. You can feel the same ridges on plenty of unlabelled Brazilian points.
Should I still buy one?
If the thumb tracing practice appeals to you, yes, and a plain striated Brazilian point does the same job for much less money. Buy the texture, which is real. The name on the card is marketing, and knowing that lets you enjoy the stone honestly.
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