Green Aventurine

Aventurine is one of the so-called “many-faced” stones that can take on many colors. At the same time, regardless of color, all aventurine is united by one feature - a characteristic shimmering shine, the result of the presence of crushed inclusions of mica or other minerals in the crystals. In ancient Rus', the gem was called “gold spark”, in other countries “spark”, “golden stone”. In China, the unique gem was called the “cane of love” and was revered along with jade. The seal of the Emperor of the Celestial Empire was made from aventurine.

History and origin

The history of the mineral begins with Ancient Egypt. The stone was mined and at the same time glass imitations with sparkling stars inside were made.

The technology was lost; craftsmen in the Italian region of Murano accidentally reproduced it in the 16th century: copper shavings got into liquid glass.

Having melted and frozen, it sparkled. The result was the so-called aventurine glass. And the stone acquired a name: avventura in Italian means happy surprise.

In Rus', the name of the mineral was zlatoiskr or sparkle. Until the 19th century, aventurine, originally from Brazil, was called the “stone of the Amazons.”

Tibetan monks used the mineral for the eyes of statues: it was believed that this made the deity more powerful. They carried aventurine in their pocket to improve personal karma and mental abilities.

Merchants of India, where the stone was an attribute of fakirs, brought it to the Europeans.

The official second name of the variety is Indian jade.

The term "Indian jade" sometimes used is erroneous: they are different stones. The mineral is formed in layers of quartzite from sandy-clayey rocks.

Place of Birth ?

The most beautiful aventurines are mined in Spain

The most beautiful aventurines are mined in Egypt

Russia boasts a deposit in the Chelyabinsk region

India

USA

Chile

Brazil

Zimbabwe

The most beautiful aventurines are mined in Spain and Egypt.

Russia boasts a deposit in the Chelyabinsk region.

The reserves of the gem abroad are:

• India;
• USA;
• Chile;
• Brazil;
• Zimbabwe.

Physicochemical characteristics

Green aventurine is a semi-precious or ornamental mineral, translucent quartzite. The most durable in its family. Along with blue, it is considered a rare variety.

Green aventurine stone

Color and shine are created by chromophores. There are 5–15% of them: the less, the lighter the quartz. The stone is formed by minerals such as rutile, hematite, mica, and goethite. Sometimes you come across rutile hair crystals. They are called “Cupid's arrows,” and the pebble is considered a talisman of love and fidelity.

Taurus

Aventurine for Taurus is a stone of lovers, players, people capable of unexpected actions. With it you can:

• strengthen self-confidence;
• enhance emotions and feelings;
• promote flexibility and mental clarity.

For a Taurus woman, she will do what the fair sex so often fails to do - improve her personal life.

The best choice is blue or blue aventurine.

By wearing it from time to time, Taurus will be able to use the magical and healing properties of the stone to the fullest without suppressing their natural energy.

Medicinal properties

Green aventurine is credited with healing properties.

• Helps with skin problems (warts), heart, blood vessels, respiratory organs, gastrointestinal diseases, hair loss, allergies.
• It neutralizes radiation, therefore it is important for a person whose home is located in a geopathogenic zone. Or if there are a lot of gadgets in the house.
• Indian doctors perform healing procedures with balls of green mineral. They massage the eyes to improve vision and other parts of the body to strengthen the body.
• Problem skin is washed with aventurine water (the crystal is left in a vessel with purified or spring water overnight).
• The stone is of great importance for children and adolescents (especially fair-haired or premature). A talisman over the crib or door will protect against diseases, reveal dormant abilities, neutralize fears, increase vitality, spur mental development, and reduce hyperactivity.

For medicinal purposes, it is better to wear a bracelet, necklace or beads. The healing and magical properties of green aventurine are enhanced by a silver frame.

Cancer stones for men

Cancer men are distinguished by increased demands on their surroundings. They analyze, almost under a microscope, the smallest nuances that create a complete look.

Pearls, aquamarines, and amethysts are suitable for the Cancer aesthete. They will fully satisfy the needs of beauty connoisseurs.

Other semiprecious and precious stones also act as astral helpers:

• Onyx. The best ally, good for men who are leaders in life. It will transform the owner into a determined, independent, charismatic person. Young people need it to adapt to society: it will help them not to fall into pessimism due to failures.

  
  Black onyx bracelet

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• Agate. Men's stone talisman number two. Develops intelligence, increases self-esteem, neutralizes pessimism, doubt, and unsociability. The mineral will make a young man less vulnerable to the injections of ill-wishers, and will help him boldly move through life, achieving his goal faster. The owner of a ring or amulet will rejoice in every day he lives.

  
  Handmade rosary made of black agate

• Carnelian. A semi-precious stone that can awaken talents that the owner did not even suspect. As a result, life can change dramatically. Joy and luck will enter into it, justice will triumph. The stone will cut off the negative, turning a person into a clairvoyant who can easily unravel the plans of his enemies.

  
  Onyx carnelian

• Emerald. A stone for the uncommunicative Cancer man, who will make him a sociable optimist. It is especially necessary for melancholic people or permanently anxious people: they will begin to appreciate life in all its manifestations. It will tell young Cancer men how to restrain youthful maximalism and keep emotions in check.

  
  Gold ring with black obsidian and emerald

The perfectionist Cancer will appreciate onyxes and rubies in handmade accessories.

Magic properties

The magical properties of aventurine are known and studied. It helps maintain optimism, sanity, and self-confidence.

Overall Impact

In China, green aventurine is still considered a sacred stone: the imperial seal is made from it.

• The magic of the mineral is suitable for adventurers of all stripes for gambling or risky ventures. He will attract endless luck. But you need to control yourself: greed can bankrupt you physically or spiritually.
• With him you can find a person close in spirit, interests or goals.
• Helps improve relationships between spouses, but is not needed for couples who are doing well.
• The gem is used for meditation: it creates harmony, dissolves negativity, and balances energy.

The peculiarity of the mineral is to serve people who are not burdened with responsibility.

For those in power and those making decisions, the stone is useless. They are bound by conventions and value status. Aventurine likes those who do not hold on to anything.

Owl figurine made of green aventurine

Green aventurine is one of the most mysterious minerals.

Its energy is changeable, but if the stone fits, life can change dramatically. Therefore, such gemstone gifts are presented only to people well known or if the person’s aspirations are known.

Amulets and talismans

This is a stone of opportunity and prosperity in all areas. He resets old grievances, unnecessary connections, habits to make room for newness. You just need to have an aventurine talisman with you.

• For a date, a business meeting, an interview, or a selection process, a ring or ring is worn.
• For mature people who want to find their soul mate, a pebble in the heart area will help.
• This is a talisman of scientists, travelers, those who are on a search or journey. Suitable for students interested in science.
• When going to buy a lottery ticket or to a casino, starting a risky venture, they put a green mineral in their left pocket for good luck.
• Three green gems at the entrance will lure good luck into the house.

Green stone is considered the best for conceiving a child.

Before ovulation, dig a hole in the ground, break an egg, and put aventurine in it. The egg is buried.

Green aventurine pendant

A mineral amulet helps to recognize the bad intentions of others and respond appropriately.

Feng Shui

A crystal of this shade is used to improve a space that allows for growth and development: a nursery, a kitchen, a study.

The stone is placed in the southeastern segment: it is associated with change, prosperity, abundance.

Compatibility with other gems

The stone belongs to two elements at once: Earth and Water. It is difficult for twins to find a suitable match because they do not combine well with other minerals. Aventurine is not recommended to be worn together with fire stones: pyrope, heliodor, ruby ​​and diamond. They will suppress its impact.

You should not wear minerals corresponding to Air: topaz, rock crystal, tourmaline, amethyst, sardonyx, etc. Combination with Water will produce a storm, so the gems will enhance each other’s negative effects.

Other minerals related to Earth and Water will work well. These are agate, jade, jasper, turquoise, jadeite, heliotrope, opal, emerald, etc.

Turquoise and jadeite harmonize perfectly with aventurine.

Who is suitable according to their zodiac sign?

Astrologers have found that green aventurine is a suitable option for earth and water zodiac signs.

Contraindicated for representatives of the fire element: they will get problems.

(“+++” – fits perfectly, “+” – can be worn, “-” – is strictly contraindicated)

a lion

Aventurine for Leo will bring financial difficulties and disappointment in life, provoke an aggravation of fatalism and cynicism, and increase the manifestation of negativity, which will lead to hysterics and scandals.

But for the Leo woman it works to restore internal harmony, stabilize energy, and cleanses the aura. Can treat skin diseases and strengthen hair.

If you are still afraid that the mineral may cause negative damage, then it is best to purchase it in figurine format and place it in your workplace or home.

Where is it used?

Green aventurine is durable but easy to work. It is loved by jewelers and stone carvers.

Jewelry

A full range of jewelry is created from green raw materials.

Green aventurine beads

The setting of a semiprecious stone is a jewelry alloy, cupronickel, silver, and less often gold. He is beautiful in his own right. Beads, a bracelet, a pendant made of aventurine or in combination with other gems look solid and a little frivolous.

The price of jewelry without frames or in jewelry alloy is available:

• beads - from 1,390 rubles;
• bracelet - from 790,
• pendant - 290;
• earrings - 690.

Cost of silver items:

• ring - from 1,750 rubles;
• earrings - from 3,800;
• suspension - from 3,800.

Tumbler from Zimbabwe (1.5–3 cm) can be bought for 50–80 rubles. per piece, cabochon 15 x 15 mm - for 590 rubles. In jewelry, green stone is diluted with aquamarine, chalcedony, rose quartz, agates, and jaspers. Cut into cabochon or tabular.

Decor

Gemstones are used to make candelabra, vases, boxes, bowls, writing sets, and other interior items. Ornamental stones decorate the handles of forks, knives, salt shakers, pepper shakers, and other small utensils and accessories. Their prices are available:

• keychain—140 rubles;
• leaf button - 490 rubles.

An elephant figurine or others 8 cm high cost from 2,190 rubles, an egg 5 cm - 1,990 rubles, a massager 4 x 4 cm - 1,390 rubles.

Elephant figurine made of green aventurine

Other areas

Landscape designers love stone. The crumbs are used to decorate paths and building surfaces. The mineral is used for religious paraphernalia or secular monuments.

Aventurine golden sand

It is a very beautiful stone in its own right, some consider it the most beautiful of the aventurines. He has the ability to awaken leadership qualities , which is why leaders of various ranks love him.

For fans of extreme sports, such a mineral will serve as a talisman, and for fans of gambling it promises to bring good luck. Pregnant women will be a reliable health protector during this important period in life.

If you are worried about insomnia, then any object made of this wonderful stone next to your bed will help you fall asleep, your sleep will be healthy and sound. A stone of such a rare color will be especially useful for Taurus engaged in leadership work; it will make them more restrained, without losing their leadership qualities.

Single women, if they wear an amulet made of aventurine the color of golden sand, will not have to endure loneliness for long.

How to spot a fake

Bottle or aventurine glass is passed off as a gem.

The stone is easy to distinguish from a fake, given its qualities:

• Shining inclusions are located not on the surface, but from the inside. But the shine is delicate, slightly muted. The strong give imitation.
• Natural stone is soft, with a delicate shade of green.
• The natural mineral is rough and not perfectly homogeneous.
• The gem is endowed with iridescence, that is, rainbow tints; the fake simply shines.
• You can scratch the glass with a stone. If a mark remains on the glass, the aventurine is natural; a scratch on the stone means it is fake.

Features of using stones

Stones that bring good luck work more effectively with the proper use of jewelry:

• onyx in a silver frame can be worn in any way;
• the best solution with emerald is a pendant or earrings;
• sapphire in a ring protects health and, with long-term use, strengthens the immune system;
• aventurine becomes medicinal in a necklace, bracelet for a lady or a body amulet for a man;
• Rock crystal is best worn in silver or as an amulet hidden by clothing.
• Cat's eye in jewelry is not combined with other stones.

Store natural gems in a box. If the material is wood, choose birch, apple, fir or elm. According to the Druid horoscope, these are talismans for people born in June or July under the constellation Cancer.

How to wear and care

The use of an energetically strong gem requires compliance with certain conditions.

How to wear

The rules for wearing jewelry with aventurine are simple.

• It is better to start wearing it before adulthood.
• Even if the stone matches the zodiac, you cannot constantly use jewelry: three to four times a week is enough. More frequent wearing makes the owner frivolous and reckless.
• The strongest effect of the stone appears on the waning Moon and the border between autumn and winter.

When choosing jewelry with aventurine, listen to yourself. If you have any doubts, don’t buy.

Aventurine of light shades is suitable for ladies, dark green for men. The stone goes with any clothing.

Engraved green aventurine runes

How to store and care

Cleaning natural stones or products is easy:

• rinse with clean water and blot with a soft cloth, chemicals are prohibited;
• in case of serious contamination, use a soap solution (soap without dyes and fragrances);
• Energy negativity is removed under running water and recharged by briefly exposing it to the sun.

For products made from green aventurine, you need a box or a box that is soft on the inside. It is kept away from heating devices and direct sun (ultraviolet radiation darkens the stone).

Interesting Facts ?

Chinese emperors sealed their decrees with an aventurine seal. This thing is sacred, no one was even allowed to touch this thing.

In the Hermitage collection there is a vase made from a single piece of rock. The weight of the “vase” is almost 4 tons, the height is one and a half meters. Emperor Nicholas II gave a similar vase to Great Britain. The product is now located in London.

Oligoclases and plagioclases may contain particles of hematite and copper flakes.

Scales

For Libras who are involved in science and philosophy, this mineral will have a positive effect on the mind and intelligence. Libra will be able to feel relaxed and confident in any situation.

It is worth paying attention to the fact that the influence of the stone differs slightly depending on gender:

• Men - will help fight laziness.
• Women will defend their opinions more firmly.

And also on work areas in which it is worth resorting to the help of this stone:

1. Science and study - a non-standard approach, concentration.
2. Career - luck, compromise.
3. Business - increasing financial flow, reducing stress levels.

Choose a mineral with yellow shades.

Capricorn

According to the horoscope, aventurine will bring ruin and bankruptcy to Capricorns. If you decide to wear jewelry, it is advisable to wear it with caution and not regularly. In this case it will help:

• Men need to show their persistence to achieve results.
• For women, every person likes to get rid of desire, which will undoubtedly make life easier and better.

If you have a business, then the stone will facilitate quick reorientation and protect you from unverified transactions.

The choice is any brown shades.