Presentation :

Names) :

• Stichtite.

Etymology :

• According to Robert Sticht, director of a mining company (Petterd, 1910).

Group, Family:

• Hydrotalcites Group.

Color :

• Pink, magenta, red-magenta, dark magenta, purple.

Chandelier:

• Pearly, Resinous, Oily.

Origin :

• South Africa, Canada, Tasmania, Algeria, Australia, etc.

Crystal system:

• Triclinic: Dimorphic with Babertonite.

Chemical composition :

• Mg6Cr2(CO3)(OH)16.4H2O.

Transparency:

• Opaque to Translucent.

Density :

• From 2.16 to 2.22.

Hardness :

• From 1, 2 to 3.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Breakage:

• Friable.

Line color:

• White or Purple.

Shock resistance:

• Very fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Very fragile.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Allows you to free yourself from the body's cellular memories, in particular those crystallized on the Skin of the Stomach (very useful for women who have been pregnant).
• Promotes better skin elasticity.
• Alleviates water retention problems.
• Very useful to avoid stretch marks when dieting.
• Effectively treats eczema, blemishes, redness, itching of the skin, by combining it with Green Aventurine.
• Support in physical effort by increasing endurance.
• Allows better recovery after physical effort.
• Calms stomach ulcers.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Calms hyperactivity in young children.
• Considerably soothes fears, anxieties and sorrows.
• Help to overcome the grief of loved ones: (close ones, family, friends)
• Helps recover from painful separations.
• Brings comfort to lonely people like gentle maternal warmth.
• Raises consciousness, and shows us the events in life that still affect our behavior, our way of thinking and loving.

• Calms and soothes nervous people who tend to fidget in all directions.
• Preferred stone for introverted people who have difficulty turning towards others or opening up to the world.
• Leads to healing of the inner child.
• Strongly helps to detach yourself from worries and material contingencies.
• Anchor in the present moment.

Spiritual virtues:

• Raises the vibration rate.
• Helps very effectively to work on the memories of guilt for mothers, who have had heavy traumas such as difficult pregnancies, miscarriages, the loss of a child, on a karmic level, and who would bring this back into this new plane of incarnation.

• Increases Kundalini energy towards the heart. (To do this, use a Eudialyte on the crown, a Tiffany-Stone on the 3rd eye, a Stichtite on the heart chakra and a Golden Obsidian on the root chakra.
• Strongly helps in the development of our higher subtle bodies.
• Frees the lower chakras from limiting programs generated by the domination of the ego-mind.

Chakras:

• Helps unblock energies from the root chakra to the crown chakra.

• Chakra Master-Heart, will help to get rid of deep wounds from the past and to overcome violent bereavements.

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