Presentation :

Names) :

• Petalite / Castorite.

Etymology:

• From the Greek petalon=leaf (d'Andrade, 1800) in allusion to petal-shaped cleavage.

Color :

• Colorless (most generally), White, Gray, Pale yellow to pale magenta-red, Pinkish to Reddish, Sometimes Brownish with change in shade to orange-brown under incandescent lighting (A), rarely Chatoyance.

Chandelier:

• Vitreous to Pearly.

Origin :

• Myanmar, Brazil, Italy, Africa, Sweden, United States, etc.

Crystal system:

• Monoclinic.

Chemical composition :

• LiAlSi4O10.

Transparency:

• Transparent to Translucent.

Density :

• 2.3 to 2.6.

Hardness :

• 6 to 7.

Cleavage:

• Perfect.

Breakage:

• Conchoidal to Irregular.

Line color:

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Fragile.

Heat resistance:

• Average.

Properties and virtues:

Physical virtues:

• Very beneficial in treatments against serious illnesses such as AIDS or cancer.
• Acts against alopecia, baldness and hair loss.
• Treats and regenerates body cells.
• Helps regulate blood pressure.
• Helps regulate hormonal disorders.
• Treats problems related to eyes and vision.
• Harmonizes the endocrine system, activates the Triple Warmer meridian.
• Treats the lungs as well as the respiratory system.
• Soothes muscle spasm problems.
• Treats problems related to the intestines.
• Promotes digestion and intestinal transit.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Helps to surpass one's limits in order to achieve set goals.
• Promotes and develops intuition and discernment.
• Promotes wisdom, peace and serenity.
• helps you face the challenges of life, including the hardest.
• Protects from manipulation and false relationships.
• helps to overcome breakups, whether friendly, family or even sentimental.
• Acts on mood by dispelling anger and regulating emotions.
• Drive away stress, anxiety, fears and worries.

Spiritual virtues:

• Intensifies connection with angels and guides.
• Excellent meditation stone.
• Perhaps a good support in shamanic rituals or for rituals of passage (used by soul smugglers.)
• Drives out and dissolves miasmas and egregores from implants.
• Purifies negative karma on all levels.
• Purifies the aura as well as the different energy bodies.
• Brings light and harmony to the different spiritual bodies.
• Intensifies and recharges the different bodies with energy.
• Helps ensure the transition between this world and the world of the invisible. Ideal for people at the end of their life.
• Promotes and develops psychic and parapsychic gifts and faculties, such as clairvoyance, telepathy, etc.
• Promotes astral travel.

Chakra:

This stone activates and recharges all the chakras.

• Crown chakra, 7th Ch.
• Chakra 3rd eye, 6th Ch.

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