JEWELRY

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All about Rose QUARTZ

Rose quartz is known as the love stone. It helps the user feel a strong sense of self-worth, therefore being worth love. Rose quartz is the stone of universal love. It is also the stone of love in marriage. When worn in jewelry the wearer feels a sense of self-worth.

ROSE QUARTZ GEMSTONE MEANING

HEALING PROPERTIES OF ROSE QUARTZ
Rose Quartz has a gentle vibration of love for the owner. It gives inner peace and helps in all matters pertaining to love in all its forms. Rose Quartz opens the heart to love. It carries a very gentle and soothing energy that gives comfort to anyone whose heart has been wounded.
It also helps as a rejuvenator to the skin.
It is said washing the face in water charged by rose quartz will help fade wrinkles and keep the skin young.

REMEDY BENEFITS OF ROSE QUARTZ:
    * Encourages self love
    * Heals emotional body
    * Eases heartache
    * Relieves loneliness
    * Releases repressed hurts
    * Promotes forgiveness
    * Offers inner peace

SOURCES
Rose quartz is found in Madagascar, India, Germany, and several localities in the USA. Much rose quartz was extracted from a famous site near Custer, South Dakota, but now, most of the world’s supply of good quality rose quartz comes from Minas Gerais, Brazil.

HISTORICAL INFORMATION AND USES
Rose quartz has been used as a gemstone and as other ornamental and religious objects for thousands of years.
Historically, it is a symbol of love and beauty.
The name quartz comes from the Saxon word querklufterz, which meant cross vein ore.

STAR ROSE QUARTZ
If rutile needles are present in the rose quartz then a star effect or asterism is sometimes seen. The star is best seen when light is viewed through the rose quartz. This is different from asterisms in most other gemstones, such as ruby and sapphire, where the stars are seen when light is shown on the gems.

Rose quartz is only one of several quartz varieties. Other varieties that form macroscopic (large enough to see) crystals are as follows:
    * Amethyst is the purple gemstone variety.
    * Citrine is a yellow to orange gemstone variety that is rare in nature but is often created by heating Amethyst.
    * Milky Quartz is the cloudy white variety.
    * Prasiolite is the leek-green variety.
    * Rock crystal is the clear variety that is also used as a gemstone.
    * Smoky quartz is the brown to gray variety.

PHYSICAL PROPERTIES
    * Rose Quartz chemical composition: SiO2
    * Class: tectosilicate
    * Crystal system: Hexagonal-Rhombohedral; 32 (trigonal-trapezohedral)
    * Specific gravity: 2.65
    * Index of refraction: 1.54-1.55
    * Pleochroism: weak to distinct
    * Hardness: 7
    * Color: pale-pink to rose-red
    * Luster: vitreous
    * Transparency: opaque to translucent, rarely transparent
    * Cleavage: none
    * Fracture: conchoidal
    * Streak: white

ZODIAC, MYTH & ANNIVERSARY
Rose Quartz is the birthstone for January and for the star sign Taurus. Rose Quartz is the anniversary gemstone for the 2nd year of marriage.