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 severe pain.
• 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 and 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 a 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 burning 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.

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and the abyss). 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 resonate with you to ask him to do what he needs to 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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