Moonstone Untumbled Stones, 1 lb

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

Untumbled and unpolished. Rough surfaces, natural fracture faces, no machine finish. For practitioners who prefer stone that has not been rounded off.

Bulk working quantity. Enough for grids, pouches, shop stock, group work, or breaking a pound down among students.

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

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

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

Modern practice reaches for it in dream work, in divination, and for the part of a decision that arrives before the reasoning catches up. It is described as a receiving stone rather than a projecting one. Practitioners who work with it talk about listening.

1. Build a grid. A pound is grid quantity. Moonstone grids are commonly set for dream work or divination and run through the dark half of the month.
2. Charge it in moonlight. Obvious, traditional, and effective. 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 a piece where you sleep. Moonstone's association with dreams and recall is well attested in the tradition.
5. No salt, and no soaking. Moonstone is a feldspar with cleavage planes; it is not especially hard and it chips. Salt abrades it and water gets into the fractures. Smoke, sound, or moonlight only.

• Moonstone Tumbled Stones, 1 lb. The polished form of the same stone. Tumbled shows the flash more readily; raw shows the stone more honestly.
• 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 quantity.
• 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. Raw material comes in whatever sizes it comes in. You are buying a pound by weight, not a count.

Why does raw moonstone look less shiny than polished? Adularescence shows best on a smooth curved surface, which is why moonstone is traditionally cut as a cabochon. On raw stone you have to hunt for the angle. It is there; it just does not announce itself.

Can I cleanse it in salt water? Please do not. Moonstone is a fairly soft feldspar with cleavage planes. Salt abrades the surface and water works into fractures. 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.

Is moonstone the June birthstone? Yes, along with pearl and alexandrite.