| Opal | ||
| Specific Use | Description | Best Ways/Use |
| Spirituality in General!
Change, Growth, Learning, Acceptance, Willingness
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The opal is a gem of possibilities - it aids in increasing those qualities and characteristics within ourselves that help us see the true meaning of the events in life. One thing that is constant in life and in all the universe is change. The precious opal helps us recognize the perfection in all things - that what we may perceive to be negative circumstances that arise in our life are actually helping us to evolve, to come into alignment on all levels - the physical, mental, emotional, and spiritual. | Holding
Meditation On body Elixir |
| Emergence of True Self, Spontaneity | The opal helps brings the best qualities of ourselves to the surface to aid in this alignment. Opals help release inhibitions - so increased spontaneity, right action, and emergence of true nature. | Desk
Meditation Body Elixir |
| Openness to Life | The opal helps us also to see the beauty and truth in all things. And with this recognition comes a deeper appreciation and reverence for the changes in life that help us grow to be the best expression of the divine that we can be. The opal helps with this acceptance of seeing the good in all and recognizing everything as the opportunity to learn and grow that it is. | |
| Amplifies feelings | Opal amplifies buried feelings so that they can be revealed, healed, and expressed. Will feel the affects of life more fully so may not be for everyday use as both the joy and sadness will be felt more deeply. | Body
Bag or Pouch Meditation Elixir Environment |
| Enhances Relationships | The opal helps us also to see the beauty and truth in all things. And with this recognition comes a deeper appreciation and reverence for the changes in life that help us grow to be the best expression of the divine that we can be. The opal helps with this acceptance of seeing the good in all and recognizing everything as the opportunity to learn and grow that it is. | Placed on Body or in area
Jewelry |
| "Invisibility" | If desire is to be not noticed, to fade into the background, then the opal will help with that. | Placed on Body or in area
Jewelry |
| Creativity | The opal helps one recognize inner inspiration and to bring imagination and creativity to all situations. | |
| Visionary Qualities
"Seer" stone |
The opal has visionary qualities and has been used in Native American Indian vision quest and Austrailian Aborignal "dreamtime" ceremonies. | Meditation
Visualization Body Elixir |
| Chakra Balancing | Can be used for healing where all birthstones are needed and for purposes of balancing the chakras as all colors. The healing colors help release physical blockages due to emotional trauma | Body
Healing Session |
| Memory, Mental Clarity | Strengthens memory and enhances mental clarity | |
| Eye Disorders | Dance of colors benefits eyes - improves visions, prevents disease | Holding
Meditation Elixir Jewelry |
| Birthing | To aid in birth process, providing comfort and ease and to ensure health of the baby. | Placed at mother's navel during birth process.
Holding Meditation Elixir
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| Various Healing Helps immune system - dispel infections, purify blood and kidneys, regulate insulin production, alleviate fevers, stimulate circulatory functions. Assist with Parkinson's disease. Reproductive disorders, sexual dysfunction - opals with "fire" | Healing session
Elixir Holding Bag or pouch Meditation |
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The opal was introduced in Greece in the first centruy BC. Opal has been translated as the "seeing jewel" and literally as "seeing changes" of colors. Opal is different from other gemstones in that it is non-crystalline in nature. The opal is related to it's highly crystalline cousins, quartz and agate, however it is more like glass and consists of amorphous structures of silicon dioxide and water. The structure of opal includes different sizes of tiny spheres of silicate. It is the size, density, and arrangement of the spheres that create the varied colors from which the term "opalescence" is coined. Opal can consist of up to 20% water content; precious opals contain up to 6-10% water content. Precious opals make up a very small percentage (5% of 5%) of all opals mined. The structure of precious opals consists of highly arranged arrays and lines of the tiny spheres that act as prisms creating all the colors of the rainbow. Depending on the number of shells around the spheres, different colors will predominate in the opal such as blues, greens, or reds.
The myth that opals can bring misfortune or should not be used if not your birthstone originated in 1829 when Sir Walter Scott published a novel, "Anne of Geierstein" where the heroin's misfortunes were linked to the opal. The opal has been used throughout the centuries for it has been considered a stone of good luck, hope, prosperity, love, vision, and healing.