Moonstone

TECHNICAL DETAILS

• Moonstone comes in three varieties – Indian Moonstone which resembles a crystal ball with a cloudy look, Blue Moonstone which is also cloudy but with a pretty blue tint, and Rainbow Moonstone which is similar to an opal with the shoots of baby blue, yellow, green & pink in it.

• Ranks 6 on the Mohs Scale of Hardness.

• Mined in Sri Lanka, India, Madagascar and Brazil among other sites.

• Moonstone is a member of the feldspar family, known for an iridescence that shows when tilted to the light. Feldspars are calcium, sodium, or potassium aluminium silicates.

• Traces of led and water are what create the beautiful colourplay – that’s the alternating layers of albite and orthoclase feldspar dancing in the light.

PHYSICAL & EMOTIONAL BENEFITS

• Emotionally it is said to be a good emotional balancer.

• It’s associated with women and their menstrual cycles, of course as it’s ruled by the moon.

• It was once considered a cure for lunacy.

• In India it’s a lucky gem, given from a groom to a bride at their wedding.