Presentation:

• Celestine (or Celestite) is a mineral composed of natural strontium sulfate, crystallizing in the orthorhombic crystal system.

Names) :

• Celestine / Celestite

Etymology :

• From Latin coelestis = celestial (Werner, 1798)

Group, Family:

• Barite Group

Color :

• Colorless, Gray, White-blue, Pale blue, Light blue, Yellow, Dark yellow, Shades of Green (Apple green to Light green), Orange, Red to Wheel-magenta.

Chandelier:

• Vitreous to Pearly on the cleavages.

Crystal system:

• Orthorombic.

Chemical composition :

• Celestine: SrSO4 forms a series with Barite: BaSO4.

Density :

• 3.90 to 4.00

Hardness :

• 3 to 4

Breakage:

• Conchoidal, Irregular

Line color:

• White

Shock resistance:

• Fragile

Origin :

• United States, Libya, Mexico, Egypt, Madagascar, Poland, Great Britain, etc.

Physical virtues:

• Soothes and relaxes muscle tension.
• Treats asthma.
• Ideal in cases of lung infections because it regulates breathing.
• Used to soothe temporary pains such as migraines or painful periods.
• Improves vision.
• Used to combat sinusitis.
• Treats gastric disorders and digestive problems.
• Acts on cells by helping them to regenerate and repair the natural bonds of tissues that have been broken or undone.
• Recommended to apply a Celestine directly to an open wound just after the bleeding has stopped, as it would promote cellular repair and rapid healing of the wound.

Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:

• Maintains peace and harmony.
• Act calmly and provide comfort.
• Recommended for young children who cry due to anxiety attacks.
• Calms stress and overwork.
• Provides an influx of maternal tenderness.
• In a children's bedroom, ideal for promoting sleep.
• Helps teach confidence in wisdom, and its soothing effect calms violent emotions.
• Calms night terrors.
• Improves friendly and romantic relationships.
• Urges us to have more reason and tact in order to avoid getting into conflicts.
• Opens the door to serenity and creativity.
• Useful for those who are interested in the arts (painters, sculptors, creators).
• Soothes, calms the emotions, makes the mind sharp, dispels worries.

Spiritual virtues:

• As its name indicates, this stone reconnects the human to the divine.
• Brings spiritual peace and purity of heart.
• Opens the doors to divination and clairvoyance.
• Facilitates extra-corporeal journeys and gives meaning to our dreams.
• Endowed with a celestial vibration, it helps to communicate with the beyond, which is favorable to Mediums.
• Awakens spiritual awareness.
• Powerful connection with cosmic consciousness.
• Frees the mind and helps with meditation.
• Excellent stone for aligning and healing the chakras, strengthening the aura and moving from the physical to the spiritual plane.
• Leads to spiritual peace and pushes towards enlightenment.
• Helps to achieve a higher level of perception.
• A geode placed in a room amplifies the vibrational field of the place.

Chakra:

• On the throat chakra, acts on disorders linked to this chakra, allows the energetics of the throat chakra to open and helps resolve communication problems.

• On the sacral chakra, regulates painful periods.

• On the heart chakra, soothes asthma attacks.

• On the 3rd eye (6th Ch), puts in contact with the divine forces, the universal energies whose connection creates inner peace.

PLEASE NOTE: Celestine is a stone that loses its bluish color following very long exposure to the sun. Therefore it is maintained and recharged on a cluster of quartz, or amethyst.

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