In this post, we tell you everything you need to know about blue quartz, including its meaning, properties, uses and value. Let's get started!
Introduction
Blue quartz could be what’s missing in your life, and you likely don’t even know it! This less common form of quartz possesses some valuable properties that might bring change to the ways in which you experience life.
In this article we discuss the following:
- Blue Quartz Properties
- Blue Quartz Metaphysical Properties
- Blue Quartz Healing Properties
- Blue Quartz Chakra
- Blue Quartz Meaning
- Blue Quartz Benefits
- What is the Value of Blue Quartz?
- How to Cleanse Blue Quartz
- Types of Blue Quartz
- Is Blue Quartz Natural?
- Light Blue Quartz
- Star Blue Quartz
- Blue Smoke Quartz
- Siberian Blue Quartz
- Blue Quartz Countertops
- Blue Quartz Ring
- Tumbled Blue Quartz
- Conclusion
Blue Quartz Properties
Blue Quartz Metaphysical Properties
Blue quartz crystal is all about self expression in the form of creativity. It helps one to become a better communicator with regards to the things you want, need and deeply desire.
When important life experiences happen, it requires a certain level of awareness to be able to analyze and process them in a healthy way. Blue quartz can provide this awareness on your behalf, which will, over time, train you to be a better perceiver of your own life.
Blue quartz is also a stone of immeasurable forgiveness. If this is something you’ve been struggling with, then having this crystal as a daily companion may help with your progress on the matter.
Similarly, blue quartz may have the ability to connect you with your spirit guides. In doing so, you’ll feel more held, grounded and capable as you make your way through life: almost like having the sense that nothing could go wrong.
Blue Quartz Healing Properties
Blue quartz is actually quite the powerful detoxifier. It purifies from the inside out, pulling toxins from deep within both your cells and your consciousness. Everything physical is actually spiritual, so correcting physical imbalance always requires a level of spiritual work.
Blue quartz crystals can offer physical healing to the throat and thyroid if needed. If you’re suffering from any throat related illness, it usually means that this energetic center in the body has become imbalanced or blocked.
To achieve physical healing with blue quartz, try to keep the stone as close to your body as possible. Consider wearing it as jewelry, or holding it in your pocket throughout the day.
Blue Quartz Chakra
Most crystals work closely with one or more of the chakras because their colors correlate to that of ray energy. Blue crystals work with blue ray energy, and correlate to our blue chakra center, which sits in the throat.
The throat chakra is a vital energetic hub to the proper functioning of both the human body and the spiritual one. When energy becomes blocked here, it can be quite detrimental to one’s health and mental wellbeing.
We work with blue stones in order to keep the throat chakra balanced and open. Communication flows through this region, and, if it is hindered in doing so, we are likely to feel alien to Earth.
Added to this, when the throat chakra is kept open, it is easier to balance all of the other chakras. Because the throat is so central, it usually affects the upper and lower energetic regions identically.
Blue Quartz Meaning
It’s likely that blue quartz has been meaningful to human beings dating back to times earlier than we can comprehend. To them, blue quartz probably meant their lucky day and a feeling of pure gratitude when encountering these alluring entities.
Today, blue quartz has a number of meanings depending on your lifestyle and needs. If you want this stone to mean new countertops in your home, it will! If you want it to help you produce hormones that your thyroid has been unable to, it may!
Blue quartz means you’re inviting the essence of spirit and endless possibility into your life, home and body. This is what it has meant through the ages, although it would have manifested in different ways depending on the individual in question.
Blue quartz doesn’t technically have a single zodiac that it represents, however many link it to the sign of the Gemini. Gemini’s official stone is actually the pearl, but those who exclude pearls from geology opt instead for the quartz.
Blue Quartz Benefits
Perhaps the biggest benefit that raw blue quartz is able to offer is the user’s attainment of increased stamina and ambition. The result is faster, easier and more consistent achievement of one’s goals: something we don’t even know we’re lacking until this improvement is made.
Other notable benefits of blue quartz include the very tangible effect that these stones have on the physical body. Healing the physical isn’t something many crystals tap into, but quartz in general has a certain affinity for cellular regeneration.
Expect to see your greatest benefits from blue quartz only after significant periods of use. Keeping the stone in your pocket for a week won’t drastically remold your life, but consistent, intentional work periods for up to a few months will surely start to offer you immense rewards.
What is the Value of Blue Quartz?
Despite not being all that common, or easy to find, blue quartz doesn’t retail at the exorbitant rates that you’d expect. A decent sized piece may set you back anything between $10 and $14, with smaller off-cuts selling for next to nothing.
The trouble is that blue quartz is only really effective in its masses. Cuts that are smaller than your baby finger simply won’t hold a powerful enough frequency to get into the deep work you are likely intending on doing.
Realistically, you want to be working with blue quartz that is about the size of the palm of your hand, or slightly smaller. The bigger the better, when it comes to blue quartz, which is probably why blue quartz jewelry isn’t all that common either. Minute cuts of this stone offer little more than aesthetic appeal, so esoteric jewelry makers tend not to bother with it. Esoteric jewelry is meant to offer energetic benefit as you wear it.
How to Cleanse Blue Quartz
Blue quartz is not a self-cleansing stone, and it needs your help to stay clean and charged. In this way, it will be able to offer you the best possible outcome to all of your intended work.
We recommend making time at least once a month for your cleansing process. More often than this would be most welcome, but, at a minimum, once every moon cycle will suffice.
Use any of the following methods to cleanse and recharge blue aura quartz:
- Bury your crystal in the garden, and leave it under the Earth for up to 48 hours.
- Submerge your stone in a saltwater solution and leave it be for up to 24 hours.
- Leave blue quartz under the light of the full moon, retrieving it only the following morning.
- Burn incense and herbs over your stones, setting the intention for cleansing with your mind.
- Hold blue quartz under running water for a minimum of one minute.
- Place blue quartz on top of any self-cleansing stones you may have in your collection. Leave them up against one another for at least 24 hours.
Types of Blue Quartz
Is Blue Quartz Natural?
The question on most people’s minds is always “does quartz come in blue?”. As mentioned, you’re not likely to find a tray of these stones at your local flea market. Blue quartz is uncommon, but there are both natural and manmade versions of the stone in circulation.
No crystals that look like regular or rose quartz have ever been found in nature in the shade of blue. Natural blue quartz is far less obvious, more solid and less unanimous in color. If you were to find a piece of it on the ground, it would take a close inspection for you to deem it blue and quartz, as opposed to just another rock.
Natural blue quartz is called dumortierite, and most of it is mined in deposits in Peru. Dumortierite often occurs near large bodies of water, and it holds a brilliant blue hue that coined the stone’s nickname, “petrified water”.
Light Blue Quartz
Naturally occurring quartz is rarely light in color, so those that we find on the market in this style will be the man made equivalent. Light blue quartz is often referred to as blue aura quartz, or angel aura quartz. For short, one can simply call it ‘aura quartz’.
Aura quartz is quite beautiful to look at. The shade of blue is quite enigmatic, and to top this off, the entire light spectrum refracts in the body of the stone. Rumor has it that one could use aura quartz as a hypnosis tool if they really wanted to.
Despite being man made, light blue quartz possesses all of the properties as does natural blue quartz. The crystalline intention of the stone is exactly the same.
Star Blue Quartz
Star blue quartz is a variety of blue quartz that does occur in nature. It’s a deep shaded blue stone and, surprisingly, it occurs in abundance, which has kept the retail price quite low over the years.
Star blue quartz is considered to be one of the most beautiful gemstones to form beneath the surface of the Earth. In 1990, an act was passed that actually declared star blue quartz the state gemstone in Alabama, United States.
This occurred because a large deposit of star blue quartz was found along the Flint River in Madison County in Alabama. Anyone can make a piece of this quartz their own, but prices may fluctuate worldwide depending on how complicated shipping between Alabama and the desired destination may be.
Star blue quartz is rarely used in jewelry, however it is always a good idea to check with your retailer as to which exact form of the stone was used, for your personal reference.
Blue Smoke Quartz
Blue smoke quartz is the new kid on the block; it was found only very recently in the Santander province in Columbia, South America.
At first glance, blue smoke quartz doesn’t look blue at all. In fact, it looks more like a milky white form of clear quartz, or simply clear quartz that has been filled with smoke. This attests to the name, and in certain light the smokiness of the quartz does refract a very light, unassuming blue hue.
Blue smoke quartz is said to have been sent for use in very specific energetic work. It seeks to provide a direct connection between the soul and the self. It’s a stone of incredibly high vibration, which can only positively affect the user.
It is not clear as to how much blue smoke quartz is available in this newfound deposit. Get your hands on a piece as soon as the opportunity arises if this is something you want for your long term collection.
Siberian Blue Quartz
Siberian blue quartz is a form of quartz crystal that is grown in Russian science labs. They’ve been experimenting with quartz for years, growing the regular stones near Cobalt ions. The result is the brilliant cobalt-blue crystal, aptly named the Siberian quartz.
This stone looks very much like blue sapphire, and offers a more affordable substitute for these precious gemstones.
Again, just because this is a laboratory-grown crystal does not mean that it is void of metaphysical or healing properties. The quartz element of the stone is grown in the exact way that nature would have facilitated; it’s simply the ions that are introduced to influence the color structure.
All of the aforementioned properties are therefore relative to Siberian quartz.
Blue Quartz Countertops
A home decor trend that emerged sometime during the 90s was that of kitchen countertops made from blue quartz. This is done by attaching blue quartz slabs to the counters. The hardness and durability of these slabs is comparable to that of granite.
Quartz countertops actually come in an array of shades, including grey, black, beige, white and brown. Blue isn’t as easy to find, but it is quite easy to ship around the world as import customs allow geodes and gemstones to move relatively hassle free.
Blue quartz is thought to bring a calming and protective energy into the home in which it sits. You may find your household to be less fearful, more at ease and more open. The communication factor still gets influenced even when there isn’t intentional work happening with the stones; sitting in your kitchen day in and day out will suffice.
Blue Quartz Ring
If you are going to source jewelry made from blue quartz, allow us to recommend wearing this stone in ring form.
The palms are energy centers, and activating them during meditative practice is where you’ll gain the most benefit with regards to spirituality. The gemstone rings you wear on your fingers work closely with the palms, as do gemstone bracelets.
Even though the stone in your blue quartz ring will likely be quite minuscule, it represents an invitation for higher consciousness to enter your experience. Your higher self will facilitate the rest, so there is no need to worry that this stone is too small to do so.
That being said, those seeking physical healing from blue quartz will likely not get it from a ring. A more significantly sized piece of the stone is required, so a necklace or generator cut is preferable.
If you do wear blue quartz around your neck, keep the chain short so that it sits as close to your throat chakra as possible.
Tumbled Blue Quartz
When a stone is tumbled, it simply means that a raw piece has been placed in a special machine that essentially just tumbles it around until the sharp edges disappear and the stone appears rounded and smooth.
Tumbled stones are more comfortable to hold, as well as being better suited to work on the physical body. You can roll these stones over the skin without causing discomfort or abrasions.
Tumbled crystals are generally more convenient to carry in your pocket or handbag. They’re less likely to lose shards of crystal when bumped or dropped. For this same reason, tumbled blue quartz is also better to use if you’d like to charge water with the stones.
Water charged with crystal is thought to deliver health benefits to the whole body. You can achieve this by simply placing some tumbled blue quartz in the bottom of your drinking glass or water bottle.
Conclusion
Blue quartz is an unlikely addition to any crystal collection, but perhaps it should be something more mainstream. Certainly, when one considers the benefits of working with this stone it becomes clear that they were sent to this realm to make some sort of impact.
Don’t be deterred by manmade forms of blue quartz. The intelligence required to produce these objects was likely sent from the natural forms of this crystal in the first place, with intent to offer more of these stones to the population at large.
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If you are interested in incorporating crystals into your life, you should consider a mindful breathing necklace made of a crystal that resonates with you. Mindful breathing jewelry made of crystals not only help provide the benefits of the crystal you choose to wear, but they can also be used to help slow your breath, leading to a greater sense of calm and serenity. Also, if you are interested in reading more about anxiety and crystals, check out our comprehensive blog post on the 15 Best Crystals for Anxiety!
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