Shielding, Balance, Dream Recall
Spiritual Properties
- Encourages deep meditation
- Connects you to universal energies
- Assist the wearer in recalling dreams, analyzing dreams, and connecting with the dreams of his previous birth, and ancient civilization
Mental Properties
- Helps you overcome loneliness
- Helps you clear and balance the mind
Emotional Properties
- Boosts Confidence
- Protects your emotional body from negative energy
- Pulls emotions you have been holding close within to the surface
- Pushes you to release stress and weight you’ve placed on your heart
- Provides you with courage and confidence needed to face uneasy emotions and helps you find closure
Kundalini Properties
- Opens the heart chakra
- Provides your aura with a protective shield from negative energy
Affirmations
- I am surrounded by a protective shield of positive energy
Correspondence
- Chakras: Heart
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Venus, Earth
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Scorpio
- Number: 4, 9
Physical Properties
- Color: White, Yellow, Gray or Black
- Habit: Long blades or a skinny needle like structure, bladed, fibrous, radial
- Rarity: Common – Two rare forms include transparent and submerged within quartz
- Luster: Vitreous, Silky
- Species: Amphibole, Asbestos
- Zoning: absent
- Parting: on {100}
- Gravity: 3.03 - 3.24
- Fracture: Splintery
- Tenacity: Brittle
- Cleavage: Distinct/Good on {110}
- Hardness: 5.5 to 6
- Twinning: Simple or lamellar, common parallel {100}; lamellar, less common parallel {001}
- Locations: Brazil, Russia, Canada, China, New Zealand, and the USA. Transparent forms are found in Taiwan and China
- Dispersion: r < v
- Chatoyance: Present when in quartz
- Pleochroism: Weak, moderate, yellow to dark green
- Fluorescence: absent
- Birefringence: 0.022-0.027
- Transparency: Translucent
- Named After: The Greek word “Aktis” which means “beam or ray”
- Melting point: above 2700 °F.
- Discovered In: 1794
- Luminescence: Orangy Yellow
- Discovered By: R. Kirwan
- Chemical Name: Calcium magnesium iron silicate hydroxide, Amphibole Silicate Mineral
- Refractive Index: 1.614-1.641
- System/Structure: Monoclinic
- Chemical Formula: Ca2(Mg4.5-2.5Fe2+0.5-2.5)Si8O22(OH)2
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemical Classification: Silicate
Health Benefits
- Strengthens the immune system
- Eliminates toxins from the body
- Aids in proper liver and kidney function
- Rids you of nervous tensions and anxieties
- Stimulates the production of white blood cells