Published October 2024 • Read Time: 7 minutes
Pegmatite is an igneous rock with a course texture. It can be composed of many different minerals depending on the location where it is found. The variety sold at Moonrise Crystal is a combination of Pink Tourmaline, purple Lepidolite, and white Moonstone found in Madagascar. Pegmatite doesn’t have a specific energy, it combines the energies of whatever minerals are in its composition. In this case, it’s a wonderfully soothing and supportive energy. It offers all the deep love of Pink Tourmaline with the transformative energies of Lepidolite and Moonstone. It encourages generous self-care and true friendship.
Pegmatite Healing Energy
Spiritual Healing Properties
This Pegmatite combines Pink Tourmaline, Lepidolite, and Moonstone into a single powerful energy. It sings of deep abiding love and offers a constant source of peaceful reassurance. It encourages us to value inner peace and to choose actions that are aligned with that. When life throws us curve balls, it helps us to stay steady and heart-centered. This Pegmatite offers compassion for the darkness of our pain and also urges us forward into the Light. If we feel unsure, it gently turns us towards wisdom and gives us courage to do what needs to be done. This Pegmatite also has a wonderfully sensual energy. It would be fantastic in tantric and other sexual rituals that celebrate love and pleasure. It invites consent and sparks exploration. It whispers over and over again that we are loved.
| Vibrations | Pegmatite: Pink Tourmaline, Lepidolite, & Moonstone |
|---|---|
| Chakra | Sacral, Heart, Third Eye and Crown |
| Element | Water and Wind |
| Numerology | 1,2 4, 5, 8, 9, 99 |
| Zodiac | Cancer, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius |
Emotional Healing Properties
This Pegmatite offers immense comfort and courage. It is especially helpful for healing painful emotional wounds from our family, romantic partner, or anyone else that we have loved deeply and been deeply hurt by. It helps us to have compassion and wisdom about those relationships as well as realistic expectations for the future. It wraps our heart in a big hug of unconditional love. This Pegmatite reminds us that we can’t control other people, but do get to control ourselves. It points out that we get to choose how we give or withhold love from ourselves. This Pegmatite asks us to be generous and to believe that we are worthy of love and kindness. It gives us a steady flow of patience too, because deep healing and big change can’t be rushed. It is also a wonderful stone for encouraging healthy and supportive friendships. It reminds us to be grateful for all the people who delight in our company. It encourages us to be the kind of friend that other people are grateful to know.
Mental Healing Properties
This Pegmatite has a very positive and proactive energy. Whatever problems we might face, it confidently assures us that solutions exist and we can make empowered choices. It gives strength when we need it and reminds us to be flexible when that’s required. It cheers us on to the finish line and tells us to have faith in the process. This Pegmatite is fantastic for anything to do with mental health. It reduces anxious and obsessive thoughts, and helps us believe positive affirmations. It encourages creativity and helps us to be realistic. It loudly advocates for us to prioritize our wellbeing and to not believe toxic lies. If we’ve forgotten who we are, it sings our song back to us and wraps us up in lots of love until we remember. Holding this stone, is like holding the hand of a lifelong best friend who knows all the details of your story. It supports, reaffirms, and then gives sensible and kind advice to get us moving forward.
Physical Healing Properties
This Pegmatite strongly encourages us to a take very good care of ourselves. It we tend to neglect or sabotage our health, this Pegmatite gently helps us to break away from those habits and start doing it different. It takes away the urge to blame and shame ourselves, and instead just advocates that we deserve tender loving care. It reminds us that healing and transformation takes time and sometimes we have to try different things in order to figure out what works. It’s okay to be frustrated when things don’t work out and we can take a moment to feel those emotions. This Pegmatite offers compassion in the moment, and then gently pulls us away so that we don’t get stuck there. It encourages us to take good care of ourselves starting right now. This would be a lovely talisman for heart health and for anything to do with reproductive health.
Geology of Pegmatite
Where does Pegmatite come from?
Pegmatite describes a wide variety of coarsely-graded igneous rocks. The variety sold at Moonrise Crystal is a combination of Pink Tourmaline, Purple Lepidolite, and white Albite and is mined in Madagascar. Pegmatites with a similar composition can be found in Brazil, Russia, and the United States.
Mining and Treatments
Pegmatites and other combination stones can be found in every mine. The miners want to extract the most pure minerals, and everything else ends up in slag piles. Occasionally the miners will notice that two or more minerals have mixed together in an attractive way. These combination stones give miners another way to make money and reduce waste. Combination stones are fully natural, but are rarely be listed in any geology book.
Tourmaline Lepidolite
Mineral Family
Pegmatite is not a mineral, but rather a rock. An easy way to understand the difference is that rocks are like cookies and minerals are ingredients such as flour or sugar. Many different minerals are used to create a rock! In this case, it’s an igneous rock composed of three minerals, Pink Tourmaline, purple Lepidolite, and white Albite (Moonstone).
Pegmatite’s energy works well with its family – other combination stones. Try it in combination with Moonstone Tourmaline, Prehnite Epidote, Ruby Fuchsite, Ruby Iolite, Ruby Kyanite, Ruby Zoisite, Sunset Sodalite, and Sunstone Iolite.
Pegmatite Formation and Crystal Associates
Pegmatites are usually formed during the final crystallizing stage of a magma body before it becomes igneous rock. This is the period in which new varieties of crystals stop forming, but existing crystals are still growing. Pegmatites are the matrix rock in which most large crystals form. Depending on the location Pegmatites can include a wide variety of minerals and elements, both common and rare.
Pegmatite’s energy works well with its “friends” – crystal associates formed in the same geological environment. For this variety of Pegmatite, try it in combination with Danburite, Kunzite, and Morganite.
| Mineralogy | Pegmatite |
|---|---|
| Rock Type | Igneous |
| Major Minerals | Tourmaline (pink); Lepidolite (purple); Albite (white) |
| Minor Minerals | May contain Kunzite |
| Color | White, pink, and purple |
| Texture | Pegmatitic |
| Transparency | Opaque |
| Special Features | Iridescent |
History of Pegmatite
Pegmatite is an igneous rock with a course texture and large crystal inclusions. In order to be called a Pegmatite, the crystals must be at least 1 cm (0.4 in) in diameter, but the minerals can grow as large as possible. Many of the world’s largest crystals grew inside and were mined as Pegmatites, before being cut free from the matrix rock. The variety of Pegmatite sold at Moonrise Crystals comes from Madagascar and is a combination of at least three minerals, Pink Tourmaline, purple Lepidolite, and white Albite. The stone is sold by wholesellers simple as “Pegmatite.” If it only contained two minerals, it would probably be called something like “Tourmaline Lepidolite,” but three minerals is a little too clunky for casual use. It could easily be given a fancy marketing name like “Perfect 3” or “Heavenlite” or “Madagascarite” but no one has done so yet.
When a healing stone gets a fancy marketing name, for example Super 7 or Angelite, it usually happens at the wholesale level. Angelite was coined by polishing factories in Lima, Peru in order to market blue Andradite to the healing crystal industry, which at that time was concentrated in the United States and Great Britain. Super 7 was named by Melody, the famous crystal teacher and author of Love is in the Earth. Melody was also a mineral wholesaler and one of the owners of the Super 7 mine. By contrast, these Pegmatites haven’t received any special attention by someone with a flair for words and a financial interest in moving large quantities.
These Pegmatites come from the Sahatany Pegmatite Fields in Vakinankaratra, Madagascar. The Pegamatite mines are in central Madagascar. The location is very important because this Pegmatite includes purple Lepidolite, which is a Lithium-rich mica. Mica in Madagascar is an immediate red flag from an ethical sourcing perspective and so requires a deeper look.
It is estimated that 10,000 children are working in mica mines in Madagascar. The boys work in dangerous conditions underground. The gifts haul and process the ore, and are sexually abused. All the children are at risk for developing lifelong respiratory problems because of their exposure to the mica dust. These mica mines are located primarily in Anoysy region, which is in southern Madagascar. The local people there are extremely poor and there is an ongoing drought and famine. The mica is shipped to China where it is used in the global electronics and the automobile industries. Many of these products are exported to the US and around the world.
Moonrise Crystals is committed to ethical sourcing, and so does not source any minerals from Anoysy because the potential risk of child labor is too high. All minerals from Madagascar are tracked as close to the mine as possible and the differences between regional areas are monitored.
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