You may view a rather in-depth blog post I wrote about the common kind of rose quartz by clicking here. It’s an excellent place to start if you want to understand the fundamentals of rose quartz’s healing powers.
Then there are the rare, amazing, and incredibly potent rose quartz types. Va-va-voom.
Star Rose Quartz: This rose quartz has a particularly “gemmy” or translucent appearance with microscopic dumortierite fibers that, when exposed to brilliant light, provide an asterism effect on the stone’s surface. A 6-ray star will be formed when three light rays or lines cross anywhere on the rock. The skies are represented by stars, which adds a more superior quality of Divine Love to the mix. Additionally, there is the energy of “Divine Alignment. Actually, dumortierite is a blue mineral. In essence, blue quartz is quartz that has a lot of dumortierite in it. Even though you cannot see it, it also contributes sight and psychic growth to the mix.
Pink Girasol: Girasol quartz and star rose quartz both frequently grow in the same region and occasionally intrude upon one another’s domain. This can make it difficult to tell where girasol ends and star rose quartz starts. Because of this, girasol is sometimes referred to as “pink girasol” and very faint star rose quartz as “white girasol.” Pale star rose quartz/pink girasol, I’ve discovered, might not have as distinct of a star, but it will have other more girasoly features, including appearing with a golden tint when you gaze through it at a light, and looking like it is illuminated from within.
Lavender Rose Quartz: This type of rose quartz naturally has a range of violet, purple, or lavender tones, whether they are light or dark. When this occurs, it’s as if rose quartz and amethyst had a child. It’s quite lovely and provides a new dimension to spiritual growth, but it also seems to have a slightly stronger “protecting” quality than other rose quartz varieties. Warriors of the Heart could be a fair way to characterize them. Years ago, I conducted a crystal whisper on a piece of lavender rose quartz, and a bunch of Amazon-like woman warriors were associated with it.
I didn’t even realize this was a thing until this past year: Hematoid Rose Quartz. Whew. Basically, this is rose quartz with hematite inclusions. It’s fantastic and uncommon. I read it separately and called it “Sacred Heart Rose Quartz.” The simplest way I can explain it is that Mother Mary and Kali had a child. Within the rose quartz, it appears that there is blood. Yes, it’s not the most subtle rendition, but it’s quite helpful when things aren’t going well.
Rose quartz that is extremely dark in color is known as magenta rose quartz. It sort of goes into the violet area, albeit not definitely. There are more pronounced purifying energies connected to the magenta rose quartz. Years ago, I read about it, and it was given the moniker “Flame of the Rose.” slick things
I can’t believe I overlooked this extremely rare variety of rose quartz when I first wrote this post. It really is very unique. Alchemy uses blue roses as a symbol for impossibility because such things don’t exist in nature. It also represents Mother Mary in religion. It genuinely does have a blue tint to it in some lights, a pink one in others, and when you hold it up to the light, it emits a golden glow. Blue Rose Quartz is a form of in-between Girasol and Rose Quartz.
It deals, energetically speaking, with the fusion of the heart and mind as well as the intellect and emotions. In fact, I think of it as a kind of “holy union stone” because it resembles the union of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine so strongly. It’s one of the stones I keep in my pillowcase and make sure to leave in my energy field during the day. Due to its extraordinary qualities, Christopher and I named it Blue Rose Quartz after the only time we ever discovered it in batches of rose quartz from Madagascar.
Being around Blue Rose Quartz would be very beneficial for boosting your spiritual and intuitive powers or for helping you enter that inner holy realm during meditation where you are more connected to the spiritual plane and the Divine.
Elestial Rose Quartz: Extremely uncommon. Rose quartz that has formed terminations, or points, is this. The tips are typically extremely tiny, but wow are they buzzy. It’s a terrific tool to have, if you can even find some. Yes, because it’s so uncommon, I don’t have a picture of it.
Is blue rose quartz a real thing?
Blue Rose Quartz is a very uncommon variation of Rose Quartz that possesses all of the qualities of Rose Quartz. It is a stone of unwavering love that heals the heart. The heart and the mind, the emotions and the intellect, are all integrated by this quartz.
During meditation, blue rose quartz improves our ability to reach the spiritual level, giving us access to the divine’s spiritual realm. It is a stone of unification, able to reconcile the opposing forces of the Divine Masculine and Divine Feminine.
Blue and Rose Quartz: Nature’s Special Colors
The mineral quartz (SiO2) is exceedingly widespread and may be found in all three types of rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary), as well as in a wide range of settings and hues, including blue and pink. These quartz specimens are a valuable addition to a collector’s cabinet because of their two attractive colors. In contrast to rose quartz, which is more frequent, blue quartz is rare. Rose quartz is colored from pale pink to rose red. Trace levels of titanium are suggested to be the cause of the hue. Rose quartz samples from various locations were dissolved in acid, and insoluble remnants were discovered inside the quartz. There were tiny microscopic filaments in the residue. The color of rose quartz may possibly be a result of these filaments.
Rarely occurring well-formed crystals are a true geological enigma. The majority of these expensive rose quartz crystals originate in Minas Gerais, Brazil. Typically, pegmatites and huge chucks of rose quartz are found together (figure 1). Certain crystalline granites with coarse-grained grains are referred to as pegmatite. Because it is foggy, rose quartz is less popular as a faceted gem but is frequently carved, shaped into necklace beads, or cut into cabochons (figure 2).
Blue rose quartz is it of poor quality?
Although I’m new to Mindat, I have over 20 years of experience collecting minerals, rocks, and crystals.
I’ve recently observed a product dubbed “periwinkle quartz” enter the market, mostly online. I have seen many other varieties of quartz, but this is absolutely new to me, so I was doubtful at first. I have looked all over the internet for information on this alleged “periwinkle quartz,” but I haven’t been successful. (Clearly a trade name created by a small number of merchants, making it more difficult to search for.)
When I first saw it, I assumed it was a very lightly dyed piece of clear quartz, but after examining the cracks, it doesn’t seem to have been dyed, and I’m not sure if any treatment could have given it this light blue hue. It doesn’t appear to be the result of filters or Photoshop either when examining the stones in various lighting conditions.
Only a few dealers, all on Instagram, even appear to be selling it (before you come at me for using Instagram, I have found quite a few interesting posts, and I enjoy browsing occasionally)
The sellers were all either based in Singapore or the US, it seems. I eventually messaged a couple of them in an attempt to learn more; some of them simply disregarded my messages, while others responded and said that it was either a recent find of quartz with crocidolite inclusions or a particularly clear variety of blue rose quartz.
Which gets me to a different problem. What precisely is “blue rose quartz”? Since blue rose quartz is not pink, some people claim that it cannot be rose quartz at all. I am aware that rose quartz is, by definition, the pink variety of quartz. I can verify that rose quartz comes in a variety of pink hues because a sizable portion of my collection is made up of it (hot pink to pale pink to bubblegum, etc)
The majority of blue rose quartz on the market appears to be low quality quartz that can only be sold with fancy packaging, but some of it actually exhibits a blue, almost opalescent look. I actually own some of it, and it doesn’t appear to have been treated. I’ve never seen rose quartz in its raw, crystalline state (with the exception of Brazilian pink quartz), only in slabs. I’m aware that rose quartz may produce a wide range of hues, but is blue a misidentification or something else different?
I bought a palm stone from one of the sellers because this “periwinkle quartz” nonsense has been nagging me for a while and I want to carefully check it myself.
I hope this article wasn’t too lengthy; all I want is some clarification on this. I’m grateful.
(An imgur link to two images of “periwinkle quartz” and blue rose quartz is attached below.)
Does blue quartz naturally occur?
At least three different varieties of quartz are referred to by this term:
- Due to the so-called Tyndall scattering phenomenon, which is brought on by minute inclusions, quartz crystals seem blue.
- Crystalline quartz that appears blue due to inclusions of blue minerals, such as magnesio-riebeckite or tourmaline, that are more or less equally distributed
- a coarse-grained, massive, macrocrystalline kind of blue quartz, similar to aventurine quartz, that contains blue minerals like dumortierite that give it its color.
There hasn’t yet been any natural quartz discovered that is blue due to color centers like those in amethyst or smoky quartz. On careful treatment, amethyst from some Brazilian mines will partially or entirely become blue.
According to some, the phrase “blue quartz” only applies to rock crystal that exhibits a blue appearance through Tyndall scattering. The hue of all three types of blue quartz is due to inclusions of other minerals rather than inherent trace elements or lattice flaws, as is the case, for example, with amethyst, making this the rarest form of blue quartz.
The specimen in the two pictures on the right both qualifies as blue quartz due to this fairly ambiguous criteria.
The rock crystal in the first photograph is colored by minute threads and is most likely riebeckite from Minas Gerais, Brazil. You can see another picture of this crystal in the “Locations and Specimen” section.
Another form is depicted in the second image, a large macrocrystalline quartzite specimen of unknown origin that has been tinted blue by an imbedded mineral that is unknown but may be dumortierite.
Where can one find blue quartz?
I came to the realization that it had been over a year since I had gone camping (yikes! I leaped at the chance to assist my undergraduate advisor last weekend with some fieldwork in the Blue Ridge. Although bushwhacking through tick-infested thornbushes was not my favorite part of the weekend, it was great joy to work with all the department’s seasoned veterans once more. Not to mention that traveling to New York for eight hours straight after two days of strenuous hiking was, to put it mildly, a horrible decision. Anyway, we found a lot of blue quartz while looking at the Blue Ridge’s basement rocks. Large veins of blue quartz are frequently found in the granites and granitoids of the world, most frequently in the center of cow pastures. (Cows can be excellent at revealing outcrops, but they also make every effort to, well, re-cover them.)
Blue quartz has been discovered in Texas, India, Norway, and all along the East Coast of North America, primarily in the Blue Ridge, from Rhode Island to South Carolina. The instances I’ve observed have all been found in the Old Rag granite, a coarse-grained granite of Grenvillian age (900–1600 Ma) that is frequently found in Shenandoah National Park, particularly at Old Rag Mountain. (See Callan’sGeology of Shenandoah National Park website for a pretty nice image of Old Rag granite.) Old Rag blue quartz is best described in the May 1981 issue of Virginia Minerals, a quarterly journal produced by the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. (Unfortunately, the black and white version online makes it impossible to appreciate the quartz; nevertheless, a great color photo about the VDMR’s rock garden appeared in a 2002 Virginia Minerals article.)
Mineralogically speaking, blue quartz is similar to other varieties of quartz with a few notable exceptions. According to the Virginia Minerals article
Opalescence, chatoyancy, and asterism, characteristics that are uncommon in regular quartz, are what give blue quartz its singularity. All blue quartz specimens are also heavily fragmented and have rutile or other mineral inclusions.
According to them, blue quartz has a waxy or opalescent sheen that changes (“chatoyant”) depending on the light. The definition of astrism is the “illusion of a star-like structure in a mineral that appears in blue quartz photomicrographs.
There are numerous factors that might make quartz appear blue. The first is the presence of inclusions, typically zoisite, tourmaline, and rutile, that scatter visible light in the blue section of the spectrum. All samples of blue quartz have closely spaced, subparallel microfractures, which may also be the source of the blue hue. Finally, it has been hypothesized that the blue hue of quartz may be caused by the presence of titanium (in the form of rutile or ilmenite), despite the fact that there are examples of blue quartz that contain no titanium and quartz of other colors that have significant levels of titanium.
The following image is from a 2002 issue of Virginia Minerals, taken in the rock garden in front of their Charlottesville office: On the “According to the woo side of things, blue quartz is said to help balance the lower and upper chakras, bring order and courage into life, help people let go of their fears, and encourage creativity and expression. Additionally, it improves spiritual growth, improves mental clarity, aids in seeing and accepting truth, relieves sadness, lessens emotional strain, and reduces stubbornness.
Really? wow My willpower must be broken because my living area is still a mess, I’m worrying about relocating to a new state and writing a paper, I experience annoying mood swings every month, and I haven’t noticed even the slightest change in how stubborn I am from when I first picked up the items. stupid minerals with flaws. I’m due money from the Old Rag granite.