Hornblende

Boosts Bliss & Happiness

➤ By Liz Oakes

Hornblende brings a lovely energy to meditation, and may stimulate feelings of immense happiness, even bliss.

It may enhance your creativity, especially for artists, and may also help writers by boosting your ability to express yourself clearly and precisely.

The metaphysical properties of crystals like these also pertains to its action to stimulate the mind, and it may help you to think outside the square.

It is said to be a high vibration stone that aids you when making plans and will help you to stick with your work until you have finalized it.

It has been used since ancient times as part of traditional ceremonies among African tribes, Australian Aboriginals and the American Indians.

It's vibration may help you to complete what you are working on, and it also has beneficial healing properties and is known to assist the body to assimilate vitamins and minerals.

Using Hornblende In Meditation

Hornblende brings a lovely energy to meditation, as it helps you to feel centered and may stimulate feelings of immense happiness, even bliss.

This is a strong crown chakra crystal that also resonates within all of the higher chakras and encourages travel in meditation within the higher realms.

They are a protective stone that may help to shield you from psychic attack, so this aspect makes them useful for meditation.

It is worthwhile to use them in meditation for astral travel and they are beneficial to assist you to move easily within various areas of the spiritual realm.

It may enhance your spiritual development, boosts the flow of positive energy within you that aids self acceptance and heightens inner peace.

Their vibration stimulates your energy field, encouraging you to have a more positive outlook on life. 

Contact Guides Teachers & Angels

Use a piece of Hornblende mineral in your regular meditation practices to trigger increased spiritual energy during your journeys in the higher realms.

This may amplify your spiritual evolution through aiding you to understand the spiritual meaning of any communication with guides or spiritual teachers in the the higher dimensions.

The strong vibration of these stones may be beneficial when working with angelic beings such as guardian angels that you encounter in the angelic realm.

They resonate within the heart and higher heart chakra where they amplify feelings of unconditional love during intimacy, and may encourage a more spiritual aspect to love making.

Why Would You Use Hornblende?

These stones may help to enhance your spiritual growth and can aid you when you're working on developing your psychic powers.

Their energy makes a clear connection with your higher self and may assist you with meeting your spirit guides and may trigger new psychic abilities. 

Hornblende has strong powers that work within the throat chakra, the third eye chakra and the crown chakra.  

Their action at the crown chakra is known to boost mental clarity and when used at these chakras may assist discovery of information about past lives.

Their vibration stimulates all of the higher chakras and can aid the release of negative energies you are holding in your auric field.

In addition it resonates within all of the lower chakras including the solar plexus chakra, where it encourages the growth of your personal power.

It is a good grounding stone that works within the base or root chakra to move negative energy out of the body, taking it down to mother earth for release.

How Will It Help You? Hornblende Healing Properties

There are a number of excellent Hornblende healing properties and they are known as good crystal healing stones to remove negativity from your energy field.

Their energy works to stabilize the emotional body, and they are known to ease mood swings and chronic fatigue and to encourage emotional balance.

They work within all chakras so may be helpful for crystal healers to use as they work within the physical bodies of your clients to boost inner strength and may be helpful to use for chakra healing.

Metaphysical healers are aware of their action to aid the physical body, and they are purported to be a powerful healer that may assist arthritis.

They have beneficial healing properties that are said to help your blood pressure, aid the immune system, the nervous system and aid digestive disorders.

They are good crystals for stress or tension and may assist you to deal better with many types of stress and anxiety that you may experience.

Where Is It From? Hornblende Meaning

This name of this mineral can also be spelled Horneblende or Hornblend. It is part of a family of dark colored members of the amphibole family.

Abraham Gottlieb Werner named it in 1789 and this came from his germanic background as the name relates to the German language.

The meaning of the name Hornblende relates to an old German word 'blende', meaning 'to deceive', as often it looks similar to other more valuable minerals.

The part of the name 'horn' relates to the dark color which is the most common it comes in. 

Its color is usually quite dark, including black, dark brown and dark green, as well as other shades of blue, green, yellow or red-yellow.

They are metamorphic rocks that occur as compact masses as well as hairs, prismatic crystals, fibrous masses and a coating on stones.

This is a volcanic rock that is found in many intrusive igneous rocks and is one of the calcium-amphibole minerals.

It is a fairly common mineral and has been found in a number of places including South Africa, Australia, East Germany, Scotland, Italy, Canada and various parts of the United States.

It is said to have been used by Native Americans in the past, and has an unusual appearance that can sometimes resemble angel wings.

It is a constituent of Apache Tears, a type of Obsidian that has a strange out-of-shape appearance.

Who Should Use It? My Final Thoughts

Their energy encourages tolerance towards and from other people and helps you to be more aware of fairness and impartiality when working with others.

It has a good action to assist you with past life work, and will help you to release negative emotions that come up from what you learn.

In summary: The properties of crystals like these also relates to its action to stimulate the mind, and it may help you to think outside the square.

They are also good crystals for goal setting as they aid you when making plans and will help you to stick with your work until you have finalized it.

Through its vibration to encourage tolerance and fairness it may also improve your outlook on life.

They are good crystals for creativity with the vibration of Hornblende having a good action to enhance your creativity, especially if you are an artist.

Writers may find that their energy may boost your ability to express yourself clearly and precisely, and they may help you to complete what you are working on.

Best Crystals To Use With Hornblende

What are the best crystals to combine with Hornblende? These stones have a good energy to assist you to feel more understanding and patient towards others.

They may also increase the level of tolerance you have when dealing with others.

If you feel you could use some extra help to increase your level of tolerance, it may benefit you to use them with stones such as Septarian Stone, Colemanite, Aquamarine, Vatican Stone or Rhodochrosite.

These stones have an excellent energy to boost feelings of happiness. 

If you'd like to experience an increase of delight and joy in your life, combine them with other stones that stimulate happy feelings.

There are quite a few crystals for happiness including some of my favorites such as the lovely bright lemon Citrine crystals, Chrysoprase, Cobaltian Calcite and Chalcopyrite will work well with them.

Other stones that are known to be helpful when combined with Hornblend includes Blue Lace Agate, Lapis Lazuli, Moss Agate or Aquamarine.

These stones have an excellent energy to assist writers to express themselves and while it works well on its own it may be paired with other stones if required.

If you are a writer and feel you need some extra help, use it with in combination with other stones that help to prevent writer's block such as Picture Jasper, Goethite, Chinese Writing rock or Triplite stone.

They are also good crystals for goal setting and may be helpful when combined with other stones to assist you when you need help with deciding on your goals.

Use them with other crystals for goal setting such as Peacock Ore, Ruby, Neptunite or Dalmatian Jasper to boost the overall energy.

The mineral amphibole occurs in clear quartz, a well known stone also known as the master healer.

Amphibole crystals are gorgeous quartz crystals that are comprised of silicon dioxide with inclusions of Hornblende that occur in a number of colors.

Hornblende is closely related to Amphibole Quartz which is also called Angel Phantom Quartz as they have a strong action in the angelic realms to aid contact with angels.

It may be quite beneficial to also pair Hornblende with Amphibole Quartz or with other varieties of quartz including Rose Quartz, Golden Healer Quartz and Smoky Quartz as it has a powerful vibration to help you in many ways.

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