Published June 2017  •  Updated February 2024  •  Read Time: 7 minutes
Apatite refers to a group of closely-related phosphate minerals.  Green Apatite is most often a Fluorapatite.  It can range in color from forest green to lime-green.  The most desirable are the yellow-green transparent gems, mainly from Morocco, called “Asparagus Stone.”  Apatite is a very common mineral found in all kinds of rocks and sometimes even human teeth.  Green Apatite is a very merry and light-hearted stone.  It encourages us to surround ourselves with friends and family, and to bring in new members regularly.  It is a wonderful stone for exploring healthy habits, particularly around food and weight.

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Green Apatite Meaning

Spiritual Healing Properties

Green Apatite is a merry stone that promotes extroversion and a desire to be of service to others. It is a stone for happy inspiration and powerful manifestation. It gives us strength and hope to pursue our dreams, even when times are difficult and the path forward seems daunting. Green Apatite helps us to laugh more and repels any darkness that tries to linger around us. It heals and expands our aura. It brings health and vibrancy to our spiritual life. Green Apatite is an incredible stone for creating abundance on all levels, including helping us break any karmic ties that hold us back. Green Apatite loudly promises us that we can live rich and exciting lives, right here and now.

Metaphysical Properties Green Apatite
Chakra Heart, Throat and Third Eye
Element Water and Earth
Numerology 9
Zodiac Gemini

Emotional Healing Properties

Green Apatite is one of the best stones to carry to encourage a vibrant life and an active social calendar. It helps reverse feelings of apathy, irritability, and emotional exhaustion. It gives us joyful permission to pursue our many passions without guilt or shame. Green Apatite encourages us to examine our emotional and social habits and to make positive changes so that we can enjoy life more. It also encourages creativity, variety and spontaneity. Green Apatite is particularly useful for helping us with feelings of being “unworthy” of love and attention. It reminds us to invest in healthy relationships where we can get our needs met. It also helps us to feel comfortable spending money on self-care and fun activities.

Mental Healing Properties

Green Apatite inspires happy thoughts and helps us stop dwelling on past hardships. It encourages us to live in the present moment and use our mental energy to plan a wonderful future. When we are thriving, Green Apatite helps us stay there. When we are struggling, Green Apatite helps us to honestly examine our thoughts and unconscious beliefs about money and abundance. It helps us recognize our current habits and create reasonable goals. Green Apatite refuses to let us play the victim and teaches us that we have power. At the same time, Green Apatite reminds us that our government and society is playing its own financial game that can negatively affect us, even if we personally do everything “right”. When we follow the rules and still lose, Green Apatite helps us to not take it personally or give into despair. Apatite offers us hope for a better future and a willingness to work hard and be part of the solution. It encourages generosity of spirit and makes a wonderful talisman for anyone involved in social work or public service.

Physical Healing Properties

Green Apatite’s hopeful energy makes it an ideal choice for anyone who needs to keep their spirits up while recovering from a major illness or injury. It helps us to celebrate each tiny victory in our healing journey and to be patient if healing takes longer than we might like. Green Apatite is a wonderful talisman for problems with the physical heart, including heart disease and heart-attacks. It is especially good if chronic stress and unhealthy habits have contributed to the problem. Green Apatite encourages us to look at our lifestyle and the underlying beliefs which motivate us and determine where changes can be made. Green Apatite is an encouraging ally, who invites us to laugh more often and to not take everything so seriously. But it also reminds us that healing and a happy life are our responsibility, so get to work and make it happen!

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Green Apatite Mineralogy

Where does Green Apatite come from?

Apatite is found in several countries in a variety of colors.  Green Apatite crystals have been found in Austria, Brazil, Canada, France, Madagascar, Morocco, Norway, Sweden, 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.

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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, TurquoiseVariscite, and Vanadinite.  Try it with other colors like Blue Apatite

Green 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 Green Apatite
Chemical Formula Ca5(F,CI, OH)[PO4]3
Cleavage Indistinct
Color Green
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 Green 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.

Most Green Apatite is Fluorapatite.  But some darker green Apatite found in Canada and the United States is Manganapatite, due to its higher than normal magnesium content. Light green and yellow-green gems are sometimes given the nickname “Asparagus Stone.”

Asparagus is one of the earliest plants that can be harvested in the spring.  The oldest surviving cook book, De re coquinaria (on the subject of cooking) contains a simple Roman recipe for cooking asparagus.  In Book III, Chapter III it suggests that, “in order to be most agreeable to the palate, [Asparagus] must be peeled, washed, dried, and immersed in boiling water backwards.”  This means that the bottom should be in the water, while the top should be above the water.  This clever trick allows the tougher bottom to soften in the boiling water, while the tender top is gently cooked by the steam.

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