Crystal Grimoire
Turquoise
Chakras: Throat Chakra
Zodiac: Sagittarius, Pisces, Scorpio
Planets: Venus, Neptune
Summary
Turquoise is associated with the Throat Chakra and is known as a stone of self-forgiveness and self-acceptance. It aids truth-seeking and communication, supports the manifestation of expansion, encourages those finding and speaking their voice, and releases lingering feelings of regret.
Keywords
Often associated with: self-forgiveness, self-acceptance, truth-seeking, communication, manifestation, expansion
Spiritual meaning
In crystal tradition: A stone of truth-seeking and expansion that supports finding and speaking one's own voice.
Emotional meaning
Often associated with: Encourages self-forgiveness and self-acceptance, and releases lingering feelings of regret.
History and lore
In history and lore: Berthold Laufer, writing in 1913, called turquoise 'the standard gem of the Tibetans' and recorded that a Tibetan who heard it called a mere stone would protest, 'this is a turquois, and not a stone.' Matilda Coxe Stevenson noted in 1904 that among the Zuni the turquoise of perfect blue was called the male and the off-colored stone the female. Marshall Saville, quoting the sixteenth-century friar Sahagun in 1922, recorded that the finest turquoise in Aztec Mexico was called teoxiuitl, 'turquois of the gods', which no one had the right to possess or use, for it was always offered or devoted to a deity.
About the sources
- Berthold Laufer, author of Historical Jottings on Amber in Asia (1907), Jade: A Study in Chinese Archaeology and Religion (Field Museum, 1912) and Notes on Turquois in the East (Field Museum of Natural History, 1913).
- Matilda Coxe Stevenson, author of The Zuni Indians: their mythology, esoteric fraternities, and ceremonies (Bureau of American Ethnology, 1904).
- Marshall H. Saville, author of Turquois Mosaic Art in Ancient Mexico (Museum of the American Indian, Heye Foundation, New York, 1922).
- Bernardino de Sahagun, Franciscan friar and one of the first preachers in New Spain, whose Historia general de las cosas de Nueva Espana recorded Aztec (Nahua) knowledge in the sixteenth century; edition of Carlos Maria de Bustamante (Mexico).