Quick Specs
- Type: Bottle pendant necklace
- Stone: Citrine chips
- Pendant: Heart-shaped glass bottle with cork, about 1 by 1 1/4 inches
- Cord: Black satin, 24 inches
Honey-Gold Citrine Chips in a Glass Heart
Honey gold and amber orange dominate this bottle, with cream and clear chips between them. Citrine is the yellow variety of quartz, silicon dioxide, and a bottle of chips shows the full spread of its color, from pale yellow and cream to deep orange. Each chip is a small, irregular fragment with no set outline, so they slide and settle whenever you tilt the bottle. The heart is clear glass with a short neck, closed by a cork stopper, and a small silver-toned loop at the top of the cork takes the black satin cord, which hangs 24 inches. At about 1 by 1 1/4 inches the bottle is a small pendant, and the black cord gives the gold chips a dark background to stand against. Most citrine in jewelry starts as amethyst that was heated until it turned yellow to orange.
Geology.com lists the color range of citrine as yellow, orangey yellow, yellowish orange and brownish orange, with reddish brown stones rare, and a handful of chips shows several of those shades at once. Citrine rates 7 on the Mohs scale, the same as amethyst and other quartz. Brazil is the leading source, and Russia and Madagascar also produce it. In modern crystal practice citrine goes with the solar plexus chakra and with themes of confidence and personal power, associations that suit a stone the color of sunlight. Inside the glass, the paler chips pick up the daylight while the orange ones deepen the pile toward the base, and the cork adds a tan note that sits close to the gold of the stone.
Practical Ritual Applications
Wear the heart with a navy, black or deep green top, where the gold stands out. On a desk, hang it from the arm of a lamp and tilt the bottle at the start of a work session. For a short solar plexus meditation, hold the closed bottle at your middle, just above the navel, and breathe slowly while the chips settle. On an altar, set it beside a yellow candle in its own holder, a safe distance from the flame. When you want a second piece to wear with it, browse my crystal and stone jewelry and match lengths. Between wearings it can hang from a hook by the door, where the gold chips catch your eye as you leave.
How to Wear and Care for the Citrine Heart Bottle Necklace
Three steps cover the neckline, the glass and the storage.
- Match It to Your Neckline
Slip the cord over your head and check in a mirror where the heart falls against your clothes. The 24 inch cord lets you wear it over a collar or tucked inside a high neckline. Turn the bottle until the cork faces up and the chips settle in the point, then confirm that the small metal loop on the cork is firm before you head out.
- Handle the Glass With Care
The bottle is glass and the chips are small, so take the necklace off for sports, sleep and any task where it could be struck or the cord could catch. Hold it by the body of the heart and avoid pulling on the cork. Keep it away from young children, since the glass and the loose chips are small parts.
- Wipe and Store It
Wipe the glass with a soft, dry cloth. Store the necklace flat in a lined box or hang it from a hook, away from keys, rings and other hard jewelry that could scratch the bottle. A box with a soft lining keeps the cord from knotting and the heart from rolling against other pieces.
The Tarot Fellow Standard
I stock this necklace because it puts citrine’s whole color range into one small bottle: gold, amber, cream and clear in a single pile. The solar plexus chakra link is modern crystal lore, which makes it a theme for your own reflection, and what you do with it is yours to decide. Because the bottle is glass and the chips are loose and small, I treat it as an adult piece. If you’re curious about the stones tied to each chakra, browse my chakra, meditation and Reiki products for more to wear or place on an altar.
Frequently Asked Questions
Yes. Geology.com says quartz with a natural citrine color is rare, and Wikipedia calls natural citrine very rare and usually pale. Most citrine in jewelry is amethyst heated until it turns yellow, orange or brown, and strict mineralogical definitions reserve the name citrine for the natural stone. The heated material is still quartz of the same hardness, and the color of both runs from pale yellow to brownish orange.
Crystal guides link citrine with the solar plexus chakra, the third chakra, and with themes of confidence and personal power. Astrology.com names the solar plexus chakra, and Crystal Vaults lists it first, with the sacral chakra second. These pairings come from modern crystal practice, so use them as themes for reflection. The seven-chakra rainbow scheme is a modern Western arrangement.
Wikipedia says most citrine, both natural and heat-treated amethyst, comes from Brazil, and geology.com names eastern Brazil as the most important source of each. Geology.com adds that natural citrine forms in the pegmatites of eastern Brazil. Natural citrine also comes from Russia and Madagascar, and geology.com lists Argentina, Bolivia, Mexico, Spain and Uruguay among the other sources.
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