Crystal Grimoire
Chalcedony
Chakras: All Chakras
Zodiac: Gemini
Planets: Mercury
Elements: All Elements
Summary
Chalcedony works with all chakras, with the specific chakra influenced depending on the stone's color. It awakens and activates chakras, purifies the auric body, allows for understanding of the self, enhances connection to the spiritual body, and facilitates energetic healing.
Keywords
Often associated with: chakras, auric body, self-understanding, spiritual connection, gentle support
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Enhances connection to spiritual body and allows for understanding of the self.
History and lore
In history and lore: Kunz recorded in 1915 that Italian peasant women wore beads of milky white chalcedony to increase their supply of milk, and that such a bead was known in Italian as 'pietra lattea.' Budge added in 1930 that chalcedony was supposed to give a man a peaceful and equable disposition.
About the sources
- George Frederick Kunz (1856 to 1932), Tiffany & Co.'s chief gemologist and author of The Curious Lore of Precious Stones (1913) and The Magic of Jewels and Charms (1915).
- 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.