October 2019 Crystal- Opal Opal stone meaning also includes its association with love and passion, as well as desire and eroticism. Interestingly, if is one of seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and stabilizes the emotions. This colorful stone is also known for bringing lightness and spontaneity. The stone is very useful, stimulating originality and innovative thinking and creativity. Opal has an absorbent and reflective nature, therefore it helps you with picking up thoughts and feelings reflecting amplified to their source. The gemstone is also meant to represent justice and harmony, and is a protective stone in risky conditions. Opal is best stone you can gift to your partner as it bring about loyalty and faithfulness. Opal is also extremely beneficial in many other physical realms as well, such as in disease cure. Opal stone is said to help strengthen the immune system, hence making you less prone to disease. Furthermore, it purifies blood and kidneys, regulates insulin, eases childbirth, and alleviates PMS. It is also beneficial to the eyes, especially as an elixir. Overall, opal has been proven useful in preventing bad health, birth pain, alleviate many types of pains in the body and makes the body resilient to infection. Opal stone is also known to help those who are suffering from chemical dependencies. The stone gives the wearer strength and the ability to take back control over their lives. History of Opal Stone- After discussing the opal stone meaning, we are going to briefly discuss the history and scientific aspects of this marvelous gemstone. The Opal gemstone is known to humans as long as 4,000 years ago, and there is many myths and lore in practically all cultures about this brilliant gemstone. The opal was priced as high as diamond in ancient Greece because they thought opal to be the tears of Zeus. According to them opal brings foresight and prophecy, which would ensure the owner’s success in war, business and life. According to the legend of the Australian aborigine opal is God’s footprint that touched the earth at the base of a rainbow to bring harmony. However, the ancient Australian aborigines believed this stone to be of sinister origin. They thought opal means to be half serpent and half devil, and that the fire in opal gemstone stone was actually a trap to lure them into the devil’s lair. The ancient Romans also wore this gemstone for hope and purity and for curing illness. According to ancient Indian belief the opal stone was actually the Goddess of the Rainbow which turned to stone. Ancient Arab cultures believed the opal gemstone came from the sky and that the bright play of color was trapped lightning within. According to Arab mythology opal could make its wearer invisible. In middle ages the emerged with the name ” Opthalmius”, which means Eye Stone, and was thought to be effective healing stone for eyesight. Blonde maidens also wore to protect their hair from darkening or fading color. In this age opal gemstone meant to provide great luck because it was believed the each color represents the virtues of other gemstone and opal possess all the virtues of each gemstone. In recent history in history the opal stone has been ridiculously thought as an evil stone. In fact, this has been a ridiculous belief for a long time all over the world. The opal was rumored as being a stone of bad luck. At one point opal became so popular that it became rival to diamonds. The diamond merchants were afraid that the opal stone may surpass diamonds in popularity. They spread the rumor that opals brought bad luck to the wearer. Anne of Geierstein opal Sir Walter Scott’s bestselling novel, Anne of Geuerstein, written in 1829, played an important role in unfortunate reputation of opal stone meaning. In his novel a Lady Hermione, was falsely accused of being a demoness, and dies shortly after a drop of holy water accidentally falls on her opal and destroys its color. The public misunderstood the meaning and the thought that the genius author means that opal brings bad luck. This novel succeeded in destroying the European opal market for almost 50 years with no real reason. The Queen Elizabeth played an important role and her efforts helped opal to shed its bad luck reputation and regain popularity with the public. She never believed these superstitions associated with opal stone meaning at all. During her reign, she wore opals herself and gifted them to her daughters. The myth about the bad luck of opal still exists even today, there are many people who believe not to buy or wear opal stone unless it is your birthstone (October) “Opal…Made up of the glories of the most precious gems, to describe it is a matter of inexpressible difficulty: there is in it the gentler fire of the Ruby, there is the brilliant purple of the Amethyst, there is the sea-green of the Emerald, all shining together in an incredible union. Some aim at rivaling in luster the brightest azure…of the painter’s palette, others the flame of burning sulfur, or of a fire quickened by oil.” ~ Pliny the Elder Physical health Properties- Opal has a generally health enhancing effect because it strengthens the will to live. Opal is beneficial for the health or your eyes, kidneys and skin. This stone is helpful if you are challenged by dehydration or water retention. Use it to balance your body's water content. This is a good stone for those who work in or around water, such as a physical therapist who employs hydrotherapy. Opal strengthens the will to live. It treats Parkinson's disease, infections and fevers. Opal strengthens your memory, purifies the blood and kidneys. It regulates insulin, eases childbirth and alleviates PMS (use the dark colors for this). Opal is beneficial to the eyes, especially as crystal water. Black precious opal can be helpful in breaking up densities in the body, such as tumors and cysts. White precious opal helps strengthen the skin, hair and fingernails. It is useful for skin disorders including eczema, psoriasis and rosacea. Emotional Health properties-Opal strengthens desire, erotism and sexuality. It makes us emotional, seductive, and unconventional, in love with life and enhances optimism. If you have been emotional or on the verge of tears, other peoples energy is affecting your wellbeing. If you are a highly sensitive person find solace in water, have a bath, a swim, or walk along the water’s edge to help clear away energy that isn't yours and replenish your energy field. The high water content of opal assists you to shift your emotions through to self-awareness. This stone also helps protect you from too easily absorbing other people's energy, feelings, or thoughts. Because opal produces its colors through interference and diffraction, allow this stone to run interference for you when encountering challenging people, places or things that affect your emotions or hurt your feelings. Opal stimulates originality and dynamic creativity; it helps in accessing and expressing your true self. Opal is absorbent and reflective. It picks up thoughts and feelings, amplifies them and then sends them back. Opal is a karmic stone sending you the message "what you put out here comes back to you three fold". It is a protective stone; if you program it correctly you will become invisible and unnoticeable to others. Opal has always been associated with love and passion, desire and eroticism. It is a seductive stone that intensifies emotional states and releases inhibitions. Opal can act as an emotional stabilizer, but the stone may scatter energy and the user needs to be well centered before using opal to explore or induce feelings, or to have other stones standing by to help integration. Opal shows you what your emotional state has been in the past and teaches you how to take responsibility for how you are feeling now. It encourages you to send out positive emotions. Wearing opal is said to bring loyalty, faithfulness and spontaneity to you but it may also increase fickleness if the person is inclined that way in the first place. Opals are used to send healing to the earth's energy field, repairing depletions and re-energizing and stabilizing the grid. Black precious opal helps you face your darkest fears; It assists those who wish to overcome phobias, anxiety attacks, chronic worry and other manifestations of fear energy. White precious opal will bring to the surface of your consciousness whatever emotional patterns need to be cleared. This can sometimes create a period of intense emotional sensitivity when you first begin working with this stone. After this initial period of cleansing, however, it will assist you in becoming more positive and loving. Cognitive Health properties- Opal makes us light hearted, sometimes even a little light headed. It encourages spontaneity, poetry and an interest in the arts of the Muses. Opals are supportive when encountering mental obstacles. Use this stone to gain the perspective needed to make the shift from distraction to action. Opal amplifies traits and brings characteristics to the surface for transformation. It increases self-worth, helps you to understand your full potential. Spiritual Health properties- Opal bestows joy in your worldly life. It draws out attention to the more colorful sides of life and awakens the desire for variety and distraction. The watery vibration of opal makes this stone a perfect tool for connecting with the devic forces of water, including all the devas of the undine family of which merfolk and water sprites are but a few.