š¤Malachite
Properties
Malachite is a protection stone. It absorbs negative energies and pollutants. Malachite clears and activates the chakras and attunes to spiritual guidance. It opens the heart to unconditional love. Encourages risk-taking and change, breaks unwanted ties and outworn patterns, and teaches how to take responsibility for oneās actions, thoughts and feelings. Malachite releases inhibitions and develops empathy with others. Enables you to absorb and process information. Releases negative experiences and old traumas. Stimulates dreams.
History
The Egyptians used malachite in jewelry and art. They also ground it into a fine dust and used it in cosmetics and to ward off evil. Cleopatra's is thought to have been buried with a large vase of ground malachite for use in her afterlife.
Malachite was used as pigment in European paintings in the Renaissance period. It was used in paintings in the cysteine chapel
It was the Russian Romanov dynasty that really made malachite associated with luxury.
In 1835, a malachite boulder was discovered that would take 21 years to unearth and bring to the surface
Slabs from this 260-ton gem were used to decorate the interior of two Russian palaces; creating pillars, columns, and encased walls. This same boulder also supplied enough malachite to encase eight of the columns that support a two-hundred foot tall gilded altar in St. Isaac's Cathedral in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Malachite was also used in many of the Faberge eggs!