Rhodonite surrounds you with the highest energy vibrations of love and pink energy, while also absorbing any negative or toxic emotions from your Heart. You’ll be amazed at how quickly toxic emotions melt away when you work with the Rhodonite healing properties. Known as the “Stone of Compassion,” it’s believed to help heal emotional wounds, release resentment, calm panic, and promote self-worth.

Originally only found in the Ural Mountains in Russia Rhodonite can now be found on every continent: Brazil, Russia, Sweden, Taiwan, France, South Africa, Australia, China, Canada, India, Mexico, Madagascar, Russia, Sweden, USA.  Made up of manganese inosilicate and with swirling shadows of manganese oxide it’s a solid stone with a visible eye-catching strength.

HEALING PROPERTIES

Rhodonite is an emotional balancer that clears away emotional wounds and scars from the past, and that nurtures love.  It stimulates, clears and activates the Heart.  Rhodonite grounds energy, balances yin-yang, and aids in achieving one’s highest potential.  It heals emotional shock and panic.  Rhodonite aids in cases of emotional self-destruction, codependency and abuse.  It encourages unselfish self-love and forgiveness.  Promotes remaining calm in dangerous or upsetting situations.  Builds confidence and alleviates confusion.

Rhodonite has been nicknamed the “Stone of Love” due to its ability to fully clear, stimulate, and reactivate your Heart.  Not just a powerful tool to support healthy relationships with others, Rhodonite properties also support a healthy relationship with yourself. By learning to forgive yourself Rhodonite deepens your sense of self-love and self-worth. All love starts with self-love and the more we are able to stand in the light of our own self-confidence and our own talents, the better equipped we can be to turn that love outwards and send it spiraling into the universe. Its strong Heart-based medicine helps release your fears, which are sometimes disguised as toxic emotions like anger, jealousy, or resentment. It’s powerful love vibrations radiate through an intense pink hue so you’ll always see life through rose-tinted glasses. Rhodonite bolsters feelings of forgiveness and compassion, the essential virtues necessary for unconditional love to flourish. If you’re in conflict with someone you love, ask Rhodonite to guide you in surrounding the problem with unconditional love free of expectations and needs, leaving your Heart open to pure affection.

Rhodonite is also known as the “rescue stone”. This stone is a comforting stone that will comfort you in times of need and can even be held or rubbed in times of distress. It will strengthen your Heart and show you just how strong you can be, even in what you may think is your weakest environment.  Rhodonite is often used to heal emotional wounds and traumas. It encourages the release of past pain and sorrow, helping individuals come to terms with difficult experiences. This leads to emotional balance and inner peace. Rhodonite has a calming effect on the emotions. It helps reduce anxiety, fear, and panic, allowing you to approach challenges with a more composed and balanced mindset. In order to face life’s changes and ups and downs with serenity (the first Heartbreaks, discomfort, arguments with loved ones, etc.), we need courage and endurance. Rhodonite is therefore a good ally. During any period full of challenges, Rhodonite helps stimulate learning and growing from those challenges and managing excess stress.

Use Rhodonite to regain equilibrium, both emotionally and physically, after a period of grief or loss, major illness, Heartache or intense unhappiness. Rhodonite is an ideal stone for processing and dispelling emotional pain. It clears away wounds and scars of the past, releasing abusive and self-destructive behaviors, feelings of hatred, anger or resentment.

Rhodonite allows you to see both sides of an issue. It encourages mutual understanding and opens one to forgiveness and reconciliation. It is a marvelous stone for turning back insults and understanding that retaliation and revenge only hurt the self. Rhodonite can be used in past-life healing to deal with betrayal and abandonment and is empowering for people who can be hesitant to act on their personal need for healing. Rhodonite brings balance to the emotional body, increasing self-esteem and confidence so you recognize and value your own gifts and talents and helps you to expand them to their highest potential in order to help others.

Rhodonite is a wonderful crystal for balancing and helping you attune to the spirituality of the universe. It is ideal for grounding your spiritual practice during meditation and inspiring ways to integrate that spirituality into everyday life so your Heartfelt connection with the Divine becomes evident in your interactions with others. Rhodonite is ideal for grounding energies during meditation and dreamwork, enhancing the depth, clarity and meaning of your inner experiences so the messages behind the dreams and visions can be better discerned and understood. Rhodonite will enhance and offer clarity to one’s inner experiences, whether it’s during deep meditation sessions or just simply dreaming. Through this clarity, Rhodonite helps translate the imagery of these dreams, and brings them down to an earthly level to provide a path in which these “dreams” can be understood or achieved. Keeping Rhodonite in your pillowcase can aid in stimulating these psychic abilities fully.  Rhodonite can be used to provide a psychic link for guidance in fulfilling your personal destiny.  It can be utilized to enhance mantra-based meditations aligning the soul more closely to the vibration of tones. It may also be used for closing metaphysical gates and eliminating confusion and doubt from other realms.

HISTORY

Rhodonite was officially named Rhodonite in 1819 by Christoph Friedrich Jasche. Its name comes from the Greek word Rhodon, which means “rose.” Rhodonite can also be found in brownish-red and black varieties with pink inclusions within.

Rhodonite was first discovered in the 1790’s in the Ural Mountains of Russia near Maloe Sidelnikovo, and was called orletz by the locals, Russian for “the Eagle Stone” because people noticed eagles carrying small pieces of the stone to their nests.  A favorite of Russian czars, Rhodonite became a traditional wedding present for royals.  Tsar Alexander II, emperor from 1855 to 1881, had the tombstone of his late wife, Maria Alexandrovna, made from a single Rhodonite block weighing 49 tonnes (the largest found in the Ural Mountains).  Even today, in Russian museums and in the palace of Saint Petersburg Russia, it is possible to admire columns, obelisks, vases, basins, statuettes and cups decorated with stone. Rhodonite became the national stone of Russia in 1913.

According to works dating from the Renaissance, this mineral was already considered beneficial in the past. The Rhodonite stone was known to bring joy, intelligence and memory. Its use also made it possible to preserve one’s honor

Rhodonite has been known since ancient times as a stone that has a dual function. On the one hand, it was an emotional symbol. Rhodonite was given as a gift to express your feeling of friendship towards others. In addition, Romans and Greeks wore it as a protective amulet. During their travels, they wore it to protect themselves from possible attacks by bandits on their travels

It is mined in many locations around the world, including Massachusetts, USA, where it was declared the official state gemstone in 1979.

CHAKRAS

Rhodonite works mainly with your Heart and Root Chakras, but it also offers incredible psychic abilities. Rhodonite comes with more than a pinch of positivity. It brings joy and energy and a spark that can light up a room. Rhodonite is the perfect connection between your Heart and Root Chakras, allowing you to find energetic healing for a hurting Heart.

Rhodonite is one of the most powerful Heart Chakra stones in the gem world. Rhodonite has a huge connection to the Heart Chakra which relates to peace, decision-making, love, compassion and psychic healing. The Heart Chakra is where our love, trust, and ability to bring compassion comes from. As life can be brimming with hard knocks, it’s our Heart Chakra that can often take the hit. We throw up walls, shut down, and our trust in others diminishes. The Heart Chakra regulates our interaction with the external world and controls what we embrace and what we resist. It gives us the ability to balance ourselves within the environment and helps in our relationships. To help open your Heart Chakra you just need lay down and place a piece of Rhodonite on your chest, allowing yourself to absorb its energy. It acts on emotional wounds. It would calm stress and therefore keep negative emotions away.

Rhodonite that comes swirled with plenty of darker patches also resonate strongly with the Root Chakra. This is our place of safety, it’s how we Root into the earth beneath our feet and it all relates to our sense of security in the world.   Rhodonite is a beautiful stone for grounding when you feel emotionally drained or adrift at sea, it aids in grounding us by acting as a tether to bring you back to solid ground and support you through whatever pain, loss, or angst you’re moving through.  Activating for the Root Chakra, Rhodonite extends your grounding down into the power, strength, and support of the Mother Earth.  It brings regenerative healing qualities into your body, restoring your health, vitality, and physical and emotional stamina so you can keep moving forward, even during times of struggle and anxiety. This connection brings about a sense of balance and Rootedness in your daily life. Rhodonite opens the portals for release and moves dense energy out, allowing your Root to let go of the stagnant, heavy emotions your body is carrying, creating space for love and forgiveness to weave their way in.

CLEANSING AND CHARGING

Keeping your Rhodonite cleansed and charged will help it to stay finely tuned for bringing its healing properties to the table.  When its frequencies are cleansed and charged, its energy will be open and receptive to your intention for healing deep emotional wounds through forgiveness and compassion, either towards yourself or others. Charging and cleansing the frequencies of your Rhodonite also gives you a chance to reinforce and reassess your specific intention for the stone and how it relates to your spiritual needs involving forgiveness, moving forward and healing spiritual and emotional wounds.

Rhodonite can be easily cleansed with water or distilled water. Hold your Rhodonite a flow of cold water for a few minutes while visualizing any negative energy washing away. You can also immerse it in a bowl of clean water for a longer cleanse. It can also benefit from being held under a stream of water once or twice a month to discharge any old energy it’s storing inside.  Also, if you’re confident that your Rhodonite can handle it, you can place it in a bowl of salt water, preferably sea salt or Himalayan salt. Be sure to rinse it thoroughly under running water afterwards to remove any salt residue.  Ensure you pat it dry thoroughly after cleansing it in any water.

Rhodonite can also be charged and infused with energy by keeping it near to an Amethyst cluster or you can place your Rhodonite on a Selenite charging plate or near a Selenite wand for a few hours or overnight to purify its energy.  Both Amethyst and Selenite are self-cleansing crystal and can cleanse other crystals as well.

The healing vibrations of sound is another excellent tool for cleansing and charging the properties of the Rhodonite crystal meaning. Sound vibrations from singing bowls, bells, tuning forks or even meditative mantras can cleanse crystals. You can hold your Rhodonite near the sound source and let the vibrations clear away unwanted energies.  Bring its energy to the highest form with the peaceful sounds of Tibetan singing bowls, the ohm mantra, or classical music.

Passing your Rhodonite through the smoke of cleansing herbs like white sage, palo, santo or cedar is an effective way to remove negative energies. Hold your Rhodonite in the smoke and visualize it being purified.  Smudging is one of the quickest ways to cleanse both your surroundings and the frequencies of your Rhodonite. To boost the Rhodonite meaning and uses, fully immerse the stone in smoke for 30 seconds or until it seems bright and vibrant.

Leaving your Rhodonite out or placing it on a window ledge under either a full or new moon or in the sun on the day of the equinox will aid in charging your Rhodonite.  The powerful Lunar or Solar rays will flow through your Rhodonite and not only clear all the negative energy away but also charge it back to full strength.

To charge your Rhodonite to your specific needs you can infuse it with your intention with visualization.   Hold your Rhodonite in your hands and imagine a bright, white light surrounding and purifying the crystal and think deeply of any healing intention you have for your stone. Recharge it with positive energy.