Mystic Merlinite (also known as Indigo Gabbro)
Indigo Gabbro is a relatively new crystal mined in Madagascar and in various locations in Alaska. It has an amazing array of colors from light indigo purple to black. “Gabbro” refers to a large group of dark, coarse-grained mafic, or igneous rock, formed of silicate [SiO2, or quartz] that is rich in magnesium and iron. It has a chemical equivalent to basalt, but with decidedly different energies. Gabbro is an essential part of the oceanic crust.
Gabbro is a combination of multiple minerals containing feldspar, chlorite, serpentine, muscovite, pyroxene, hercynite, and magnetite in a charcoal colored matrix; it may also contain small amounts of olivine, chrome garnet, actinolite, and biotite; It can also contain valuable amounts of chromium, nickel, cobalt, gold, silver, platinum, and copper sulfides.
Indigo Gabbro, or Mystic Merlinite in its spiritual aspect, works to unify the two worlds… the one of spirit and the one of the earth. Acting as a bridge between the two realms, it creates a deeper understanding of one’s spiritual gifts and natural intuitive abilities. It is like an awakening bell for the long forgotten memories that this time is asking us to reawaken to or remember. It can amplify your intuitive skills of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience with even your plants and animal friends.
Working between the worlds, Indigo Gabbro also creates a bridge between the dark and light aspects of who you are. Seeing your patterns as not an expression of duality, but rather the balance between the positive and negative, the heavy and the light, the joyous and the trying. Because this is a time of balancing and accepting the duality within us, Indigo Gabbro shows us the dark and inspirational aspects working in harmony… not conflict. This time of healing the darkness – in ourselves, in our world – is a perfect opportunity for utilizing the Indigo Gabbro for its higher purpose [even as it helps us].
You can find a circuit of unity and alignment by placing an Indigo Gabbro sphere at the root chakra and a flat Indigo Gabbro at the crown chakra. By adding a Morganite crystal at the heart chakra, you will integrate not only the “above” and “below,” but also the fulcrum of who you are to find balance in an ever changing world.
Indigo Gabbro is said to be useful in the treatment of “hot flashes”, cellular swelling and infections. It may alleviate the effects of fevers, and balance the alkalinity of the body. It may also correct disorders of the immune system, bruising, and sprains.
Merlinite is a stone of duality, of black and white, and light and dark. This is a stone that attracts powerful magic and good luck into your life... and it may also take you to places where you make contact with the deeper, darker parts of yourself.
Merlinite both promotes our levels of contact with spirit and also aids our own spiritual growth. It is a stone of magic, reminding us of the memories of wizards and alchemists. It's black and white coloring is said to blend heavenly and earthly vibrations together allowing us access to the spirit and shamanic realms and to the Akashic Records too. Merlinite lets us bring magic into our lives.
It a stone of harmony that aids the birth of creativity and clear psychic visions, and it will aid you to access higher spiritual energy... and to make contact with guides and teachers in the higher realms. But it is not only a stone for the light... as it may allow you to experience 'dark night of the soul' aspects of your higher-self.
The most evident feature in it’s appearance is it’s colouration. Black and White, immediately one draws associations with duality as in Night and Day and all the metaphors we use for light and dark, and yet it’s not a clear cut division of the two aspects, we see the branching darkness making incursions into the light. This gives the impression that dualities blend into either aspect of the whole. A conclusion typified by the Yin and Yang symbol. This then suggests that Merlinite is an ideal integration crystal that enables the user to reconcile all aspects of themselves, even those that are at odds with one another. It is an ideal reminder to us that good people sometimes do bad things and vice verse. Merlinite is a powerful balancing crystal allowing for and encouraging equilibrium.
It is said to conjure the memories of alchemists and wizards... such as the wizard Merlin from Arthurian times. It is a stone that stimulates deep intuition, psychic knowing and spiritual mediumship.
In creating pathways into other realities, Merlinite provides for ease in communication with non corporeal energies. Many use it in communication with Spirit Guides and Totem Animals,Merlinate encourages you to go deeper and deeper into other realms and is an aid to astral projection, transcendental meditation and vision questing. It also provides psychic protection through it’s black colouration and it’s white light.
The vibration of this stone is very shamanistic, as it allows you to access the energy of the natural world and communicate with elementals.
Metaphysical Healing Properties: Mystic Merlinite can part the veils between the visible and invisible worlds, opening the doors to deeper intuitive abilities. It can facilitate opening the dormant areas of the mind. It increases sensitivity to the communications of the subtle realms, allowing one to “talk” with plant and animal spirits, and devic entities. For those wishing to work with elemental energies for magical manifestation or awakening to mystical experiences, this stone can be a powerful ally. The black and white mixture of Mystic Merlinite symbolizes the Light and Shadow sides of the self, both of which one must embrace in the moment of inner awakening.
