Citrine Pendant with Amethyst accent

Citrine Pendant with Amethyst accent

Color: yellowish-orange or orangish-brown

Chakra(s): solar plexus and crown

About the stone: Citrine is the yellow variety of quartz (crystalline silicon dioxide). Citrine crystallizes in the trigonal system and the yellow color is thought to be caused by traces of iron. Natural citrine is rare, and most citrine is produced by heating amethyst, which turns its color to yellow.

Astrological sign(s): Leo

Mohs scale: 7

Spiritual uses: Citrine Pendant with Amethyst accent activates the golden flecks of light vibrating in your halo, which shimmers and connects you with your Divine nature.

Mental uses: Good for mental clarity, citrine reminds you that whatever you ardently believe and desire and work passionately toward will manifest. Use this stone to awaken your awareness and become conscious of the repetitive patterns of self-limiting thoughts that are holding you back. Then, develop and focus on positive thoughts to replace those negative beliefs.

Emotional uses: Citrine activates self-confidence and joy. Use this stone to help you out of depression and relieve any feelings of inferiority or unworthiness. The radiant vibration that citrine emits helps remind your emotions that you are one with joy, peace, and love. Let the golden rays of this stone dissipate whatever challenge or negative emotion is blocking your way to happiness.

Physical uses: Citrine helps improve digestive difficulties, bladder and kidney problems, allergies, and eating disorders.

About the amethyst: Amethyst is the variety of Quartz (crystalline silicon dioxide) with a natural violet color due to the impurity of iron, other trace elements, and irradiation. Amethyst crystallizes in the trigonal system and is found in open cavities.

Spiritual uses: Amethyst stimulates the third eye and all six “clairs” (or sensory gifts): clairvoyance, clairaudience, claircognizance, clairsentience, clairolfaction, and clairgustation.  Amethyst helps protect you from psychic attacks and clear out the negative thoughts of the day. This stone is perfect to invite the angelic vibes of Archangels Gabriel, Metatron, Raziel, Tzaphkiel, and Zadkiel.

Mental uses: The purple vibration in amethyst has powerful transformative qualities. To use this vibration in changing unwanted situations, imagine yourself surrounded by a vibrating, glowing bubble of violet light emanating from the stone.

Excerpted from The Essential Guide to Crystals, Minerals, and Stones. (Llewellyn. 2013) by Margaret Ann Lembo