From time immemorial, people endowed various stones with special properties. Chalcedony is a semi-precious mineral widely used in jewelry. The crystal is one of the varieties of quartz: it is transparent, and if impurities are excluded, then a pure stone turns out to be a grayish color. The mineral is heterogeneous, massive and heavy. In nature, there are chalcedony of different colors: white, pink, gray, red, lilac, green. In the Gobi desert, deposits of blue crystals were often found.
Depending on the color and structure, there are several types of crystal:
- red or pink is carnelian or carnelian;
- apple green, emerald - chrysoprase;
- tan-brown-sardier;
- gray-blue - sapphire;
- gray-green - plasma.
It can be not only plain, but also interspersed or striped. A popular stone (a variety of chalcedony) of various colors and shades is agate. All these jewelry and ornamental minerals cannot be called expensive, but jewelry with them is very popular.popularity.
Only stones of pale tones are called chalcedony: yellowish, milky blue, greenish. One of the crystals is mentioned in the New Testament when describing the construction of the Heavenly City. Blue stones have always been especially popular. Chalcedony has served as an ornament since ancient times. Among the minerals, there are specimens interspersed with dendrites, flakes, manganese oxides, and chlorite. Such patterns resemble landscapes of reservoirs, dense forests, tree branches. "Story" crystals were very popular in China, India and other eastern countries.
Since ancient times, people have idolized these stones. Chalcedony in the culture of many nations personifies the life-giving Great Mother with a very contradictory female essence. Red shades symbolize vitality and energy, white blotches - a certain limitation and hardness. It was believed that blue minerals attract a lover to a woman, so they were often called crystals of love. They tried to avoid white minerals, because they store a very strong energy that combines death and motherhood, and it can go in any direction. Such stones were used to make images of gods and figurines.
Chalcedony has strong magical properties, but their strength and direction depends on the type of mineral. The Mongols firmly believed that he was able to cheer up, drive away melancholy and melancholy. Stones were revered in India,Mongolia, China. Some peoples believed that chalcedony was able to strengthen faith in their own strength. Some Indian treatises have mentioned that blue minerals are the embodiment of pure consciousness.
Get rid of sudden outbursts of anger, instantly calm and give composure only chalcedony. Photos of jewelry with this stone have always attracted like a magnet, many women of fashion get themselves pendants, rings, earrings and beads with a marvelous stone. Chalcedony looks original and elegant. According to the horoscope, he is ideal for Taurus.
