Aka: Castorite, The Angel Stone
Calm, Truth, Inner Knowing
Spiritual Properties
- Activates the higher mind
- Opens cosmic consciousness
- Protects against black magic
- Calmly connects you to spirit
- Helps you find the answers you seek
- Useful for ancestral and family healing
- Assist with an easy transition from ego to the conscious mind
- Enhances your ability to see other vibration energies and auras
- Promotes communication and interactions between the physical and spiritual world
Mental Properties
- Creates calm peace and serenity
- Helps you manifest your inner desires
- Aids those who are mentally scattered or flighty
- Helps you maintain a balanced state of consciousness
- Calms hyperactivity when held with focused intention
- Helps you remain focused despite environmental distractions
- Helps you perceive the world from the calm, centered, and high-energy self
Emotional Properties
- Centers the body
- Aids abuses traumas
- Keeps mood swings at bay
- Soothes and heals the emotional body
- Great to help children stand up to bullies
- Brings calm self-acceptance and self-love
- Excellent for healing all types of emotional trauma
Kundalini Properties
- Protects against negative energy
- Balances the solar plexus and heart chakras
Health Benefits
- Aids manic episodes
- Brings calmness to the systems
- Balances your brain physiology
- Dissipates electro-magnetic energy
- Aids in healing the endocrine system
- Useful for the treatment of AIDS and cancer
- Regulates blood pressure and counters anxiety attacks
- Benefits cells, eyes, lungs, muscular spasms, and the intestines
- Supports you when the chemicals in your brain are out of whack
- can be used for ADD, ADHD, excessive worry or stress, and other instances of overactive mind
Affirmations
- I allow my consciousness to easily and gently ascend to the higher realms of awareness
- I am now choosing to resolve my conflicts with others through peace and understanding
Correspondence
- Chakras: Throat, Third Eye, Crown
- Energy: Projective and Receptive
- Planets: Sun
- Element: Air
- Zodiacs: Leo
- Number: 8
Physical Properties
- Color: Colorless, Grey, Yellow, Pink, White
- Habit: Large, cleavable masses, Tabular Prismatic
- Rarity: Rare
- Luster: Vitreous, Pearly
- Species: Silicate
- Zoning: None
- Gravity: 2.4
- Fracture: Subconchoidal
- Cleavage: Perfect on {001}, poor on {201} with 38.5° angle between the two
- Hardness: 6 – 6.5
- Twinning: Common on {001}
- Locations: Sweden, Afghanistan, Kalgoorlie, Western Australia; Aracuai, Minas Gerais, Brazil; Karibib, Namibia; Manitoba, Canada; and Bikita, Zimbabwe.
- Fluorescence: None
- Pleochroism: None
- Birefringence: 0.012
- Transparency: Transparent, Translucent
- Named After: Derived from the Greek word petalon, which means leaf, alluding to its perfect cleavage
- Melting point: 1350 °C
- Discovered In: Uto Island, Brazil in 1800
- Luminescence: Yellowish white, Pinkish white
- Discovered By: Brazilian naturalist and statesman Jose Bonifacio de Andrada e Silva
- Chemical Name: lithium aluminum silicate
- Refractive Index: nα=1.504, nβ=1.510, nγ=1.516
- System/Structure: Monoclinic
- Chemical Formula: LiAlSi4O10
- Inclusions (streak): Colorless
- Chemical Classification: Phyllosilicate