Often referred to as the stone of “Total Awareness” It is a good stone to work with as you delve deeper into, mystical & esoteric study. Lapis is a powerful stone for activating the crown, third eye and throat chakras. You can use it to release yourself from emotional bondage as it is wonderful for cutting ties with relationships you wish to leave. 

Used on the third eye to promote dream insight and understanding lapis can help you do this as it stimulates emotional, mental and physical clarity. If you are looking to overcome depression, you can wear Lapis as a piece of jewelry to invites serenity and self-acceptance. Attracts wealth and can be used to protect against psychic attacks. 

Ancient Egyptians believed this stone to be a “Stargate”. lapis for short, is a deep-blue metamorphic rock used as a semi-precious stone that has been prized since antiquity for its intense color. As early as the 7th millennium BCE, lapis lazuli was mined in the Sar-i Sang mines, in Shortugai, and in other mines in Badakhshan province in northeast Afghanistan. 

Lapis lazuli artifacts, dated to 7570 BCE, have been found at Bhirrana, which is the oldest site of Indus Valley Civilisation. Lapis was highly valued by the Indus Valley Civilisation. Lapis beads have been found at Neolithic burials in Mehrgarh, the Caucasus, and as far away as Mauritania.[6] It was used in the funeral mask of Tutankhamun By the end of the Middle Ages, lapis lazuli began to be exported to Europe, where it was ground into powder and made into ultramarine, the finest and most expensive of all blue pigments. 

In addition to the Afghan deposits, lapis is also extracted in the Andes (near Ovalle, Chile); and to the west of Lake Baikal in Siberia, Russia, at the Tultui Lazurite deposit. It is mined in smaller amounts in Angola, Argentina, Burma, Pakistan, Canada, Italy, India, and in the United States in California and Colorado.