Sunstone - Color, Facts, Power, Mythology, History And Myths

The beneficial properties of Sunstone are:

• Physical Healer

Sunstone keeps the body warm and increases the metabolic rate along with vitality and digestion. It regulates and maintains all the organs of the body, and stimulates the self-healing power of the wearer.

Sunstone is believed to be curable for treating sore throats, stomach and mouth ulcers, and stomach tension. The warm and soothing energies of Sunstone also alleviate depression and other disorders. It is also effective in driving out nightmares and providing sound sleep.

Since times immemorial, Sunstone has been used as a curative remedy by our ancestors for treating rheumatism, pains, aches, cartilage problems, etc. In present times, Sunstone is also believed to cure fever, cramps, infection, injury, arthritis, and athletic injury.

• Emotional Healer

Sunstone is considered to be highly effective in cleaning the chakras and aura of the human being. It keeps away those people who become an obstacle in the energy realm of the person by being extremely possessive. It avoids the drainage of energy from the body. Sunstone is also helpful for those who find it difficult to say “NO”. It removes the wearer dependency on others and encourages the sense of self-empowerment by overcoming procrastination. The people who hold back their feelings because of the reason that they consider themselves unworthy and aloof; Sunstone is an excellent stone for them. It springs a wealthy and optimistic band of energies that revives one's emotions by encouraging positive thoughts and zeal. It can facilitate the transformation of judgment into joy, and anger into happiness.

• Spiritual Healer

Sunstone closely relates to one’s faith and belief in the supreme as it itself is related to the sun god. It adds grace to the wearer’s attitude and makes him active in whatever he does. It instils the feeling to provide service to the world. Sunstone is believed to carry the yang energy, which it balances and integrates with the yin energy of the moonstone. Both these stones aid activity, harmony, success, strength, and the power of gods and goddesses.

• Heals and Balances Chakra

The brown and red shades of Sunstone are considered helpful in healing the root chakra where the universal life energy “Kundalini” resides. The root chakra is situated at the bottom of the spinal cord. It is the home of the kinesthetic movements and feelings. When the root chakra is out of balance, it surrounds the person with lethargy, inactivity, unhappiness, and pessimism. It also does not allow the person to concentrate on anything. Hence, one can balance the root chakra by wearing Sunstone.

The orange and pale golden shades of Sunstone heal the sacral chakra, which is the second chakra below the navel. An important chakra, it controls the transmission of energy from the mind to the body and body to the mind. It improves the intuitive and gut feeling of the person, and all the other non-linear communications are possible because of this chakra. It fills the feelings of fear, depression, dependency, frustration, and other such negative things when it is out of balance. Sunstone adds grace to one’s personality.

The member of Feldspar family, Sunstone is named for its warm shades of golden, red, orange, brown, etc that glisten in the light of the sun. Some of the specimens also have inclusions in it, which are due to the presence of Hematite or Goethite. The inclusions produce an iridescent effect when the stone is viewed from different angles in the light. The Sunstone crystal may be transparent, clear or opaque, and are found in abundance, however, the red specimens of Sunstone are quite rare.

The visual effect that appears on the Sunstone is due to the reflections of red copper that also forms inclusions in Sunstone in the form of minute scales. These minute scales can possibly be rhombic, hexagonal, or uneven in shape. These inclusions bestow the stone a manifestation of something that somewhat looks like Aventurine, for this reason sometimes Sunstone is also termed as "Aventurine-Feldspar." The middle part of the Sunstone is, however, darker and it sparkles, on the other hand, the outer edges slowly and slightly become lighter.

Sunstone ranges from 6.5 to 7.0 on the Moh’s scale of hardness. There are various metaphysical uses of Sunstone. Other than being used as a healing stone, Sunstone is also used for practicing witchcraft and used by those who follow Wicca beliefs.