QUARTZ: AQUA AURA
AND LABORATORY-MADE
SPECIALIST QUARTZES

COLOR: Blue (Siberian), Red (Rose or Ruby Aura), Yellow (Sunshine Aura), Rainbow

APPEARANCE: Quartz crystals artificially bonded with gold, producing intense color, small points or clusters

RARITY: Readily available

SOURCE: Manufactured coating on quartz crystal

ADDITIONAL PROPERTIES: Despite being artificially created, Aqua Aura has an intense energy reflecting the alchemical process that bonds gold onto pure Quartz. Aqua Aura frees you from limitation and creates space for something new. This crystal heals, cleanses, and calms the aura, releasing any stress and healing "holes." It then activates the chakras, especially the throat where it encourages communication from the heart. Aqua Aura releases negativity from the subtle energetic bodies and from the connections the spiritual body to universal energies. The expression of soul energy is then activated, fulfilling your highest potential.

Aqua Aura stimulates channeling and self-expression, and deepens spiritual attunement and communication. It is a protective stone that safeguards against psychic attack or psychological attack. It bestows profound peace during meditation. Used in conjunction with other crystals, Aqua Aura enhances their healing properties.

HEALING: Aqua Aura strengthens the thymus and the immune system.

POSITION: Hold or wear or place as appropriate.

SPECIFIC AURA QUARTZES

Each Aura Quartz has its own specific properties related to its color but shares many properties because of the gold alchemized onto its surface.

Rainbow Aura is formed through the bonding of gold and titanium onto pure Quartz. Activating all the energy centers in the body, this stone clears a path for the life force to manifest through the various bodies, bringing in vibrant energy and zest for life. Rainbow Aura is beneficial for dysfunctional relationships as it shows projections and helps release negative emotions such as resentment or old grief from the past, bringing deep insights into relationships at all levels. It aids in releasing karmic ties that are hindering relationships in the present life. The transformed relationship is vital and harmonious.

Opal Aura Quartz has a much paler rainbow color that is produced from platinum. In the same way that a rainbow in the sky stimulates hope and optimism. Opal Aura is a crystal of joy. It purifies and balances all the chakras and integrates the light body into the physical dimensions. Opal Aura opens to a deep state of meditative awareness, grounding the information received in the physical body. It brings about a state of total union with the divine through cosmic consciousness.

Rose Aura is formed through the bonding of Quartz and platinum, producing a dynamic energy that works on the pineal gland and the heart chakra, transmuting deeply held doubts about self-worth. It bestows the gift of unconditional love of the self and connection to universal love. This form of Aura Quartz imbues the whole body with love, restoring the cells to perfect balance.

Ruby Aura is also formed from Quartz and platinum, but produces a much deeper color. Ruby Aura cleanses the base chakra of old survival issues and abuse, bringing in passion and vitality, and activates the wisdom of the heart. Spiritually uplifting, it opens to Christ consciousness. This is a protective crystal against aggression and violence. In healing, Ruby Aura benefit's the endocrine system and is a natural antibiotic for fungal infections and parasites.

Sunshine Aura is a garish yellow crystal formed from gold and platinum. Its energies are powerful and extremely active. It activates and cleanses the solar plexus, releasing old emotional trauma and hurt. At a spiritual level, Sunshine Aura is expansive and protective. It relieves constipation on all levels and releases toxins.

Siberian Blue Quartz is a brilliant blue laboratory-regrown crystal created from Quartz and cobalt. It is a powerful antidepressant, lifting the spirit and bringing deep peace. Siberian Blue Quartz activates the throat and third eye chakras, stimulating psychic vision and telepathy and enhancing communication. It brings about intense visionary experiences and opens to cosmic consciousness. This stone helps you to speak your truth and facilitates being heard. As an elixir it treats throat infections, stomach ulcers, and stress. Applied externally, it relieves inflammation, sunburn, and stiff neck muscles.

From: The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall
Walking Stick Press

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