Moonstone Tumbled Stones, 1 lb

A full pound, sold by weight. Piece count and size vary, as they must with tumbled material. You are buying a pound, not a number of stones.

Tumbled, so the flash shows. The polished surface is what wakes the adularescence up. If you want to actually see the glow, this is the form that gives it to you.

Bulk working quantity. Grids, pouches, group work, shop stock, breaking a pound down among students.

• Weight: 1 lb, sold by weight rather than count
• Form: Tumbled and polished
• Stone: Moonstone, a feldspar showing adularescence
• Size and piece count vary naturally
• Birthstone: June
• SKU: GTMOOB

Cunningham gives moonstone to the Moon and to the element Water, with traditional powers of love, divination, sleep, and protection. The protection is the traveler's kind specifically, and moonstone's association with journeys, sea journeys above all, runs back centuries among people who had real reason to want it.

The lunar attribution is not sentiment. Moonstone's glow waxes and wanes as the stone turns in the light, and a stone that appears to have phases was always going to be given to the Moon. That resemblance did all the work; every other correspondence descends from it.

Modern practice reaches for moonstone in dream work, in divination, and for the part of a decision that arrives before the reasoning does. It is described as receptive rather than projective. Practitioners who work with it talk about listening, not doing.

1. Build a grid. A pound is grid quantity, and moonstone grids are traditionally set for dream work or divination and run through the dark half of the month.
2. Charge in moonlight. Obvious, traditional, and it works. A windowsill on a full moon.
3. Pouch it for travel. The oldest folk use of the stone, and the one with the deepest roots.
4. Keep one where you sleep. The dream and recall association is well attested in the tradition.
5. No salt, no soaking. Moonstone is a feldspar with cleavage planes. It is not especially hard and it chips. Salt abrades the polish that makes tumbled moonstone worth having. Smoke, sound, or moonlight.

• Moonstone Untumbled Stones, 1 lb. The raw form at the same quantity. Tumbled shows the flash; raw shows the stone.
• Moonstone Multi Bracelet, 8mm. The wearable form, in peach, grey, cream, and white.
• Moonstone Beaded Bracelet, 4mm. The fine-bead bracelet, for a quieter wrist.
• Amethyst Tumbled Stones, 1 lb. The other standard stone of dream and divination work, at matching bulk.
• Black Tourmaline Tumbled Chips, 1 lb. The grounding counterweight for a grid that is otherwise all receptivity.

How many stones is a pound? It varies, and it has to. Tumbled material comes in whatever sizes it comes in. You are buying weight, not count.

Why does tumbled moonstone flash more than raw? Adularescence needs a smooth curved surface to show properly. That is the whole reason moonstone is traditionally cut as a cabochon, and it is why tumbling brings the glow out.

Can I cleanse it in salt water? Please do not. Moonstone is a fairly soft feldspar with cleavage planes, and salt abrades the polish. Use smoke, sound, or moonlight.

What are its correspondences? Cunningham gives it to the Moon and to Water, with powers of love, divination, sleep, and protection, especially of travelers.

Who buys a pound? Shops, teachers, covens, grid-builders, and anyone breaking it down for a group. If you want a working handful, the tumbled stones are also sold in smaller lots elsewhere in the catalog.