Machu Picchu Stone

In this article, I’ll be discussing the benefits and uses of the Machu Picchu Stone. I will also enumerate the best ways you can meditate, the correct process to cleanse it from negative energy, and other relevant info that might help you with your spiritual journey using this beautiful crystal.

Machu Picchu Stone is a lovely, greenish stone from Peru, said to be exclusively mined near the base of the stone where the Inca ruins of the same name are located. It’s composed of various minerals, including calcite, manganese (rhodochrosite), cuprite, merlinite or psilomelane, and quartz. It’s also an opaque stone, with exquisite landscape markings on its surface.

Named after the famous Peruvian ruins and archaeological site Machu Picchu, the stone is believed to possess the powers and mysteries of that place itself. It’s renowned for its ability to connect with the higher realms and spirit guides. Machu Picchu comes from the Quechua language of the Incas, which roughly translates to “old mountain”.

About Machu Picchu

As you may have already known, the Machu Picchu is an ancient ruin located in Urubamba Canyon, Peru, about a hundred kilometers away from Cusco. Cusco served as the Inca capital during the height of its power. The ruins were once an Inca citadel, with well-preserved buildings and artifacts. Both the city and the Machu Pichu sites are some of the most important legacies of the once-glorious empire.

Even though it was the largest empire to have ever existed in the Americas and a technologically advanced one, too, much of the details about the Incas remained a mystery. In fact, for hundreds of years, the Machu Picchu lay sleeping in the Andes mountains. That is, until 1911 when Hiram Bingham rediscovered the sacred site and the whole world became aware of the Machu Picchu’s existence.

Many mysteries surround the Incas. Their architecture, wisdom, and beliefs, are some of the enigmas that have fascinated the world for years. All of which are perfectly encapsulated in the Machu Picchu ruins.

Located high above the clouds, nestled between two mountains in the Andes mountain range, archaeologists have been baffled by the site’s original purpose. The trek was perilous and the place was secluded, so the Spanish never found it during the colonial period. The only village close to it right now is Aguas Calientes, also known as Machupicchu Pueblo, which made the place even more of a mystery. It was hypothesized to be a settlement of not more than a thousand people. Meanwhile, some researchers postulated that it was a royal estate, home to an Inca emperor during the 1400s.

However, many agree that the Machu Picchu may have been a religious site. The ruins may have been a temple to the sun god, or they could also have been used for ceremonies and sacrifices. While the Inca believed in many gods, the higher-ups in Inca society actively promote the worship of the sun god, Inti.

One of the most enduring marvels of the Machu Picchu is the Intihuatana Stone, which is believed to have been used for astronomical observations. The word “Intihuatana” came from the Quechua language, which translates to English as “The Hitching Post of the Sun”. During the December solstice, the Intihuatana stone points directly at the sun. The stone also acts much like a giant sundial.

However, there’s also one other thing that makes Machu Picchu’s Intihuatana stone an enigma. There’s a popular legend that goes like this: when you press your forehead against the granite Intihuatana stone, you will be able to see the spiritual world.

These are just some of the instances which perfectly illustrate the close relation of Machu Picchu to astronomy and to the spirit realm.

The Stone from Machu Picchu

Now, the Machu Picchu stone, a crystal found near this very location, is believed to carry the powers of the sacred mountain itself. It’s said to bring etheric, divine healing to its wearer. It’s also rumored to be so powerful that to the spiritually awakened, the stone can act as a bridge to the spiritual world. Like many ancient civilizations, the Incas deeply believed in the spiritual realm and the powerful beings that reside there.

The Machu Picchu Stone is also used for grounding and meditation. Like the sacred mountain itself, this crystal has a deep connection with Mother Earth or Pachamama, another major figure in Inca mythology. In fact, many believers perform sacred rituals in the Machu Pichu to Pachamama. In the same way, this crystal will help you resonate with Earth itself.

This sacred stone is great to bring with you when you visit Machu Picchu. You can also have it accompany you if you go on a pilgrimage to other well-known spiritual sites, especially in the Americas. The Machu Picchu stone will serve as your link to the powerful beings in another realm, as you make your journey towards spiritual healing and enlightenment.

The Machu Picchu Stone is believed to have the ability to open the spiritual world, where the divine beings reside. These benevolent beings can help you as you journey through life. They offer spiritual guidance and sacred knowledge. The stone is also helpful to attain a clear mind and relieves the traumatizing memories from your previous lives, which are helpful for you to have the inner peace you need in the present.

Machu Picchu Stone Physical Benefits

While this crystal doesn’t have many benefits to the physical being, it still has a subtle but powerful effect on the corporeal body. The stone can help you with:

• Energy

  When you are low on energy due to various stressors, you can use the Machu Picchu stone to recharge. Even though it’s a gentle stone, its purifying effect can help your body feel lighter. By diffusing the negative energy around you, you may find it quicker to replenish. Now, with a clearer aura and mind, you may feel more energized and thus, you may be able to do things more.

Machu Picchu Stone Emotional Benefits

Machu Picchu Stone is known to be a great healing crystal, especially for the mind and soul. It’s said to bring harmony and peace to the heart, especially to one troubled with fears, anxiety, and other negative emotions.

It brings relief and comfort, as well as promotes inner peace. Many tourists who went to Machu Picchu report a strong feeling of calmness and loving energy just by visiting the site. Similarly, the Machu Picchu stone carries this kind of energy that seems to caress your spirit.

Here are some of the benefits you might experience with this crystal:

• Comfort

  The Machu Picchu Stone brings comfort to the troubled mind and aching soul. If you’re experiencing stress and anxiety, or struggle with traumatic memories, this crystal brings solace to your heart.

• Harmony

  This crystal is extremely powerful to bring harmony to one’s emotions. It can you attain a more peaceful and calm mind, especially if you’re feeling out of sorts.

• Inner Peace

  The Machu Picchu Stone can help you attain inner tranquility. If you’re feeling agitated, it will soothe your soul and emotions. Most importantly, if you are consistently perturbed by unpleasant memories or even emotions that you can’t point your finger to (which are also possibly emotional residues from your previous lives), the Machu Picchu stone will help you figure them out and be at peace.

• Anxiety

  This stone can help ease out anxious thoughts and clear obstructive energies to help you attain a more serene mind.

Machu Picchu Stone Metaphysical Properties

It’s believed that the Machu Picchu Stone possesses incredible metaphysical powers. It’s said to help open the door to the spiritual realm, as well as aid in developing awakened psychic abilities. Other than those, the stone also helps you in communicating with divine beings. It also carries with it the sacred knowledge and wisdom of the Incas. This stone is a fantastic crystal to carry around during your shamanic journey, especially when you visit ancient Inca ruins.

Here are the metaphysical properties that you might experience when using the Machu Picchu stone:

• Aura

  It can help cleanse the aura, which in turn will remove the blockages and stagnant energy that may be holding you back. By meditating with this stone, your aura will be purified.

• Clairvoyance

  It can assist you in seeing things that are beyond your sensory perception. This crystal even helps you see the Incas of the past: their knowledge, secrets, and wisdom that have been lost to time.

• Spirits

  It can facilitate a connection between you and the higher beings in another realm. These benevolent beings can serve as your guide and protectors. This crystal resonates greatly with the spiritual realms, so it will be easier for you to communicate with these spirits.

• Psychic Ability

  Much like the sacred Machu Picchu and Intihuatana stone itself, the crystal can help you develop psychic abilities, especially when it comes to extrasensory vision. It can also help awaken a kind of retrocognition, which allows you to connect and see the ancient Inca civilization.

• Grounding

  The stone is said to have strong connections with the earth. After all, Pachamama is one of the gods revered by the Incas, and she represents Mother Earth and nature. When used as a grounding stone, this crystal will help you enter a deep, meditative state.

• Insight

  The stone can be helpful in discerning the message from higher beings. It’s greatly believed to help in communicating with benevolent spiritual powers. It’s also been said that it helps you talk with the ancient shamans and learn their knowledge.

• Karma

  This crystal can help with karmic healing. If you are struggling with the karmic residues of your previous lives, whether you are aware of it or not, this crystal can help you with the healing and moving on. It helps you discover your soul’s purpose and let go of the hurdles brought about by your past.

• Nature

  The Machu Picchu Stone is energetically linked with Mother Earth and nature. With this stone, you will be able to feel more connected to the planet.

• Past Life

  The stone helps with past life recall, but not so you could suffer with it. Instead, it will assist you in releasing the pains and traumas of your previous existence. It will be there to help you recover from the turmoil your soul has experienced and heals the wounds, so you could be whole again.

• Spiritual Awakening

  It possesses the energy and knowledge of the shamans of old, thus teaching you the way to spiritual rebirth.

• Spiritual Development

  The stone can offer valuable assistance to your shamanic journey and spiritual growth. Not only because of its strong connections to the ancients and spirit realm but also because of how it resonates with the earth itself.

• Spiritual Realms

  As I’ve mentioned before, this crystal can give you access to the spiritual realm. It can open the doors to the higher dimensions where divine beings reside. It may also help you communicate with ancient shamans, which is incredibly helpful if you’re seeking answers.

The Machu Picchu Stone is a remarkable stone that can give tremendous assistance when trying to see the spiritual realm. It also helps you with grounding, which makes it highly useful in meditation. There are many benefits of this crystal, including spiritual healing and attaining inner peace.

Meditating with this stone becomes even more effective if you connect it with the sacred site of Machu Picchu. You don’t necessarily have to come all the way to Peru, because this stone is powerful enough to guide you on a spiritual journey to the site itself.

Find a good place in the room where you usually meditate. Breathe in and out, as you settle into a comfortable position. Then, ask permission from your crystal to lead you to the sacred site. Close your eyes, and picture Machu Picchu in your mind. Take a deep breath. The lush, verdant forest of Amazon, meets the Andes mountains. On the peaks of the mountain lies the fortress where the celestial meets the material realm: the Machu Picchu. Here, in this majestic place, let the stone lead you to the Intihuatana, where you may receive the guidance of the ancients. Use the stone again if you desire to leave the place and return to your physical consciousness.

Alternatively, you may also use it to purify your aura. This crystal can also be used in grids, or whichever method you are comfortable with.

Machu Picchu Stone Chakras

The Machu Picchu Stone can connect with a number of chakras in our body, such as the crown chakra, heart chakra, sacral chakra, and root chakra. Here are what you may experience using this gentle crystal:

• Crown Chakra

  The Crown Chakra is the home of our spirituality and our connection to the higher being. It’s also the representation of our knowledge. This stone can help us become fully connected spiritually.

• Heart Chakra

  The Heart Chakra is where our ability to love, forgive, and sympathize resides. The Machu Picchu Stone is extremely helpful when overcoming the traumas of our past lives. Even though we can’t completely remember those past life memories, with the help of this stone, we can access them. With its resonance to the heart chakra, the crystal will help us heal and become fully renewed.

• Sacral Chakra

  The Sacral Chakra is the place where our pleasure, desires, and creativity are situated. The Machu Picchu site itself is said to be connected with the sacral chakra of the world. Likewise, this stone that represents Machu Picchu might help us in opening the sacral chakra. With this, we will become more receptive to new experiences and inspired.

• Root Chakra

  The Root Chakra is our connection to the Earth. Because of how strongly this stone connects with nature and Mother Earth, it can help open one’s root chakra.

Machu Picchu Stones are rare and generally don’t have variants. However, each stone might still be different from one another, because of their varying mineral content. Machu Picchu stones are made of calcite, manganese (rhodochrosite), cuprite, merlinite or psilomelane, and quartz. Some may be richer in one type of mineral, while the others have less of it, which can also result in varying colors.

We can’t be sure how many variations are there (if there are any), but one of the most common Machu Picchu Stones are those that resemble green rhodochrosite.

There are also Machu Picchu Stones being sold in the market that have jasper in them. Jasper is a form of quartz.

Machu Picchu stones also come as cream-colored or milky-white stones, with yellow, black, brown, and/or gray markings. Usually, Machu Picchu stones are distinguished by the unique markings on their surface, which closely resembles the mountains themselves. Most of the Machu Picchu Stones are sold as cabochons.

The Machu Picchu Stone can be paired with other crystals. Some of them are:

1. 

   Aragonite

   Aragonite is also a healing stone, although it’s much more focused on helping the physical body recover. It’s also used to relieve stress.

2. 

   Obsidian

   Obsidian is a protective stone. You can combine this with the Machu Picchu stone, especially when you are on a pilgrimage to sacred sites.

3. 

   Jasper

   Jasper brings calmness to the mind and alleviates stress. It’s also a protective stone.

4. 

   Rhodochrosite

   Rhodochrosite can be used to fuse the energies of the corporeal body and the spirit. It encourages the heart to love, and forgive.

It’s important to charge and cleanse your Machu Picchu Stone. Cleansing will purify the stone from negative energy and revitalizes it so that it can accompany you more on your shamanic journeys.

There are numerous ways you can cleanse the Machu Picchu Stone. It might help to put it under the sun or moon, so it can gather light to help you heal. Here are some of the methods that could help:

• Water

  As long as your stone is not water soluable and is durable enough (3+ on Mohs hardness), you may be able to put it in a bowl of lukewarm water to cleanse and charge the stone. You will want to leave the stone in the water between 2-10 hours (leaving it overnight is a good way to do it). Dry stones with a soft cloth to avoid causing damage to them.

• Sun

  While the sun can charge your stones very quickly, you will want to remove the stone from the sun after an hour or two as the sun could discolor your crystals (even those that are sun-safe). You can set your stone outside or on a windowsill to absorb the powerful energy from the heavens. The time you need to charge your crystals will vary, but they can often be ready in just a few minutes.

• Moon Water

  will charge and cleanse your stone in a different way, increasing its power. It is always important to ensure that your stone is not water-soluble when using water for cleansing.

• Ground

  Returning your crystals to the earth can refill them with energy, renewing them. Dig a hole in the earth and place a plate in the soil. Cover the plate slightly, then place the stones on top. Bury the stones and mark the place on the surface where you know where to dig. A week later, carefully remove the topsoil and remove the stones. If you reach the plate, you know you have gone too far and you may have dug up the stone.

Conclusion

The Machu Picchu Stone is a gentle and nourishing yet powerful stone that can help you deal with the traumas of your past lives. It also helps you reconnect with the Earth. It also opens the spiritual world and assists you in obtaining the secret knowledge of the ancients, especially from those who once resided in the Inca empire. Remember to cleanse your stones to ensure it’s always filled with warm light and positive energy.