Rose Quartz & Tourmalated Rose Quartz.

"The stone of unconditional love"

Rose Quartz, with its delicate pink hues, is well known and well loved for opening the heart chakra, promoting compassion, healing & harmony with its soothing ways.

Prized since ancient times as a token of beauty & affection by the likes of the Egyptians, Assyrians, Greeks & Romans, it is entrenched in mythology, with associations to Aphrodite, and Cupid, who is said to have bestowed the precious pink stone upon the earth to inspire love, passion & romance.

 

 

My absolute favourite type of Rose Quartz is this beautiful and rare Black Dot variety, known as Tourmalated Rose quartz, Speckled Rose Quartz or even Jaguar Quartz.

The black speckles are natural inclusions of Tourmaline or Manganese within the Rose Quartz matrix, and make each piece of stone totally unique. These dark inclusions are also thought to bring a grounding and protective energy to balance and compliment that of the Rose Quartz.

Some also contain orangey red flashes of iron, and are even more unusual. And yes, if you were wondering, it is the iron content that colours Carnelian, which is a type of Chalcedony, which is a type of quartz, kind of…