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Nephrite can be found in a creamy white form (known in China as mutton fat jade) as well as in a variety of green colours, whereas jadeite shows more colour variations, including blue, lavender-mauve, pink, and emerald-green colours. Of the two, jadeite is rarer, documented in fewer than 12 places worldwide.
Sometimes the moon passes behind clouds, its disappearance and reappearance creating a subtle light shows. Negative emotions, too, may be fleeting, if we can only wait them out and allow them to be. The changeable beauty of the moon is found in the stone named for it, moonstone. In India, moonstone is called chandrakant, meaning beloved by the moon. (from the Sanskrit chandra, moon and kanta, beloved) Moonstone, in Hindu mythology, is believed to have formed from moonlight. Moonstone, like the moon, comes in a variety of hues. It can be milky, rainbow, blue, gray, or tan. Blue, rainbow, and very clear moonstones radiate a magical play of light when they're moved around. Gemologists call this adularescence (adularia is another name for moonstone).