Seraphinite: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Seraphinite is named for the feathered silver pattern that runs through its dark green, which readers compare to wings. Practice credits it with gentle restoration after exhaustion and with a sense of being accompanied. It is the softest and most inward of the green stones in common use.
What tradition says
What is Seraphinite known for?
It comes from one area near Lake Baikal in Siberia, and mineralogically it is clinochlore, with seraphinite as the trade name given for the wing pattern. Like charoite it has no old tradition behind it. Its reputation was written recently by people who work with burnout, illness recovery and grief, and who wanted a green stone that asks nothing of you. That gentleness is the whole of its reading.
The practice
How do you use Seraphinite?
Keep it by the bed and use it lying down.
The usual practice is a piece resting on the chest during ten quiet minutes at the end of a day that took too much, with no intention set and nothing asked for.
People also hand it to someone in recovery, where it does the work a get well card cannot.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Seraphinite 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 Seraphinite for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Seraphinite?
Why does my seraphinite look dull now?
Micro scratches on a very soft surface, almost always from sharing a bag or bowl with harder stones. A lapidary can repolish it, but the honest answer is to store it alone in a soft pouch from the start. The silver feathering shows best on fresh polish.
Is seraphinite connected to angels literally?
The name is a description of the pattern, given by a dealer, not an old sacred attribution. Practitioners who work with angelic imagery adopted it because the resemblance is striking. If that imagery is not yours, the stone still reads as rest and repair.
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