aka Aventurine Feldspar or Heliolite
Energy, Optimism, Fortune
Metaphysical Properties
- Heightens intuition
- Helps in cutting energy cords
- Boosts enthusiasm and originality
- Cleanses and balances the chakras
- Releases heavy or repressed emotions
- Aids in manifesting your creative desires
- Increases personal power and brings blessings
- Brings sweetness into your life when necessary
- A very joyful and inspiring crystal of creativity
- Provides a ray of sunshine into the mind and soul
- Carries light and happy energies and uplifts one's spirit
- Brings happiness and independence and increases optimism
- Brings good luck, fortune, self-power, prosperity, and decreases procrastination
- Carry with moonstone to bring the influences on the sun and the moon into harmony
Affirmations
- I shine my light in service of others
- I claim my true place in leadership
Correspondence
- Chakras: Sacral, Solar Plexus
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Sun
- Element: Fire
- Zodiacs: Libra, Leo
- Number: 1
- Candle Color:
- Plant/Flower Pairings:
- Herb/ Incense/Oil Pairings:
Physical Properties
- Color: Orange, gold, red and brown
- Habit: Rare, solid aggregates
- Rarity: Rare
- Luster: Vitreous
- Species: Feldspar
- Zoning: Weak to none
- Gravity: 2.620-2.670
- Fracture: Uneven, Splintery
- Cleavage: Perfect, in two directions
- Hardness: 6
- Twinning: None
- Locations: Southern Norway, Sweden, United States, South Australia, India, Canada, Madagascar, and Russia
- Fluorescence: None
- Pleochroism: Weak to None
- Birefringence: Weak, 0.005- 0.009
- Transparency: Semi Transparent - Opaque
- Luminescence: None
- Discovered By: Ancient Nordics
- Chemical Name: Calcium aluminum silicate or potassium aluminum silicate
- Refractive Index: 1.518-1.572
- System/Structure: Triclinic
- Chemical Formula: KAlSi3O8 or (Ca,Na)(Al,Si)2Si2O8
- Inclusions (Streak): Often
- Chemistry Classification: Silicate
- Includes Hematite and Goethite which help it to refract light and creates iridescence when viewed from different angles
Health Benefits
- Increases sexual vitality
- Relieves depression and regulates the nervous system
- Helps to heal sore throats, stomach ulcers, cartilage problems, and general aches and pains