Green Apophyllite with Prehnite Inclusions Statement Piece 3kg

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 trusting a feeling before you can fully explain it.

Prehnite is a pale green to yellow silicate, and it holds a small distinction in mineral history: it was the first mineral ever named after a person rather than a place or property, honouring Hendrik von Prehn, the Dutch colonel who brought the first specimens back to Europe from South Africa in the late eighteenth century. It's very often found intergrown with epidote, the two sharing similar formation conditions in metamorphic rock.

Its soft, slightly waxy lustre and rounded, botryoidal growth habit make it easy to identify even without a label.

Prehnite carries a modern reputation as the stone of prophecy or inner knowing — often reached for before trusting a hunch. It sits with the heart and solar plexus.

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