Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz is not Pink Quartz. Rose Quartz is not sensitive to light and usually very soft colour and never is transparent, and most importantly does not form from a single crystal.
Rose Quartz was believed to contain healing power as well as a great tool to help balance and heal emotional. It inspires self love and unconditional love, thus known as a love stone.
FUN FACT
Rose Quartz forms from the cooling magma as it gets pushed towards the surface and crystalised as it cools down.
The stone gets its colour due to the presence of titanium.
Rose Quartz was named the official mineral of South Dakota, USA in 1966.
If Rose Quartz is found with an asterism than it is called Star Rose Quartz.
It gets the first part of its name for its pinkish hue with the etymology of “rose” can be traced back to Latin “rosa”. It is believed that it evolved from Greek, which was influenced by Eastern languages. Rose has been used as a colour name since the 1520s.
Geography Locations
Rose Quartz can be found all over the world. The biggest outlet notably the US, Madagascar, Brazil, South Africa and Namibia. Other sources including India, Mozambique, and Sri Lanka.
Amazing Properties
Balance
Rose Quartz has the ability to balance emotions and to heal anger and disappointment. It can be used as a tool to balance two opposite forces or energy that are working against each other, utilise the energy and bring harmony.
Calming
Rose Quartz has a warming effect and helps with calming nervous or worrying. It is especially useful to use it as a tool for meditating after traumatic events, where you need external force to calm the energy back to normal so you can deal with what’s matter at hands.
Healing
Rose Quartz is also known as the heart stone as it is brilliant at all kinds of emotional healing. It heals and soothes a broken heart, where users can feel opening up themselves into their journey of healing process.
History
Prized for its beautiful pink hue, Rose Quartz has been used throughout the history by the ancient civilisations in the form of talismans. It was believed that the stone contained healing powers as well as a way to prevent aging.
The oldest Rose Quartz beads were found in what was known as Mesopotamia, modern day Iraq, dating back to the 7th century BC. Along with other rose quartz jewellery to be crafted by the Assyrians around 800-600 BCE.
There are many legends about Rose Quartz, from the Ancient Egypt, Rome, Greece and the Far East. Ancient Romans have been using them for jewellery, as well as art pieces and seals. It was believed that it helps one overcome ailments.
As Rose Quartz can be found all over the world, there’s many legends about the stones across different cultures. The Egyptian goddess Isis used the Rose Quartz to maintain her youthfulness and beauty. In Greek legend, Aphrodite’s lover Adonis was attacked by Ares. Aphrodite came to his aid, and in the process cut herself on a briar brush. Their blood mixed together, staining a white quartz. Because of this legend, Ancient Greek believed it is a love stone thus also healing properties.
Gemology
Rose Quartz's chemical formula is SiO 2 ::Ti, where the titanium impurities make them have a pinkish-red colouration.
It is abundant, common, and found in large quantities at numerous locations around the world. It is usually occurs as massive, euhedral occurrences in hydrothermal veins and pegmatites.
The pink colour of rose quartz is attributed to microscopic inclusions of a pink variety of the mineral dumortierite. These inclusions are usually abundant enough to make the rose quartz translucent instead of transparent. With a hardness of 7 on the Mohs scale and a lack of cleavage, rose quartz is durable enough for use in any type of jewellery.
ALL SHAPES & FORMS
Rose Quartz Geode
Raw Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz in raw form
A gold-mounted rose quartz egg in the style of Fabergé, circa 1960
A large carved Rose Quartz vase and cover - Late Qing Dynasty
Rare Imperial Rose Quartz Dragon Carp Vase - Qing Dynasty, Qianlong Period
Raw Rose Quartz for Meditation
Polished Rose Quartz
Rose Quartz Crystal Ball
Rose Quartz Polished Heart Shape Stone
Rose Quartz Polished Wands
Rose Quartz Carved Horse
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Associated Goddess
Demeter
Greek Goddess of Agriculture. Demeter, the middle daughter of Cronus and Rhea, was the Ancient Greek goddess of grain and agriculture, one of the original Twelve Olympians.
Though Demeter is often described simply as the goddess of the harvest, she presided also over the sacred law, and the cycle of life and death. She is most well known for her love for her daughter Persephone.
Her story explained why the world plunge into cold and darkness, where all plants stop growing and producing during the months when her daughter is forced to be in the underworld living as Hades’ wife, hence why there is winter months and nothing grows.