Blue Topaz is November's birthstone, alongside the Citrine, and are also the birthstones for the zodiacs Scorpio & Sagittarius. Each month has its own unique gemstone to represent it. Carrying your birthstone is said to bring good luck. You can carry your birthstone as a good luck amulet, or your loved ones’ birthstone as a symbol of love.

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London Blue Topaz is mostly known for allegedly calming, healing, recharging, and redirecting the body’s energies to the places of the body most needing of them. It’s also said to be a gemstone that will enhance forgiveness and truth while bringing joy, excess, generosity, and good health.

The London Blue Topaz is connected to the heart chakra, third eye chakra, throat chakra, and the crown chakra. The throat chakra is said to enhance confidence, clarity, and loving communication, while the heart chakra is said to bring compassion, emotional healing, and transformative energies.

Topaz is a transparent gemstone, consisting of the elements, aluminium, fluoride, silicate and oxygen. Topaz can be found in a variety of colours, determined by which elements affect the Topaz under its creation. When measuring a gemstone’s hardness. Moh’s Hardness Scale is used. The scale goes from 1-10, where 10 is the hardest – here, you can find the Diamond, which is the hardest gemstone. Topaz is an 8 on Moh’s Hardness Scale. Topaz is most often extracted in Brazil, Japan, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Nigeria, Pakistan, Mexico and Russia.