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Labradorite Palm Stone — Aurora Veil.
A palm-sized dome of Madagascar labradorite, gray-green at rest until the light catches it and a sheet of electric blue and gold sweeps across, like the northern lights under your thumb.
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About this product
Turn it slowly by lamplight. At rest it is an unremarkable gray-green, almost like slate; then the angle catches and a sheet of electric blue and gold sweeps across the surface, gone again the instant the stone turns. This is a palm-sized dome of labradorite from Madagascar, cut and hand-polished until it sits smooth and cool against the thumb.
The flash, called labradorescence, comes from thin layers within the feldspar that interfere with light, not from any dye or coating, and no two stones flash quite the same way. Each one is graded by hand for the strength of its flash. Inuit legend holds that the northern lights were once trapped in the rocks along the Labrador coast until a warrior's spear struck them loose, and that labradorite is the fragment of fire that stayed behind. Elsewhere in the north, folklore carried it as a guard for the traveler and a stone of inward sight.
Details
- Labradorite palm stone from Madagascar
- Hand-polished dome, palm-sized
- Natural flash, with no dye or coating
How to use
Keep it in your hand rather than on a shelf, and turn it in a window or by lamplight instead of under one fixed light. It is sold as a curiosity, with no medical or scientific claims beyond the geology of its flash.
Bring a little of the aurora home.
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Labradorite Palm Stone — Aurora Veil
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