Gray Moonstone

the new-moon feldspar

Gray Moonstone rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
India · Madagascar
Mineral family
Feldspar — alkali series; not quartz
Hardness
Mohs 6–6.5 — worn with a little care
Energy
Intuition — The between-tides frequency — the pause where knowing forms.
The gray variety keeps moonstone’s walking glow but lowers the sky to a new-moon dark. Same shuttered feldspar layers, same light moving between them — only the night is deeper. For those who prefer their omens quiet.
“The moon has phases; so does her stone.”Trade lore