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Butterstone AKA Butter Stone, Butter Jade or African Jade is a stone called Stromatolite. This rock is from the Greenstone Belt of southern Africa, which was formed during the Archean Period and is over 2 1/2 billion years old. The Archean Period covers 45% of the earth's history, from the beginnings of the planets (about 4 1/2 billion years ago), up to the beginning of the Proterozoic Era (2 1/2 billion years ago). Metaphysically, it is a stone most associated with grounding and earth energies. It allows us the opportunity to make the connection to the "essence of life". It has a smooth and soothing feel to the touch (like butter) and offers us humility and a sense of calm stillness. It contains all the qualities of a Root Chakra stone such as stability, grounding, connection to the earth element and resilience. It's soothing green coloring in turn, connects us to the Heart Chakra, such as love, humility and steadfastness. Butter stone is a healing stone. It takes the power of the earth with the grounding ability of nature and blends the opportunity for growth, awareness and contemplation. It is a humbling experience to hold a piece of ancient history of such an incredible age in your hands, contemplating its formations and wonder at its origins.
Folk Remedies: In Africa, butter stone is used to soothe the heart, bring peaceful sleep and a warming sense of calm.
Feng Shui: Use butter stone in the Center area for healing and balance. It is wonderful when used in the Northeast corner for Knowledge, Skills and in the East for Family Health and Community.
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History: Butter stone is a piece of our history's past. Many pieces contain evidence of the beginnings of life on Earth. During the Archean Period the surface of the earth formed, the oceans and the continents were established and life began in the shallow sea environment. There must have been seabed outcrops or lakes of considerable size, which were turbid and muddy. This residue would over time have precipitated to the bottom in layers and early algae life would have settled within these banded layers of muddy residue. Around 2.8 billion years ago the atmospheric pressure was higher and heat production around 3 times present heat production, due to increased volcanic activity. This led to the serpentinization (green color) of the sediments that had by now become hard.
Microfossils in the form of Stromatolites of blue green algae have been found in the fine laminations and may represent the beginnings of life on earth and contain a history of our own origins. Micro fossils are microscopic relics preserved in rock by being incorporated into the sediment in such a way that they are not immediately broken down but are replaced in fine detail by the fossilization process. Stromatolites are structures in the laminated sedimentary rocks built by organisms such as algae or bacteria that have precipitated carbonates from the surrounding waters. Microfossils in the form of fossilized algae are the earliest known life forms, predating the dinosaurs by 2500 million years, and represent the beginnings of life and fossils, as we know them. Unlike conventional fossil collecting, the search for microorganisms proves to be more difficult as Archean rocks do not give up their secrets easily. Identification of the microorganisms is difficult due to the lack of fine detail. There is, however, almost certain evidence of early life from about 2700 million years ago, with evidence of early life in southern Africa dated at about 3500 million years by Hamilton et al in 1979.
Andrew Pacholyk MS L.Ac
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