Radiant Heart

Wearing a Radiant Heart necklace comforts your heart and provides stability during emotionally challenging times. When your heart has been challenged, betrayed, or otherwise hurt, Radiant Heart nurtures and heals it. This combination of Roselle, Mother of Pearl, and Rhodonite rounded crystals enfolds you in the nurturing energy of motherly love and gently stirs the memory of your heart’s innate strength and uniqueness. It enriches your life by reawakening your heart’s true purpose and restoring its voice in your life.

Often, when your heart has been betrayed, challenged, or otherwise hurt, it suffers because it feels emotions that it is no longer allowed to express. For example, if your lover leaves and you were hoping to have a lifelong relationship with that person, your heart can hurt badly because you were expecting to experience certain feelings for the rest of your life. If a loved one dies, or you are hurt professionally, or you experience any other kind of loss, the same thing occurs: your grief is compounded by your expectation that certain feelings would continue. You may also be faced with emotions that you wished you had expressed before the opportunity to do so disappeared. Until all these feelings are taken care of, your heart will not be at peace.

When you suffer such a loss, you must also adapt to a new life circumstance that demands an entirely different set of emotions and emotional responses. This calls for a major adjustment: you must stop emitting the now-inappropriate emotions and gather back all the emotional energies that you poured down a path that no longer exists. You must consolidate, take inventory, and take a fresh look at your new circumstances and, from a place of acceptance, initiate a new stream of emotions.

During such an emotional crisis, Radiant Heart can help you find peace. The Roselle in this necklace gently opens your heart. It awakens you to how you truly feel and then helps you express it. At the same time, it helps you acknowledge your need for a new emotional pattern, or foundation. The Mother of Pearl shines a soothing light on your emotions. It also brings perspective by offering the consciousness of the ocean, in which all things exist—past, present, and future. Its brightness encourages you to look to the future while helping you to find peace here and now. The Rhodonite soothes your grief and grounds your emotions by reeling in uncontrolled feelings of anxiety, restlessness, and despair. It provides the energetic building blocks and impetus needed to dissolve your old emotional foundation and build a new one that will support your current circumstances.

The large Roselle sphere in each sequence of Roselle and Mother of Pearl opens your awareness of your one Radiant Heart—that which is special and uniquely represents you. The heart has a direct and unique connection to the true, spiritual Self. Thus, the stirrings of your heart often reflect most truly what your true Self knows and desires. By helping you consciously connect with your heart, the Radiant Heart necklace can help you rediscover your true Self. Your heart is also inherently strong and rich in self-comfort and self-love. This necklace can teach you to draw on these comforting feelings when times get tough. It can also help you recognize your heart’s inner beauty, thus inspiring the self-confidence you need to persevere in life, no matter what your current circumstances may be.

Radiant Heart gives your mind the sense of security it needs to relax and let go of any concepts or fears that keep it shut tight to your heart’s whisperings. This allows your heart to step forward and take its proper place in your life. When your heart takes center stage, you recognize how intimately your desires are tied to the fabric of all life and how you are always given exactly what you need.

Wearing Radiant Heart in Good Times

When your wear Radiant Heart in good times—when you’re experiencing a lull in life’s constant changes and your emotions aren’t being challenged—the necklace has the same effects, but they manifest somewhat differently. For example, you will probably find it easier to connect with a sense of self-comfort and self-love. During such times, the Rhodonite works on strengthening your emotional foundation and on grounding any stray emotional energies, which can act as kindling for an emotional outburst. Thus, you can wear Radiant Heart between cycles of change and crisis to reacquaint yourself with your heart, to clear away unwanted emotional habits, and to improve the relationship between your heart and mind.

Numerical Influences in Radiant Heart

Radiant Heart is an unusually complex gemstone combination, in that its design invokes many numerical influences, all of which support the necklace’s purpose. Most combination necklaces have only two or three numerical influences. Radiant Heart has eight: one, two, three, four, five, seven, eight, and ten.

Replacing Mother of Pearl

Mother of Pearl is a particularly fragile gemstone. It cracks easily, and its polish dulls fairly quickly with regular use and cleansing. When this happens, the Mother of Pearl’s therapeutic effectiveness diminishes significantly. Therefore, if you wear your Radiant Heart necklace continually, watch for signs of wear in the Mother of Pearl spheres and replace any worn or cracked ones.

The best way to experience the therapeutic effects of a Radiant Heart necklace is to wear it around your neck. There the gems will silently work for you as you go about your day. At night while you are sleeping, you can wear the necklace or keep it within three feet of your body to maintain your connection with the gems. 

Time Guidelines

Radiant Heart can be worn continuously. However, it is always wise to be sensitive to your body’s responses. If you start to feel a headache or significant discomfort, take the necklace off for a while. Then allow your body time to adjust to the changes initiated by the gems by wearing them for only an hour or two a day. Gradually increase this time until you can comfortably wear the gems for as long and often as you wish.

Cleanse Radiant Heart Regularly

To maintain their effectiveness, therapeutic gemstones need regular care. As the gems help us release energetic impurities, some of these energies cling to the gems’ surface and inhibit their ability to work at their peak capacity. A simple energetic cleansing will clear these energies and restore the gems to their naturally vibrant state. You can use any of following methods to cleanse your Radiant Heart necklace. Learn more about these methods.

Plant Rejuvenation: 2 – 3 times a week, wrap the necklace around the base of a healthy houseplant or lay the necklace in its branches.

Salt Bed: 2 – 3 times a week, lay the gems in a half-inch of salt for at least an hour or overnight. Place a thin natural-fiber cloth between the salt and the gems.

Sunbath: Every 1 - 2 weeks, lay the gems in sunlight for a maximum of 15 minutes at a time.

Caution: Avoid rinsing and clay cleansing, which will dull the polish of Rhodonite and Mother of Pearl.

When Your Necklace First Arrives

When you put on a new necklace or one you haven’t worn for a while, bring it into your aura with consciousness and a clear intent. We call this “practicing presence.” By opening yourself to the gems’ energies and consciously cooperating with the process of change, you can greatly enhance the gemstones’ benefits.

Learn more about how to use your new gems here.

The nurturing benefits of Radiant Heart are helpful during challenging times. You can also wear Radiant Heart between cycles of change and crisis to reacquaint yourself with your true feelings, to release unwanted emotional habits, and to improve your heart-mind connection.

Therapeutic Quality Radiant Heart

Radiant Heart necklaces contain Rhodonite, Roselle, and Mother of Pearl.

Rhodonite

All therapeutic Rhodonite contains areas of rich medium- to dark-pink. Some has clearly defined streaks and patches of black, and some has softer areas of white and yellow. In therapeutic Rhodonite, none of the non-pink colors make the pink appear muddy.

Roselle

Therapeutic quality Roselle is translucent but not to the point of being optical in quality. It is neither cloudy nor clear. Its consistency and color resemble a rose mist that permeates the entire sphere. Very minor inclusions within Roselle are part of its nature and do not diminish its therapeutic effects. However, any dullness, cloudiness, uncharacteristic color, dark inclusions, surface fissures, gouges, or poor drill holes hamper Roselle’s effectiveness. Large drill holes diminish the strength of Roselle’s radiance. Smaller drill holes allow Roselle’s energy to penetrate the aura more quickly.

Non-dyed vs. Dyed Roselle: Only natural, fine pink, gem-quality Roselle should be used therapeutically. Roselle is by nature a delicate light pink. To the untrained eye, this natural pink color may appear somewhat pale, especially when compared to dyed Roselle. Nearly all the Roselle spheres available today have been dyed in an attempt to make them look like gem-quality Roselle. Natural Roselle of a fine pink color is rare.

Although dye might make the Roselle appear higher in quality, it is a harmful irritant, which inhibits Roselle’s action. Natural Roselle calms and soothes the emotions; the soothing, massaging motion of its energy allows hidden feelings to emerge. Dyed Roselle, on the other hand, expresses an irritating energy. This energy can be so strong that, when worn, dyed Roselle can make you feel like crying or expressing anger. You may think that the Roselle is helping you to release suppressed emotions. On the contrary, the interaction of the dye with the Roselle energy creates an irritation that causes unnecessary upset. Dyed Roselle can also place stress on the chakras, which will brace themselves in self-protection against the energy of the dyed Roselle.

To guarantee that a Roselle necklace is free of dye, it must be examined under a microscope.

Therapeutic vs. Optical Quality Roselle: Optical-quality Roselle has slightly different effects from optimal therapeutic quality Roselle. Optical Roselle’s energy is more abrupt, even harsh. It can tear into the wearer’s energetic fabric, ripping open pockets of suppressed emotion.

For this reason, optical Roselle can be used for short periods when someone has an immediate need to understand his feelings about an issue. This may be the case when someone must make an important decision, or when finding clarity has become difficult because a situation has become emotionally overwhelming. Optical-quality Roselle will cut through the grief, anger, frustration, or other emotion so that the person can examine his true feelings.

Optical Roselle should not be worn for more than one or two days at a time, and often five to 15 minutes are sufficient. It is best applied under the care of a professional gem therapist or a well-trained layperson.

Mother of Pearl

Mother of Pearl’s shimmering, reflective quality helps its energy quickly enter the aura. The more opalescence Mother of Pearl possesses, the more deeply it can work—be it physically, emotionally, or mentally—and the more clearly you will receive its benefits.