Malachite is a secondary ore that occurs in the upper levels of copper deposits. It is the copper content of malachite that gives it a green color. Its name is derived from the Greek word malache meaning mallow for the green color. It is much admired as an ornamental material and is quite highly priced for this category.
Today Shaba (Katanga) in Zaire is the most important malachite producer. Other deposits are in Zambia, Namibia, Zimbabwe, Australia (Queensland, New South Wales), Chile, France and Arizona and New Mexico in the USA. It is found almost everywhere in the form of small encrustations, together with azurite.
Malachite was popular with the ancient Egyptians, Greeks, and Romans for jewelry and amulets. The Egyptian hippo goddess Toeris wears a necklace of many beads including malachite. Malachite was admired by ancient followers of the Goddess Venus and thought to possess great powers. It was also ground along with galena on slate plates. This powder mixed with water was painted on the eyelids. Malachite was being mined in the Sinai Peninsula in 4,000 BC.
The most important deposits used to be in the Urals near Yekaterinburg (Sverdlovsk). From there, the Russian tsars obtained the malachite for decorating their palaces; paneling the walls and for beautiful inlaid works of art.
Malachite was considered to be a talisman particularly appropriate for children. If a piece of this stone were attached to an infant's cradle, all evil spirits were held at bay and the child slept soundly and peacefully. Italians wear malachite to protect them from the evil eye. In Rome it was called "Peacock stone," dedicated to the Goddess Juno, who protects against lightning and other perils of nature.
In some parts of Germany, malachite shared with turquoise the repute of protecting the wearer from danger in falling, and it also gave warning of approaching disaster by breaking into several pieces.
Malachite is said to be the stone of "Great fortune and wealth." It can help direct personal power in a beneficial way. It helps us to connect ourselves to the Earth's energy. This alignment with Earth's power can open the door to more abundance.
The Malachite crystal related to Archangel Raphael, whose name means He Who Heals. Raphael heals physical illnesses and guides doctors and healers. His aura is a deep emerald green.
It can make what one desires, more achievable. Thought creates reality and energy follows thought. Start a malachite chain by giving a piece of malachite to someone and ask that they do the same. It can augment wealth and spread good fortune globally.
The essence of malachite is JOY. Malachite amplifies the wearer's mood, whether positive or negative. It is said to help dredge up buried emotional pain and release it. This is wonderful for healing work, as well as work with chakras. Malachite can be used with the 4th chakra, and can be used to balance and heal all chakras.
A great formula for remembering past events or emotional trauma is:
Place malachite at the solar plexus, jade at heart and quartz crystal between. The swirls in the malachite are said to accelerate the clockwise spinning of the chakras. This positive effect will open blocked channels and release memories.
Malachite represents fidelity in love and friendship, loyalty in partnerships, and practicality and responsibility in business transactions. As jewelry it is said to help the wearer get in touch with their emotions. (It should be taken off on those over emotional days.) Besides self-knowledge, it can reflect the feelings of the wearer to others. It is said to calm and warm a cold heart, promote emotional maturity and positive transformation and healing. Malachite can be helpful in seeing why you allow others to use your creative power.
Malachite is said to produce purification and healing dreams and draw out the negative energy from nightmares. It also is said to unlock dream memory and understanding thus clarifying the information and making it available for solving everyday problems.
To dream of malachite in any form signifies sweeping changes in your life. Keep your eyes on your goal, and those changes will be for your betterment.
(Astrological Signs of Capricorn &Scorpio)
Vibrates to the number 9
Malachite has a long history of health lore, perhaps because of its copper content.
It has been said to protect against falls, help with tissue regeneration and healing bruised and fractured bones. Try wrapping it in place. Malachite draws the energy of disharmony into and through its own energy vibration. It takes the pain into itself. Holding a "Peacock's eye" in malachite over a physical area can alter the patterning and isolate and draw out pain.
It has been said to be particularly beneficial to the eyesight. It was thought that by looking at malachite for a few minutes every day it would increase the oxygen flow to the retina and stimulate the optic nerve. The paste form smeared on the eyelids was thought to cure cataracts.
