Labradorite

the aurora stone

Labradorite rough specimen on dark stone
Provenance
Labrador, Canada · Madagascar · Finland
Mineral family
Plagioclase feldspar — light interfering in layered lattice
Hardness
Mohs 6–6.5 — worn with a little care
Energy
Grounding — The banked-aurora frequency — night outside, light within.
An Inuit story says the Northern Lights once fell into the coastal rocks of Labrador, and a hunter’s spear freed only part of them — the rest still burn inside the stone. Science calls the flash labradorescence, light interfering between feldspar layers. Both are true enough: the stone is dark until it isn’t.
“The Northern Lights fell into the rock, and a hunter’s spear set only some of them free.”Inuit legend · Labrador coast
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