Malachite stone – properties, virtues & benefits
Malachite, with its beautiful, rich green color, leaves no doubt of its importance as a jewel. Its opaque strength and power demand respect, mesmerizing the viewer. Yet the movement, flow, and energy in its lines, circles, and designs soothe and welcome. It is spiritually inviting.
Malachite personifies the deep healing green of nature and represents the innate beauty of flowers, trees, roots, and plants. It manits a deep Devic green which rules the material plane. It is a Stone of Transformation, assisting one in changing situations and providing for spiritual growth. It heals on physical and emotional levels, drawing out impurities and stimulating the Life Force throughout the aura and body.
The name Malachite may come from the Greek word malakee or malache, signifying the resemblance of Mallow leaves, or from the Greek word malakos, meaning soft. Being a carbonate of copper, Malachite is sometimes intergrown with Azurite, forming Malachite-Azurite, or with Chrysocolla, forming Malachite-Chrysocolla.
Well known to ancient Egyptians, Malachite mines were in use between the Suez and Sinai as early as 4000 BC. It was also popular with the ancient Greeks and Romans, for jewelry, ornaments, and in powdered form, for eye shadow. In the Middle Ages, Malachite was believed to protect against the “Evil Eye” and to cure various stomach ailments. Russian czars used Malachite for ornaments and paneling for their castles and intricate inlay work.
Inherent in Malachite are lighter green eye-shaped forms or bands on its surface. These “eye stones,” believed to enhance great visionary powers, were used to ward off negative happenings. They were stones of security and protection for children, and their most remarkable association today is the ability to warn of impending danger by breaking into pieces
Malachite Healing Benefits Overview
Malachite is a protection stone, absorbing negative energies and pollutants from the atmosphere and from the body. It guards against radiation of all kinds, clears electromagnetic pollution, and heals earth energies. Keep near microwaves in the kitchen and televisions in living areas.
In the workplace, Malachite protects against noise, over-bright fluorescent lighting, and harmful rays from technological equipment, negative phone calls, and emails.
As a stone of travel, Malachite protects and overcomes fears of flying if you empower the crystal before a trip by holding it and envisioning yourself in the wings of the Archangel, Raphael. It helps with jet lag, encourages smooth business travel, and protects in travel on congested highways.
Malachite is known for being a stone of support for airplane and airline workers as a protection against accidents, miners for protection from unexplained accidents, and for secretaries to stimulate clear thinking.
Malachite Healing Properties
Malachite healing properties can help with physical, emotional, and spiritual balance and issues. It has healing powers to help with physical ailments and emotional issues. It is also used in Energy Healing and Chakra balancing. Malachite healing crystal therapies include regulating the menstrual cycle, helping with depression and anxiety, and drawing out the negative energy. The therapeutic uses of Malachite have a long and well-documented history. Meditation with Malachite is also highly recommended.
Physical Malachite Healing Properties
Malachite is an effective remedy for female problems; especially regulating the menstrual cycle and cramps, and for easing labor. It has been called the Midwife Stone. It resonates with the female sexual organs and treats sexual discomfort, especially when caused by traumatic past experiences.
Malachite relieves cold sweats, malaria, trembling, and Parkinson’s disease, and helps with asthma, intestinal problems, and rheumatic pain. It is a diuretic stone and can help cure kidney and gallstones. It fights osteoarthritis, most notably in the spine, and strengthens memory. This is especially true for those with short-term memory loss who forget the names of people right after hearing them.
Known to lower blood pressure, Malachite also treats epilepsy, travel sickness, and vertigo. It helps in the healing of fractures, swollen joints, growths, tumors, torn muscles, and broken bones. It enhances the immune system and stimulates the liver to release toxins.
We must again warn you: use only polished Malachite. Do not use any Malachite elixir. Do not place any Malachite in your mouth. If you use this stone, use common sense. Place it on the body with a small cloth under it. Its healing powers will not be diminished.
Emotional Malachite Healing Properties
As a stone of transformation, Malachite encourages change and emotional risk-taking. It shows what is blocking your spiritual growth, draws out deep feelings and psychosomatic causes, then allows you to break unwanted ties and outworn patterns. It encourages the expression of feelings, alleviating shyness, and teaching the responsibility for one’s own thoughts and actions. It supports friendships and empathy for other people.
Malachite helps battle depression and anxiety, gives resistance to emotional blackmail, and heals emotional abuse, especially when suffered in childhood. It also encourages healthy relationships based on love and not need.
Malachite assists in overcoming fear of confrontation, or fear of being seen or noticed, and helps one find the strength within to assume their rightful place in the Universe.
Chakra Balancing Malachite Healing Properties
With its pure energy rays of green, Malachite is dedicated to the Heart Chakra. Malachite is also helpful to clear and activate other chakras. Placed on the Third Eye, it activates visualization and psychic vision. Placed on the Solar Plexus, it facilitates deep emotional healing; releasing negative experiences and old traumas.
The Heart Chakra is located near the center of the breastbone. It regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist. When the Heart Chakra is out of balance you may feel either controlling or controlled in a relationship, and become critical of the little foibles of others. Green crystal energy is used to resolve blockages and to re-balance the Heart Chakra, helping us understand our own needs and emotions clearly. We can deal with the ebbs and flows of emotional relationships, understand their cyclic nature, and accept the changes.
Malachite Benefits for Spirituality
Malachite has the ability to serve different purposes for different people.
For those highly evolved and dedicated to humanitarian purposes, it assists in grounding higher energies onto the planet for those purposes. For those in a purification process, Malachite acts as a purger and a mirror to the subconscious, reflecting into the conscious mind that which needs to be cleansed.
This stone is dense and nontransparent, absorbing energy instead of emitting it. Place Malachite stones over areas that are diseased or painful, to draw out the negative energy and surface the causes for it. Because of the absorbing properties, it is important to cleanse the stones after such use.
Malachite can be a powerful ally for those waiting for their reality to change. It reminds us we have come here to co-create with the Universe and helps in identifying the steps necessary to bring dreams, visions, and wishes into physical reality.
Malachite stimulates dreams and brings memories vividly to life. It is also an excellent stone for the re-birthing process, providing easy disposal of opposing encounters.
The Color Energy of Malachite
Malachite, with its pure green ray of Influence, is a “growth crystal” – a powerful conduit of the earth’s Life Force of birth, development, and creation, and of the power of nature’s constant renewal. It is a potent aid in nurturing, whether of fledgling family relationships or a new business venture.
Green talismans are perfect for keeping a venture on course, a project on schedule, and life on track. Lighter Malachite crystals promote spiritual growth and a renewed commitment to a higher purpose. Those of a darker hue are talismans of physical growth and strength as well as safety in travel.
Meditation with Malachite
Malachite reveals the truth about oneself and brings to the surface that which is unknown or unseen to the conscious mind.
When used, worn, or meditated upon, it will draw out and reflect whatever is impeding spiritual growth. It is best used in conjunction with meditation to help balance and release the debris that is revealed.
To break negative patterns of behavior, speak your fears and sorrows aloud daily as you hold the crystal, then, leave it in a sheltered place outdoors overnight to carry away the fears.
Some practitioners have used Malachite in meditations to get in touch with the Earth Mother. Holding one and sitting quietly on the ground for a few minutes helps many people to be more aware of the earth as a living organism upon whom we are totally dependent.
Malachite Meanings in Divination
Malachite can be used for scrying. Journeying through its convoluted patterns releases the mind, assisting in receiving insights from the subconscious or messages from the future
