Love

• Pink tourmaline symbolizes the virtues of unconditional love and true friendship. For this reason, pink tourmaline is gaining popularity as an alternative to diamonds in engagement rings. Wearing pink tourmaline is thought to promote love, friendship, kindness, sympathy towards others and tolerance. According to an ancient Egyptian legend, tourmaline acquired its color while it journeyed from the sun to earth along a rainbow.
  
  

Creativity

• Tourmaline is renowned as the gemstone of poets, writers and artists. From the Renaissance to the late 1800s, tourmaline was believed to inspire creativity and encourage artistic imagination. Artists and writers made extensive use of this gemstone as a talisman to aid their creativity.
  
  

Stone of the Brokenhearted

• Wearing pink tourmaline is believed to aid the brokenhearted by encouraging love, gently dispersing emotional pain and dissolving disruptive feelings. It is also thought to enable victims of traumatic events to deal with their past experiences, achieve feelings of peace in the present and transform their future. Tourmaline is considered by some to increase one's healing power, helping ease communication and imparting compassion, wisdom, understanding and acceptance. It is also thought to balance opposing types of energy by imparting self-confidence and serenity upon the wearer.
  
  

Meaning in Astrology

• In astrology, pink tourmaline is a gemstone that symbolically represents the planet Venus and rules the constellations of Libra and Taurus. It is thought to balance male and female energies by balancing the conscious and subconscious mind and the left and right brain. Due to the electrical properties inherent in this mineral, tourmaline could also be an appropriate gemstone for the planet Uranus (the planet of electricity) and those born under the Uranus-ruled sign of Aquarius.
  
  

High-Quality Tourmaline

• The highest quality of pink tourmaline is known as rubellite. Rubellite gemstones range in color from shades of pink to shades of dark red. Most tourmaline gemstones change color under different types of lighting. Pink tourmalines often display a visible tinge of brown under artificial light. However, unlike other pink tourmalines, a high-quality rubellite will not change color in artificial light or sunshine. Only a small amount of tourmaline gemstones are of high enough quality to meet this criterion.