Madagascan Rose Quartz Sphere – Large, Star

This is a huge Rose Quartz Sphere from Madagascar with star formation. It was the best quality of the three with very minor inclusions. To get such a large pieces without the inclusions is hard as the crystal grows as a mass rather and the time to grow mean a lot of geological “stuff happened to it”. This is why it is not heavily discounted.

Please check the video carefully to see the quality all around it. To see a star in a rose quartz (possibly was this sphere) watch this video.

This is a piece to bring happiness, harmony, co-operation and appreciation to the home or business so suits anyone. The round shape distributes the energy of the crystal gently and in all directions into the room. It may help strengthen the physical heart. It will harmonize all other crystals and looks fabulous with Amethyst caves. It also strengthens and balances the physical heart and circulatory system. Read more about it on the Healing tab and about healing properties of the sphere shape.

Having a ball of this beside me as I work, really adds a gentleness and ability to accept the challenges of the day in a more wholesome way.

This large rose quartz sphere would love to be a companion piece to an amethyst cave and a large selenite ruler. Or make it the hero of its own space.

Weight	4602 g
Dimensions	145 × 145 × 145 mm
Colour	Pink / Crimson
Country Crystal Grew	Madagascar
Country of Shaping	Madagascar
Size	Jumbo

Healing Properties

Benefits of Rose Quartz (Pink Quartz)

• An emotional healer and a stone of unconditional love.
• Releases unexpressed emotions and heartache.
• Helps alleviate negative thought forms and energies, reducing stress.
• Enhances love, confidence and creativity which have been supressed by a closure somewhere in the heart's energy.
• Assists one to appreciate all things great and small.
• Can increase fertility as the Heart chakra opens to self nurture, forgiveness and compassion.
• Said to strengthen physical heart, chest and lungs.

Shamarah's intuitive insights

Stone for those who give a lot of love and support to others but feel "wrong" to receive it themselves. It reminds the holder to let love in because the cycle of giving and receiving love builds the love you have to be stronger. When you keep noticing the rose quartz it is often a message that you have many in the physical and spiritual realms ready to support you - so let them in to give you a hand. Stones of fertility don't just mean pregnancy, but also the development (pregnancy) and birth of your creative endeavours - your projects.

Additional Properties of Varieties

Pink toward the lavender tones

• Opens connections between the heart and mind.

Pink with orange streaks

Inclusions of hematite.

• Helps the heart enegy move down into the lower chakras,
  • so you "walk the love" in your life.

Geological Information

Geological Information of Rose Quartz

• Alternative name: Pink Quartz
• Rose quartz is a type of quartz name for its colour.

General Identification

• Type: Mineral
• Class: Silicates
• Category: Oxides
• Formula: SiO2 Silicon Dioxide
• Crystal System: Trigonal
• Habit: 6-sided prism ending in 6-sided pyramid (typical), drusy, fine-grained to microcrystalline, massive
• Mohs Hardness:  7
• Luster / Diaphaneity: Transparent to nearly opaque, Vitreous, in massive: waxy or dull.
• Colour: pale pink to rose pink

Special Notes

• It most often grows in masses - never even finding a leading edge of crystal points.
• Occasionally found in crystal cluster form and was officially given own name of Pink Quartz but that has now gone.
• Rose quartz occurs in pegmatites - it forms at very high temperatures, between 400 and 700 degrees Centigrade.
• The color is usually considered as due to trace amounts of titanium, iron, or manganese, in the material.
  • Recent X-ray diffraction studies suggest that the color is due to thin microscopic fibers of possibly dumortierite within the quartz.
• "Star" Rose Quartz has microscopic rutile needles which produces an asterism in transmitted light.
• The crystalline form in elestial in form was originally not called rose quartz and was called Pink Quartz.
  • Often over grew smoky quartz.
  • Found to leach very fast in UV light!
  • Synthetic versions exist.
  • These days all forms are called Rose Quartz.
• Irradiation may cause the formation of smoky quartz color centers and add a gray tone.
• Streaks of orange can occur from iron coating.
• Mostly used for jewellery and decorative objects.
• More geological information and more here.