Apache Tears

- One of the most effective stones to comfort anyone experiencing grief or loss.

- Raises one's level of awareness so that one is able to easily sense threatening people, situations, or energies around them.

- Helps one gently release pain associated with loss, heartache, or trauma and begin the process of deep emotional healing.

- Its gentle vibration promotes forgiveness and compassion towards oneself and others.

Chakras: Root, Heart

Elements: Earth, Fire

Zodiacs: Aries, Capricorn

Affirmation: "I am supported and comforted as I allow myself to grieve."

Read about The Legend of Apache Tears below.

The name "Apache tear" comes from a legend of the Apache tribe: about 75 Apache warriors and the US Cavalry fought on a mountain overlooking what is now Superior, Arizona, in the 1870s. Facing defeat, the outnumbered Apache warriors rode their horses off the mountain to their deaths rather than be killed. After the tragic and unjust event, the wives and children of the warriors discovered their beloved sons, fathers, brothers, and husbands, they started to weep and the tears they cried turned into stone upon hitting the ground.

It is said that whoever has this stone will never need to cry again for the Apache women and families cried for all who mourn.