Earth, cooling and forming into what we recognize today, is the source of life and love, as aptly coined in the title of Melody’s treatise on minerals Love Is in the Earth. However, if you turn to the index in the 1995 edition of Love Is in the Earth, no page listing for love is offered. It flies in the face of experience to attest that our volcanic, earthquake-ridden, landslide- and flood-prone home is one hundred percent safe and easy to get along with. The love that we know from Earth is full of danger, risk, and challenge. Only in recent history have humans seriously considered making peace with a planet that scared us to death. Our constant struggle for survival and superiority has evolved into, for some, a powerful urge, despite genetic controls, toward altruism. This urge began thousands of years before rose quartz was discovered one hundred years ago. The three prime locations for rose quartz on the planet are Brazil, Madagascar, and the Black Hills of South Dakota. Of all stones carrying the frequency of love, rose quartz is by far the ultimate. For all beginners to stone energy, rose quartz is the place to start. It is the most accessible stone across all ages, both sexes, and all types of people. It carries absolutely no risk, danger, or harm. Interestingly, rose quartz, of the colored types of quartz, is the least likely to crystallize. It is pink and found massive, except for rare specimens, making it inherently communal and social. Complementing this earth-specific quality are two stones that vibrate to universal or divine love, tanzanite and green jadeite. Tanzanite is a lavender/purple/blue mineral, a hydrous calcium aluminum silicate mined in Tanzania, Africa, not far from where humans are said to originate. Tanzanite is the highest expression of the principle of peace, as well as brotherly/sisterly love, on the planet. Tanzanite is the crystalline expression of the thulite family of minerals. Thulite, like rose quartz, is highly adaptable to all types of people, and is especially bonding for newlyweds and all relationships in the first stages of commitment. Green jadeite projects universal love as well. Green jadeite or nephrite jade, when combined with pearl, another manifestation of love in stone, encourage letting go of resentment, bitterness, judgment, and patterns of thinking that thwart the reception of love. The beryl family carries a big wallop in the area of love. Three of its members, morganite, heliodor, and emerald, all offer aspects of love. In the pantheon of minerals, morganite (pink) and emerald (green) share dominion over the heart chakra. Morganite is the home of the gods on Earth; therefore, morganite literally connects to heaven. Heaven, as universal spirit, is the place where the human soul may rest when it has come to perfection. Achieving perfection often involves being split and opened by spirit in a lightning burst of revelation and enlightenment. Morganite infuses the subtle and physical bodies with unconditional love, because it is the cracked halves of the primordial egg of heaven and earth split open to reveal love within. Morganite resonates to dove energies of love, peace, and the imperishable spirit. Emerald, on the other hand, embodies energies that can be likened to the kiss of death, the small death that brings detachment from the temptations, desires, and weaknesses of physical life. Emerald is truly a stone of consciousness, which, when combined with gold (a metal love), may be difficult to wear continuously as the combination strips self bare. For removing baggage from one’s existence in order to empty oneself for Source, there is no other more powerful pairing. Green heliodor relates to matters of trust in love, and unleashes joy. It resonates to the playful aspect of dolphin, and increases the sense of belonging and community. Brass is a copper and zinc alloy empowered to act for divine and chivalric love, enthusiasm, and physical grace. It can be thought of as love in action, being an example of love rather than just a spokesperson for love. The word brazen derives from brass, and has come to have an unfortunately negative connotation, such as "brazen women" being a term for strong women unconcerned about judgments about their sensuality or physical agility. Perhaps its complimentary meaning can regain favor. Bronze is an alloy of tin, copper, and silver that can be thought of as providing sound acupuncture. It is the voice of love, and is used worldwide for spiritual objects such as candlesticks, bells, bowls, gongs, incense braziers, and chalices. It emanates vibrations that enter deeply into blood, bones, and cells, thereby restoring balance to living creatures. Not to be neglected in this listing of love minerals are amethyst, pink calcite, green chrysoprase, garnet, pink kunzite, green kyanite, lazurite, manganocalcite, pyroxmangite, rhodochrosite, rubellite tourmaline, ruby, and green zincite. Some of these have been discussed in past columns, and others will be discussed in the future, particularly manganocalcite, pyroxmangite, and rhodochrosite. Collen Marquist is the co-author, with Jack Frasl, of Crystalline Communion 2000. This book combines and updates three earlier volumes of Crystalline Communion. She can be reached for Reiki attunements and crystal healing sessions at (425) 820-0244 or <earthlight@w-link.net>. |
You know the song, and as spring approaches, love isn’t just a concept, it’s a certainty. If love is truly available to us through our nostrils and what we take in as the air we breathe, it’s due to the outgassing of elements from Earth into our rudimentary atmosphere eons ago.