Presentation :

Names) :

• Kunzite (variety of spodumene).

Etymology:

• Kunzite: Named for American gemstone expert GF Kunze (1856-1932) (Baskerville, 1903).

Group, Family:

• Pyroxenes group.

Color :

• Pale pink, Light magenta, Violet-pink, Purple, sometimes Shimmering.

Chandelier:

• Glassy.

Origin :

• Afghanistan, Brazil, Madagascar, United States, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Pakistan, etc.

Crystal system:

• Monoclinic.

Chemical composition :

• LiAlSi2O6 | Coloring: Manganese in Mn3+ form in octahedral coordination and/or tetrahedral coordination.

Transparency:

• Transparent.

Density :

• 3.00 to 3.20 gem usually around 3.18.

Hardness :

• 6, 7 to 8.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Breakage:

• Irregular.

Line color:

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Average.

Possible confusions with:

• Euclase, Phenacite, Topaz, Glasses, Pink CZ, etc.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Useful against alcoholism.
• Calming and strengthening.
• Strengthens the heart, circulatory system, coronary veins and nerves.
• Useful for joint pain from arthritis, rheumatism, gout, neck and shoulder region.
• Regulates hormones (useful for women in menopause).
• Stimulates hearing and visual acuity.
• Removes headaches in combination with hawk's eye or with a Tektite.
• Effective for the thyroid gland and hormones.
• Replenishes vital energy.
• Ease digestion, resorbs acidity, and calm the pain.

Virtues on an emotional, psychological and mental level:

• Helps to radiate love within us and all around us.
• Leads us on the path to self-love, allowing us to learn to love and accept ourselves as we are.
• Very useful for restful sleep to chase away the source of nightmares.
• Very useful for comforting children who are sometimes stressed (school, parental divorce, etc.) or who have nightmares.
• Provides very sweet romantic dreams.
• Helps attract healthy romantic relationships as well as good and true friends.
• Rebalances the mind and calms the emotions during heartbreak, but also in cases of fears, anxieties about the future of life or otherwise.
• Promotes kindness, compassion and tolerance.
• Reduces stress and worry.
• Helps relieve depression and anxiety.
• Very useful in case of Burn-Out.
• Reduces jitters during exams.
• Promotes harmony and encourages our approach to personal development.
• Very useful against schizophrenia and manic-depressive psychosis.
• Allows you to better control and calm everything that is emotional: irritation, passions, fears, excessive attachments.

Spiritual virtues:

• Helps maintain our concentration and attention on the heart chakra.
• Useful for telepathically transmitting loving thoughts to people.
• Develops unconditional love, releasing all emotional trauma experienced in this and previous lives.
• Transmutes and transforms discordant thoughts into harmonious interactions.
• Develops the sphere of love during meditations.
• Very useful in fighting effectively against our inner demons.
• Effectively helps to work on Introspection and the journey into our Past Lives. associated with the Herkimer Diamond and the Celestial Eye Obsidian, it brings us great Relaxation and prevents sadness, blues or melancholy from invading us if we relive sad events, useful to our evolution. Thanks to it, we can more easily look at and release parts of our History that we could not or did not want to see. It helps us, when necessary, to step back and look at our shadow with detachment, so that our Light Shines Fully.
• Creates a link between the heart and crown helping us to contact our higher guides in the energy of the heart, with more ease. This bridge stretched between our guides and ourselves thanks to clear kunzite, leads us to hear the messages from our higher self as well as messages from higher up.

Chakras:

• Master heart chakra.
• Dissolves energy blockages at the level of heart, solar plexus, hara and sacrum.
• Activate the third chakra eye.
• Stimulates the crown chakra and reconnection with the Divine Self (I Am Presence).

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