30/08/2026
Stone of the week is Jade. There are two main types of jade – nephrite and jadeite. Whilst all jadeite is jade not all jade is jadeite. Jade occurs in a range of colours. Nephrite Jade comes from a range of places including Africa and the beautiful Maori Greenstone from New Zealand. Jade is very hard and, therefore, hard to carve. The darker green jades tend to be ones from Africa and New Zealand. In part due to the potential value of good quality jade . There are a number of other stones that are used either as they are or dyed or otherwise treated and passed off as jade such as ‘new jade’ which is serpentine, prehnite, aventurine and chrysoprase.
The Chinese consider jade to be the most precious gem holding the five virtues – wisdom, justice modesty, courage, and purity and the five happinesses – wealth old age health, natural death and love of virtue. The Maori consider their jade to be symbolic of long life and fertility.
Green jade is an excellent heart healing stone. It is also supportive of your life force/chi . It helps you to cherish your desires and facilitates the building of your dreams in this physical reality. Jade also helps you to attune one to the needs of others.
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