Orgonite Heart Lapis Lazuli | Medium

For a mind that wants to see clearly, and speak just as clearly.

Lapis lazuli isn't a single mineral but a rock — mostly lazurite, threaded with white calcite and flecked with pyrite that catches the light like scattered gold. Afghanistan's Sar-i-Sang mines have supplied it for over six thousand years, making lapis one of the longest continuously mined materials on earth. Ancient Egypt used it for burial masks and jewellery, most famously in Tutankhamun's death mask, and for centuries it was ground into ultramarine, a pigment so labour-intensive to produce that it was at times worth more than gold.

The best pieces show an even, deep blue with fine gold pyrite scattered through rather than large chalky calcite patches.

Lapis lazuli is worked with for insight and honest communication — a stone that has carried royal and spiritual weight across nearly every culture that's had access to it. It sits with the third eye and throat.

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

Not a stone, and we won't pretend otherwise.

Orgonite is a made object: crystals and metal shavings suspended in cured resin. It's based on the work of Wilhelm Reich, an Austrian psychoanalyst who in the 1930s and 40s theorised a form of energy he called orgone, and built devices layering organic and inorganic material to interact with it. The modern craft version dates to the 1990s.

There's no scientific consensus behind it, and we'd rather say so than imply one. What's true is that each piece is cast individually, so the internal pattern of metal and crystal is never quite repeated, and people keep them near electronics or in workspaces.

If you're drawn to it, it's worth having. If you want a natural mineral, look at black tourmaline or shungite instead.

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