- Have you ever seen a brand new crystal pop up online
or in your favorite crystal shop
and gotten really excited about it?
Has a fancy name, it looks really cool,
but you can't help but wonder about it.
You second-guess a little bit
because it looks really familiar.
This is exactly what happened
when I first heard about Tanzberry quartz,
it was all the rage when it was first discovered.
And it is quite beautiful, but the more I dug into it,
I realized pretty sure it's actually just red aventurine
that happens to come from Tanzania
instead of Brazil or India.
This kind of thing happens all the time,
and it's not necessarily that these are crystal fakes
or that anyone's trying to deceive you.
But the mineral market has a way
of trying to make things sound really extra exciting
for the crystal healing community.
So, in this video, I'm going to share a little bit
about red aventurine and tell you why I'm pretty sure
that it is the same thing as Tanzberry quartz.
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Red aventurine is a great crystal
for passion and perseverance.
It's a variety of massive quartz,
which means it's cryptocrystalline,
with inclusions of lapidolite mica
so it has a little lithium in it,
as well as some hematite that can add a little bit
of sparkle and magic to the stone.
You probably know I always like to start my discussions
about different healing crystals by sharing an affirmation
that you can use along with working with the stone.
So here's what came through for red aventurine,
"I tap into my inner fire to enhance my creativity,
motivation, and passion."
And this really is a fiery, sparkly, high-energy stone.
I love it, it's gorgeous and a great companion.
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Red aventurine is excellent for enhancing creativity,
instilling motivation to help you pursue your passions,
it kind of stokes your inner fire.
It's also great for facilitating an appreciation of beauty,
and encourages you to let your inner beauty shine forth.
It's great for promoting self-reflection
and subsequent deep healing.
Red aventurine is also good
for enhancing ceremonial magic and rituals,
so it's an excellent crystal to have
on your altar or in your sacred space.
It encourages clear communication,
so it's great to have in areas of your home
where your family spends a lot of time together,
or your roommates, or even in the workplace.
It can also increase protective energy.
So if you're doing any kind
of energetic protection work, shielding work,
it's a good crystal companion to have around.
It also enhances feelings of confidence and courage,
and it calls in abundance and prosperity energy.
One of the things I like most about red aventurine now
is that it facilitates consistent engagement
in your spiritual practice.
If you've been feeling a little bit overwhelmed,
a little disconnected from your spiritual side,
it can help you find that motivation
and passion for the things that lift you up, inspire you,
and help you ultimately connect with your spirituality.
And along these lines, it's a great stone
for enhancing your determination and perseverance,
especially if you're working toward a goal
or trying to develop some healthy new habits in your life.
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Red aventurine also helps kind of stir you
to action when you're feeling overwhelmed.
And if you're anything like me, if I'm feeling overwhelmed,
I tend to kind of wanna shut down
a little bit and just stand still.
Red aventurine helps you sort out what's most important,
and take the steps that are necessary to move forward.
It also helps facilitate personal healing and growth,
and helps rebalance energy leaks in your energy field.
Finally, red aventurine can help support you
as you tune into yourself
to better understand your emotions,
how you're feeling and why you're feeling that way.
This crystal ranges from a medium
to a dark, pinkish-red in color,
and has lots of tiny little flex
that are caused by those inclusions of mica and hematite.
It connects with the Zodiac signs of Taurus,
Gemini, Virgo, and Cancer.
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And with the elements of earth and fire.
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A great companion flower for red aventurine is yarrow,
and an excellent companion essential oil is cassia.
If you'd like to pair a companion crystal
with red aventurine try holly blue agate,
they make great companions together.
Now, I mentioned earlier red aventurine
is found in both Brazil and Tanzania.
It's currently being sold under the trade names
Tanzberry quartz or Cherry Tanzurine.
Now, these can be a little bit confusing
because it makes it seem
like they're all different minerals.
But really, Tanzurine quartz or Tanzberry quartz,
or Cherry Tanzurine are just names
for the red aventurine that comes from Tanzania
as opposed to the material that comes from Brazil or India.
It does have a deeper, richer color
than most of the red aventurine
I've seen coming from the other locations
so it may be of interest for that reason,
but don't think that they're two different minerals.
Through my research, I'm pretty certain
that these are one and the same,
Tanzberry quartz, red aventurine,
both cryptocrystalline quartz
with inclusions of lepidolite mica and hematite.
One other thing to note here is that red aventurine
is also sometimes sold as Strawberry quartz.
And I see it labeled as Strawberry quartz
so frequently that this has kind of become
a secondary name for red aventurine,
they're used interchangeably.
But there's actually a stone
that was previously known as Strawberry quartz
before red aventurine was ever called that.
And it's a quartz
with really fine, wispy, pink, rutile inclusions.
This is the original Strawberry quartz
so don't get it confused with red aventurine.
Although red aventurine is also
sometimes called Strawberry quartz,
this is not the same as the original Strawberry quartz
which got its pink, sparkly color
from inclusions of pink rutile.
And you can tell the difference between these immediately
because the original Strawberry quartz is very translucent
with kind of a pink, almost iridescence inside of it.
Whereas the red aventurine is translucent to opaque
with little chunky flex of mica inclusions.
So they're very easy to tell apart,
but they both kind of go by the same name now
because red aventurine has all these different names.
So, red aventurine might also be called Strawberry quartz.
If it's from Tanzania might also be called Tanzberry quartz,
or Cherry Tanzberry, or Cherry Tanzurine.
It goes by very many names,
but it all has the same properties.
You might also see red aventurine spelled
a little differently from time to time.
Sometimes, instead of A-V-E-N-T-U-R-I-N-E,
it'll be A-V-A-N, which is a misspelling.
And probably, the most common misspelling
of aventurine is adventuring,
putting a D after the A.
So, A-D-V, almost like adventure.
And this is actually an incorrect spelling
that is pretty common,
so if you see that it is the same stone as well.
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Well, I hope you found this video all about red aventurine
to be very helpful and insightful.
I hope you learned a little bit about the stone,
as well as being able to get some information
on how to differentiate and distinguish it
from true Strawberry quartz,
and how it's probably the same thing as Tanzurine.
Thank you so much for tuning in,
I'm Ashley Leavy of the Love & Light School.
Until next time, crystal blessings.
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