Presentation :

Names) :

• Amethyst and Ametrine (variety of quartz).

Etymology:

• Amethyst: From the Greek amethustos = which protects from drunkenness.
• Ametrine: Contraction of Amethyst and Citrine.

Group, Family:

• Quartz family (Crystalline).

Color :

• Amethyst: Blue-mauve, violet, dark magenta, violet-magenta, sometimes shimmering, rarely asterism.
• Ametrine: Multicolor (two colors): Color of Amethyst and Citrine (Dark Yellow to Orange) following more or less clear areas.

Chandelier:

• Glassy.

Origin :

• Uruguay, Brazil, Germany, France, Madagascar, Romania, Czech Republic...
• Ametrine: Bolivia.

Crystal system:

• Trigonal.

Chemical composition :

• SiO2 | Coloration: Amethyst: Probably Charge Transfer 02- => Fe4+; Citrine: Probably Charge Transfer O2- => Fe3+; Ametrine: Probably a result of both of the above.

Transparency:

• Transparent.

Density :

• Generally very constant around 2.650 to 2.651 (NB: framework taken from 2.64 to 2.66 in case of inclusions).

Hardness :

• 7.

Cleavage:

• Zero to Imperfect.

Breakage:

• Conchoidal, Scaly.

Line color:

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Good.

Heat resistance: 

• Bad (possible color change towards yellow. Be careful not to confuse it with natural Citrine because very often heated Amethysts are sold for Citrine).

• The mauve-colored African Cactus Amethyst, discovered in 2002, appears in the form of a crystal at the top, surrounded by a multitude of small crystals.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Help to regain peaceful and restorative sleep.
• Like amethyst, she fought against all addictions and especially against herself.
• It treats migraines, fevers, tension, hypertension, eye disorders.
• Soothes sunburns, and acts on contusions, wounds and bruises .
• Beneficial to the ENT sphere, anti-allergic properties,
• Regulates blood pressure,
• Treats rheumatism,
• Reactivates the production of myelin in the brain, spinal cord and nerves,
• Treats obesity.

Mental and psychological virtues:

• Helps to break free from addictions.
• Harmonizes the emotional and mental bodies.
• Awakens a deep sense of security and raises our vibrations by driving away irrational anxieties and fears. It also helps fight depression.
• Ideal for easily managing daily stress, due to its very soothing nature.
• Helps unite a team or a family, particularly blended families.
• Helps clarify the mind and promotes objectivity, justice and honesty.
• Stimulates dreams until they are clear and understood.
• It increases creativity and imagination.

Spiritual virtues:

• Purifies and stimulates the auric bodies.
• Of incredible spiritual vibration, it radiates high vibration energy in all directions.
• Opens the crown chakra.
• Aligns and purifies the entire chakra system
• Ideal for meditation or work relating to spiritual quest or elevation.
• Promotes inner peace, meditation and wisdom.
• Enhances psychic abilities, astral travel and contact with entities.

Environmental virtues:

• Amethyst geode is very useful in the home to soothe negative energies by bringing more harmony and softness. This will create a wave of zenitude and well-being through its radiance.
• Amethyst is also used to recharge other minerals as the frequency of a geode and as a reminder of the bowels of the earth in which all the minerals are in the beginning. You can therefore place your jewelry and minerals at the heart of your geode.
• After a while the stone has given all the energy it could, it can be energetically purified by immersing it in water for several hours. Avoid charging it in the sun because it will end up losing its colors, the Ultraviolet rays from the sun will cause it to turn white.

Chakras:

• It will find its place on the 3rd eye chakra and the coronal.    

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