Focus, Confidence, Courage
Metaphysical Properties
- Very attractive to Leos
- Helps prevent bad tempers
- Restores harmony in your life
- Promotes unprejudiced discernment
- Very protective and very grounding
- Helps you put your plans into action
- Encourages forgiveness and compassion
- Removes inner hesitation, holding you back from your goals
- Combines different points of view into a more comprehensive whole
- Helps bring drive, focus, determination, and control back into your life
- Protects by sending back negativity to the person sending it, and preventing psychic attack
- Strengthens self confidence and self esteem by alleviating feelings of doubt and indecisiveness
- Helps one be of service to others by promoting assistance as your top focus, and by promoting courtesy
- Keeps you grounded and comfortable in situations that would commonly cause you anxiety and distress
- Instills a sense of stillness, allowing you to be more objective, see the bigger picture, and make more informed decisions
Affirmations
- I breathe in self-confidence, and I breathe out doubts
- I am confident, strong, and protected
Correspondence
- Chakras: All
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Venus
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Leo
- Number: 1
Physical Properties
- Color: Greenish brown to black
- Habit: Prismatic crystals, commonly lamellar, fibrous, or massive
- Rarity: Common
- Luster: Vitreous, Metallic
- Species: Pyroxene, Enstatite
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 3.3 - 3.4
- Fracture: Uneven
- Cleavage: Distinct, In one direction
- Hardness: 5.5
- Twinning: Simple and lamellar on [100]
- Locations: Brazil, Sri Lanka, India, Austria, Germany, South Africa, USA, Finland, Norway, Czech Republic, Austria, Madagascar, and Greenland
- Fluorescence: Inert
- Pleochroism: Trichroic, strong green, yellow, and reddish brown
- Birefringence: Weak, 0.008-0.015
- Transparency: Transparent,Translucent,Opaque
- Named After: Named for the bronze-like submetallic luster on the characteristic cleavage surfaces
- Classification: Inosilicate
- Luminescence: None
- Discovered By: Ancient Peoples
- Chemical Name: Magnesium iron silicate
- Refractive Index: 1.665-1.703
- System/Structure: Orthorhombic
- Chemical Formula: (Mg,Fe)SiO3
- Inclusions (streak): Fibrous inclusions and might show schiller effect, White Or Brownish
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
Health Benefits
- Relieves stress
- Blood purification
- Muscular/nerve issues
- Alleviates nervous anxiety from new situations
- Aids the body in the normal transformation of cycles
- Aids trauma recovery, anxiety, PTSD, and depression
- Can be used to bring an alkaline body state to the acid condition, helping to fight off infections
- Can increase the assimilation of iron and provides an improved duration of iron within the physical body