Crystal Question?

[Edward]

Would anyone happen to know how amythest quartz would lose it's purple color and turn into a clear quartz?

Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[Sowelu]

Amethyst can lose it's color if exposed to sunlight for too long...try to keep your Amethyst protected from a lot of direct sunlight.

www.castocreations.com/GemFacts.html

[Edward]

Thanks Sowelu, but this has been kept out of the sun and bubbled wrapped each time I have not used it and is in a box.

My first initial thought when I contemplated it was, "Hmmm, am I affecting it on some frequency /vibratory level"?


Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[annarita]

Ed-You have drained the amethyst of it's power-hehe!

I have heard of this happening. Try giving it to someone else for a while and see if the color comes back and get another one in the mean time, apparently you benefit a great deal from it, as do many others.

I have some clear quartz crystals (local Lemuria Diamonds) that are turning amethyst.

[Sowelu]

Apparently heat can also cause amethyst to change color or lose color, depending on the degree and duration. Perhaps having it all wrapped up and stored, it got hot? Dunno...

[dutchraven]

Interesting thread, never seen this form of crystal color-changing happen in my life! And I know and have known lots of crystals <smiles> Maybe just not enough people who use them though ;-)

[Edward]

Heat is not a factor except once a week. While in the box it is not getting heated at all. The only heat source is from the warm/hot water It recieves Once a week. This has only been going on for roughly 3 months of using it once a week. That's as long as I have had it. Nearly 3 months but not quite.

I don't know if I can give this crystal to anyone else, for it was specially encoded for me, so I am thinking it is changing as I am changing perhaps? Perhaps changing in vibration/frequency was my first thought when I first started to notice the lack of purple color to the Amythest crystal.


If that is the case, does anyone know what that means from going to Amythest to a Clear Quartz in properties? Does it mean the crystal is adusting to my vibration or am I taking the life out of the crystal and it may be dying? Thank you so far for all the comments. It's much appriciated.



Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[Sowelu]

Well, I had been wondering about the symbolic significance of it all, Ed, and there's a lot to support the idea that it has lost it's purple and gone to clear as a result of your own growth.

Purple is transformation, clear is clear. heh heh.
As we "work" our awareness shifts, we actually generate frequency emanations much like the sun does with it's rays, though they are not in the visible spectrum (for most of us). The crystal/amethyst, on the other hand, is likely impacted at a basic level.

I had the thought pop in that our own "conscious light" is akin to the sun's light, they both signify the same thing. So being exposed to your light may well be similar to being exposed to direct sunlight.

Not sure, but there does seem to be symbolic significance supporting your intuition, Ed.

[Edward]

hmmmmmmmm. Something to ponder.


Thank you Sowelu.


Peace, Love and Enlightenment,

Ed

[dutchraven]

Ed,

why not just ask the crystal, see if it knows what and why its happening? I think you are in tune enough to trust what you might get on it.

And I think you are probably already on the right track with Sowely there.

Love,
Dutchy

ps I think the Amethist is not dying... commune with it more maybe.. why keep it bubble wrapped though? Theres something of a resistace I feel when I think about the crystal being wrapped in thick plastic. I like that you are protecting it and being very respectful to it... but don't you have any silk or something like that to wrap it in?

[liza]

Ed - If you want the scientific explanation also, here it is as I understand it...

Why are some crystals colorless and others colored?

Colorless crystals are pure crystals such as diamonds, quartz and corundum. The atoms in a pure crystal form a rigid, regular framework. Neighboring atoms in the framework bind to each other by sharing pairs of electrons in strong chemical bonds. Pure crystals form states of higher energy by "uncoupling" the electron pairs. That takes more energy than is available in a "visible" photon. They are unable to absorb "visible" photons, so they appear colorless.

Colored crystals are pure crystals, made impure by adding impurities. The impurities reduce the energy needed to reach higher-energy states. This energy is now comparable to the energy of a "visible" photon. The crystal will absorb a "visible" photon and appear colored.

webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/12.html

Here's a quote that would support Sowelu's heat suggestion (I wonder if dunking it in hot water might have done it?):

The colors of both amethyst and smoky quartz are stable to light but are lost on being heated to 300 to 500"C; if not overheated, the color center and the color can be restored by another irradiation, and so on.

webexhibits.org/causesofcolor/12.html

With some intuition, perhaps this quartz is releasing light to you.. as Annarita has suggested (you quartz-sucker, you!), but remember that the harnessing a certain kind of light - the violet energy, and that indicates information. A message. Or just an inspiration / revitalization for your crown chakra, while you were "down."

It seems that you intend to use it, and you may be seeing a direct effect of that use in the quartz. Have you also talked with your guides about it? Good luck finding the explanation!

[Sowelu]

Huh... there may be more here than meets the eye, Ed. I find it interesting that two people in two different forums post about a similar situation within the same week, first off. Second... something resonates about the last post in the following quoted conversation from another forum:

Hello all, it's been some time since I've posted and for that I'm sorry. I have gained a great deal of insight from NR and will make an effort to contribute a bit more. Life in the tick tock world has been a whirlwind these last six months and much has changed in my life. Most of which I'm happy to report has been positive. It's good to be back amoung friends!

I recently recieved a chakra pendant as a gift. I've been wearing it the last few days and the Sunstone has cracked and is loosing color. The Iolite and blue topaz too has developed a crack inside the stone though not as bad as the sunstone. This has all happened over the course of just a few days. All of the stones were fine before wearing the pendant and it has not been dropped or damaged. I'm fairly new to crystals and using them in applied healing. Anyone have any insight into what's causing the stones to crack and discolor?

I got the pendant from here...

www.visionarymusic.com/chakrapendant.html

CD used in meditation with pendant...

www.visionarymusic.com/cd-catalog.html#odyssey
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Definitely something up if they're cracking. Try burying the pendant in the garden (soil) for a week and focus on being the crystals' friend.

Certainly a bit odd of you're making crystals crack. Are you generally ok at the moment ? Or is did this happen when you were healing somebody ? What kind of healing are you using them for ?

I have read that you can clear crystals very quickly with Pennyroyal essential oil and water, although it isn't very easy to come across as it's classed as dangerous. I've been looking for it and cannot buy it from any of my usual suppliers. But, if you can find it definitely get some and use it cleanse your crystals.

You can also use salt water to cleanse them.

I can't offer you much insight into why they are cracking, but if you're a nice person I suspect they have come from a not very nice home. Or there is something about you that they are really reacting to.

Give them a bit of love and acceptance, even if they are broken. Maybe they are alerting you to something that has attached itself to you.

Need more information really on whether the cracking came during a healing (on yourself or another person?) and exactly what was going on at the time - or has it just been happening in the past week?

That website it came from looks a bit, erm, not very friendly, with the blinking ufo offering dna activation.

: )

Last edited by transcend (2006-01-01 16:21:23)
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Ok, I'll weigh in here since there have been few replies. Usually when a stone begins to lose color its because there is imbalance in the corresponding chakra. I would say based only on your post that your 2nd chakra is underactive and your 5th chakra is overactive. In my energy work it's not unusual to see issues in complementary colors blue/orange, red/green, yellow/purple.

I would follow transend's advice and clear the pendant at very least.

How long has it been since you had any energy work done? I'd suggest you go get or do a tune up on the ole' chakras.

Was your meditation the usual or did you have some big revelation? Post back, maybe other have better thoughts or suggestions. I am no expert, that's for sure.


forum.noblerealms.org/viewtopic.php?pid=29878#p29878

I'm wondering if recent shifts in the global/realm influx of celestial energies has increased the impact of our own energies on our environment. Crystals are very sensitive entities, and so may be the first to reflect the greater impact we have on our surroundings.

At the same time that we are being informed that our manifestation abilities are increasing, these conversations appear. Just feels... significant.

[ducky]

I would never cleanse a crystal in hot water. I always use cold. Crystals enjoy being in the air and sunlight and or moonlight. I would try burying it in the soil for a week and see if it gets it's color back. Generally as I understand, a crystal is ready to be retired when it fades in color. To be buried and left or set on a shelf and not used again. But the heat and being wrapped in plastic could be a factor. Burying it will give it a deep grounding and cleansing. I would start there and see what the results are. You could buy two regulare ones, since there are readily available and not pricey at all, treat one as you do the one that faded and use clod water to cleanse the other one and leave it out in the open air. You could even come up with a variable or two.

[ducky]

that should read regular ones and use cold water heehee i really can spell if i pay attention.