Presentation :

Names) :

• Smoky Quartz and Morion (variety of quartz).

Etymology :

1. Quartz: From the German quartz | Smoky: referring to the color.
2. Morion: From the old Latin name morion (Pliny).

Group, Family:

• Quartz (Crystalline) family.

Color :

• Light brown to brown (smoky quartz) to black (morion). Rarely asterism or chatoyancy on smoky quartz.

Chandelier:

• Glassy

Origin :

• Czech Republic, Switzerland, Brazil, France, Madagascar etc.

Crystal system:

• Trigonal 296: Pentamorph with Tridymite, Cristobalite, Coesite and Stishovite. Isostructural with Berlinite.

Chemical composition:

• SiO2 Coloration: Probably colored centers following natural irradiation.

Transparency:

• Transparent, Translucent to Opaque (morion).

Density :

• Around 2.65 (frame taken from 2.64 to 2.66).

Hardness:

• 7.

Cleavage:

• Null.

Break:

• Conchoidal, splintery.

Line color:

• White.

Impact resistance:

• Good.

Heat resistance:

• Good.

Properties and virtues:

Virtues on the physical level:

• Helps fight smoking (as well as all other forms of addiction: alcohol or drugs).
• Strengthens connective tissue and muscles (especially the heart), as well as the kidneys, pancreas and genitals.
• Beneficial effects on fertility.
• Strengthens virility and purifies the root chakra
• Helps us connect more with our body and hear its messages to maintain health and balance: hunger, thirst, instinct, need for rest...

Virtues on the psychological, emotional and mental level:

• Effective against stress.
• Excellent for freeing us from nightmares and inducing balanced dreams.
• It stabilizes mood swings.
• Alleviates fear and depression.
• Alleviates dark thoughts.
• Reduces suicidal tendencies.
• Brings balance to the mind and frees us from invasive energies.
• For people who are too idealistic and far from reality, it promotes awareness and the refocusing of energies on more reasonable, more accessible objectives, avoiding failures and disillusionment.
• Help to make our dreams and life projects come true.
• Highlights and then defuses conflicts, power struggles and manipulations.
• Calms overly strong emotions that cloud effective thinking.
• Improves lucidity and concentration.
• Helps to reflect and eliminate irrational fears, anxieties, inner contradictions.
• Strengthens self-confidence but also the ability to open up to others and make the right decisions.
• Helps to let go by demonstrating deep tolerance.

Virtues on the spiritual level:

• Very effective anchoring stone.
• Help with refocusing.
• Raises vibrations during meditation.

Environmental benefits:

• Protects against electromagnetic pollution from electrical losses.
• Promotes our interest in the environment.

Chakra:

• Hold placed on the root chakra.

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 damages it). Soak the mineral overnight in an unmarked glass container, then take it out in the morning to rinse it with new spring or filtered water. 
• Direct recharging 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 towards the center, and place your minerals in the center to recharge 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, 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 resonance with you to ask it to do what it must 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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