It’s hard not to fall in love with Moonstone with its beautiful adularescence, which appears like a mystical, multidimensional reflection or flash. In this article, I’d like to demystify Moonstone by sharing the five parameters that are used to determine its healing value. These five parameters are color, clarity, flash, milkiness, and cut. With this information in hand, you’ll know what to look for and be able to make wiser purchasing decisions.
Color
Moonstone’s color refers to its body color, not the color of its flash. The body color is the general overall hue you see when you look at the stone. Moonstone typically comes in white, gray, and peach. I’ve seen green Moonstone, but it’s much more rare. Each of these types of Moonstone has unique healing properties.
Furthermore, White Moonstone comes in pure white, light gray, and very light gray varieties. The properties of these stones are similar, with differences that matter to some people and not others. The pure white variety focuses on the supraphysical aura, supports the immune and lymphatic functions, and vitalizes the skin, hair, and nails.
When the body color is slightly gray, the White Flash Moonstone will have the added value of gently urging unwanted energy away from the body. It is then dissipated in the supraphysical aura. This type of Moonstone is preferred when toxicity is an issue. The grayer the Moonstone’s color, the better the gems can pull unwanted energies off the body.
True Gray Moonstone, along with its partner stone, Rhyolite, brings vitality to the eliminatory system.
Clarity
A gemstone’s clarity rating indicates its degree of inclusions or colorless cracks and clouds. The more plentiful a gemstone is, the more likely flawless specimens can be found at an affordable price. White Flash Moonstone that is very slightly included to the naked eye can usually be obtained. The larger the size of the Moonstone, the less available flawless or nearly flawless stones will be.
Therapeutic White Moonstone that has a blue flash is very rare. It tends to have some colorless cracks or whitish clouds at any price point. Very rarely, we’ve found only slightly included gems.
Moonstone used for healing purposes should not have black, brown, or yellowish inclusions.
Flash
Moonstone is known for its adularescence, or flash. The color of the flash determines whether the Moonstone is considered White Flash Moonstone or Blue Flash Moonstone. The size and brightness of the flash determines its quality. Therapeutic-quality Moonstone should have a bright, unmistakable flash.
The most common flash color is white. Blue Flash Moonstone can have a flash that is pure blue or a mixture of colors, in which case the gem may be called “Rainbow Moonstone.”
Whether it’s white or blue, Moonstone’s flash has a therapeutic purpose.
White Flash Moonstone’s flash encourages the aura to reflect back information that emanates from the wearer’s body. The reflected information provides invaluable feedback to the body’s intelligence centers, which it might not get otherwise.
Here’s an analogy that explains why this feedback is important. Imagine we didn’t have mirrors and rarely used combs because we didn’t realize how bad our hair looked. White Flash Moonstone provides that mirror. The body suddenly sees what energies are out of sorts and begins the process of combing them out, organizing them, and giving them the care they need.
The information that White Flash Moonstone reflects back to the physical body has many health benefits, including greater accuracy of cellular function. We believe this includes cellular replication and cellular self-recognition, which leads to enhanced cellular communication and function, and improved transfer of nourishing energies.
The flash in Blue Flash Moonstone reflects back a person’s thoughts, giving the wearer an opportunity to evaluate and refine what they’re thinking. Although this usually happens unconsciously, it helps purify the mind and focus thoughts where the wearer wants them to go. This curbs scattered thinking and can help develop the attention span.
Milkiness
Moonstone’s milkiness is a measure of its opacity. Both White and Blue Flash Moonstone can be milky, although this quality is much preferred in the White Flash variety.
How milky the Moonstone is reveals how well it can replenish and rebuild the supraphysical aura—the layer of the aura closest to the body. This benefit is less important for the rest of the aura. Therefore, White Flash Moonstone should ideally be milky for best therapeutic value.
But Blue Flash Moonstone is best when it is translucent to transparent, with a minimum of milkiness, if any at all. Translucent Blue Flash Moonstone energy builds a structure for light and life energy to travel freely throughout the entire aura, and helps Moonstone’s energies to spread evenly through your emotions, memory, mind, and intuition. Milkiness in Blue Flash Moonstone limits this ability.
Blue Flash Moonstone that is milky can, however, help reflect back thoughts that have accumulated in the body and are reflected in the supraphysical aura.
Cut
Moonstone is available in chips, rondels, and spheres. Moonstone chips are essentially ineffective therapeutically because the chip shape radiates energies randomly and erratically. While this shape can support the work of some gemstones, it works against the properties of Moonstone, which are trying to bring greater order and promote smooth, calm, and even energies.
In contrast, the most therapeutically effective form for Moonstone is the sphere. Gemstones cut into spheres broadcast their energies in all directions, which gives maximum support to your body and aura. Spheres are the most therapeutically effective cut for Moonstone.
Rondels, which are a somewhat flattened sphere, are second best.
If you compare a sphere with a rondel of equal diameter at its greatest length, you’ll find there isn’t enough mass behind the rondel for its rays to reach as far as the sphere can send them.
The rays emanating from the narrower width of the rondel won’t reach as far as the ones projecting from its widest diameter.
On the other hand, the rondel cut is a more efficient use of the source crystal. When there simply isn’t enough raw material to cut into spheres, or the crystals aren’t large enough to make them, then cutters will make rondel shapes instead. They may also make rondels if they don’t have the expertise to hand cut spheres or the machines to do so.
All in all, the sphere that maximizes weight while maintaining good clarity and color will have the most therapeutic value. They say you cannot wear too much Moonstone. This characteristic alone makes Moonstone unique among healing gemstones.
When you consider these five parameters for evaluating Moonstone, you’ll be a more informed consumer and can better appreciate the quality of the Moonstone you may already own.