Planet: Pluto
Keywords: Perception, Penetration, Power, Protection
Qualities:
A stone linked with power and perception, Smoky Quartz is associated with the planet Pluto. It promotes the capacity to understand the hidden dimensions of life experience.
Smoky Quartz has long been associated with protection and insight. Its mineral content works to stimulate the body’s protective fields, creating a powerful aura of calm awareness and understanding.
Spiritually, Smoky Quartz helps to relieve stress and amplify feelings of personal power. It greatly increases the natural ability to perform under pressure and perform difficult tasks that require focus, perseverance and dedication.
Smoky is a variety of quartz, and its characteristic brown or smoky colour comes from gamma rays affecting the mineral components within the crystal. Aluminium and Lithium deposits also add to the brown tinge.
Supply of smoky quartz is abundant, as it is part of the quartz family. Pleochroism can be apparent and lesser quality specimens will show distinct colour-banding. It is rarely produced synthetically on the market owing to its relatively low cost. Colour can be altered through artificial radiation however, which will affect its therapeutic qualities.
Composition:
Crystal System: trigonal
Manner of Formation: primary
Mineral Class: oxide, quartz group
Colour: Light brown to dark
Doubly Refractive
RI: 1.54-1.55
SiO2+(Al,Fe,Ca,Mg,Li,Na)
SG: 2.65
Moh’s Hardness: 7
Size: Please contact orders@starslikeyou.com.au for our ring sizing chart.
Care Instructions:Smoky quartz should be cleaned with warm, soapy water and then dried with a soft cloth.
