Presentation :

Names) :

• Rhodochrosite.

Etymology :

• From the Greek rhodon=rose and khroma=color.

Group, Family:

• Calcite Group.  

Color :

• Pink, Magenta, Magenta-red, Pink-red, Pink-orange, Red-brown | Massive variety in White and Pink festoons | sometimes Chatoyancy or Asterism.

Chandelier:

• Vitreous to pearly.

Origin :

• France, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United States (Colorado), Peru, South Africa, etc.

Crystal system:

• Trigonal.

Chemical composition:

• Rhodochrosite: MnCO3 forms two series with Calcite:CaCO3 and Siderite: Fe2+CO3 | Coloration: Manganese in Mn2+ form in octahedral coordination.

Transparency:

• Transparent, translucent to opaque.

Density :

• 3.30 to 3.70.

Hardness:

• 4.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Break:

• Conchoidal, irregular.

Line color:

• White.

Impact resistance:

• Bad.

Heat resistance:

• Good .

Properties, virtues and benefits:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Promotes recovery after intensive care.
• Helps fight food addictions, anorexia.
• Circulatory system.
• Very useful for people suffering from Parkinson's disease and multiple sclerosis, allowing them to control their movements, and to reduce disordered gestures over time. It can be combined with green or yellow fluorite for the treatment of these two diseases.
• Regulates blood pressure problems.
• Supports the function of the heart, kidneys, liver and circulation.
• Useful in the treatment of lumbago and gallbladder pain.
• and asthma.
• Good for the heart (regulates functioning) and all respiratory problems such as asthma, blood circulation and a good balance of the thyroid (in case of hypo or hyperthyroidism problem, it is advisable to use either aquamarine, sodalite, dumortierite, indigolite, blue chalcedony, cordierite, emerald...)
• Effectively strengthens the liver, pancreas and rate.
• Treats diabetes and liver diseases (on the area, pancreas and liver).
• Helps treat gastric ulcers, combined with amethyst.
• Effectively treats problems of the sexual organs. Very useful for balancing moods during andropause and menopause.
• Strengthens visual acuity and eye problems. Add a Herkimer diamond for a more powerful effect.
• Combined with sapphire and aventurine, this stone helps eliminate impurities and irritations from the skin.
• Treats and soothes migraines.
• Helps fight asthma.
• Helps fight respiratory problems.
• Promotes libido.

Virtues on the psychic, emotional and mental levels:

• Beneficial against psychosomatic illnesses and to release fears.
• Generating feelings of love and tenderness, it suppresses nightmares.
• Helps improve relationships between children and parents.
• Helps not to lie to yourself, to accept yourself better, allowing free will.
• Promotes self-esteem.
• Promotes the expression and free expression of passionate or sensual feelings and desires.
• Promotes optimism and helps restore the taste for life and self-love, essential for regaining the love of others.
• Helps combat feelings of low spirits and depression.
• Helps combat unreasonable fears.
• Helps to fight psychosomatic illnesses and to release fears.
• Promotes the release of emotional disturbances from all our problems, worries, sorrows, traumas (mistreatment, rape, sexual abuse, victims of pedophile acts, etc.).
• Makes you happy, dynamic, gives you heart to your work, making daily tasks easier.
• It mainly acts on feelings, relationship problems, love worries, especially in cases of extreme jealousy, when the mind becomes incapable of sorting things out, refusing to admit the often banal reality and inventing an imaginary story that becomes the only truth that can be heard.

Chakras:

• Excellent stone to attract Love on the placera in the heart chakra to facilitate romantic encounters and affection.
• Combined with malachite, it helps balance and harmonize the heart chakra.
• Placed in the sacred chakra in association with an orange topaz to let go, relax and allow your emotions and feelings to flow freely.
• Rhodochrosite works on stress and nervousness when placed on the Solar Plexus chakra.

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Clean with clear spring water or filtered water (never add salt to the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and damages it). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, then take it out in the morning to rinse it with new spring or filtered water. 
• Direct recharging 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 towards the center, and place your minerals in the center to recharge them. Another method is to 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 form of sacred geometry. 
• Reprogramming: Reprogramming is not about telling your mineral what to do or not to do, but about putting the mineral in resonance with you to ask it to do what it must do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleansing and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on the different levels, for my greater good as well as for the greater good of the people around me." 

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