Turquoise: Meaning, Properties and How to Use It
Turquoise is the traveller's stone. In Persia, in the American Southwest and in Tibet it was handed to riders, traders and anyone leaving home, and it is credited with guarding the person who moves and keeping their word straight. It is also read as a stone of friendship, better given than bought for yourself.
What tradition says
What is Turquoise known for?
The old belief says turquoise takes the blow instead of its owner, and a stone that cracks has finished its work. Navajo and Zuni silverwork treats it as a piece of sky set into the hand. Tibetan practice ties it to the throat and to speaking without fear. Persian sources call it the stone that keeps a rider from falling. Every reading agrees on one thing. It watches over movement and asks for honesty back.
The practice
How do you use Turquoise?
Wear it where it shows on days you travel or have to say a hard thing out loud.
Many people keep one stone in the car and one in the bag that leaves the house.
Take it off before swimming and perfume, because turquoise drinks in oil and water and shifts colour slowly over years.
Read here as a language of symbols. Medical, legal and financial questions belong with a professional.
Two more
What does Turquoise 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 Turquoise for?
The same stone, read through the thing you came here with.
Questions
What else do people ask about Turquoise?
Is it bad luck to buy turquoise for yourself?
No tradition treats it as bad luck, only as less potent. The gift version of the belief comes from cultures where turquoise moved through family and trade, so a stone carried someone's intention with it. If you bought your own, people often set it aside for a night with a wish said out loud, and that counts.
Why did my turquoise turn green?
Turquoise is porous and slowly absorbs skin oil, soap and lotion, which shifts the blue toward green. Tradition reads the change as the stone living alongside you. Materially it is simply what an untreated porous mineral does, and it cannot be reversed, only slowed by keeping cosmetics away from it.
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