Presentation :

Names) : 

• Calcite: Icelandic Spar, Roselite / Manganocalcite, Cobaltocalcite.

Etymology: 

• Calcite: From the Latin calx = lime (Haidinger, 1845).

Group, Family: 

• Calcite Group.

Color : 

• Colorless (Icelandic Spar), Dark Yellow, Magenta to Reddish (Roselite / Manganocalcite), Orange, Bluish, White, Brown, Black, Magenta to Dark Magenta (Cobaltocalcite).

Chandelier: 

• Vitreous to Pearly.

Origin : 

• France, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United States, etc. Very widespread throughout the world.

Crystal system: 

• Trigonal: Trimorphic with Aragonite and Vaterite.

Chemical composition : 

• Calcite: CaCO3 forms a series with Rhodochrosite: Mn2+CO3 | Coloring: Pink: Cobalt in Co2+ form (cobaltocalcite) or Manganese in Mn2+ form in octahedral coordination (calcite/rhodochrosite mixture).

Transparency:

• Transparent, Translucent sometimes Opaque.

Density : 

• 2.60 to 2.80

Hardness : 

• 3

Cleavage: 

• Perfect.

Breakage: 

• Conchoidal

Line color: 

• White

Shock resistance: 

• Bad.

Heat resistance: 

• Average.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Promotes and accelerates recovery during convalescence.
• Promotes the strengthening of the spine, bones, joints and teeth, due to its calcium content, as well as relieving excessive pain. acute.
• Strengthens the muscles and reduces the risk of ligament or muscle strain.
• Strengthens the immune system.
• Reduces nausea and reduces feelings of hunger.
• Greatly relieves intestinal disorders, bringing out a wave of soothing heat in the lower abdomen region.
• Promotes blood circulation.
• Promotes good health of the liver, gallbladder and endocrine glands.
• Treats the nervous system, and reduces convulsions, spasms and tremors.
• Stimulates digestion.
• Helps prevent infections.
• Helps soothe fevers and burns.
• Strengthens the skin as well as connective tissue, and stimulates tissue regeneration.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Promotes creativity and communication.
• Repels laziness and brings the fire of combative energy to the accomplishment of tasks requiring attention.
• Promotes discernment and stimulates intuition, bringing firmness in decision-making of any kind, especially in conflictual relationships and confrontation.
• Helps you put things into perspective and move away from the useless.
• Helps you better organize and structure your thoughts, to better implement them later.
• Grants more flexibility to people who are too inflexible and rigid, leading them to see things from different angles and aspects by going beyond their beliefs.
• Promotes self-confidence and self-esteem, leading to greater self-confidence.
• Promotes memory and provides support during competitions and exams.
• Combats states of stress, melancholy and sadness and restores zest of courage to people who tend to easily give up in the face of adversity.
• Repels limiting or reductive thoughts.
• Promotes the joy of living and warms the heart like a blazing sun.
• Helps children to express themselves to better connect with the surrounding world and better understand life.

Spiritual virtues:

• Promotes spiritual development.
• Promotes the memory of past lives.
• Promotes the memory of experiences once the soul reenters the physical body.
• Promotes channeling.
• Promotes the development of psychic and parapsychic gifts and faculties.
• Promotes out-of-body experiences.

Chakra:

• Solar Plexus Chakra, 3rd Ch.

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