Opal is a faceted stone both in its physical form but also with its healing properties. This precious stone comes in different colors and shapes. At the heart of it, Opal is a transformative stone that helps you see the truth in yourself and others. It also symbolizes hope, innocence, and purity.
Whenever you feel stifled from the repressed emotions festering in your heart, Opal can help open your doors for release.
Discover how Opal can help you uncover the truth and bring in harmony with your life.
But first, what are the origins of this sought after stone?
Opal’s name came from the Sanskrit word “upala,” which means precious. There is a belief that this stone can help one travel unseen in the otherworlds, which is why shamans often use it.
Greek and Roman mythology also believed that Opal was associated with the messenger god Hermes/Mercury, especially when he helps souls of the dead to the underworld.
Opal comes in different colors and varies from white, blue-green, blue, pink, black, yellow, brown, red, and purple. It is also usually clear, milky, iridescent, or fiery in appearance.
Today, Opal can be found in Australia, Mexico, Peru, South America, Britain, Canada, the US, Honduras, and Slovakia. It can be easily found, but crystallographers highly prize this stone due to its precious state.
Healing Properties
Opal resonates with the third eye chakra and heavily influences the truth. It symbolizes hope, purity, and innocence.
Alongside this, Opal is a highly self-aware stone that reflects and magnifies your thoughts back to you so you can better understand them.
It is a karmic stone and teaches you that what you put out on to the world comes back around.
This transformative stone helps you identify untruths and deceptions from yourself as well as others. By standing with truth, Opal reveals your most authentic self and aids you to live a life that aligns with your purpose.
On a physical level, Opal is highly beneficial when it comes to eye conditions. Its high silica content was said to help hair, nails, and skin.
Crystal workers also use Opal to stabilize emotions and purifies the blood. It is also used during distance reiki healing.
Because this stone draws out the truth, it also helps you be more comfortable in your own skin. It stimulates originality and allows you to embrace spontaneity and creativity.
When it comes to matters of the heart, Opal invokes love, desire, and passion. It is a seductive stone that releases inhibitions and intensifies emotional states while also balancing them if needed.
More than anything else, Opal helps you to be pure of heart and strengthens your power of thought.
Here’s a list of the benefits of other Opal stones depending on their color.
Chrysopal (Blue-Green)
- Encourages openness to you and others
- It aids you to perceive the world with “new” eyes and alleviates emotional burden caused by repressed emotions
Blue Opal
- It soothes emotions and realigns spiritual purpose
- Enhances communication skills and releases pent up emotions
Black, Brown, Gray Opal
- Resonates with the sacral chakra and is used for releasing sexual tensions
Cherry Opal
- Aids in centering your emotions and relieves headaches as well as menopausal symptoms
Fire Opal
- Enhances your personal power and brings in change and progress
- Releases deep-seated feelings of grief and helps you let go of the past
Green Opal
- Promotes emotional recovery
Hyalite (Water Opal)
- Mood stabilizer that enhances meditation
How To Use Opal
Once you have adopted an Opal crystal, it is vital to cleanse and charge it first. Cleansing can be done through white light visualization or by exposing it to moonbeams.
However, you should avoid immersing Opal in water as it is a soft stone and fracture easily when exposed to this element.
Wear as jewelry
The ideal way to use Opal is to wear it either as a necklace, pendant, earrings, ring, or bracelet. Having it with you at all times can help you feel more confident and reassured of your own power.
Opal is also a great lie detector, and you can use it to determine if someone is untruthful to you. Alongside this, it can also help you be more authentic rather than let yourself be clouded with mental blocks.
Self-sabotage is elusive yet perpetual in your life, but with Opal at hand, you can begin to identify when you’re spiraling down that path again. It demands you to stay rooted and only speak your truth.
An Opal jewelry piece can also act as a protective charm. This is because it protects one from the evil eye. The evil eye is the malicious glare or intent of someone desiring for your misfortune.
The best way to use this is by wearing it as a necklace or a bracelet.
Use as a palm stone for manifestation.
Palm stones are a great tool to incorporate into your daily meditation. But Opal can also act as a manifestation stone. You just have to hold it in your left hand and project what kind of “truth” you want to embody or achieve this day.
Use as a pendulum
A pendulum is a tool used to connect to your higher self and guides you with some clarity of thought to your questions. Since Opal is connected to the throat and heart chakra, it can give you some insight.
To use a pendulum, hold it with your left hand as it is the nearest to your heart. Start by cleansing it and ask it to show you what “yes” or “no” is, then swing it.
A yes can be a circular swing, and a no maybe a horizontal swing. It differs from every user, and then you start asking it basic questions like “Is my name____” to connect with it.
After that, you can start asking it. However, it should be noted that pendulums are only a tool and not something that you should overly depend on to dictate your decisions.
Opal is a powerful stone that sheds light on your thoughts and your truth. It stabilizes your emotions, helps you be self-aware, and protects your energy from the ill wishes of other people.
