Opal Healing Properties

What is Opal?

Opal is a hydrated amorphous form of silica.  Opal is a 14th Anniversary gemstone.
 

Opal Associations

Birthstone - October
Zodiac - Cancer, Libra, Scorpio, Pisces
Element - Water
Numerical Vibration - Number 8
Typical colours - white, pink, black, beige, blue, yellow, brown, orange, red, green, purple

Healing with Opal

♥ Love ♥ Loyalty ♥ Peace ♥ Consciousness ♥ Faithfulness

Opal is an emotional stone and reflects the mood of the wearer.  It intensifies emotions and releases inhibitions.  Encourages both freedom and independence.  Opal enhances cosmic consciousness and induces psychic and mystical visions.  It stimulates originality and creativity.  Helps to release anger and claim self worth, aiding in accessing and expressing one’s true self.  Opal strengthens memory.  It encourages an interest in the arts.  Wearing Opal brings loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity.

Opal strengthens the will to live and treats infections and fevers.  Purifying the blood and kidneys, Opal also regulates insulin.  It eases childbirth and alleviates PMS.
 

Colour Healing with Opal

In addition to the generic healing properties of Opal, specific colours and types have additional attributes:

Pink Opal 

Chakras - Heart Chakra
Numerical Vibration - Number 6

Pink Opal is a stone of love and gentleness, bringing energies of gentle love and kindness to all types of relationships. Physically, it is helpful for eyesight, heart disease and injury, Parkinson's disease, lungs, and spleen. It is also helpful for diabetes and hypoglycaemia.
 

Yellow Opal 

Chakras - Solar Plexus Chakra

Descriptions of the healing properties of gemstones are from the following sources:

• My own experiences and observations of gemstones;
• "Love is in the Earth : A Kaleidoscope of Crystals" by Melody (I highly recommend this book);
• "The Crystal Bible Volume 1: Godsfield Bibles: A Definitive Guide to Crystals" by Judy Hall (I highly recommend this book).