Huge on truth

This huge Lapis Lazuli freeform 178*70*48mm weighs 1282g. Lapis lazuli is a combination of minerals, including Lazurite, Calcite, and Pyrite. The stone was sourced by Lawrence Handicrafts in Afghanistan. It was then fashioned in their Karachi artisan workshop into this beautiful freeform.

Lapis lazuli is a deep blue stone often flecked with pyrite. It is a combination of minerals, including Lazurite, Calcite, and Pyrite. Lapis Lazuli has been prized since antiquity for enhancing wisdom, inner vision, and truth-seeking. It is a stone for seeking knowledge and wisdom. Lapis Lazuli helps you to organise your daily life. It quietens a busy or restless mind.

Lapis Lazuli is the stone for students of life with a desire for knowledge. Lapis Lazuli promotes wisdom and discernment. It provides a reminder of the power of the spoken word. Lapis Lazuli will assist you to always speak your truth and let you see through the lies told to you, even those you tell yourself. It helps you fully express yourself through words, clearing problems caused when you instead find yourself swallowing your tongue. In these demanding situations, Lapis Lazuli will help you find the words and say just the right thing. While staying truthful, it will make it easier for you to sensitively voice and communicate your anger.

Besides bringing truthfulness, Lapis Lazuli promotes mental clarity and openness. It is one of the best stones to use when opening and balancing the Throat Chakra.

As a Third Eye Chakra opener, Lapis Lazuli connects the physical and higher realms, bringing valuable information into your daily life. Lapis Lazuli can help provide you with a key to attaining further spiritual enlightenment. Lapis Lazuli shields negative energy, returning the negative vibrations to their source. In this way, it helps protect you against psychic attack. Lapis Lazuli also enhances dream work and spiritual journeying.

Colour: deep blue with gold pyrite and white calcite

Transparency: opaque

Lustre: dull, vitreous

Crystal system: isometric

Fracture: uneven

Hardness: 5–5.5

Mineral group: rock composed of calcite, lazurite, pyrite

Formula: (Na,Ca)₈(AlSiO₄)₆(SO₄,S,Cl)₁–₂

Other characteristics: reactive to ultra-violet light

Location: Afghanistan, Chile, India, Pakistan, Russia

Rarity: common (high-grade rare)

Chakra: Throat, Third Eye

Emotional: anxiety, balance, calming, criticism, depression, despair, dreams, emotional abuse, grief, healing, hope, inner peace, melancholy, obsessive compulsive disorder, panic attacks, perseverance, self-confidence, self-expression, self-worth, stress, tension

Mental/intellectual: honesty, insight, intuition, knowledge, logic, quietening the mind, trust, truthful expression

Spiritual: angelic communication, appreciation, ascension, aura balancing, balancing polarities, communicating with spirits, divine nature, enlightenment, inner vision, intuition, karma, luck, meditation, past lives, psychic abilities, psychic attack, psychic protection, reincarnation, protection, truth, upliftment

Astrology: Aquarius, Pisces, Sagittarius; Mercury, Jupiter, Saturn, Neptune

Number: 3

Birthstone: December