OPAL
COLOR: White, pink, black, beige, blue, yellow, brown, orange, red, green, purple
APPEARANCE: Clear or milky, iridescent and fiery, or vitreous without fire, often small and polished
RARITY: Easily obtained, although gem Opals are expensive
SOURCE: Australia, Mexico, Peru, South America, Britain, Canada, United States, Honduras, Slovakia
ATTRIBUTES: Opal is a delicate stone with a fine vibration. It enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions. Stimulating originality and dynamic creativity, it aids in accessing and expressing one's true self. Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them, and returns them to source, It is a karmic stone, teaching that what you put out comes back. Opal is a protective stone in that, when properly programmed, it makes you unnoticeable and invisible. It can be used when venturing into dangerous places, and in shamanic work where stealth is required.
Psychologically, Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation. Enhancing self-worth, it helps you to understand your full potential. Mentally, Opal brings lightness and spontaneity. It encourages an interest in the arts.
Emotionally, Opal has always been associated with love and passion, desire and eroticism. It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. It can act as an emotional stabilizer, but the stone may scatter energy and the user needs to be well-centered before using Opal to explore or induce feelings, or to have other stones standing by to aid integration. Opal shows you what your emotional state has been in the past, especially in other lives, and teaches you how to take responsibility for how you feel. It encourages putting out positive emotions. Wearing Opal is said to bring loyalty, faithfulness, and spontaneity, but may amplify fickleness where the propensity is already present. Opal can be used to send healing to the earth's energy field, repairing depletions and reenergizing and stabilizing the grid.
HEALING: Opal strengthens the will to live. It treats Parkinson's disease, infections, and fevers and strengthens memory. Purifying the blood and kidneys, Opal regulates insulin, eases childbirth, and alleviates PMS (use dark colors). This stone is beneficial to the eyes, especially as an elixir.
POSITION: Place as appropriate, especially on the heart and solar plexus. Wear on little finger.
SPECIFIC TYPES AND COLORS
In addition to the generic attributes, the following colors have additional properties.
Black-Brown-Gray Opal resonates with the sacral chakra and the reproductive organs. It is particularly useful for releasing sexual tension that arises from an emotional cause, and for processing and integrating newly released emotions.
Blue Opal is an emotional soother that realigns to spiritual purpose. It resonates with the throat chakra and can enhance communication, especially of that which has been suppressed through lack of confidence. It is useful when past-life experiences or injuries are affecting the present life, as these can be healed through the etheric blueprint.
Cherry Opal aids in cleansing and activating the base and sacral chakras. It promotes a feeling of being centered. At a spiritual level, this stone activates clairvoyance and clairsentience. It is particularly helpful for healing headaches that arise from a blocked and unopened third eye. It promotes tissue regeneration and heals blood disorders, muscle tension, and spinal disorders, and ameliorates menopausal symptoms.
Chrysopal (Blue-Green) opens to new impressions and encourages openness to others. It helps you to observe the world with new eyes. A mood-enhancing stone, it alleviates emotional burdens, often through crying, and liberates feelings. It detoxifies and regenerates the liver and relieves feelings of constriction from heart and chest.
Fire Opal (Orange-Red) is an enhancer of personal power, awakening inner fire, and a protector against danger. It is a symbol of hope, excellent for business, and
Green Opal is a cleansing and rejuvenating stone that promotes emotional
Hyalite (Water Opal) is a wonderful stone for scrying. Its watery depths stimulate connection with the spiritual realms. A mood stabilizer, it connects the base chakra with the crown, enhancing meditative experience. Hyalite helps those making the transition out of the body. It teaches that the body is a temporary vehicle for the soul.
From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press
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