Quartz gone brown and smoke-dark. Grounding, and the stone for letting go.
The aesthetic
Smoky quartz takes its brown-to-near-black colour from natural radiation acting on aluminium traces in the crystal, deepening the longer it sits in the ground. Good pieces hold a clear smoky translucence rather than a muddy one, and the darkest can look solid until held up to a window. It shares the six-sided form of clear quartz, and the two often grow on the same plate.
The dynamic
Smoky quartz is traditionally associated with grounding and protection, and with releasing what is no longer wanted, which is why it turns up in so many descriptions of clearing and letting go.
Some variations
- morion
- cairngorm
- smoky points
- smoky clusters
- gwindel