Patience, Psychic Abilities, Courage
Metaphysical Properties
- Encourages patience and courage
- Helps you see order while in chaos
- Helps you take control of your life
- Helps you contact your spiritual guides
- Will help you find out your soul’s purpose
- Amplifies and boost a large range of psychic abilities
- Helps you retain information and enhances your intellectual ability
- Provides mental clarity and promotes organization and self-discipline
- Unlocks your third eye chakra, as well as activating unique psychic abilities
- Can sometimes be found as an inclusion within Quartz, which means its properties are amplified
- Can help you be true to yourself and transform your belief system if it isn't serving your highest and greatest good
- Psychic abilities can range from simple actions such as remembering one’s dreams better, too lucid dreaming, astral projection, connection with higher realms, synchronicities, channeling, and even forms of ESP
Affirmations
- I open myself to divine inspiration and mental clarity
- I am motivated and willing to learn
- I open myself to psychic perception and mental discipline
- My patience is abundant, and I allow my intuition to guide me through and toward decisions and experiences in a way that helps me maintain peace in my life
Correspondence
- Chakras: Throat and Third Eye
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Saturn
- Element: Air
- Zodiacs: Leo
- Number: 4
Physical Properties
- Color: Dark or navy blue, but can also be found as green, brown, violet, and even light pink
- Habit: Columnar - Forms columns, Fibrous - made up of fibers, and Prismatic - crystal shaped like slender prisms
- Rarity: Uncommon
- Luster: Vitreous (Glassy)
- Species: Dumortierite
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 3.21 - 3.41
- Fracture: Fibrous - Thin, elongated fractures produced by crystal forms or intersecting cleavages
- Cleavage: Indistinct, Good
- Hardness: 7 - 8
- Twinning: Common on (110) sometimes producing trillings
- Locations: Found in aluminum rich pegmatite in countries such as Austria, Brazil, Madagascar, Namibia, Canada, Russia, Sri Lanka, and the USA
- Fluorescence: Weak
- Pleochroism: Strong, X ( blue, violet, greenish blue, or deep rose ) Y ( colorless, reddish violet, pale lilac blue, or yellow)
- Birefringence: 0.027
- Transparency: Translucent
- Named After: The famous French paleontologist E. Dumortier. Dumortierite
- Melting point: 7000.0°C
- Discovered In: 1881 in Chaponost, France
- Luminescence: Non-fluorescent
- Discovered By: F. Gonnard
- Chemical Name: Aluminum Borosilicate Hydroxide
- Refractive Index: 1.669 to 1.723
- System/Structure: Orthorhombic, Dipyramidal
- Chemical Formula: (Al,Fe3+)7(SiO4)3(BO3)O3
- Inclusions (streak): White
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
Health Benefits
- Increases Memory
- Highlights your patterns of addiction
- Heals headaches, diarrhea, stomach aches, and other intestinal problems