Founder: Gabriela Yasmin Szafman

Chrysoprase is a variety of chalcedony (quartz) which is an opalescent apple green color.

Most green gemstones owe their color to chromium or vanadium, but chrysoprase derives it's beautiful coloration from the nickel content it contains.

Which means that it is possible for the color to fade if it is subjected to too much sunlight.

The name chrysoprase comes from the Greek chrysos meaning 'gold' and prason, meaning 'leek' or 'bloom'.

The Greeks bestowed this name due to the presence of the golden drops that appear to be contained in the stone.

Chrysoprase is found in Australia, Brazil, the Ural Mountains and in the USA, it is the valued form of the chalcedony group.

Ancient Greek, Romans and Egyptians used chrysoprase in jewelry and other ornamental objects, and due to it's semi-opaque green color it is often mistaken for imperial jadeite.

Due to the fact that substantial deposits of this gemstone were mined in Silesia in the fourteenth century large amount of chrysoprase were used for the now infamous decoration of the chapel of St. Wenceslas in Prague.

Chrysoprase will Work:

• Chrysoprase helps to make conscious what is currently unconscious.

• It's vibrations have a tranquilizing effect that seem to bring damaging subconscious thought to the foreground, where they can be assessed and dealt with properly.

• Chrysoprase has been credited with a number of other powers, such as banishing greed, selfishness, carelessness, stirring the imagination, calming irritability and the pains of gout.

• It has been said to create happiness, enterprise, prudence adaptability, versatility, action, progress and adventure.

• Told to protect from evil dreams and demons, to bring success in new enterprises, and to make the wearer more cheerful.

• If used in jewelry creations, chrysoprase should only be set or used with silver, and it will hold more power if it is carved in the shape of a heart.

• And old Rumanian legend speaks of the owner of such a stone to have the ability to understand the language of lizards.

MAGICAL PROPERTIES:

Energy: Receptive

Element: Earth

Powers: Happiness, luck, success, friendship, protection, healing and money

Deitie: Goddess Vesta