Malachite

Element

Fire

Malachite is associated with the element of fire, and it’s a great crystal to reach for when you feel the heat of internal pressure, frustration, anger, or resentment. It helps burn down whatever internal blocks are keeping you from not moving forward towards your soul’s calling.

Fire is a catalyst, it propels, it’s an instigator. It’s always in movement, always consuming until there’s nothing left to burn. It’s the spark of creation and a destroyer at the same time. It too is the energy of something created from nothing.

This is the essence of transformation, and this gives malachite the ability to help you release the stagnant and dense energies you’ve been carrying, to become light and able to flex and move with the breeze, and to spark new ideas that will help you grow.

Chakra

Heart

Malachite is a stone for the heart, the center of balance within your body, and the center chakra in the middle of your chest. This is where we give and receive emotional energy and interact in relationship with all things around us. It’s where we feel acceptance, understanding, connection, appreciation, and love, or lack thereof.

When your heart is aching or in pain, or simply not feeling so harmonious, malachite is a beautiful tool to reach for. You can place it on the center of your chest to unearth buried emotions and purge any dense, stagnant energy from your heart space.

It can help with stress disorders and panic attacks, and in releasing deep traumatic wounds associated with abuse or betrayal. This is a powerful stone with a frequency that moves into the roots of pain, into the marrow of the bone, into the seed of the sprout, to purge what’s necessary in order to harmonize and regulate your emotional energy.

It clears out what’s unessential, dying, or decayed, what’s broken, fragmented or imbalanced from the heart chakra, so you may grow into more love, acceptance, and compassion for yourself and others, with more appreciation for this one wild and precious life.

Chakra

Solar Plexus

Secondary to the heart, malachite helps amplify and balance the solar plexus chakra. This is where both our ego and soul dwell, where we feel confidence and courage, where we summon motivation and the ability to take action on our ideas and manifest them into reality.

The solar plexus is home to our stomach, spleen, and liver, and when these areas of the body are out of balance we can experience a lack of self-esteem and disappointment, worry and anxiety, anger and frustration.

Malachite cleanses these areas of the body and brings them back into balance, increasing blood flow, clearing heat and energetic stagnancy, helping you release emotional blocks and feel more comfortable and confident in yourself.

It pairs the cleared and open energy of the heart space with a bright and shining solar plexus to help you forge ahead with conviction towards your heart’s desires. It’s a powerful tool to bust through the unconscious blocks around your self-esteem and self-worth to help you step into your soul’s true potential.

Energetic Qualities

Hydrating

Even though it’s a fire element stone, malachite has a high water content. This means it can conduct and retain energy very well, which makes it nourishing for the fluids in your physical body as well as able to flush out and clear the emotional body. When you’re feeling fiery on the inside, malachite can flush out excess heat felt in the chest or gut.

Purging

Wherever energy is stagnant, malachite will help get it moving again. It can break down the inner dams, releasing stuck emotions, unconscious beliefs, cycles of conditioning, and anything else that’s been keeping you feeling stuck or under internal pressure. It moves energy inward and downward creating a purging effect.

Regulating

Malachite has a very strong, amplifying energy that can regulate anything irregular in your internal cycles and systems, such as an irregular pulse, heartbeat or menstrual cycle, irregular sleep patterns, or blood pressure fluctuations. It can also regulate obsessive thinking, intense emotions, and self-esteem issues, bringing order to chaos and balancing imbalances.

Physical Properties

Appearance

Malachite is a marbled kelly green with dark to light swirls and striations. It can be smooth and globular or have needle-like fibers.

Green is associated with nature and life itself, with growth, healing, harmony, and heart energy. It also conjures the frequency of money, abundance, and wealth on all levels, of health and vitality. Malachite helps amplify all these energies in your life.

Its swirling patterns sometimes form spots that look like eyes, and the stones which have these are thought to be extra protective against the “evil eye.”

Composition

Malachite is a copper carbonate, and copper is an amazing conductor of energy. It moves chi in your body, clears stagnation, and purifies the blood.

It penetrates down to the marrow of your bones, giving malachite the ability to shift energy at the core of who you are, down to the unconscious patterns, conditioning, and very structure of your beliefs.