Aquamarine

[Astral Explorer]

I am looking to expand my collection and buy a piece of Aquamarine, unfortunately this isn't my field of expertise and I don't know where I should look. Anyone know any reputable Aquamarine dealers on eBay or otherwise? I would appreciate any information. My reason for wanting Aquamarine is because I am a Cancer zodiac which is a water sign and I want to get a really powerful water element stone. I am hoping it will allow me to reconnect with the water spirits that brought me to Neptune.

[Rena]

http://heavenandearthjewelry.com/sea...se&category=88

from $4 - $6

just click on the link and you will see!

[Rena]

I actually was told I needed aquamarine one time through a vision/voice.....

but I never followed through and bought any.

I still need to get some!

[Selbor13]

I can send you some pics from my local store, it can be very affordable if you don't care much about quality/clarity or it can be pricey if you do, then again you do buy lots of moldy so might not look so expensive. Here in san diego that store has the best prices and they are reputable.

[Astral Explorer]

Originally Posted by Selbor13

I can send you some pics from my local store, it can be very affordable if you don't care much about quality/clarity or it can be pricey if you do, then again you do buy lots of moldy so might not look so expensive. Here in san diego that store has the best prices and they are reputable.

That sounds good to me. I am not worried about quality/clarity, it can be opaque for all I care. Just looking for an average sized piece that won't get lost out of my pocket, but isn't so big than I roll over on it and break it.

[Rena]

why don't you buy online astral explorer?

there's lots of crystal sites online

just curious

[Astral Explorer]

Originally Posted by Rena

why don't you buy online astral explorer?

there's lots of crystal sites online

just curious

In the past I have tended to stray away from the sites, they are usually rather expensive for my taste. Not that I am cheap when it comes to stones but I usually am able to find a better deal on eBay. That hasn't been the case for Aquamarine, Phenacite, and Rainbow Moonstone. Rainbow Moonstone is so cheap they want to sell you 3-5 stones at once, and none of the ones I have seen have really nice blue refraction which means they are low quality. Phenacite is always so small and expensive, especially on websites and eBay I am always worried about it being fake. And Aquamarine just haven't found what I am looking for on eBay, haven't checked around at too many stores at this point. I have been looking over Heaven & Earth because I want a piece of Agni Gold Danburite and I am thinking about "trying" out a Satyaloka clear Azeztulite and their new stone Azumar. Although I have my doubts they are as special as they claim and will have anything more than the same energy from a piece of low quality clear Quartz from India, or whatever the Azumar is which I cannot remember off the top of my head. It's Quartz and Kaolinite which is from Arizona I think. But of course Heaven & Earth always makes sure they buy it all up and secure all the miners in that area so they can in turn create a monopoly on trademarked stones and crank the price up. I have been dying to get my hands on a good water element stone and Heaven & Earth claims Azumar is a really good one. Maybe I'll have to unload some cash on an overpriced piece and find out.

[Rena]

oh ok, well i'm just the opposite, I don't trust ebay for buying crystals........lol

[Rena]

oh by the way, I just looked up Azumar..........

that is a beautiful stone!

it's not that expensive though..... on the heaven and earth website, it's $12 for 5-8 grams. and 8-12 grams is just $20
That's for the azumar raw stones.

[Astral Explorer]

Originally Posted by Rena

oh ok, well i'm just the opposite, I don't trust ebay for buying crystals........lol

I only buy from really reliable dealers on eBay to be honest, people I have dealt with before or those with impeccable history. It's pretty easy to weed out the fakes but even with that said every once in awhile you certainly will have to take a small gamble. For instance I just bought a vintage 8.8 gram Moldavite pendant and I won it for $13.50 USD. At the bottom of their page it says that they buy a lot of vintage stuff from lot sales and estate sales and so they try their best to insure that whatever they specify the stone in the jewelry is real, but there is no guarantees since most of the stuff they deal with is faceted and cut to be placed into jewelry. So it was a risk that the Moldavite would be fake but I saw no reason why a vintage piece would use a fake Moldavite since Moldavite was much cheaper in the past and fakes have only popped up in the last 5-10 years. Also the pictures were very detailed and I could see it was certainly real. Of course when I received it I was elated. Not only did I pay 15$ for the pendant + shipping (75$ less than what I paid for my other pendant), it is 1.4 grams heavier than my other pendant, it is vintage so the quality is unseen on newer jewelry. They spared no expense and used a boatload of silver and picked an absolutely perfect piece of Moldavite. Had I not took that risk I wouldn't have reaped the rewards, sometimes on eBay you have to take a calculated risk.

The general rule is just don't buy anything out of China and buy from a reputable dealer and you shouldn't have any problems on most stuff. If you're buying really expensive stones like Phenacite, Diamonds, etc. it's a lot riskier. I did buy a large piece of Indonesian Amber from someone in China but it is certainly real. I got a 55 gram piece of Amber for $2.16 USD. So I wasn't worried if it was fake honestly it was worth the gamble. If you're educated on the specific stone you're buying, only buy from dealers with long positive history, and only buy when the reward is larger than the risk you should be good to go. You might catch a loss or two but nothing that would cost you too much.

Originally Posted by Rena

oh by the way, I just looked up Azumar..........

that is a beautiful stone!

it's not that expensive though..... on the heaven and earth website, it's $12 for 5-8 grams. and 8-12 grams is just $20
That's for the azumar raw stones.

Hey yea Azumar is pretty looking and I know in the small picture it's not that expensive. But if you take into mind exactly what it is then it's extremely overpriced. It is simply a form of Quartz and in the past Quartz was worth 1$ for a pound. So paying 12$ for 5-8 grams is just ridiculously overpriced. That is what Heaven & Earth does though, they find some different not often seen form of Quartz and slap some amazing name and metaphysical properties onto it, buy up all of the sources and lock down all of the people who actually mine the stuff, and then they sell it for incredibly overpriced prices. The truth I have found is regular VT/NC Azeztulite is simply Milky Quartz and if you bought a piece of Milky Quartz that is from Vermont, North Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia, Colorado, or any other place it's going to have the exact same energy as what they are calling VT and NC Azeztulite. The only difference is for what you paid for the piece from Heaven & Earth you will get a piece 10x or more as large.

The same goes for Satyaloka Azeztulite. If you buy a piece of clear Quartz from India it's going to have the exact same energy, the only difference is you will pay 10 times what you would pay otherwise. I can say that Satyaloka means sacred location and the people in India have mined Quartz from that specific locality for hundreds of years and they have always believed Quartz from that locality is special. So perhaps that specific locality has some different chemical composition and the Quartz has some different properties. But I am sure you get my point by now. If you could find a miner that lives in Arizona and dug up some Blue Quartz Kaolinite it's going to have the exact same properties as Azumar, the only difference is if you buy it from Heaven & Earth they paid what you would of paid from the miner which in reality is probably less than a couple cents a gram. But now they renamed it, created some amazing story, and turned around and are selling it for more than 1$ a gram when in reality Quartz is barely worth 1$ an ounce. If it wasn't for the metaphysical New Age market people would be giving away Quartz like it was dirt. Every single new stone from Heaven & Earth becomes the best stone in their opinion. Every single time they trademark a new stone they always claim it's one of the most powerful stones and has amazing properties unlike any other stone. I guarantee when they find some new Quartz hybrid mineral in a couple months they will do the exact same thing and make like 1,000% profits.

It really rubs me wrong to have someone like Robert Simmons who has amazing books with tons of information claim that he is doing all this for the greater good and to raise the vibration of the world, but then when you analyze the truth about Heaven & Earth's business model it becomes quite clear he's only in it for the money and absolutely no other reason than that. I knew something was fishy from the first day I saw their website when I was looking for alternate Moldavite sources, their Moldavite prices are incredibly high. They only trademark minerals that are cheap for them to buy so that they can turn around and make huge percentages of profit. My final example is their trademarked stone Mystic Merlinite. They are selling 8-12 grams for 20$ but it's on sale right now for 10$. Well you could either buy Mystic Merlinite from them and get a 8-12 gram stone for 10$, or you could buy the exact same mineral under it's real and thankfully leaked name Indigo Gabbro. If you go on eBay and buy the same mineral under it's real name Indigo Gabbro you can buy a pound of it (448 grams) for 10$. It is the exact same mineral and so that pretty much sums up Heaven & Earth in my opinion. They seriously fight and struggle to keep the real mineral names of their trademarked stones off of the internet but thankfully some of them have been discovered by knowledgeable rock hounds who despise what Heaven & Earth does. In the case of Satyaloka Azeztulite the actual miners in India have seen Heaven & Earth selling it for ridiculous prices so now they have started doing the same selling it under the name Satyaloka Quartz for ridiculous inflated prices, all thanks to Hell & Earth, oops I mean Heaven.