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This Red Zircon, Spessartine, Tourmaline on Epidote & Feldspar 28*25*28mm weighs 21g. This intricate and rare specimen from Skardu was sourced locally in Pakistan for us by our partner there, Lawrence Handicrafts.

Zircon is formed in igneous rock. Natural crystals are usually a brownish red or brownish yellow. When these are heat treated, they can become a range of other colours including clear and yellow. Blue and clear Zircons are especially prized in jewellery making.

Zircon is a wonderful crystal for helping you deal with loss or the letting go of emotional attachment, pain or sadness. It was the traditional stone for celibacy and virtue.

Colour: black, blue, brown, colourless, green, red, yellow

Transparency: opaque, translucent, transparent

Lustre: adamantine, greasy, vitreous

Crystal system: tetragonal

Fracture: conchoidal

Hardness: 7.5

Mineral group: nesosilicates

Formula: ZrSiO₄

Other characteristics: reactive to ultra-violet light

Location: Afghanistan, Australia, Austria, Cambodia, Canada, France, Madagascar, Mozambique, Myanmar, Nigeria, Norway, Pakistan, Russia, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Vietnam, USA

Rarity: common

Chakra: all; varies by colour

Emotional: chastity, depression, grief, happiness, honour, letting go, loss, pain, purity, sadness, stress

Mental/intellectual: motivation, strength

Spiritual: abundance, lucid dreaming, meditation, prosperity, protection, visions

Astrology: Cancer, Libra; Venus

Number: 11

Birthstone: Blue - December

Epidote is a silicate mineral formed from aluminium and iron. It is a green stone known for enhancing recovery, supporting personal transformation, and attracting what you emit. It encourages you to raise your vibration for more positive outcomes.

Epidote attracts and enhances the energies in its immediate environment and within anything it touches. Care is needed in using and storing Epidote as this property of enhancement occurs regardless of whether the energies are good or bad. Epidote manifests this attractive force, as if it were an energy magnet. You can program Epidote to attract what you desire in life. By itself, it will tend to attract abundance, prosperity, and creativity. You can also program it for assistance in love, relationships and other desires. Epidote is responsive to karma, and will attract what you have inside, not what you may only idealise about yourself.

Epidote raises your vibrational energy. It injects hopeful optimism into your emotional body. bringing your mind into a higher state. Epidote is excellent for releasing negativity. This makes it helpful if you are stuck in negative thinking patterns. Epidote is used to clear energy blockages in the physical and subtle bodies. It will help balance and stabilise the flow of energy.

Epidote can increase your interaction with spiritual beings and bring spiritual growth. Epidote helps you to tune into the healing powers of Nature, through its calming, grounding, back-to-Earth vibration. This makes Epidote an excellent stone for people living a busy city-based life.

Colour: blackish green, pistachio green, yellow green

Transparency: opaque, translucent

Lustre: resinous, vitreous

Crystal system: monoclinic

Fracture: uneven

Hardness: 6–7

Mineral group: silicates, epidotes

Formula: Ca₂(Al,Fe)₃(SiO₄)₃(OH)

Location: Austria, Brazil, Norway, Pakistan, USA

Rarity: moderately rare

Chakra: Heart

Emotional: honesty, love, relationships, trauma

Mental/intellectual: awareness, creativity, hope, memory, optimism

Spiritual: abundance, alignment, attraction, balance, clears emotional body aura, expansion, grounding, growth, manifestation, power, prosperity

Astrology: Gemini, Virgo, Libra; Earth, Jupiter

Number: 2