Ancestral Healer: Bloodstone Coin
Purifier / Ancestral Healing / Vitality
Bloodstone provides courage and solace for those who self-sacrifice. It heals the ancestral line, breaking inherited negative patterns, and putting you on the correct course of action. Especially potent for those that put others before themselves, it provides courage and solace when having to sacrifice yourself for the greater good of the community. Bloodstone helps you to adjust to new circumstances, protecting you and granting you courage.
Providing strength and vitality, Bloodstone keeps your circulation moving with momentum and purpose. Bloodstone has healing properties specifically pertaining to the blood and blood flow, physically keeping it in motion and healing the psychological and psychical coding written within our DNA.
Warding off undesirable influence, Bloodstone is protective when traveling between the realms within the liminal space. What is blood, but the fluid that runs between life and death, and Bloodstone is a memento mori: it assists in facing the realities of physical mortality.
Called “heliotrope” in ancient times, from two Greek words meaning “sun-turner” (however, heliotrope is translucent and bloodstone is opaque). In the Middle Ages, it was believed this stone would make the wearer invisible. The Victorians wore it to signal “I mourn your absence”, and in Ancient Babylon it was used to overcome enemies and banish evil. Bloodstone also has a link to the Christ mythology, with a legend that it was formed from the blood of the Christ dripping onto the stone beneath the crucifix he was martyred upon.
Bloodstone Power Couples:
Carnelian for Vigor
Malachite for Healing the Ancestral Line
Moonstone for Liminality
