Fluorite Natural | X Small

For a mind with too many tabs open.

Fluorite grows in cubes and octahedrons, and it comes in more colours than almost any mineral — purple, green, blue, yellow, clear, often banded together in the same piece. Under ultraviolet light many specimens glow: the word fluorescence was coined in 1852 after this stone.

It's soft enough to carve, which is why the Romans made drinking cups from banded blue-john fluorite and paid extraordinary sums for them. Pliny recorded a consul who owned one he liked so much he chewed its rim.

Fluorite is worked with for mental clarity and order — for sorting a problem rather than pushing through it. It sits with the third eye and heart, depending on colour.

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

The stone most often suggested for a desk or a study.