Crystal Grimoire
Boulder Opal
Chakras: All Chakras
Zodiac: Libra, Scorpio
Planets: Venus
Elements: Earth, Water
Summary
Boulder opals link your conscious and subconscious. Clear communication, clarity, and understanding. In Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece, opals were symbols of hope, purity, healing, and foresight. Helps to relieve stress and tension.
Keywords
Often associated with: conscious communication, clarity, understanding, hope, purity, gentle support
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Symbols of hope, purity, healing, and foresight in Ancient Egypt, Rome, and Greece.
History and lore
In history and lore: In the Middle Ages the opal was often called the 'eyestone,' and Albertus Magnus recorded the virtues then ascribed to it for diseases of the eye. Medieval writers also credited it with the power to make its wearer invisible, earning it the nickname 'patron of thieves.' Budge recorded that admirers of the opal, seeing the colors of ruby, carbuncle, garnet, emerald and amethyst in its depths, said it held the powers of all those stones.
About the sources
- Albertus Magnus (1193 to 1280), medieval philosopher and theologian, for a short time Bishop of Ratisbon, who later taught theology in the University of Paris (Kunz).
- E. A. Wallis Budge, Egyptologist, sometime Keeper of the Egyptian and Assyrian Antiquities in the British Museum, author of Amulets and Superstitions (Oxford University Press, 1930), which covers Egyptian, Mesopotamian, Hebrew, Islamic and Christian amulets.