- CHUNKY - these are natural stones and vary somewhat in size/shape/color Chakra: Heart Gives a sense of calm and peace helps one to see all alternatives in a situation, giving courage and inner strength, considered a mystical stone of prosperity. Carry the stone for protection. Physically: Beneficial for blood, circulatory system, headaches, general health, and sleep disorders, Aventurine is known to be a stone of luck. Green aventurine is thought to hold the most power compared to other colors available. Aventurine is thought to stimulate dreams and have a positive effect on psychic ability. It is known to promote feelings of well-being and give its wearer a positive outlook on life. Aventurine can ease anxiety and strong emotion. Aventurine is thought to help one make decisions from the heart, stimulating creative inspiration and giving its wearer the courage to live among others (this applies to light to dark-green aventurine). It is a comforter and supporter as well as a balancing stone. * An aventurine wand is ideal for anything that involves luck. Green Aventurine to Aid Elementals Due to the Green Fuchsite within the stone, this lovely green crystal is one of the stones that will help you to make contact with elemental beings. Where you have plants growing will attract the members of the Devic kingdom. Green Aventurine These beings that live within the "green" areas around your home may be attracted by the energy of these green healing stones, as they feel the Green Aventurine stones vibration. Many are unaware of the presence of these beings. If the energy and health of your gardens and other green areas is high, the more likely elemental beings may be living there. These beings will aid you in living your life better, so do all that you can to encourage them to be present near your home. They have an anti-inflammatory effect, and aid skin eruptions and allergic conditions. Green Aventurine stones have the ability to absorb environmental pollution. The general energy of your home will be improved by having this green quartz crystal in as many places as possible, powerful to have in your office near your electronic equipment to remove electromagnetic smog.

Any of the different colored Aventurine stones colors can be combined in meditation. This is powerful, as is combining any one of them with other chakra stones from their specific chakra. Wearing the lovely Green Aventurine Stones may increase the degree of your optimism for living, and may help with building self confidence in many areas of life. Most people are looking for abundance and prosperity in life so it is excellent to know there are stones that will aid you with this area.

. Each of the different colors have different added minerals, with specific metaphysical properties in their own right. Because these qualities are added to the energy of the quartz, each of the different colored stones have unique metaphysical attributes. All the colors will support you to balance the male and female energies within you, regardless of your sex. Leadership qualities are said to be enhanced by using any colors of Aventurine stones. 

Aventurine is a variety of quartz characterized by its translucency and sparkly metallic inclusions. Glittery inclusions are typically composed of muscovite mica, which usually results in medium to dark green aventurine stones with a silvery green or blue sheen. The metallic inclusions give aventurine quartz a unique sparkling iridescent effect, known as aventurescence. In addition to muscovite mica, hematite or goethite may also be included, which also yields iridescence. Aventurine typically ranges from light to dark-green in color. Aventurine's color is caused by trace elements of fuchsite in otherwise colorless quartz. Fuchsite is a chromium-rich variety of muscovite. Aventurine is often so heavily included with fuchsite, that it is technically defined as a rock and not a mineral. Despite this technicality, aventurine is still classified as quartz by most, who consider fuchsite to be only an inclusion within the quartz.

Aventurine's unique optical phenomenon of 'aventurescence' ranges in intensity from weak to intense. The level of intensity depends on the density and size of metallic inclusions. The body color of aventurine also varies depending on inclusions. In fact, most aventurine quartz appears banded and exhibits noticeable lighter and darker color zones. Aventurine has a grainy texture in its rough state, but displays an attractive, soft and dull vitreous luster when polished. Aventurine quartz is sometimes confused with aventurine feldspar, but feldspar occurs orange to red and has a higher level of transparency, which makes it easily distinguishable. Aventurine feldspar is now commonly referred to as 'sunstone', leaving the name 'aventurine' to refer primarily to the quartz variety. Aventurine is primarily used at the heart chakra to activate and clear. It is also an excellent protector of the heart chakra, creating a shield to those who would tap-in and use the energy of another. It provides balancing of male/female energies, enhancing creativity, supplementing motivation in activities, and augmenting the "pioneering" spirit. It also reinforces ones decisiveness, amplifies ones leadership qualities, and is a willing participant in instinctive action. It aids in balancing and alignment of intellectual, emotional, physical, and auric bodies. It is used in rituals of the medicine wheel, to show to the spirit guides the connection with the healing light of the heart. In such ceremonies it is held at the heart of each participant around the medicine wheel; it has been reported that, during contact with spirit guides, the participants have felt a "wash of love "fall around them. Since there is so much shining mica in the piece, properties of mica are also pertinent. Mica provides both reflective and self-reflective qualities. The reflective so one can recognize the flaws of humanity and can remain in a heart space to continue to love this same humanity. It can also facilitate clarity in visions and mysticism. As far as the self-reflection, it allows one to recognize that "in each person you see but the reflection of that you choose to have that person be".

 Feng Shui: Works in any area or in your life, which needs an emotional lift. It helps with any negative direction where better choices or good luck is needed. Aventurine is associated with the North area related to career and the West area relating to creativity.

Aventurine Stones and Crystals... Increase Optimism and Self Confidence

Aventurine was originally an accidental discovery made by Venetian glass workers during the 18th century. The name 'aventurine' was derived from the Italian words "a" and "ventura", which mean "by chance". The Miotti family from Italy created an iridescent Italian glass known as 'goldstone', which closely resembles aventurine. Goldstone was accidentally made when copper filings spilled into a batch of glass during production. This was the birth of goldstone and artificial aventurine. Muscovite mica was also named after a type of glass, known as 'Muscovy glass'.

Aventurine is most often thought of as a green variety of quartz, but it can naturally occur in variety of other colors, including grey, brown, peach, yellow, red, pink and blue. The most common color is green but it sometimes comes in black, blue, red, pink, etc. depending on where it grows and what other minerals it combines with. Other colors are quite rare as gemstones because they do not often occur in gem-quality. Specimens with hematite inclusions are typically red-brown or gold-brown and those included with goethite will usually occur greenish brown. Muscovite mica inclusions are most common, resulting in silvery green or blue colored sheen. Aventurine typically appears slightly banded with light and dark color zones. . The most common color is green but it sometimes comes in black, blue, red, pink, etc. depending on where it grows and what other minerals it combines with. Mica inclusions give the give the stone a yellowish or silverish glitter or sheen. Goethite and Hematite inclusions give the stone a reddish or grayish glitter or sheen. Fuschite inclusions give the stone a greenish sheen.

Quartz has been used for centuries for gemstones and other ornamental objects. Some of the earliest known primitive tools were composed of quartz and discovered in Ethiopia's Omo Valley. Many of the tools date back more than two and a half million years and were found to be constructed from aventurine quartz. Aventurine is a superior material for tool-making because of its excellent hardness and also its isotropic brittleness that allows it to be shaped relatively easily. Aventurine stones are crystals that contain a good amount of quartz in them, along with inclusions of various other minerals, which gives them their specific color. They are important stones to have within your collection for quite a few reasons. One major reason is that the quartz within them gives these crystals a strong ability to amplify energy. The Aventurine stones have slightly different metaphysical properties depending on the color.