Powers: Protection, healing, psychism, power, lactation, enhence energy

Think of those needles as a kind of compass pointing the way to happiness. This is a stone that integrates energy on many levels and enhances your understanding of others. Thus, it's excellent to have around when you may be clinging to the past, torturing yourself with questions such as "But why did he leave me? What went wrong?" You can also say good-bye to guilt and other assorted hang-ups when working with this energy, because it is very useful in helping one to understand the root causes of problems and then learning to let go. Above all, this quartz helps you to avoid self-pity and to focus on solutions rather than problems. Like all the love stones, it is an aid to removing the barriers to personal and spiritual growth. Offering relief from moodiness and the anxiety that so often interferes with the ability to love, it is said to be a balancing stone for the heavy of heart, as it cleanses and lightens your personal energy.

Rutilated quartz is associated with the solar plexus chakra, sometimes considered a link between the root and crown chakras. This offers some explanation as to why it's also believed to be a terrific stone for getting your energy moving and getting you out of a rut.

Rutilated quartz also alleviates feelings of alienation, and isolation and helps to open one's eyes to the interconnectedness of all life. Believed also to have strong regenerative powers, this is the stone to use during the "change of life," both for males and females, as it reawakens desire, strengthens resolve, and renews a sense of adventure in relationships.

ATTRIBUTES:
Rutilated Quartz ia an effective integrator of energy at any level, it heightens the energetic impulse of quartz and is a very efficient vibrational healer. It is helpful for therapists and counselors as it filters negative energy from a client, and at the same time supports their energy field during emotional release and confrontation with the darker aspects of the psyche. It gives protection against psychic attack*.

Rutilated Quartz can be used in past-life healing to draw off dis-ease* from the past and to promote insights into the events in past lives that affect the present. It assists in moving to a core life to access causes and to understand the results of previous actions. It connects to soul lessons and the plan for the present life.

Spiritually, it is said to have a perfect balance of cosmic light and to be an illuminator for the soul, promoting spiritual growth. It cleanses and energizes the aura. This stone aids astral travel, scrying, and channeling as it draws off negative energy and breaks down the barriers to spiritual progress.

Psychologically, Rutilated Quartz reaches the root of problems and facilitates transitions and a change of direction. Emotionally, Rutilated Quartz soothes dark moods and acts as an antidepressant. It relieves fears, phobias, and anxiety, releasing constrictions and countering self-hatred. This stone promotes forgiveness at all levels. At a physical level, Rutilated Quartz opens the aura to allow healing. It absorbs mercury poisoning from nerves, muscles, blood, and the intestinal tract.

HEALING: Rutilated Quartz has a vitality that is helpful for chronic conditions and for impotence and infertility. It is excellent for exhaustion and energy depletion. This crystal treats the respiratory tract and bronchitis, stimulates and balances the thyroid, repels parasites. It stimulates growth and regeneration in cells and repairs torn tissues. It is said to encourage an upright posture.

POSITION: Neck for thyroid; heart for thymus; solar plexus for energy; ears to balance and align; sweep over aura to draw off negativity.