Presentation :

Names) : 

• Calcite: Iceland Spar, Roselite / Manganocalcite, Cobaltocalcite.

Etymology: 

• Calcite: From the Latin calx = lime (Haidinger, 1845).

Group, Family: 

• Calcite Group.

Color : 

• Colorless (Iceland Spar), Dark Yellow, Magenta to Reddish (Roselite / Manganocalcite), Orange, Bluish, White, Brown, Black, Magenta to Dark Magenta (Cobaltocalcite).

Chandelier: 

• Vitreous to pearly.

Origin : 

• France, Germany, Mexico, Argentina, United States, etc. Very widespread throughout the world.

Crystal system: 

• Trigonal: Trimorphic with Aragonite and Vaterite.

Chemical composition: 

• Calcite: CaCO3 forms a series with Rhodochrosite: Mn2+CO3 | Coloration: Pink: Cobalt in Co2+ form (cobaltocalcite) or Manganese in Mn2+ form in octahedral coordination (calcite/rhodochrosite mixture).

Transparency: 

• Transparent, Translucent sometimes Opaque.

Density : 

• 2.60 to 2.80.

Hardness: 

• 3.

Cleavage: 

• Perfect according to.

Break: 

• Conchoidal.

Line color: 

• White.

Impact resistance: 

• Bad.

Heat resistance: 

• Average.

Properties, benefits and virtues:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Treats the nervous system.
• Promotes children's growth.
• Relieves and alleviates physical pain.
• Soothes joint pain, bloating and growing pains.
• Harmonizes and restores the proper functioning of the digestive organs, relieves gastric acidity.
• Promotes healing of tissues and bones (fragility).
• Promotes repair and consolidation bones.
• Reduces the tendency to dental caries.
• Excellent for eliminating calcifications of the skeleton and joints in particular.
• Treats the spleen, pancreas and soothes pain.
• Provides energy and strength to the entire body.
• Strengthens nails.
• Relieves sprains, strains and tendon pain.
• Facilitates the assimilation of calcium, particularly in children.
• Treats and strengthens the heart.
• Works against colitis and dysentery.
• Good sexual stimulant, unlocks blockages, helps to accept physical contact and caresses.

Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:

• Allows you to internalize and face all the situations of daily life by finding a certain inner dynamism. Provides self-confidence and gives faith in the smooth running of life's eventful events.
• Gives self-confidence and leads to success.
• Brings cheerfulness, enthusiasm, and warmth. Particularly beneficial for adolescents experiencing growth spurts by combating irritability.
• Promotes optimism and strengthens self-respect and confidence in one's own abilities.
• Clarifies ideas and brings greater discernment.
• Nourishes the intellectual plane through the emptiness and comfort it brings to the mental level.
• Strengthens memory.

Virtues on the spiritual level :

• Balances the energies between yin and yang.
• Refocuses energy, strengthens and stabilizes.
• Promotes the re-energization of the chakras.
• Reconnects with the matrix of life. This matrix serves as a support for all living creations. It thus allows one to feel oneself grow and evolve. Its properties will be beneficial on a daily basis in a desire to harmonize one's environment with one's deepest desires.

Chakra(s):

• Sacral Chakra, 2nd Ch.

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."

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