Rainbow Moonstone Obelisk, 1 3/4" - 2 1/2"

Rainbow moonstone. The blue-flash feldspar of the lunar file.

Obelisk cut. Four polished faces and a pyramid crown.

1.75 to 2.5 inches. Altar and shelf scale, cut in India.

• Material: natural rainbow moonstone, polished obelisk form; origin India
• Height: approximately 1.75 to 2.5 inches; size and flash vary honestly
• SKU: GORMS1

The obelisk is the display tradition's borrowed monument, Egypt's sun-marker miniaturized for the shelf, and cutting it in moonstone makes a small pleasant irony: the sun's architecture in the moon's stone. Rainbow moonstone earns its lunar seat optically, adularescence, light scattering through the feldspar's stacked layers into the blue-white sheen that reads as caught moonlight, and the obelisk's flat polished faces show that roll better than almost any form. The tradition files the stone under intuition, cycles, and new beginnings; practitioners set the tower on altars and moon-phase displays, and collectors set it where evening light finds it. The obelisk channels nothing measurable, as we always say plainly; it displays the moon's mineral namesake at its flattering best.

1. Set it where low or moving light crosses the faces: the flash rewards it.
2. Anchor moon-phase altars and lunar displays at its scale.
3. Cleanse by moonlight in the fitting custom; dust with a soft cloth.

• Rainbow Moonstone Palm Stone: the hand-scale companion.
• Rainbow Moonstone Tumbled Stones, 1 lb: the loose stock around the tower.
• Clear Quartz Flame: the fire emblem beside the moon's.

How big is it?

Between 1.75 and 2.5 inches: each obelisk is cut individually in India, and sizes vary honestly within the range.

What causes the flash?

Adularescence: light scattering through thin layers in the feldspar, rolling across the polished faces as the light moves.

What is moonstone associated with?

The lunar file: intuition, cycles, and new beginnings, the moon's stone across the lapidary tradition.