Presentation :

• Etymology: from the Greek "barrus" = heavy, due to its high density.
• Its genesis is mainly hydrothermal. It consists of barium, a crumb of lead, a hint of calcium and may contain traces of strontium. When heated, it becomes thermoluminescent.
• Chemistry: Ba SO ₄ barium sulfate.
  Crystal system: orthorhombic.
  
• Hardness: 3 to 3.5 on the Mohs scale.
• Vitreous, resinous appearance and appears in flat, lamellar crystals.

Deposits:

• Barite deposits are numerous, but the most notable are the Cumberland iron mines in England, Romania, Spain, Morocco and Peru. In France, the St Laurent le Minier mine in Gard, supplied white barite "ponpons" renowned throughout the world.

Physical virtues:

• Treats the digestive system.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Powerful transformation tool that helps us move away from what has become obsolete and useless.
• Protective stone which allows us to look back on ourselves, to work on our ego, to eliminate what is destructive.
• Ideal for remembering our dreams.
• Helps you put into words what you are feeling confusedly.
• Helps us find the strength and courage to surpass ourselves to emerge from anonymity and give us back our true identity.
• Eliminate illusions and false dreams that distance us from truth and Life.
• Protects from our own deviances, keeps away negative influences in relationships between individuals.

Spiritual virtues:

• Develop contact with Angels and Universal Guides.
• Excellent for meditation.
• Helps with the development of intuition as well as creativity.
• Stone of spiritual guidance and development on the “Self”, it helps us achieve our incarnatory goals.
• Allows rebirth on a spiritual level while keeping us perfectly anchored and with our feet on the ground.
• Ideal for chakras losing energy, it will purify and energize any chakra.
• Rich in energy, it is very useful for rebalancing telluric forces and chasing away bad vibes in the rooms where we live (bedroom, living room, living room) and around the house. 
• Protects against bad luck and harmful influences.

Varieties of crystallized Barite and intrinsic virtues:

-Blue barite:

• Strengthens and protects our auric bodies.
• Very close to Célestine, it provides a density that Célestine does not offer.
• Creates an internal state which makes us conducive to opening towards other perceptions of the worlds around us, the situations we experience and the beings we encounter.
• Attracts and maintains good relationships.
• Protects against bad luck and harmful influences.
  
• Connects us to our spiritual dimension to align us with the universal framework and achieve the absolute.
• Allows us to fully experience our spirituality while keeping our two feet on the ground. 
• Allows us to conform to the highest ideals of our soul and guides us in our achievement.
• Allows you to carry out important work on the ego to protect fragile people with self-destructive tendencies. 
  
• Helps us get out of confusion and gives us better discernment, which increases our insight and our perceptions.
• Brings greater emotional control and allows us to experience contentment.
  
• Allows us to better verbalize what we have to communicate. Much appreciated by the speakers.
• Activate our creative potential.
  Associated with Celestine, these two stones give us access to Divine Providence which floods us with lots of benefits.

-Smoked barite:

• also helps protect us against harmful energies that prevent us from experiencing harmony and well-being.
• Brings balance to the mind and frees us from invasive energies to achieve better realization of our dreams and our life projects.

-Honey barite:

• Useful to help our inner sun flourish while allowing our soul to take its full place within us.
• Clarifies our inner vision and directs us in the realization of our projects.
• Allows us to adjust to our true destiny and connects us to the source of universal abundance present within us.

-Red barite:

• Improves our vital energy and that of our environment.
• Enhances our self-healing potential.
• Eliminate rancor and resentment.
• Opens our being to all the possibilities that the universe offers us and makes us able to welcome them into our life.

Chakra:

• Clear Crystallized Barite: 7th Chakra, Crown, for spiritual work. All chakras for purification and recharging.

• Blue barite: 5th Chakra, Throat.

• Honey barite: 3rd Chakra, Solar Plexus.

• Red barite: 1st Chakra, Root.

• Smoked Barite: 1st Chakra, Root.

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