Crystal · Two-toned heart
Watermelon tourmaline
- Chakra
- Heart
- Element
- Earth
- Planet
- Venus
- Tarot
- Two of Cups, The Lovers
Crystal correspondences are traditional; the descriptions are original to this site.
What Watermelon tourmaline means
Slice across a watermelon tourmaline crystal and the cut face shows a ring of pink inside a ring of green, often with a pale band between, just like the fruit. Both colours belong to one mineral, elbaite, a tourmaline that carries lithium.
Emotional properties
Loving someone for a long time means loving several people in a row, each version arriving before the last has quite left. Watermelon tourmaline keeps that kind of company well, a two-toned stone for a love that has had more than one season. Tell them one thing you love about who they are now, not only who they were.
Spiritual properties
The pink core of a watermelon tourmaline crystallised first, coloured by manganese; by the time the green rind grew, iron had become plentiful in the fluid feeding the crystal. Nothing about the stone tried to stay consistent with its own beginning, and it is more remarkable for that, not less.
Physical properties
A polished slice of watermelon tourmaline is thin enough to glow when held to a window, pink and green meeting along one clean line. Old friends and a long table suit it, the laughing that goes on until someone has to put a glass down. Of all the ways the body shows love, laughter needs the least encouragement.
Care and cleansing
Thin slices of watermelon tourmaline snap or chip easily, and any tourmaline can crack from heat or a quick swing from hot to cold, so hold a slice by its edges. Dip it in cool water and pat it dry, charge it among a few pieces of rose quartz, and store it flat on cotton.
A question to sit with
At your centre, what still shows of who you used to be?
Stones that share a chakra
- AlexandriteShifting light
- AmazoniteHonest heart
- BloodstoneOld courage
- ChrysocollaCopper's hush
- ChrysopraseGreen ease
- EmeraldGarden within stone
- FuchsiteSoft green renewal
- Green aventurineGlittering everyday luck