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Ahhh this mermaid flash Labradorite~

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Large Larimar palm.

I believe this to be low grade of Larimar, but still, you don’t find this size and shape everyday!

It’s my hope to find this but with the typical pattern/coloration that Larimar generally has, someday! Until then, I do appreciate this friend a lot.

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A stone my friend V sent me a while back... one of the last she’d gotten at a mineral market. Said it reminded her of a mushroom and at the time I’d been really into mushrooms (still am) which made her think of me.  This stone has really been hitting the spot lately. Don’t know why.  Been really craving that white opalization effect that this has in spades.  The energy profile of Carnelian (creativity, energy, positivity!) has also been welcome...

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2 pc Aura Agate Hearts

This listing is for two Aura Agate Hearts Aura Agate Finish: Polished Style: Heart Measurements: Small heart: 2” w, 1 3/4” h, 55g Large hea

Holy crap they put aura on everything these days..

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There is such a huge range of quality of Pietersite. Some of it looks like absolute shit, I swear, all the way up to swirling bands of reflective tiger-eye-like chatoyant goodness..

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I need any blue chalcedony palm I buy to have impurities. It’s important.

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Here’s my lovely chonky boi.  A flat Herkimer Quartz I got from Earthlight Gems. I like to put it over my heart chakra when I lay down to read.

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You better believe it.

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Sitting on the couch reading with my friend...

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Gemmy lepidolite palm~

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This is the piece I ended up with.  It’s a smoky garden/moss quartz point with a gash in the side.  It was a tie between this stone and another point that was more filled up with green.  To be honest, I wish I’d snagged both.  

These days I’ve been feeling ugly on a soul level, wishing I could metaphorically lay among plants in a garden with the weeds and flowers and vines rising up all around me. Garden quartz gives off that grounded, integrating feeling to me.  

The gash represents the ugliness; I’m not as alone in that this piece is ‘ugly’ too.  It’s where I’m at.  I’m not happy with my life, really.  I had a hard Sunday yesterday filled with furious, electrostatic depression.

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Visited Four Sisters in Renton, a new-age shop that sells crystals, incense and the like, and lots of tea!

My focus being crystals, here’s what I saw of note:

- Large paper weight style tumbles of some common crystals including banded Tiger’s Eye, Sodalite and Jasper

- VERY high quality (but also very expensive) deep dark grape juice amethyst!

- Black tourmaline/obsidian carved into standing points, which isn’t too common.

- Large silver sheen obsidian palms at a lower price point than Earthlight, although the sheen isn’t as strong as Earthlight’s.

- Chakra-related crystal pendants of a number of kinds

- Tumbled stone keychains!

- A pretty significant array of orgonite forms also

They also had small tumbles for grids, etc.

what caught my eye was their set of garden/moss quartz points toward one of the entrances.  Will post this too!

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I just bought my first piece of spectrolite direct from a Finnish seller.

In crystal shops and various venues, perfectly well meaning sellers will go around calling high-quality or flashy Labradorite "spectrolite." This could be a result from confusion with the term, thinking it means labradorite that has a full spectrum of colors broader than the typical blue-greens in the flash of the average quality stones from Madagascar and/or Newfoundland.

I didn't quite understand the differences then but now that I have a piece, I can tell you, they're very different beasts.

To the left in this picture is a very flashy and somewhat weirdly patterned labradorite - very gorgeous, and I love it very much! - and to the right is a polished genuine spectrolite piece. You can see here how the color patterning in it is much more starkly delineated. Also, the flash itself seems more to be a thin, crisp layer rather than the more blurred and embedded gradient that labradorite displays.

It is very difficult to find any true spectrolite on websites like Etsy or eBay; most of the pieces there are very small, carved cabochons and if you're looking for a palm piece like I was you'd be out of luck. This is one of those types of stone that you need to buy from a seller who operates from specific locale in which it is mined. They're out there! I've had a good experience with this seller - and fyi DHL ships SUPER fast.

✨✨✨the more you know✨✨✨

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SHAZAM!

Got this piece from Etsy seller LemurstoneBoutique!

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I mentioned a while ago that I’d been obsessing over Labradorite from Newfoundland, specifically.  I found a piece on Etsy.  The sellers operate out of the area (their advertisement that came with the stone features GPS coordinates for their shop, which also appears to be closed during the winter season.)

A very special, high-quality find.

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I’d been wanting a labradorite with this kind of blue for a while.  This is a steely gray-blue, although it looks greener here. I’d ended up finding it at Earthlight in Kirkland.  Still, though, there are numbers of flashy ones on Etsy I still want...