The Emerald
Recently I was given a most beautiful gift created with love from my friend Stephen in Indiana. He crafted a silver heart around an unpolished emerald. I now wear it with my other crystals on a silver chain. I wanted to share what the emerald and green mean. Green has always been my favorite color; maybe that’s why I enjoy nature and gardening so much.


Emerald Color: Green: The color of Healing and Hope. Made of the base mineral beryl, with minute traces of chromium and vanadium giving this gemstone the "green fire.

4th Chakra: Heart

Astrological Sign: Stone of Taurus and Gemini.

#2 and #4 vibrations.

Birthstone: May

Metaphysical aspects of the Emerald:
As a POWER STONE it offers physical, emotional and spiritual balance.
Although Emerald is a stone of prosperity and riches, it is not just a materialistic stone. It also encourages spiritual growth, clear vision, memory, faith, intelligence and communication, inspiration, joy, intuition, clairvoyance, sensuality, love, romance, beauty, harmony, tranquility, serenity, clarity, cleansing, justice, friendship and unity. It seems that more kinds of physical healing have been ascribed to the emerald than to almost any other stone.

• Relationships: Brings security in love. It allows access to the mystery we hold deepest in our hearts, thereby healing and activating our highest hearts desire. Many women over the centuries have chosen this crystal over Diamond as their wedding stone. Emerald's harmonic energies help make your relationship more successful and promotes domestic bliss.
• This gem can show you a crystal clear solution to a tough problem. Helping couples work through the early stumbling blocks that often kill relationships.
• Psychic: A powerful stone of psychic insight, prophecy, and abundance.
• Serenity: Emeralds have a tranquilizing affect on the heart and mind, inspiring calm, clear assurance.
• Healing: Emerald is best known as a stone of both spiritual love and spiritual healing, and is the stone most frequently recommended for the "wounded healer," healers who take on their clients' issues or who don't focus enough on their own healing.
• Creativity: It is also a crystal related to abundance and creativity.
• Truth: This is a truth promoting stone, inspiring deep “Heart” knowing from within.
• Group Dynamics: Improves group unity. This gem is especially helpful in large work situations, it promotes harmony within the group and helps them work together for solutions.
• Career: Keep an Emerald in your work space. It improves your memory & increases your mental skills. The gem brings greater focus, allowing you to see the best solutions, giving you the tools you need to overcome challenges & motivates you to act.

Heart Chakra: Emerald is excellent for protecting the heart Chakra. Your Heart Chakra can be opened or activated using an Emerald.

Physical aspects of the Emerald:
Aids healing in the areas of eyesight, upper respiratory tract, liver function, strengthens the immune system & helps you recover from infections (pneumonia); fortifies the heart and detoxifies the blood; anti-inflammatory. Breathing, heart, lymph nodes, blood, thymus, pancreas, balance blood sugar, childbirth, labor, eyesight. respiratory inflammations.

Strengthens heart Chakra for abundance, growth, peace, harmony, patience, love, fidelity, monogamy, honesty. Lift depression and insomnia. Excellent general healer.

Professions:
All Healing professions, Doctors, Nurses, Ambulance, Counselors, Psychiatrists,
Archangel Raphael is the Archangel for those in need of healing, wholeness, and unity and he is affiliated with the colors green and deep pink.