Healing and Hypnotherapy Volume 2, Issue 4 October 2017 | Page 9

Peridot
Today I want to share the magic of Peridot with you.
Peridot, in shades of olive, is one of the few gemstones that forms
in only one color. Beautifully faceted, it evokes the lateness of
summer and the onset of fall, as leaves morph from green to gold
and hang like jewels in the sunlight. It is a crystal of warmth and
well-being, mentally stimulating and physically regenerating. It
carries the gift of inner radiance, sharpening the mind and opening
it to new levels of awareness and growth, helping one to recognize
and realize one’s destiny and spiritual purpose.
Called “the extreme gem” by the Gemological Institute of America,
Peridot is born of fire and brought to light, one of only two gems
(Diamond is the other) formed not in the Earth’s crust, but in
molten rock of the upper mantle and brought to the surface by the
tremendous forces of earthquakes and volcanoes.
While these Peridots are born of Earth, other crystals of Peridot
have extraterrestrial origins, found in rare pallasite meteorites (only
61 known to date) formed some 4.5 billion years ago, remnants of
our solar system’s birth. Peridot in its basic form, Olivine, was also
found in comet dust brought back from the Stardust robotic space
probe in 2006, has been discovered on the moon, and detected by
instrument on Mars by NASA’s Global Surveyor. Ancients
believed, quite accurately, that Peridot was ejected to Earth by a
sun’s
explosion
and
carries
its
healing
power.
[www.gia.edu][www.gemselect.com][en.wikipedia.org][www.peridot.com][Mella, 95-96]