Labradorite

Labradorite is a feldspar mineral found in igneous rocks — grey and plain on the surface, but reveal it to the light and something else appears. The optical effect is called labradorescence: flashes of blue, green, gold and sometimes violet that shift as you turn the stone. The best pieces look lit from inside, like oil on water. The name comes from Labrador, the peninsula in eastern Canada where European mineralogists first described it in the 1770s, though the Inuit had known it far longer. One tradition holds that the northern lights once lived inside the stone until a warrior struck it with his spear, releasing them into the sky — which is a rather beautiful way of describing what happens when you tilt a good piece toward a window.

The crystal tradition keeps the stone in the upper registers. Third eye and throat are its natural companions — the seeing and the speaking, intuition and expression. It belongs to the water element and to three consecutive zodiac signs: Leo, Scorpio and Sagittarius, a run that the tradition reads as a season of deepening. Intuition, protection and focus are the intentions most often gathered around it.

The tradition's quiet invitation with labradorite is to give it a role in a practice rather than simply owning it. Set an intention in plain words — clarity, attention, the right word at the right time — and let the stone mark the moment. Keep it where you work, where decisions gather. When the attention scatters, it offers a physical place for the attention to return to. The stone holds the light; the practice holds the intention.

Below you'll find what the catalogue holds: labradorite as tumbled stones, pendulums, cabochons and jewellery — each piece cut from natural material, so the iridescence varies from piece to piece, just as it does in the ground.