Labradorite

Element

Air

Wind

This is an aspect of the air element, associated with the mental realms of thought and perception, but wind is the air in movement, making labradorite a stone that generates the movement of thought and the shifting of perception.

It sweeps in new ideas and insights like a fresh breeze and can bring swift, sudden realizations. It blows away the clouds of darkness and illusion. It changes your mind, expands your vision, helps you see what you hadn’t seen before.

It can clear away all that’s not authentic to you, from your identity to your emotions to your belief systems, helping you transform old patterns and see new possibilities.

This wind element also brings a sense of freedom and flight to labradorite. It lifts things off, it stirs things up. It’s a catalyst for transformation and innovation. It’s connected to the breath, to spirit, to the intangible essence of our life force.

Chakra

Third Eye

Labradorite activates and cleanses all the chakras, from the root to the crown, as a bridge between heaven and earth, between the body and the cosmos. It has a radiating effect out to the aura, bringing cleansing, protective energy to your entire field. 

Since it’s primarily a stone of perception, truth, and creativity, we’d like to highlight how it works those elements of its magic with a few particular chakras.

Labradorite opens you up to cosmic energy through the crown, and then moves it down into the third eye to be perceived with your inner sight. This heightens your intuition and psychic perception, increasing your ability to connect with your higher guidance and cosmic helpers- your team in the unseen- for support, inspiration, clarity, and direction.

This stone activates your innate magic and shows you that it’s been hiding inside you all along. You can use it to access and develop your “clair” senses, or psychic sight, hearing, feeling, and knowing. It can help you dig into past lives or access the Akashic records to bring insight and healing. It expands and sharpens the vision of your third eye.

Labradorite also has the power to break through your conditioned mind to help you see and shift out of the patterns and unconscious cycles that have been driving you. It brings flashes of insight to help you see the possibilities that exist, and expands your perception of reality so you can better see the roads that lead to all you want to create for your life.

Chakra

Throat

The throat chakra is the seat of truth, and labradorite helps you really begin to hone in on and express your individual perceptions, opinions, and ideas, and to align with and embody your truth.

It helps you communicate the wisdom and insights coming in from your higher awareness and emboldens your courage and confidence to express yourself. If you’re feeling shy or reserved, labradorite’s light will coax you out of your shell and allow you to shine as your unique self.

It awakens deep truths within as you shed the layers of conditioning, the masks, and expectations, helping you ultimately live more in integrity with your highest purpose, fully aligned with your soul’s design.

Chakra

Sacral

Labradorite moves energy downward from the upper chakras, into the heart and lower chakras, clearing emotional blocks and moving stagnant energy out. It links the heart chakra with the sacral chakra, uniting your heart’s deepest desires with your creative drive, to help you bring your visions to life in the real world.

The sacral chakra is where a lot of our emotional energy is held, and labradorite helps cleanse the anger, frustration, shame, and doubt that can get stuck here. As it releases these feelings, it also helps you see the diamonds of wisdom that lie in the darkness, the lessons hidden in the pain, so you can release the old wounds and step into your power.

It supports the balance and flow of the kidneys, associated with the sacral chakra. These are like our energetic batteries, where our life force energy is held, where emotions are filtered and processed through, and labradorite helps the kidneys maintain their flow, flushing out what’s not needed, keeping the energy moving, bringing more emotional balance in.

Energetic Qualities

Activating

Labradorite carries an energy of activation. It’s a catalyst, a spark, a momentum creator, a generator. It moves old stagnant energy out and brings fresh, vibrant, creative energy in. It activates all your energy centers, your psychic perceptions, your unconscious awareness, and all the magic that lies in the unseen

Warming

Labradorite has warming energy for cold nights, cold moods, and cold feet. It warms your bones, warms your blood, warms your heart. It melts icy feelings, shyness, reservation. It brings out your warmth when interacting with people, opening you up to shine and share more of your generosity, gifts, and magic with others.

Transforming

This magical stone brings the energy of awakening, and once your eyes are open to your true power, to the possibilities, to all the magic that exists, you can never go to sleep again. Labradorite brings a constant flow of new insights and ahas in to help you transform anything and everything, to shed your skin and become anew, again and again, ever moving closer to the core of who you truly are.

Physical Properties

Appearance

Labradorite is typically translucent grey with flashes of brilliant blues and greens, oranges and golds, and sometimes even violet when it hits the light at certain angles.

These colors are caused by a refraction of the light that’s moving through the stone, and the effect is called, very appropriately, labradorescence.

This base of greyish black brings a frequency of grounding and protection to labradorite that helps balance out its highly psychic and perceptual energy coming in through the colorful flashes.

Composition

Labradorite is a type of feldspar and is considered both igneous and metamorphic. This means it first formed under tremendous levels of heat and pressure within the core of the earth, and then it was broken up and combined with other minerals as it was pushed up through the layers of the earth.

This correlates to labradorite’s energetic ability to first move into the roots of our psyche, into our core, and then help us transform our lives as its energy moves up and out through the layers of our being.

Labradorite’s mineral composition is calcium aluminum silicate. Calcium moves into the level of the bones, giving labradorite the ability to strengthen our inner stability. The energetic qualities of aluminum activate and sharpen the mind. And its “framework silicate” structure gives labradorite the ability to filter and detoxify stagnant and stuck energies.