SUNSTONE

COLOR: Yellow, orange, red-brown

APPEARANCE: clear, transparent or opaque crystal with iridescent reflections, often small, tumbled

RARITY: Easily obtained from specialist shops

SOURCE: Canada, United States, Norway, Greece, India

ATTRIBUTES: Sunstone is a joyful, light inspiring stone. It instills joie de vivre and good nature and heightens intuition. If life has lost its sweetness, Sunstone will restore it and help you to nurture yourself. Clearing all the chakras and bringing in light and energy, this stone allows the real self to shine through happily. Traditionally it linked to benevolent gods and to luck and good fortune. This is an alchemical stone that brings about a profound connection to light and the regenerative power of the sun during meditation and in everyday life.

Sunstone is extremely useful for removing "hooks" from other people, whether located in the chakras or the aura. These hooks can be at the mental or emotional level and may come from possessive parents, children, or lovers. They have the effect of draining your energy. Sunstone lovingly returns the contact to the other person and is extremely beneficial for tie-cutting. Keep Sunstone with you at all times if you have difficulty saying "No" and continually make sacrifices for others. Removing codependency, it facilitates self-empowerment, independence, and vitality. If procrastination is holding you back, sunstone can overcome it.

Emotionally, Sunstone acts as an antidepressant and lifts dark moods. It is particularly effective for seasonal affective disorder, lightening the darkness of winter, it detaches from feelings of being discriminated against, disadvantaged, and abandoned. Removing inhibitions and hang-ups, Sunstone reverses feelings of failure and increases self-worth and confidence. Encouraging optimism and enthusiasm, Sunstone switches to a positive take on events. Even the most incorrigible pessimist responds to Sunstone. Placed on the solar plexus, Sunstone lifts out heavy or repressed emotions and transmutes them.

HEALING: Sunstone stimulates self-healing powers, regulates the autonomic nervous system, and harmonizes all the organs. It treats chronic sore throats and relieves stomach ulcers. Exceptionally good for seasonal affective disorder, Sunstone lifts any depression. Sunstone can be gridded around the body and relieves cartilage problems, rheumatism, and general aches and pains.

POSITION: Place, wear, or hold as appropriate. Sunstone is particularly beneficial when used in the sun.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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