Published September 2014 • Updated August 2024 • Read Time: 7 minutes
Apatite refers to a group of closely-related phosphate minerals that come in a wide variety of colors. Apatite is found in all kinds of rocks and is widely mined for industrial uses, particularly as a fertilizer. Gemmy Blue Apatite is a Fluorapatite and is typically considered to be the most desirable variety. It has a cheerful and happy-go-lucky energy. It encourages us to be generous with our money, time, and love and encourages deep friendships. It is a wonderful talisman for busy parents who tend to give to their children and forget to take care of their own hobbies and interests. Blue Apatite reminds us to actively live and enjoy our own life!
Blue Apatite Healing Energy
Spiritual Healing Properties
Blue Apatite is a merry stone that promotes a generous love of people and a desire to be of service to others. It is a stone for happy inspiration and manifestation, and gives us both strength and hope to pursue our dreams, even when times are difficult and the path forward seems daunting. Blue Apatite helps us to laugh more and dispel the darkness. Blue Apatite can also help us to develop our natural psychic gifts including clairvoyance, clairaudiance, and clairsentience, and to communicate with other realms including the Fairy Kingdom and extraterrestrials. Blue Apatite can also be used to help us become more aware of past lives and their effects on us today. Blue Apatite actively encourages us to break any karmic ties that hold us back from living happily in this lifetime.
| Vibrations | Blue Apatite |
|---|---|
| Chakra | Third Eye |
| Element | Wind |
| Numerology | 9 |
| Zodiac | Gemini |
Emotional Healing Properties
Blue Apatite is one of the best stones to carry to encourage a love of life, easy friendships, and extroverted behavior. It gives us merry permission to pursue our passions in all forms, and to ignore any socially proscribed guilt for doing so. It is especially good for busy parents who might feel like they don’t deserve to have outside hobbies or interests. Blue Apatite reminds us that a happy parent is a better parent, and that having our own life is good modeling for our children’s future. It is also an excellent stone for workaholics who struggle to relax and enjoy leisure time. Blue Apatite gently teases us until we stop taking ourselves so seriously and start enjoying life more. If we are feeling apathetic or irritable, due to depression or overwork, Blue Apatite helps us to shift the balance. In pushes us to do fun things and socialize, even if we don’t want to, because having a habit of pleasurable activities is obviously good for us! Blue Apatite encourages us to live outside of the box, to try new things and to be open to variety and spontaneity. It invites us to be more adventurous in our relationships, both romantic and friendly.
Mental Healing Properties
Blue Apatite helps us to concentrate on happy thoughts and not to dwell on past hardships. It stimulates creativity and the intellect, helping us to find and understand Truth in all its forms. Blue Apatite makes a wonderful dream stone, encouraging lucid dreaming and dream recall. It also aids in group communication and assists us in accurate self-expression. Blue Apatite is particularly supportive for anyone who is involved in social work, charity work, or has dedicated their life to public service. Blue Apatite instills in us a hope for a better future and a willingness to work hard and be part of the solution, rather than complaining about the problems. Blue Apatite clears away mental confusion so we can focus on whatever is most important. It encourages us to seek out people different than ourselves – good people who can help us grow and become more interesting in our own right.
Physical Healing Properties
Blue Apatite is recommended whenever we need to examine and change our physical habits. It is especially useful for anyone contemplating a diet in order to lose weight. Blue Apatite reminds us that we don’t need to obsessively track every little thing, but we do need to think about our choices in general and whether or not they support our goals. If the goal is to lose weight and keep it off, then we need to make reasonable lifestyle changes, rather than following a diet for a little while and then returning to our old habits. Blue Apatite helps us to compassionately examine the emotional reasoning that leads to self-sabotage and supports us in creating a happier future. Blue Apatite is also a great talisman for anything to do with the skeletal system or cartilage. It encourages us to improve our posture and to take good care of our joints. It is also a excellent talisman for anyone who works on a computer all day and needs a reminder to give our eyes a break from staring at screens and to get up and move around regularly.
Geology of Blue Apatite
Where does Blue Apatite come from?
Apatite is found in several countries in a variety of colors. Apatite deposits are located in Austria, Brazil, Canada, Finland, France, Madagascar, Myanmar, Namibia, Portugal, South Africa, Sri Lanka, United Kingdom, and the United States.
Mining and Treatments
Apatite is most often mined in massive bedded marine deposits which are mined for phosphorus to be used in fertilizers. Because Apatite occasionally contains ‘rare earth minerals’, it may also be specifically mined as ore for these rare elements, since, unlike most rare earth ores, Apatite is non-radioactive and does not pose an environmental hazard. Apatite may also be found as an accessory gem in a large range of mining environments, ranging from huge open pits to small mines operated by hand.
Synthetic Apatites has been created in laboratories. But the Apatite sold to collectors is natural, enhanced only by tumbling and polishing.
Blue Apatite
Mineral Family
The name Apatite actually refers to a group of minerals, all of which belong to the phosphate family. Phosphate minerals all contain Phosphorus and Oxygen in a 1:4 ratio (written as PO4), which are then combined with various other elements to create unique minerals. The name Apatite is commonly used for several types of minerals which come in a wide range of colors, and as such Apatite may be considered the most common of all Phosphate minerals. Apatite is actually composed of the same materials that form animal and human bones and teeth. The most beautiful Apatite mineral and gemstone, and the type most desired by collectors, is Fluorapatite, which combines Phosphorus and Oxygen with a Fluoride source. It is naturally colorless, but can be blue, green, purple, yellow, or pink due to trace mineral inclusions. All the Apatite sold at Moonrise Crystals is Fluorapatite.
Apatite’s energy works well with its family – other Phosphate minerals. Try it in combination with Lazulite, Trolleite, Turquoise, Variscite, and Vanadinite. Try it with other colors like Green Apatite.
Blue Apatite Formation and Crystal Associates
Because Apatite is a variety of minerals it can form in many different ways. The variety that is most often sold to collectors is Fluorapatite. It is the most common phosphate mineral and can form in igneous rocks, calcium-rich metamorphic rocks, and sedimentary rocks, particularly alongside fossil remains. It typically forms well-shaped hexagonal crystals, but may also grow tabular or columnar crystals, or in huge beds of massive material. Fluorapatite is also found in shark teeth and other toothy fishes like piranhas. Human teeth that have been exposed to fluoride, either in water or in toothpaste, can also develop Fluorapatite. This is a good thing since it helps prevent tooth decade by preventing the growth of dental bacteria.
Apatite’s energy works well with its “friends” – crystal associates formed in the same geological environment. Try it in combination with Amazonite, Black Tourmaline, Fluorite, Muscovite, and Quartz.
| Mineralogy | Blue Apatite |
|---|---|
| Chemical Formula | Ca5(F,CI, OH)[PO4]3 |
| Cleavage | Indistinct |
| Color | Blue |
| Crystal System | Hexagonal or monoclinic |
| Form/Habit | Short to long prismatic, tabular |
| Fracture | Conchoidal, brittle |
| Hardness – Mohs Scale | 5 – Apatite is the Moh’s scale ‘defining mineral’ for 5 |
| Luminescence | Red, strong (short wave) |
| Luster | Vitreous |
| Mineral Family | Phosphates |
| Specific Gravity | 3.16-3.23 |
| Streak | White to yellow-grey |
| Transparency | Transparent to opaque |
History of Blue Apatite
Apatite is a relatively new stone for the metaphysical community, and as such was not included in any of the ancient or medieval lapidaries, texts that describe gemstones and their powers. It may, however, be included in many of the newest lapidaries. The most famous form of Apatite is the blue gemstone variety.
Apatite is easily confused with other minerals, especially Beryls, such as Aquamarine and Emerald, as well as various shades of Calcite. In fact, Apatite’s name comes from the Greek word apatao, meaning “to delude” precisely because of this confusion! Apatite was first defined as a distinct mineral in 1786, but today the name ‘Apatite is used to describe an entire group of phosphate minerals, which come in a wide range of colors Apatite crystals are the primary source for the phosphate used to create plant fertilizers, and is widely use by chemical and pharmaceutical companies.
Blue Apatite from Arendale, Norway is sometimes called Moroxite. The name comes from the Greek word moroxos, meaning “pipe clay.” This Apatite come from an area known for Iron mining, which takes places in sedimentary rock. Presumably some of this rock is similar to Catlinite or Pipestone, the iron-rich clay used to make Native American peace pipes.
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