Join Adam Barralet, Kyle Perez and Nicholas Pearson in Episode #7 of the Crystal Confab Podcast as they unpack all-things Moonstone, including: Moonstone meaning & uses Working with Moonstone during the Full Moon in Cancer Which varieties of Moonstone to use for each lunar phase What's the difference between Genuine Moonstone and Rainbow Moonstone?     Tune in now for a deeper look at Moonstone meaning!   P.S. - Moonstone comes in many varieties and colors, which can make it difficult to spot Moonstone fakes! However, once you know what to look for, it's typically fairly easy to recognize the real deal. Make sure to check out my video all about How to Spot Moonstone Fakes and never be fooled by imposter Moonstone again!   Crystal Confab Podcast Introduction: Are you just starting with crystals? Or maybe you have a whole collection, but aren't sure how to use them? Join 4 crystal nerds, healers, workers, and lovers for crystal confab, a casual chat about all things crystals.   Adam BarraletHello, beautiful Crystal Confab family. Thank you so much for listening or watching our episodes each week. This week, we're exploring the magical crystal of Moonstone. Now the really interesting thing is we're really organized and we prerecord a few weeks ahead so that we always have some episodes in the bag in case we have any tech issues or anything like that. And we were talking about and we're gonna talk about in this episode about the full moon.   Now for some reason, I got my wires crossed and thought we're already up for the wall full moon in Cancer. Of course not. This week is the full moon in Aries. A really great time at looking at your financials and your physical well-being as in your security in that way. So forgive me when I talk about the full moon in Cancer.   I'm 2 moons ahead of myself, but enjoy the episode anyway. Bless the day.   Hello, and welcome to this week's episode of crystal confab. Hopefully, you're sitting out under a beautiful full moon as you listen to our heavenly voices because today we're gonna be talking about Moonstone. Today, I'm joined by Nicholas and Kyle, and we are gonna dive deep into the crystal that is the epitome of lunar energy, and we're really excited for you to join us, for this conversation or this confab. So, obviously, with such a dazzling crystal, there's gonna be a lot of different stories and kind of folklore about Moonstone. So who better to share a little bit more about that than Nicholas?   What can you tell us about Moonstone, Nicholas?   Nicholas Pearson: I can probably tell us more than is productive. So let's start with, like, the origin of the name. What we call moonstone today, got that designation in the early 19th century, at least in the English language. But other stones had been known as moonstones in other languages for, I mean, at least several centuries. The earliest written record that we have about a stone that we assume to be moonstone, comes from Pliny the Elder, in Rome, and he referred to it under a few different names.   One of them is derived from the same root as the word for star, so it would be called like Astrates or Astroites, and would also take on the name Selenites, after the Greek goddess Selene. However, it's important to note that, like, what we think of as moonstone may not have been what they thought of as moonstone. Anything that had a kind of lunar glow to it. And if we look at some of the earliest written descriptions, more than likely, in some cases, authors were talking about really flashy adularescent feldspars. Sometimes they were probably talking about gypsum and mica, and in other cases, they might have even been describing good old fashioned white marble, or pale colored jaspers.   And, you know, ultimately it was just any stone that reminded folks of the moon itself, and even today we don't have a single mineral species that can be called moonstone.