Green Quartz
Attributes
Stone of New Challenges. The energy of this stone is essential for entering new and better stages of life, especially if the past was hard
and stressful. It supports the regeneration of body and mind, stimulates creative thinking, adds self-confidence, encourages self-acceptance, one's possibilities and limitations. It also helps to accept and understand other people as they are, without intending to change them.
Origin
Green Quartz is a type of quartz, which gets its beautiful, deep color as a result of the green color of the mineral growths: actinolite, fuchsia, chlorite.
Sources of quartz are located in Madagascar (where the best quality quartz comes from), Sri Lanka, Kenya, Mozambique, Namibia, Brazil, USA (Maine, Colorado, California, South Dakota, New York, Georgia), Russia, Kazakhstan, India, Japan, Czech Republic, Germany, Switzerland, Finland, Poland.
Green quartz at S&A collections come from Mozambique.
Name
The name "Quartz" comes from three languages: the Old German word "quarz", used by German miners to describe this stone and meaning "rasp", the Slavic word for "kwardy" which means "hard" and the Greek word for "krystallos" meaning "ice". And the other part of the name comes from its green color.
History
This stone was already revered in the Ancient times. It was believed that quartz was actually water from the heavens, which was frozen
by the gods to eternal ice. Hence the Greek name "krystallos" meaning "ice".
Astrology
Stone associated with: Cancer
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