This 1.79 carat Burmese spinel carries a vivid pinkish-purple that reads as saturated lilac-pink in person - a color position that sits between a true pink and a true purple without committing fully to either, and that is exactly what makes it unusual. The tone is bright and clean, holding its character across different lighting conditions rather than shifting dramatically from one environment to another. The pear cut is well-proportioned with a balanced length-to-width ratio, strong brilliance through the crown facets, and a step-cut pavilion that deepens the interior color. Face-up, the stone reads lively and clear.
This piece comes with a gemstone identification report from GFCO Gem Lab, a Swiss-based gemological laboratory, confirming natural spinel from Burma with no heat and no treatment. The report records the color as vivid pinkish-purple, the shape as pear, and the origin as Burma, with an RI of 1.720 and SG of 3.58, consistent with fine natural spinel. For collectors and practitioners who require documented provenance alongside vibrational quality, this stone delivers both.
Burmese spinel in this color family (vivid, saturated, and genuinely untreated) has become increasingly difficult to source at this weight. The combination of a certified origin, this level of color intensity, and eye-clean clarity places it firmly in the upper tier of natural pinkish-purple spinel currently available on the market.
WHAT THIS STONE IS USED FOR
One advantage of a faceted gemstone over a rough crystal is the culet, the pointed tip at the base of the stone, which acts as a focused energy director, similar to the tip of a Vogel crystal. By pointing the culet directly at the body, you can concentrate and deliver the stone's vibrational frequencies into a specific point rather than allowing them to radiate outward in all directions.
The red and violet band pairing in this stone creates an energetic range that spans from physical vitality to spiritual transmutation. In body layouts, place it at the heart or base chakra to engage the red band's vitalizing, activating, and blood-building properties. Move it toward the crown or hold it above the head to draw on the violet band's transmutational quality and its capacity to amplify the effects of meditation and deepen spiritual focus.
The pear shape has a natural directionality to it, where the point functions as a built-in energy director even beyond the culet. Orient the point toward a specific chakra or area of the body for focused delivery, or wear it as a pendant with the point facing down to direct the stone's output continuously into the heart and solar plexus centers throughout the day.
For collectors, the GFCO certification adds a layer of provenance documentation that is relevant for resale, estate purposes, insurance, and investment tracking. The stone ships with its original lab report. For stone medicine practitioners, the certified untreated status confirms the stone's energetic integrity, and no heat treatment means no interruption to the natural vibrational field the stone developed in the earth.
VIBRATIONAL PROFILE
Red band: At the physical level, the red band provides core support for the physical body. It overcomes weakness and lethargy, increases blood flow and circulation, builds hemoglobin and platelets, strengthens muscles, energizes the liver, and supports rapid tissue and cellular repair. It stimulates the central nervous system and all the senses. At the energetic level, it is strengthening, stimulating, activating, warming, and expanding. In Chinese medicine, red corresponds to the Fire element, connecting to the heart and small intestine, the vibrational force that supports love, joy, and happiness, and counteracts hate, impatience, and cruelty. At the spiritual level, the red band is connected to the Warmth Ether, the first stage of movement from the astral plane into physical manifestation, and in Daskalos' archangelic system, to Archangel Michael, who appears as a Red Flame and guards the entry point into physical existence. Esoterically, the red band is the force of strength, willpower, passion, and the vitality to engage fully with physical life.
Violet band: At the physical level, the violet band builds the spleen and white blood cells, supports the lymphatic system, and has been used in protocols for serious illness. At the energetic level, it is faster and more penetrating than the white band and uniquely amplifies any other vibrational color used alongside it, meaning its presence here actively potentiates the red band already operating in this stone. It produces etheric revitalization and transmutation. At the emotional and mental level, it shifts awareness away from physical-world concerns and toward spiritual focus, promoting higher awareness and consciousness. At the spiritual level, it gives spiritual strength and deepens the effects of meditation. In Rudolf Steiner's system, violet corresponds to the Life Ether, the highest of the four ethers, which penetrates solid matter and governs the physical materialization of spiritual impulses. In Daskalos' archangelic system, violet is the flame of Archangel Raphael, the Archangel of Healing in the Western tradition, who governs etheric vitality. The alchemical Violet Flame tradition speaks to violet's core function: the transmutation of denser energetic states into higher, refined ones.
The pairing of the red and violet bands in a vivid, certified, eye-clean stone of this weight creates an energetic profile that is simultaneously grounding and refining, moving energy from the base of physical vitality through to spiritual transmutation without losing its footing in either direction.
MINERAL TYPE: Spinel
CUT: Pear
COLOR: Vivid purplish-pink
CLARITY: Eye clean
TRANSPARENCY: Transparent
WEIGHT: 1.80 ct.
SIZE: 6.7 x 7.5 x 5 mm
ORIGIN: Burma
TREATMENT: None (unheated, untreated)
CERTIFICATION: GFCO Gem Lab
HARDNESS: 8 (Mohs scale)
REFRACTIVE INDEX (RI): ~1.718
SPECIFIC GRAVITY (SG): ~3.58
CRYSTAL SYSTEM: Cubic
CHEMICAL COMPOSITION: MgAl₂O₄
✦ HAND-SELECTED AND VIBRATIONALLY TESTED
This spinel was personally sourced and tested by Ashley Sohl, Ph.D. Scholar, GIA-Trained Gemologist, Vibrational Scientist, and Creator of Archetypal Stone Medicine. Every stone at Sanctuary of Stones meets both gemological and vibrational standards before it enters our collection. What you receive is natural, untreated, and verified.
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