Astrologers Notes

Day: Friday

Planet: Venus

Keywords:            Love, Attraction, Harmony, Sensuality

Qualities:

 A stone associated with harmony and beauty, pink tourmaline is related to the planet Venus. It enhances feelings of love, wellbeing and connectedness.

Because of its ability to draw other objects to itself, tourmaline has long been associated with Venus, the planet of love and attraction. In its pink form, tourmaline connects to the heart and its innate desire for harmony, peace and beauty. Its mineral content works to activate each individual’s innate capacity for love.

Spiritually, Pink Tourmaline is said to help bring feelings of ‘wholeness’ and unconditional love, which lead to greater wisdom and creativity. It helps with dreaming, by day as well as by night. Through inner harmony and imagination, more fulfilling choices are made.

Pink tourmaline is thought to influence the activity of the glands, and to help regulate the balance of hormones and metabolism. It is also considered useful for healing the immune system and helping to soothe nervous tension.

Tourmaline is one of only a few substances that will develop an electrical charge. The charge is enhanced when carried in a silk pouch or warmed gently by the body. Wearing pink tourmaline close to the heart will influence both the electrical current in the heart itself, as well as exert an influence on the thyroid. 

Myth and Legend:

Tourmaline has been known since antiquity but has been equated with other coloured stones. Tourmaline is unique in that its many mineral forming elements combine in different ways to produce a great variety of colours.

Pink tourmaline was said to inspire love. The Empress Dowager Tz’u Hsi of China was so enamoured of this stone, she bought large quantities from the USA, and was said to have been buried with them so that she might attract love to herself in the next life.

 Tourmaline also carries an electrical charge when rubbed with silk or slightly warmed. It is amongst very few stones that carry its own force or charge. For this reason, the Dutch called them “aschentrekkers”- as they had the ability to draw the ash out from tobacco pipes owing to their magnetic properties.

Gemologer’s Notes

Pink tourmaline is among the rarest and most highly valued of the tourmaline group.

Tourmalines are well known within the mineral kingdom for their multi-coloured capacity. Like the rainbow, they have the ability to carry combine complex colour-carrying agents to form polychrome stones. This range of colour makes them amongst the most spectacular mineral species

They also exhibit a strong pleochroism, allowing them to change in appearance from dark to light depending upon the angle at which they are viewed. They tend to form in rectangular structures, so are best cut and viewed in either square or emerald-cut shape. 

Composition:

• Crystal System: Trigonal
• Manner of Formation: Primary
• Mineral Class: ring silicate (+ oxide)
• Colour: Pink or light red
• DR (doubly refractive)
• RI: 1.61-1.66
• Na(Li,Mn,Al)3Al6[(OH,F)4(BO3)2Si6O18]
• SG: 3.02-3.32
• Moh’s Hardness: 7-7.5

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