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OPAL
A silicate. Wide rage of colors. Fades and cracks in sun, heat, salt, acidic foods. Moisten frequently with water or oil.
The stone of visionaries.
Attracts flashes of inspiration, psychic insights, and clairvoyance.
Opal surrounds the user with an aura of mystery, intensity, and charisma
A very emotionally responsive stone.
Opals foster love, passion, loyalty, faithfulness, emotional expressiveness, warmth, spontaneity and dramatic ability. Also associated with peace, and consciousness. Sometimes considered unlucky, but this is only because modern people fear their emotional side. Contains water, correlating with our emotions. Clarifies by amplifying and mirroring feelings, buried emotions, desires (including love and passion). Less inhibition, more spontaneity. Visualization, imagination, dreams, healing. Easily absorbs, stores emotions and thoughts. Fragile. Some cancel or negate other gems. (backfires if not used for good of all) May change color with high energy or intense people. Helps fight infections, heals and clears eyesight, and balances the metabolism.
BLACK OPAL promotes cosmic awareness and oceanic consciousness. One of the most potent.
BOULDER OPAL foster creativity and originality.
FIRE OPAL inspires dynamic energy and intensity. May stimulate passion, temper, energy.
SONOMA OPAL induces emotional stability.
WHITE OPAL enhances competency and efficiency. Balances Left / Right brain.
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Boulder Opal
Boulder opal is found in the color brown, sometimes with fire and sometimes without fire. It occurs within rounded or ellipsoidal-shaped boulders, like nodules or concretions which consist of siliceous ironstone. Boulders vary considerably in size, averaging 30 cm in the largest dimension. These boulders have been formed in the earth via a slow chemical growth process, usually accompanied by an increase in the iron oxide content. This results in may boulders displaying some form of growth rings, similar to those developed in trees. Through geological time, after their formation, many of these boulders have partially dehydrated, resulting in irregular shrinkage cracks forming within the ironstone. In the rare favorable conditions, silica solutions enter and solidify within these cracks, and in some instances, this material becomes gem opal. The boulders are formed under geologically favorable conditions in stratigraphic sandstone/clay traps and appear erratically within levels, usually in sandstone beds and located just above the clay level. The boulder gem opal occurs with intense color of reds, blues, purples, greens, and milky. Many find pieces of boulder opal do not have a full face of opal, but have bright gem material randomly intermixed with the ironstone. When professionally polished, the blending of the two materials provides an artistically attractive product with each stone having its own distinct individuality. It provides a connection to the stars, facilitating communication between the Earth plane and the star people of this world and other worlds. It provides for a grounding action while enhancing the transfer of information. It can also clear the “muddy�?areas from ones aura, stimulating the healing of those areas which were not clear and assisting one in communication between the conscious and the sub-conscious thought systems. This further enhances the properties of healing and initiates the healing state on all levels. It assists one in “sweeping the cobwebs�?from ones mind, enhancing mental clarity, emotional security, physical well being, and spiritual progression toward the perfect state. Vibrates to the number 4 (without fire) and to the number 6 (with fire).
Astrological sign of Scorpio.
Resource: Love Is In The Earth, A Kaleidoscope of Crystals, by Melody |
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Blue Opal
Blue opal ranges in color from blue-white to deep blue. There is also a beautiful blue jelly-type opal that has recently been found in Canada. It can be used to stimulate communication skills and to assist one in voicing thoughts and information which one has not been courageous enough to voice in the past. It provides one with both the freedom and courage to speak freely and with the wisdom to recognize those with which this free speech will be accepted. It further stimulated creativity and ingenuity in connecting with another, providing for an inner knowledge of the methods and situations which would be most conducive to the alliance. The blue jelly-type opal has been used to enhance one’s visioning and to activate the third eye. It seems to provide a clear reflection of that which is of concern and to bring the solutions to the concerns. It can also be used to balance ones metabolism, to assist in the assimilation of iron, and to treat fatigue and hair loss. Vibrates to the numbers 3 and 9. Astrological sign of Taurus.
Resource: Love Is In The Earth, A Kaleidoscope of Crystals, by Melody |
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| Andean Opal
Andean opal contains a swirling of pink, black, beige, and sometimes, blue colors. It has been used to activate the heart chakra while providing for centering and grounding. It can be used for spiritual journeying to protect, to assist one in selection, and to bring availability to the locations one wishes to visit. It has also been used to induce the hypnotic state and to facilitate divination. I further instills a knowledge of “right action�?and dispels reaction. Andean opal has been used in the treatments of disorders associated with the heart, the lungs, and the thymus. It can also be used to ameliorate water retention, muscular swelling, and spinal dis-alignment. Vibrates to the number 2. Astrological signs of Virgo and Aries.
Resource: Love Is In The Earth, A Kaleidoscope of Crystals, by Melody |
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OPAL
SCIENTIFIC INFORMATION: Opal is hydrous silica, often with some iron and aluminum. Its chemistry is SiO2.nH2O; amount of water varies up to 10 percent. It ranges in color from White, yellow, red, pink, brown to gray, blue and even colorless. It is most easily recognized by its rich internal play of colors (opalescence). Its hardness ranges from 5-1/2 to 6-1/2. It is vitreous and pearly. The streak is white.  It is not found in crystal form, rather is usually massive, botryoidal, reniform, stalactitic, and/or earthy.
ENVIRONMENT: Opal is a low-temperature mineral and usually develops in a wide variety of rocks as cavity and fracture fillings. It frequently develops as amygdules in basalt and rhyolite of volcanic rock and replaces the cells in wood and the shells of clams.
OCCURRENCE: Common opal is widespread and can be readily obtained at many places, but localities for precious opal are rare and seem to localized in W United States and Mexico. Magnificent examples of opalized wood can be found in Idaho, Nevada, Oregon, Utah, and Washington, and lively green fluorescing opal (hyalite) occurs in seams in pegmatites in New England and North Carolina and in cavities in basalt near Klamath Falls, Oregon. Beautiful precious opal, as a replacement in wood, has been obtained in Virgin Valley, Humboldt Co., Nevada. Excellent fire and precious opal occur in lava flows in N Mexico. Nevada, Australia, and Honduras are sources for black opal; Australia and Czechoslovakia for white opal; Mexico and SW United States for fire opal.
GEMSTONE INFORMATION: Black, dark blue, dark green opal with dark gray body color and fine play of colors is called [black opal;] opal with white or light body color and fine play of color is called [white opal;] and transparent to translucent opal with body color ranging from orange-yellow to red and a play of colors is called [fire opal.] Play of colors depends upon interference of light and is not dependent upon body color. Black opal is the most highly prized, and fire opal is the most valued of the orange and red varieties. Most opal is fashioned into cabochons, but some fire opals are faceted.
NAME: The word is from the Sanskrit [upala,] meaning "precious stone."
LEGEND and LORE: Opal is a birthstone for October.
"October's child is born for woe,
And life's vicissitudes must know;
But lay an Opal on her breast,
And hope will lull those foes to rest." (5)
Opals have traditionally been considered "lucky" stones...but only for those born in the month of October. It has been considered bad luck to wear them if you were born in any other month.
MAGICAL PROPERTIES: Opal is considered to be able to confer the gift of invisibility on its wearer. To accomplish this, Cunningham says "The gem was wrapped in a fresh bay l eaf and carried for this purpose." He also says, "Opals are also worn to bring out inner beauty. A beauty spell: Place a round mirror on the altar or behind it so that you can see your face within it while kneeling. Place two green candles on either side of the mirror. Light the candles. Empower an opal with your need for beauty -- while holding the stone, gaze into your reflection. With the scalpel of your visualization, mold and form your face (and your body) to the form you desire. Then, carry or wear the opal and dedicate yourself to improving your appearance." (2)
HEALING: Opals contain all the colors of the other stones, thus, it could be used in place of any of them. (They are akin to quartz crystals, in this aspect.) Generally speaking, Opal is used more frequently for healing the spirit, rather than the physical body.
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1. Scientific, Environment, Occurrence and Name are from (or paraphrased from) "The Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Rocks and Minerals".
2. Legends and Lore, Magical Properties are from "Cunningham's Encyclopedia of Crystal, Gem & Metal Magic", by Scott Cunningham.
3. Some of the healing information may come from "Color and Crystals, A Journey Through the Chakras" by Joy Gardner.
4. Birthday poem from "The Occult and Curative Powers of Precious Stones" by William T. Fernie, M.D.
This stone carries immense quantities of energy, both positive and negative and is thus the stone of fortune and misfortune. It is also called the stone of the Gods since it carries all colors. It represents all four elements. it attracts to the wearer whatever is written on its self. It opens the visionary aspects of the mind and encourages and aids visions and psychic journeying. It also strengthens memory and revives and clears the mind. It is also used in prophecy and divination by placing over the third eye.
It offers protection from eye diseases ( often by being wrapped in a bay leaf and being placed on the eyelid) It is used to grant wishes and to add to magickal workings. Placed in the left hand it gives affirmation of purpose, in the right hand it will strengthen the work its self. Placed on the forehead, it gives direction to thoughts and gives direct linkage to Mercury.
It provided strong aid when offering help and guidance for others but may be quite negative when used selfishly for ones self. Opals are absorbtive, they pick up energy of every type around them. They do not water. When surrounded by positiveness and security, they are quite clean and they are quite clear and bright but when negativity comes along they become cloudy. They guard a persons honor. They were once considered to be the patron stone of thieves. Also they keep the hair from going grey and are useful against boils. |
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