Sophia layer multi strand necklace

Azurite guides psychic and intuitive development. It raises consciousness to a higher level and gives greater control over spiritual unfoldment.
Mentally, Azurite brings about clear understanding and new perspectives, and expands the mind. It releases long-standing blocks in communication and stimulates memory. Azurite challenges your view of reality and lets go of programmed belief systems to move into the unknown without fear, reaching deeper insights and a new reality. Old beliefs gently rise into the conscious mind to be tested against truth. Emotionally, Azurite clears stress, worry, grief, and sadness, allowing more light into the emotions. It transmutes fear and phobias, and brings in understanding of why they occurred in the first place. It calms someone who talks too much out of nervousness, or encourages someone who holds back from self-expression. Azurite with Malachite combines the qualities of the two crystals and is a powerful conductor of energy. It unlocks spiritual vision, strengthens the ability to visualize, and opens the third eye. At an emotional level it brings deep healing, cleansing ancient blocks, or thought patterns.

Lapis Lazuli opens the third eye and balances the throat chakra. This stone quickly releases stress, bringing deep peace. It possesses enormous serenity and is the key to spiritual attainment. This stone harmonizes the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual levels. Imbalances between these levels can result in depression, disease, and lack of purpose. In balance, the harmony brings deep inner self-knowledge. Lapis Lazuli encourages taking charge of life. It reveals inner truth, encourages self- awareness, and allows self- expression without holding back or compromising. If repressed anger is causing difficulties in the throat or in communication, Lapis Lazuli releases these. This stone brings the enduring qualities of honesty, compassion, and uprightness to the personality.
Lapis Lazuli is a powerful thought amplifier. It stimulates the higher faculties of the mind, bringing objectivity and clarity. It encourages creativity through attunement to the source. Lapis Lazuli helps you to confront truth, wherever you find it, and to accept what it teaches. It aids in expressing your own opinions and harmonizes conflict. It teaches the value of active listening. Lapis Lazuli bonds relationships in love and friendship and aids expressing feelings and emotions.

Hematite is particularly effective at grounding and protecting. It harmonizes mind, body, and spirit. This stone has a strong yang element and balances the meridians redressing yin imbalances. It dissolves negativity and prevents negative energies from entering the aura, restoring peace and harmony to the body. Psychologically, Hematite is strong. It supports timid women, boosts self-esteem and survivability, enhances willpower and reliability, and imparts confidence. This stone removes self limitations and aids expansion. Mentally, Hematite stimulates concentration and focus. It enhances memory and original thought. Physically, Hematite has a powerful connection with blood. It restores, strengthens, and regulates the blood supply. It can draw heat from the body.

Quartz is the most powerful healing and energy amplifier on the planet because of its unique helical spiral crystalline form. Found worldwide, it absorbs, stores, releases, and regulates energy and is excellent for unblocking it. When acupuncture needles are coated in Quartz, the effects increase by ten percent. As demonstrated by a Kirlian camera*, holding a Quartz crystal in your hand doubles your biomagnetic field. It enhances muscle testing and protects against radiation. Quartz generates electromagnetism and dispels static electricity. At a spiritual level, this crystal raises energy to the highest possible level. Containing every color possible, Clear Quartz works on all levels of being. Storing information like a natural computer, these crystals are a spiritual library waiting to be accessed. Quartz is the most efficient receptor for programming. At a mental level, Quartz aids concentration and unlocks memory.

Labradorite is a highly mystical and protective stone, a bringer of light. It raises consciousness and connects with universal energies. Labradorite deflects unwanted energies from the aura and prevents energy leakage. It aligns the physical and etheric bodies and accesses spiritual purpose. It raises consciousness and grounds spiritual energies into the physical body. This stone stimulates intuition and psychic gifts, including the art of "right timing," bringing messages from the unconscious mind to the surface and facilitating their understanding. Psychologically, Labradorite banishes fears and insecurities and the psychic debris from previous disappointments. It strengthens faith in the self and trust in the universe. It removes other people's projections. Labradorite calms an overactive mind and energizes the imagination, bringing up new ideas. Analysis and rationality are balanced with the inner sight. Labradorite brings contemplation and introspection. Synthesizing intellectual thought with intuitive wisdom, it is an excellent dispeller of illusions, going to the root of a matter and showing the real intention behind thoughts and actions.

Citrine energizes every level of life. It cleanses the chakras and opens the intuition. Citrine attracts wealth, prosperity and success. It imparts joy, wonder, delight and enthusiasm. Raises self-esteem and self-confidence. Stimulates the brain, strengthening the intellect. Citrine promotes motivation, activates creativity and encourages self-expression. Enhances concentration and revitalises the mind. It releases negative traits, depression, fears and phobias. Emotionally balancing. Citrine is also a manifestation crystal that can motivate you to take action. It brings optimism and cheerfulness. Citrine is a good stone for aligning all the chakras (energy centers). It focuses on balancing the solar plexus chakra, which in turn integrates the lower and higher chakras.

Pyrite is a powerful protection stone which shields and protects against all forms of negative vibrations and/or energy, working on the physical, etheric, and emotional levels. It stimulates the intellect and enhances memory, helping to recall relevant information when needed. Pyrite assists one in seeing behind facades, promoting an understanding of that which lies beneath words and actions. The ancient Incas used Pyrite for meditation and divination. Pyrite inspires the universal energies to activate the nourishing energies of the body. It encourages the ideal of health, intellect, and emotional well-being. It allows one to recognize the purity of the universe. Pyrite is one of the strongest determination stones. It’s energies directly resonate with the solar plexus chakra that activates one's personal will. These energies are what hold the key to accomplishing our life goals. However, they only become achievable by hard work and dedication. Pyrite will help keep you on track until your objectives have been attained.

Why is the necklace named Sophia?

Sophia is the Greek goddess of mythology archetype of spiritual wisdom in women’s spirituality circles, in which she is viewed as the Divine Feminine. Sophia's identity is hidden in the Old Testament by references to her in the lower case word “wisdom.” She was a part of the Judeo-Christian heritage of the west, but forgotten within a monotheistic, patriarchal religion that denies feminine divinity. Sophia's third part of life concerns have to do with the death, divinity, or mortality of our own religious beliefs and faith. As Sophia starts stirring in women, they will feel that now is the time to sort out their own religious and spiritual feelings, loyalties, and beliefs. Sophia’s archetype of wisdom causes a pressing need to find meaning and reconcile one’s beliefs through gnosis. When women are on a spiritual quest, they are finding and developing their “inner” Sophia wisdom. Since solitude is usually the developmental ground for contemplation, prayer, and meditation, a conflict may arise between the needs of relationships in the secular world, and the needs for the time for inspired religious study. Sophia's wisdom is insightful, what we know as soul knowledge, or gnosis. Gnostic or noetic knowledge is what we know to be intuitively and spiritually true. Gnosis is also that mysterious way of knowing that is sometimes called “women’s intuition.” But it really is not so mysterious, it is just noticing what is happening around you, and processing that information in an intuitive way.