LapisLazuli

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General Gemstone Details

Lapis has been highly valued for many thousands of years. The most famous locality for fine quality lapis lazuli is in the same ancient deposit high in the mountains of Afghanistan where it was originally mined at least 6000 years ago.
It was said to impart ancient knowledge, and the wisdom to use it and to enhance one's awareness, insight and intellect.

Ground lapis was the secret of the blue in ultramarine, the pigment which painters used to paint the sea and the sky until the nineteenth century. Which means that all of the beautiful blues in paintings from the Renaissance are thanks to the blue of lapis lazuli; the blue rock loved by the ancients, from Mesopotamia, to Egypt, to Persia, to Greece and Rome. The ancient city of Ur has had a thriving trade in lapis as early as the fourth millennium B.C. The name is international, from the Latin, lapis, which means stone, and from the Arabic, aula, which means blue. When lapis was first introduced to Europe, it was called ultramarinum, which means beyond the sea.

All cultures have used lapis to decorate the statures of the deities. It has always been greatly valued by rules, being used for magical and medicinal purposes.

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Scientific Properties:
Mohs Hardness of 7 with a trigonal crystal structure.

Lapis lazuli is a blue rock made up of several different minerals, including but not limited to: lazurite, sodalite, hauyne, calcite and pyrite. The composition and color of the stone varies, but it is the intense dark blue with patches of white and pyrite that has always been considered the best quality.

Lapis has been imitated by stained jasper and by paste with inclusions of copper. Imitation lapis lazuli produced by Pierre Gilson of France has a composition very similar to that of natural lapis.

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Mystical Properties:
Lapis lazuli is told to enhance one's awareness, insight and intellect. It is said to impart ancient knowledge and wisdom to it's bearer, the knowledge bringing with it peacefulness, objectivity and self acceptance.

Lapis is also connected with Jupiter and thus expands the intellect, wisdom and leadership qualities as well as helping in legal matters that arise. The stone works as a shield from psychic attack. It is used to relieve insomnia and let go of anxieties.

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More Healing Information

Healing Properties:
Lapis promotes clear understanding and intuition; it helps balance the function of the thyroid gland while strengthening the neck and vocal cords.

Use it to soothe throats and all inflammation of the neck and head. It makes quite a powerful elixir to align the etheric, emotional and spiritual bodies.

Physicians for ancient Egypt, Sumer and Babylon used lapis for many medicinal purposes, including curing eye cataracts. The connection with the eye may have come from the use of lapis to fashion carvings of a stylized, which was called the Eye of Isis or the All-Seeing Eye of the Goddess Maat. Since Isis was said to watch over the dead on their final journey, the lapis eye was placed in the sarcophagus with the mummy. The chief justice of Egypt wore the Eye of Maat when he rendered judgments.

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Magical Properties:
Energy: Receptive
Element: Water
Deities: Isis, Venus, Nuit
Powers: Healing, joy, love, fidelity, psychic powers, protection, courage.

Lapis has timeless associations with the kings and queens of all realms. In ancient Sumer, the stone was very closely associated with the deities in general, and in carrying it, it's possessor bore the potent magical power of a deity, for the stone contained the force behind all divinity. Some said the stone contained the soul the deity, who would 'rejoice it its owner".

The energy of this stone is very high quality, and it does not lower its power to your level; rather you must raise it match it's. You muse raise your mental, emotional and spiritual energies to connect with the Lapis Lazuli. It teaches you to set aside your personality and all it's quirks, so that you can clearly see what is actually occurring within another person or a given situation. It will also help in wiping out any part of the past, in this life or others that you are still carrying but need to let go of.

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Zodiac:
Associations: Venus

Not a Traditional Birthstone for any Month

Stone of Sagittarius it gives the power of friendship and helps to make decisions.

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More Chakra Info

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Chakra Classification:
Lapis Lazuli is ruled by Jupiter and aids in balancing and cleansing all the chakras. Lapis assists in awaking the Third Eye and for tapping into your intuition and strengthen psychic abilities, but use with care if placed directly on the Third Eye, as it is quite a powerful stone!

Information Sources:
The Crystal Bible by Judy Hall, 2003
Wheels of Life by Anodea Judith, PhD, 2000
Crystal Enchantments by D.J. Conway, 1999
Smithsonian Handbooks Gemstones by Cally Hall, 1994
Crystal, Gem and Metal Magic by Scott Cunningham, 2002
Chakra Healing & Karmic Awareness by Keith Sherwood, 2005
The Illustrated Directory of Crystal Healing by Cassandra Eason, 2003
Healing Crystals and Gemstones by Dr. Flora Peschek-Bohmer, Gisela Schrieber, 2002

The information here is presented to you to use as you see fit, but is not to take the place of professional medical advice. Crystals, Gemstones and Metal can accent, help, negate, protect, encourage, strengthen, and balance and thereby promote healing. Their effects can be extraordinary, but use in addition to medical advice, and not as a substitute for proper care. If you are ill, we beseech you to seek professional medical attention from a qualified physician.