Presentation :

Names) :

• Rhodonite.

Etymology :

• From the Greek rhodon = rose (Jasche, 1819).

Band :

• Mineral belonging to the silicate group and the pyroxenoid family. Its main components are manganese and silicon, with some iron, magnesium and calcium.

Color :

• Pink, Orange-red, Magenta, Magenta-red to Red with black inclusions.

Chandelier:

• Vitreous, Matt (massive material).

Density :

• 3.57 to 3.76 (gem material around 3.65).

Hardness :

• 5, 6 to 7 on the Mohs scale.

Chemical formula :

• CaMn4 [Si5O15].
• Coloring: Manganese in Mn2+ form in octahedral coordination and Mn3+ in octahedral coordination, with trace of iron in Fe2+ form.

Cleavage:

• Perfect in one direction.

Breakage:

• Conchoidal, irregular.

Line color:

• White.

Shock resistance:

• Very good if massive/compact material | If gem: Fragile.

Inclusions:

• black dendritic manganese oxide.

Crystal system:

• Triclinic.

Origin :

• Germany, Australia (Broken Hill), Peru, Madagascar, South Africa, Brazil, Russia, France, Sweden.

Physical virtues:

• Balancing, protective and restorative stone.
• Stimulates the immune system and blood circulation.
• Placed on the heart chakra, it can help calm the heartbeat in cases of stress or anxiety.
• Relieves insect bites.
• Relieves joint inflammation.

Psychological, emotional and mental virtues:

• Soothing and stress-relieving.
• Strengthens trust and pacifies relationships.
• Brings tenderness and gentleness, opens its wearer's mind to others and promotes affectionate relationships.
• Allows you to overcome negative emotions while giving them positive potential.
• Helps you get a good night's sleep if placed on the heart chakra at bedtime.
• Restorative, it helps to overcome emotional wounds and past trauma.
• Like Peridot, recommended for people with jealous tendencies.
• Strengthen listening and tolerance, soften character.
• Calms excessive outbreaks of anger.
• Useful and valuable during exam periods, it acts against fear and stress and increases learning abilities and perseverance.
• Gives courage and willpower (ideal stone for adolescents). Combined with chalcedony, its anti-stress power will be amplified.

Spiritual virtues:

• Stimulates and activates the heart chakra.
• Improves energy exchanges between the physical and emotional bodies.

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Cleaning, recharging, reprogramming:

• Cleaning with clear spring water or filtered water (never salt in the water. Salt alters the structure of the mineral and damages it). 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 resonance with you to ask it to do what it should 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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