Lapis Lazuli

Pronounced (la-peace lah-zu-lee)

Associated Chakras: Associated Chakras: Throat , Third Eye & Crown

Benefits:

❖ A Great Stone To Enhance Your Psychic Abilities Or To Use During Dream Work

❖ By Helping Eliminate Stress, This Stone Is Known To Bring Deep Peace

 ❖ Known To Be Able To Help You Communicate With Spirit Guardians, Lapis Lazuli Is Known As A Protective Stone

❖ Allows You To Express Your True Self

How it is formed: Lapis Lazuli has been well known and cherished for ages. Lapis has been mined in northeast Afghanistan since the 7th millennium BCE! It is found in limestone caves rather than a traditional mine setting, such as, remote mountainous areas like, The Andes Mountains in Chile, where the largest piece of Lapis on a Peruvian grave sizing was discovered measuring: 24x12x8 inches

Color: blue or purple, sometimes paired with white calcite and golden pyrite

Mohs: softer at 5-5.5

Compound: mainly made of lazurite (Na,Ca)8(AlSiO4)6(S,SO4,Cl)1–2 but also contains traces of calcite, pyrite, and sodalite.

Fun Facts:

  • This Stone Is Known To Have The Ability To Detect A Psychic Attack, Stop The Attack And Send The Energy Back To Wherever Or Whoever Sent It 

  • It Was Ground Up Into Ultramarine, Which Was The Most Expensive Pigment Available In The Middle Ages.

  • Lapis Lazuil Is A Rock Rather Than A Mineral Because Of Its High Composition Of The Mineral Lazure (A rock is made up of minerals, but it isn’t a singular mineral)

  • Lapis Lazuli Was Found In The Funeral Mask Of King Tut!