- Hey, crystal lovers, and welcome.
In this video, I want to chat with you a little bit
about rainbow fluorite.
And we're gonna start that conversation
by talking about fluorite in general a little bit,
because not all of it
can necessarily be called rainbow fluorite.
So where did we get this name?
Where does this come from?
How can it be worked with?
What's it good for?
So, rainbow fluorite is a specific type of fluorite
that has multiple bands of color.
So you can see here.
This green body of the crystal
with some different colored stripes
is usually pretty common of what you can expect
when you see most rainbow fluorite,
but fluorite itself comes in a huge variety of colors.
So you can have green, you can have blue.
This is a really intense blue fluorite,
kind of a new find.
You can also have combinations of those,
so this is kind of a lavender color.
We have a lighter lavender, pale lavender here,
and this one's from Mexico.
And even yellow.
This is from Africa.
So you can see, it comes in tons and tons and tons
of different colors to begin with,
but the fluorite that we specifically call rainbow fluorite
is typically this material here, green with purple banding.
Now, it does range quite a bit.
This one has, you know, finer bands in it,
but sometimes those bands are wider.
And in many pieces, especially small tumbled pieces,
I mean, think about if you had material that was like this,
if you just had a smaller tumbled stone,
it might be mostly or predominantly just one color.
So in the crystal healing world,
when we talk about stones that come in lots of colors,
things like fluorite and calcite,
we typically break down their properties
by the color variety.
So we might have different properties for purple fluorite
than we do for green fluorite,
but rainbow fluorite in particular is pretty cool
because you get so many different colors all together.
Now there are some types of fluorite
that even include yellow.
So here is a yellow fluorite with some colorful bands,
so this would still be a rainbow fluorite
because it has those, you know, multiple colors
throughout this piece, as well,
even though it is a bit more yellow in color.
And so these really vary based on the location.
So fluorite in general is a great crystal
for mental clarity, for intuition,
and it's also known as fluorspar.
This is an older name for the stone, fluorspar,
and it's just one of my favorite crystals
because of this amazing range of colors that it displays,
and also comes in different formations.
You can find fluorite in more botryoidal shapes,
bubble-like shapes, and also in, you know,
more cubic forms, like this piece here,
which is from the Cave-in-Rock, Illinois area.
And that's actually really special to me,
the fluorite from that area, which is in Southern Illinois,
because it was one of the first places
that I ever went to kind of look for crystals.
And my grandfather took me there
when I was about seven or eight years old,
I think eight years old,
and he showed me a closed fluorite mine
where there was a big dump pile
that people could kind of dig through a little bit.
And I found, it's not very attractive,
it's actually in my bedroom right now,
but a rough piece of matrix rock
with some fluorite on the surface,
with some yellow and purple fluorite on the surface.
So this has been one of my favorite crystals for a long time
because of that experience,
and I'm pretty sure all of the fluorite mines in Illinois
are now closed, but fluorite is still found
in many places across the globe.
Some of the best and most beautiful fluorite,
other than coming from Cave-in-Rock, Illinois,
comes from Mexico, from England and from China.
And in fact, some of the really beautiful rainbow fluorite
with these gorgeous bands comes from China
and it is just gorgeous.
So, I always like to share kind of an affirmation
that you can use when you're working with your crystals.
So if you had a piece of rainbow fluorite
that you wanted to work with
and you wanted kind of a focus for it,
here's the affirmation that I've been using
along with my rainbow fluorite.
My mind is clear,
allowing me to co-create with the universe.
And this is, you know, like I said,
it's great for mental clarity.
And look how clear that is.
It's just a really stunning crystal.
And it often has all these beautiful
little rainbows in it, too, because of the way
that the light reflects and refracts
off the internal surfaces.
So, what are the metaphysical properties
or qualities of this stone?
Now, keep in mind these come from personal experience,
they come from historical sources,
but there are some properties
that are pretty commonly shared across the board
when you look at different sources.
So rainbow fluorite,
great for enhancing energetic protection.
It's an excellent stone
for setting boundaries energetically.
It also supports you while you work to reduce your stress,
and I think a lot of that
is because it provides some clarity,
so it takes some of those questions
and some of that uncertainty out of the mix,
which helps support you while you're working
to reduce stress.
It also is great for transforming and transmuting energy.
So if you have energy that is in your space
or in your own energy field or energy of a situation
that's not really supporting you,
that you want to kind of shift up a little bit,
it can help you do that.
It also strengthens your intuition.
It's a great stone for enhancing your intuition,
and it's been said to encourage accurate psychic readings.
Now I think part of that could be again
because of the clarity that it helps promote,
so it could be that it promotes some clarity
in interpretation and that sort of thing.
It's also said to promote or reveal the truth
in a situation, so that could be helpful
for doing readings, as well.
But one of the ways that I like to work with it
is for self-confidence.
It's also a great stone
for just enhancing your self-confidence, and I just,
I love working with it for so many reasons,
but clarity and confidence and intuition
are kind of my go to's.
It's also said to promote objectivity.
So again, I think that can be connected
with the mental clarity.
You're getting a fuller picture of things,
that sort of thing.
It comes in a range of colors.
As you've seen, it can be clear, violet or purple,
lavender, blue, green, yellow.
You see it in all these colors
and in all these colors sort of mixed up together.
It is related to the Zodiac signs
of Gemini, Libra, and Aquarius,
and it's connected with the air element.
So again, logic, intellect.
Its companion flower,
I found a great companion flower for it,
is cherry blossom,
and an excellent companion essential oil is lemon verbena.
Now, if you want to pair this with another stone,
a great stone to pair it with is black onyx
because the black Onyx helps bring in some grounding.
So once you have that kind of mental clarity,
it keeps you grounded,
and it also is an excellent protective stone.
So, whereas this one helps you set energetic,
protective boundaries, the black onyx then reinforces that.
So it's a pretty cool crystal.
It was once called the home of the rainbow.
It's a stone of, again, amazing variety of color,
of shape and formations,
and a lot of people say that only tourmaline
actually displays more color variety than fluorite.
And I think, I don't know, that's debatable.
Calcite is another one that shows a lot of color.
There are a few others as well.
Sapphires can really be in quite a range of color,
garnets as well,
although we typically think of garnet as red.
The name fluorite comes from the Latin word flow, for flow,
which is because fluorite is mainly formed
at fairly low temperatures,
and so it has this kind of flow state to it.
Because it is easy to melt,
it has been shaped into, melt and carve, I should say.
I don't want to give you the impression
it's melted and formed in these things, but because of that,
the way that it was formed, it's really easy to carve
because it has these strong planes of cleavage,
and so it's easily cleaved among those planes.
And because of that, it has been long carved
and formed into figurines and things like drinking vessels,
and some people even claim to have found some research.
I haven't found this myself, but that the Romans
made fluorite cups and drank wine from fluorite cups,
saying it made the wine taste better.
So, I am not so sure about that.
And I'm just reaching down here because I mentioned
it is very easy to carve,
and I want to show you how much detail
you can get in a fluorite carving.
This is a little doe or a deer,
and it is carved so well that there's even, like
the fur has been carved into it.
And it is a relatively softer stone,
so easy to work that way, as well, which is pretty cool.
It is, I think, again, you know, best-known for this ability
to promote clear thinking,
but because of that clarity that it provides,
I think it's great for helping you focus in
on what's most important in a situation.
So often we can feel really overwhelmed by things
when they feel a little bit too big for us to deal with
or that kind of thing,
and because it provides some of that clarity,
it helps you focus on where your attention needs to go.
This is another way it's connected to that idea
of being sort of a flow stone.
So if you've been feeling really scattered
or pulled in a lot of directions,
fluorite may make a good companion for you to work with.
It's also connected with the crow moon in my book,
"Cosmic Crystals".
This is one of the ways that I like to work with it,
is at the time of the crow moon,
which is the full moon in March.
And it also pairs well with black tourmaline
and blue apatite.
I mentioned black onyx is a great companion crystal for it,
but black tourmaline and blue apatite are also great
because they help shed more light on your current situation,
which is one of the things that fluorite
is so great for in and of itself.
So it really helps you kind of hone your skills,
set an action plan, sort of some goals and step-by-step
to find the best way forward for yourself in a situation.
And one of the reasons I think this works so well
is because when you have that clarity of mind again
that fluorite helps create,
you're better able to visualize the bigger picture.
You're better able to see what is unfolding
and make some plans.
So I hope that you enjoyed this chat about rainbow fluorite.
If you want to learn a little bit more about this stone
and see some beautiful pictures of it
and listen to this week's podcast episode
on the Love and Light Live Crystal Healing Podcast
just click the link I've shared in this video description.
It will take you over to the blog
where you can read all about fluorite,
stream the podcast, and let me know what you think.
So thank you so much for tuning in.
I'm Ashley Leavy here
at the Love and Light School of Crystal Therapy.
Until next time, crystal blessings.