Tanzanite: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Tanzanite is traditionally read as the bridge between knowing something and being able to say it, because lore places it at the throat and the third eye at once. It is also treated as a stone of transformation, partly because it only exists in one small place. The colour is described as insight made visible.
What tradition says
What is Tanzanite known for?
Tanzanite was found in 1967 in the Merelani Hills of northern Tanzania and has never been found anywhere else, which makes it one of the rarest stones in ordinary jewellery. Tiffany named it and made it famous within a year. Because the lore is fifty years old rather than five hundred, it is written entirely by modern crystal authors, who read the single source as a symbol of a thing that happens once.
The practice
How do you use Tanzanite?
It is a jewellery stone first, so most people simply wear it and treat the colour as the reminder.
For deliberate work, hold it between the brows and then at the throat, moving from the insight to the words for it.
Many keep it for occasions rather than daily wear.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Tanzanite 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 Tanzanite for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Tanzanite?
Is tanzanite really running out?
The deposit is finite and small, and estimates of how long it lasts vary widely and come mostly from sellers. Treat specific countdowns as marketing. The rarity itself is real.
Does heat treatment change how it is read?
Not in the tradition, which treats heated tanzanite as ordinary tanzanite because virtually all of it is heated. Unheated stones exist and cost a great deal. The practice is the same either way.
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