Lapis Lazuli

Element

Air

Wind

The air element is associated with the mental realms of thought and perception, but wind is the air in movement, making lapis lazuli a stone that moves thought and shifts awareness, sweeping in new ideas, perspectives and wisdom.

Like a breeze that blows away confusion and fog from the mind, lapis instills clarity, focus, and a widened perception. It helps you gain an eagle-eye view of your life, your purpose, your past, and your future, allowing you to soar through the winds of change with heightened awareness.

Wind is connected to the breath, and lapis activates and enhances the flow of breath within you helping you speak up and express yourself truthfully, release anxiety and confusion, and breathe in all the abundance and sweetness that life has to offer.

The element of wind brings transformation and lapis lazuli is a beautiful stone to carry with you when you’re in the midst of big awakenings and revelations in life. It helps you let go of what’s no longer nourishing you or helping you grow, like a tree in autumn losing its leaves, clearing space for the creation of what’s new to rise within you.

Chakra

Throat

Lapis lazuli resonates with the essence of truth, and truth is expressed through the throat chakra. When you’re feeling pressured, stifled, or blocked, like you have to bite your tongue, or aren’t even sure what your personal truth is because it’s so clouded with other people’s ideas and expectations, lapis acts like a lightning bolt of clarity allowing you to see the truth of who you are, to step into it, and express it in your life.

Empowering and freeing for the throat chakra, this blue beauty connects you with your authentic voice, the voice of your higher wisdom and ancient knowing, the voice of your soul. It helps you express your thoughts and emotions more clearly, to speak with conviction and confidence.

Lapis grounds your creative expression onto the earthly plain, reminding you to choose your words more carefully, consciously, as you begin to see more clearly how you can speak your reality into being. You are the creator of your life, and this is a stone that aligns you back with the truth of what you came to this earth to create.

Wear it on the neck to bring more balance, flow, and ease to your communication and also to help regulate the thyroid gland.

Chakra

Third Eye

A beautiful stone for the mind, lapis lazuli strengthens your inner vision and helps you access the deepest wisdom you hold within. It’s a cleanser and amplifier for the third eye chakra that aids in releasing mental clutter, anxiety, and overwhelm so you can hone in on a crystal-clear vision of who you are and what you’re here for.

This is a stone that shares a deep and wide vision for your life, that will not let you rest on your laurels or safe in your comfort zone. It knows the higher purpose you’re here for, the ancestral magic you hold, and the echoes of your soul’s long lineage, and its purpose here is really to connect you back to your own.

Lapis brings clarity, insight, and ahas, strengthening your clairvoyance, concentration, and memory. It opens the mind’s channels to your highest self, bringing the gems of wisdom that have been lying in the dark of your unconscious to the light of your awareness, so you can see the truth of your magic and potential.

Lapis lazuli is one of the best stones to have by your side as you develop your intuition. It will point your internal compass back to your true north, orienting you to your integral truth, and helping you shed all the patterns, blocks, layers of conditioning, and false beliefs that have been clouding your view of how powerful you really are.

Energetic Qualities

Harmonizing

Balancing for the mind, body, and spirit, lapis lazuli lifts low energy up, raising consciousness and awareness, heightening compassion and clarity, and soothing confusion and chaos. It brings order and harmony, grounding higher energies to the physical plane.

Cooling

Lapis lazuli has cooling energy that benefits conditions or emotions where heat rises, such as high blood pressure, fever, anger, or frustration. This cooling quality helps excess heat descend and disperse from the body & emotions when necessary.

Nourishing

A very nourishing stone, lapis invigorates blood in the liver allowing it to move more freely to the heart. This frees stuck emotions and fills the heart with a sense of “enoughness”, like you have enough and are enough, exactly as you are.

Physical Properties

Appearance:

Lapis Lazuli is most often found in a rich, royal blue with flecks of gold and sometimes patches of white. It can range from deep violet-blue to light or turquoise blue though.

*Note: Sometimes what’s sold as lapis is actually another stone dyed blue, so look for the shimmering inclusions of golden pyrite for a clue that it’s the real thing.

Blue symbolizes renewal and healing, truth and freedom of expression. Deep blue connotes diving into the depths of your awareness and unearthing new wisdom. And the golden sparkles bring in a divine connection of the highest vibration.

Composition:

Lapis lazuli is made up of a mix of many different crystal varieties, which technically makes it a rock! A most magical rock indeed. The vibrant royal blue at its base is either a crystal called lazurite, or its more translucent cousin, hauyne.

These blue crystals combine with many others including pyrite (which provides the flecks of gold found within it) and calcite (which is often the white matrix its found in) along with sodalite, diopside, mica, and other minerals to create the uniquely beautiful stone we call lapis lazuli.

Its formation carries many different crystal structures within it, making it “amorphous” and able to support us through all the shifting and changing we do in our own lives.