African Bloodstone Heart - 0.5-0.75 inch

The African Bloodstone Heart is a deep, saturated green stone flecked with red-orange spots scattered across the surface at random. At this small scale the spotting carries the piece visually, and coverage varies sharply, with some Hearts heavily marked and others nearly solid green. The polish is high and glassy. These are genuinely tiny, sitting flat in the palm in numbers rather than singly, and light enough that a handful weighs almost nothing.

African Bloodstone is traditionally associated with protection and grounding, inheriting one of the strongest and most consistent metaphysical histories of any green stone. A secondary association with energy and vitality gives it a more physical, active reading than most protective stones. At this size the pieces function as tokens rather than display stones, tucked into a bag or wallet, given away, or gathered as a set.

Key Properties
Primary Focus: Protection & Grounding
Secondary Focus: Energy & Vitality
Chakra Association: Root, Heart
Zodiac Sign: Aries, Libra
Chinese Zodiac: Dragon, Rabbit
Ruling Planet: Mars
Elements: Fire, Earth
Mohs Hardness: 7
Stone Family: Tectosilicate
Material: African Bloodstone
Origin: South Africa
Form: Heart
Finish: Polished
Approximate Size: 10-20 mm (0.4-0.8 inches)
Approximate Weight: 9 g
Listing: Sold by Single Unit

Geological Information
African Bloodstone, also traded as Seftonite, is a chalcedony variety of the quartz family, silicon dioxide at Mohs 7 in the trigonal system, carrying green chlorite inclusions and red-orange hematite spotting. It is mineralogically similar to classic Bloodstone, also called Heliotrope, but comes from South African rather than Indian deposits, and the South African material generally shows a deeper, more saturated green base with more vivid spotting than the Indian stone. The Seftonite name exists in the trade specifically to mark that origin distinction. The material is natural and requires no treatment. Bloodstone carries one of the strongest metaphysical records of any green stone, used across ancient Babylonia, Egypt, and Rome and extensively in medieval Christian tradition, where the red spots were associated with the blood of Christ; the African material inherits that full tradition as a regional variant of the same mineral type. South Africa is the primary commercial source.

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