Aka: Pseudo Crocidolite
Balance, Discernment, Prosperity
Spiritual Properties
- Brings you good luck and prosperity
- Helps draw spiritual energies to earth
- Talisman against ill wishes and curses
- Grounds you and protect you especially during times of travel
Mental Properties
- Promotes mental clarity
- Helpful during difficult situations
- Promotes harmony and equilibrium
- Helps you see clearly without subjectivity
- Increases personal power and self discipline
- Helps overcome fatigue and discouragement
- It helps you balance polarities and accept contradictions
- Promotes resilience in the face of adversity and overwhelming situations
- Allows scattered thoughts, feelings, and information come together in a way to make sense
- Helps you to take life as it comes and respond to the needs of the moment without judgment
Emotional Properties
- Stabilizes mood swings
- Helps you stay centered and calm
- Enhances confidence, willpower, and integrity
Kundalini Properties
- Stimulates the 1st three chakras
- Balances yin and yang and energizes the emotional body
Affirmations
- I am filled with warmth and light
- I act in alignment with my values regardless of the situation
Correspondence
- Chakras: Root,Sacral, and Solar Plexus
- Energy: Projective
- Planets: Saturn, Sun, Earth
- Element: Earth, Fire
- Zodiacs: Capricorn, Leo
- Number: 4
Health Benefits
- Balances hormones
- Helps to release tension
- Dispels fear and anxiety
- Helps heal psychosomatic illnesses
- Brings support during times of stress
- Supporting a healthy endocrine system
Physical Properties
Color |
Yellow, Gold, Brown |
Habit |
Fibrous aggregate |
Twins |
None |
Rarity |
Common |
Luster |
Vitreous |
Species |
Quartz and a pseudomorph replacement of Crocidolite. It forms when Crocidolite has its chemical fibers replaced by silica |
Zoning |
Present |
Parting |
Absent |
Gravity |
2.58 to 2.64 |
Tenacity |
Resilient |
Fracture |
Conchoidal |
Cleavage |
Absent |
Hardness |
6.5 to 7 |
Locations |
Africa, India, Burma, USA, and Australia |
Bipartisan |
0.009 |
Dispersion |
0.013 |
Chatoyancy |
Present |
Pleochroism |
Absent |
Fluorescence |
Absent |
Birefringence |
Absent |
Diaphaneity |
Opaque |
Named After |
Often used as the eye in Egyptian tiger murals |
Melting point |
Over 1,600 degrees Fahrenheit |
Discovered In |
1784 |
Luminescence |
Absent |
Discovered By |
French traveler and ornithologist Francois Levaillant |
Chemical Name |
Pseudo Crocidolite |
Refractive Index |
1.534 to 1.540 |
System/Structure |
Trigonal |
Chemical Formula |
SiO2 |
Inclusions (streak) |
White |
Chemical Classification |
Silicate |