On my crystals side quest I’ve done a few I personally really like.
I’m talking about especially liking the stone. This rose quartz tattoo falls into that category.
One of the reasons I like it so much is that it is pink. Pink has always been my favorite color. Not any specific tone, just pinks in general. My love of the color fades slightly as it nears red or nears white.
I’m also a daydreamer… a hopeless romantic who has always felt attached to the great stories of love in history.
Definitely hopeless, as I’m also a jaded and bitter soul.
I don’t want to be, and I fault myself for much of it. I have 90% of the time picked people who were almost buried in what people refer to as red flags. I just brush them aside and say “I can do this.”
Here is where the rose quartz comes into play. Rose quartz is the love stone. It is primarily known for attracting and enhancing all forms of love, including romantic love, self-love, and platonic love. Note that we aren’t talking about just romance there. That is important.
A small cluster of rose quartz. As noted, it known for attracting and enhancing all forms of love. Including romantic love, self-love, and platonic love. This would include friends, and even family.
Those can be much more important than the romantic sort of love. If you have children I really hope you can understand this.
I have also been lucky through the years with my friends.
Just this week I hung out with different friends each day of the week for various things. The shortest friendship of these people I hung out with measures at eleven years. The longest of these friendships nears forty years.
Though I have been neglectful of my friendships for the last eight years, all of these people are still there for me.
Only once have I mistaken someone for a true friend, and it was recently.
Red flags always, so I guess it was my fault.
Besides that one instance though… Never have I called someone a close friend who wasn’t one. Fooling myself in such a way hit me hard. It made me angry at myself.
We all know the story of The Scorpion and the Frog. The fable illustrates the idea that some individuals are incapable of changing their inherent nature, even when it is against their best interests. The story tells of a scorpion who asks a frog to carry him across a river. The frog is initially hesitant, fearing the scorpion will sting him, but the scorpion convinces him by arguing that stinging the frog would mean their mutual demise. Midway across the river, the scorpion stings the frog, dooming them both. When the frog asks why, the scorpion replies that it was simply his nature.
Who’s fault?
Back to the Rose quartz tattoo. Rose quartz is also thought to help heal emotional wounds, promote forgiveness, and ease feelings of grief, anger, and resentment. So if you are the frog and you feel stupid for playing with the scorpion, the rose quartz is there for you. It will help you get back to where you should be mentally.
Since my autistic ass is naturally able to compartmentalize and separate things for deletion and disconnect that aspect of rose quartz never seemed much to me.
Sigh…
This year though was strange. I had a string of deaths, one each month, five in a row. This brought back my undealt with grief from the last year when I lost two close family members.
The crush of that brought it all back, traumas, regrets, etc. My entire life. Every bit of it. Right when I thought I could take no more, that scorpion stung me.
It turned out a good thing I think. I survived the sting, cataloged it, and began dealing with trying to heal myself from all the shit of my life I’d shoved deep down inside and never dealt with.
Guess what? Rose quartz encourages self-acceptance, self-forgiveness, and self-compassion. These things are much needed when trying to wrestle your demons from your past. They are also essential for building healthy relationships with others. I’d isolated myself for a few years. I’d become very much not myself. It feels good to start becoming myself and doing things I used to do. I’m trying to forgive myself for becoming so dark. I also am feeling lighter because I was being eaten with anxiety the last few years. I still have the types anxiety I always had before that, but the stuff that had hold of me these last five years or so lifted away immediately when the avalanche of memories came falling down on me and my life flipped. Bonus = my art returned. So much art!
Guess what? Rose quartz is also believed to have a calming and soothing effect, helping to reduce stress, anxiety, and promote relaxation.
Yep, the rose quartz is pretty awesome.
If you liked this post about the rose quartz tattoo, maybe you’ll like my post about Golden Healer Quartz.