Gold Rutilated Quartz
The biggest and most historically significant use of rutilated quartz has been as a stone that promotes psychic power.
Rutile is one of the most significant stones for improving psychic powers in western culture, and the power of quartz magnifies this significantly, as it does with the power of any stone it is paired with!
The specific type of psychic power that rutile enhances is known as clairsentience, meaning “clear thinking.”
In other words, it will not make you hear people’s thoughts or see visions (although, if this is what you’re after, it can certainly be paired with other stones to get there).
Instead, it will give you the ability to instinctively know things that are unknown to others, in the same way that you might know the days of the week or the date of your own birth.
If you are not at all interested in psychic phenomena, then I’ll tell you right now that you’re missing out on rutilated quartz’s most exciting properties.
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However, even if you are only interested in its purely earthly benefits, there’s still a lot to this stone!
Rutilated quartz is highly energizing, and can bring passion into difficult times or difficult projects. It is especially useful for any work that you have to do that you may describe to a sympathetic friend as “soul-crushing.”
Work that is incredibly dull, feels pointless, or seems completely out of touch with your goals can be an enormous struggle, but rutilated quartz can give you the power to get through it.
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Rutilated quartz can cut straight through to the causes of your unhappiness, or to the causes of any hang-ups or mental issues you may be having.
You probably think that your unhappiness is caused by one specific thing or circumstance, and while that thing or circumstance may be (in fact, it probably is) a major cause, I’m here to tell you that it’s almost never that simple.
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Rutilated quartz can help you see things that you might not notice otherwise, and help you develop a better-rounded approach to your understanding of your own mental health and psychological state of being.
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It is also said to ease feelings of guilt, anxiety, and loneliness, which are at the core of many greater problems or psychological hang-ups – even ones that, at first glance, seem to have nothing at all to do with those feelings!
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How Will Rutilated Quartz Help You?
Once you’ve cut through to the roots of your problems, as rutilated quartz can help you do, its powers of improving clairsentience can actually help you develop solutions to those problems as well.
You can improve your instinctive sense of what to do under various circumstances, especially when dealing with your own emotional state.
This is a skill that everyone needs to develop at some point – how often have you realized that you feel a certain way but felt entirely powerless to make any change?
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Perhaps you’ve realized that you were unhappy in a job, but didn’t know how to get out of that job. Perhaps you realized that you loved someone, but didn’t know how to initiate a relationship. It happens to everyone!
If you are having this problem, then rutilated quartz can help you see what action needs to be taken in order to fix the problem that you are currently having.
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It can also give you the strength to actually take that action – another thing that many people struggle with!
However, it is not always strong enough to give you that energy on its own; see the section below on “The Best Combinations to Use with Rutilated Quartz” for ideas on other stones that can be paired with rutilated quartz in order to help you take action.
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The ability to recognize a problem, recognize how to take action, and then actually take action is possibly the most helpful series of skills that anyone can learn, and a series that is applicable to virtually every situation you may find yourself in in your life.
Take, for example, the common complaint of feeling that you aren’t happy with your job.
You may (in fact, you almost definitely will) recognize that you are unhappy, but may not recognize exactly why. Is it because you have no freedom?
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Is it because you feel that your boss doesn’t respect you? Do you feel that the work you are doing is antithetical to your personal values?
Once you have cut down to the core of your problem (and here’s a hint: guilt, anxiety, and need for validation are at the core of a good 80% of all problems), you can get started on finding a way to solve it.
Rutilated quartz is fantastic for helping you see solutions to problems that you may previously have felt were all-encompassing and practically unsolvable.
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