Presentation :

Names) :

• Aquamarine.

Etymology :

• Aquamarine: From the Latin aqua = water and marina = marine in allusion to its color (Wallerius, 1747).

Group, Family:

• Beryls.  

Color :

• Light Blue, Blue, Dark Blue, Sometimes Intense Blue (Maxixe), Asterism or Chatoyance.

Chandelier:

• Glassy.

Origin :

• South Africa, Brazil, Russia, Madagascar, Nigeria, Pakistan, etc.

Crystal system:

• Hexagonal.

Chemical composition :

• Be3Al2(Si6O18) | Coloring: Aquamarine: Iron in tetrahedral Fe2+ form and/or Fe2+-O- Fe3+ | Maxixe: CO3- and NO3- colored centers due to irradiation.

Transparency:

• Transparent to translucent.

• 2.66 to 2.80.

Hardness :

• 7 to 8.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Break:

• Conchoidal.

Line color:

• White.

• Good.

Heat resistance:

• Can change color | Maxixe: Unstable color: Discolors when exposed to heat and/or light.

Properties and virtues:                            

Physical virtues:

• Beneficial effects on sore throats, allergies and even neuralgic pain.
• Strengthens the immune system by stimulating the thyroid gland
• Helps fight disorders and diseases related to the throat, eyes and mammary glands.
• Treats respiratory diseases, bronchitis, lungs, neck area, allergies, watery eyes. Protects against colds, inflammation of the larynx and strengthens the vocal cords. Combat throat irritation .
• Prevents myocardial infarction.
• Relieves sinuses, hoarseness and hay fever
• Calms migraines, dental and ear pain
• Helps regulate eating, manage osteoarthritis and muscle tension
• Placed on the jaw, it soothes dental pain.
• relieves problems relating to the kidneys, bladder and fluid retention in the body.
• Useful against insomnia and stress.
• Aquamarine helps calm dermatoses: eczema, psoriasis and acne. If you suffer from skin allergies, you can make an aquamarine elixir. Let your stone soak in a glass of water overnight. Apply the lotion several times a day without rubbing (keep in a cool place for a week).
• Travel sickness and nausea: A protective stone for travelers, aquamarine relieves travel sickness. It is particularly recommended for seasickness. In general, it helps to soothe nausea.
• Heart, high blood pressure and blood diseases: Aquamarine is known for its ability to regulate heart rate and its beneficial effects on the blood system. It is recommended in cases of high blood pressure, blood diseases and to strengthen the heart in general.                          

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Soothes anxieties.
• Brings serenity.
• Promote communication.
• Helps dissipate emotional blockages.
• Brings the mind to rest, allowing better inner listening.
• Soothes anxieties and moody temperaments.                            
• Encourage listening without prejudice.
• Promote singing, clear and calm speeches.
• Helps fight against fears of not being up to the task of facing the prejudice of others, but also facing one's own judgment.
• Fight the spirit of domination, excesses due to anger and daily stress.

Spiritual virtues:

• Restful, it helps to become aware of universal truths and to integrate them.
• Helps to strengthen and facilitate the use of psychic powers.
• Reduces the hold of our conscious mind on the psychic mind, and allows the ever-present psychic impulses to be perceived, and also allows us to enter into our consciousness.
• Purifies the soul.
• Increase our extra-sensory perceptions, clairvoyance and understanding.
• Increase our lucidity.

Chakras:

• Throat activates the chakra, 5th Ch.

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and damages it). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, and then take it out in the morning to rinse it with new spring or filtered water. 
• Direct recharge on a crystal or amethyst druse, in a crystal or amethyst geode. You can also place a dozen laser or rock crystals in a circle (like a time dial), points toward the center, and place your minerals in the center to recharge them. Another method, place your minerals in a singing bowl: Tibetan or crystal bowl, (on a cotton cloth to avoid bowl/mineral vibrations), then ring the bowl to fill your minerals with this sound energy. Last method, place your minerals on a disc (wood or mineral) engraved with the flower of life or the seal of Solomon or any other forms of sacred geometry. 
• Reprogramming: Reprogramming consists not of telling your mineral what it should or should not do, but of putting the mineral in resonance with you to ask it to do what it should do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleaning and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on different levels, for my greatest good as well as for the greatest good of the people around me." 

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