Metaphysical Properties: Another gentle stone, as gabbros usually are, blizzard stone is one to turn to for balancing of our energies. Made up of a number of different minerals it’s found throughout the Alaskan Wilderness, another good reason for it’s appropriate name. Unlike indigo gabbro, it doesn’t polish up with a glassy finish. This is also a black gabbro, but this time with tiny specks of white, hence its name. This stone is also a type of gabbro & this name is another marketing term, however I also appreciate this name b/c it helps us to distinguish it from a number of other different types of gabbro. It also has a very calming quality to it. Metaphysical Properties: A gentle stone, I find it to be quite lovely to work with it at New Moon time & for setting intentions at that time. If you hold it out in the sunlight, you’ll notice that the greys in it have a sort of violet iridescence that’s beautifully unique. It’s a black stone with large grey mottling in it that can be polished to a high shine. Gorgeous indigo gabbro is newly discovered & only found on the island of Madagascar. Why do we need 2 different names for the same thing anyway? I’m not down with that. Anyhow, the name indigo gabbro is the name I prefer to use to eliminate confusion along with false price inflation based on a name. It seems as though a trademark was attempted on “Mystic Merlinite” but then was abandoned so it never went through. It’s real geological name is indigo gabbro. Merlinite Dendritic Opal variety Mystic Merliniteįirst let’s set the record straight on the name. Different minerals…I know…this can get very confusing. Now to make this really confusing, there’s a type of dendritic opal that looks really similar to merlinite and people also call this kind of opal “merlinite” even though its not the same thing.

You may want to go slowly & try it out in small doses at first. It’s a rather forceful energy though, so be careful when working with it. You can also use it for past life recall.Īdditionally, this stone is great for connecting with the elementals, making psychic connections, and allowing you to peer between the veils and dimensions allowing you to make connections with the spirit world, pulling back the veil so you can see what’s going on in those other dimensions.

Merlinite is all about magic and boosting your intuition.

The psilomelane has a tree branch-like pattern to it & that’s where it gets the “dendritic” part of its name. This stone is actually a dendritic agate that is mostly white with black dendrite “branches” a combination of a quartz (the white in this stone) over psilomelane ( manganese oxide)…the black in this stone.

Dendrite stone