Presentation :

Lodolite or shaman quartz comes from mines in Brazil. It is a quartz in which we find inclusions of iron oxide, chlorite and other minerals. Lodolite is believed to have many virtues, mainly on a spiritual level. Often it has the appearance of gardens, landscapes, underwater scenes.

Names) : 

• Quartz*: Rock crystal, Lodolite Shaman Quartz, Girasol Quartz, Milky Quartz, Iridescent Quartz, Quartzite.

Etymology: 

• Quartz: From German Quarz | Rock crystal: From the Greek krystallos = ice coming from the belief of ice hardened forever by the gods.

Group, Family: 

• Group of Quartzes (Crystallines).

Color : 

• Colorless (Rock Crystal) on background yellowish-yellow, dark yellow, green, brown to grayish | (Quartz includes many other colors and/or textures following its inclusions.

Chandelier: 

• Glassy.

Origin : 

• Alps: Brazil, Switzerland, France, Italy | Russia, United States, etc.

Crystal system: 

• Trigonal: Pentamorph with Tridymite, Cristobalite, Coesite and Stishovite | Isostructural with Berlinite.

Chemical composition : 

• Quartz: SiO2 | Effect: Microscopic inclusions (exsolution of water droplets) which can give opalescence (Quartz Girasol); Fine cracks which can give the iridescent effect (iridescent Quartz), etc.

Transparency: 

• Transparent to Translucent.

Density : 

• Generally very constant around 2.650 to 2.651 (NB: framework taken from 2.64 to 2.66 in case of inclusions).

Hardness : 

• 7.

Cleavage: 

• Null.

Breakage: 

• Conchoidal, Scaly.

Line color: 

• White.

Shock resistance: 

• Good.

Heat resistance: 

• Good to Bad depending on inclusions.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Greatly promotes and stimulates physical healing.
• Just like rock crystal, this crystal is an ideal recovery and convalescence crystal for people coming out of long illnesses or major operations.
• Powerful energy generator and regenerator.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Promotes the transformation of the being.
• Promotes and develops intuition and discernment.
• Promotes communication and human relations.
• Releases and chases away fears, anxieties and states of anxiety.
• Promotes understanding of the impermanence of life and body awareness.
• Promotes lucid and rational thinking and thus helps to better manifest one's real desires.

Spiritual virtues:

• High transformation crystal.
• Promotes meditation.
• Nourishes and develops the Kundalini.
• Promotes astral travel and daydreams.
• Facilitates reconnection to our distant memories and also helps us rediscover our past lives.
• Promotes communication with the spirit of nature.
• Helps to enhance our spiritual life and see the aura.
• Promotes the shaman’s initiatory journey.
• Shamans used Lodolite to induce visionary experiences and for healing sessions.
• Harmonizes the higher vibrational energies of the aura as well as bodies of light or subtle bodies.

Chakra:

• Crown chakra, 7th 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 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."

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