108 bead 8mm Purple Aventurine Mala

Summary: Keywords: courage, healing, healing of the soul / Spirit, wisdom, spirituality, steadying faith, spiritual path, guidance, aura clearing, energy field clearing, balancing, masculine/feminine balance, yin/yang balance, positivity, diffusing negativity, stone for healers, crisis of faith, heart healing, uplifting – Physical & mental health: stress relief, insomnia relief, inducing sleep, lifting depression.

Aventurine

Aventurine is a variety of Quartz characterized by bright inclusions of Mica or other minerals that give a shimmering or glistening effect to the stone, referred to as aventurescence, especially notable when tumbled or polished. Its name is derived from the Italian a ventura or all’avventura, meaning “by chance,” and refers to the Italian glass from the 1700s, produced when a worker accidentally dropped metal filings into a vat of melting glass. Once cooled, the result was pleasing with its randomly spaced iridescent sparkles, and it was used to make jewellery and other items. The name Aventurine was later given to the natural stone which looked like the industrial product.

Aventurine is most commonly green, though it also forms in blue, red to reddish-brown, dusty purple, orange or peach, yellow, and silver grey. It is mostly translucent and often banded, but an overabundance of an included mineral may render it opaque. The shades of red & brown are attributed to Hematite or Goethite inclusions. while the purple variety is coloured by Lepidolite.

Aventurine is also referred to as Adventurine, Avanturine, Aventurine Quartz, and Indian Jade. It is used not only in various forms for metaphysical purposes, but in jewellery, vases, bowls and figurines, as well as a number of applications such as landscaping stone, building stone, aquaria, and monuments.

Purple Aventurine

Purple Aventurine specializes in healing issues of the Soul and Spirit. It is a deeply wise and spiritual gemstone and will support you when your faith is rocked.

In Ancient Greece, the stone was sewn into the clothes of warriors to inspire courage.  In shamanic cultures, this stone was used in medicine wheel rituals to connect with the loving energy of the spirit guides and gods.

All members of the Aventurine family help us heal some aspect of ourself and can clear and balance our energetic field. Aventurine is excellent for ALL types of energy balancing. This helps with its healing abilities. It can balance out masculine/feminine, yin/yang, and physical energies. If you’re feeling “off” physically, a little out of sorts, then this is a good source to help you reset. Additionally, Aventurine diffuses negative energy and situations and turns it/them positive. This is an excellent stone for healers in general, such a nurses, doctors, Reiki healers, and all those in a healing profession. Not only does Aventurine help to balance and heal illness in one’s patients or clients, but it also helps to protect the healer and keep him/her in balance as well.

Purple Aventurine is a powerful healer of the Spirit. The stone is especially useful if you are having a crisis of faith. Sometimes life experiences or world events shake our spiritual beliefs to the core and leave us wondering, “What is the point of this?” Bad things still happen even to the faithful. Purple Aventurine helps us stand tall and hold onto faith and its place in this human experience even when we are feeling let down by the world.

If you have recently suffered a great disappointment in your spiritual tradition, Purple Aventurine’s spiritual properties will help you sit with your experience, absorb it, and observe how it changes your feelings and spiritual path. You may determine that it is only a minor issue that reframes your spiritual practice, but that it doesn’t derail it. Or you may choose to walk a different path altogether. Purple Aventurine will help you to tap into your inner wisdom and make those decisions.

Purple Aventurine gets its purple colour from inclusions of purple mica – aka Lepidolite. It holds some of the powerful benefits of Lepidolite such as relieving intense stress and anxiety, lifting depression, and healing heart wounds. When you are feeling down about the course of life and world events, sit with Purple Aventurine and let it lift your spirits.

On a physical level, Purple Aventurine is said to be particularly good for relaxing, relieving stress, and inducing sleep.