Apophyllite with Pink Heulandite Inclusions 882g

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.

A zeolite, and a quiet one.

Heulandite grows in tabular crystals — flat, coffin-shaped plates — in peach, green, white and grey, usually alongside stilbite and apophyllite in the same Indian volcanic cavities. It's named for John Henry Heuland, a nineteenth-century mineral dealer.

Like all zeolites its structure is full of channels, which is what makes the family useful industrially for filtering and softening water.

Heulandite is worked with for perspective and for what people describe as accessing older knowledge — it has a reputation as a meditation stone rather than a carrying stone. It sits with the third eye and crown.

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

Delicate. Keep it somewhere it won't be knocked.