Spiritual Meaning of Rutilated Quartz
The spiritual meaning of Rutilated Quartz is that of the “illuminator,” the connector of all 114 chakras in the human body, and the crystal that will connect your entire being to the divine, from your root to your crown.
I am a beacon of light. Let this be your mantra of life.
Allow your soul to blossom into the light and elevate your consciousness towards the angelic realms. Understand that you are always connected to the divine.
While the souls of your feet remain on Earth, your heart and mind are eternally tied to the celestial world through your invisible silver cord.
With powerful angelic energy, Rutilated Quartz will stimulate divine imagination and accelerate your spiritual journey through expansive awareness.
It is your personal antenna, amplifying your intentions and emotions, sending these radio waves into the universe. All you need to do is make a wish!
Dance to the song of life. Embrace every movement at your own gentle pace, knowing that you will always be provided for by this infinite universe.
Feel the emotion that comes, and that grows with the receiving of this universal abundance. Swim in the sound of peace when you feel in harmony with all that is.
Celebrate the miracle that you are, just by existing in this cosmic galaxy. Cherish every moment, like your first, just as if it would be your last, fully living in the present.
Memorize this feeling with full intent, and come to know this feeling so well, that you will be able to experience it in any moment you choose until it comes to pass in your reality.
Let this feeling permeate your entire with white light, reminding you of the immortal divine being that you truly are.
Experience this paradise in all your senses and build your vibrational set point to one that will always be expansive, high, and beautiful.
You can no longer go lower because you are heading towards the truth. Allow your higher self to show you the doorway through creation. You are your higher self, expressing itself through the human form.
You are in a relationship with the universe, the greatest love story that will ever exist in a never-ending world of expansion.
From this moment on, nothing will be the same.
Give gratitude to your higher self, your cosmic partner. Give gratitude to your human self, to your heart, commit to this unfolding, and trust you can not do this wrong. It is your birthright.
Awareness begins from the heart, where we bind our inner paradise and feel it expanding, shining light on our inner reality.
See the truth of all the unconditional love that was, and always will be around you.
The kingdom of heaven is within you, and whosoever shall know himself shall find it.
Luke 17.21
Properties Of Rutilated Quartz
Physical Properties
Rutilated Quartz is a form of Clear Quartz. The presence of “needles” or strands of Rutile within the structure of the quartz crystal make it unique.
Rutile is a titanium dioxide mineral, and sometimes contains large quantities of iron oxide.
When the iron oxide content is high, the Rutilated Quartz may have needles of gold and red in it. When the content is lower, it may have a darker and almost black color.
It scores a 6 on the Mohs hardness scale. It can be very hard to achieve a smooth surface without pits for this kind of stone.
Rutilated Quartz is also known as Cupid’s Darts, Fleches D’Amour, and Venus hair stone.
Rutilated Quartz is found everywhere that quartz is found (that is, all over the world).
Metaphysical Properties
Rutilated Quartz has typically been dismissed by people outside the crystal community as simply being bad quartz, instead of having its own unique powers.
Such is the case for many crystals that contain other crystals within them!
The general public dismisses them. But they contain surprising powers that are just as meaningful (or potentially even more so) than pure minerals.
When a stone contains two or more crystals, it means that it has the power of both of those stones. Additionally, it has the ability to promote harmony, since this stone, by its very nature, must create harmony between the two stones that work within it.
Rutile is powerful for improving awareness of the world, while Clear Quartz brings in positive energy. Together, they make an indispensable psychic stone!
Rutilated Quartz looks like it has small bars of gold inside it.
Rutilated Quartz will help you with your sleep problems by letting you fall asleep easily and restfully. It will also keep the bad dreams away.
It will promote creativity and originality, so bring this stone with you when you need help in coming up with unique ideas and the best answers.
This stone will also give you a boost of confidence, positively influencing how you relate to other people.
Rutilated Quartz is known to intensify the healing properties of other crystals. It can also help you in making sense of the tough situations in your life.
Wearing or carrying it with you will also ease your depression and get rid of your loneliness. It’s also believed to slow down your body’s aging process.
Rutilated Quartz can stabilize your aura and strengthen your emotions, resulting in stronger and more trusting relationships.
It will evoke a happy and romantic feeling in your relationships, which is very helpful if you and your partner are going through a rough patch.
Rutilated Quartz will give insight on how you can better handle your problems and find long-lasting solutions.
It also helps in astral travel by recalling the beautiful and happy moments of your life. Rutilated Quartz is used to enhance your meditative state and achieve your highest state of self.
The potency of Rutilated Quartz also helps in filling you with loving feelings and kindling the passion in your inner self.
The energetic Rutilated Quartz will help you face life’s challenges and give you the courage to move forward and leave the past behind.
It will work to cleanse the blockages from your intellect so that you can greatly enhance your intellectual abilities.
This stone will help you get things done in an organized and efficient manner. Rutilated Quartz will bring balance to your chakras and align them to your environment.
It will also help you find and get to the root of the problems that affect your body, heart, mind, and spirit. It will eliminate anything that’s causing you distress.
And it will soothe your feelings of loneliness, guilt, and isolation by bringing joy, peace and contentment.
Rutilated Quartz will inspire you to rely on yourself more because you are a lot stronger and braver than you think!
This stone will enhance your meditative experience by calming and stilling your mind and removing all the distractions.
It will also facilitate a connection with the energies of the cosmos. It will strengthen and improve your spiritual communication.
Also, it will enhance your dream work so that you can experience the potency of your spiritual powers yourself.
Rutilated Quartz will give you support in all aspects by removing all the negative energies and infusing you and your life with positivity.
Uses For Rutilated Quartz
The biggest and most historically significant use of Rutilated Quartz has been as a stone that promotes psychic power.
Rutile is one of the most important stones for improving psychic powers in western culture. And the power of quartz magnifies this, as it does with the power of any stone it is paired with!
The specific type of psychic power that Rutile enhances is clairsentience, meaning “clear thinking.”
In other words, it will not make you hear people’s thoughts or see visions. Although, if this is what you’re after, you can certainly pair it with other stones to get there. Instead, it will give you the ability to instinctively know things that are unknown to others.
If psychic phenomena don’t interest you, then you’re missing out on one of Rutilated Quartz’s most exciting metaphysical properties.
However, even if you only care about its purely earthly benefits, there’s still a lot more to this stone!
Rutilated Quartz is highly energizing, just like Black Sapphire, and can bring passion into difficult times or challenging projects. It is especially useful for any work you have to do that you may describe as “soul-crushing” to a friend.
Work that is incredibly dull, feels pointless, or seems completely out of touch with your goals can be an enormous struggle. Rutilated Quartz can give you the power you need to get through it.
Golden Rutilated Quartz has the shimmering flicker of hidden treasure within. It’s reminding us not only of the value of our inner potential but also the value that comes with it.
If you’ve meant to strike out on your own and go into business for yourself, it’s a stone that can help.
Rutilated Quartz can work wonders in connecting you to visions in which you see the path to success as clear as day.
Likewise, it can make clear advice open to you in following up on what you see, step by step. It can even help you to fall in alignment with those who can help you on your journey.
And these energies help you to remain positive along the road. Remember: Rome wasn’t built within a day!
Rutilated Quartz and Epidote can cut straight through to the causes of your unhappiness. Or to the causes of any hang-ups or mental issues you may be having.
You probably think that one specific thing or circumstance causes your unhappiness. While that thing or event may be (in fact, it probably is) a significant cause, it’s rarely that simple.
Rutilated Quartz can help you see things that you might not notice otherwise. It will help you develop a better-rounded approach to understanding your mental health and psychological state of being.
It is also said to ease feelings of guilt, anxiety, and loneliness, which are at the core of many more significant problems or psychological hang-ups. Even problems that, at first glance, seem to have nothing at all to do with those feelings!
The Powers Of Rutilated Quartz
Once you’ve cut through to the roots of your problems, the powers of Rutilated Quartz of improving clairsentience can help you develop solutions to them.
The ability to recognize a problem, understand how to take action, and then actually taking action is possibly one of the most important skills that anyone can learn.
Take, for example, the feeling of not being happy with your job.
You may (in fact, you almost definitely will) recognize that you are unhappy. But you may not understand precisely why. Is it because you have no freedom? Is it because you feel that your boss doesn’t respect you? Do you feel that the work you are doing is antithetical to your personal values?
Once you have cut down to the core of your problem (and here’s a hint: guilt, anxiety, and need for validation is at the core of a good 80% of all problems), you can start on finding a way to solve it.
Rutilated Quartz is fantastic for helping you see solutions to problems that you may previously have felt were all-encompassing and practically unsolvable.
Rutilated Quartz has an energy to it that somehow brings things down to earth. And it makes even those who act high and mighty before you appear just as human as the rest of us.
Without titles, airs and graces, and delusions of grandeur, there’s very little that separates one of us from the other!
Rutilated Quartz can give you a more confident level of self-belief in your overall purpose. And the tenacity that you need to see your visions through to completion, whatever those might be.
Using Rutilated Quartz
Rutilated Quartz For Problem Solving
You can either carry Rutilated Quartz on your person or put it someplace that is directly connected to the problem that you want to solve.
Depending on whether you have one specific issue, or more of a general, all-encompassing desire for your life to improve.
If you choose to wear your Rutilated Quartz on your person, it does make for fantastic jewelry.
Rutilated Quartz is connected to the solar plexus chakra. So wearing it over the solar plexus (for example, as a long pendant) maximizes its power. But wearing it in any visible place is almost as effective.
If you feel that you need help in clarifying your thoughts then wear it as close to your head as you can. Either as a short necklace, earrings, or perhaps in a hairpin or circlet. Especially if you’re in that first stage of problem-solving described above, where you recognize that a problem exists but haven’t gotten to the core yet.
The closer it is to your thinking powers, the better!
If you have a problem that is tied to a specific location (such as your workplace or your bedroom), then placing Rutilated Quartz in that space is an excellent way to get the energy flowing in that space!
Place it someplace where you can see it, and preferably where anyone who enters that space can see it too.
This will send a clear message on a subconscious level. Both to yourself and to those who enter your space – “caution: problem-solving ahead!”
And finally, if you’re really stuck on a problem, place a piece of Rutilated Quartz under your pillow while you sleep. It might feel like a stretch, but you might just wake up with the perfect answer.
Rutilated Quartz For Divination
Now, if you are using your Rutilated Quartz to enhance your psychic powers of clairsentience, then the situation is different.
You can scribe in a Rutilated Quartz disc or crystal ball, but you must ensure that you have a piece that you feel a personal connection with. Sometimes, the needles can be distracting and inhibit rather than promoting scrying!
A Rutilated Quartz pendulum is also an excellent divinatory tool and will help you make sense of difficult situations. Mainly if you use it with a series of clear “yes” and “no” questions to the greatest extent possible.
The Best Crystals and Stones to Combine With Rutilated Quartz
For Taking Action
If Rutilated Quartz has helped you to see that action must be taken, and even helped you see what action that is, but you are still unsure of yourself and feel that you cannot take it, then pair it with a stone that has a strong active or even aggressive energy.
For example, you may want to pair it with Red Jasper, Fire Agate, or other stones that have fiery energy, as that is usually the energy that spurs activity.
However, if you’re trying to take action in a specific field of your life (for example, your relationship), then you may want to pair it with a stone that specifically relates to that field of human life.
Chakra Stones And Rutilated Quartz
Rutilated Quartz is an excellent stone for the solar plexus chakra, which is an oft-neglected chakra. Maybe because crystologists sometimes have a somewhat negative view of ambition, which is what the solar plexus chakra rules.
However, every chakra is important in balancing the energies of human life, and none should be neglected!
Use your Rutilated Quartz in conjunction with other chakra stones in order to address specific concerns that you may be having by boiling down those concerns to the domains of the seven chakras:
- connection to the world;
- instinct and sexuality;
- ambition;
- emotion and relationships;
- communication;
- imagination;
- and intellectualism and spirituality.
There are very few problems in the world that aren’t a combination of two or more of those fields being either blocked or overactive.
For Empathy And Understanding
If you are using Rutilated Quartz on your quest to solve your problems and reach your goals, but you fear to alienate people with your newfound courage along the way, then you can pair Rutilated Quartz with a stone that promotes understanding and empathy, such as Moonstone.
This will ensure that you are still able to form and maintain healthy relationships with others, perhaps even as you have to make choices to move away from them, or also if they don’t approve of all of your choices.
It will at least help them to appreciate that these choices are yours to make.
For Improving Intuition
If you pair it with Goldstone, you can improve your instinctive sense of what to do under various circumstances, especially when dealing with your own emotional state.
This is a skill that everyone needs to develop at some point – how often have you realized that you feel a certain way but felt entirely powerless to make any change?
Perhaps you’ve realized that you were unhappy in a job, but didn’t know how to get out of it. Maybe you realized that you loved someone but didn’t know how to initiate a relationship. It happens to everyone!
If that’s the case, Rutilated Quartz can help you see what you need to do to fix the problem that you are currently having.
It can also give you the strength to actually take that action – another thing that many people struggle with!
For Protection
Finally, you may want to pair Rutilated Quartz with a protective stone if you feel that the changes you are making in your lives may lead you into the path of some kind of risk or danger.
The rutile should have positive effects here, but you can never have too much protection.
My Final Thoughts on the Power of Rutilated Quartz
Rutilated Quartz is one of those fantastic multi-purpose stones that are perfect for the economical crystologist who doesn’t want to buy every single stone separately!
The powers of rutile and quartz combine to have an extremely beneficial effect on your life.
This is the perfect stone for anyone who feels stuck, trapped, or unsure about how to get to a problem that they recognize they have but that they don’t fully understand.
If you want to improve your life but aren’t even sure where to start – only that you’re unsatisfied with where you are now – this is the stone for you!
Does that describe your current situation?
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Caroline Lucas
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