From the Greek phenax = liar (Nordenskiöld, 1833) because it was confused with quartz.
Color :
Colorless, White, Very pale magenta pink, Pinkish red, Red-magenta, sometimes Greyish, Pale yellow, Light bluish-blue, Greenish blue, Brown.
Chandelier:
Glassy.
Origin :
Brazil, Russia (Urals), France (Vosges), Norway, Switzerland, United States, Africa: Namibia, etc.
Crystal system:
Trigonal.
Chemical composition :
Be2SiO4.
Transparency:
Transparent.
Density :
2.90 to 3.01 | Usually 2.95 to 3.00.
Hardness :
7 to 8.
Cleavage:
Imperfect.
Breakage:
Conchoidal.
Line color:
White.
Shock resistance:
Good.
Heat resistance:
Good.
Properties and virtues:
Physical virtues:
Promotes increased recovery and physical healing.
Contributes effectively to functional rehabilitation in particular during physical disabilities of nervous origin.
Brings energy to people weakened by chemotherapy and radiotherapy sessions.
Acts on the nose and sinuses, improves the sense of smell, dries runny and nosebleeds, stops sneezing, decongests the sinuses.
Relaxes muscles, eliminates muscle cramps by acting on the nervous system.
It helps with the correct synchronization of movements.
Treats nervous and cerebral imbalances.
Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:
Stone of renewal, rebirth and resurrection.
Due to its extremely high vibration, it leads to an opening of consciousness and leads us to overcome limiting life patterns.
Helps us return to the source and the very essence of our problems, in order to allow us to better understand the messages through the obstacles and thus help us evolve in the right direction.
Promotes acceptance of the big changes that occur in our lives.
Promotes the purification of unconscious memories.
Helps to free ourselves from the past in order to place ourselves in the "Here and now", in order to lead us to live our lives fully in the present moment.
Greatly promotes intuition and the 6th sense.
Spiritual virtues:
Extremely powerfully promotes the practice of meditation, and activates the body of light to allow better ascension to the higher worlds.
Extremely powerfully promotes openness to full consciousness and our full potential.
Greatly develops mediumship as well as all other psychic and parapsychic faculties and gifts.
Greatly promotes connection to the Akashic records.
Acts on the subtle level, purifying the body and cleaning the energy pathways.
Promotes the understanding of dreams and helps bring out all the messages received.
Promotes the return to our previous lives in order to better understand our current life path, as well as what we came to work on in this incarnation by modifying our karmic framework and repairing our past errors.
Allows you to amplify the energy of other healing crystals.
Connects personal consciousness to a super-frequency.
Promotes contact with angelic worlds and connection to ascended masters.
Promotes soul healing and cellular regeneration on a multi-dimensional level.
Chakra(s):
Very strongly activates the 3rd eye chakra, 6th Ch.
Very strongly activatesthe crown chakra, 7th Ch.
Very strongly activates the transpersonal chakra, 8th Ch.
