Watermelon Tourmaline is a highly prized form of tourmaline. It has a pink or red centre surrounded by a rim of green (like the skin of watermelon) Some crystals are pink on one end and green at the other. This combination of colours occurs naturally. It is found in South Africa, Brazil, Madagascar, Mozambique and Sri Lanka.

Watermelon Tourmaline is the “super-activator” of the heart chakra, connecting one to your own higher self and the frequency of joy. The combination of the Green and Pink tourmaline  activates, soothes, clears the heart charka and the physical heart.  It benefits those with heart problems resulting from excessive stress. Its energy is calming and can quickly counter resentment and anger.

This crystal has the energy of joy which is also the source of its healing powers. It teaches that happiness is not caused by external circumstances but is the natural condition of being. It helps one find joy in any situations.

The combination of the Green and Pink tourmaline amplifies and balances the energies of each other. It helps foster love and friendship.  This crystal helps one to be more patient, and develop tact and diplomacy. It also helps one understand situations and state intentions clearly. Watermelon Tourmaline also promotes security thus easing  fear and depressions.

Watermelon Tourmaline is useful in helping to heal problems of the physical heart. The high lithium content can also help one to maintain a calm, centred state of mind.

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YEAR OF THE TIGER 2010

WARMEST  WISHES  FOR   A   HAPPY  AND   PROSPEROUS  

CHINESE NEW  YEAR

福

FLYING STARS CHART

 YEAR 2010

Flying stars (飞星) are described in Feng Shui as a body of energy (Qi) moving into different sectors of our living environment, know the location of these auspicious stars and how to balance the energy to improve your luck to enjoy good health, wealth and harmony (福，禄，寿).

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LAPIS LAZULI

Lapis Lazuli is a deep blue flecked with gold gemstone. It is a protective stone that is easily obtained but good quality ones are expensive. It is found in Italy, Russia, Afghanistan, United States, Chile, Egypt and the Middle East.

Lapis encourage one to take charge of life. It reveals inner truth and helps self-expression and communication. It also brings objectivity and clarity to the mind. It opens one’s mind and enhance creativity.

Lapis lazuli is able to quickly release all stress and bring about a sense of deep peace. It relieves headaches and migraines, calms the nervous system, overcome depression, reduces blood pressure, alleviates insomnia and vertigo. Lapis Lazulis aids problems with the eyes, ears, throat, larynx, thymus, bone marrow, lymph glands and the immune system. It also reduces inflammation and pain.

In the work place it helps one to gain the trust of others and promotion.

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Five Element Stone  (Lucky Charm Stone ) 五行石/五行開運石

The Five Element Stone provides Natural healing and Balancing of your 5 elements thus bringing Harmony, Good Health, Success and Wealth. With a string of five element stone bracelet, one can supplement any of the missing or weak elements and balance their energies.  As the saying goes ” One lives like a king when their energies are balanced.”

Five Element Stone is produced in small quantity in the Himalayas and its composition includes jade, cinnabar, vermillion and gold sand.

The Five Element Stone is the crystal touted to be able to correct all  imbalances of one’s personal 5 elements as well as that of one’s space. In Chinese  metaphysics (Feng Shui), the 5 Elements are  water, earth, metal, wood & fire. It exists in everything around us; our birth date & time, the 12 zodiac animals, place of residence & work, and your clothes and accessories.

The Five Element Stone with its all rounded strong consistent magnetic property (due to the crystallization process and cinnabar) is suitable for everyone; it helps balance the wearer’s personal 5 elements and that of his/her space. When your 5 Elements are  in balance it brings you abundance, good health, wealth, opportunities, good luck, sound networking and career advancements. It also helps ward off disasters and boosts the immune system for the wearer. It is also beneficial for people with back problem and arthritis.

Further benefits for the wearer of the Five Element Stone related to the 5 elements theory (Feng Shui) are:

Water, in the 5 elements theory, symbolizes wisdom and humility. Water lets you stay calm and happy, enjoying ease in any work-related matter.

Wood symbolizes  the life created by nature; giving abundance, creativity and energy at work and business.

Metal represents justice, benevolence, wisdom and politeness of people. Long term wearers of the Five Element Stone will be able to gain loyalty and respect of others as their status rise.

Earth of the 5 elements represents perseverance and patience in a person. Long term wearers will be increasingly patient, accumulating trust in work and business and personal relationships.

Fire  represents respect and politeness, generosity;   and the Arts. Wearers will enjoy respect and increase their creative acumen/intelligence/wisdom and their sensitivity towards aesthetics.

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Labradorite is a powerful protective stone and treasured   for its remarkable play of colour (labradorescence), which show vivid flashes of green, blue, gold, orange, red and sometimes violet.  It is found in Canada, Finland, Italy, Greenland, Russia and Scandinavia

Labradorite creates a force field throughout the aura, protecting and strengthening the energies within and preventing others from “tapping in” to your personal energy and draining you.

It release fears and insecurities and calms an overactive mind. Labradorite helps you to dispel illusions and balances rational thinking with intuition.

Labradorite   also stimulates the imagination. Thus it can be inspirational for fiction writers, composers of plays or music and playwrights.

It is an excellent stone for strengthening intuitions.

Emotionally, it supports self-trust and stability in times of transition. At work, labradorite eases changes whether of  job, management or work practices.

Labradorite lowers blood pressure and relieves stress; and calms the mind. It is beneficial for disorders of the eyes and brain, balances hormones, relieves menstrual tension, gout & rheumatism.  Yellow labradorite heals the stomach, spleen, liver, gallbladder and adrenal glands.

Green Tourmaline comes in various shades of grass green to vibrant emerald, to olive and nearly black. This crystal is found in Brazil, Afghanistan, Pakistan, USA and Africa.

Green Tourmaline is also known as Verdelite. It brings balance and joy for life.  Green Tourmaline is also used to attract success in business and money.

Green Tourmaline can transform negative to positive energy and dispel fears. It also calms the mind and emotions. It can help one to be more expressive. It opens the heart chakra, encourages compassion, patience and tenderness as well as a sense of belonging. It increases creativity and help one come to the most practical and beneficial solution to any issue.

Green Tourmaline is an excellent stone for healing and helpful in visualization.  Both Pink Tourmaline and Green Tourmaline are heart-activation stones. But the Green Tourmaline works more strongly on the physical heart and body than the Pink Tourmaline. It strengthens the heart as it aligns the heart’s electromagnetic field with the electromagnetic field of the Earth. It also helps the proper flow of healing energy through the body.

Green Tourmaline treats thymus, heart, eyes brain and the immune system, and helps in weight loss. It is a good detoxifier.

Red Tourmaline is an excellent heart healing stone and it goes deeper than other heart stones. It opens one to love at all levels.

Rubellite or Red Tourmaline is recommended for people who have heart ailments, because it carries and emanates the perfected vibrational pattern of the heart. It helps to link the individual heart to the Universal heart which in turn provides the nurturing energy that one can draw on for healing.

On an emotional level Red Tourmaline or Rubellite heals emotional wounds. It is a superb encouraging partner for the emotions. It assists one in finding the emotional strength to move out of difficult relationships, power-abuse situations and all types of emotional hardship. . It helps one overcome fears about abundance, survival, stability and safely, as it has the ability to soothe the emotional body and open the heart. It can help the emotionally isolated feel connected to the world.

 Red Tourmaline strengthens the ability to understand love, promotes tactfulness and flexibility and friendliness, and helps balance too much aggression or over passivity.  It rekindles one’s passion for life. It helps those who become passive in rediscovering the zest for living.

Red Tourmaline stimulates the root chakra and the heart chakra. This can provide increased life-force energy, and can be grounding especially for the emotions.  It also stimulates courage and is excellent for those who are desperate and fearful, as it gives one the courage to face difficulty and pain. It also increases creativity. 

Rubellite or Red Tourmaline treats the heart, digestive system, blood vessels, and the reproductive system. It stimulates blood circulation and spleen and liver function and it repairs veins. It is useful for muscle spasms and chills.

All comments and sharing of your experiences of this crystal are welcome.

                                                                    

 It can also improve your creativity by opening you to passion.  Pink Tourmaline helps to increase self-image making it easier for you to accept friendship, love and praise. It helps you to make difficult decisions and convey bad news with compassion.

Pink Tourmaline is a powerful calming stone that can calm the emotions and the physical body. Wearing or carrying a Pink Tourmaline through the day can help you in releasing stress, worries, depression and anxiety. Its soft and soothing energy heals emotional wounds and gives a feeling of comfort and safety.  Its soothing peaceful vibrations can help to overcome anger and aggression as well. It is also a stone that promotes peace.

It is a good stone for children because it provides a centring, calming energy that can assist them in considering consequence before taking action.                                                                                                                                             

It is very effective in blocking you against negativity. Wear a Pink Tourmaline and it turns you into a beacon of its loving and healing energies, making it difficult for others to project negativity in your direction and in turn influence them towards greater kindness and tolerance.

It helps calm and soothe the heart, assisting with angina, irregular heartbeat and recovery from heart attack. Pink Tourmaline improves the spine alignment and draws additional healing energy to the area. It also helps to balance the endocrine system.