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Aquarius Birthstones: Which Stones and Talismans Suit You
Aquarius is free and independent, so a talisman helps you keep hold of people: staying warm, hearing the ones close to you and not disappearing wholly into your own ideas.
Stones for Aquarius
Amethyst - the stone of Aquarius: it clears the mind and supports intuition and freedom
Aquamarine - helps you stay open and keeps you from drawing back from your people
Lapis Lazuli - about truth and your own word, a talisman for those who go against the current
Garnet - adds living warmth and passion to a somewhat cool Aquarius
Fluorite - gathers the thoughts and settles the noise inside
Why these stones for Aquarius
Tradition ties a stone to the sign through its ruler, Saturn and Uranus, and through its element, air - hence a palette that runs clear and bluish. In that same tradition Saturn pairs with lead. There is no single canon: one school puts amethyst at the head of the list, another fluorite, and saying so is more honest than hiding it.
Hardness and care: what it changes
The softest of the set is fluorite: 4 on the Mohs scale, calcium fluoride. Sand, hot water and perfume wear down anything at 4 for good, so the place for fluorite is a pendant or a pocket, and not a ring on the working hand. The hardest is aquamarine: 7.5-8, beryl, and everyday scratching does nothing to it. As talismans fluorite and aquamarine are worth the same - hardness only talks about care.
How to choose and wear it
The stone brings Aquarius back into contact. Aquamarine and garnet when you have gone off into ideas and it is time to thaw toward your people, fluorite when your head is chaos and thoughts pull apart. Keep amethyst and lapis lazuli for a clear mind and your own word against the current. Wear it close to the skin, a ring, a pendant or a stone in a breast pocket. It will not bring people nearer for you. It works as a reminder: you hold the garnet and warm up toward whoever is there.
FAQ
Three questions that keep coming back about the stones of Aquarius, from the clear and bluish palette to the hardness.
Which stones suit Aquarius: amethyst, aquamarine or lapis lazuli?
Tradition links five of them to it: amethyst, aquamarine, lapis lazuli, garnet, fluorite. All of them hold the palette of the air element - clear and bluish - and each supports something different, detailed above. Start with whichever answers something in you, aquamarine as readily as amethyst.
Which is the talisman stone of Aquarius, amethyst or another?
The one named first is amethyst, at the head of the list: 7 on the Mohs scale, crystalline silica. A stone turns nothing aside by itself, it works as an anchor - and that anchor is held by Saturn, together with air. Take the one that answers something in you, whether that turns out to be amethyst or fluorite.
Can you wear fluorite every day?
Look at the hardness. Fluorite holds 4 on the Mohs scale, calcium fluoride: on a working hand the wear shows within two years, around the neck it never does. Aquamarine, at 7.5-8, takes daily life without flinching. Street dust scratches anything that stays under seven, and aquamarine stays above it.
These stones follow the sun sign Aquarius. The whole sky, though - Moon, ascendant and planets - is yours alone, and the character of Aquarius gets its own read.
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