Fluorite

What is Fluorite?

Fluorite is calcium fluoride, crystallising in cubic forms with a Mohs hardness of 4: soft enough to carve, distinctive enough to recognise on sight. The name comes from the Latin fluere, to flow, and it earned that name twice: once for its relatively low melting point in metallurgy, and once for the way it fluoresces under ultraviolet light. The property is so characteristic that fluorescence takes its name from this mineral. Fluorite occurs in bands of purple, green, blue, yellow and clear, sometimes all in a single specimen, each layer representing a slightly different moment of formation. Major deposits include China's Hunan province, Mexico, South Africa and, notably, Derbyshire in England, where purple-and-yellow-banded Fluorite has been called Blue John for centuries.

The crystal tradition places Fluorite with the third eye and heart chakras: a pairing that speaks to its dual nature, linking sight with feeling. It falls under Pisces and Capricorn in the zodiac, and its elements are Air and Water. The intentions gathered around it are Focus and Clarity, Calm and Intuition: a cluster the tradition has held together for good reason.

What the tradition is pointing toward with all of these associations is the quality of seeing clearly and feeling steadily at the same time. Fluorite does not offer that; your practice does. But the tradition's suggestion is simple: give the stone a role in the habit you are building. A piece on the desk, a moment in the morning to name what you are looking toward (focus, calm, a clear next step) and let the stone carry the note. Return to it when the attention scatters. Repetition is how intention becomes habit.

In the catalogue you'll find Fluorite as tumbled stones, clusters, pendulums and jewellery, each piece cut from natural stone, so no two share the same banding.