How to Cleanse Green Aventurine

• Green aventurine is well known for bringing luck and opportunity to those who use it. It also balances the Heart Chakra and supports emotional healing.
• Use moonlight, sunlight, sage smoke, selenite, or the earth to both cleanse and charge green aventurine.
• Green aventurine is safe to get wet. Hold it under running water or soak it in saltwater to harness the cleansing energy of water.

Cleansing Green Aventurine

Rest green aventurine in the light of the full moon overnight. Moonlight has the power to both cleanse and charge crystals. Simply place your crystal on a patio or balcony during a full moon and let it absorb the light overnight. If you don’t have outdoor access, use a windowsill that receives lots of moonlight. Place your crystal in a safe, flat spot where it won’t roll away during the night. A full moon has the most powerful light, but moonlight from any phase of the moon will cleanse your green aventurine, too. Moonlight is always beneficial for your stones and contains no harmful or negative energy.

Leave green aventurine in sunlight for 30 minutes. Sunlight is a powerful, fast-acting cleanser that charges crystals with vibrant energy, too. Just lay your aventurine on a patio, balcony, or windowsill that receives direct sunlight. The sun’s rays will clear it of negative energy, even if it’s a cloudy or overcast day. Make sure to bring your green aventurine inside after about a half hour. Too much exposure to direct sunlight can cause its color to fade. Leave your crystal out during dawn or dusk to absorb the lights of the sun and moon at the same time.

Rest green aventurine on a slab of selenite for up to 24 hours. Selenite is a self-cleansing crystal that clears other stones it comes into physical contact with. Lay your aventurine on top of a selenite slab or charging plate, or place jewelry in a selenite bowl. The selenite will absorb negative energy, leaving your aventurine refreshed and ready for healing work. Cleansing with selenite is safe for all crystals, and selenite itself rarely has to be cleansed. Try charging your selenite in the sun before using it to cleanse. That way, the selenite can charge the aventurine in addition to cleansing it. Alternatively, use black tourmaline or clear quartz clusters in place of selenite.

Hold green aventurine under running water for 1 to 2 minutes. Flowing water washes your stones and carries negativity away. Hold your stone under running water for several minutes—a natural source like a stream is best, but even a kitchen faucet will work, too. Pat your aventurine dry afterward. Try placing your aventurine outside during a rainstorm for an all-natural water cleanse. Green aventurine ranges from 6 to 7 on the Mohs Hardness Scale, so it is safe to get wet for short periods of time.

Soak green aventurine in salt water for up to 24 hours. Salt and water both neutralize and carry negative energy away from your crystals. Use natural ocean saltwater, Himalayan salt or mix your own with tap water and sea salt. Fill a bowl with it and completely submerge your aventurine for a few hours or up to a day—your intuition will sense when it’s cleansed. Rinse your crystal with fresh water and pat dry afterward. Check your green aventurine for scratches or cracks before exposing it to saltwater. Saltwater is corrosive and might worsen existing imperfections.

Bury aventurine in dry sea salt or Himalayan salt for up to 24 hours. Salt crystals draw negative energy out of other stones. First, fill a bowl or container with dry salt and bury your aventurine so it’s completely covered. Then, take your container outside and let it sit for 24 hours while the aventurine releases its bad energy into the air. Throw the salt away after cleansing. It’s full of negative energy now, so you definitely don’t want to eat or use it!

Bury aventurine in the earth for up to 3 days. Earth has the power to cleanse your crystals and charge them with healing energy. Dig a small hole in a spot that’s surrounded by nature, like a garden or flower bed, and cover your aventurine in dirt. Mark the spot and dig it up a few days later. Rinse and pat the stone dry afterward. Leave the aventurine in the soil for as long as a week if it’s your first time cleansing the stone. When buried, green aventurine directs earth energy upward into plant systems and infuses them with positive, healing energy.

Smudge aventurine with sage or Palo Santo smoke for several minutes. These sacred herbs have been used for spiritual cleansing for thousands of years. Light one end of a sage bundle or Palo Santo stick until it begins smoking, then place it in a heat-safe bowl. Wave your aventurine through the smoke with your hand, or use a feather to waft the smoke around the crystal. Waft with the intent of clearing your green aventurine of negative energy. Visualize any spiritual impurities fading away into the air along with the smoke. Smudge sage or Palo Santo outdoors if possible. If you’re smudging inside, open up some windows or doors to ventilate your space. Smudging is an effective way to cleanse green aventurine jewelry.

Waft cleansing incense smoke around the aventurine for a few minutes. Incense smoke energetically cleanses and charges crystals and the surrounding space. To cleanse with incense, light an incense stick and place it in a holder when it starts smoking. Move your aventurine through the smoke with your hands or gently fan incense and feel the smoke carrying negative energy out of the room. If possible, use incense made from herbs that are native to the area where you live for a more personal cleanse and charge. Try burning cedar or sandalwood to boost your green aventurine’s ability to bring you good financial luck. Use incense smoke to safely cleanse green aventurine jewelry, too.

Wash your green aventurine in sound waves for about 10 minutes. Sound waves help realign a crystal’s vibrational frequencies and restore its healing abilities. Sit near your crystal and use a bell, tuning fork, or singing bowl to generate a constant sound. Imagine the waves washing over the stone and carrying impurities away into the air. If you don’t have a bell or singing bowl, chant the syllable “om” instead. A sound bath is a great way to cleanse a large collection of stones all at once, or to cleanse big, heavy stones that are hard to maneuver.

Benefits of Green Aventurine

Green aventurine brings luck, opportunity, abundance, and fortune. It's called the “luckiest crystal” or the “stone of opportunity” because it opens up your awareness to new possibilities you might normally overlook. It motivates you to pursue those opportunities, whether that means applying for a new job, asking someone out on a date, or embarking on a new creative project. Carry or wear green aventurine to enjoy its good luck wherever you go.

Green aventurine soothes and balances the Heart Chakra. Your Heart Chakra is a pool of green energy below your breastbone that guides your ability to give and receive love. The Heart Chakra responds positively to green and pink crystals, so aventurine is one of many stones you can add to your chakra meditation or healing work. Hold it, wear it, or set it near you during your session for the best results. Signs of a blocked Heart Chakra include a lack of empathy, emotional detachment, refusal to forgive, or an inability to let others show you love. Signs of an overactive Heart Chakra could include being overly empathetic or behaving clingy toward loved ones.

Green aventurine supports emotional healing and creativity. It balances your emotions and hormones to soothe oversensitivity and anxiety. As a result, green aventurine helps you break routines that hold you back from expressing yourself and exploring new things. It also improves mental discipline and removes creative blocks so your inspiration can flow. Because of its stabilizing effect, green aventurine is great for teenagers or people in leadership positions.

Green aventurine protects against electromagnetic pollution. Devices like cell phones and computers create small electromagnetic fields all around us, sometimes called the electromagnetic smog. Green aventurine is said to absorb this smog and protect its wearer from radiation and emanation. There’s no clear evidence of electromagnetism negatively affecting humans, although research in this area has become more frequent recently.

Using Green Aventurine

Wear or carry around green aventurine for good luck and fortune. Try wearing aventurine jewelry like rings, bracelets, and necklaces for an easy and stylish way to procure good luck throughout your day. Rings are especially effective, since being able to see the stone encourages you to pursue new opportunities. If jewelry is not your thing, put green aventurine in your purse, backpack, or wallet instead. Set an intention for your aventurine when you wear it so its energy is focused on you. Hold it while meditating and visualize what you want it to attract for you.

Place green aventurine in spaces where you need more luck. You don’t have to have this crystal on you all the time to reap its benefits. Leave it on your desk at work or in your home office for career help, or in your gym bag to get that new PR during your next workout. You can even leave it in your wallet for better financial luck!

Put green aventurine under your pillow to aid sleep and manifestation. Aventurine’s electromagnetic-absorbing properties protect you from disturbance while you sleep. It also supports your manifestation efforts—meditate or visualize your goal with green aventurine before you go to bed at night and when you wake up in the morning (it’s especially helpful for manifesting money or abundance). Green aventurine will also soothe your emotions and Heart Chakra during the night when you sleep with it.

Meditate with green aventurine for change or to open your Heart Chakra. Green aventurine is a powerful meditation aid—it’s linked to the healing energy of the Earth, it can help you persevere through challenging times when it seems like nothing is changing. Meditate while holding green aventurine up to your heart or in your hand to balance your Heart Chakra. Close your eyes, breathe deeply, and visualize a swirling green pool of energy over your heart while you meditate with aventurine. Try wearing a green aventurine necklace that dangles over your heart to keep your Heart Chakra balanced throughout the day.

Combine green aventurine with other crystals to amplify its effects. Aventurine is plenty lucky on its own, but using it in tandem with other stones can direct its energy towards a specific goal or outcome. Try meditating with these crystal combos, or place them together in your crystal grid: Pair green aventurine with clear quartz to amplify its natural powers (clear quartz has this effect on all other crystals, too). Combine green aventurine with other green or pink stones, like rose quartz, to amplify its healing effect on the Heart Chakra. Use green aventurine with citrine (“the money stone”) or emerald for enhanced financial fortune. Try aventurine and moonstone for luck conceiving and having a baby. Use green aventurine and amethyst together to enhance your mental health and soothe headaches, migraines, or other head pains.