Morganite Meaning

Morganite features a soft pink, peach, or salmon hue, so it’s often associated with innocence, sweetness, romance, and love. It’s believed to open the heart and bring upon healing and compassion. As a result, its popularity has grown in recent years as a gemstone that represents love–especially for engagement rings.

Some choose to wear morganite to support self-confidence, personal power, and positive energy. It’s thought to encourage fairness and fair treatment of other people. Some wear morganite jewelry if they are having emotional or mental problems because it’s said to help. It also improves communication, relieves stress, and increases understanding of others.

Spiritual Meaning

Morganite’s connection to love stems from its tie to the heart chakra. Many believe this stone brings healing, compassion, and promise to those who wear it. It develops your human spirit so that your personality and soul align. It is said that this crystal’s energy represents the love the divine have for us, and demonstrates that people’s hearts are connected and we are all part of a bigger life plan. This divine aspect of the stone is said to support and help heal when grief or loss impact our lives. Some also believe morganite restores trust and confidence in life’s larger plan.

Emotional Meaning

It’s believed that morganite opens and heals the heart chakra, which helps people overcome fear, resentment, and anger. This popular gemstone helps to recognize unfulfilled emotional needs and feelings. Defense mechanisms often protect our heart from vulnerability, but morganite highlights these fear-based defense mechanisms to open your heart to meaningful relationships. It’s believed to stabilize the emotional field, calm the mind, and attract wisdom–all of these, activates and energizes more loving thoughts and actions. By opening the heart, it increases the ability to hear and accept loving words and actions from others. It also can help you let go of old relationships and pursue a hopeful future with an open heart.

Morganite is believed to attract your soul-mate, deepen current relationships as well as help with healing and peace when faced with grief or difficult loss. Others believe this stone can also help treat asthma, emphysema, and tuberculosis. It’s said to oxygenate and restructure damaged cells. Some rely on morganite to relieve depression, support forgiveness, promote self-love, and increase compassion.

Wellness-Related Meaning

Because of morganite’s strong connection with the heart, it is said to support the physical heart too. Some believe this gemstone counters palpitations and other heart-related problems in addition to clearing the lungs, treating the nervous system, and relieving stress-related illnesses.

Morganite Birthstone

Although it is not a traditional birthstone, morganite is said to be an excellent stone for the zodiac signs of Pisces, Taurus, and Cancer. The energy of the stone is associated with people born from the end of October to the end of November. It’s said that the crystal helps Taurus calm stubbornness, Pisces remove victim mentality that they digress to, and Cancers clear their emotions.

Morganite’s Geological Properties and History

Morganite is called a rose beryl–it is the pink, salmon-colored variety of the beryl gem family. It gets its pink color from the minerals manganese and/or cesium. A higher content of manganese or cesium will yield a more saturated pink in the morganite.

In 1908, a deposit of fine Morganite with exceptionally saturated and beautiful color was discovered in Madagascar. Tiffany’s gemologist George Kunz believed this newly discovered, rose-colored gem deserved a unique name. In 1910, Kunz proposed to the New York Academy of Sciences that pink beryl be named morganite in honor of financier and gem collector J.P. Morgan, who was creating one of the world’s greatest mineral collections for the American Museum of Natural History in New York. This museum is now known as the Morgan Hall of Gems. They agreed with Kunz’s proposal, and morganite was officially named a new gem variety.

While originally found in Madagascar, today’s morganite comes from pegmatite mines in Minas Gerais, Brazil. In addition, Afghanistan, Mozambique, Namibia, and the U.S. have smaller and inconsistent morganite sources.