Dendritic Blue Andean Opal Gemstone | Purple Opal Inclusions | Meditation Stone from Peru (265ct)

The most potent expression of dendrtiic opal I’ve encountered, this sacred andean blue opal gemstone comes from the sacred land of Peru.

Rare purple opal weaves through the piece as the light illuminates the etheric, translucent blue opal inclusions. Red opal radiates from the center, out.

Peruvian opal is an alchemist.

Weighing 265 carats, this ancient crystal meditation stone was heart crafted and hand polished by a small local artisan outside of Lima.

This rare manifestation of blue opal is found in a remote region of the sacred Andes Mountains. Not dissimilar to quartz in composition, this silica crystal being has an exceptionally high water content.

Known as the “liquid that’s also a solid,” this wild stone is a potent conductor of energy.

Deeply rooted in earth medicine, andean blue opal ebbs and flows with the song of the ocean. Informed by red opal’s transformative nature of fire, purple opal, a conduit for the element of air.

A stone of the fifth element, this crystal being exists in the spaces between. An invitation for our physical and emotional, energetic and infinite self’s to move in greater alignment.

An energetic superhighway, illuminating our path forward.

Our three dominant centers of wisdom - the wisdom of the body, wisdom of the heart and wisdom of the mind informing each other.

Supported from both above and below.

This dendritic, Peruvian opal palmstone reverberates with a natural mysticism. Tangible magic which moves with intention.

This rare crystal bring manifests in service of the whole self.

𝑨𝒔 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔, 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏𝒔 𝒂𝒓𝒆 𝒂𝒍𝒘𝒂𝒚𝒔 𝒘𝒆𝒍𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒆𝒅 𝒘𝒊𝒕𝒉 𝒂𝒏 𝒐𝒑𝒆𝒏 𝒉𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕, 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒓𝒆𝒕𝒖𝒓𝒏 𝒑𝒐𝒔𝒕𝒂𝒈𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒗𝒆𝒓𝒆𝒅 𝒃𝒚 𝒎𝒚𝒔𝒆𝒍𝒇. 𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒊𝒔 𝒕𝒐 𝒄𝒓𝒆𝒂𝒕𝒆 𝒔𝒂𝒇𝒆 𝒔𝒑𝒂𝒄𝒆 𝒇𝒐𝒓 𝒚𝒐𝒖 𝒕𝒐 𝒆𝒙𝒑𝒍𝒐𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒑𝒊𝒆𝒄𝒆. 𝑻𝒐 𝒃𝒆 𝒔𝒖𝒓𝒆 𝒕𝒉𝒂𝒕 𝒊𝒕’𝒔 𝒚𝒐𝒖𝒓𝒔.

| 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐎𝐫𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐧𝐬 |

Hand curated, mined intentionally from the Acari Mine in Arequipa, and sourced directly from Peru.

࿔ 𝐍𝐨𝐭𝐞 - “𝑻𝒉𝒆 𝑰𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏” 𝒔𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒂𝒕 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒕𝒐𝒎 𝒐𝒇 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒍𝒊𝒔𝒕𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒔𝒉𝒂𝒓𝒆𝒔 𝒅𝒆𝒕𝒂𝒊𝒍𝒔 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒊𝒏𝒇𝒐𝒓𝒎𝒂𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏 𝒓𝒆𝒈𝒂𝒓𝒅𝒊𝒏𝒈 𝒐𝒖𝒓 𝒊𝒏𝒕𝒆𝒏𝒕𝒊𝒐𝒏𝒂𝒍 𝒄𝒐𝒎𝒎𝒊𝒕𝒎𝒆𝒏𝒕 𝒕𝒐 𝒃𝒐𝒕𝒉 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒄𝒐𝒍𝒍𝒆𝒄𝒕𝒊𝒗𝒆 𝒂𝒏𝒅 𝒕𝒉𝒆 𝒆𝒂𝒓𝒕𝒉.

| 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐢𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧𝐬 |

𝐖𝐞𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭: 265 carats (53 grams)
𝐋𝐞𝐧𝐠𝐭𝐡: 54.9 mm

| 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐄𝐧𝐞𝐫𝐠𝐲 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐚𝐥 |

𝐂𝐡𝐚𝐤𝐫𝐚(𝐬): Heart, Throat, Third Eye, Crown
𝐕𝐢𝐛𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧: 3, 8
𝐄𝐥𝐞𝐦𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐬(𝐬): Water, Earth, Air, Ether

| 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐩𝐢𝐫𝐢𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐀𝐧𝐝𝐞𝐚𝐧 𝐁𝐥𝐮𝐞 𝐎𝐩𝐚𝐥 |

Found only in remote regions of Peru’s Andes Mountains, andean opal is considered a gift from the Incan Goddess, Pachamama. Earth Mother.

These exquisitely unique manifestations of opal are resonant with both earth and water.

They deepen the potent connection, the well worn energetic path between the emotional and physical self.

Water speaks to our emotional bodies, the connection to earth energy an invitation to lean into our capacity to really resource her. To soften and to let go.

We soften, encouraging that which exists, that which may feel hard to access to rise to the surface.

We acknowledge, name it, give thanks for whatever purpose it may have once served, and then we let go.

We hold space for the truth of whatever comes up, without judgement, and we release the all of it. Release whatever no longer moves in service of the self.

This extraordinary act of self care, of self love, creates so much space.

Space for us to call in the infinite nature of possibility. Everything is cyclical. Every letting go becomes a window for new beginnings.

For hope.

Stagnation, constriction is uncomfortable, and there is so much wisdom to be found in discomfort.

Energy, light, is information.

The wisdom of the body, the wisdom of the heart, the wisdom of the mind moving in service of each other, the piece aligning with the whole of our innate, wise self.

It is my belief that these sacred stones are tools, and that the work is still always ours.

These tools create space. Encourage. They become the invitation, and, we so often find our way to where we need to be when we need to be there.

Even when the path doesn’t feel clear, the path always exists. Letting go is such an extraordinary exercise in trust.

This rare expression of opal seeks to quiet the mind. While energetically gentle in nature, andean blue opal moves with a ferocity, sings of tranformation.

Pure opal soothes the emotional body, encouraging energy to move, stagnation to shift.

This energetic alignment creates space for the natural wisdom of the body to guide our own innate capacity for healing.

Resonating with the energetic body on a cellular level, it supports the release of unwanted patterns, attachments and constrictions.

Said to “spiritualize” our emotional self, this stone raises the frequencies of emotions to their highest vibrational form.

A reconfiguration which invites the light to come all the way in, illuminating a path forward which is both deeply connected to the divine heart and moves in greater alignment with the intentions of the highest self.

Blue opal encourages movement and transmutation.

Creating space for the processing of stuck emotional energy, we lend clarity to our voice and our ability to speak from the highest heart.

Also resonant with our third eye, the ‘seat of intuition.’ It becomes an invitation to lean into our innate capacity for true sight.

It has never felt true that our capacity to tap into the intangible exists outside of the self.

I believe that intuition, vision is our birthright, our energetic senses no less accessible to us as our more tangible ones. That the calling so many of us are following is actually a return.

A coming home.

We come into this body as instinctual beings. Babies innately know to self soothe by belly breathing, a breath many of us find ourselves relearning as an act of self care as we grow older.

I believe that we’ve always had access to these non-physical expressions of knowing.

For many of us, we were born generations removed from a family structure, community which fostered the intangible self as a part of our foramative evolution.

The alchemy of this andean opal crystal being becomes an ally, becomes that wise teacher. It is my belief that this calling, this path so many of us find ourselves on is so much less of a learning.

It is a re-membering.

From the Greek “dendron,” for tree, dendrites are an exceptional thing, created when manganese included water weaves its way through cracks and crevices during the stone’s formation.

The evolution of the stone made tactile.

Deeply connected to the element of earth, dendritic opal becomes both the conduit and the circuit, holding space for the piece to embody the alchemical principle of correspondence.

Above and below, woven together by energy’s innate capacity, desire to move.

| 𝐓𝐡𝐞 𝐈𝐧𝐭𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 |

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