Rubilite Polished Obelisk, 0.5-0.7 lbs

Rubilite tourmaline. Pink-red tourmaline, the trade name disclosed.

0.5-0.7 lb. The desk-and-altar size of the pair.

Brazilian stone. Polished four-sided obelisk form.

• Material: rubilite (rubellite) tourmaline in matrix, polished; origin Brazil
• Weight: approximately 0.5-0.7 lb; color saturation varies honestly piece to piece
• SKU: GORUB5

Rubellite is what the gem trade calls tourmaline when it blushes pink to red, a name coined to borrow ruby's glamour for a different and genuinely lovely mineral, and we pass the stone along with its name explained rather than traded on. Tourmaline's pink end sits in the heart register of Judy Hall's file, love and emotional steadiness, and the obelisk cut gives the stone the monument treatment: a standing form for altar, desk, or shelf, the ancient Egyptian silhouette scaled to a hand. This smaller size of the pair suits the desk and the crowded altar. The stone shields nothing electromagnetic, whatever the wider trade claims; it stands the rosy tourmaline upright and lets the color do the talking.

1. Stand it on altar, desk, or shelf; the base sits steady.
2. Give it window light; the pink deepens against the matrix.
3. Cleanse with smoke or moonlight in your custom.

• Rubilite Polished Obelisk, 1-1.3 lb: the larger of the pair.
• Rose Quartz Top Polished Point: the softer pink standing beside it.
• Ruby With Kyanite Pyramid: the shelf's other red corundum story.

What is rubilite?

The gem trade's name for pink-to-red tourmaline, more often spelled rubellite: a genuine mineral wearing a name coined to borrow ruby's glamour, which we say plainly.

What is pink tourmaline associated with?

The heart register in Judy Hall's file: love and emotional steadiness, the gentle end of tourmaline's range.

Will mine match the photo?

Closely but not exactly: color saturation and matrix pattern vary honestly stone to stone.