SMITHSONITE

COLOR: Pink, lavender, green, blue-green, purple brown yellow, white-gray, blue

APPEARANCE: Pearly, lustrous, like layers of silky bubbles. All sizes

RARITY: Easily obtained

SOURCE: United States, Australia, Greece, Italy Mexico, Namibia

ATTRIBUTES: Smithsonite is a stone of tranquility, charm , kindness, and favorable outcomes. It has an extremely gentle presence and forms a buffer against life's problems. It is a perfect stone for releasing stress that is almost at breaking point and for alleviating mental breakdown.

This stone is ideal for anyone who has had a difficult childhood and who felt unloved or unwanted. Smithsonite heals the inner child and alleviates the effects of emotional abuse and misuse. It is gentle, dissolving emotional hurt subtly. Its effects are noticed in feeling better rather than in traumatic emotional release. It may need the support of other crystals to bring things into conscious awareness. This is am excellent crystal for both birth and rebirth and can treat infertility.

Smithsonite aligns the chakras and strengthens psychic abilities. Holding Smithsonite during psychic communication makes you intuitively aware of its validity, or otherwise. Placed on the crown chakra, it connects to the angelic realm.

Psychologically, Smithsonite supports leadership qualities, especially where tact is required. Emotionally, Smithsonite aids difficult relationships. An excellent stone for a secure and balanced life, this stone imparts harmony and diplomacy and remedies unpleasant situations. Physically, as Smithsonite is excellent for the immune system, it can be gridded around the four corners of your bed, with a piece under the pillow or on a bedside table. It is particularly effective combined with Bloodstone or Green Tourmaline taped over the thymus.

HEALING: Smithsonite heals a dysfunctional immune system, sinus and digestive disorders, osteoporosis, and alcoholism. It restores elasticity to veins and muscles.

POSITION: Place as appropriate or carry always. Place at the crown to align chakras. Place Pink Smithsonite over the heart or thymus. Grid around the bed or body.

SPECIFIC COLORS In addition to the generic attributes, specific colors of Smithsonite have additional properties.

Blue-Green Smithsonite heals emotional and other wounds by bringing in universal love. Gently releasing anger, fear, and pain, it balances the energy field between the etheric and emotional bodies, and eases panic attacks, assists in attaining the heart's desire, promotes friendship, and is auspicious in midwifery and for nurturing babies.

Lavender-Violet Smithsonite has a very gentle vibration. It clears negative energy, and encourages joyful spiritual service and higher states of consciousness, giving guidance and protection. It is an excellent stone for meditation and soul retrieval and facilitates going back into past lives to regain soul energy that did not make the transition away from a past-life death. In this respect, it can past-life death trauma and point the way to soul healing. Physically, it soothes neuralgia and inflammation.

Lavender-Pink Smithsonite has a very loving vibration. It heals the heart, and experiences of abandonment and abuse, rebuilding trust and security. Assisting in feeling loved and supported by the universe, it is helpful in convalescence and soothes pain. Lavender-Pink Smithsonite helps ameliorate drug and alcohol problems and the emotions that lie behind them.

Yellow Smithsonite balances the solar plexus chakra and the mental body. It releases old hurts and outgrown emotional patterning. In healing, this stone aids digestion and assimilation of nutrients, and relieves skin problems.

POSITION: Place as appropriate.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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