Moonstone: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Moonstone is tied to cycles, to women's rhythms and to intuition that arrives sideways rather than as a conclusion. Tradition calls it the traveller's stone and the stone of new beginnings, and gives it to anyone starting over. Its blue sheen is read as the moon caught inside the rock.
What tradition says
What is Moonstone known for?
Roman writers believed moonstone waxed and waned with the moon itself, and Indian tradition treats it as sacred, a stone given to brides and never sold without ceremony. Art Nouveau jewellers built a whole style around it. The sheen, adularescence, floats across the surface as you move, which is why the lore speaks of glimpsing rather than seeing. Practitioners describe it as receptive, a stone that softens rather than pushes.
The practice
How do you use Moonstone?
Wear it through the second half of your cycle, or through any month when a decision is forming and will not finish.
Keep one in the bag you travel with, which is the oldest use it has.
At the new moon, hold it, name the thing you are starting and write the first line of it.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Moonstone 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 Moonstone for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Moonstone?
Do I need to charge moonstone under the full moon?
Tradition says yes and the practice is harmless, so most people do it. A windowsill overnight is enough, and moonlight fades nothing. Whether the moon does something to the stone is not really the claim most practitioners are making. The point is that you stopped and noticed the month turning.
What is rainbow moonstone?
Strictly it is white labradorite, not moonstone at all, but the trade has called it that for so long that the name is fixed. It shows a blue flash on a clear body rather than the milky glow of true adularia. The tradition treats the two interchangeably.
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