Crystal Grimoire
Jade
Chakras: Heart Chakra
Zodiac: Taurus, Gemini, Libra
Planets: Venus, Mercury
Elements: Earth
Summary
Jade is associated with the Heart Chakra and is known as The Alchemist Stone for transmuting negative energy into a positive frequency. It encourages enjoying life without material attachment, inspires self-love and self-acceptance, and attracts abundance, prosperity and good luck.
Keywords
Often associated with: enjoying life, alchemist stone, positive frequency, abundance, prosperity, good luck charm
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: Encourages enjoying life without material attachment and self-love.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Encourages self-love and self-acceptance.
History and lore
In history and lore: When the Spaniards brought jade home from the Americas, they called it 'piedra de hijada,' the 'stone of the flank,' because native peoples were said to have used it for diseases of the kidneys, and the name nephrite grew from the same idea. Kunz noted that the sailors may have invented the story to raise the value of their jade, yet the belief spread so far that a Scottish gentleman was said to have worn a jade charm tied over his loins against kidney trouble. To the Maori, as Horatio Robley recorded in 1915, the word pounamu (New Zealand nephrite) stood for everything precious, and tatau pounamu, the 'greenstone door', was their figure of speech for the making of peace between tribes.
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).
- Horatio Gordon Robley, author of Pounamu: Notes on New Zealand Greenstone (London, 1915).