Zircon

Presentation :

Names) :

• Zircon.

Etymology:

• Zircon: From cerkonier, term used by German jewelers, which later became cirkon, then zirkon (Werner, 1783) | Hyacinth: From Latin hyacinthus | Jargon: From Old French jargunce (Walerius, 1772) | Starlite: Probably the name given in/by trade.

Group, Family:

• Zicons Group.

Color :

• Colorless (often processed) to Yellow (jargon), Dark Yellow to Orange, Golden Orange (processed), Light Green to Dark Green (often metamict/low), Light Blue (starlite: processed) to Dark Blue with Rarely Changes Color [CC : Blue under fluorescent light and daylight (F7 & D65), Green-blue under incandescent light (A)], Magenta, Violet, Brown, Red to Orange (hyacinth), Black, etc. Sometimes Asterism, Rarely thermochromic (color change depending on temperature (ie Brown at room temperature / Red when heated with a lighter)) .

Chandelier:

• Glassy, ​​Adamantine, Fat .

Origin :

• Canada, Russia, Thailand, Sri Lanka, Myanmar (formerly Burma), Australia, France.

Crystal system:

• Tetragonal (=Quadratic) .

Chemical composition :

• ZrSiO4 | Coloring: Blue: Uranium in U4+ form (Note: Blue zircons are almost always obtained by heat treatment) | Red: Centers colored with Niobium in Nb4+ form (may fade in sunlight).

Transparency:

• Opaque (raw), transparent to translucent (cut) .

Density :

• 3.90 to 4.10 (metamict/low zircon) or 4.64 to 4.70 (high zircon) and all densities in between .

Duration :

• 6 (metamict/low zircon), 7 to 8 (high zircon) .

Cleavage:

• Imperfect.

Breakage:

• Conchoidal very friable .

Line color:

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Good to Bad (color change on some stones) .

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Strengthens the nervous system.
• Promotes endurance and resistance.
• Helps you to be more resistant to extreme conditions.
• Stimulates the vital force.
• Relieves and soothes pain.
• Soothes and relieves cramps.
• Promotes and strengthens the immune system.
• Protects against infectious and contagious diseases.
• Soothes and effectively treats allergic disorders.
  
• Treats asthmatic disorders.
• Promotes the good circulation of energy flows in the body.
• Treats the cardiovascular system as well as the respiratory system.
• Helps fight viral and microbial infections.
• Soothes intestinal problems, stomach cramps.
• Soothes painful periods.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Helps weak and easily influenced people not to let themselves be corrupted by events.
• Soothes the mind while bringing serenity.
• Helps fight against anxieties and fears.
• Promotes a feeling of independence at all levels.
• Promotes self-confidence, ideal for weak and fragile people.
• Protects people who tend to pollute our energies.
• Helps to effectively overcome periods of mourning or great sadness.
• Helps to repel negative energies and remove energy blockages.
• Infuses strength and courage into its wearer.

Spiritual virtues:

• Helps strengthen the vitality of the etheric body, as well as the energy of sacred fire.
• Promotes anchoring.
• Promotes meditation.

Chakras:

• Root chakra, 1st Ch.
• Solar Plexus Chakra, 3rd Ch.

Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and damages it). 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 resonance with you to ask it to do what it should 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." 

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