Lapis Lazuli is for Spiritual Practices

There are different minerals that are used for spiritual practices. Fluorite for example, Rock Quartz. One of them is Lapis Lazuli, a stone of particular beauty, used by painters for their creations. Very often these had religious meaning because Christianity (both Catolic and Orthodox) associated blue of Lapis with the Heaven

Even if you don't like blue particularly, you will like the color of Lapis because it's a very special tint of blue.
Very often this blu is enriched by "golden" glitters. The vendors say& Oh, you have to buy this stone because it's with gold!

Well, it's not gold but pyrite, but it's not important. The stone is very beautiful in any case.

 I do not have the objects to sell in Lapis more, but I write about it here to tell you about a peculiarity of the stone because there are too many in the streets now. The high price stone does not have white etc inclusions in it. And it has very beautiful tint of blue. If it's so, you pay a right price. If the stone is more grey than blue and has many white inclusions, the price has not be too high.

Photos are from Wikipedia.