Keywords: Strength ~ Prosperity
Hardness: 6 - 6.5
Zodiac: Aries, Virgo
Chakra: Heart
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Locations Found: Canada, China, New Zealand
Tarot Card: The Empress
Keywords: Strength ~ Prosperity
Hardness: 6 - 6.5
Zodiac: Aries, Virgo
Chakra: Heart
Planet: Venus
Element: Earth
Locations Found: Canada, China, New Zealand
Tarot Card: The Empress
Nephrite Jade is a stone of abundance and prosperity, helping you to attract wealth and success into your life. It is also a stone of love and compassion, promoting harmony and balance in relationships. Nephrite Jade is believed to enhance our connection to the natural world and the spiritual realm, helping you to tap into the wisdom and guidance of the universe. It is a powerful tool for meditation and spiritual growth, helping you to release negative emotions and find inner peace. It is also thought to be a protective stone and ward off negative energies.
In ancient China, it was considered a symbol of nobility and power, and was often used to create incredible jewelry and works of art from a stone they called yu, for thousands of years – this was actually nephrite. In New Zealand, the indigenous Māori people used Nephrite Jade to create weapons, tools, and other functional items.
In 1863, the mineralogist Alexis Damour distinguished jade and nephrite as two separate minerals. Jade (Jadeite) and Nephrite have distinctly different mineral compositions as jadeite is an aluminum-rich pyroxene, while nephrite is a magnesium-rich amphibole. Both share the same monoclinic crystal systems and are very strong. Nephrite is typically green in color due to iron. Brown can result from oxidized iron, sometimes the surface skin is dark brown. Also shades of white, gray, yellow, black and brown an be found. It has a waxy luster and is translucent to opaque in appearance. Nephrite has a unique fibrous structure that gives it its strength and durability.
Nephrite Jade pairs well with prosperity stones, such as Pyrite and Citrine. For heart healing combine Nephrite with Watermelon Tourmaline, Rhodonite and Rhodochrosite.