Mookaite
The Crystal of Rooted Presence
Virgo
Libra
Earth
Jupiter
Mookaite Guided Meditation
Our guided mookaite meditation takes you on a journey of spiritual expansion and connection with your body, tapping you into your inherent power and wisdom.
The message
Mookaite’s Message To You:
Barefoot upon the land
I’ll walk with you hand in hand
Guiding you on an inner journey
Into your roots and ancestry
To discover the power you hold inside you
The truth of your instincts to guide you
A faith in yourself that is unshaking
A steadiness within that is unwavering
Your power lies in each moment’s breath
In your connection to your body’s awareness
I’ll settle you down, build you back up,
Remind you that first, you must fill your own cup,
I’ll support your growth, spur you to act,
Help you find your purpose and path,
Be easier on yourself, follow the flow
And realize you already know just where to go
That home is inside you, and no matter how far,
You can always return, wherever you are.
Mookaite helps you to…
- Adjust to life changes
- Ground into your body
- Age gracefully and wisely
The Story of Mookaite
Born in the desert mountains in Western Australia near Mooka Creek, mookaite is a uniquely beautiful grounding stone found in only one place in the world. Mooka is an aboriginal word meaning “running water”, and Mookaite carries this gentle flowing energy of the natural springs that feed the creek, helping you flow more gently through the world, right around any obstacles, using presence instead of force.
A very earthy stone, Mookaite connects you to the spirit of the land and the Earth beneath you. It helps when you’re making intentional, big changes and life decisions, dropping you down into your center where you’ll know exactly the next step to take. It brings calm, safety, and stability from within, heightening your presence, awareness, and flexibility to move with whatever life brings without getting thrown off. Change, even when it’s positive, can bring anxiety and instability, and mookaite is a beautiful stone to keep you grounded through all of life’s exciting changes, so you can be present with the experience of all you’re moving through, and feel confident that you can and will get through it with ease and grace.
This beautiful stone can also help you soften criticism of yourself and others, to be easier, less judgemental, and go with the flow. If you’re someone who often feels under pressure or has a strong, inner push to succeed, Mookaite helps you be more gentle and accepting with yourself and where you’re at in life, to be present and find the value in what is. It’s a great choice to help you cultivate more mindfulness and appreciation for each moment as it comes.
It also helps support your inner growth process, encouraging you to explore the world, literally and metaphorically, opening you up to new awareness and perspectives, and different ways of being. It can seed an urge within you to travel so you can experience more of what different people, cultures, and areas of the world have to offer that you can’t find at home. This can also show up as a desire to expand your mind and learn more, and it can help you take in different perspectives, philosophies, and perceptions of the world we live in to see what rings true for you so you can cultivate your own wisdom.
It’s a stone for the blood that helps you access the wisdom of your bloodlines and ancestors, as well as the wisdom that flows through the pulse of the Earth itself. It can act as a pattern interrupter to break free from the inherited tethers of your DNA and access more of the inherent and natural gifts that run through your blood. It also helps with emotional and mental processing, settling the nerves and clearing the mind, bringing you back into a state where you can heal, restore your energy, and cultivate the strength to take on this big, beautiful world with gratitude and grace.
Mookaite Healing Properties
Element
Earth
Very grounding and connected to the Earth, mookaite helps you feel more safe, secure, and at peace within your own body, and in the present moment. This boosts your sense of self-worth and inner value, and helps you tap into a deep sense of belonging that can radiate into everything you do. It connects you to the nature within and around you, and helps you fulfill your commitments in life with more ease and pleasure.
In Daoist stone medicine, the Earth element relates to the spleen and our ability to properly “digest” what we consume, from food to thoughts to information. Mookaite aids in the digestion of these things and helps strengthen the spleen. When the spleen is imbalanced, it can often manifest as chronic fatigue, digestive issues, and anxiety, and mookaite can help bring these issues into balance, revitalizing your inner sense of stability and strength.
Mookaite also helps bring the visions of the mind down to Earth to make them real, encouraging you to take action on your inspired ideas and helping you connect with your internal confidence and strength to keep walking forward toward your goals. It’s not a stone of effort though, it’s a stone of ease, reminding you that you can move like a spring through the earth, trickling through every easy passageway, finding how to flow and adapt to whatever shape the environment takes. It brings resilience and the joyful determination to succeed.
Chakra
Root
Stabilizing and strengthening, mookaite connects you to your roots and to the power, strength, and nurturing energy of the Earth. The root chakra is where we feel a sense of belonging, security, and safety, and when these feelings are depleted or interrupted through trauma, pain, or holding onto the past, mookaite can clear the way and restore your vital root energy, nurturing and supporting your sense of safety and security from within yourself.
It helps boost your physical energy, endurance, and stamina, and drops you into your body’s instinctual knowing. The root is the first chakra to come online, the one that signals to us that we’re in a body, we’re here on Earth, and we must get all our physical needs met. Mookaite helps you address all those needs amply and easily, aligning you to the vital frequencies of the Earth to support your natural vitality and abundance in life.
The root chakra is also connected to our earliest childhood experiences and our ancestry, the roots from which we came. It’s where we store undealt with, suppressed, and unconscious fears in our body, which can hinder our ability to move forward in life. Mookaite helps clear these old and inherited fears out of the body, giving them to the Earth, to restore your vital essence and confidence.
Chakra
Solar Plexus
Stimulating and encouraging, mookaite increases excitement for what’s ahead and confidence that you can succeed, which are energies that live in the solar plexus. When big, exciting changes happen in life, such as getting married, having a baby, graduating, getting a new job or new home, mookaite is a really beautiful stone to have with you through the transition to keep you grounded and secure within yourself so you can experience these changes with joy and exuberance rather than anxiety and nervousness.
The Solar plexus is the seat of the soul, it’s the energy that moves us into the world, helps us take action, progress, and make our ideas manifest. Mookaite activates this essential energy within you, helping you take action, move forward, and walk the path towards your purpose, doing what you say you’re going to, following through, and keeping your commitments. When you feel stuck, anxious, worried, or unsure how to move forward, mookaite will help get your feet moving, step by step, releasing the fear and connecting you to your natural motivation and bodily knowing to guide you.
The solar plexus is connected to the energetics of our stomach, and it’s said that our “second brain” lives in the gut. Mookaite aids in gut health and digestion, both physically and energetically, encouraging you to allow your gut to guide you in making the best decision. When you’re stuck in your head, anxious, or indecisive, it can help you make a choice that’s based on your gut knowing and the innate intelligence of your body.
Energetic Qualities
Flowing
Mookaite moves energy, stirs up, and disperses qi. It breaks up stagnation in the blood and digestive systems and invigorates circulation. When you feel stuck or stagnant emotionally, mentally, or physically, it clears and moves out the dense energy, like clearing up muddy water, to bring ease and flow into your life again.
Centering
Mookaite focuses your energy into your core, uniting the upper and lower parts of your body, as well as the inner and outer experience of life, so you can feel centered and whole. When your nerves and anxiety are running high, it settles them down. When you’re feeling low and lost, it lifts you up. No matter your state of imbalance or extreme, mookaite subtly and gently guides you back to your inner center.
Cooling
Considered to be a cooling stone in Daoist stone medicine, mookaite calms heightened and heated emotions, settling the nerves, cooling stomach fire such as reflux or indigestion, bringing you back into a cool and collected state of being. This cooling essence is yin in nature, it’s restful and reparative.
Physical Properties
Appearance
Mookaite is a gorgeous and vibrantly colored stone in swirling shades of reds, ochres, purples, and whites. Its coloring reflects the beauty of the Australian landscape where it’s from. It is fully opaque and can be found raw or cut and polished.
Its golden yellow color is associated with motivation, determination, confidence, and courage, helping you take action, make decisions, and align your life with its highest essence. Its deep red color is associated with power, strength, and vitality, helping you step into your innate power and trust your instincts to guide you.
Composition
Mookaite is silicon dioxide with mineral inclusions, likely iron. It’s actually a type of fossiliferous sedimentary rock called radiolarian siltstone that formed on a marine shelf of ancient seas that have long ago receded, leaving sediment that was cemented into rock by the silica in the groundwater. This mix of ancient life forms contained within mookaite’s makeup are part of what makes it such a powerful stone for ancestral work, connecting you to the ancient echoes of wisdom within the Earth and all your ancestors that one trod upon its land.
Use Mookaite When...
you feel
judgmental, out of sync, unsure, stressed, anxious, unmotivated, stuck, down on yourself, internal pressure, lack of purpose, insecure, disconnected, lonely, exhausted, worried
you’re struggling with
indecision, insomnia, jetlag, time management, productivity, negative feelings around aging, ancestral wounds, self-worth, unconscious fears, unhealthy mental and emotional patterns
you want
confidence, calm, nurturing, support, presence, self-acceptance, security, connection with your body, ease in moving forward, success, heightened instinctual awareness, ancestral healing
Using Mookaite in Everyday Life
Manifestation
A beautiful stone to align you with your purpose, mookaite encourages you to take a gentle approach to life, to not push, strive, and effort your way through, but rather find that balance of knowing when to rest and knowing when to move forward, easily and effortlessly finding your path through the guidance of your internal compass. It can reorient your perspective, help you think wider, bigger, broader, more globally, making the everyday little worries and issues feel so small.
You can hold a big piece of mookaite and imagine you can release all your stress and worries into it, all the perceived barriers and things in the way of you getting where you want to go. The mookaite will graciously take it all on and ground it back into the Earth, leaving you feeling secure, purposeful, and like you belong here in this life, in this moment, in this body, which will attract many different opportunities into your life that had been closed to you before.
Hold your mookaite as you envision and dream about what you’re creating in your life, and ask it to help you release any mental or emotional patterns that are currently standing in your way of achieving that goal. It’s a stone of success and accomplishment, helping you ever so slowly and stridently move forward with resilience and ease, and be able to adjust to the flow of life wherever it carries you. Manifesting with mookaite will help you maintain security and confidence within yourself and trust in your inner guidance, so you can know that you’re heading in the right direction, even when you may have no idea where you’re going.
Love & Relationship
The most important relationship that mookaite helps with is the one you have with yourself. It’s one of the most beautiful stones for developing more self-acceptance and self-trust, and feeling more whole and supported from within. It aids with feelings of loneliness and grief from love lost, helping you drop into a sense of belonging within yourself, knowing that you are supported by your own body, by Nature, by the Earth, by your ancestors, by your blood- and that you are never truly alone.
It’s a nurturing stone that encourages you to take care of yourself first, to fill up your own cup so that you can pour into your relationships from overflow, rather than constantly giving your all to others and depleting yourself. It’s an excellent stone for parents, caregivers, teachers, and those who pour a lot of their energy into supporting and nurturing others all day long, as a tool to remind you to support and nurture yourself as well.
It also helps you be easier and more accepting of all those who you’re in relationship with. Keep it on you or near you to help lighten up your judgments and criticism, to soften your hard edges, and go with the flow more. Keep a mookaite sphere or pyramid in the center of a room where you gather with family or others, to bring a sense of grounded presence to the whole space, and everyone in it.
Shadow Work
Mookaite’s energy digs deep into the past, into the roots of who you are, helping you to both extrapolate the wisdom and heal the pain that you’ve been carrying in your blood. It’s a blood mover and healer, and this translates figuratively as being a stone that clears your bloodline and regenerates your life force energy.
Often our unconscious shadows are what are dimming and diminishing our life force in the first place, and mookaite helps clear through the doubts, fears, and suppressed emotions hiding in the shadows, and restores your energy from the inside out to help you embody a true state of confidence and inner power that can take you anywhere in life. For the unconscious fears that are holding you back from feeling safe and secure within yourself, holding you back from acting on your ideas and visions, mookaite is an excellent healing tool.
For a shadow release practice, stand tall with both feet firmly on the ground. Close your eyes and imagine roots grounding down and out of your feet, connecting you to the Earth. Hold your mookaite stone up to your solar plexus, on your upper abdomen below where your ribs meet, as you slowly breathe in through your nose, and slowly exhale out of your mouth. Imagine yourself exhaling all the shadowy fears out of your mouth as grey smoke, and keep breathing slowly, deeply, until the smoke starts to turn to white or dissipate completely.
Physical Healing
Mookaite helps break up stagnation in the blood and accumulations in the digestive system, aiding in stabilizing high triglycerides, high cholesterol, acid reflux, excessive appetite, and all sorts of digestive imbalances. It also aids in nervous system issues and can reduce the stress that leads to physical and digestive issues. Simply holding mookaite in your hand and taking some deep breaths will help your diaphragm release so you can breathe easier, improving gastrointestinal issues, and helping you enter a parasympathetic state to truly “rest and digest.”
It’s also a great stone to enhance blood circulation throughout the body. Aborigines used to use Mookaite to help heal cuts and injuries. You can place a stone on or near a wound, or wear it daily for healing and recovery. You can also make a mookaite elixir by placing a stone in water overnight and then using that water to cleanse the cut or wound, or any area of the body you’d like to bring more healing to.
Mookaite is also excellent for helping you tap back into the Earth’s frequencies wherever you are, making it great for traveling, especially as you cross time zones. It will help you ground and reorient your body to different places and bring it back into alignment with the Earth’s natural rhythms. This can relieve jetlag and insomnia, acclimating your circadian rhythm to wherever you are. Sleep with mookaite beneath your pillow or by your bedside to help with this, or hold or wear it throughout the day to keep you grounded and connected to your body.
Self Care
A wonderful way to work with mookaite is to bring it outside and hold it or place it near you as you connect with nature. It’s a great idea to get your bare feet on the natural earth and sit with your mookaite as you breathe and take in the beauty and presence of just being, allowing the energetic sustenance of the Earth to feed you and bring you back into harmony.
As we age and experience our bodies differently, and witness so many changes and what feels like degradation, mookaite can help you accept and find beauty in aging, restoring your sense of youthfulness in body, mind, and spirit, so you can approach life with more optimism and energy. It’s considered an “anti-aging” crystal that can be used in beauty routines, spells, or intentions around maintaining your youth and beauty as you age. Keep one in your bathroom and as you’re getting ready each day, remind yourself how beautiful it is to be alive, and you’ll start to see that inner beauty reflected back at you in the mirror.
Mookaite also increases your sense of self-worth and confidence in what you have to offer to the world, even if it’s simply just being present. That is enough. That’s what mookaite helps teach us, that presence alone in and of itself is a gift, and when we start to truly acknowledge and realize that and live with more presence, we see its gifts reflected in every beautiful thing around us, in all the new possibilities and experiences we get to have in each moment.
Intuitive Development
This empowering crystal can help you develop more faith in yourself and trust in your intuitive hunches. You can hold it over your solar plexus and ask yourself a question, and then listen to what your gut has to say. Mookaite engages your bodily intuition, the intelligence of your gut knowing, so you can begin to take action from those urges and let them guide you.
Also, for expecting parents, mookaite has a unique ability to help you intuitively communicate with your baby while it’s still in the womb. It’s an excellent stone to work with or keep on you while pregnant so you can tap into your body and your baby’s needs, and be able to instinctually, intuitively provide for yourself and your growing child more easily. Simply carry it with you in your pocket or wear it as a bracelet, or you can place a stone right over your belly to connect directly with the baby’s energy.
Mookaite also helps you intuitively tap into your ancestral wisdom and the intelligence of the land. It’s a stone of rootedness, psychologically, emotionally, and spiritually, rooting you into your inherent connection with your bloodline, with Nature, with stone and sky, so you can notice and learn from all the signs and signals being sent to you at any given moment. It helps you connect and ground your energy into the land you’re in, wherever you find yourself, bringing you always back into alignment.
Ancestral & Past Life Work
Mookaite connects you to the deep roots of your inherited wisdom and strength, helping you access your genetic inheritance and all the knowledge contained within it. You can use this stone to access your genetic memory, the stored information patterns in your ancestral lineage, to unlock more abilities, perspectives, and a deep sense of inner knowing. It aligns you back into the flow of the true nature of who you are, which is determined by your genetic lineage and the strength of the wisdom all those experiences hold.
It can help you better access and understand the ancestral patterns that are alive in your DNA, that have existed for generations, so you can break the ones that no longer serve who you are and where you’re going in your life, and create new cycles. It’s a healing stone that can not only heal your body in the here and now, but also help heal the ancestral wounds you’ve been carrying in your unconscious, and create new pathways and patterns to support future generations.
Meditate with your mookaite stone and ask it to help you bring those unhealthy ancestral patterns to the surface for acknowledgment and release. You can lay down with mookaite on your stomach or down by your root chakra and breathe, and feel it clearing away the energy and patterns that exist within you that aren’t aligned with your highest purpose, with your true reason for being. Visualize or take an inner journey with your mookaite and ask for guidance from your ancestors, ask for your true capacities to be revealed, ask for the support of all those who came before you to help lift you up in this life, and feel their stability and strength rising from the earth and moving into your body, into your very being.
Meditation
An excellent meditation stone, mookaite helps ground you down into the present moment, into your body, where you can access a state of calm centeredness and peace. It eases the mental chatter and spinning thoughts, helps settle the patterns and cyclical subconscious tapes running in the background of your mind, and allows you to drop into the gift of right now.
It’s especially helpful to bring outside with you as you meditate. Hold your mookaite over your stomach or down at your root chakra as you close your eyes and begin to deepen your breaths. See if you can send your breath deeper and deeper down into your belly as you breathe slowly. And you’ll start to notice a sense of rootedness, feeling grounded, centered, and internally supported. That’s mookaite’s slow and subtle essence working its way through your field.
💛 Our guided mookaite meditation takes you on a journey of spiritual expansion and connection with your body, tapping you into your inherent power and wisdom. 🏜️
Mookaite Guided Meditation
Our guided mookaite meditation takes you on a journey of spiritual expansion and connection with your body, tapping you into your inherent power and wisdom.
Mookaite Connections
Zodiac Signs & Ruling Planet
Libra
A beautiful stone of balance and adaptability, mookaite resonates with these Libran qualities, and evokes more beauty, pleasure, and grace in your life. It calms and settles too much of that mental, Libran air energy, grounding it into tangible action and helping you get clear in moments of indecision. It also helps you adapt in different situations as agile Libra can, but without people pleasing or losing yourself, holding you strongly to your center to guide your way through any situation.
Virgo
Aligned with Virgo energy, mookaite helps you take care of yourself, nurture your body, eat better, and commit to your daily responsibilities with more ease. It relieves the anxiety and worry that can accompany Virgo energy and connects you back to the strength of the Earth that Virgo holds within it. Like the mutable energy of Virgo, mookaite helps you adjust, to see new perspectives and ways to move forward that are easier, more effective, and more aligned with your Soul’s calling.
Jupiter
Mookaite is a stone that expands your worldview, expands your horizons, and connects you to your spiritual consciousness, which are all very Jupiterian themes. It enhances your sense of adventure and excitement for the journey ahead, and encourages inner and outer exploration, driven by your internal guidance system. It’s a great crystal to bring with you traveling, especially far away, across time zones, to help you adjust to the time, place, culture, and community you find yourself in, wherever you are.
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.}
A Rooster Heralding the Dawn
Phase 203, Libra 23*
Bring this image to your mind of the first moments of the rising sun, and a rooster enthusiastically welcoming its light, loudly and proudly announcing to all those in earshot that a new day has begun! This symbol represents a grateful and joyous response to life, a glorification of the gift that is this precious, present moment. It’s a symbol of confidence and anticipation for all the amazing possibilities and opportunities the new day brings.
No matter what happened the day before, the rooster is excited to meet the Sun on each new day, and mookaite carries this same beautiful essence of being excited and grateful just to be alive and experience this Earth. When you’re feeling low or lost, stuck or stagnant, like you can’t find the adventure and joy in life, mookaite will point you back to your true north and reorient you to your path and purpose, so you can feel excited and joyful for each new day as it comes.
Tarot Cards
The Empress
The empress is the embodiment of nurturing, abundance, and creativity, and much like mookaite, she holds a deep connection to the natural world and its cycles. She sits calm and centered, surrounded by the brilliant abundance of nature, present and appreciative of all that she has in this moment. The Empress invites you to nurture yourself more, to adapt and stay resilient along the path of growth, and to create a fertile playground within yourself from which all the seeds of your dreams can bloom into reality.
Mookaite brings you into this same state of being that the Empress embodies, one that is present, grateful, grounded, and guided by the forces of nature around and within you. The Empress invites beauty and abundance into her life through growth and change, and mookaite is a perfect companion to help you do the same. It will keep you steady and resilient, ever moving forward towards your purpose, and help you nurture and appreciate your body and its innate intelligence, and the abundance of all of Nature that surrounds you.
Spirit Animal
Kangaroo
Just like mookaite, this unique creature is native only to Australia, and they are both beautiful symbols of adaptability, agility, and strength, to help you overcome inner and outer obstacles by trusting your instincts and having faith in yourself. The kangaroo spirit is also nurturing and protective, a metaphor to keep moving forward and tap into your inner fortitude to carry on.
This dynamic and curious animal’s energy is all about staying centered and grounded and knowing exactly when to act, which is exactly what mookaite can help you tap into. Kangaroos have the ability to adapt to many different situations, which is what this Australian stone also evokes within you, guiding you to stay centered through change and more easily flow around whatever obstacles life throws your way.
Crystal Pairings
Mookaite + Red Jasper
Pair with red jasper to boost your energy, endurance, and courage to go after what you want in life. These two will keep you walking the path of your purpose with strength.
Mookaite + Carnelian
Pair with carnelian to boost your creativity and passion and help you relish in the exuberant joy of life as you work to fulfill your desires and fill your own cup.
Mookaite + Moss Agate
Pair with moss agate for a double dose of nurturing, nature-loving energy to help you embrace change and inner growth with a deep sense of rootedness and support.
Care + Cleansing for Mookaite
For a quick cleanse, you can hold mookaite under warm running water for a few minutes, and then dry it with a soft cloth. You can do this anytime after you’ve used it for a healing treatment or meditation, or once every month or so for regular care.
You can also give it a more thorough cleanse after some deep ancestral cleasing or shadow work by placing it directly upon the Earth, or even burying it, and leaving it there overnight. The Earth’s natural frequencies will release and restore what’s necessary, and return the stone to a state of natural balance.
You can recharge mookaite’s vital essence by placing it outside in the early morning or evening sunshine for a couple hours around sunrise or sunset, or you can leave it on a bed of hematite stones for a day.
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This stone is new to me. Thank you for your Xcellent overview! Tho I’m 77 and a student of astrology and esoteric arts for a half decade, I learn so much from MoonOmens. I hope to find a nice sample of Mookaite at my nearby Theosophical Society’s Quest Bookshop. Always a treat to visit the beautiful grounds of their national headquarters in Wheaton IL, and their charming LIBRARY. A great resource since I discovered it in high school! Esoteric books were NOT widely published an available in the mid 60s, before the counterculture bloomed.
I meant A HALF CENTURY, not a half decade …