Aquamarine

Chakra

Throat

Element

Water

Planet

Neptune

Signs

Pisces

Tarot

Page of Cups

Crystal correspondences are traditional; the descriptions are original to this site.

What Aquamarine means

Beryl coloured a pale sea-blue by traces of iron, aquamarine's own name comes from the Latin for seawater, water in its plainest, most literal sense. Held to the light, it clears the way still water does, the longer you look the more there is to see through.

Emotional properties

A held breath before speaking is where aquamarine does its best work, tightening the throat like a wave pulling back before it breaks. Wear it near a nervous phone call or a conversation you have rehearsed too many times, and let its cool touch loosen the throat and the words together. What reaches the air is plainer than the rehearsal, and truer.

Spiritual properties

Old sailors kept aquamarine aboard for calm water, and the same wish carries inward: a surface still enough to see what moves beneath it. Drift with it in meditation, and let an answer rise instead of diving after it. Neptune's pull is toward the half-seen, and this stone is content to leave some of it half-seen.

Physical properties

Aquamarine is cool to the touch, glassy and faintly slick, the feel of sea glass without the frosting. Press it against the brow after a long day at a screen, and the coolness is the whole point, nothing more. Light for its colour, it rides in a hand without being noticed.

Care and cleansing

Beryl's hardness makes aquamarine simple to keep: a plain rinse under the tap does no harm at all. Set it in sunlight for an afternoon to recharge, then wipe it dry before it goes back in its pouch. Keep it away from anything that could scratch its polished face.

A question to sit with

Where could a calm first answer replace a quick one this week?