Moonstone

Element

Water

Moonstone is deeply connected to the element of water, associated with emotional energy, intuition, the push and pull of the tides, and the cycles of the moon itself.

This water energy gives moonstone the ability to connect to our deepest held emotions and inner selves and also helps to nourish the fluids in the body, flush the lymphatic system and restore internal balance.

The water element is associated with the kidneys which, in traditional Chinese medicine, are seen as the essence of your life force energy. They form your survival instinct, are part of the reproductive process, and are associated with alchemy, transmutation, and the birth of creativity.

When you feel exhausted, drained, or uninspired, it can often mean that this life force essence of your kidneys is also depleted, and moonstone contains the perfect water energy to replenish it so you can come back into balance, feeling nurtured from within and able to better go with the flow of life.

Element

Air

Moonstone also holds the element of air, associated with the mind, the cosmos, and the breadth of infinite space. In this way, moonstone heightens your mental awareness and inner perception as it calms, clears, and quiets a chaotic mind.

It shines its glowing light into the dark corners of your psyche to help you consciously see what’s been hiding in the shadows, the beliefs, and patterns that are no longer serving you, keeping you tethered to old stories and versions of yourself.

This air energy helps you break free from those old patterns and wounds, from the detrimental cycles, and realign with the depth of wisdom and intelligence you hold deep within.

Air also connects moonstone to the lungs, where it helps clear anxiety and ease emotional tension held in the chest, and can help decongest and clear the lungs, allowing you to take deeper, fuller breaths and find a sense of peace within you.

Chakra

Sacral

Moonstone’s water energy connects it to your sacral chakra, found in the lower abdomen, where the waters of your body are processed, filtered, and released.

The sacral chakra is your literal or figurative “womb space” where sensuality and creativity are felt within you, where your desires are born, where your gut instincts lie, and where you store, process, and release emotional energy in your body.

Moonstone is very closely connected to this energy of reproduction, of creativity, of making something from nothing, of creating new potential out of the vast darkness.

Working with it helps the sacral chakra come back into balance with itself, to release the heavy, dense and stagnant emotions that have been held there, and connect you back to that vital life force essence within you so your creative impulses can flow freely.

Physically, moonstone works with the reproductive and urinary organs associated with the sacral chakra, bringing harmony back to your reproductive cycles, helping you eliminate toxins from your body, and increasing fertility and sexual function.

Chakra

Third Eye

With its flashes of electric blue light, moonstone activates the powers of the third eye chakra where your inner vision is accessed, where you connect with your intuition, perceive information, and cultivate your psychic senses.

The third eye is associated with the pineal gland which is the regulator of your body’s hormones and natural cycles, such as your circadian rhythm and sleep cycle.

The lunar energy that moonstone contains, the cyclical rhythm that lives inside it, has a very harmonious effect on the pineal gland to bring your body’s cycles back into alignment, soothing hormonal imbalances, helping you sleep better, and encouraging insightful dreams to come through.

Consciously working with moonstone helps expand the perceptions of your third eye to see into the subconscious wounds, blocks, and limiting beliefs rattling around in your mind and heighten your psychic awareness, increasing clairvoyant visions. Moonstone helps release the grip of the shadows and brings new clarity and insights to the surface.

Chakra

Crown

Its reflective white sheen connects moonstone to your crown chakra, where it expands your awareness into a perception of the spiritual world in which you live, helping open you up to more magic, mystery, faith, and belief in the unseen realms.

Moonstone’s effect on the crown chakra helps you tune into the support and guidance of nature and the spirits all around you, helping you become more in sync with the natural world and its cycles.

It’s a beautiful crystal to help quiet the mind and cultivates a sense of inner peace, acceptance, and calm presence.

Energetic Qualities

Yin

Moonstone has supremely yin energy, which is feminine, receptive, calming, quiet, and inwardly directed. Yin is the blackness of the yin/yang duality, associated with the expanse of wisdom and potential, with creation and intuition. Moonstone is often associated with goddess energy which is the harnessing of this divine yin frequency.

Use moonstone when you need to increase your own yin essence, to lean back into receiving mode, dive into the mystery of yourself, slow down, restore yourself, and increase your sense of ease and calm.

Cooling

Moonstone has a cooling effect which can be useful in balancing anything from heated emotions and hot tempers, to inflammation in the body and hot flashes. When you feel too much heat building within you, literally or figuratively, moonstone can bring in a cooling balance to provide some relief.

Detoxifying

Moonstone has a cleansing effect that spurs detoxification and elimination in the physical body, emotions, and psyche. It clears out heavy, dense, and toxic energy, helping it drain out of the head and lungs and move down into the lower body where it can be processed and released for good.

Physical Properties

Appearance

Moonstone is typically clear to white, or shades of yellowish-brownish, with a luminescent glow that seems to come from within, called adularescence.

White stones are associated with purity, peace, clarity, calm, and divinity, which moonstone fully embodies. White is also the color associated with the lungs, and the lungs are the organ associated with the moon.

The highest quality moonstones contain a signature blue flash when they hit the light, and are the ones to look for to have the greatest effect on your third eye & expanding psychic perceptions.

Composition

Moonstone is a variety of orthoclase feldspar which is an igneous rock. Igneous rocks form under tremendous levels of heat and pressure in the core of the Earth, which increases their hardness, strength, and stability.

This translates into the energetic quality they hold, making them strong supports to aid in treating our most deeply rooted emotions and conditions, giving Moonstone the ability to transform us at the deepest levels of our being.

Moonstone’s chemical composition is potassium aluminum silicate, and potassium has a diuretic effect, aiding in Moonstone’s capacity to decongest and clear the lymphatic system, lungs, and urinary tract.