Amber { Also called succinite } Colour: honey yellow, orange, brownish colour. { Green varieties also exist } Energy: Projective Planet: Sun Element: Fire Akasha deity: The Great Mother Powers: Luck, healing, strength, protection, beauty, love Chakras: Naval, Solar Plexus and Crown. This "good luck" stone brings the purifying, revitalizing force of the sun and the absorptive, transmuting energy of the earth together to create a powerful tool. Draws disease out of the body and transforms it. Clears negativity. Amber is very grounding and balancing and in healing is soothing and harmonizing. Amber relieves fear and problems, depression, tiredness, asthma, infection, hysteria and rheumatism. Exerts positive influence on endocrine system, spleen and heart. Good for ears, heals and protects airways. This gentle stone absorbs negative energy from the body allowing the body to heal itself and purify the spirit and heart. Amber helps us discover ancient wisdom and knowledge. Spiritualizes kundalini awakening. Brings purification, wisdom, enhances patience, strength, calmness, warm heartedness, remembrance of past lives. Magickal/Ritual Lore: Amber is perhaps the oldest substance used for human adornment. Beads and pendants of amber have been found in northern European grave sites dating back to 8000 B.C.E. It is not a stone, but fossilized resin of coniferous trees of the Oligocene epoch. It often contains fragments or complete specimens of insects and plants that accidentally fell into the stick resin millions of years ago. Because amber, unlike gemstones, is warm to the touch and often contains insect fragments, it was thought to possess life. The early Chinese visualized the souls of tigers transmuting into amber upon their earthly deaths. It was sacred to worshippers of the Mother Goddess in classical times because it was believed to contain the very essence of life itself - the animating principle. Because amber is a fossil, it has associations with time, cycles, and longevity. Similarly, since it was once a living substance, it is related to Akasha. This is the "fifth element", which governs and binds together earth, air, fire and water, and, in a sense, is the ultimate source of them. Akasha is also symbolic of life and living things (plants, animals, humans). In some contemporary Wiccan covens, women - usually high priestesses - wear necklaces of alternating amber and jet beads. Though reasons for the use of these varies, it is said that these two stones represent the Goddess and God, the feminine and masculine principles, the projective and receptive forces of nature. They also heighten magical effects. Amber rubbed against wool or silk becomes electrically charged. Its old Greek name was "electron", from which we get our word "electricity". All these mysterious properties and associations make amber one of the most widely used and prized magickal substances of all times and places on Earth. Magical uses: Amber, in common with a few other stones, has been utilized for nearly every purpose in magic. It has figured in millions of spells and magical rituals. Make sure you obtain your amber from a reliable dealer - much that is sold as amber is glass, plastic, or "reconstituted amber". Insist on genuine, unprocessed amber. Amber necklaces are perhaps the commonest form utilized in magic. Such necklaces are protective when worn. it is a potent amulet against negative magic and is especially effective in safeguarding children. Have children wear amber beads to guard their health, as countless others have done in many parts of the world. Or place a bit in the child's bedroom. It is useful to have the mother wear the stone first. If you feel you are being subjected to heavy negativity, light a white candle and place it on the ground or floor. Sit before it with a handful of small amber beads, and using them, create a circle around yourself. Sit within the circle while restoring your energy and closing yourself off to any and all outside influences. Repeat as necessary. Another protective use of amber is to place nine small beads or pieces into a bath of very warm water. Soak in the tub until the water cools, then retrieve the amber, towel off, and carry or wear one (or more) of the beads until your next bath. Witches, wise women, and shamans wear amber to strengthen their spells. A large piece of amber placed on the altar increases the effectiveness of your magic. Amber has often been worn to enhance beauty and general attractiveness. Amber does seem to magnify its wearer's natural beauty, attract friends and companions to the lonely, and stimulate happiness. Amber has long been regarded as being highly sensual and magnetic. It is worn to attract love and to increase one's enjoyment of pleasurable activities, including sex. Small pieces of amber can be added to herbal love-attracting mixtures, or worn near the heart to attract a mate. Human fertility was a constant concern in past ages, and it sill is for many. Women wore images of fish, frogs, and rabbits carved out of amber to ensure conception. To combat impotency and to ensure their own fertility, men wore amber figures or dragons, lions, and dogs. This may seem quaint, but such images charge with magickal energy and worn with ritual intent can work. In trying to rid our bodies of disease, amber plays an important role. Beads of amber are worn around the neck as a general protector of health and to relieve or cure existing conditions. It has been worn for the prevention or relief of convulsions, deafness, insanity, sore throat, earache, headache, toothache, asthma, rheumatism, digestive troubles, and almost every internal ailment. A ball of amber held in the hand reduces fever. Because it is often translucent, or even transparent, amber is worn or carried to strengthen the eyes. Looking through a piece of amber is thought to do the same. Amber powder was burned during childbirth to assist the woman's labor and, also, was smoldered so the piney smoke could be sniffed to halt a nosebleed. Amber's magickal uses extend beyond the above information. It is worn to increase strength, for business success, or to stimulate the flow of money toward the magician, and plays a part in attraction spells. These include rituals designed to draw love, money, power, and success. Finally, a bit of powdered amber added to any incense will increase its effectiveness. |
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