June's Birthstones at Lava Jewelry! - Cranial Meltdown Revived

June’s birthstones include moonstone and pearls. Lava Jewelry has beautiful pearl and moonstone jewelry for those June birthdays. Because pearls are not a stone, and volumes and volumes could be written on pearls, I’m going to focus on moonstone today.

Moonstone is a form of a mineral called adularia, which is an orthoclase feldspar. (Was that all Greek to you?) It is a potassium aluminum silicate. Moonstone is known for the unique way it reflects light. It occurs naturally in a variety of pale colors, including white, pink, yellowish grey, green, peach, and grey. White/colorless moonstone with a Schiller effect (like labradorite) is called rainbow moonstone. The Schiller is usually blue in rainbow moonstone.

Moonstone has a hardness of 6 on Moh’s hardness scale (quartz is 7, diamond is 10). Unfortunately, moonstone fractures readily, so I prefer not to use it in jewelry that tends to get knocked around a lot, like rings or bracelets. It’s a beautiful stone to use in earrings, necklaces, and pendants.

I do not know any of the metaphysical or healing properties of moonstone. If someone would like to contribute this information, please write in the comments below.

Another of June’s birthstones is alexandrite. I do not currently have any alexandrite. It is an expensive and beautiful gemstone that changes color depending on the light source. It appears a different color in sunlight than in incandescent or fluorescent light.

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