Rainbow Moonstone Tower

A hand-polished rainbow moonstone point, milky white with a blue sheen at certain angles.

  • Sold as moonstone, it is white labradorite
  • Natural and untreated
  • The blue flash shows at an angle, never head-on
  • Softer than quartz, and it chips

Price range: $18.90 through $29.90

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Light, but not full sun

The faces take the light one at a time, so a point on a shelf changes through the day. Keep it out of direct sun though: amethyst and rose quartz both fade.

Named, treatment and all

Undyed is written undyed. Where the colour comes from a metal coating, the page says so, because that is the part nobody else tells you.

No two points alike

Banding, colour zoning, a tip a degree off centre. That unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin, and it is why yours is yours.

Frequently asked questions

What is rainbow moonstone?

Strictly speaking it is white labradorite rather than true moonstone, though the trade name is universal. It shows a blue sheen over a milky white body.

How is it different from ordinary moonstone?

The body is whiter and the flash is usually blue rather than the softer, silvery sheen of adularia moonstone. The two are related feldspars, not the same mineral.

Does it need to be cleansed?

You will find rituals for this online. Physically, a stone needs nothing but dusting; anything beyond that belongs to a practice, and we leave the choice to you.

How should it be cleaned?

A damp cloth, then dry. It is softer than quartz and cleaves along its layers, so avoid knocks.

Cut from rough, not grown

A tower starts as a block of rough stone. It is sawn to a rough shape, ground to its faces, then polished by hand through finer and finer grits. The faces are never perfectly equal and the point is rarely perfectly centred - that unevenness is what tells you it is stone and not resin.

A polished amethyst point on linen, its hand-ground faces visibly unequal in width

What the colour is telling you

Some of these stones are exactly what they look like. Others are quartz with a metal coating applied under heat, which is where the iridescent blues and violets come from. Neither is a lesser stone, but only one of them is a natural colour, and we say which is which on every listing.

A natural amethyst point beside a quartz point with an iridescent metal coating, under the same light
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Rainbow Moonstone Tower Price range: $18.90 through $29.90