Malachite is a deep green, copper-based stone with swirling patterns and orbs. A Crystal Message about the Healing Properties of Malachite: "You are a child of the earth; wild, creative, and free."       Common Healing Properties of Malachite: * Amplifies energy and intention * Promotes grounding * Enhances energetic protection * Encourages earth healing * Connects you with nature * Enhances spiritual guidance * Aids in your creative visualization practices * Activates psychic power & intuition * Encourages unconditional love * Enhances scrying divination practices * Facilitates astral travel * Helps you access intuitive messages from your subconscious mind * Encourages positive changes in your life * Reveals obstacles on your spiritual path * Assists you as you work to remove outdated thought patterns * Facilitates the positive expression of your emotions * Increases confidence * Encourages compassion * Enhances concentration * Heals the emotional body * Aids in exploring the inner self * Enhances your creative energy * Penetrates suppressed emotions and helps draw them out of the energy body * Focuses your thoughts and energy Colors: Swirly bands of dark and light green Zodiac Signs: Taurus, Virgo, Capricorn Elements: Earth, Water Companion Flowers: Geum Companion Essential Oil: Spearmint Companion Stone: Peach Feldspar Common Origins: DR Congo, Russia, Namibia Notes: Malachite has high Copper content and is NOT safe for use in crystal elixirs Wanna’ Get Science-y? Click Here to get more information about this crystal! More About the Healing Properties of Malachite: Malachite is an intense green, banded copper ore. It often occurs in conjunction with azurite, and forms in fascinating botryoidal (dome-shaped) formations. Malachite is a really earthy stone and it's also a copper-based mineral, and copper-based minerals generally promote self-love. Moreover, the healing properties of Malachite also apply to soothing matters of the heart, and you may feel called to it if your heart needs emotional healing. Likewise, it also reminds you to nourish yourself and to evaluate what you let into your mind and soul. If you suddenly feel drawn to work with this stone, it's possible you may need to work on overcoming negative thoughts. Negative thoughts about yourself can damage and drain your energy little by little over time. Learning to change this pattern can support you as you work to re-train your brain and stop negative self-talk.   Malachite Lore: When stone age hunter/gatherers tried lining their fire pits with some pretty green stone that had been exposed by flooding, they accidentally invented the science of smelting metal from ore.