The use of color is a fundamental element of crystal healing. The Great Color Wheel is our guide to using it for Crystal Healing. The connection between the colors and the time of the year may well be new to you, but it offers you a valuable key to success in using crystals for healing.

As you start to understand the flow of colors and their relationships to the seasons of the year and of a person’s life you will begin to comprehend the effects of color on the human spirit and body.

While we can start anywhere around the Wheel exploring the colors, in this lesson we are going to start at the 9 o'clock position of the wheel where we find the Vernal Equinox.

Although popularly described as "the first day of spring" in the Northern Hemisphere, the annual event is actually much more important than that. More than any other event, it marks the beginning of the astronomical year. It is a good place on the Wheel to begin our study of color and crystal healing.

The Vernal Equinox ushers in the transition color, Turquoise. Turquoise is a blending of the cold winter blue ray of Trust with the approaching warm green ray of Growth. It is the color of the earth as new growth and life emerge at the first hints of spring.

It is a fresh color, a welcome color, and a color that moves us to serenity knowing that the cycle of life is progressing rapidly. It is the color of the natural birthstones of those born as spring begins (20 March to 19 April).

Turquoise is the Color Ray of Discovery and the Color Ray of Balance. Its vibrations help you find yourself and return to equilibrium in your life and feelings.

Excesses can be good. Hot passion, cool reason – both have their place. But when we need to re-center and find our true selves, Turquoise is the color ray of power that is best suited for such endeavors.

When your life is out of balance, whether from too much passion or not enough, or too much activity or not enough, or whatever the imbalance, turquoise rays can get you back to center again.

Use crystals with the Turquoise ray for Balance, Calmness, Discovery, Emotional Control, Equilibrium, Recovering  Memories, Relaxation, Rest, Self-Awareness, Serenity, Stability, Temperance, Tolerance, and Overcoming Anxiety.

A number of popular crystals and stones are found in the color turquoise.

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Turquoise

 

Turquoise is found in many parts of the world.  It is often soft and almost always stabilized.  It comes in colors from green to blue.  Turquoise is a most efficient healer, providing solace for the spirit and well-being for the body. It benefits the overall mood and emotion by balancing and inducing a sense of serenity and peace.

Holding or wearing Turquoise helps restore depleted vitality and lifts sagging spirits. It relieves stress and brings the focus back to the center of the heart. It is empathetic and balancing, helping one to recognize the causes of happiness and unhappiness, and to master them.

 

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Amazonite

 

Amazonite is a stone that is also mined in several locations around the world. Amazonite is a wonderful healer for the emotional body. It soothes trauma, calms the mind, alleviates worry and fear, and directs anger and irritability into more positive action. It regulates the aggressive aspects of one’s personality and urges the mind to seek emotional balance.

Amazonite increases self-esteem, especially in women, and reduces tendencies to self-neglect. It enhances the ability to communicate more effectively by identifying how one’s words have created the current reality, and how to change one’s vocabulary to reflect a higher, more aligned reality. It also empowers one to set appropriate boundaries, inwardly in self-discipline, and with others in establishing healthy relationships.

 

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Chrysocolla

 

Chrysocolla often is found in beautiful shades of turquoise.  Chrysocolla is powerful for opening and stimulating the Throat Chakra, allowing one to channel the loving knowledge of the heart to others.

It allows for clear communication of one’s innate inner wisdom, even discerning what that wisdom may be. The surprise of hearing oneself speak aloud a thought more profound than what one had in mind demonstrates this gift of expression.

 

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Aquamarine

 

Associated with the Throat chakra, Aquamarine helps overcome the fear of speaking and is an excellent stone for teachers and presenters of all types. It relaxes speakers to a stage of consciousness in which they are fully aware of their own truths, wisdom, and feelings, and able to articulate them with clarity and conviction. It also allows one to speak clearly and without anger in difficult situations.

Aquamarine accelerates the intellectual reasoning processes and enhances the ability to respond rapidly. It makes one unconquerable through learning, not only about the physical world but about oneself. It bestows perseverance, discipline, and light-heartedness.

Aquamarine encourages the ideal of service to the world and to the development of humanity attuned to healing. It emits a gentle and compassionate energy, promoting moderation and responsibility for one's actions.

 

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You will find others as you explore the world of crystals and crystal healing.  Feel free to explore and experiment.  You are your own healer.

 

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The Throat Chakra

 

In Hinduism, Jainism, and Buddhism, a chakra is thought to be a node in the energy body, not the physical body. Chakras are spinning energy meeting points in the channels through which the Universal Life Force flows in the subtle, energy body.

While different texts discuss many different chakras, there are seven chakras that are considered to be the most important ones: the Root or Base Chakra, the Sacral Chakra, the Solar Plexus Chakra, the Heart Chakra, the Throat Chakra, the Third Eye, and the Crown Chakra. These have other names, but we will use the common English ones in this course.

The turquoise color is associated with the Throat Chakra. The throat chakra is the voice of the body. It is a pressure valve that allows the energy from the other chakras to be expressed. If it is out of balance or blocked it can affect the health of the other chakras.

When it is in balance we can express what we think and what we feel. We can communicate our ideas, beliefs, and emotions. When the throat chakra is in balance and open, we can bring our personal truth out into the world.

When the throat chakra is in balance we have an easy flow of energy within the body and spirit. The energy that springs upward from the sacral chakra through the solar plexus can continue its path enabling free expression of the values and needs expressed within the energy.

When the throat chakra is out of balance the physical symptoms may include sore throats, tight jaws, stiff necks, and headaches. When it is out of balance spiritually you might find yourself habitually lying, feeling fear and doubt about the intentions of others, or find yourself stammering or at a loss for words.

You will likely have feelings of being isolated and misunderstood. You may well have symptoms of other chakras being out of balance. This is caused by the throat chakra blocking the energy flow from the other centers.

 

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Using Turquoise-Colored Crystals and Stones

With our understanding of the uses of turquoise-colored crystals and stones and our understanding of the Throat Chakra, it is time to explore the methods of using turquoise-colored crystals for healing and their uses in dealing with issues of the Throat Chakra.

Rather than just offer a couple of methods, let's find a source that will offer us extensive and constantly increasing ways to use these crystals in healing.

The Crystal Inner Circle is our source here. It has hundreds of articles on the uses of Turquoise, Amazonite, Chrysocolla, and other turquoise-colored crystals. It also has extensive instructions on dealing with the balance of the Throat Chakra. Let’s explore!

 

We will search the Crystal Inner Circle for "turquoise" to begin. Here are a few articles we find...

 

Improve Overall Balance with Yoga, Meditation, and Turquoise Crystals

An Introduction to Turquoise

Turquoise Physical Healing

Turquoise Healing Uses

Turquoise Bath for Solitude

Turquoise Horehound Tea for Balance

 

Let's look at that last one, the tea for balance. It might be a good example of the ways we can use turquoise-colored crystals in our own healing regimen.

 

 

Turquoise Horehound Tea for Balance

 

 

Naturally, Turquoise is an excellent crystal in aiding you with balance in your life. Turquoise is an amulet stone of tranquility, peace, and protection from the undesirable elements of life. It benefits the overall mood and emotion by balancing and inducing a sense of serenity and peace.

It relieves stress and brings the focus back to the center of the heart. It is empathetic and balancing, helping one to recognize the causes of happiness and unhappiness, and to master them.

Horehound is a protective herb and it helps with mental clarity during a ritual. It also stimulates creativity/inspiration and balances personal energies.

 

 

Ingredients

• Horehound herb
• Turquoise water

 

Directions

For the Turquoise water.

For this essence, you will need to use the indirect method.

1. Use 6 Turquoise tumbled stones or 1 crystal.
2. Place spring water into a medium-sized baking dish.
3. Place the turquoise into a separate clean, clear natural glass container – a glass measuring cup or water glass works well.
4. Place the glass containing the crystal into the spring water. Cover.
5. Let stand covered for at least 30 minutes (if placed under sunlight or moonlight for a few hours it will be more potent).
6. Remove the glass containing the crystal from the spring water.
7. Place the container of water into your refrigerator to keep the water cool.
8. Once cooled, the elixir will be ready for use; kept in the refrigerator and covered, it will be good for several weeks.

 

For the elixir.

1. Begin with a saucepan or metal teapot with cool turquoise water to brew horehound tea. Place the water on high heat and bring the water to a full boil.
2. Pour a small amount of the hot turquoise water into an enamel, ceramic, or other non-metal but not plastic, heat-proof container, as the hot water will warm the pot. A non-metal container is preferred, as a metal container can compromise the purity of the horehound tea as will plastic. Swish the hot water in the container, then pour the water down the sink.
3. Place fresh horehound leaves in the container, then pour the boiling turquoise water over the leaves, cover, and steep. Horehound has essential oils that will evaporate with the steam, so steeping should be done while covered tightly. You can use a saucer, some tea cups come with a decorative cover for this purpose. Use 2 tablespoons of fresh horehound leaves for each cup of boiling water. Traditionally, one extra tablespoon of fresh leaves is added: "for the pot". If you are making tea with dried horehound, use one tablespoon for each cup of boiling water, plus one tablespoon "for the pot".
4. Pour the boiling water over the horehound leaves, then allow them to steep for at least five minutes. Check the tea often, as the steeping time will depend on whether you prefer your horehound tea weak or strong.
5. Strain the horehound tea through a fine mesh strainer or a piece of clean cheesecloth when the tea reaches the desired strength. Garnish the horehound tea with honey, a sprig of peppermint, a small amount of fresh ginger, or a lemon slice. A teaspoon of anise seed will provide a licorice flavor to your horehound tea.

 

 

Expanding the search next to Throat Chakra we find about a hundred more;

 

A Turquoise Throat Chakra Tonic

An Azurite Throat Chakra Tonic

Using Aquamarine Crystals to Balance the Throat Chakra

Balancing the 5th Chakra, the Throat Chakra

 

And the list goes on!

 

 

 

Expanding the search, let's look at the uses of another turquoise-colored crystal - Aquamarine.

 

Aquamarine Color Healing

Aquamarine Violet Water for Post Operative Recovery

Aquamarine Bath for Breathing Difficulties

Aquamarine on the Medicine Wheel

 

We could continue and search for uses of the other turquoise-colored crystals like Chrysocolla and Amazonite if we had time here.

The Crystal Inner Circle provides details of hundreds of uses of turquoise-colored crystals and guidance on many ways to balance the Throat Chakra.

Please explore and find the approaches methods and processes that work for you. And remember the Crystal Inner Circle Crystal Healing Community Forum is always there for questions and specific recommendations or help with any uses you may have.

 

Review

 

In this lesson, we explored the first section of the Color Wheel, representing the Vernal Equinox, or the first day of Spring in the Northern Hemisphere.

We started off with the color turquoise and reviewed its healing power as well as some crystals with a strong turquoise ray you can use. We also talked about the Throat Chakra, the voice of the body, and the symptoms of it being in and out of balance.