A very powerful metaphysical stone, Smoky Quartz emits a high level of energy.  Smoky Quartz helps ground the holder with Earth energies and is good for working with the Root and Earth Star Chakras.  Use Smoky Quartz to absorb and transmute negative energy.  Smoky Quartz is also a great stone for pain relief, and helps to prevent healing crises after a strong energy session.  Smoky Quartz can help integrate messages and/or spiritual energy received in higher chakras into the lower chakras and anchor expanded consciousness into the physical body.

Smoky Quartz works with all of the Chakras, but can specifically focus it's energies with the Earth Star, Root, Solar-Plexus, Hands and Feet Chakras.  While this stone has a slow and steady energy to it, it is still very powerful in it's action.  Smoky Quartz can facilitate meditation, helping to deepen the state and heighten awareness, while simultaneously pulling away negative energies from the aura.

This crystal has a vibe that helps to facilitate the transformation of dreams into reality.  Meditating with Smoky Quartz Crystal can bring information from other realms into the physical.  Many people who work with Smoky Quartz have reported unusual sightings of spiritual entities.  Smoky Quartz is great for manifestation programs and grids, and body layouts, due to it's slow and methodical way of pulling higher energies down into third dimensional reality.  Protective Smoky Quartz is an important mineral for one's medicine bag.

Metaphysical:
Primary Chakra: Root, Solar Plexus
Astrological sign(s): Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn
Vibration: Number 2 & 8

Geological:
Stone Type/Family: Member of the Quartz family
Crystal System: Trigonal
Chemical Composition: (SiO2) Silicon Dioxide
Hardness: 7

Physical:
Color: Pale to deep brown, golden brown, black brown, gray brown
Location: World wide including, most notably, Brazil, the Swiss Alps, and the US
Rarity: Common
Fun Fact: The cause of the color of smoky quartz has been debated but it is almost certainly related to the amount of exposure to radiation that the stone has undergone. Natural Smoky Quartz is naturally radiated during its growth. Lab enhanced Smoky Quartz is additionally irradiated.

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