Aragonite
The Crystal of Inner Stability
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Aragonite
Our guided Aragonite meditation takes you on a journey to release the past & root into the present to gain strength & wisdom to reach your goals.
The message
Aragonite’s Message To You:
A firework of energy
On a cold winter’s night
To warm your inner fire
Dissolve fear and fright
To light your way
Back to yourself
To boost your vitality
Self-betterment and health
Calming and invigorating
At the same time
Showing you there’s no such thing
As a defined line
That everything is everything
Down at its root
That we all spring from the Earth
And bear its fruit
Protecting and preserving
The life force within
Instilling patience for your journey
And the confidence to begin
Aragonite helps you to…
- Find inner stability
- Take practical steps forward
- Instill patience & discipline
The Story of Aragonite
Born within the bubbling hot veins of the Earth, aragonite emerges stable and strong, centering you internally within your being. Known as the “hot springs stone” in Daoist stone medicine, as that’s where it’s often found, its energy is like a geyser springing up from Earth, bubbling and bursting with heat. It’s invigorating and alive, grounding and steady, created through the presence of water, which adds conductivity to its metaphysical effects.
It can also be found in ocean and freshwater environments and cave systems, and is a component of many marine organisms, such as corals and mollusks, and provides the structural support in most seashells, pearls, and ammonite fossils. This structural support is exactly what it does for our internal self as well, boosting us up with self-empowerment, courage, and integral strength, helping us feel supported and secure within ourselves.
It acts as a protective layer to the energy field, soothing and smoothing internal disruption, such as anger or emotional overwhelm, and grounding incoherent or chaotic energies, like overthinking or overzealousness, down into the Earth. It’s highly practical and rational, to pull you out of the clouds of confusion, worry, and stress, back onto the stable ground of clear thinking, where there’s a logical way to move forward, step-by-step.
Aragonite is a common mineral with the same chemical makeup as calcite, but it has a different crystal structure. It maintains the calming, soothing qualities of calcite with an additional structural boost that adds integrity and helps us come into inner alignment. It’s a great stone for releasing the patterns and attachments of the past and any anxiety about the future to just land in the here and now, where all your vital energy exists.
It sparks creativity, passion, action, and a sense of strength and belonging in your own body. When you’re feeling weak, lost, or low down, it can build you back up. When you’re feeling overwhelmed, out of sorts, or all over the place, it can pull you back to your center. Aragonite consolidates and focuses your vital energy into the root of your power, fostering your resilience, discipline, and the patience required to reach your goals.
Aragonite Healing Properties
Element
Earth
Deeply connected with the Earth’s stabilizing energy, aragonite helps you feel more calm, grounded, and internally supported. It releases stress, worry, and anxiety about the future, as well as pain and trauma from the past, rooting you into the present moment. It quells emotional instability and upheaval, providing a safe haven from the storms and chaos of life when they threaten to knock you down. Aragonite keeps you standing strong, protected, and resilient in the face of whatever’s to come.
It can support you in taking on more earthly responsibilities and following through with the ones you already have. Use it to help you take the practical, rational, real-world steps you’ve been avoiding or procrastinating on. If you’ve been feeling floaty or ungrounded, lost in the recesses of your mind or spiritual investigation, it will reconnect you to your body, to the Earth, and to this moment, so you can arrive back to what’s real.
Aragonite acts as a bridge from higher consciousness to the physical realm, bringing clear insight and wisdom into your body so you can take action on it. It calms overthinking and encourages a clear, deliberate state of mind so you can make your inspired ideas real. It slows down the mind to align it with the rhythms of the Earth, instilling patience, diligence, and focus so you can walk confidently forward towards your goals, allowing your internal spark to lead the way.
Chakra
Root
Aragonite is beneficial and balancing for all the chakras, but it resonates most with the root chakra. It draws energy down into the root to ground and stabilize it, and then spreads that out into every direction and throughout your body. It returns your life force energy to its home base so you can feel strong, stable, and supported in your endeavors.
The root chakra is the foundation of our energetic system, formed in our unconscious before we were born and during early childhood. It’s where we came from, our instincts, our sense of self, our physical body, and vitality. It’s the energetic center from which we anchor into this earthly plane. So when your root chakra energy becomes disrupted or disturbed, you can start to feel unstable and insecure in who you are and where you’re going in life. Aragonite comes to the rescue to strengthen your root chakra and tether it into the supportive arms of the Earth, plugging you into the stability and self-assurance that comes when you’re grounded, present, and resonant with the earthly rhythms.
As aragonite opens and balances the root chakra, you can access your strength, stamina, and discipline. Your physical health is boosted, your vitality resurges, and you can feel the invigoration and motivation of simply being alive. It connects your higher consciousness to the earthly realm through your root chakra, empowering you to keep walking forward no matter how hard the terrain gets.
Energetic Qualities
Yang
Seen as very yang in nature in Daoist stone medicine, aragonite is bursting with energy. It’s invigorating, strengthening, and protective. It builds up the yang energy in your body gently, increasing your passion, stamina, drive, and inner strength. It reconnects you with your life force energy.
Warming
Aragnoite is considered to be warming in nature, as it draws heat inward into your lower belly and lower back. If you use it for a gentle massage on an area of the body, it helps to generate heat there. It warms the heart and spirit, bringing more light and energy into the body where it’s needed.
Stabilizing
As the stabilizing element in shells, pearls, and other marine life, aragonite also brings stability to the emotions, mind, and physical body. It adds structure and strength where it’s needed, enhancing your energetic integrity and alignment. When life feels up and down, chaotic or overwhelming, aragonite anchors you into your stability within.
Physical Properties
Appearance
The most well-known aragonite is found in a cinnamon brown to rusty orange hue- these are the “Sputnik” variety that’s found in Morocco, named after their resemblance to the Russian satellite. These are also known as “star cluster” aragonite, with its crystals shooting out from its center in every direction.
Aragonite can be found in a wide range of colors, though, such as white, pink, purple, red, yellow, brown, green, and aqua blue. It can be transparent, translucent, or opaque, and often forms in clusters or large layered slabs. The specific color variety of the aragonite also contributes to its metaphysical effects.
Composition
Aragonite is a calcium carbonate that may also contain trace amounts of strontium, lead, or zinc. Calcium is alkalizing for the body and calming for the mind and emotions. It’s a binding agent, adding strength, stability, and integrity. And carbonates are regulating, helping to create proper balance and functioning within the systems of the body. These chemical constituents contribute directly to aragonite’s metaphysical properties.
Aragonite often forms in four-sided, orthorhombic crystals. In Daoist stone medicine, an orthorhombic structure is said to direct yang energy down from your upper body to your “lower burner”, where your root and sacral chakra are, which contributes even more to aragonite’s grounding, stabilizing effect. This vibration of four within its essence is also a stabilizing factor, as it’s associated with creating a solid structure and balanced form.
Use Aragonite When...
you feel
frustrated, stagnant, overwhelmed, overzealous, stressed, anxious, jealous, angry, disappointed, scattered, unfocused, ungrounded, floaty, confused, unsure, stuck in your head
you’re struggling with
taking on too much, emotional imbalance, lack of motivation or focus, fear, impatience, a quick temper, mental spiraling, conflicts, procrastination, weakened immune system, nightmare.
you want
calm, stability, confidence, self-development, rational thinking, inner security, to overcome obstacles, motivation, follow-through, patience, discipline, centering, inner peace
Using Aragonite in Everyday Life
Manifestation
An excellent choice to help you accomplish your goals and better yourself, aragonite will help you get clear and focused on what you want to manifest and then take the practical action steps needed to make things happen. It’s a building stone to help you create something new on top of the foundation of what has been. The past is no longer a burden but rather a stepping stone towards your future when you’re armed with the energy of aragonite.
It brings grounding and centering to the mind and body, to help you slow down, stay rational, and be patient with your manifestations. When you’re having problems taking real-world action on them, are getting overwhelmed, frustrated, or feel like you’re about to give up entirely, aragonite can help you cultivate the inner fortitude to stick with it and see things through until you reach your goals.
Have an aragonite crystal near as you write out what you’d like to manifest in your life, and it will help you keep your goals practical, actionable, and doable. Keep it on your desk as you do the work and make strides towards your goals to help keep you focused and diligent in your follow-through. Hold it in your hands whenever you start to feel doubtful or stressed about the future, and it will root you back into the present, where all the life force energy or “qi” lives, so you can direct your focus towards whatever you’re trying to accomplish.
Love & Relationship
Stabilizing for relationships as well, aragonite is a great stone for resolving tension, conflict, and disputes. It grounds the inharmonious energy back down into the Earth, and brings things back into a state of balance and mutual respect. It’s great to use in your relationships or in larger groups to keep the sense of balanced respect flowing.
It’s also a stone that can enhance romantic relationships in particular, as it boosts your passion, confidence, and sexual energy, while grounding you in who you are. This helps you be true and authentic, so that you attract those who align with your real self. Aragonite can pull you down out of the Neptunian clouds of wistful thinking and illusory idealization and guide you back to more rational, grounded expectations in your relationships and the ability to maintain your boundaries and sense of yourself without getting swallowed up by the other.
You can keep an aragonite sphere, cluster, or tower in your office space where people gather, or in your living area or bedroom. You can set one beside a photograph of you and someone you’re currently in conflict with, or write down their name and the outcome or energy you’d like to achieve in your relationship, and place an aragonite on top. This can help you create stronger, more respectful boundaries within your relationship and dispel any disharmonious tension or conflicts that may be happening between you.
Shadow Work
As a deeply rooted and stabilizing stone, aragonite can help you discover the subconscious and root causes of any fear and angst you may be carrying with you, especially from early childhood. It aids you in seeing the connections between your past experiences and what you’re experiencing in the present, so you can consciously let go and choose a better path forward for yourself.
It’s also extremely helpful for emotional intensity or ups and downs, bringing more consistency and calm into your aura so you can see where these things are coming from. Whenever you’re emotionally overwhelmed or feel like you’re swimming in the shadows and can’t see your way out, aragonite acts like a tether back to reality, back to your center, back to this moment where all your power lives.
You can sit with it or journal with it by your side, as you ask yourself deep questions to dig into your subconscious and see what you may be holding onto that’s impeding your sense of stability and safety. Aragonite is strong and protective to support you in getting to the bottom of things with clarity and rationality, to develop the strength you need within yourself to help you grow. You can also massage, place, or tape it on your lower back to address feelings of fear, or sleep with it beneath your pillow or on your bedside table to reduce nightmares and fright.
Physical Healing
As a yang-rich stone carrying ample life force energy, aragonite is uplifting and invigorating to the physical body, and strengthening to the immune system. It consolidates the energy of the body down into our lower belly and lower back, which benefits neurological issues such as seizures, epilepsy, or manic episodes, by funneling the energy out of the head and back to your center. It can also help with spasms, twitching, convulsions, or any erratic bodily movements, as it’s stabilizing and calming to the nerves.
As a contributor to the skeleton of different marine life, it also benefits our physical skeleton, our bones, teeth, and the structural elements of our physical body. In Daoist stone medicine, it’s used to address osteoporosis and bone issues, low back pain and stiffness, weak knees, or poor growth in general.
Use an aragonite sphere or massage wand in downward strokes along the spine to help return your “qi” or vital life force energy back to your center. You can also lie down and rest with the stone at your root chakra, between your legs, to pull the energy back down to your lower body. This also helps to boost the immune system and increase your physical energy and vitality.
Self Care
An excellent stone for day-to-day mood swings, aragonite is a good one to carry with you in your pocket as it’s down by your root chakra, and you can pull it out to hold throughout the day when you need a moment of calm. It’s very helpful in your self-betterment journey when you want to make practical plans to take better care of yourself or fulfill your own needs, take action on them, and stick to them. Especially if you tend to give up on yourself or put yourself last on the list, aragonite will make sure you succeed in building up who you are first, so you can take care of everything else you need to.
Its slow and calming energy can also guide you through challenges in your life with more stability and strength. It will help you pause, be patient, and stop rushing your way through life. If you’re feeling overwhelmed or like things are moving too fast and are out of your control, aragonite will help you come back to the calm center within yourself.
Hold aragonite to help you balance your mood and find centering and calm. You can roll it in between your palms and feel its warmth increasing and flowing through your hands. Also, carrying it with you or having it near you throughout the day to keep its energy in your field will help you stay more balanced and on the path to your goals.
Ancestral & Past Life Work
As a stone with strong root chakra energy, aragonite connects you with the roots of who you are, physically, emotionally, and spiritually. It grounds you deeply into the Earth and into all the layers of its history and all the strength and stability contained within. This helps you tap into the wisdom of the Earth itself and those who walked it before you- your ancestors, past lives, and those journeying with you on your soul’s path.
It can also help you break the chains of the past, the stories you’ve inherited, and the karmic lessons you’ve brought with you that are holding you back in this life. These often live in our root chakra as wounding around our sense of power, belonging, or right to be ourselves, and aragonite helps us untether from the past, release it into the Earth, and root ourselves squarely within this moment. It connects your higher insight with the inherent wisdom that lives within your bones, so you can learn from the past without repeating its same cycles.
Sit comfortably while holding aragonite in your hands, down by your root chakra, and breathe. Envision yourself grounded, rooted into the earth, and ask those roots to release any wounds and stories you’ve inherited or accumulated from the past, to bring you into integrity in the present. Breathe and stay aware of the sensations in your body as you release. Then bring the strength, stability, and supportive energy of the Earth back up your roots to fill in all the areas where you’ve released. You can also ask to connect to the wisdom of your ancestors or of the Earth itself while holding aragonite and see what comes into your consciousness.
Meditation
Aragonite is a beautiful meditation stone to help you get out of your head and focus instead on the present moment and what’s right in front of you. It grounds emotional intensity and overthinking, anxiety, and stress, to root you back into your center. It brings patience, steadiness, and stillness. Sitting with it for even 5 minutes or so with awareness can help you calm your nervous system, settle back into your body, and feel secure within yourself.
As you meditate with aragonite, you can simply practice staying conscious of your breath. Notice where your breath is in your body and see if you can bring it lower down, all the way into your belly, and make each breath a little slower and a little longer. Notice how your awareness begins to settle down, out of the clouds of the mind and back into your body and your base. You can sit or lie down with it for longer periods of time to release unwanted emotional buildup and past wounds, and get centered in the present moment.
🧡 Our guided Aragonite meditation takes you on a journey to release the past & root into the present to gain strength & wisdom to reach your goals. 🤩
Aragonite
Our guided Aragonite meditation takes you on a journey to release the past & root into the present to gain strength & wisdom to reach your goals.
Aragonite Connections
Zodiac Signs & Ruling Planet
Capricorn
A gently calming, grounding, and stabilizing stone, aragonite greatly resonates with Capricorn energy. It helps you slow down, focus, and concentrate on what’s right in front of you, keeping you steady for each step forward that you take. It elicits Capricornian patience and rational-mindedness when you need it, whenever you’re feeling hyper, are moving too fast, or expecting too much.
Aries
Aragonite has a yang, forward-moving vibration, like the go-getter, take-action energy of Aries. It boosts your confidence and gently kicks you into gear. It helps you run with your passion and enthusiasm without burning out, as its steadiness tempers the Arien urge to rush ahead without a net, grounding overzealousness into practical reality so you can bring your visions to life.
Libra
Aragonite brings harmony in relationships and instills better listening, cooperation, and mutual respect, which are all in the realm of Libra. It helps you balance out any extremes, especially in how you use your time, helping you find more internal harmony. When Libran indecision hits, aragonite helps you explore your different options and better weigh your decisions so you can find your unique best path forward.
Saturn
Aragonite holds the structural integrity of Saturn, to boost us up, support our bodies and physical efforts, and help us grow sustainably, within ourselves and in our lives. It brings patience and increased endurance so you can keep going for the long haul, and helps you manage a variety of things, to be the boss of your life, and learn how to use your time and inner resources more wisely.
Sabian Symbol
Sabian Symbol
{The Sabian symbols are a set of channeled mental images that describe the energy associated with each degree of the zodiac wheel. Each Sabian symbol has been linked to a crystal that embodies the frequency and essence of that symbol’s energy.}
An Old Adobe Mission
Phase 301, Aquarius 1°
Bring this image to your mind of an old mission that was built hundreds of years ago out of adobe, built from the Earth itself. It has withstood the test of time. It’s remained durable, steady through all the storms of life, a sanctuary to return to that you can always count on. It offered respite, safety, and warmth, a place for prayer and contemplation, an opportunity to be still with yourself within the grounding protection of the Earth.
This is a beautiful image to align with the energies of aragonite, as it offers that same sense of grounded safety and protection and spreads that out into your whole auric field to surround you in its calming vibration. It is steady, patient, and enduring, guiding you to find the same energies within yourself so you can connect with calm and stillness, centered within the sanctuary of your own being.
Tarot Cards
Temperance
This card shows an angel beside a river with one foot on a rock and the other in the water, while it pours water from one cup into the other, with a long road behind them leading into the mountains. This symbolizes maintaining balance, in body, mind, and emotions, while staying grounded on the Earthly path and also connected to your higher consciousness. It’s a card about having moderation, patience, and finding the middle ground where you can stay steady and calm along the long road of life’s journey.
These are exactly the energies that aragonite helps you embody, instilling a sense of temperance and balance within you so that you stay on course, true to your purpose and path, aligned with both your Earthly and Divine wisdom. If you pull the Temperance card in a reading, aragonite can help you step into the calm and steady vibration it’s guiding you towards and stay patient through any twists and turns ahead.
Spirit Animal
Camel
Just like aragonite, a camel is an incredible symbol of endurance and patience, as they walk through even the harshest desert environments with a steady gait, focused and persevering. They are steadfast in their goals and can overcome obstacles through their resilience and inner strength, which is what aragonite instills within us.
Camels are a symbol of the long journeys we walk through life and can guide us to keep moving forward and navigate ourselves with wisdom. They conserve water, knowing how to use their energy and resources wisely. When they come into our lives as a spirit animal, they bring with them emotional stability and calm, to aid us in staying composed and forward-focused even through daunting challenges. This all greatly resonates with the same energies that aragonite brings into our lives.
Aragonite Varieties
Aragonite comes in a range of colors, all with similar healing qualities as described above, with a few differences:
Pink Aragonite
This powder pink to magenta variety of aragonite is from Pakistan, and can often be found mixed with pink or white calcite. It brings its calming, centering energies up into the heart to restore self-worth, release emotional wounds, and nurture a patient, steady heart.
White Aragonite
This opaque white variety of aragonite is often found in Mexico and Spain, and forms in layers of spiky crystals or botryoidal forms that look similar to puffy white clouds. It’s a more pure and clear vibration than other aragonites, lifting into the crown chakra to connect with the source of yang energy and bring it down through the whole body.
Blue Aragonite
Most blue aragonite originates from China and is a gorgeous, brilliant aqua shade. It retains the calm, grounding effect of other aragonite but focuses those qualities more on the throat chakra and kidneys, where we store emotional energy, making it excellent for helping you calmly express your emotions and stabilize your mood.
Crystal Pairings
Aragonite + Opal
Pair with opal, another stone that forms around water and is often found near aragonite, to enhance its creative, expressive qualities and help you calmly flow through life.
Aragonite + Calcite
Pair with calcite, its twin in chemical composition, to enhance the calming, cleansing effect and balance out aragonite’s warmth with calcite’s cooling qualities when necessary.
Aragonite + Red Garnet
Pair with red garnet to bring in some firepower to amp up your passion and personal power to pursue your goals with courage and heart.
Care + Cleansing for Aragonite
You can gently cleanse aragonite under warm water for a few minutes and then dry it with a soft cloth or on a sunny windowsill. You can recharge its yang energy by setting it in the sunlight for a short time, especially in lower light such as sunrise or sunset.
You can place it directly upon the Earth overnight for a more thorough cleansing, or even in the soil of a houseplant. This will allow it to disperse the energy it has collected back into the Earth and be recharged by its steady, life-supporting energies.
Do not leave your aragonite sitting in direct or intense sunlight, or immersed in water for long periods of time, as it is relatively soft and can become discolored or damaged.
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