Amethyst Crystal Properties

Inner Peace, DreamWork, Higher Consciousness

Amethyst is a quartz variety that opens the third eye and crown chakras. People sought after it in old times due to its purple color. Amethyst is considered a beginner’s crystal. It gently opens you up to the spiritual realm and ensures you only see as much as you can handle.

Spiritual Properties

• Blocks negative environmental energies and stress
• Above all, it transmutes lower energies to higher energies
• Amethyst is a travel amulet and is used for home purification
• Hold or wear on your non-dominant hand for a relaxing and soothing effect
• Amethyst connects and balances your physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual bodies
• Undoubtedly aids in psychic and intuitive development, while guarding against psychic attack
• Talismans made of amethyst raise hopes, lift the spirit, and provide protection along with spiritual growth
• Most importantly, you should use amethyst during psychic work and divinations for protection from negative forces

Mental Properties

• Brings you new ideas
• Connects causes with effects
• Amethsyt allows you to self-soothe
• Reduces the feeling of mental scatter
• Clearly facilitates the decision-making process
• Enhances memory and improves motivation
• Reduces nightmares and helps you remember your dreams
• Good at helping you make decisions and move forward in life
• Helps you understand your dreams while clearing the way for visualizations
• Moreover, it promotes responsibility, self-worth, spiritual peace, and meditation
• Increases focus, control, and clarity while helping you understand the big picture

Emotional Properties

• Soothes irritability
• Relieves you of confusion
• Calms and clarifies the mind
• Provides common sense and flexibility, especially in times of crisis
• Dispels anger, rage, and fear, along with relieving sadness and grief
• Promotes peace, patience, and acceptance, in addition to relaxing the mind
• Balances out mood swings in addition to promoting emotional centeredness

Kundalini Properties

• Cleanses the aura and transmutes negative energy
• Activates and stimulates the throat as well as the crown chakras
• Enhances your ability to tune in with external vibrations and energies
• Rids your home and body of negative energy while attracting positive energy

Affirmations

• I am inspired
• My life moves with grace undoubtedly
• I am amazing in my own unique way
• My crown chakra is open and activated
• I find calm and peace in the midst chaos 
• I am calm, peaceful, relaxed, and open to receiving wisdom
• My dreams inform me of my conscious and subconscious desires
• The wisdom of the universe connects to me from my crown chakra

Correspondence

• Chakras: Crown and Third eye 
• Energy: Receptive And Projective
• Planets: Jupiter, Neptune
• Element: Air, Water
• Zodiacs: Aquarius, Capricorn, Pisces, Virgo, Sagittarius
• Number: 3, 7

Health Benefits

• Aids the nervous system
• Generally considered to have a sobering effect
• A natural tranquilizer, especially relieving stress and strain.
• Definitely boosts the immune system by purifying the blood.
• Aids in hormone production and brings the endocrine system into balance.
• Allegedly helps overcome addiction, as well as mental, emotional, and physical pain
• Useful if suffering from skin conditions, cell disorders, and lung and digestive system diseases
• Similarly, it supposedly helps you with physical ailments like headaches, insomnia, and arthritis 

Fun Facts

• A Semi Precious Stone
• The GIA Museum had a 164 lbs crystal.
• An amethyst has grown to the size of a car.
• Notably, Amethyst is sacred in many countries.
• It can be, unquestionably, found in most of the world.
• Jewelers consider jasper and garnet as substitutes for the stone.
• The color boosts the value of the stone, despite it being a quartz variety
• Diamonds, rubies, and sapphires are the only stones stronger than this stone.
• In addition, Iron replacing silica in the crystal structure gives it the purple hue.
• Legends say Saint Valentine wore an amethyst ring carved with Cupid’s image.
• The stone fades to citrine, especially when exposed to long periods of sunlight.
• When it is heat-treated in temperatures between 878°F and 1382°F, it changes colors.
• Moreover, heat treated amethyst are light yellow, red-brown, green, or colorless; however, the original color is restored by X-ray radiation

Historical Facts

• Importantly, it is the birthstone for February.
• Previously, it was pricey like ruby and emerald.
• American explorers discovered an amethyst cavern in Maine in 1993.
• Prehistoric people, in fact, discovered amethyst in France 25,000 years ago.
• In fact, 6th and 17th wedding anniversaries often receive the stones as a gift.
• The word amethyst came from the ancient Greek word “amethystos,” meaning “not drunk.”
• Nevertheless, fake amethyst entered the market in the 1970s due to the hydrothermal method.
• Modern European royalty wore clothing dyed purple, in addition to accessorizing with the gems.
• Greek legends claimed the stone promoted a clear head, furthermore protecting you from intoxication.
• This purple stone decorated the walls of many churches, in addition to being one of the twelve apostles emblems
• Most importantly, Brazil found large stone deposits during the 19th century, leading to the loss of the stone’s value.

Historical Figures

• Queen Elizabeth II wore a brooch from the Kent Amethysts set.
• Catherine II of Russia regularly adorned herself in necklaces, earrings, and other pieces incorporating the stone.
• Medieval soldiers wore the gemstone into battle to protect and aid them in staying focused
• Camillo Leonardi, astrologer, wrote that amethyst quickens intelligence and gets rid of evil thoughts.
• Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, wore a piece designed by Cartier to a gala in 1950’s Versailles.

Physical Properties

Color	Light to Dark Purple, Fades in the sunlight
Habit	6-sided prism ending in the 6-sided pyramid
Rarity	Common
Luster	Vitreous/Glossy
Species	Quartz
Zoning	Absent
Parting	Absent
Streak	White
Gravity	2.6 to 2.7
Tenacity	Brittle
Fracture	Conchoidal
Cleavage	Absent
Hardness	7
Locations	Africa, Brazil, Canada, Germany, Italy, Madagascar, Mexico, Russia Uruguay, and the USA
Twinning	Dauphine law, Brazil law, and Japanese law
Inclusions	Iron
Dispersion	0.013
Chatoyancy	Absent
Pleochroism	Weak: (gray)-purple – reddish-purple
Fluorescence	Inert to weak greenish or bluish
Birefringence	0.009
Diaphaneity	Transparent to translucent
Melting point	1650±75 °C
Luminescence	Weak
Chemical Name	silicon dioxide
Refractive Index	1.54 to 1.55
System/Structure	Hexagonal, Rhombohedral, Trigonal
Optical properties	Uniaxial (+)
Chemical Formula	SiO2
Chemical Classification	Tectosilicate

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