Rhodonite
Presentation :
Names) :
- Rhodonite.
Etymology :
- From the Greek rhodon = rose (Jasche, 1819).
Band :
- Mineral belonging to the silicate group and the pyroxenoid family. Its main components are manganese and silicon, with some iron, magnesium and calcium.
Color :
- Pink, Orange-red, Magenta, Magenta-red to Red with black inclusions.
Chandelier:
- Vitreous, Matte (massive material).
Density :
- 3.57 to 3.76 (gem material around 3.65).
Duration :
- 5, 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale.
Cleavage:
- Perfect in one direction.
Break:
- Conchoidal, irregular.
Line color:
- White.
Impact resistance:
- Very good if massive/compact material | If gem: Fragile.
Inclusions:
- black dendritic manganese oxide.
Crystal system:
- Triclinic.
Chemical composition:
- CaMn4Si5O15 | Coloration: Manganese in the form of Mn2+ in octahedral coordination and Mn3+ in octahedral coordination, with trace of iron in the form of Fe2+.
Origin :
- Germany, Australia (Broken Hill), Peru, Madagascar, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, France, Sweden.
STORIES AND LEGENDS AROUND RHODONITE
This mineral is highly valued in Russia, where it is used to make all sorts of objects and also as a decorative material for buildings. For example, Tsar Alexander II, who was Emperor of Russia from 1855 to 1881, father of 16 children by several different women, was widowed for the first time in 1880. He had a tomb carved for his deceased wife, Maria Alexandrovna, from a single block of rhodonite weighing 49 tons, the largest ever found in the Urals! The sarcophagus itself weighed seven tons. In the museums and palaces of St. Petersburg, you can admire vases, rhodonite basins, and even columns covered with this stone.
Properties, benefits and virtues:
Virtues on the physical level:
- Balancing, protective and restorative stone.
- Stimulates immune defenses and blood circulation.
- Placed on the heart chakra, it can help calm the heart rate in cases of stress or anxiety.
- Relieves insect bites.
- Relieves joint inflammation.
Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:
- Soothing and de-stressing.
- Builds trust and pacifies relationships.
- Brings tenderness and gentleness, opens the mind of its wearer to others and promotes affectionate relationships.
- Helps overcome negative emotions while giving them positive potential.
- Helps to get a good night's sleep if placed on the heart chakra at bedtime.
- Restorative, it helps overcome emotional wounds and traumas from the past.
- Like Peridot, recommended for people with jealous tendencies.
- Strengthens listening and tolerance, softens the character.
- Calms excessive outbursts of anger.
- Useful and valuable during exam periods, it acts against fear and stress and increases learning abilities and perseverance.
- Gives courage and willpower (ideal stone for teenagers). Combined with chalcedony, its anti-stress power will be amplified.
Virtues on the spiritual level:
- Stimulates and activates the heart chakra.
- Improves energy exchanges between the physical and emotional bodies.
chakra:
- Heart chakra.
Purification & Recharging:
- Cleaning with water or fumigation.
- Recharge in the sun or on a druse, in a geode or in a Tibetan bowl.
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."
