Blue Topaz

Topaz is a colorless or colored (in blue, light blue, dim, light green, light pink, dark red, yellow) variety of aluminum silicate that can be found in huge rough crystals, the biggest one, weighing no less than 117 kg was discovered in Ukrainian mines. The most famous noble polished topaz, 1680 karat worth still decorates the Portugal crown. Its name comes from Topazoz Islands in the Red Sea. The yellow variety of topaz from Brazil, when warmed up, it becomes pink. Even since old ages, topaz was thought to be a friendship stone and it was thought it had the gift of stopping hemorrhages, dementia and maniac states, being the good fortune and protective stone for those born in November or on a Sunday.

Description: yellow, green, blue, red, pink, brown, sometimes colorless natural aluminum silicate.

Colors: variant – colorless, white, grey, bluish, greenish, yellowish, pink, brown-yellowish. The most frequent is the sky-blue, and the rare one is the pink topaz. Many shades aren’t natural, but resulted from thermo treatment. 

Varieties: blue, green, rainbow, silver, sky blue. Natural blue topaz is extremely rare, most of them are white and submitted to thermal treatment. Blue topaz has many names: sky blue, London blue, Caribbean blue, Swiss blue. White topaz= slaves’ diamond 
name: comes from Sanskrit, ‘tapas’ meaning fire or from the name of Topazos island in the Red Sea
Composition: Al2 [F2 (SiO4)]

Toughness: 8 (out of 10)

Luster: glassy 

Note: yellow topaz can be mistaken with citrine, blue topaz can be mistaken with aquamarine, transparent topaz can be mistaken with diamond or zirconium. 
Other information: the biggest blue topaz is over 21.000 karat.  
 
Recommended for:  
 
signs: Gemini, Lion, Virgo, Libra, Scorpion, and Sagittarius;
Birth month: March and November (yellow), December (blue), October (pink), and April (white)
Lucky charm for Sagittarius 
day of birth: Sunday
Year of birth: Buffalo’s 
dominant planet: Venus (white), Mercury (pink)
It is given as gift at 4 years’ wedding anniversary old (blue topaz), 19, 23 years, 19, 23 years – blue topaz. 
 
Effects on the person wearing it:

It is the stone of trust, communication, strength and protection that chases away negative energy. It provides energy and power, creativity, courage in making decisions, will, abstract thinking, intelligence, connects to each one’s spiritual guide.

It attracts love success, joy for life, abundance, peace, tranquility, welfare.

It helps fulfilling your hopes and dreams, decreases worries, anger, depression; helps overcome your fears and doubts. It changes your mood, making you feel good, and increases personal abilities. It also balances your emotions, helps you express your thoughts with words and emotions. It helps you to detach so you can see things how they really are, chases away insomnia, has an energizing effect on artists, scientists, stimulates creativity, and protects you from evil spirits. 

Health: it is favorable for breathing, spleen, thyroid, digestive system, toxin elimination, tissue regeneration, rheumatism, arthritis, prevents cold and head ache.

Topaz, the Sagittarius sign stone was thought to bring good fortune if it was reset in gold. It was considered to be the friendship stone. 

Blue topaz is the 4th wedding anniversary stone; the Egyptians thought it to be an amulet against any injury, because they believed it had been created by Ra himself, the god of sun. Romans had similar beliefs, associating topaz with Jupiter, also the sun god. Legend says it had the power to undo witchcraft and improve sight. Greeks thought it has the power to make you invisible when you needed it, and that it changes color in the presence of poisoned food, cures insomnia, asthma and hemorrhages.