9 Blue crystals meanings & cool facts

The first historical references to the use of crystals come from the Ancient Sumerians (4th millennium BC), who included crystals in magic formulas much like crystal healing today. My blue crystals meanings & cool facts blog will tell you more about the association of each stone with chakras, your birth sign and even wedding anniversaries.

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Blue crystals - sapphire

Blue sapphire meaning:Associated with the throat and third eye chakra, this crystal will enable insight (third eye), and give you the voice (throat chakra) to teach the knowledge you have gained.

Blue sapphire element: Air

Blue sapphire birth stone: September 

Blue sapphire wedding anniversary: 45th wedding 

Blue sapphire myths & legends: In the middle ages sapphires were used to ward off evil. 

Blue sapphire chemistry: The colour of the blue sapphire is derived from the trace elements of titanium and iron within. This also means they can be enhanced using heat treatments.

Sylvies Spirit Oval Sapphire

Blue crystals - aquamarine

Aquamarine meaning: Aquamarine means “water of the sea.” Its main virtues are: Tranquility, harmony and clarity. The association with the throat chakra helps people who have a fear of speaking to remain  clear headed, so they can speak their mind. It is the stone of justice too,  so if you have a dispute to settle, it will enable compromise and resolutions.

Aquamarine element: Associated with the water element, aquamarine can be useful for this with a fear of water, or wanting to learn to swim.

Aquamarine birth stone: March

Aquamarine wedding anniversary: 19th wedding 

Aquamarine myths & legends: Sailors used aquamarine as a talisman to ward off bad luck and seasickness. Legend has it that mermaids would give it as a gift to sailors.

Aquamarine chemistry: Aquamarine is the mineral Beryl, a Beryllium Aluminum Silicate, which is often more green than blue, this can however be manipulated with heat treatments.

Blue crystals - Aquamarine

Blue crystals - tanzanite

Tanzanite meaning: it is the stone of transformation. It is associated with the throat, third eye, and crown chakra so it facilitates higher consciousness, intuition, and becomes the voice of the body. It’s calming, soothing nature makes it useful in uniting an illuminated mind with a compassionate heart.

Tanzanite birth stone: December

Tanzanite wedding anniversary: 24th wedding

Tanzanite myths & legends: Believed to dissolve bad karma.

Tanzanite chemistry: Tanzanite is the blue and violet variety of the mineral zoisite (a calcium aluminium hydroxyl sorosilicate)and it  can be heat treated to intensify the colour. The value of tanzanite has increased as it is becoming more rare. 

Sylvies Spirit Tanzanite

Blue crystals - topaz

Blue Topaz meaning: This ‘gem of the sun’ can recharge and stimulate the body to send energy where it’s needed. The fire element of topaz means it is a symbol of love and affection.

Blue Topaz element: Fire

Blue Topaz birth stone: November

Blue Topaz wedding anniversary: 4th wedding

Blue Topaz myths & legends: Egyptians called topaz the ‘gem of the sun,’ as it is commonly yellow or brown. 

Blue Topaz chemistry: Originating as yellow or brown stone, topaz is heat treated to make it blue. It has become popular as it is more affordable than some other gem stones, as most topaz is made in laboritores.

Blue crystals - Topaz

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Blue crystals - opal

Opal meaning: Opals come in many colours and each colour corresponds with the same colours of the chakra. Blue opal is synonymous with the throat chakra, and it ‘helps your truth flow’. Worn at the throat as a necklace is perfect to let this stone of amplification do its work. Thoughts you have will become more clear, and once you have a clarity of vision, this vision will be amplified and send out as a message into the universe.

Opal element: Fire

Opal birth stone: October

Opal wedding anniversary: 34th wedding

Opal myths & legends: There are many myths about opals, most are fortuitous, except the ones about black opals which have negative associations. 

Opal chemistry: Opal is a mineraloid. When water runs into the cracks and crevices of the earth, it collects silica sands, this forms silica spheres tightly packed together. 

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Blue crystals - grandidierite

Grandidierite meaning: Purification. This stone affects the heart chakra and can rid the body of negative feelings, replacing them with compassion and acceptance. It’s grounding, stabilising, supportive and there is more than a little magic in the air with grandidierite as the colours in it shimmer and sparkle, lighting up the heart.

Grandidierite myths & legends: Found in 1902 by Alfred Grandidier in Madagascar, it is one of the worlds rarest stones.

Grandidierite chemistry: iron magnesium silicate. This trichroic crystal, exhibits three different colours: blue, green & yellow or a mixture of those.

Sylvies Spirit Grandidierite

Blue crystals - akoya pearls

Blue Akoya Pearls meaning: Representing flawless beauty and purity, the blue akoya pearls are very rare, although pearl farmers at one time use to think them flawed and throw them away, as the cream and white where valued more. When worn pearls can help reduce negative feelings, bringing calm. They are associated with the crown chakra and will influence truth, courage, and tranquility.

Blue Akoya Pearls birth stone: June

Blue Akoya Pearls myths & legends: The myth associated with pearls is that they shouldn’t be given on special occasions, as they can bring bad luck. So if you’re intending to make sure the recipient of the pearl gives you a penny, which is meant to offset this bad luck.

Blue Akoya Pearls chemistry: Pearl are made up of little overlapping platelets of the mineral aragonite, a calcium carbonate that crystallises in the orthorhombic system.

Sylvies Spirit Pearl Akoya Blue

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Blue crystals - labradorite

Labradorite meaning: Transformation. This powerful stone enhances inner strength and protects the aura too. The luminous colours associates it with the crown, third eye and throat chakra. It can even balance all your other chakras, so it is the bodies voice, as it acts as a value for the other chakras – a perfect crystal for healing all. If you’re needing inner strength and willpower grab a labradorite and watch your self confidence grow.

Labradorite element: Wind

Labradorite birth stone: February / March

Labradorite myths & legends: Labradorite is believed to have fallen from the Aurora Borealis and got trapped in rocks along the coast of Labrador. One Day, the rock was stuck with a spear and a rock broke off setting many off the lights free, flying out into the sky- But some of the lights remained trapped in the stone. 

Labradorite chemistry: The stone’s blue sheen is a result of twinned mineral planes, it belongs to plagioclase feldspars family. It’s a sister stone to moonstone, which has the same luminescence.

Sylvies Spirit - Labradorite

Blue crystals - spinel

Meaning: Detoxifying. Associated with purifying Spinel can cleanse the mind of negative thoughts

Birth stone: August

Chemistry: Found in a variety of colours the spinel is gaining in popularity for jewellery, they are often used to mimic other blue gemstones.

Sylvies Spirit Spinel

There are blue/green coloured crystals on my 10 Green crystals for your heart connection blog too.

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