Tourmaline is a stone of compassion and healing.
Tourmaline Associations:
- Chakras: Dependent on colour (see below)
- Anniversary: 8th
- Zodiac: Virgo, Libra
- Numerical Vibration: Number 2
- Typical Colours: Most commonly black, but can range from brown, violet, green, pink, or in a dual-coloured pink and green (Watermelon)
Tourmaline aids in understanding oneself and others, promotes self-confidence, and diminishes fear. It attracts inspiration, compassion, tolerance, and prosperity. It balances the right-left sides of the brain, helps treat paranoia, overcomes dyslexia, and improves hand-eye coordination. Tourmaline releases tension, making it helpful for spinal adjustments, and balances male-female energy within the body. It enhances energy and removes blockages.
In addition to the above:
Black Tourmaline (Schorl)
- Chakras: Base Chakra
- Zodiac: Capricorn
- Element: Earth
- Numerical Vibration: 3, 4
Blocks, repels, and protects against negativity. Creates a protective energetic shield for personal boundaries and spaces. Excellent for deflecting radiation energy. Enhances physical vitality, emotional stability, and intellectual acuity.
Blue Tourmaline (Indicolite)
- Chakras: Throat Chakra
- Zodiac: Libra, Taurus
- Planet: Saturn
- Element: Water
- Numerical Vibration: 1, 6
Enhances communication, clarity, intuition, and emotional calm. Helps with self-expression, balance, and clear thinking.
Brown Tourmaline (Dravite/Dravide)
- Zodiac: Aries
- Numerical Vibration: 2, 9
Clears and protects the aura. Opens the earth chakra, grounding you. Assists in healing dysfunctional family relationships and social confidence. Can treat intestinal disorders and skin issues.
Green Tourmaline (Verdelite)
- Chakras: Heart Chakra
- Zodiac: Capricorn
- Planet: Mercury
- Element: Earth
- Numerical Vibration: 6
Brings growth, vitality, compassion, and emotional healing. Supports creativity, prosperity, and reducing fear or stress.
Light Pink Tourmaline (Elbaite)
- Chakras: Heart Chakra
- Birthstone: October
- Zodiac: Libra
- Numerical Vibration: 9
Stimulates crown and heart chakras, uniting love and spirituality. Facilitates attainment of love, joy, and peace during periods of growth and change. Promotes trust, awareness, and emotional balance.
Dark Pink Tourmaline (Rubellite)
- Chakras: Base Chakra, Heart Chakra
- Zodiac: Sagittarius, Scorpio
- Numerical Vibration: 1, 2, 4, 5
- Typical Colours: Deep pink, red, red-violet
Activates base chakra qualities and provides physical energy and vitality. Stimulates heart healing and enhances loving consciousness.
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Gold is renowned for its powerful healing and spiritual properties, promoting energetic balance.
Gold Associations:
- Chakras: Heart Chakra, Third Eye Chakra, Crown Chakra
- Zodiac Sign: Leo
- Numerical Vibration: 2
Gold symbolises the purity of the spiritual essence and the higher self, helping one connect with the source of all being. Often called “the master healer,” gold supports purification of the physical body while nurturing spiritual development and personal growth.
Gold encourages self-improvement, helping to process life experiences with wisdom and reducing trauma associated with learning. It balances the energy fields, resolves ego conflicts, and alleviates feelings of futility, depression, and inferiority. Gold helps stabilise emotions, dissipate anger, and cultivate composure, optimism, and inner harmony.
This precious metal also activates and balances the heart, third-eye, and crown chakras. It amplifies positive thought-forms, supports attunement to nature, and fosters spiritual understanding. Gold works harmoniously with other gemstones, enhancing their energies while attracting and maintaining beneficial qualities.
Physically, Gold has traditionally been used to enhance mental faculties, rebuild the nervous system, and improve digestion, circulation, and breathing. It is also associated with treating arthritis, skin disorders, heart disease, vascular issues, spinal problems, and conditions related to the endocrine system. Gold supports tissue regeneration, skeletal health, and the absorption of essential vitamins and minerals.