KEYWORDS:  LOVE, GENTLENESS, EMOTIONAL HEALING, RELEASE OF STRESS, UNITING WITH THE DIVINE

CHAKRA(s): Heart
ELEMENT: Earth & Water
ZODIAC: Aries, Taurus & Libra
BIRTHSTONE: January 

1) What is a Rose Quartz?

 Rose Quartz is a member of the Quartz family, a silicon dioxide crystal with a hardness of 7. Its crystal system is hexagonal (trigonal). 

2) What is rose quartz good for?

Rose Quartz is the quintessential stone of love, love for oneself, one's life, partner, children, family, friends, community, the Earth, the Universe and the Divine. Rose Quartz is one of the most important stones of our time. It stimulates and opens the heart chakra, clears the emotional body, and assists in the integration and resolution of old emotional programs.

SPIRITUAL: Rose Quartz is one of the most humble, yet most powerful of the spiritual allies. It turns the heart toward love and bathes body, mind and spirit in that healing and enlightening frequency. It carries the loving consciousness of the Christ and other heart-centered spiritual masters.

EMOTIONAL: Rose Quartz is calming for the mind, assisting one in releasing worry, fear, anxiety and past emotional trauma. It clears the emotional body of ego-driven patterns and can help one feel more open to receiving and sharing Love, compassion and kindness.

PHYSICAL: Rose Quartz is a gentle stabilizing stone to use for physical heart trauma and imbalance. It can help the heart make the shift from stress-based physiology to the higher frequencies of Love-based physiology. It is ideal for premature babies and young children with heart weakness or disease but can be used by anyone who needs a stronger, more stable heart.

3) Why is Rose Quartz so powerful?

Rose Quartz is clearly feminine in tone, and it is one of the stones of the Great Mother. It not only activates the human heart chakra, but it also links one's personal heart to the heart of the Earth and the Heart of the Universe. Its love vibrations can penetrate down to the cellular level, reprogramming the cells for joy and longevity rather than despair and death. This reprogramming capacity is the source of the healing potential of Rose Quartz.

4) How do you use rose quartz for healing?

Rose Quartz is one of the most important stones to wear; to use in meditation, sleep, and body layouts, and to keep in one's environment. Placing a good-sized chunk of Rose Quartz in each room of one's house can fill the entire structure with its gentle energies, keeping the energy of love in focus for all who live there. For one's meditation or sleeping room, a Rose Quartz in every corner is not overdoing it, At work, a Rose Quartz around one's neck or on one's desk can keep one's interactions with others in the highest possible state of harmony.

Rose Quartz can stimulate the crown chakra, third eye, and throat chakra, bringing them into harmony and unity with the heart. Even the lower chakras respond favorably to the abundance of love energy that flows from the heart under the influence of Rose Quartz. 

5) Does rose quartz protect you?

Rose Quartz dispels negativity and protects against environmental pollution, replacing it with loving vibes.  It encourages self-forgiveness and acceptance invoking self-trust and self-worth. Rose Quartz has the power to increase fertility and to protect both mother and unborn fetus from miscarriage.