Scolecite
Presentation :
Names) :
- Natrolite, Mesolite and Scolecite.
Etymology:
- Natrolite: From the Latin natrium=sodium/soda and the Greek lithos=stone (Klaproth, 1803) | Mesolite: From the Greek meso=central (Fuchs-Gehlen, 1813) | Scolecite: From the Greek scolex=worm (Fuchs-Gehlen, 1813).
Group, Family:
- Zeolite Group.
Color :
- Colorless, White, Gray, Yellow, Dark Yellow to Yellow-brown, Reddish, May show Chatoyancy.
Chandelier:
- Vitreous, Silky in the fibrous variety.
Origin :
- Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Iceland, Canada, USA, France, Brazil, Australia, India, Russia, etc.
Crystal system:
- Natrolite: Orthorombic (pseudo Tetragonal (=pseudo Quadratic)) | Mesolite: Monoclinic (pseudo orthorhombic) | Scolecite: Monoclinic (pseudo orthorhombic).
Chemical composition:
- Natrolite: Na2[Al2Si3O10].2H2O | Mesolite: Na2Ca2(Al6Si9O30).8HO | Scolecite: Ca[Al2Si3O10].3H2O.
Transparency:
- Transparent to Translucent.
Density :
- Natrolite: 2.20 - 2.26 | Mesolite: ~2.26 | Scolecite: 2.21 - 2.29.
Hardness:
- 4 - 5 - 5.5.
Cleavage:
- Perfect.
Break:
- Conchoidal to Unequal.
Line color:
- White.
Impact resistance:
- Fragile.
Heat resistance:
- Bad.
Properties, benefits and virtues:
Virtues on the physical level:
- Treats the cardiovascular and cerebral systems. Ideal for stroke prevention.
- Soothes anxiety attacks as well as tachycardia and palpitations.
- Treats the lungs and problems related to this area.
- Treats the blood and lymphatic system.
- Treats multiple sclerosis problems.
- Treats spinal problems, realigns the spine and relieves aches and pains.
- Treats and balances the digestive and intestinal system as well as the kidneys, and promotes pancreatic regeneration.
- Treats the nervous system.
- Treats vision problems, soothes tired eyes, and strengthens eyesight. Ideal in combination with hawk's eye or agate (thin slice) applied to the eyes.
Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:
- Helps to stay perfectly grounded and centered in difficult times and situations, while keeping a cool head and remaining calm and collected.
- Promotes sleep and helps with insomnia problems.
- Promotes clear dreams and helps remember them.
- Promotes empathy, compassion and unconditional love.
- Promotes openness to others, allowing one to be kinder and more caring towards others.
- Drives away negative feelings such as stress, sadness, fear and anxiety.
- Promotes confidence and self-esteem.
- Promotes change, and supports us while encouraging us in each of the steps constituting these changes of direction.
- Encourages forgiveness, whether towards oneself or others, and thus allows us to break free from repetitive patterns of victim and victimizer roles. Helps us better understand our actions so as not to repeat them, thus ridding us of feelings of guilt that prevent us from moving forward.
- Raise our awareness and promote our understanding through our actions, so that we no longer fall into the same patterns of action and no longer attract the same toxic people into our lives and those around us. This helps us to no longer allow ourselves to be affected or manipulated by toxic people, using their power to harm or control us.
- Drives away negative feelings such as anger, irritation, resentment etc.
- Promotes tone and dynamism and boosts people who are a little too listless, lethargic and prone to procrastination.
Virtues on the spiritual level:
- Connect to our guides and higher planes.
- Soothes the mind and distracting thoughts, leading us to a state of deep relaxation.
- Promotes meditation by bringing about calm, peace and serenity in our whole being.
- Balances Yin and Yang energies, bringing the Yin side needed to regulate an overly pronounced Yang side.
Chakra(s):
- Transpersonal Chakra, 9th Ch: Reconnects to the higher planes, to help us communicate with our guides.
- Third Eye Chakra, 6th Ch: Activates this chakra as well as the pineal gland
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 the abyss). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, then take it out in the morning to rinse it with fresh spring or filtered water.
- Direct charging on a crystal or amethyst druse, in a crystal or amethyst geode. You can also place a dozen laser crystals or rocks in a circle (like a time dial), points towards the center, and place your minerals in the center to charge 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 is to 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 resonate with you to ask it to do what it needs to 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."
