Rose quartz promotes love, balance and healing. Read about its energies and various ways this crystal can be used in magickal work and everyday life.
Rose quartz is a soothing, calming crystal that is known to promote love and healing. It helps to bring clarity to the heart and is a valuable tool when doing ritual work that focuses on emotional release, balance and peace. It helps to clear negative emotions such as jealousy, anger and fear, and also eases heartache and psychic traumas.
Even though all quartz crystals have the ability to transmit and amplify energy, the rose quartz is unique in that it is especially good as a channel for divine energy. It draws and holds the energies of love and healthy release and assists in opening the heart chakra to help promote the healing of past emotional hurts and grudges.
Rose quartz is a variety of quartz that has a range of color from light pink to a nearly rose red. When looking for a rose quartz to use in your ritual work, it’s important to find one of good quality. There are many cheap varieties of rose quartz available in shops and these have usually been dyed to enhance their color. A good indicator that you are getting a dyed variety is that the color will be unnaturally bright or a garish pink. These types are often very cheap in price too so it’s best to steer away from these.
The ancient Romans believed that Rose Quartz assisted in the treatment of breathing problems, menstrual symptoms, headaches and helped to release impurities from the body.
Rose quartz is photosensitive and should not be stored in direct sunlight, otherwise it can become dried out, cracked and faded.
To charge or to cleanse your rose quartz you can use water such as purified water or the water from a running stream. If you are cleansing or charging more than one rose quartz at a time in this way, be careful not to rub them together as they can get scratched or chipped.
Another good way to charge or cleanse your rose quartz is with the light from a full moon. Place it in direct moonlight overnight, either outdoors or on a windowsill.
Rose quartz is associated with the planet Venus and the element of Water.
Placing a rose quartz under your pillow at night can help promote peaceful sleep and creative inspiration.
Rose quartz is often used in a ritual bath to help release negativity and promote calm and well-being. It's also good to use a rose quartz in your bath water as a way to promote a good and restful night's sleep.
If you are anticipating a heated discussion, or are taking part in something stressful such as a business meeting, it can be helpful to bring a piece of rose quartz with you. It’s important to charge the rose quartz with your intent of staying calm and focused before going into the stressful situation and then cleansing it afterwards of any negativity.
In magick and other ritual work, rose quartz can be used along with rhodonite (to add patience) or hematite (for grounding). Use your own intuition to find other crystals, stones or gemstones that feel best to use along with your rose quartz crystal.
