====== Sunstone ======
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latin_names: 
folk_names: 
energy_tags: Projective
gender_tags: 
planet_tags: Sun
element_tags: Fire
deity_tags: 
effect_tags: Protection, energy, health, sexual energy
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===== Magical Uses =====
In researching this book, I came across several references to this stone but no concrete information. Finally, at a rock show I found a dealer who had some sunstones-the old feldspar-type sunstone. I said I hadn't seen them before, and he commented that he'd bought them twenty years ago. They were beautiful and I eagerly brought them back home.

Sunstone, like most sparkling, reflective stones, is protective. Place one in the home before a white candle to spread protective energies through the house.

A stone placed in a bag of healing herbs strengthens their energies. The sunstone is also carried or worn to lend extra physical energy to the body during times of stress or ill health.

If worn near the sexual region, it stimulates sexual arousal and increases sexual energy.

Unfortunately, the sunstone's use in magic seems to have been largely forgotten. No modern stone magic book I've read refers to it, even in passing. If you find a sunstone, treasure it.
===== Ritual Lore =====
There are at least two stones named sunstone. One is a form of translucent quartz that has a vaguely orange hue. This is the Oregon sunstone.

Anciently, a form of feldspar that was imported from India was known by this name. In a sense, it resembles an orange opal, with a fiery, multicolored flash. This is the only one used in past times in magic.

In the Renaissance, this stone was frequently associated with the Sun, due to its sparkling orange-gold colors. It was set in gold and worn to bring the influences of the Sun into the magician.

Symbolically, sunstone is linked with moonstone.</ifauth>
===== Notes =====
==== Related Metals ====
* [[metal:gold]]
==== Related Stones ====
* [[Moonstone]]