Sunstone

Helps Seasonal Affective Disorder or SAD

➤ By Liz Oakes

Sunstone is especially known to assist those with seasonal affective disorder or SAD in the wintertime, helps weight loss and may boost manifestation.

They are excellent crystals to sever karmic hooks or cords that connect you to people who wish to control you, including your loved ones.

They aid mental clarity and help you to be open to blessing others with your personal abilities and gifts and may also enhance your creativity.

It has a strong solar energy, and embodies within it the warmth, strength, and openness of the sun. 

It has a strong energy to aid manifestation by assisting you to think differently about money.

It is an excellent healing crystal for a number of reasons. It may boost metabolism and digestion which may aid weight loss and can relieve stress. 

Sunstone Awakens Cosmic Consciousness

Sunstone awakens cosmic consciousness which makes them strong stones for the more challenging times we are living in, and they assist lightbody development.

These golden orange stones are a powerful aid to bring joy and other positive feelings into your life, and have a number of other healing properties.

They are beneficial healing crystals for you to use when you feel that life is no longer pleasant, as these stones help you to feel that life is worth living!

Boosts Leadership Abilities 

They are strong stones to enhance leadership qualities, although this leadership is from a new way of thinking.

This leadership brings the aspects of responsibility for being of service and aiding others to help themselves on their journey.

This stone embodies a useful energy to relieve stress, and is particularly helpful if you suffer from seasonal affective disorder during the shorter days of the year.

It carries a strong antidepressant vibration and a Sunstone is effective if you are feeling stressed.

Helps Development Of Merkabah within the Lightbody

The spiritual meaning of these crystals relates to their powerful energy to support and assist the development of the Merkabah within the Lightbody.

Their vibration has a strong action to help spiritual healing, and through this you may awaken your cosmic consciousness.

By the action of these orange crystals to enhance this area of your life, you will create a more simple and straightforward way of thinking.

It is a strong manifestation stone and will bring the things that you most desire, in the best manner for your overall spiritual growth.

Used at the solar plexus chakra they may aid you to manifest money if that is what your highest and best needs are at the time.

By creating an improved state of consciousness you may enhance your effectiveness at manifesting, and the overall health of this chakra may also improve.

Why Would You Use It? SAD Disorder

Have you been, or are you currently affected by the SAD disorder?

Many people find that in wintertime when the days are shorter, that they begin to feel depression, caused by the lack of light during this season.

Sunstones are effective to help you if you find that the shorter days  of winter cause you to suffer from the SAD disorder.

These bright orange crystals bring warmth and strength while helping to relieve stress and depression.

Wearing Sunstone jewelry may help you if you have seasonal affective disorder as having its vibration within your energy field is very effective to help you to deal with the depression related to SAD.

I have found that wearing it on the body, either as jewelry or just having a stone in my pocket or in a macrame crystal holder works well to ease my emotions during the shorter days.

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How To Use It: Wearing This Stone

These stones are a powerful aid for bringing an increase of abundance and prosperity into your life as well as aiding you to deal with SAD.

They will help you to attract into your life the things you most wish for, and aid you to achieve your deepest aspirations and goals.

Sunstone rings are not common, but if you can obtain one they are powerful to wear. 

Worn on the receptive hand, they assist you to be open to receive the things you most wish for or desire. 

Lovely Sunstone jewelry is easy to buy and these vibrant stones are found on the zodiac birthstones list.

These stones embody potent healing qualities that will re-energize your body.

They are both a Leo birthstone and a Libra birthstone, and they make beautiful and quite unusual birthstone jewelry.

Wearing this stone as earrings or a lovely pendant may aid you to unite the energy of the will, from the solar plexus chakra, with the vibration of the heart chakra.

It may be especially useful for you to wear rings made from this stone as jewelry. 

If you wear a ring made from this stone on your healing or dominant hand, it will help you to aid others.

It will accentuate your healing energies and bring through a variety of blessings to others.

Who Should Use It? Healing Properties

These stones have a number of healing properties that may be of value.

As they create an overall increase in the vital force of your body this is quite beneficial.

They are said to aid you if you suffer from a constant or chronic sore throat. In the past they have been used to assist muscle and cartilage problems.

It is said that if you have aching feet, issues in the spine or are suffering from rheumatism that it could be helpful to sit with your feet on a piece of this stone.

These are also good stones to use for weight loss for a number of reasons.

This includes their action to aid the metabolism and the digestion and to release stomach tension.

Their action within the solar plexus chakra is also beneficial for weight loss, as it can stimulate your willpower.

Embody Warmth, Strength & Vitality

Their energy will enhance your creativity and may help you to be open to blessing others with your personal abilities and creative gifts.

If you are feeling that life is not what you want it to be, these stones may help you to feel better. 

For anyone who is stressed or who is feeling depression, using a Sunstone may help you.

The Sunstone will help you to increase the flow of life-force energy within the the sacral chakra as well as the solar plexus or power chakra, and will activate and align these chakras.

By assisting the movement of energy within the chakras above and below the sacral or navel chakra, they help to clear feeling of lethargy and lassitude and stimulate increased enthusiasm.

Removing Hooks Or Karmic Ties

Another way that Sunstone can help you is to assist with the cutting of karmic hooks or cords that connect you to other people.

Many of you may have been in a relationship that ended, and afterwards seems to find it hard to assert yourself and say no when the other person wants something from you.

It does not always have to be related to intimate relationships, as some of these relationships may be family members or friends.

Anyone you have had a relationship with is likely to create a connection to you on the etheric level and this can be emotionally, Spiritually or mentally.

Often there is a bridge created by the cords between you, and may be located at the solar plexus chakra within the etheric level of your auric field. 

While some of the hooks or ties have no negativity, as they are loving links to others, some of these links can be used to control you, so need to be severed.

You can cut the ties by doing a visualization in meditation, and while there are many ways to do it, simply seeing the tie being cut is very effective.

Some people like it to be a dramatic chopping of the tie, and this may vary according to how strongly you feel the other person has attached the hook to you.

The ties can reconnect, especially if the other person does not want to let you go. So if that happens, just do it again. 

While it can happen easily, sometimes the hooks may need to be removed a few times before they are no longer attached.

If you notice after doing it that you feel more peaceful, relaxed and feel more free within yourself you know it was the right thing to do.

Sunstone is one of the crystals that sever karmic ties, and you may find that once its done that you feel more independent and confident in your thinking.

I like to do a visualization where I cut all of cords attached to me at the same time.

This will stop any energy drain from the connections, and will not be harmful as loving links will quickly reconnect.

Aids Mental Clarity 

They are good crystals for mental clarity that will stimulate and clearer thinking and wearing them within the third eye or crown chakra will be highly effective.

They have a strong energy to aid your thinking and are excellent stones to enhance leadership qualities. 

They may aid you to help yourself and encourage others to help themselves.

The energy of these stones help you to release anxiety and stress and they have a strong energy within the third eye.

Enhancement of the third eye chakra may be an added benefit of wearing Sunstone earrings, which will stimulate this area and assist clearer thinking.

These bright stones embody warmth, strength and vitality within them, which makes them positive stones to improve your life.

They are very effective if you are feeling anxious or stressed, as they embody a sound antidepressant vibration.

They are excellent third eye chakra stones. If you use it during meditation and place it within this chakra it is said to allow you to see your highest path of action in any situation.

Truth Detector: Could This Help You?

If you wish to enhance your intuition, their vibration will also help you to do this, and they may aid you to bring dishonesty to light.

These lovely crystals may be called a truth detector, especially if you are in business.

Using one of these crystals for truth may assist you when you are doing business dealings, to be sure that the other party is speaking the truth.

Wearing Sunstone earrings or if you'd prefer a pendant or ring made from this stone, may aid you to break the sometimes loving binds that have kept you from living your authentic life.

Many of you have people in your life that you have difficulty in saying 'no' to.

The energy of these bright sparking stones may assist you to let go of people in your life that no longer serve your best interests.

In some places the stone is known as Aventurine Feldspar, but the name is not commonly used as its too close to the name of Aventurine stones, especially the orange and peach Aventurine stones.

Aid Intimate Relationships: Boost Sensuality

These lovely bright crystals are also beneficial to bring positive changes to your love life, by stirring romance into life, and enhancing sensuality.

When you use these stones at the sacral chakra, they help to galvanize the fire in your spirit, assisting you to feel an increase of vitality and enthusiasm for life.

This may also have an advantageous effect on your sexuality, aiding those who feel that their intimate relationships are lacking appeal, to gain interest in stirring romance back to life. 

As you continue to improve the flow of energy to the lower chakras you may eliminate problems that have been causing lack and limitations, including in the bedroom.

By boosting your excitement about life and animating your desire to take action they are excellent stones to animate your love life, bringing fire to your intimate relationships! 

By their action to light a spiritual fire within you, they help to arouse dormant emotions and to sharpen old feelings and desires that have been slumbering, waiting to be awakened.

Where Is It From? Sunstone Meaning

Deposits of this stone have been found in Norway, Greece, Russia, India, Canada and the United States. Its color is yellow, orange or red-brown.

The meaning of this stones name relates to the fact that these crystals have lovely sparking inclusions distributed through the stone.

So it is these shining bright orange sparkling areas of the stone is what has given it the Sunstone name. 

It often has quite transparent areas in the stone where you will see tiny pieces of Hematite or Goethite, like in the photos here, including the pendant below.

This gorgeous sparkling effect is known as schiller, and is particularly obvious in pieces known as Lava Fire Sunstone or in some cases as Confetti Sunstone.

Best Crystals To Use With Sunstone

What are the best crystals to combine with Sunstone? If you wish to obtain spiritual aid, combine it with the magical qualities of the Labradorite Crystals which may bring you help from those in spirit.

Using Sunstone with the beautiful Rainbow Moonstone in particular, is a lovely combination, that balances the male-female energies. This is powerful for people of both sexes to do.

Other stones you may choose to use with it to help to balance male female energies includes Purple Scapolite or Poppy Jasper.

To strengthen its vibration to manifest abundance, including money, combine it with any of the solar plexus chakra stones such as Fire Agate, Amber Stone, Chrysoberyl or Yellow Apatite.

To accentuate its ability to aid you with seeing who is telling you the truth, combine it with White Topaz which is also known as Silver or Clear Topaz, Montebrasite, Green Kyanite or Glendonite.

More Photos Of Sunstone

The picture below is of a fairly new find of naturally occurring Iolite Sunstone. This stone embodies a combination of both minerals, separate but together.

This mixture is an alternative to using Sunstone as it has the energy of both stones.