Desert Rose Significance?

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Hello, I have a question. So I went to a shop today where I live. And I found this stone. It turns out, it’s a desert rose. I was drawn to it. It 's beautiful, you guys but I don’t know that the significance of it

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It’s a type of selenite, which I did NOT know! It promotes calmness and stability and is good for new beginnings.

Here’s where I found the info: Desert Rose Crystal: Meaning, Properties, and Uses

Thanks for asking! I learned something new!

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Thank you very much

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Thanks for asking @secilia
Now I know that I´ll want one of them for my grounding crystal grids. Yay! Off to the crystal shop I go…:laughing:

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You’re welcome! :blush:

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@secilia I know you already got your answer from the wonderful @Amethyst, but if I might be so bold as to add, I wanted to share an in-depth post on Selenite/Satin Spar that you might find interesting.

Here are a few links specifically about the Desert Rose. Link 1 and Link 2 and Link 3

To break it down:

  • Gypsum is the overall mineral species.
  • Selenite is the crystalline variety of gypsum.
  • Desert Rose is the name for these crystals when they grow in arid, sandy conditions, trapping sand grains to form “petals”.

Enjoy your lovely new crystal addtion! :quartz_crystal: :smiling_face:

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Thank you Artemisia for those links. Very informative. I realize now I have several Desert Rose specimens that I have had since I was a child, given to me by my Grandfather. I always thought they were something from the sea, as they were with his sea shell collection, most of which he gathered when he was in the Italian Navy in the early 1900’s in the Mediterranean Sea and North Africa. Now I can see that they are Barite Roses.

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