aka Chrysolite, Hawaiite, "Evening Emerald"
Manifestation, Liberation, Independence
Metaphysical Properties
- Leo’s Birthstone
- Cleanses your energy
- A talisman for good luck
- Releases emotional tension
- A symbol of purity and mortality
- Aids during periods of transition
- Inspires trust in the higher power
- Encourages you to be independent
- Helps you avoid recurring mistakes
- Increases happiness and abundance
- Enhances ESP (Extra Sensory Protection)
- Promotes optimism, strength, and forgiveness
- Opens, activates, and cleanses the heart chakra
- Brings about financial and spiritual abundance
- Brings harmony and compassion in relationships
- Encourages you to have a positive outlook on life
- Bring forward the best version of you in your life
- Protects against nightmares, deception, and gossip
- Increases responsibility and confidence in your abilities
- Helps sharpen the mind and opens the mind to new ways of thinking
- Increases and attracts wealth, prosperity, health, joy, and emotional well being
- Protects you from negative external influences and helps dissolve feelings of guilt
Affirmations
- I am Blessed
- My heart is open to new opportunities and ideas
Correspondence
- Chakras: Solar Plexus, Heart
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Venus, Earth, The Sun
- Element: Earth
- Zodiacs: Leo, Sagittarius, Scorpio, Taurus, Virgo
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- Candle Color:
- Plant/Flower Pairings:
- Herb/ Incense/Oil Pairings:
Physical Properties
- Color: Pale green to brownish-green
- Habit: Commonly as compact or granular masses, also as loose or embedded grains, sometimes in volcanic nodules. Peridot crystals are rare, usually as vertically striated prisms
- Rarity: Rare
- Luster: Vitreous to oily
- Species: Olivine
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 3.32 ~ 3.37
- Fracture: Conchoidal
- Cleavage: Poor on {010} and {110}, {010} cleavage improves with increasing iron content
- Hardness: 6.5 - 7
- Twinning: Uncommon, simple twinning can occur on {100}, {011}, and {012}. Cyclic twinning on {031} reportedly produces trillings
- Locations: Afghanistan, Brazil, Chile, China, Colombia, Egypt, Ethiopia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Korea, Madagascar, Mali, Myanmar, Mexico, Mongolia, Mozambique, Namibia, Nepal, Norway, Pakistanthe, Russian Federation, Sri Lanka, Tanzania, Thailand, United States of America, Viet Nam
- Fluorescence: None
- Pleochroism: Weak; pale yellow-green to yellow/pale yellow-green to yellow/yellow to yellow orange
- Birefringence: Strong, 0.036 to 0.038
- Transparency: Transparent
- Named After: Peridot is named after the French word peritot, meaning gold
- Classification: Nesosilicate
- Melting point: Very High
- Discovered In: Meteorites that fell to earth and were pulled out of lava
- Luminescence: None
- Discovered By: Ancient papyri record the mining of these stones as early as 1500 BC
- Chemical Name: Magnesium iron silicate
- Refractive Index: 1.64 - 1.69
- System/Structure: Orthorhombic
- Chemical Formula: (Mg,Fe)2SiO4
- Inclusions (streak): White to greenish
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
Health Benefits
- Helps break addictions
- Protects against anxiety
- Neutralizes toxins on all levels
- Initiates healing in the physical body
- Strengthens the metabolism and benefits the skin
- Ideal for clearing emotional issues that affect the body
- Supports the endocrine system, digestive system, and strengthens the eyes
- Helpful during the birthing process by stimulating contractions, assisting in opening the birth canal, and easing pain