Scolecite
Presentation :
Names) :
- Natrolite, Mesolite and Scolecite.
Etymology:
- Natrolite: From Latin natrium=sodium/soda and 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:
- Glassy, Silky in the fibrous variety.
Origin :
- Germany, Czech Republic, Italy, Iceland, Canada, United States, France, Brazil, Australia, India, Russia, etc.
Crystal system:
- Natrolite: Orthorombic (pseudo Tetragonal (=pseudo Quadratic)) | Mesolite: Monoclinic (pseudoorthorhombic) | Scolecite: Monoclinic (pseudoorthorhombic).
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.
Breakage:
- Conchoidal to Unequal.
Line color:
- White.
Shock resistance:
- Fragile.
Heat resistance:
- Bad.
Properties and virtues:
Physical virtues:
- Treats the cardiovascular and cerebral system. 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.
Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:
- Helps you stay perfectly grounded and centered in difficult times and situations, while keeping a cool head and remaining serene and calm.
- Promotes sleep and acts against insomnia problems.
- Promotes clear dreams and helps you remember them.
- Promotes empathy, compassion and unconditional love.
- Promotes openness to others, allowing you to be gentler and more caring towards others.
- Drive 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 stages constituting these changes of direction.
- Encourages forgiveness, whether towards oneself or towards others, and thus allows one to get rid of the repetitive patterns of the roles of victim and executioner. Helps us to better understand our actions so as not to repeat them, thus getting rid of feelings of guilt preventing us from moving forward.
- Raise our awareness and promote our understanding through our actions, so that we no longer fall into the same action patterns and no longer attract the same toxic people into our lives and those around us. This helps us to no longer let ourselves be affected or manipulated by toxic people, using their power to harm or control us.
- Drive away negative feelings such as anger, irritation, resentment, etc.
- Promotes tone and dynamism and reboosts people who are a little too amorphous, lethargic and prone to procrastination.
Spiritual virtues:
- Connects to our guides and higher planes.
- Soothes the mind and parasitic thoughts, in order to lead us towards a state of deep relaxation.
- Promotes meditation by creating calm, peace and serenity in our entire being.
- Balances Yin and Yang energies, providing the Yin side necessary to regulate an overly pronounced Yang side.
Chakra(s):
- Transpersonal Chakra, 9th Ch: Reconnects to higher planes, to help us communicate with our guides.
- 3rd Eye Chakra, 6th Ch: Activates this chakra as well as the pineal gland
Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:
- Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and the abyss). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, and then take it out in the morning to rinse it with new spring or filtered water.
- Direct recharge 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 toward the center, and place your minerals in the center to recharge them. Another method, 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 forms of sacred geometry.
- Reprogramming: Reprogramming consists not of telling your mineral what it should or should not do, but of putting the mineral in resonate with you to ask him to do what he needs to do, for you. Reprogramming must be done after each cleaning and must remain simple. Example of reprogramming: "I ask this mineral to bring me all the virtues and benefits on different levels, for my greatest good as well as for the greatest good of the people around me."
