![]() Its nickname, The Sobriety Stone, comes from a story based on the Greek god Bacchus. It received its name from the Greek word “not drunken”. Long viewed as a stone of royalty, it was used in crowns, rings, scepters and is still used by the Catholic bishops. Neolithic people in Europe used Amethyst as early as 25,000 BC, and in ancient Egypt it was made into beads. ~Placed around your home, office, mediation space creates a bubble of light and protection. Put an amethyst under your pillow to bring about pleasant dreams, or rub it across your forehead to offer relief from a headache. ~Used as a dream stone and to help insomnia. ~Amethyst crystal clusters are used to keep the air and life force in the home clean and positive. Before meditation, you can use a singing bowl to align the energies of amethyst – the frequency of the singing bowl will help to align the crystal structure to direct energy more efficiently. It is an excellent stone for meditation and may be used for purification and regeneration on all levels of consciousness. Because it is such a high vibration stone, healing, clearing & protecting ones fields, it is said to protect & ward off lower frequency vibrations.Īmethyst facilitates connections to higher realms, opening one up to psychic abilities, dream states and intuitive work while offering a vibration of spiritual contentment. Carrying a sweet, high energy, it encourages spiritual expansion while clearing & strengthening the auric fields. It carries a beautiful violet ray of healing. The healer will place another piece on the area of the body in need of healing, the heart or lungs usually. ![]() The person to be healed will have an Amethyst to hold while the healing is being done. A healer will usually wear several pieces of jewelry with amethysts set in silver, especially an amethyst necklace. ![]() Uruguay, South America produces the darkest known amethyst on Earth.Īmethyst occurs at many localities in the United States: the Mazatzal Mountain region in Gila and Maricopa Counties, Arizona Red Feather Lakes, near Ft Collins, Colorado Amethyst Mountain, Texas Yellowstone National Park Delaware County, Pennsylvania Haywood County, North Carolina Deer Hill and Stow, Maine and in the Lake Superior region of Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, and Ontario in Canada.Īmethyst is a gemstone often worn by healers, as it has the power to focus energy. One of the largest global amethyst producers is Zambia in southern Africa a with an annual production of about 1000 tons. Many of the hollow agates of southwestern Brazil and Uruguay contain a crop of amethyst crystals in the interior. Amethyst is produced in abundance from the state of Minas Gerais in Brazil where it occurs in large geodes within volcanic rocks. ![]() Its varied purple color comes from the combination of trace amounts of iron and aluminum, plus natural and sometimes applied irradiation. *Like Rose Quartz, Amethyst will give its color back to the sun if left in its direct light for an extended period of time.*Īmethyst is a member of the quartz family with a trigonal crystal system. Sensitive to the sun – they will fade over long periods of exposure Zodiac: Virgo, Pisces, Capricorn, Aquariusįound: Brazil, Bolivia, Mexico, Africa, Russia, Canada, USA
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