Published September 2016  •  Updated August 2024  •  Read Time: 6 minutes
Fluorite comes in every shade of the rainbow.  Pure Blue Fluorite is relatively rare, most of the time the gems lean towards blue-green or purplish.  Occasionally they are truly blue, ranging from a pale sky blue to a vibrant Sapphire hue.  Whatever the color in natural light, Fluorite always has a secondary color that can only be seen under a black light!  Like other blue healing crystals, this stone is great for communication, and like other colors of Fluorite it’s good for organization.  Blue Fluorite is a phenomenal stone when we need to organize our thoughts and choose our words carefully.  It is also a fantastic stone for scholars and lifelong learners.

Close up of tumbled Blue Fluorite

Blue Fluorite Healing Energy

Spiritual Healing Properties

All colors of Fluorite energize our mind and spirit, swiftly shifting us into a positive state of being, able to focus our energies appropriately.  It helps us to assess situations correctly and determine what is needed and how to use our gifts for the Greatest Good, both for ourselves and for the world at large.  Fluorite celebrates individuality, reducing the power of outside influences and encouraging us to take control of our own lives.  It encourage us to make decisions and create practical systems so that we can stay stable and grounded, while living dynamic and creative lives.  Blue Fluorite in particular evokes spiritual awakenings, and helps us to take the brilliant flashes of insight we may receive in a moment and remember and integrate it after we return to our usual state of being.

Vibrations Blue Fluorite
Chakra Throat and Third Eye
Element Wind
Numerology 2 and 7
Zodiac Capricorn and Pisces

Emotional Healing Properties

Fluorite has a stabilizing effect on the emotions. It helps us to work through confusion and disorganization, by encouraging us to “think” our way through our emotions, rather than just be mindlessly lost in them. Fluorite also encourages us to stay in the present moment and to make good plans for the future so that we are able to be courageous in the face of the unknown. Fluorite is excellent for keeping relationships balanced and stable.  Blue Fluorite has an especially calm energy and helps us to speak clearly and concisely, and to listen without prejudice.

Mental Healing Properties

Fluorite is a stone that dissolves chaos and biases. It removes mental and creative blocks and helps us to let go of narrow-minded thinking and limiting behavioral patterns. Fluorite makes a wonderful tool for scholars, since its organizational energies make it easy to cross-reference existing knowledge and rapidly absorb new information. Fluorite is one of the best stones for cultivating discernment and understanding how our energies can best be used.  Blue Fluorite magnifies all these positive mental traits and energies.

Physical Healing Properties

Blue Fluorite is recommended when we want to improve the way we present ourselves to the world.  Blue Fluorite encourages us to stand up straight and to show the world our beautiful smile and sparkly eyes.  Blue Fluorite asks us to stop exaggerating our physical flaws in our own mind.  It teasingly reminds us that the pimple on our nose always looks huge in the mirror, while the rest of the world barely notices it and couldn’t care less about our pimple.  Blue Fluorite teaches us to carry ourselves confidentially and to have a positive body image.   Fluorite in general is a lovely talisman for any problem associated with the teeth, nails and joints.  Blue Fluorite in particular is a good talisman when we are suffering from an inflammation in our eyes, ears, nose and sinuses.

Geology of Blue Fluorite

Where does Blue Fluorite come from?

Fluorite is found in many different colors worldwide. Notable deposits for Blue Fluorite are in Austria, China, France, Great Britain, Mexico, Spain, and the United States.

Mining and Treatments

Fluorite is primarily mined alongside Silver and Lead, as a part of the rock surrounding the ores, or in Granite and Marble mines.  Fluorite is used industrially to make high-octane fuel, hydrofluoric acid, and opaque glass, as well as for refining Aluminum and Lead. Fluorite is also the source for Fluorine, used to fluoridate water and to provide the nonstick quality in Teflon pans. With its vivid colors, it would be expected to be a popular gemstone, however its softness and fragility make it less desirable for use in jewelry.

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Mineral Family

Fluorite belongs to the Halide mineral family, a group of minerals which consists of metals combined with common halogen elements. The most famous member of the Halide family is Halite – better known as common table salt!  Fluorite is the second most well-known, and is found worldwide in a rainbow of bright colors.

Blue Fluorite’s energy works well with its family – other Halide minerals.  Try it in combination with Tiffany Stone.  Or try it with different colors: Green, Rainbow, and Yellow.

Blue Fluorite Formation and Crystal Associates

Fluorite is a “simple” Halide, which is created when a metal combines with Calcium and Fluorine in a water-soluble solution. It can be formed in primary, secondary, and even tertiary processes. It is most often found as a vein mineral running through Lead and Silver ores. It also occurs in pegmatite cavities, in sedimentary rocks, and around hot springs. Purple, green, and yellow are the most common colors, although colorless, blue,  pink, red, and black specimens are also found.

Blue Fluorite’s energy works well with its “friends” – crystal associates formed in the same geological environment.  Try it in combination with Calcite, Chalcopyrite, Muscovite, and Snow Quartz.

Mineralogy Blue Fluorite
Chemical Formula CaF2
Cleavage Perfect
Color Blue
Crystal System Cubic
Form/Habit Cubic, octahedral
Fracture Flat conchoidal
Hardness – Mohs Scale 4 (Fluorite is the Moh’s scale ‘defining mineral’ for 4)
Luminescence Blue, very strong (long wave) / Blue (short wave)
Luster Vitreous
Mineral Family Halide
Specific Gravity 3.00-3.25
Streak White
Transparency Transparent to translucent

History of Blue Fluorite

Fluorite comes in every shade of the rainbow, and has only been recognized as a distinct mineral since the eighteenth century, making it difficult to establish any ancient and medieval healing traditions. While it is not clearly included in ancient and medieval lapidaries, Fluorite is listed in virtually all modern lapidaries.  Some of these lapidaries simply list Fluorite as a single stone, while others include passages for each distinct color.

For most of its history, Fluorite was lumped in with other stones that easily break, such as Calcite, or with stones that help ore reach its melting point more quickly. The name Fluorite comes from the Latin fluere, meaning “to flow.” This is a reference to how easily Fluorite melts when exposed to hot temperatures. Since Fluorite is often found with valuable metals, such as Silver, it is often seen in its liquid form during the smelting process used to refine metals. In 1852, Fluorite was responsible for first demonstrating the phenomenon of fluorescence  – a bright glow that some objects emit when exposed to ultraviolet light (black light). It was at this point that Fluorite was recognized as a distinct mineral, and it immediately became a favorite stone for natural history museums and collectors of all sorts.

Collection of Fluorescent Minerals under a black light

Fluorescent minerals under UV light

Blue is one of the rarer shades of Fluorite.  In some cases, it is a true undeniable blue, but in many cases a “blue” Fluorite could be more accurately described as blue-green or purple.  Despite the fact that the sky and water are both blue, it is a color that humans have the most difficulty in distinguishing.  In every single language, ancient and modern, humans have first developed words for white and black (light and dark), and then the color red (blood).  After that, languages reliably develop words for yellow and green, although which one comes first is unpredictable.  Blue and purple are always the last colors to be named, and there are even languages today which still don’t have a word that means “blue!”  Energetically, Fluorite helps with organization and discernment, making it a perfect stone to work with when we want to have precise and meaningful definitions.

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