Orange Orthoclase Rough with Epidote Inclusions | Small | 30-60gms
🌎 Source: Madagascar
🌙 All of our rough pieces are sized not by eye, but by weight so we can be sure all pieces within a size are cohesive. The weight range for these Small roughs is as follows:
⚖️ Weight Range: 30-60gms
Stone Meaning
GROWTH | ABUNDANCE | RENEWAL
AFFIRMATION: “I nurture what helps me grow and make space for opportunities that honour my worth.”
BEST FOR: Setting intentions for growth; reflecting on unhelpful patterns; cultivating gratitude and confidence
CHAKRA: Heart • Solar Plexus
SIGNS: Gemini, Virgo
ELEMENT: Earth
PLANET: Jupiter
COMPANION STONES: Prehnite (heart-centred reflection), Smokey Quartz (grounding during change), Citrine (optimism and abundance intentions), Rose Quartz (self-compassion), Clear Quartz (clarity of intention)
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Epidote is the green crystal with a growth agenda. Earthy, occasionally dramatic and very comfortable taking up space, it brings a useful question to your spiritual practice: what are you giving your attention to, and is it actually helping you?
Think of it as a reminder to water your ambitions, review your boundaries and stop giving every passing doubt a permanent office in your head. Personal growth can come with standards, darling.
Metaphysical Properties:
In contemporary crystal traditions, Epidote is associated with amplification, abundance and personal growth. Practitioners use it during intention setting to focus on qualities they want to cultivate, including gratitude, creativity and openness to opportunity. These are spiritual associations rather than established mineral effects. Crystal Council
Its Heart Chakra symbolism lends itself to exploring self-worth, generosity and the patterns you’re ready to change. The Solar Plexus connection brings a practical prompt: choose one action that supports the future you keep imagining.
You don’t have to be relentlessly positive to work with it. Honest feelings belong in the process too.
Emotional & Spiritual Benefits:
As a focus for reflection and ritual, Epidote can represent:
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Growth rooted in self-respect and realistic expectations
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Gratitude for what is already working
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Courage to recognise and change unhelpful habits
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Openness to new ideas and opportunities
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Compassion while taking responsibility for your choices
Scientific Fun Fact:
Epidote is a calcium aluminium iron sorosilicate, commonly found in metamorphic rocks and rocks altered by hot fluids. It crystallises in the monoclinic system and often forms elongated crystals with fine grooves along their length.
Its name comes from the Greek for “increase”, referring to its crystal geometry. That geological name later became a natural fit for its modern abundance symbolism. With a Mohs hardness of 6–7, it resists scratching reasonably well, but its brittleness and perfect cleavage mean crystals can still chip or split when knocked. Handbook of Mineralogy
When to Use Epidote:
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During goal setting and abundance rituals
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While journalling about habits you’re ready to change
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When a new opportunity calls for confidence and preparation
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In gratitude practices that leave room for honest feelings
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Any time your next chapter needs a deliberate first step
ALTERNATIVE NAMES: Pistacite (historical name associated with green Epidote)
MINERAL FAMILY: Silicate • Sorosilicate • Epidote group
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Monoclinic
COLOUR: Pistachio green, yellow-green, olive and deep green to greenish black; sometimes yellow
ORIGINS: Widespread; notable sources include Austria, Pakistan, France, Norway, Italy, Namibia, Mexico and the United States, including Alaska. Handbook of Mineralogy
RARITY: Widespread as a mineral; transparent material suitable for faceting is rare. National Museum of Natural History, Sofia
Epidote’s message: give your growth some attention. Your potential has waited long enough for a calendar invite.
What is intuitively chosen?
When you see the below bold sentence on a listing of ours, it means we have multiple of that stone and we will pick one that we feel is right for you. We call them intuitively chosen pieces because we use our intuition to choose a piece we feel is calling us for you - a piece that is absolutely meant to be yours. We are huge believers in the crystal chooses the owner, not the other way around.
We do our best to make sure that the listing photos and information accurately depicts what we have available so you have an idea of what is coming your way, but the rest is up to the universe.
If you don't see the below on our listing, it's because it is a one off piece and we guarantee that what is pictured is the exact piece you will receive.
"Price is per one piece, intuitively picked for you. The pictures represent the quality and sizing you can expect to receive however please note that stone is unique and one of a kind so there will be slight variations."
Shape significance
Using crystals for their spiritual and healing properties can be fun and fascinating and is a killer way to connect with the earth’s energy. But, when you really start digging into the magickal world of sparkly stones, it can start getting really overwhelming.
Not only do crystals come in every colour of the rainbow and serve different intended purposes, they are also found in many different shape formations. Newbies to the crystal world may think the way a stone is cut or shaped is purely aesthetic, but there’s a little more to a crystal’s shape than meets the eye. Just as the colours of the stones convey unique meanings, crystal shapes also matter. And while experts say that the structure of a crystal doesn’t change the type of energy it emits, the shape DOES affect the way you receive said energy.
We've put together a handy blog for you to learn about the possible reason or meaning behind the forms of crystals you're drawn to here
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