Amber is one of the world’s most coveted and oldest treasures. It’s known as the Gold of the Sea, intrinsically formed by life and light, preserved by time, and then washed up on the shores for humanity.
This beautiful stone is portrayed in various ways. First, the tears of the gods. Second, the drops of the sun, and sunlight solidified, hardened honey. It’s also been loved since ancient days thanks to its value in adornment, the warmth of color, and medicinal and magical properties.
What is Amber?
Technically speaking, amber is not a stone. It is actually a fossilized resin or sap of extinct coniferous or cone-bearing trees. Amber mostly comes in golden orange to golden yellow, however, there are specimens discovered in natural history in a variety of colors.
Moreover, amber is a mixture of hydrocarbons, which are composed of several tree resins, plant resins, succinic acid, and volatile oil. It is not formed from the tree sap which is the fluid that circulates throughout the plant’s vascular system but from the chemical change in resin, which is a semi-solid and aromatic substance secreted through the epithelial cells of the plant resins.
This resin is produced as a protection mechanism in order to draw off injury and disease caused by fungi and insects, warding off stress produced by the rapid growth or healing of broken branches. The resin of ancient forests usually filled the internal fissures in trees. The resin is dripping and oozes down the outer bark where they will trap spiders, insects, annelids, pieces of plant resins and wood matter, hair, and feathers.
After that, resin starts to harden by losing its volatile components. Over time, the forests fell, and the solidified fossil resin will be carried by the rivers to the coastal regions. The resin is buried by sediments and became a part of the ocean floor or repositioned elsewhere by other events.
In order to become the amber stone, the fossil resins will undergo a second hardening period known as polymerization. Fossil resin is where the resin molecules linked with each other in order to form larger molecules. This process can take from several tens of thousands to millions of years, before becoming insoluble fossil resin. Most is 30 – 90 million years old in natural history, although some are slightly less than a million, with the oldest amber found to date 320 million years old.
True Baltic amber comes mainly from the Baltic region, primarily in Lithuania, Poland, and Russia. There is also some pressed and Dominican amber production in the Dominican Republic, Chiapas in Mexico, Sumatra in Indonesia, and Burma.
Ambers are known to have a rating of 2 – 2.5 on the Mohs hardness scale. Amber occurs to be opaque to transparent and ranges in color from whitish and pale yellow to the more common honey or golden orange, brown hues, to a deep brown. There are also other colors of amber which will be discussed later on.
The Meaning and Uses of Amber
In ancient times, this thing was known by numerous names. The most notable one is the Latin term “succinum” which means “juice” from the extinct tree, Pinites succinic, from which this stone was believed to have been produced, originally.
Pliny the Elder considered pine origins well-proven by the fact that it emitted the pine-like smell when ignited and rubbed, burned with the appearance and odor of torch-pine wood.
Amber also comes from the Greek term “Elektron” which refers to the sun. It is conferred upon this stone’s ability to draw small substances to itself when subjected to friction. And this is the origin of the words “electricity” or “electron”.
The modern term “amber” is believed to come from the term “anbar”, an Arabic term for “ambergris”. It is a similarly colored material discharged from sperm whales that also washes onto shores and is used in manufacturing perfumes.
Amber is a highly protective crystal. The material is used by kids as a bracelet, necklace or even sewn into the garment of an infant in order to shield them from harm and ward off negative energies. This stone is also prized for its ability to reduce teething pain.
Amber is also worn or carried if you want to recover from an injury or an illness. It will also increase vitality and draw on your essential strength and the desire for wellness. Its strong vibration of life force can bring warmth to your inner beings and impart more of this energy into your system. And since it is used to achieve wellness and longevity, is a great crystal for the elderly.
Other users of ambers are the healers working on removing entities from your energy fields, amber can be a powerful ally in sealing your aura after extracting and clearing the lingering negative energies. It can also help you to explore your psychic sensitivity by providing a strong light barrier against negative entities and forces until you can control your intuitive abilities.
Amber Metaphysical Properties
Amber is highly prized in the metaphysical realm, thanks to its healing and energetic properties and for the powerful life force, it carries within. This stone has a strong connection to the earth and sun, as well as the once-living organisms, insect, and plant resins matter that are forever suspended within its golden structure.
Amber is also a natural purifier that has the ability to draw disease and pain from the physical body, mind, and spirit. It absorbs stagnant or negative energy and transforms it into positive, clear energy. It then stimulates your mechanisms in order to heal itself.
In antiquity, the amber stone was a symbol of nostalgia and loneliness as well as grief. Its creation was often referenced in lore and myths as tears. Due to its natural warmth, the stone was regarded as a living being. In fact, it was even believed that the souls of tigers metamorphosed into amber and brought courage to their wearer.
The Benefits of Amber
As mentioned before, amber is loved for its powerful healing attributes. Here are some of the benefits of using amber stone.
For Physical Healing
Thanks to its electrostatic influence, the amber stone is considered to be one of the most powerful and effective energy-healing substances. It has the ability to draw off the pain, toxins, ailments, and diseases from your body.
Also, this crystal can stimulate your immune system and other natural healing mechanisms of the body to heal and rebalance itself. Placing an stone directly on your wound or over your internal organs facilitates healing. If you place it at your thymus gland, this stone can help in restoring balance to your entire system.
Amber is also a great tool for alleviating psychological diseases and increasing energy levels and overall vitality. This stone can help stimulate sluggish digestion and is considered beneficial for treating the bladder, kidneys, gallbladder, liver, and spleen.
For Emotional Healing
Amber supports and heals the emotional body by drawing off the negative energies that can steal your optimism and drive for life. It can replace them with a revitalizing and empowering frequency conducive to positive change.
This stone is ideal for those who are battling with suicidal tendencies, or addictions, or those struggling with an emotional and psychological breakdown in order to see the light and positivity of life.
Amber can also help in removing the obstacles that you place in your way. It even deflects the negative energies of other people. This stone can lend the much-needed courage to set boundaries with colleagues, friends, or family. It will also allow you to recognize that it’s safe to be powerful in loving ways.
Aside from bringing stability and balance to your life, this stone can also encourage flexibility and patience. Its bright and warm energy can promote trust, and cheerfulness and strengthen your belief in yourself.
For Chakra Healing and Balancing
The golden-orange shades of are known to stimulate your sacral chakra. This chakra is located just below your navel and above your pubic bone at the front of your pelvis.
This chakra is known as the center of gravity of your body and controls the flow of energy. It’s the center of the Life Force of your body, controlling the flow of information from your body to your mind, and vice versa. In short, this is where you get your intuition, gut feelings, and other non-linear communication.
When your sacral chakra is out of balance, symptoms manifest as confusion, repression of feelings, dependency on others, inability to feel, frustration, and the fear of sex or sensuality. The golden-orange hue can be used to unblock such energy flow and restore your sense of balance, appreciation, and understanding of life.
With the amber balancing of your sacral chakra, you can feel the pleasure in life and experience the flexibility of going with the flow and doing so in good spirits.
Meanwhile, the golden hues within can activate the solar plexus chakra. This is the energy distribution center and is known as the chakra of relationships. The solar plexus chakra is located between your navel and ribcage, controlling the digestive and immune systems.
When it is physically balanced, the solar plexus chakra can provide the strength to fight infections, utilizing nutrients ingested and freeing you from allergic reactions. An unbalanced solar plexus can cause you to feel fear, displeasure or disappointment in others or subordinate your pleasures and life to the will of others.
For Wealth Fetching and Luck
Amber is a potent stone of manifestation. It can manifest an increase in your income flow and other forms of wealth. Its golden color can inspire ambition, abundance, and prosperity.
It is not just useful for overcoming roadblocks to earning money, but to keep it too. Furthermore, it can help in dissolving self-imposed limitations, particularly those related to the feeling of not being worthy enough to receive money.
Amber is also known to increase your luck. It won’t bring your instant wealth but boosts your long-term focus and energy and luck when working towards your financial goals and success.
For Relationship and Love
In terms of relationships and love, the amber can be a powerful ally. This stone with its sunny aspects can help you develop warmth, patience, and understanding of your loved ones.
With its sunny attributes, you can lose your temper or prevent getting annoyed by infusing you with its positive energies. Not only that, but it can also open your heart, and organize your feelings and thoughts.
The stone also protects you from getting emotionally hurt, and confused, and eases the feeling of defensiveness. It allows you to welcome peace and understand a different perspective during chaotic or heated arguments with your partner.
From that, you can have a better understanding, and ultimately bring stability and flexibility to your relationship. It also helps you become more tolerant and mature in your relationship. It strengthens your feelings and emotions so that you and your partner won’t easily fall apart at the first sign of problems.
Not only that, but this crystal can also help you get rid of insecurities and jealousy. It can ease the feelings of fear and remove the lack of trust and gives you the wisdom to accept things.
For Depression and Anxiety
Amber is an exceptional rubbing crystal that can discharge negative moods, deflecting negative energy from others while relieving anxiety and depression. It is warm to the touch and generates an uplifting and positive current of energy.
Furthermore, this stone can help cleanse a chattering and overwhelmed mind. It allows you to get rid of your phobias and stress while inducing a sense of tranquility, peace, and serenity.
For Career Success
Because of the clarity of mind that this stone can provide, it is highly prized by those who want to use their intellectuality to gain achievement toward career success.
A consistent stream of ingenuity and fresh ideas often proves necessary in even the most low-key office jobs of today. And amber can help with that by stimulating your intellectuality and mental acuity.
Amber can also help you with memory enhancement and recollection. This is useful for those needing creative ideas or innovations to get promoted or noticed by their supervisor or boss.
In addition, amber can inspire you to use your talents, skills, and gifts to bring abundance and wealth into your life. It can also dissolve any feelings of uncertainty and insecurity while filling you with energies of inspiration and determination.
Different Types of Amber
As mentioned before, amber comes in various colors. Here are the different types of amber by color.
Yellow
Yellow to brownish amber pieces are found around the world and is the most common variety. It features up to 70 percent natural resin. They make up over 2/3 of the amber production in the world. Originally, yellow baltic is found in the Baltic Sea area. Baltic amber is offering the largest and good to highest quality amber.
Green
Green amber is quite popular, accounting for about 2 percent of all amber production. The supply of this color is huge in the market and the price will depend on how deep the green shade is.
The yellow-green color is usually less expensive, while those with a deep green hue are more expensive. Take note, however, that not all green amber is naturally occurring. It is commonly created by heating the amber.
However, there is naturally occurring green amber and the best specimens like Dominican amber are mined in the Dominican Republic.
Black
Black amber accounts for around 15 percent of all mined naturally. What makes this variety unique is that this amber is not fully fossilized resin. The black color was formed when the tree resin was mixed with debris, soil, or other inclusions.
Holding the black amber against the light, you will notice that it’s actually another color. Typically, it’s either dark red or brown. This is why most people claim that black amber doesn’t exist.
Black amber is slightly more expensive than common amber. However, there’s also not much demand for it.
Red
Red ambers are commonly called Cherry. And this cherry-colored is occurs very rarely in nature and accounts for about 2 – 3 percent of ambers. Thus, in most cases, red amber is developed by exposing common amber to high temperatures.
Raw beads are typically preferred over a polished stone since they look more natural. Since red amber can be hard to find, it can be quite expensive per gram.
Blue
Amber in blue hues is the rarest of all, and thus it is highly valued. Today, only very little amounts of this natural resin are found in shades of blue, so it can be difficult to find one. Blue only accounts for 0.2 percent.
A unique feature of this color is that it should be held in the right lighting to see the blue shade. It is also worth noting that blue amber contains fluorescents inside. This will turn it into a very bright blue color when exposed to fluorescent light.
Blue baltic amber is commonly found in the Dominican Republic. Blue baltic amber is rarely in the Baltic Region.
White
White amber is another rare variety, accounting for only 1 – 2 percent of all production. Also called “royal white” or “bony”, white amber features a unique texture. It’s also praised for its decorative swirls in grey, butterscotch, blue, honey or green hues.
It is also worth noting that white amber is never treated and is thus loved for its natural beauty.
Combining Amber With Other Crystal Stones
Amber is a highly versatile stone and can be paired with other potent crystals to amplify its properties and energies.
Citrine
With its bright yellow hue, Amber is a powerful healer for your solar plexus chakra. Pair it with the most used crystal for solar plexus chakra, the citrine, and you can enjoy a more empowered and enhanced functioning.
Since is formed from the fossilized tree resin embedded within fauna, flora, and other minerals, it offers a strong connection with the earth. This crystal can help cleanse your solar plexus, draining too much energy that can cause you to suffer from unhappiness or mood swings.
Meanwhile, citrine can help in restoring balance and harmony to your solar plexus. It provides you with the much-needed self-confidence in order to keep moving towards your goals.
As amber absorbs negative energies and emotions from other people, the citrine crystal will radiate positive energy. As a result, they will attract happiness, prosperity, and success into your life.
Dumortierite
If you need a crystal combination that can teach you patience and control your emotions, then the amber and dumortierite duo can help you there.
Amber, with its strong connection with the earth, can help in promoting patience while stabilizing emotions. Dumortierite can encourage you to persevere while also infusing you with much-needed confidence to reach any goals in your life.
In addition, Amber, as a cleanser of the sacral chakra, can be useful when you need patience during creative pursuits. Whether you are a writer, an artist, or training for something, amber can give you the much-needed patience to trust the whole process.
Dumortierite can amplify these, along with easing the feelings of being undervalued at work. It is often hard to maintain work or artistic standards when it feels like there’s no one notices your achievements, however, dumortierite can help you to be assertive and self-motivated.
Clear Quartz
Got a headache or migraine? Try the amber and clear quartz combination.
Amber is a powerful stone for cleansing emotional blockages that may cause headaches, migraines, or tension headaches. Since it contains natural oil, when you wear it next to the skin, it can penetrate the body and help soothe headaches.
Not only that, but it can also help in resolving stress and anxiety which are common causes of migraines and headaches.
Now, clear quartz, as the Master Healer, can bring balance to your crown chakra to ease headaches. It also amplifies the energies of amber. In addition, you can even direct negative energy away from your body with clear quartz that can soothe headaches.
Garnet
For intensifying and spicing things up in your relationship, you can try the combined energies of amber and garnet.
Amber, as a love crystal, is a symbol of tenderness and beauty. It is a good luck talisman for increasing your natural radiance while also ensuring lasting love. Not only that, but this crystal is also a great protector against negative outside interference and influences. It is indeed a wonderful gem for ensuring promises and has been used for renewing marriage vows.
But don’t be fooled by these gentle attributes. Believed to “electrify” desires, amber is also credited with helping with your sexuality. When combined with the strong energies of blood-red garnet, you can balance your energy. This will bring passion and serenity as appropriate while also inspiring love and enhancing your sex drive.
With both stones, you can stimulate your kundalini energy and aids sexual potency. AS help cure frigidity and impotence as well as increase female fertility and assist male potency, garnet can initiate the sensual pleasures of life by stimulating your heart and blood, increasing your sexual energy and desire, and allowing you to enjoy the sensuality.
Carnelian
If you’re looking for a good crystal combination that can activate and stimulate your sacral chakra, then you should try amber and carnelian.
Amber, once again, thanks to its origin containing fauna, flora, and other minerals, means that it has energies from both eh sun and earth. This makes it a great choice for clearing issues related to your sacral chakra and supporting its better functioning.
Thus, it helps you connect to your conscious self and have better intuition. Meanwhile, carnelian with its evening sunset hues can open, stimulate and soothe your sacral chakra. This will help in help balancing energy flows while also encouraging confidence.
Amber with its sunny and warm energy inspires positive as well as creativity and enhanced decision-making. Carnelian, on the other hand, can enhance your endurance, motivation, courage, and leadership.
Also, carnelian with its strong connection with Aphrodite, the fertility goddess, can help in increasing your chances of getting pregnant. Meanwhile, amber introduces spontaneity in lovemaking, enhancing your fertility and sexuality.
Both stones can help boost your intuition, passion, and self-esteem. Their warm joyful energy can balance and revitalize your life, allowing you to move forward with renewed confidence.
Petrified Wood
Just like amber is made of fossilized tree resin, petrified wood is another potent crystal from fossilized wood. Such a unique method of formation provides these crystals with a strong grounding essence that encourages patience and with their natural connection to the earth helps bring calming and soothing energies.
Petrified Wood, as the Stone of Transformation, can encourage you to believe in a new path or career that you have chosen. Amber, on the other hand, will give you the confidence to trust your decision and move forward while being patient to see results.
With this combination, you can understand that true change takes time, with petrified wood promoting slow, steady growth and amber-inducing patience and confidence to continue.
Sunstone
In terms of love and relationship, the amber and sunstone combination makes perfect sense. Both crystals can help you in developing more patience and understanding with your partner or loved ones. Their energies are highly soothing. This will allow you to calm your nerves and prevent you from getting annoyed at the smallest things.
Amber and sunstone can also transform problematic relationships into stronger and more loving ones. They help you get through the rocky part of your relationship. It will also boost your sexuality and energy, for a more passionate and sensitive relationship.
Agate
For a soothing and anxiety-relieving combination, try the amber and agate duo. Amber can help in clearing away negative energies and entities, cleansing an overwhelmed mind, and balancing your emotions. Agate, on the other hand, can stabilize your energies and aura.
As amber gets rid of the stress, anxiety, and other emotional and mental issues in your life, the agate can bring harmony to your chakras and all bodily aspect while inducing coherent and positive thinking.
Both stones can help soothe your depressive and agitated states, preventing hysteria, easing repressed emotions, and allowing you to relax and have a calm and peaceful demeanor.
Is Amber a Birthstone or Zodiac Crystal?
Amber is not a traditional birthstone, but it is a zodiac crystal.
Amber is July 22 – August 21 Natural Birthstone
Ambers are actually not traditional birthstones. However, it is the natural birthstone for people born during the magical month of mid-summer, from July 22 – August 21. Likes its sunny and warm hues, amber reflects this month’s energies and brings you enthusiasm, success, power, and happiness.
Amber is Zodiac Crystal Stone for Taurus
Amber is one of the zodiac crystals for those born under the sign of Taurus, which is during the heart of spring from April 20 – May 20. The Taurus, depicted by the bull, is known for its strong and quiet demeanor.
Taureans are known to be “down to earth” and the amber, with its strong connection to earth, actually emphasize this characteristic. Taureans are also known to be very affectionate, however, they can be impatient, hot-tempered and really stubborn.
Amber can calm such personalities, teaching the bull patience, and confidence and allowing them to let go of their stubbornness.
Meditation with Amber
Amber can be used in meditation when your desire is to connect to the wisdom and energies of the earth of an earlier age. Thanks to its ancient energy, amber can release the wisdom of ancient times when held in the hand or touched during a meditation session.
Furthermore, this crystal can also be used to purify or cleanse the area for meditation. It is also used to clear the body, mind, and spirit in readiness for the expansion of your consciousness.
Amber makes a superb tool for past-life exploration, cleansing karmic debris from your energy field, or clearing family patterns. Not only that, but this stone is also a powerful protector for your shamanic journeys while also allowing you to travel to the lower world. Lastly, focusing amber in candlelight or in bright sunlight can heighten your awareness.
How to Cleanse and Charge Amber?
You can clean your amber stone with plain soapy water and a soft cloth. Wash the stone gently and then dry it with a soft cloth. You can then rub some olive oil onto the stone.
After that, leave the stone in the sun or in a warm airing cupboard for a few hours in order to recharge it. Just make sure to keep away direct heat such as radiators since amber is a soft stone that easily cracks and shatters.
Final Thoughts
Created by light and life, amber is one of the oldest and most powerful healers in the crystal healing community. As a talisman of growth, beauty, and happiness, this stone will ensure balance in your life, shielding you against negative energies to keep you moving towards a happy and enthusiastic life with confidence.