Often we do not give because of a sense of lack or because we were mistreated by others. We may also have been victimized by energy thieves who siphoned off our precious life force from our three lower chakras (grounding, sexual, solar plexus) or stole from our stockpile of positive karma. The only way we knew how to stop the leakage was to shut off the spigot. With trusty sea green aventurine acting as a strong shield, however, we do not have to close the doorway to our heart.

The pure green essence of this stone is balm to turbulent feelings. It can gently penetrate to the crux of any problem, allowing you to examine it reflectively. Then you can resolve troubling issues easily and clear out any lingering stagnation. Sea green aventurine allows you to spring clean all the nooks and crannies of your emotional closets anytime of year.

When our feminine moon side is in equilibrium with our masculine sun side, water does not extinguish fire. When the heart chakra is an empowered vortex, it is a wisdom well where streams of love, light, and power from our crown, third eye, and throat chakras meld with the up-flowing kundalini spiral from our root, passion, and solar plexus chakras, becoming a figure eight, infinity spring of wholesome harmonics. Then our heart starts to emit a radiance that turns formerly opaque moods translucent.

As I was writing some of these concepts down, I held a piece of sea green aventurine in my hand that I had picked from a large basket of multicolored stones. I had never worked with it before. Within a short time, I noticed that several pictograms had manifested on different surfaces of the stone. One was of a stick figure with a headdress of three plumes and a large circle for a heart with five rays coming out of it. This represented love, light, and power coming through the crown chakra and the five elements (earth, water, fire, air, ether) and five senses (sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste) that are balanced within the heart chakra. Equilibrium leads to equanimity and serenity leads right back to stability in an endless reciprocal loop.

My inner child was delighted by what still seems magical and miraculous to me whenever it happens even if it happens several times a day. The exalted knowingness of this small stone, so alive with elemental energy, moved me profoundly. There was a bind rune on the other side. The pictogram was an upright composite of Wynn (emotional balance, success, fulfillment), Feoh (protection, increase, consolidation) and Sigel (health, clarity, confidence). Sea green aventurine is a potent yet gentle talisman that anyone can use with ease.

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