Moonstone

ムーンストーン

Moonstone is a natural gemstone with a Mohs hardness of 6–6.5, and its traditional symbolic meaning is “Intuition & new beginnings.” It is a birthstone for June.

Mohs hardness

6–6.5

Mineral group

Feldspar

Color

Milky white

MEANING

Intuition & new beginnings

LORE & HISTORY

Its moonlight-like glow (adularescence) comes from light scattering in the feldspar’s layered structure. One of June’s birthstones.

💎 June birthstone →

Same mineral group (Feldspar)

※ Same mineral group means a shared crystal structure and composition (mineralogy).

Meanings and lore reflect widely known traditions and are not claims of effect. Hardness and mineral group are standard mineralogy — About our data