Moonstone is found in the orthoclase (adularia) and the albite minerals (both members of the feldspar group). The properties characterizing moonstone are a chatoyancy, a milky-sheen, or the exhibition of those traits on a portion of the specimen.

The energy of moonstone is balancing, introspective, reflective, and lunar. It is capable of helping one with the changing structures of ones life on the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. The energy relates to "new beginnings", allowing one to realize that these "new beginnings" are, in actuality, the fruition of each "end".

It is a stone for hoping and wishing; it allows one to absorb that which is needed from the universal energies, not necessarily, however, furthering that which is wanted. It helps one to recognize the "ups and downs" and to gracefully acknowledge the changing cycles. It can assist one in sustaining and maintaining, and understanding the destiny one has chosen. It works to bring the galactic evolved energies from other worlds to accessibility.

It is a stone for "feeling", and understanding via intuition and emotional "thoughts", rather than via intellectual reasoning. It brings flashes of insight, banishing the possibility of neglecting ones profit from that which is experienced. It stimulates intuitive recognition and helps one to apply the intuitive knowledge in a practical sense. It also enhances perception and discernment, enabling one to make decisions which painlessly further ones development.

It can be used to alleviate emotional tension and to enhance the positive attributes of creativity and self-expression.

It cleanses negativity from the charkas, enhancing the feminine aspects of ones nature while providing for spiritual nourishment and sustenance, and a loving compassion to further assist one through all changes.

It stimulates confidence and composure and allows one to understand that there is no situation so difficult that it cannot be countered with diplomacy.

Moonstone sustains and supports while promoting growth and supplementing energy. It provides for a connection between the physical, emotion, and intellectual bodies, furthering the advancement and diminishing the obstacles in the path leading to ones progression and actualization as a perfect being; removal of obstacles usually occurs with the release and/or integration of the obstacle. It assists one in the total fulfillment of ones destiny. It also provides for guidance with respect to the most effective procedural steps available to facilitate the attainment of the desired end result.

Once called the "traveler's stone", it is used for protection against the perils of travel. Moonstone is also a talisman of good fortune. It is said to keep closer that which is dear to one.

It is also said to both arouse tenderness within the self, and to bring happiness to the environment in which it resides.

It can be used during radionic analysis; holding a sample and placing a sample on the witness or using a pendulum of this stone, the energy of the stone interferes with the energy of the user and points to the problem(s) involved.

Moonstone brings calmness coupled with awareness. It helps one to attune to the normal rhythms of the biological forces of ones body such that one can maximize, recognize, and utilize the natural energy cycles of the body. One is not limited, however, by the natural cycles, and can use the energy of the stone to both balance and counterbalance phases of energy depletion as they occur within the body.

The energy of moonstone provides the body with a sustaining force. It can stimulate the properties of rejuvenation and can alleviate many degenerative conditions with respect to the skin, hair, eyes, and the fleshy organs of the body.

It can also be used to enhance the assimilation of nutrients, to assist in the elimination of toxins, and to treat disorders of the digestive and elimination systems.

It can be used in the treatment of pulmonary consumption, to facilitate and to promote ease in pregnancy and childbirth, to enhance fertility, to ameliorate PMS and change-of-life, to eliminate insomnia (ancient remedy), and to provide remedial action for disorders related to water (e.g., swelling) and insect stings or bites (e.g., allergic reactions to bee stings, anaphylactic shock, malaria, yellow fever, etc.). It can also be used in the treatment of circulatory disorders.

The energies of moonstone are accessible when worn, carried, or used as an elixir. Topical application to the skin and hair has also been effective in soothing and in stimulating the area.

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