Some people arrive at moonstone through the folklore, which is lovely and involves the moon, and some arrive because they have noticed they keep knowing things and then talking themselves out of them by lunchtime.
The second group get more out of it. This is the stone for a person whose signal is on and whose receiver has been turned down, usually by a good many years of being told to be reasonable.
What moonstone means
It has been tied to the moon for centuries in more than one part of the world, worn for safe travel, for fertility, for dreams, and always for the sense that something in you knows before you can explain it. The modern word for that is intuition, and it has been oversold in every direction since.
Here is the version we can stand behind. Your first response to a person or a room or an offer is information: fast, imperfect, assembled out of years of pattern noticing that your reasoning has no access to. It is not a command and it is certainly not a prophecy, and it is worth writing down before the sensible voice arrives to explain it away.
What moonstone cannot do is tell you the future, make a decision on your behalf or turn a hunch into a fact. It has no view on whether he is coming back, and a stone that claimed to would be doing exactly what we spend the rest of this site refusing to do.
How people use it
Kept where the morning light finds it, so that it is the first thing you see, which suits people whose habit is to check the phone before they have had a thought of their own.
Worn on the hand, it becomes the pause between the question and the answer you give to please somebody. There is a particular half second in a conversation when you know what you want to say and say something easier instead, and a ring is a reasonable way to catch yourself in it.
A few people keep it with a notebook and use it purely for the recording, which is the practice this stone deserves. One line a day, first answers only, and nothing to do about them for two weeks.
The card it goes with
The High Priestess, who sits between two pillars with a book half hidden in her lap and says nothing at all. She is the card of the thing you know and have not put into words yet, and she never explains herself, which is why she irritates people who like a straight answer.
The intention for both: my first answer is worth writing down, even if I go on to choose differently. That second clause matters. This is not a stone that tells you to follow every impulse.
Three minutes with a notebook
Hold the stone, think of the decision that has been sitting on you, and write the answer you would give if nobody were going to ask you to justify it. One line, no reasoning, no audience.
Then close the book and leave it. In two weeks read the line back and see whether you still agree with it, because the useful discovery is not the hunch itself but how often your first answer turns out to have been right about your own life.
Wear it
The Ella white moonstone ring and the Ella peach moonstone ring are the two pieces in the collection for this, and the choice between them is a matter of which one you will keep on. Worn as a cue rather than a charm, a ring works particularly well for this stone, because the moment it is meant to catch is a conversational one and your hands are already there.
If you cannot hear yourself at all
That is common in a loud month and it is not a fault in your instincts. Turn to something quieter for a couple of weeks, get some sleep, and come back to the first answers when there is less noise in the room to hear them over.
Questions people ask
Does moonstone make you more intuitive?
No stone gives you a sense you did not have. What moonstone can do is remind you to catch your first response before your reasoning gets to it, and since most people overrule that first response within about four seconds, a reminder is worth more than it sounds.
Is the blue sheen inside it real?
It is, and it has a name. Light bouncing between very thin layers inside the stone produces the drifting glow, which mineralogists call adularescence, and it is the reason a plain looking piece comes alive when you tilt it. Nothing is added to make that happen.
White or peach moonstone, does it matter?
Not in any way we would defend as a rule. People tend to describe white as the cooler and quieter of the two and peach as the warmer, and the sensible approach is to pick the one you will actually keep wearing rather than the one with the better description.