week 25 Topaz what can ya share or learn about this stone?

[Apachestone]

LOCALITIES ABOUT 20 PLACES IN COLORADO CALIFORNIA AUSTRAILIA AFRICA ALASKA BRITISH COLUMBIA TOPAZ IS A COMMON STONE FOUND THROUGH OUT THE PLANET THESE ARE A FEW PLACES YOU CAN COLECT ON YOUR OWN.
REFRANCES FOUND AT www.mindat.org (this is a rock hounds dream site for collecting on your own)

Other Names for Topaz
Synonyms: Chrysolithos Colorado Topaz Physalite Pyrophysalite Silver Topaz
White Topaz

Other Languages: Arabic: زبرجد

Basque: Topazio

Bosnian (Latin Script): Topaz

Bulgarian: Топаз

Croatian: Topaz

Czech: Topaz

Danish: Topas

Dutch: Topaas

Estonian: Topaas

Finnish: Topaasi

French: Topaze

German: Topas

Hebrew: טופז

Hungarian: Topáz

Italian: Topazio

Japanese: トパーズ

Korean: 황옥

Lithuanian: Topazas

Norwegian (Bokmål): Topas

Persian: زبرجد هندی

Polish: Topaz

Portuguese: Topázio

Romanian: Topaz

Russian: Топаз

Simplified Chinese: 黄玉

Slovak: Topás

Slovenian: Topaz

Spanish: Topacio

Swedish: Topas

Turkish: Topaz

Ukrainian: Топаз



Varieties: Imperial Topaz Pyknite


Formula: Al
2
[(F,OH)
2
|SiO
4
]

System: Orthorhombic Colour: Colourless, white, pale ...
Lustre: Vitreous Hardness: 8

Name: Named after Topasos Island in the Red Sea. In antique times, the name was probably used for the gemstone that is now known as peridot.



Occcurs in pegmatites and high-temperature quartz veins, also in cavities in granites and rhyolites.
Topaz crystaUizes in the form of water worn pebbles and prismatic crystals,
sometimes verticaUy striated and sometimes with weU-developed terminations. The
colour range includes pink, green red, gold, yeUow, blue, white, red-yeUow, brown,
grey, and colourless.
It is known as a "stone of true love and success in all endeavors".
It can promote individuality and creativity, whUe providing for confidence in trusting
ones decisions. It acts to replace negativity with love and joyfulness.
This mineral helps one to understand botii the actions occurring in the "big picture"universe that enables you to "be" rather than to "do." It cuts through
doubt and uncertainty.
Topaz's vibrant energy brings joy, generosity, abundance, and good
health. It has traditionally been known as a stone of love and good
fortune, bringing successful attainment of goals. It is extremely
supportive for affirmations and manifestation, and for visualization.
It is said that the facets and ends of a Topaz crystal have both positive
and negative energies through which a request to the universe can be
focused and then manifested on the earth plane.
Excellent for cleaning the aura* and for inducing relaxation,Topaz
releases tension at any level and can speed up spiritual development
where it has been laborious.
Psychologically,Topaz helps you to discover your own inner riches.
It makes you feel confident and philanthropic, wanting to share your
good fortune and spread sunshine all around. Negativity does not
survive around joyful Topaz. This stone promotes openness and honesty,
self-realization, self-control, and the urge to develop inner wisdom.
Mentally.Topaz aids problem-solving and is particularly useful for
those engaged in the arts. It helps you to become aware of the
influence you have and of the knowledge you have gained through hard
work and life experiences. This stone has the capacity to see both the
bigger picture and the minute detail, recognizing how they interrelate.
Topaz assists in expressing ideas and confers astuteness.
Topaz is an excellent emotional support—it stabilizes the emotions
and makes you receptive to love from every source.
HEALING Topaz can be used to manifest health. It aids digestion and
combats anorexia, restores the sense of taste, fortifies the nerves, and
stimulates the metabolism. Saint Hildegard of Bingen recommended
an elixir of Topaz to correct dimness of vision.
and die interrelationships occurring in the minute detail which comprises die "big
picture". It promotes me expression of ideas and instiUs a trust in the universe such
that one may feel comfortable with the potential outcome of a situation without
"doing". It assists one in "cutting-through" the curtains of uncertainty and trepidation,
precipitating astute reasoning abUities and promoting the release of feelings of
annoyance engendered by the loop-hole known as doubt.
It is said to have been one of the stones used in the breastplate of the high priest.
The energy of the topaz acts through the laws of attraction and manifestation. The
gentle shades of topaz serve as a catalytic trigger for the manifestation activities,
while die vibratory resonance acts witii an etiiereal magnetic effect.
The ends and facets of a topaz crystal [as well as faceted topaz] provide both positive
and negative currents. This is quite different from quartz. These alternating currents
are linked via the etiiers to the forces of manifestation through which attraction and
desire are promulgated. When a request is directed through the topaz to the object
or to the thought form which is desired, the topaz acts as a conductor for the message
- sending the message to the ethers via a closed circuit of current which penetrates
the energy field related to manifestation. The message is then relayed to the
universal mind which, in turn, refines the information and assures that die intent is
for the good of aU, before sending the transmission directiy toward actualization on
die physical plane. The energies of topaz transcend botii time and space, inducing
finely-tuned cooperation and rewards which grow from the idea/ideal which one
desires to manifest.
This mineral is the "crystal of potency", quite instrumental in visualization [for
healing and/or attracting], in meditation, and in projection. It helps one to absorb that
which is needed from the universe, prompting receptivity and wUUngness to act. It
helps one to creatively change ones personal world, enhancing awareness and
inducing the states of expansiveness and manifestation.
The topaz crystal is considered quite precious by the African bushmen, being used
in ceremonies for heaUng and for connecting with the spirits who have departed from
this plane. It is considered to bring wealtii and healtii to the holder.
Use of the topaz in a silver wand provides an additional conductor to botii transmit
and activate tiiat upon which tiiere is conscious focus. When the energies projected
from the topaz crystal [in the sUver wand] are consciously directed into die psychic
channels where the health aura can be accessed, die atoms belonging to this area can
be modified and altered through ones conscious focus. This usage can aid
significantly in the removal of "useless" elements within the aura, making room for
expansion and reconstruction to occur. The sUver wand responds to mental and
emotional intensity; tiiese quaUties are fused by die electrical properties of the topaz
crystal, bringing forth the laws of attraction and manifestation. The alternating
current of die topaz crystal working through the sUver wand provides for an
additional conductivity factor which amplifies the force field and allows for the
maximum utilization of the potential energy.
When the topaz is used in conjunction with amethyst, it both gives and receives
energy from me amethyst, facUitating the utilization of the laws of attraction and
manifestation for the good of aU; the amethyst further provides for the transmutation
of undeveloped energies into spiritual vibrations to produce a soothing, clearing, and
stabilizing effect. This combination of minerals is quite useful for both white magic
and healing.
It can be used to manifest health and to correct disorders witiiin die body. It has
been used in the treatment for the loss of sense of taste, and in the healing of wounds
and skin eruptions. Use of topaz as an elixir is an exceUent metiiod of dispersing the
energy tiiroughout the body; it can be taken internaUy and can be used topicaUy.

When using the elixir, the request is directed through the etixir to the visuaUzed state
of that which is desired.
Topaz is a mellow, empathetic stone that directs energy to
where it is needed most. It soothes, heals, stimulates, recharges,
remotivates, and aligns the meridians of the body. Topaz promotes truth
and forgiveness. It helps shed light on the path, highlights goals, and
taps into inner resources.This crystal brings about a trust in the

[Seafyre Love]

Blue Topaz

Blue Topaz is a wonderful stone for self expression and communication. It allows one to clearly verbalize their desires and needs. Use Blue Topaz when you feel a need to communicate your thoughts in a fashion which is easily understood by others.

Topaz is a mineral species from the orthorhombic crystal system. Topaz occurs in the colors yellow, orange, brown, pink to red to purple-red, light to dark blue, light green, and colorless. It is a transparent gemstone which you usually see faceted. Many of the faceted gemstones you see on the market are enhanced through heat or irradiation. This improves the color and appearance of each stone, thus commanding a higher price per caret. Topaz is fairly abundant; the main producers are Brazil, Nigeria, and Burma.

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Topaz
by Stephanie Pflumm

When the Greek scholar Pliny wrote that Topaz gave man strength and protected him from poison, he might have actually been writing about Citrine. The huge (weighs 1,680 carats) Portuguese crown jewel, the Braganza, is a beautiful clear Topaz was thought for a few centuries, to be a diamond. Even the origins of the name Topaz stirs confusion. Some references point to a Sanskrit word tapas, that means Fire. Or was it named for Zebirget, an island in the Red Sea that the Greeks once called Tapazius? Except that Peridot is the gem currently mined on the island.

Today's scholars write with a higher degree certainty on the properties and origins of the Topaz crystal. Aluminum, silicate (Quartz), fluoride and hydroxide molecules were bonded together during volcanic eruptions. Left to cool in pegmatite's and granitites for thousands of year, the aluminum bonding with the oxygen (hydroxide) formed a chain of connected octahedrons, held together by silicate tetrahedrons, that sometimes grew into gigantic crystals.

One of the largest Topaz ever found was a 600 pound specimen in Brazil. You can see it today at the Museum of Natural History in New York. A rare, perfect blue gemstone was discovered in the Ural Mountains of Russia in 1965. It weighed 100 kilograms. In Norway, a 137 pound crystal was found in 1901 that was two feet long.

Its unique crystal structure makes Topaz a hard and dense gemstone. In fact, pure clear Topaz has often been mistaken for Diamond because of their similar density, clarity and hardness. Topaz crystals can terminate in a variety of ways, some are dome-shapped, pyramids, prismatic, tabular and often with striations.

Its crystalline formation also allows the gem to hold an electric charge for up to 30 hours. You can charge a Topaz by rubbing it with your fingers. Some Brazilian stones acquire a charge just by holding the ends of the crystal between your fingertips. Heating the gem then allowing it to cool slowly builds an electrified charge greater than any achieved with other stones. Plus the stone will retain that energy for more than a day after cooling down.

Most Topaz is found in its purest form, clear. Sometimes referred to as silver or white Topaz. Blue and green are the rarest colors. Most commercial blue Topaz are clear crystals that have been irradiated then heat treated to create the color. Imperial, or golden Topaz is the second most common variety. These stones often contain chromium and are heat-treated to bring out a rosy-red to pink hue in the gem. Pink Topaz does occur naturally more often than the rare blues. Still it's always best to ask your jeweler if the stones you are considering have been treated to enhance their color.

Topaz is found around the globe; Australia, North and South America, Russia, Sri Lanka, Japan, Tasmania, Africa, Pakistan, Norway and China. Tourmaline, Fluorite, Quartz and Mica are just some of the gemstones that can occur with it.

Many ancient traditions and beliefs have created a brilliant history for Topaz. Clear, terminated Topaz was referred to as an iris stone because of is double refractive qualities and the way its facets would project Light's rainbow spectrum. If worn in a ring on the left hand, the gem was believed to restrain lustful desires.

Egyptians thought the Imperial Topaz was the captured light of the Sun God Ra. It was worn in amulets for protection from accident or attacks. Greeks and Romans also associated the golden crystals with their Sun God, Jupiter. They believed the stone increased their strength and could neutralize enchantments.

Bushmen in Africa used Topaz in healing ceremonies and rituals to connect with ancestral spirits.

In medieval courts, Kings, Judges and other noble persons were often presented with an engraved Topaz to win favor and cultivate positive relationships. Falcons were a favorite carving subject. A powder ground into wine was believed to relieve asthma. Leaving a crystal in wine for three days produced an elixir that was used on the eyes to improve vision. Some beliefs held the stone could make you invisible during moments of danger.

Today Topaz is honored as the state gemstone in Texas and Utah. Blue Topaz is recognized as a fourth anniversary gift - Imperial Topaz for the 23rd anniversary. It is also one of the birthstones listed for November.

If you are on a journey of spiritual change, Topaz makes an excellent companion. It teaches you to trust in the Universe to guide and provide. Aiding you in fully recognizing the magical laws of attraction and manifestation and your ability to manipulate them. Meditations with a stone will help awaken your sleeping gifts and illuminate your co-creative energies.

The crystal helps you become more aware of your personal world, and the power you have to bring about positive changes. It strengthens your confidence to make decisions that are correct for you, giving you the fire and motivation you need to follow through on your choices. Work with Topaz to make your dreams your reality.

Artists may be attracted to the gemstone because it promotes your individual creativity. Stimulating you creative energies like a Muse, lifting your art to new levels. The crystal can be used as an energy battery when your demanding schedule threatens to overwhelm your day. Carrying a stone during those crazy days will help you stay mentally alert, while protecting you from unseen dangers that could thwart more than just your next appointment.

The color of your crystal has some impact on the energies it can bring. Here is a brief list of additional qualities you'll find in different Topaz. Always be open to what you feel or hear from your own stones as well. You may find Topaz assists you in ways not mentioned in this or any other article. Honor and accept that.

Clear Topaz: This is a stone of confidence. Giving extra strength to be yourself, unafraid to creatively express the beautiful voice the Universe gave you. Helps stimulate natural gifts.

Blue Topaz: Works with your Throat Chakra allowing you to voice the perfect words for bringing your desires and dreams into reality. Unites body, mind and spirit with the Universal All.

Imperial Topaz: A stone of Fire, burning with the energies of Grandfather Sun. This is the stone that will see your goals through, never allowing your confidence to waver, your motivation to fail. Use the crystal for a quick charge when your battery is low. Stimulates the first three Chakra, opens the Crown.

Rose Topaz: Opening the base Chakra and stimulating the Kundalini - this crystal is great for balancing the exhausting energies of passion and power. If you are quick to anger, carrying a rosey gemstone may help you temper and channel your anger into productive resolutions instead of fights.

Healing traditions for Topaz still recommend the crystal for relief from asthma and digestive problems. Patients undergoing long convalescence may use the stone to improve stamina, helping the body recover from its inactivity. It should help with insomnia by warding off nightmares, unproductive thoughts and allowing you to relax. It may promote the healing of wounds, strengthen your back and spinal cord and possibly aid in weight loss by raising your metabolism.

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TOPAZ IMPERIAL

Imperial Topaz is highly energising and warming. It is used to stimulate the intellect; it aids abstract thinking and creativity from the mental level to concrete physical form. It is a stone of trust and protection; it draws out negativity, exhaustion, and tension. Place a Imperial Topaz in your home to protect against break-ins and fire. Physically, Imperial Topaz is said to increase blood circulation, aids liver and kidney diseases, and is for sexual dysfunction. It is also said to relieve the pain associated with arthritis and rheumatism.
Golden Topaz is highly energising and warming. It is used to stimulate the intellect; it aids abstract thinking and creativity from the mental level to concrete physical form. It is a stone of trust and protection; it draws out negativity, exhaustion, and tension. Place a Golden Topaz in your home to protect against break-ins and fire. Physically, Golden Topaz is said to increase blood circulation, aids liver and kidney diseases, and is for sexual dysfunction. It is also said to relieve the pain associated with disorders of the liver, gall bladder and endocrine glands.

Vibrates to the number 9.

Topaz is a mineral species from the orthorhombic crystal system. Topaz occurs in the colors yellow, orange, brown, pink to red to purple-red, light to dark blue, light green, and colorless. It is a transparent gemstone which you usually see faceted. Many of the faceted gemstones you see on the market are enhanced through heat or irradiation. This improves the color and appearance of each stone, thus commanding a higher price per caret. Topaz is fairly abundant; the main producers are Brazil, Nigeria, and Burma.

http://www.spiritualplatform.org/sp/crystals/crystalst.html

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Imperial Topaz gemstone meaning
Topaz is one of the twelve breastplate stones of the High Priest referred to in the Book of Exodus. The breastplate stones are considered sacred to twelve mighty angels who guard the gates to Paradise.

Today, imperial topaz is used to:

Encourage self realization and confidence
Impart strength to quiet wild emotions
Banish bad dreams
Bestow charisma on its user
Topaz draws love to its wearer
Protection against envy, disease, negative magic and sudden or untimely death
Combined with an equal amount of tiger eye, topaz will bring wealth and money

Healing properties of Imperial Topaz

Stimulate the appetite
Aid in nervous exhaustion
Activate life force and metabolism

Sources of Imperial Topaz
Topaz occurs in a range of different colors: deep golden yellow (Imperial Topaz), blue, light to medium brown (Champagne Topaz), pink, and white topaz.

Topaz can be found in Brazil, USA, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, former USSR, Australia, Tasmania, Pakistan, Mexico, Japan and Africa.

Color: Orange to Golden yellow

Zodiac: Sagittarius; Pisces (Ancient)

Planet: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus

Birthstone: November; Feb, Mar, Sep (Ancient)

Energies: Love, Power, Healing, Protection, Money

Chakra: Third Chakra - Solar Plexus

Anniversary Stone: 16



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[Apachestone]

very good info i am greatful fo ryour shareing this it adds to the knowladge we are seeking.

rick

Seafyre Love said:

TOPAZ IMPERIAL

Imperial Topaz is highly energising and warming. It is used to stimulate the intellect; it aids abstract thinking and creativity from the mental level to concrete physical form. It is a stone of trust and protection; it draws out negativity, exhaustion, and tension. Place a Imperial Topaz in your home to protect against break-ins and fire. Physically, Imperial Topaz is said to increase blood circulation, aids liver and kidney diseases, and is for sexual dysfunction. It is also said to relieve the pain associated with arthritis and rheumatism.
Golden Topaz is highly energising and warming. It is used to stimulate the intellect; it aids abstract thinking and creativity from the mental level to concrete physical form. It is a stone of trust and protection; it draws out negativity, exhaustion, and tension. Place a Golden Topaz in your home to protect against break-ins and fire. Physically, Golden Topaz is said to increase blood circulation, aids liver and kidney diseases, and is for sexual dysfunction. It is also said to relieve the pain associated with disorders of the liver, gall bladder and endocrine glands.

Vibrates to the number 9.

Topaz is a mineral species from the orthorhombic crystal system. Topaz occurs in the colors yellow, orange, brown, pink to red to purple-red, light to dark blue, light green, and colorless. It is a transparent gemstone which you usually see faceted. Many of the faceted gemstones you see on the market are enhanced through heat or irradiation. This improves the color and appearance of each stone, thus commanding a higher price per caret. Topaz is fairly abundant; the main producers are Brazil, Nigeria, and Burma.

http://www.spiritualplatform.org/sp/crystals/crystalst.html

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Imperial Topaz gemstone meaning
Topaz is one of the twelve breastplate stones of the High Priest referred to in the Book of Exodus. The breastplate stones are considered sacred to twelve mighty angels who guard the gates to Paradise.

Today, imperial topaz is used to:

Encourage self realization and confidence
Impart strength to quiet wild emotions
Banish bad dreams
Bestow charisma on its user
Topaz draws love to its wearer
Protection against envy, disease, negative magic and sudden or untimely death
Combined with an equal amount of tiger eye, topaz will bring wealth and money

Healing properties of Imperial Topaz

Stimulate the appetite
Aid in nervous exhaustion
Activate life force and metabolism

Sources of Imperial Topaz
Topaz occurs in a range of different colors: deep golden yellow (Imperial Topaz), blue, light to medium brown (Champagne Topaz), pink, and white topaz.

Topaz can be found in Brazil, USA, Sri Lanka, Myanmar, former USSR, Australia, Tasmania, Pakistan, Mexico, Japan and Africa.

Color: Orange to Golden yellow

Zodiac: Sagittarius; Pisces (Ancient)

Planet: Jupiter, Mercury, Venus

Birthstone: November; Feb, Mar, Sep (Ancient)

Energies: Love, Power, Healing, Protection, Money

Chakra: Third Chakra - Solar Plexus

Anniversary Stone: 16



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