Petalite
Presentation :
Names) :
- Petalite / Castorite.
Etymology:
- From the Greek petalon=leaf (d'Andrade, 1800) in allusion to petal-shaped cleavage.
Color :
- Colorless (most generally), White, Gray, Pale yellow to pale magenta-red, Pinkish to Reddish, Sometimes Brownish with change in shade to orange-brown under incandescent lighting (A), rarely Chatoyance.
Chandelier:
- Vitreous to Pearly.
Origin :
- Myanmar, Brazil, Italy, Africa, Sweden, United States, etc.
Crystal system:
- Monoclinic.
Chemical composition :
- LiAlSi4O10.
Transparency:
- Transparent to Translucent.
Density :
- 2.3 to 2.6.
Hardness :
- 6 to 7.
Cleavage:
- Perfect.
Breakage:
- Conchoidal to Irregular.
Line color:
- White.
Shock resistance:
- Fragile.
Heat resistance:
- Average.
Properties and virtues:
Physical virtues:
- Very beneficial in treatments against serious illnesses such as AIDS or cancer.
- Acts against alopecia, baldness and hair loss.
- Treats and regenerates body cells.
- Helps regulate blood pressure.
- Helps regulate hormonal disorders.
- Treats problems related to eyes and vision.
- Harmonizes the endocrine system, activates the Triple Warmer meridian.
- Treats the lungs as well as the respiratory system.
- Soothes muscle spasm problems.
- Treats problems related to the intestines.
- Promotes digestion and intestinal transit.
Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:
- Helps to surpass one's limits in order to achieve set goals.
- Promotes and develops intuition and discernment.
- Promotes wisdom, peace and serenity.
- helps you face the challenges of life, including the hardest.
- Protects from manipulation and false relationships.
- helps to overcome breakups, whether friendly, family or even sentimental.
- Acts on mood by dispelling anger and regulating emotions.
- Drive away stress, anxiety, fears and worries.
Spiritual virtues:
- Intensifies connection with angels and guides.
- Excellent meditation stone.
- Perhaps a good support in shamanic rituals or for rituals of passage (used by soul smugglers.)
- Drives out and dissolves miasmas and egregores from implants.
- Purifies negative karma on all levels.
- Purifies the aura as well as the different energy bodies.
- Brings light and harmony to the different spiritual bodies.
- Intensifies and recharges the different bodies with energy.
- Helps ensure the transition between this world and the world of the invisible. Ideal for people at the end of their life.
- Promotes and develops psychic and parapsychic gifts and faculties, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.
- Promotes astral travel.
Chakra:
This stone activates and recharges all the chakras.
- Crown chakra, 7th Ch.
- Chakra 3rd eye, 6th Ch.