Apophyllite Morganite Cluster 221g

For the meditation corner rather than the pocket.

Apophyllite grows in glassy pyramids, usually on a bed of green stilbite or grey basalt, and its transparency is unusual even among clear minerals. Hold a good piece to the light and you can see straight through the structure to the crystal behind it.

The name comes from Greek — apo phyllon, "to flake off" — because it splits along its natural layers when heated. That fragility is part of what it is. It formed in slow-cooling volcanic cavities, mostly in the Deccan Traps of India, and it doesn't survive rough handling.

Apophyllite is worked with for spiritual clarity and for connection to higher awareness. It sits with the third eye and crown. Most people keep it in a fixed place rather than carrying it — partly for what it does, partly because it doesn't travel well.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.

For love that includes yourself in the equation.

Morganite is beryl in its softest pink, coloured by trace manganese, and it shares its mineral family with emerald and aquamarine — the same base crystal, coloured by a different trace element. It was named in 1911 for the American financier J.P. Morgan, an avid gem collector, by the gemologist George Frederick Kunz, who'd already lent his own name to kunzite a few years earlier.

Most fine morganite comes from Brazil, Madagascar and Afghanistan, typically in pale, delicate shades ranging from blush to peachy pink.

Morganite is worked with for self-love and emotional healing — closely related to rose quartz and kunzite in effect, with beryl's added durability. It sits with the heart.

Sheri chooses every piece by hand, cleanses it, and charges it before it's packed here on the Gold Coast.