Presentation :

Name :

• Sodalite or Hackmanite.

Etymology :

1. Sodalite: According to chemical composition (Thomson, 1811).
2. Hackmanite: According to the Finnish geologist Victor Hackman.

Group, Family:

• Group of Sodalites

Color :

1. Sodalite: Blue to Blue-gray, Dark blue, Blue-mauve.
2. Hackmanite: Pink Pink-magenta to dark magenta sometimes Yellow to dark yellow or Colorless to whitish, Strong reversible photochromic phenomenon which can make the stone Red-magenta, Violet, Blue-purple, dark magenta, depending on the ratio of UV received.

Chandelier:

• Glassy to Bold.

Origin :

1. Sodalite: Italy, Portugal, Greenland, Bolivia, Africa: Namibia, etc.
2. Hackmanite: Canada, Quebec, Pakistan, etc.

Crystal system:

• Cubic.

Chemical composition :

1. Sodalite: Na8Al6Si6O24Cl2. Blue coloring: Oxygen O- interstitial near aluminum Al or Silicon Si.
2. Hackmanite: Rich in Sulfur (substituting Chlorine). Pink coloring: Unstable electron substituting chlorine Cl- in a tetrahedron of sodium Na+ ions

Transparency:

• Opaque to Translucent | sometimes almost Transparent (Namibia).

Density :

• 2.13 to 2.30.

Hardness :

• 5 to 6.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Breakage:

• Conchoidal, Irregular.

Line color:

• White

Shock resistance:

• Average.

Heat resistance:

• Weak.

Possible confusions with:

• Lapis lazuli and Lazurite, Azurite, massive Dumortierite, etc.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Gives strength and vitality.
• Treats throat conditions.
• Treats the pulmonary sphere.
• Very useful in cases of tonsillitis, sinusitis and bronchitis.
• Also strengthens and regulates the nervous and glandular systems.
• Placed on the frontal chakra, it regenerates the cerebellum, effectively stimulates cerebral functions, promotes a good balance between the physical and the mental.
• Good anti-hemorrhagic action.
• Soothes irritated skin and is useful in cases of edema.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Stone of optimism and joy of life.
• Helps fight against pessimism, negative thoughts, failure syndrome, lack of self-confidence.
• Promotes rational thinking, intelligence, stability and self-esteem.
• Structures the personality, brings rationalism and great control of emotions.
• Very useful for hypersensitive people.
• Stone of open-mindedness at all levels.
• Softens the minds of people with a tendency to mental rigidity and helps fight obsessive-compulsive disorders.
• Reassures people who tend to praise their merits about their abilities.
• Very useful for professions in which team spirit is essential.
• Promotes the establishment of a spirit of solidarity and lasting cohesion.
• Relieves pain and anxiety.
• Stimulates thinking and ideas.
• Promotes good communication with others.
• Promotes calming in general, it is highly recommended to calm and reassure your pet during trips or long journeys.
• Relieves stress and nervousness problems.
• Useful against sleep disorders.

Spiritual virtues:

• Helps prepare the mind for intuitive knowing and introspection.
• Balances Yin and Yang between the upper and lower body.
• Facilitates the awakening of the 3rd eye, thus allowing the development of introspection and intuitive perceptions.
• Effectively protects during meditative work.
• Facilitates access to higher planes of consciousness.
• Used in meditation, it can also facilitate the cleansing of old thought patterns, to bring us to more Spirituality.

Chakras:

• Third eye chakra.
• Throat chakra.

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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