Pink Tourmaline: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Pink tourmaline, rubellite in its deeper shades, is read as kindness turned inward. Practice credits it with self compassion after a failure, with softening a person who has become hard on herself, and with comfort that does not require anyone else to be present.
What tradition says
What is Pink Tourmaline known for?
Where rose quartz is read as love in general, pink tourmaline is read as the specific act of forgiving yourself, and practitioners keep them separate for that reason. Victorian writers associated it with young women and with recovery from disappointment. The modern use is narrower and more useful. It is the stone handed to someone after a rejection, a lost pregnancy, a career failure, or any day that ended in self reproach.
The practice
How do you use Pink Tourmaline?
Hold it during the sentence you would say to a friend in your position, said out loud to yourself.
That is the whole practice and it is harder than it sounds.
Worn as a pendant it sits at the sternum for the weeks after something went wrong, and it is usually put away once you notice you stopped needing it.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Pink Tourmaline 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 Pink Tourmaline for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Pink Tourmaline?
What is the difference from rubellite?
Rubellite is the trade name for tourmaline in strong red to raspberry tones that keep their colour under artificial light. Pale pink stones are simply pink tourmaline. It is a grading distinction and a price distinction. Practice treats the whole range as one stone.
Can I wear it with rose quartz?
Yes, and it is a common pairing for a hard stretch. The usual framing is rose quartz for staying open to other people and pink tourmaline for being decent to yourself, which are two different failures and often happen at once.
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