Citrine

Element

Fire

Citrine holds the energy of fire. It’s warming, energizing, exciting, upward-moving, and wide-spreading. It acts like a spark, a catalyst, bringing drive and motivation to the forefront and directing your energy toward what will keep your inner fire lit.

Its fire energy feels like warm sunshine, like a beautiful summer day, fun and playful, filled with laughter and cheer. It’s uplifted, positive, forward-moving, focused on relishing in whatever the present moment brings. It’s generous and appreciative, sharing and spreading its light, gifts, abundance, and radiant joy.

Citrine’s fire connects you with the energy of your inner sun, your soul’s purpose, your reason for being, propelling you to move swiftly and gladly towards that which will make you truly happy. Its fire is contained and controlled, like an inner hearth, to keep you warm and steadily burning bright toward all your soul’s desires.

Chakra

Solar Plexus

Citrine is a beautiful solar stone to activate your solar plexus energy, your inner sun, where you shine your energy out to the world. This is the seat of your inner power, which citrine helps you tap into, activating, stoking, and directing your inner spark of drive, action, and willpower toward pursuing your soul’s highest desires, helping you manifest them in real life.

Many of our fears, doubts, and insecurities live in the solar plexus and can inhibit our ability to find ambition, move forward in life, or feel confident in ourselves Citrine is one of the best crystals to help you break through these fears and perceived blocks to tap into your innate courage, confidence, motivation, and enthusiasm.

The digestive system is ruled by the solar plexus and citrine aids this whole area in processing and digesting stuck, stagnant, dense energies, whether it’s food, emotions, thoughts, or unconscious fears. It’s a beautiful crystal to help you establish emotional boundaries as it allows you to find joy in expressing your full authentic self and sharing your soul’s gifts generously!

*Note: These healing themes apply most specifically to natural citrine. Heat-treated citrine still holds healing qualities for the solar plexus but it is much more intense and can be overbearing. If you’re feeling very low, depressed, and lacking personal power, it can help restore your balance. But if you already have open and ample solar plexus energy, it can push it too far into aggression and domineering. Different situations and imbalances may call for one over the other at different times, but natural citrine holds an innate balance that will always supply what your body needs subtly and generously.

Chakra

Crown

Connected to the light of the divine, citrine opens and activates the crown chakra, bringing cosmic wisdom, clarity, and inspiration, helping you raise your consciousness and connect with your highest self. It brings a clear perspective and widened awareness, and helps you tap into your highest intelligence to gain discernment around everything from your soul’s purpose to mundane everyday decisions.

A beacon of golden light, citrine helps when you feel lost, confused, or purposeless, bringing hope, clarity, wisdom, and the awareness of positive possibilities. It lifts you up to see the highest vision of your life and then funnels that energy down through your solar plexus so you can bring it into the physical world.

Powerful and activating, you can lay down with a citrine point over your crown pointed down to cleanse every chakra in your body, clearing the toxicity and density within them and guiding the divine light of the cosmos into your whole system for healing. You can also place citrine directly on any chakra or anywhere on the body to cleanse, clear, and activate the energy there.

Citrine feels like wearing a golden crown upon your head, opening you to your highest wisdom, heightening your intuitive awareness, and bringing trust in your inner nudges and where they’re guiding you.

Energetic Qualities

Activating

Citrine has electric energy. It plugs you in, turns you on, stokes your fire, gets you going! Quick-moving and expansive, its energy opens what’s closed and moves what’s stuck. It absorbs, transforms, and dissipates dense, heavy energies and activates the light.

Uplifting

A buoy for low spirits, low energy, and low vibes, citrine lifts what’s down and lightens what’s dark. It’s invigorating for the body and heightens awareness. It moves energy up and out which acts as a defensive layer to support your overall health and happiness.

Warming

Holding fire energy, citrine generates heat and is warming for the physical body- you can hold it to warm your hands. This warming effect moves energy, clearing stagnancy and improving digestion. It warms cold hearts and moods and improves circulation.

Physical Properties

Appearance

Naturally formed citrine is semi-rare and mostly found in translucent pale to golden yellow or light smoky brown. Most of what’s sold on the market as “citrine” in very strong yellow colors or deep orange and amber shades is actually heat-treated amethyst. This holds similar energies, though it’s most often described as more fiery and intense than natural citrine.

Citrine’s coloring activates both your highest awareness and the lower chakras, bringing inspired ideas down to the real world. Yellow is the color of sunshine, happiness, and cheer, the color of wisdom and intellect, a symbol of confidence, action, and abundance.

Composition

Citrine is silicon dioxide + iron, it’s basically clear quartz dyed yellow by its iron content. Quartz is a very pure, very strong mineral that activates and amplifies energy, and the iron content adds a nourishing, stabilizing effect.

It has a framework silicate structure, which moves energy up and down, in and out, bringing balance wherever it’s needed. It also has a trigonal crystal shape, which relates to the element of fire, to our inner fire, sparking the soul and imagination.