Unakite & Rhodochrosite Necklace

What Does Healing Unakite Look Like?

Unakite is an opaque rock with distinct green and pink patches that are comprised of green epidote and pink orthoclase feldspar. The rock also contains clear quartz. It gets its name from the Unaka Mountains of North Carolina, where it was discovered.

Therapeutic-quality Unakite has a well-balanced representation of green and pink in each bead, with variation since every bead is unique. The greens come in many shades. The colors should be bright, distinct, and the patches of pink well defined. The spheres should be round and smooth. Those with indentations, which are common in Unakite, are high-graded out, as are those spheres with gray or black patches.

Unakite with a relatively equal proportion of green and pink will have the more effective healing benefits.

When to Wear Unakite & Rhodochrosite

When you want to:

• Think more freely, creatively, and with greater originality.
• Find freedom from limiting habits.
• Promote healing in areas that feel depleted and dehydrated.
• Improve the connection between your emotions and body so that life-giving energy can flow more freely between them for maximum vitality.

When you are experiencing:

• Inflexibility and rigidity in body and mind.
• Extremes of heat and cold in your body. For example, your hands and feet are often cold, but you have excess heat that manifests as inflammation, rashes, or chronic pain.
• Extremes of dryness and moisture in your body. For example, your skin is dry, but you carry excess weight.
• A sense that you’re stuck in a problem and unable to find its solution.

Benefits of Wearing Unakite

Unakite & Rhodochrosite supports the natural mechanisms that:

• Connect you with your emotional body.
• Help you receive vitalizing energy in both predictable and random ways.
• Allow certain energy flows to change course randomly so they can reach every part of the body.

Being Well Connected with the Emotional Body

Ideally, every aspect of us should be well connected with every other. This way energy can flow freely and every part of us gets the nourishment, information, and attention it needs to thrive.

A connection between the physical and emotional body is especially important because most life-giving energy passes through the emotional body before it reaches the physical. Thoughts and memories must also pass through the emotional filter before reaching our conscious awareness.

This explains why most health concerns can be traced to disruptions in this emotional-physical connection or are associated with it in some way.

If energy can’t flow freely, it accumulates and may get stuck in certain spots. In the emotional body, these buildups can lead to suppressed emotions that seem impossible to bring to the surface and let go. Or, they may come out in habitual and sudden explosive emotional releases. In the physical body, energetic buildups can eventually manifest as abscesses, boils, tumors, and other accumulations of tissue.

When you wear a healing necklace of Unakite & Rhodochrosite, you begin the task of rebuilding the energetic connections between the physical and emotional bodies. As these connections are restored, energy starts moving between them and buildups are slowly loosened and released.

Unlike other gemstones that work with the emotional body, wearing this formula will unlikely have an immediate effect on how you feel, what you feel, or how you handle your emotions. Rather, you’ll ease into an improved emotional-physical relationship gradually.

Unakite helps restore what should be a smooth, uninterrupted vibratory continuum between every physical organ and tissue and its emotional-body energetic counterpart.

The way Unakite makes this connection is illustrated in the way it organizes its pink orthoclase feldspar and green epidote minerals. Given that Unakite deposits are relatively massive, it’s curious that these two minerals can be so distinct in such close proximity. Consider the 8mm sphere that has such clearly delineated pink and green minerals. You’d think that the two would be present in larger amounts, which would produce beads that are either pink or green, or they would be mixed into a blurry mess. Yet, the two are distinct.

Granted, the gems we use represent the medicinal portion of the rock.

It is also not a coincidence that the color pink, which is formed by iron in this case, and the color green, from chromium, have affinities with the emotional and physical bodies, respectively. The pink color does indeed draw a gemstone’s energies to the emotional body, and green to the physical, though various pink and green gems affect the emotional and physical bodies in their own unique ways.

Living with Randomity

Randomity is a key to healthy living.

When we’re healthy, we should be able to receive various types of input and information without becoming overwhelmed, imbalanced, or threatened. Anything that isn’t compatible should be naturally deflected.

We should also be able to receive this input from random sources and in random ways. That’s what keeps us operating at a higher vibration. This randomness slows the lowering of our vibrations that occurs with age and helps prevent us from becoming rigid and inflexible.

Healthy children are very good at living with randomness. It seems to get more difficult as we age, establish patterns, and become set in our ways. We learn which kinds of input and experiences we enjoy and tend to avoid or limit the rest.

Being able to consider and receive a wide range of vitalizing energies prevents us from limiting ourselves physically, mentally, or emotionally. The variety keeps our bodies nimble, youthful, and flexible, and open to new ideas and better ways of living.

When we repeat certain types of emotions, thoughts, or actions over and over again, we lose our randomity. The channels through which those energies flow grow more solid. Changing our ways becomes more challenging. Letting go of bad habits or starting new, healthier routines takes more discipline. Even healing becomes more difficult.

Wearing Unakite & Rhodochrosite helps us, over time, to reverse those processes that make us become more rigid. It keeps energy flows from solidifying so that they’re always capable of changing course—and so that we can be as well supplied with vitalizing energy as possible. You’ll read more about this in the next section.

Allows Vitalizing Energy to Enter Depleted Areas

Energy flows are present throughout our body and being. Some are major flows, such as those that move along acupuncture meridians and toward and away from the body. Others are microscopic. All help maintain and sustain all the processes that keep us healthy and alive.

The major flows and microscopic flows work differently. The major ones follow predictable channels and can be located at any time. The microscopic ones are meant to be random, to change their course often and unpredictably. We know they’re moving as they should when cells and tissues are healthy and well hydrated. Their random movements allow them to cover more ground than they would if they followed the same route every time.

We can also tell when they’ve become less random and more set in their ways; it becomes evident when certain cells and tissues lack health and hydration. Because the vitalizing energy is moving in the same limited ways, it is no longer reaching those areas.

When microscopic flows stop being random, they become fixed. The vibrations of the channels that carry them become more solid-like and therefore lower. They are less malleable, less moveable, less capable of changing their course to meet our needs.

In addition, flows that no longer change their direction are unable to nourish certain areas of our body and being. These areas become neglected, depleted, and eventually absent of life-giving energy.

Absent areas tend to collect and amass unwanted energy. This can translate physically as buildups of tissue that shouldn’t be there.

Identifies Areas of Deficiency

One of the main effects of wearing Unakite & Rhodochrosite is that it recognizes areas where vitalizing energy has left, dried up, or been squeezed out.

To heal, Unakite & Rhodochrosite energy locates the very center of that neglected area and starts building connections between the physical and emotional counterparts there. These connections start at a point on the body and radiate outward to the emotional body like spokes on a wheel.

When enough connections are established, a spring of life-giving energy emerges at that point, originating in the emotional body. It’s like an oasis in the desert. The spring jumpstarts the microscopic flows so that life-giving energy can come into the area and move freely once again.

Benefits of Rhodochrosite as Unakite’s Symbiotic Partner Stone

Rhodochrosite is a manganese carbonate, colored by manganese, and the richest reddish pinks include some iron.

The gem has two qualities that make it a particularly good partner for Unakite. Both involve the way it moves energy.

Rhodochrosite encourages energy to rise upward in a circular motion, which is why we say it moves like a vortex. This motion helps Unakite energy accumulate in the center of areas that have lost their life-giving energy.

As energy moves upward to a higher vibration, Unakite’s ability to connect the physical with the emotional is catalyzed and strengthened. This supports the wearer to become more comfortable with their feelings, let go of old habits, and feel inspired to try something new.

How to Work with Unakite & Rhodochrosite

There are four keys to working successfully with Unakite & Rhodochrosite: wear it in cycles, wear it with other necklaces, cleanse the gems frequently, and make an effort to do new things.

Wear in Cycles
These gems need time to do their work, so plan to wear them daily for at least four to six weeks at first, and then in cycles of a few weeks at a time. Energy flows that have been set in place need ongoing support to soften. Unakite & Rhodochrosite should be worn either every day or every night, or a combination of both.

If you wear the gems at night, keep them in bed with you or place them on a nightstand within three feet of you, or on a Quartz cluster somewhere in the room. Any gems that you bring into the bed should be well cleansed in the morning using GEMFormulas Energy Clearing Spray. Those placed on a crystal cluster will remain clear, even though their energies have supported you all night long.

Wear with Other Healing Gemstone Necklaces
While you are welcome to wear Unakite & Rhodochrosite by itself to get to know these gems, we suggest wearing them along with different healing gemstone necklaces.

These other gems will support random action by drawing Unakite’s energy to the areas where these gemstones tend to focus. In this way, Unakite supports their work. At the same time, they support Unakite’s by promoting randomity in areas that might otherwise not be a priority.

Unakite also supports the work of healing necklaces worn along with it by building emotional-body connections where these gemstones work. This can help the other gemstones’ energies reach more deeply into the body and aura.

Cleanse Often
As Unakite & Rhodochrosite works, it releases unwanted energies from the body in two ways. As rigid channels of stuck flows soften, they shed the lower vibrations that have held them in place for so long. In addition, as these flows become more random they move into neglected areas, displacing the unwanted energies that have been accumulating there.

Unakite picks up all these unwanted energies, so unless you clear them from the gems regularly, maybe two or three times a day at first, you’ll stop wearing the necklace. It will become too burdened with these unwanted energies and no longer feel like a therapeutic tool. In fact, it won’t be until it’s cleansed and can start working for you once again.

Self-Reflect and Do Things Differently
If you want to bring Unakite into your life and truly get the most out of it, it's important to take a good look at what you do every day and then try to do something different. What emotions do you habitually feel? What types of memories come to mind often? What thoughts come up every day? Once you’ve considered these things, try to make just one change. The more you do things differently, the easier it will be for your energy flows to break free of their fixed paths and begin to move more randomly.

Unakite & Rhodochrosite in a Gemstone Therapy Session

When worn as a necklace, Unakite & Rhodochrosite supports randomness in the body as its energies move from one place to another in an unpredictable way. In a Gemstone Therapy session, you can specify where you want this effect to occur by coiling the necklace into two or three circles over your chosen area. This defines the area where Unakite is going to promote randomity and produce an energetic spring.

Triple circles are ideal, which is why we offer this necklace in longer lengths. When you form the necklace into circles, try to arrange the Rhodochrosite as near to the center as possible. This will allow the Rhodochrosite’s vortex-like energy to support the spring.

Inside the circle, you can lay a gemstone mandala or a different necklace or bracelet also arranged into a circle. What comes out of the spring in this case is the energy of the other gemstones present. In this way, Unakite helps the other gemstone energies to penetrate areas that don't usually receive life-giving energy. Because as we know, our habitual behaviors tend to compartmentalize our flows, limiting their reach and depriving certain areas of life-giving energy. This is just one more way Unakite helps to alleviate fixed flows.

Numerology

Only two Rhodochrosite gems are needed in an Unakite necklace to provide the ideal balance between the two gemstones—even in necklaces 30” long.

In any healing gemstone formula, the presence of symbiotes allows us to incorporate numerology into the necklace to enhance its healing benefits. The number of spheres between each symbiote in the front of the necklace provides that influence and should always have a meaning.

With Unakite, the ultimate focus is on the body, so we use an even number, namely four. Yet we appreciate the odd numbers and the influence of change they provide.

The ideal numbers for this necklace are 20, 24, and 28, which are divisible by four. Each also contains both odd and even factors, with the even numbers dominating: (2 x 2 x 2 x 3 = 24), (2 x 2 x 5 = 20), and (2 x 2 x 7 = 28).

Unakite & Rhodochrosite Care

Unakite has a hardness of 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale, and Rhodochrosite a mere 3.5 to 4. Unakite is much harder and can scratch its partner stone. We therefore recommend that when you’re not wearing this necklace, you wrap it in a soft cloth or tissue paper so the Unakite doesn’t rub against the Rhodochrosite and potentially scratch it.