Moonstone, also known as the goddess stone, has been used by women traditionally for millennia – it’s considered a must-have stone for fertility, pregnancy, and motherhood and has a strong connection to feminine energy. In this article, we look at using moonstone during pregnancy to support your emotions, balance your hormones, enhance labour, and even ease you into the early days of motherhood.
Many people believe in the healing and supportive abilities of crystals. Despite there being no positive scientific studies to support their efficacy, crystals have a long history of traditional use during pregnancy and are prized for their aesthetic qualities.
Their advocates talk about crystal healing – the flow of energy as a kind of medicine. They believe that each stone has its own frequency, allowing it to tune and heal your body back to its rightful state.
Some attribute crystal healing to the placebo effect.
Whatever you believe, I think it’s important to make your own mind up. If you’re drawn to crystals (and who isn’t) then why not give moonstone a try? Especially during a time like pregnancy and postpartum when you need extra support.
I like to think of crystals as pretty little reminders. Ways to set intention. They give me focus and clarity – in fact, they are like little muses. I used them in my pregnancies with my four kids. One stone in particular got me through pregnancy, birth, and it still helps me in motherhood now. That stone is the beautiful and ethereal moonstone.
By the way, this article is not intended to replace medical advice. Please see your doctor or midwife if you have any concerns during pregnancy.
What Is Moonstone?
Moonstone belongs to the feldspar group of minerals and is also known as hecatolite. It comes in both colorless and colored forms – from blue, green, to pink and peach hues. It has a pearly and opalescent luster, and gets its name from its visual effect, which is called adularescence.
What Chakra Is Moonstone?
Moonstone is linked to the heart chakra, where it can balance emotional instability. It’s also linked to the crown and third eye chakras. It helps the wearer to heal past wounds and receive pure love. Perfect for mothers-to-be.
How Can Moonstone Support Women During Pregnancy?
1. Helping You Through This Big Life Stage
Pregnancy is one of the most life-changing times you’ll experience – it comes with many emotional, physical, and spiritual challenges.
For starters, your body is changing daily, while your emotional balance is often volatile. You’re likely more tired than you’ve ever been, and morning sickness and other pregnancy symptoms could be affecting you.
You may be worried about labour, birth, and becoming a parent for the first time. Maybe you worry how you will cope with your new arrival, and fret about whether you’ll be a good mom.
Or maybe you’re already a mom, and you’re worrying how your new arrival will fit into your family.
As for me? With my firstborn, I remember the anxiety surrounding bringing my baby into a world that encompasses negative and hateful aspects such as fighting, bullying, and wars.
Moonstone helped me to get a grip on the reality that love is more important than all these things, and bringing my baby into a loving family was all that mattered.
All these worry points are natural and normal, and every expecting mother has been there.
But throughout it all, you can think of moonstone during pregnancy as your symbol of hope, love, and protection.
The divine feminine has got your back, offering pregnancy support with a healthy dose of inner peace.
2. Supporting Your Fertility & Natural Conception
Can moonstone really help with fertility? Moonstone is known as the “stone of new beginnings”. It is said to support and balance your hormones, making conceiving naturally easier. The frequencies of moonstone are thought to work in harmony with the natural rhythms of your body, helping to bring regularity to your menstrual cycle.
It’s interesting to note that Moonstone is thought to stimulate the pineal gland. Studies on rodents suggest that the pineal gland influences the pituitary gland’s secretion of sex hormones like Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) and Luteinizing Hormone (LH). These are important in hormone health for a healthy cycle when you’re trying to conceive.
Aside from the physical way that moonstone can help with fertility, consider setting intentions whilst working with moonstone. Here’s how:
🌙 ➡️ Setting Intentions For Fertility
Have you heard of setting intentions before? Setting intentions helps us to define what really matters to us, then match our actions, thoughts, and energy to those intentions. By focusing on the process, we can develop the right mindset for fertility.
- To begin, spend some time to consider what help you would like from your moonstone, and any other stones you’re using, and write your intentions down or draw them in your journal.
- Cleanse the stones – either by smudging, sunlight, under a full moon, or with salt water.
- Try placing several moonstones around your body while meditating, or you can simply hold the moonstones. Some people like to hold the crystal over their third eye, in the centre of the forehead. Another way to keep moonstone close to your body is to incorporate Moonstone Jewellery. I love this gorgeous piece from Xander Kostroma – the beautiful moonstones are held in close contact with the skin.
- Clear any negative thoughts from your mind. If you follow any specific breathing exercises for pregnancy, you can follow these now. Or simply use deep abdominal breathing, also known as diaphragmatic breathing to calm stress and induce relaxation.
- Choose intentions that align with both your short term and long term goals. Focus on your moonstone and your fertility intention:
“🌙 I wish for hormonal balance”
“🌙 I welcome a new baby into my womb“
“🌙 Bring me a healthy pregnancy”
- Once your intentions are set, keep the moonstone with you. Carry it in your pocket, wear moonstone jewelry, and keep the stone next to your bed as you sleep. Remember to give thanks and revisit your intentions if you need to during the course of your pregnancy. These steps can help you manifest your dreams for you, your new baby, and your family.
3. Soothing Morning Sickness and Fatigue With Moonstone
Here’s another way moonstone can help in pregnancy. Pregnancy, especially in the first trimester, can leave you feeling really sick and tired. Use moonstone to help ease morning sickness and fatigue by carrying tumblestones with you or placing them around your home.
You can also get moonstone bracelets that help with morning sickness. Try searching Etsy for some beautiful pregnancy jewelry incorporating moonstone and other crystals that support a healthy pregnancy.
4. Staying Calm and Reducing Stress
Crystals, including moonstone, can help you to manage your emotions during pregnancy.
Staying calm during pregnancy is crucial for your wellbeing and your baby’s health. Too much stress can result in negative pregnancy outcomes. It’s important to try to actively reduce your stress so that you can remain calm throughout your pregnancy, and during birth, too.
Moonstone is said to bring calmness and stability to pregnant women. It’s perfect for use during HypnoBirthing or meditation to reduce your stress and help you feel secure. Use the soothing energy of moonstone to help you remain calm and focus on breathwork whenever your stress levels rise.
🌙 ➡️ Build a Moonstone Altar to Reduce Stress And Bring Calmness
Do this to bring about calmness in your everyday life.
- First choose a quiet and serene spot in your home to create your altar.
- Next, cleanse your moonstone crystal using smoke, saltwater, or in a selenite bowl.
- Cleanse the space using sage or incense.
- Choose meaningful items like scan pictures, candles, incense, and flowers, to create a beautiful and sacred space for your pregnancy and baby. Introduce symbolism like fresh green plants to represent growth. It’s important to find what works for you.
- Arrange your items in a way that pleases you and creates meaning.
- Enjoy spending time in reflection of your intentions for you and your pregnancy, baby, and family at your altar.
5. Fostering a Positive Attitude
Using moonstone during pregnancy can help you to stay positive and optimistic, and this brings about a sense of bonding with your unborn child.
6. Aiding Restful Sleep
Insomnia can make life really tough during pregnancy. Getting comfortable is difficult, and you might be finding it hard to get to sleep because your mind is racing. Perhaps you’re waking up often throughout the night. Discomfort from leg cramps and aching body parts is really common. Therefore, it’s important to maintain proper sleep hygiene during pregnancy – as you know, you need all the rest you can get when you’re expecting!
- Try to go to bed and wake up at the same time every day.
- Keep your bedroom cool, dark, and quiet.
- Turn off your devices an hour or two before bedtime.
- Using relaxation techniques can help, for instance sleep meditation.
🌙 ➡️ How To Use Moonstone in Your Bedtime Routine
Using moonstone during pregnancy to aid sleep is another way to try to bring about a more restful state.
Due to its connection to the moon, moonstone is said to bring about better sleep and help your body to repair and recover.
Work with moonstone during the day to set intentions for a good night’s sleep. Then try sleeping with moonstone next to your bed, or wearing moonstone jewelry.
You can also try a moonstone sleep spray which contains beneficial herbs and is infused with moonstone, amethyst, blue lace agate, and snowflake obsidian for calming and sedative effect.
Making Moonstone Part of Your Labour & Birth Support Kit
Staying calm is essential for complication-free childbirth. When your body is calm, it’s more able to produce endorphins – natural painkillers that reduce pain and therefore the need for medication.
Being calm also improves your body’s ability to produce oxytocin, the love hormone, which makes contractions occur more freely and labour go smoothly. Indeed, Moonstone is thought to aid contractions making it a useful ally in your labour and birth bag. Along with this, it is thought to soothe the pain of contractions. It can help foster positive emotions during labour, which is greatly beneficial.
You can use moonstone for labour support to help you maintain calmness, especially if you’re a first-time mom and you don’t know what to expect. During labour, you can wear moonstone jewelry or take tumblestones with you to hold or meditate with. You could also keep moonstone by your bedside.
Think of moonstone like a maternal presence during your labour – a divine feminine companion on your journey to motherhood.
Moonstone, Postpartum & Motherhood
Did you know that moonstone can support your transition to motherhood after your baby’s birth?
During this time of great change and hormonal shifts, it’s typical to find your mood to be erratic and at times, overwhelming. Thanks to its abilities as a natural hormone regulator, moonstone can help with this by balancing emotions.
It can help to strengthen your bond with your partner so that parenting together will be a shared joy. This is because moonstone can help to remove anger from relationships. It has a long history of use as a stone to to accept the love from your partner and facilitate lasting love.
As a new mother, moonstone can help bring out your nurturing qualities as a mother, and feel capable and emotionally strong for yourself and your baby.
Moonstone also helps with breastfeeding and healthy lactation. Some people think it can encourage your baby to feed, and foster your maternal instinct to feed, so if your baby isn’t latching on well you can try keeping your moonstone crystal near. And if breastfeeding is making you anxious, moonstone can help with that – as it helps to assuage nerves.
Finally, moonstone helps to restore balance to your hormones in the postpartum period. It can also help to soothe the pain of postpartum recovery.
Final Thoughts on Moonstone During Pregnancy
Pregnancy is a wonderful and challenging whirlwind, but moonstone has so much to offer as a supportive stone to expecting women with its calming, soothing nature, and connection to the divine feminine. I hope this article has given you lots of ideas for using moonstone during pregnancy.
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Until next time!
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